leftzero

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Nice. The good old times...

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That's a cyberman, from Star Trek.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

CA: Brave New World (Order) is about how slavery is okay when the President General does it and loves his daughter or something

What? Ross ended up in jail, and was never portrayed as the good guy...

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

what Captain America is up to these days. Is he already the poster boy for ICE?

Well, yeah, he basically was, for a while.

Johnnie Walker

(These fascist types tend to identify more with the Punisher, though, despite the fact that he'd be the first to shoot them full of bullets.)

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If I understand it correctly, they're arguing that any unauthorized "modification of the computer program" (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

This wouldn't only affect adblockers... this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modifies the page in any way, shape, or form... translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don't have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers...

This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that's been standard for decades...

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

White smoke, pope, black smoke, no pope yet.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 week ago

Not a pope.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

They'll never be able to learn, though.

A LLM is merely a statistical model of its training material. Very well indexed but extremely lossy compression.

It will always be outdated. It can never become familiar with your codebase and coding practices. And it'll always be extremely unreliable, because it's just a text generator without any semblance of comprehension about what the texts it generates actually mean.

All it'll ever be able to do is reproduce the standards as they were when its training model was captured.

If we are to compare it to a junior developer, it'd be someone who suffered a traumatic brain injury just after leaving college, which prevents them from ever learning anything new, makes them unaware that they can't learn, and incapable of realising when they don't know something, makes them unable to reason or comprehend what they are saying, and causes them to suffer from verbal diarrhoea and excessive sycophancy.

Now, such a tragically brain damaged individual might look like the ideal worker to the average CEO, but I definitely wouldn't want them anywhere near my code.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Lick my balls.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

My favorite use is actually just to help me name stuff.

Reverse dictionary lookup, more or less.

Now, that is something LLMs should be actually good at, unlike practically any other thing they're being sold as being good at.

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