My kids are growing up in this environment and they already have an eye for ai slop. I suspect it’s the same thing that led to OpenAI’s TikSlop “product” is getting canned. After society had gotten over the sugar rush excitement of new and shiny toys I suspect the interest will fade and people will crave the connection you get from real art made by real people.

At least I hope that is what will happen. We might have to do something to hold the tech companies accountable for their dopamine trigger machines though.

Where are you seeing the 2-10% figure?

In my experience code generation is most affected by the local context (i.e. the codebase you are working on). On top of that a lot of code is purely mechanical - code generally has to have a degree of novelty to be protected by copyright.

I was glad to see Niko publish his initial work and look forward to seeing how it’s gone.

They don’t, just like they don’t with human submitted stuff. The point of the Signed-off-by is the author attests they have the rights to submit the code.

Isn’t that like the extract opposite of what everyone wants which is free flowing shipping?

No it depends on what the court ruled. Have you read the judgement?

I started this article expecting the nostalgia of dealing with bit planes, dealing with masks and pre-shifiting assets. I guess sprite routines have moved on somewhat since my day. Even for 2d you are dealing with a shader GPU pipeline it seems.

Interesting stuff.

The high court decision is being appealed by the government so they can continue until the final ruling.

I guess it depends on how many of the newly minted green voters have moved across because they have carefully read their policy offering and how many just wanted to vote not-Labour because they were unhappy (i.e. protesting) with the government. Things will become clearer next month and finally at the next general election.

Energy efficiency is great but we still need to get the power from our new shiny off-shore wind farms to where the population centres are. The original grid was very much designed to radiate power from the big generators which are more central (modulo the nuclear generators which tend to be coastal).

The problem with all protest parties is it’s easy to oppose things but governing is about making hard choices. UKIP made progress in the polls until they got the Brexit they were after but haven’t exactly been able to point to the benefits since. We are seeing Reform suffer the same when they realise there aren’t piles of “woke” projects to DOGE away to fund local councils.

I’m sympathetic to the core Green mission but opposing the expansion of the grid we need to supply renewables is peek contraianism.

I didn’t say that they were only protesting the ban. That is what they were arrested for through.

I’m not arguing about the designation, that’s up to the government. However the people that been arrested for holding up the signs knew exactly what they where doing and had been warned before their arrests. They were protesting the proscription of Palistine Action rather than generally supporting Palistine.

We will find out how it all plays out once the appeals process is completed.

They’ll arrest you for supporting Palestine Action which has been designated a terrorist group by the government. You wouldn’t be arrested for peacefully protesting and supporting the Palistinian cause.

I have a sneaking suspicion a lot of the posts there are just engagement bait anyway.

Especially useful on my TV’s anemic Sony browser when I’m trying to diagnose of my network is crapping out or the apps are just in a go slow.

Sounds like the method QEMU used pre the tiny code generator (TCG).

So algorithms then?

LLMs have some interesting properties and certainly can do a good job sifting through large amounts of raw data. They are however a very brute force approach compared to say a network routing protocol. Sooner or later people will start to realise (again) that engineering is about trade offs and you need to work out what your constraints are and stop trying to solve every problem with massive amounts of multiplication.

I swear people have rose tinted glasses as to the state of the init system before the current generation of system management daemons.

If you really want to have Debian without systemd there is always Duvean but the Debian architects are free to choose the technologies that solve the very real system orchestration problems that exist.

Mine has two, one which is very vanilla for local events and the like and has a strict no moaning policy. The other one is where the local gossip is and is as unhinged as you would expect.