the_biot

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by the_biot 4mo ago
You know it's random nonsense, and yet you still take it on faith that it "gives you answers". That's what makes me despair about all the AI nonsense: it's the death of intellect. Not the death of deep thinking, but
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by the_biot 4mo ago
As a matter of fact he's a never-ending source of drama and outrage, all of which are his own opinions. His repair channel isn't even about repair anymore, it's all drama, all the time. I can hardly believe people fall for hi
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by the_biot 5mo ago
Is the code base AI slop? You've published your code as open source, but without an explicit AI policy.
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by the_biot 5mo ago
In the age of meme stocks, NFTs, vibe coding and orange clowns in the white house, no, it's not obvious. The world has gone right past satire and into a reality of collective delusion.
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by the_biot 5mo ago
But github now handles so much more traffic, without a doubt. I'm not so sure their infrastructure is keeping up, but if it is, the current sluggishness may just be its speed under any load. If you want to see what it should be, check
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by the_biot 5mo ago
When that slop article incident happened, I thought their reaction to it was MUCH too late -- they should have fired the journalist in question immediately, and come out hard against slop writing. I stopped reading Ars Technica because of i
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by the_biot 5mo ago
Right. People on here are just ignoring the fact that the fantastically expensive metaverse effort has failed, and it's pretty obvious that people working on it thus no longer have anything to do, so will mostly be let go. The article
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by the_biot 5mo ago
That's literally advocating for filling the kernel with AI slop. Not that it's not going to happen; Linus is already a vibe-coder, and several maintainers have fallen for the LLM crap as well.
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by the_biot 5mo ago
You have to wonder why it's so hard to put that on their 503 error page. I suspect something's much more broken than they're letting on.
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by the_biot 5mo ago
Because while Musk is certainly running Tesla into the ground, without him it would sink even faster. Without his hype jacking up the share price, it's just a carmaker with 2.5 models, cratering sales, fast obsoleting tech, and no new
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by the_biot 5mo ago
Indeed. What's new is not referring to someone of unknown gender as "they", but rather people identifying as non-gender-specific, and wanting to be referred to as "they". That's the part that feels so awkward,
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by the_biot 5mo ago
Nah, it's just AI slop, despite OP's "hand-written" protestation.
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by the_biot 6mo ago
This site is very much drowning in all the slop. It's over half of posts now I think, not just the "Show HN" posts. Those are 100% slop, as are all the non-show-hn new project announcements. All the moderators have done is dr
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by the_biot 6mo ago
I have never, ever understood this whole mandated period thing. Aside from what you mention -- do you really want to keep these people around against their will -- I don't understand how your (ex-)employer can force you to do anything
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by the_biot 6mo ago
Yup, that's the sort of thing that's typically missing from cable testers. I have a USB cable that normally works fine, but introduces errors when doing full blast USB 2.0 bulk transfers. I keep it around just in case I ever come
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by the_biot 6mo ago
Truly sad. It looks like Kent is pretty deep in the AI delusion. This is a guy who, while often controversial and with obvious issues, was nevertheless a very talented and energetic programmer.
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by the_biot 6mo ago
Common in desktop software for controlling measurement gear like oscilloscopes. Those have actual knobs on the equipment, so the software does the same thing and it's the worst thing ever.
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by the_biot 6mo ago
His non-apology apology even follows a familiar pattern: I wrote it myself but just used AI for some help, and it inserted false quotes! Bad tech! But I have now learned my lesson! Very similar to what a rector recently wrote when she got b
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by the_biot 6mo ago
No, it's worse than that. The city council very much implemented an anti-car (harassment) policy, to the point that car owners felt hounded by their own council's policies. It seriously wasn't a matter of "marginally les
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by the_biot 6mo ago
So this looks like a spite fork intended to make a point, not likely to become a widely used fork of systemd. However, 1) he is right, and 2) systemd's recent full-throated embrace of AI for programming make it clear that systemd reall
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by the_biot 6mo ago
Exactly. Even if all it ends up amounting to is the stuff in the last paragraph of the summary, that would be huge. The EU has a long history of doing things like this -- forcing the hand of national governments to do what they all knew nee
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by the_biot 6mo ago
A quick glance at sold DIMMs on ebay makes clear this is just nonsense. What's the source for these numbers? This is just some vibe-coded crap, isn't it?
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by the_biot 6mo ago
Somebody in the article mentions that it's a spectrum, not a binary, and she's right: you can't call it AI-free if your product is human-made but all the marketing is AI slop. I thought EEVBlog's Dave Jones had a good id
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by the_biot 6mo ago
You and me both :-( I see open source projects entirely run by clueless LLM-using idiots, and existing projects overrun by them, and there is none of the quality or passion you would normally see. Even if I were to apply my skill/energ
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by the_biot 6mo ago
Honesty is the whole problem with ideas like this. If you're the kind of deluded idiot that considers LLM-generated crap "your code", stating exactly how little you had to do with it is not in your advantage. Far easier to ma
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by the_biot 6mo ago
I think you have it backwards. Many (most?) funds underperform the market as a whole, showing they really don't know anything. ETFs that mirror indexes exist exactly because of this... their managers don't make trades based on t
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by the_biot 6mo ago
Why the few closed-source components on the system? You mention the bus, USB PHY etc -- are those things harder to design than the CPU core?
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by the_biot 6mo ago
...electrically debond, are you serious? More details please, this sounds very interesting.
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by the_biot 6mo ago
> The continuing mass departures of long tenured folks You mean senior programmers that have been there for ages don't want to spend their time reviewing AI slop? Who'd a thunk it!
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by the_biot 6mo ago
A quote from Neuromancer comes to mind: "But I ain't likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But it ain't no way human.”

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