Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck 880 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2024
This little FOSS addict uses nothing but FOSS tools and utilities from the operating system on up. There is absolutely ZERO need for Microsoft lock-in at this point in time. None.
The only excuse is fear of what happens if the masses around the world start abandoning the Great American Tech Hegemony... if that happens while Trump is in orifice, the temper tantrum will be spectacular!
There was a time even corporations had ethics, because the boards and CEOs were allowed to consider something other than investor's financial health and "maximizing profits". Before it was made virtual law in the US that a corporation must maximize profits above all else or be sued by their investors and the board that wasn't "playing ball" replaced.
Now what party was the President who instituted THAT change? They've got a lot of blood on their hands, and pollution, and cruelty, and vindictive behaviour...
Already installed and running; gotta love how Debian tracks the kernel releases so much faster than Ubuntu and the other distros. There are advantages to being the "upstream" distro. Can't say that I see any issues, but that is one of the true joys of being a Penguinista - you don't have to concern yourself about whether your system will actually BOOT after an update like you do with Windblows...
I'm afraid the marketing BS overload has been with us since the late 80s when my artificial intelligence 400-series class was told that Expert Systems would produce AGI in the next decade or two.
The only thing that has changed is the marketing dweebs at OpenAI et. al. don't even bother with a delaying tactic for their predictions and claim AGI is "right around the corner, you don't want to miss out" to shamelessly scare CEO's and boards into spending 100s of millions on a failure.
I blame it all on the Americans, who let the slightest "reasonable doubt" be used to let fraudsters off the hook.
VSCode for Java development is all but useless when dealing with multi-repo/package projects. It completely ignores the pom file dependencies, and resolves anything and everything that has been loaded into a global namespace as if it is valid for the code...
But what else can you expect from Microsquishy but AI SLOP that isn't fit for purpose?
Been back on Netbeans for a long time now...
Your TTA is yet another interesting concept to try to get around the simple fact that companies like Amazon and Oracle are LEACHES who earn BILLIONS from open source and don't even contribute 1 bloody percentage point of that income to the people who do the work.
Capitalism at its finest: "Screw you, I got mine - AND yours!"
For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would contract Oracle to do so much as form data entry. The only thing I ever seem to read about their involvement is that the projects are way over budget, don't do what is required, or have failed utterly and been cancelled. I can't recall reading about too many success stories during my decades in IT...
There is also a dramatic difference in the capital spend required to run those LLMs compared to traditional services that could get away with a freemium model. Capital investment requires loans, which cost interest from Day Zero, so the bill is growing as astronomically as the capital expenditures themselves are. How anyone can see this whole infrastructure of insane spending on low-return "product" as a valid business model is beyond me.
And don't get me started on my whole "Artificial Ignorance" diatribe. Garbage in, garbage out, and it is the distillation of the internet's collection of the "knowledge" of the masses.
As George Carlin was to have said "Just think how dumb the average person is, and remember, half the people are dumber than that." (paraphrase)
Exactly. I paid for a perpetual license and they abandoned that deal as soon as they took over. I don't give a rat's fat ass what they did later - they screwed me over! To HELL with them!
They forced me to find an alternative with no notice - I am NOT going back to them after that. They had me as a "perpetual customer" -- they're the ones who threw that relationship away, not me. I feel absolutely zero guilt for hating the company that screwed me out of what I paid for!
When you only run a couple of VMs on a Linux box, it's VirtualBox for the win! To hell with Broadcom... they screwed me out of my "perpetual license" for VMWare Workstation. There is no way under any circumstances I will ever use one of their products again - even at a client site. Get someone else to do it...
It is inherently impossible for a statistics-based LLM to reliably produce the kind of code you want. Statistics mean inaccuracies and summaries of key details, which combined with an LLM's inability to actually understand a prompt into a fully-fleshed knowledge model for interpretation and mutation over time means that LLM's as they are today are a dead end.
The only use I see for them is as input parsers to trigger eventlets that map the parsed input to knowledge models and map those models to the existing "learned" knowledge model as an updated "world view."
LLMs are only one small piece of the Artificial Intelligence puzzle.
So it puked out garbage code in a few days that will take years for the humans to polish and fix.
Big whoop.
Just because you barfed out thousands of files in a semi-coordinated fashion doesn't mean they're structured or used in any sort of sane or valid design methodology, which is why it takes so long to turn AI slop into functional code, ending up taking 20-50% longer than it would have for an intermediate or senior developer to code by hand.
I'm glad I bought my Sony balanced headphones a couple years ago before they dropped the midrange model and only sold the $1000+ top tier model. Although I'm part of a very small market, there are still some of us who insist we can hear the difference between analogue and digital, and that digital tends to suck rather heinously unless it's a minimum of 192/24 sampling.
Sony used to be my go-to for monitors, but Samsung took over that role for a lot of years once Sony decided to try to "leverage" their reputation to jack up their prices and "improve profitability" despite the fact that for the past decade plus, you really haven't been able to tell much difference between top-tier monitors from any of the major display panel manufacturers - production quality is just that good nowadays, so Sony and Samsung don't really have much benefit to their particular branding any more like they did in the past, especially back in the analogue monitor days.
Nowadays I am running an ASUS monitor. Technically the blacks were darker on my previous Samsung monitor, but it isn't enough of a difference to have justified the 45% price increase the Samsung would have cost...
"Emotions" and "feelings" from statistics?!?!? Just exactly what are these delusional whack jobs smoking to make them think such absurdity? They're projecting their own emotions onto statistical text outputs, the same as people who interpret animal and pet behavior as human emotions.
While such thinking may be relatively common, it certainly isn't valid thinking about the activity they're observing. At least in the case of an animal there is some thinking and feeling an animal does that I certainly wouldn't ascribe to a statistical text generator!
So now the scam has mutated to claim unmeasurable "soft" benefits.
I pity the employees of the companies who believe in this bullshit - they're going to lose their jobs when the bankruptcies start. No sympathy for the greedy investors and boards behind those bad decisions, though. They deserve to end up bankrupt and homeless.
Any nation that wants encryption back doors needs to be isolated like North Korea to protect the data and privacy of people who don't live there. If they want to put my their own population at risk, that is their foolish problem but they can't be allowed to make it a risk for others..
The fact your politicians are morons is YOUR problem and yours alone.
This. This is a truth that Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada recently acknowledged by signing a deal with China and President Xi.
No nation has the right to dictate law and legal system internal to themselves, but it behooves us to encourage the best possible behaviour from our partners, and to ensure that any specific partnerships between businesses comply with the legal requirements of both nations. That's what deal making is - compromise for the purpose of achieving mutually beneficial goals.
Check out the CBC News website article on Mark Carney's speech at Davros today.
It was an eye opener as to just how wise an election choice my fellow Canadians made... Mark Carney for First Prime Minister of a United Earth. :)
Canada plans on building a whole plethora of mutually beneficial deals with partner nations as the years pass, while apparently the US chooses to shoot themselves in the foot. And mouth. And brain. And ass. And the other foot...
Selling H200s and the like to China is giving their researchers the respect they deserve for their work. I'm not talking about those who pilfer and emulate results scraped from OpenAI or other LLM query sites, but the ones who are doing the real research into reasoning models, persistent memory, and a host of other bits and pieces that would be needed for LLMs to even begin to approach true intelligence.
If you can't build up memory over months of use, you can not track and model computer or other complex systems. And like researchers the world over, the Chinese know that and are trying to contribute to the human knowledge pool.
The problem is jerkoffs like Trump and his GOP cronies who keep looking for an "enemy" they can enrage the populace against, ala 1984. The US can't exist without a war to divert the people from the serious criminality of the administration. The administration's only hope for avoiding incarceration at this point is to complete his attempt at a Hitler-scripted rise to power - this time, he hopes, successfully.
May the Universe have mercy on us all if someone doesn't arrest that psychopath before shots are fired between NATO allies.
Oh lovely - the Reg is being spammed with what are obviously AI SLOP stories. This is almost word for word what Gartner claimed two weeks ago.
Go ahead. Belive in the Magic Silver Bullet like every SUCKER has every second decade for the past 80+ years of the computing industry. What is it about the 20 year cycle? The new generation being too damned stupid to learn from their parents?
