I am sorry, but what is that, automated or not, post for…?
The question is of 2009…
Sure, repetition is training, but it’s been 2026… and there are numerous answers for this question, and from different viewpoints of the history and implementation in different shells for undefined worldviews.

Thank you… When I read “engrish”… my heart skipped a beat…

Will you PLEASE stop saying “coding is a practical use case”? This is the third appeal I’ve made on this subject. (Do you read your comments?) If you want bug ridden code with security issues which is not extensible and which no-one understands, then sure, it’s a practical use case. Just like if you want nonsensical articles with invented facts, then article writing is a practical use case. But as I’ve pointed out already no reputable editorial is now using LLMs to write their articles. Why is that? Because it obviously doesn’t work.

Let’s face it the only reason you’re saying “coding is a practical use case” is because you yourself don’t code, and don’t understand it. I can’t see another reason why would assume the problems experienced in other domains somehow don’t apply to coding. Newsflash: they do. And software engineering definitely doesn’t need the slop any more than anyone else. So I hope this is my final appeal: please stop perpetuating this myth. If you want more information on the problems of using LLMs to code, then I can talk in great length about it - feel free to reach out. Thanks…

The point is, there has always been a trade-off between the speed of development and quality of engineering (confidence in the code, robustness of the app etc.) I don’t see LLMs as either changing this trade-off or shifting the needle (greater quality in a shorter time), because they are probabilistic and can’t be relied upon to produce the best solution - or even a correct solution - every time. So you’re going to have to pick your way through every single line it generates in order to have the same confidence you would have if you wrote it - and this is unlikely to save time because understanding someone else’s code is always more difficult and time-consuming than writing it yourself. When I hear people say it is “making them 10x more productive” at coding, I think, “and also 10x as unsure what you’ve actually produced”…

You’ll also need to correct it when it does something you don’t want. Now this is pretty interesting, if you think about it. Imagine you provide an LLM a prompt, and the LLM produces something but not exactly what you want. What is the advice on this? “Provide a more specific prompt!” Ok, so then we write a more specific prompt - the results are better, but it still falls short. What now? “Keep making the prompt more specific!” Ok but wait - eventually won’t I be supplying the same number of tokens to the LLM as it is going to generate as the solution? Because if I’m perfectly specific about what I want, then isn’t this just the same as actually writing the solution myself using a computer language? Indeed, isn’t this the purpose behind computer languages in the first place?..

We software developers very often pull chunks of code from various locations - not just stackoverflow. Very often they are chunks of code we wrote ourselves, that we then adapt to the new system we are inserting it into. This is great, because we don’t need to make an effort to understand the code we’re inserting - we already understand it, because we wrote it…

“You should consider combing through Hacker News to see how people are actually making successful use of LLMs” - the problem with this is there are really a lot of hype-driven stories out there that are basically made up. I’ve caught some that are obvious - e.g. see my comment on this post: https://substack.com/home/post/p-185469925 (archived) - which then makes me quite sceptical of many of the others. I’m not really sure why this kind of fabrication has become so prevalent - I find it very strange - but there’s certainly a lot of it going on. At the end of the day I’m going to trust my own experiences actually trying to use these tools, and not stories about them that I can’t verify.

~ Tom Gracey

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Absolutely… Thank you, from the very depths of my heart and soul… dear Tom Gracey, programmer, artist… for the marvel you do… for the wisest attitude, for the belief in in human… in effort… in art…

Holy smokes! Have you tried enabling “Blizzard” mode in “Black” theme, in the settings? ❄✨
Ineffably… M-M-M-Marvelous… lous… lous… lous…
No words…

Considering the recent “third-party” data breach cases…

Thank you… Of course they were… as always…

For another example, how much invaluable precious life time an unknown artist, behind the scenes, invested into the following vase model, texture, its location to set, just a single vase, I also captured in photo-mode of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey?
What about the so casual rock and its texture right under it? What about the algorithm used for Depth of Field effect to program? The fire, colors, shadows logic and vertex shaders? And how many vases are in the title…
Yet still, you see “garbage”, “does not worth $1”, “Ubisoft sucks”, “Assassin’s Creed sucks” and so on…

It’s so… indescribably sorrowful… and almost heartbreaking… I literally avoid news and communities because of this disgraceful attitude I will never understand nor realize…

Meanwhile, just a few consider how much time, love, effort actually human art requires… to just… appreciate, admire, attribute, remember, and learn from… As in every single title out there where actual artists do the work, the ineffably magnificent miracles…

- But most students, in my experience, claim less severe ailments, such as ADHD or anxiety. And some “disabilities” are just downright silly. Students claim “night terrors”; others say they “get easily distracted” or they “can’t live with others”. I know a guy who was granted a single room because he needs to wear contacts at night. I’ve heard of a girl who got a single because she was gluten intolerant…

- At Stanford, almost no one talks about the system with shame. Rather, we openly discuss, strategise and even joke about it. At a university of savvy optimisers, the feeling is that if you aren’t getting accommodations, you haven’t tried hard enough.

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I do not consider this fair, or adequate, regardless, of course. If you are healthy, you must be proud of it. It’s pure disgrace, regardless.

Yes, these people may exploit the system, and probably are proud of it, but this all subconsciously affects self-confidence deeply, morally/psychologically, and it sure comes out soon or late from the mind and heart, from soul, especially if they started at age of tuitions, I believe.

And here, for around 40 years living, working in military and education, I haven’t met anyone yet who would actually recover their inner stance enough to not become a fearful and self-disclosed individual, since the ethics border gets shift and blur gradually and permanently. These never find peace throughout their life, and trust no one, including themselves, which is indescribably sorrowful…

Holy smokes! Thank you very much for mentioning it, dear @[email protected] ! Since, I try not installing addons that are not published open-sourced, but this one is! ✨

This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.

We looked at 680 pop-ups and combined their data processing purposes into 5 categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes our categories don’t perfectly match those on the website, so then we will choose the more privacy preserving option.

The first version of this add-on works with 4 popular pop-ups: Cookiebot, OneTrust, QuantCast, and TrustArc. The add-on is open source, so anyone can add additional pop-ups through our template system: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic.
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Of course, thank you, and I do realize that, but:

1. I tried selecting sections that where not associated with othe vendors - same result;

2. Shouldn’t it still be allowed to store cookies for the same vendor/domain, without any consent, by default.

3. There are other means/API than cookies to store consent state in common browsers, including: LocalStorage, IndexedDB, SessionStorage, CacheStorage etc.

Thank you… very much, @[email protected] …
Not only some are tired of this LLM/“AI”… but the “two kinds/types”? My dear… is it just “two persons” on this planet, world, universe… they consider?

What a nonsense, sorry…

Human is human already, regardless how they speak and what they do…
There’s always true sympathy and empathy to find in a human, regardless how busy, dark, erroneous etc. they are…
Yet, it’s the true alive soul inside in every person…

Medics are likely tired, doing their job every single day, yet they have empathy, and will always try to listen if you actually try…
They know what PAIN, AGONY, DEATH, SORROW… fear means…

LLM/“AI” will always pretend to be a human, since it’s “trained”/designed, to be so, and will always be limited and incomplete…
Not to mention the initial dataset of numerous emphatic actual human has its limited memory inside, no one is responsible for.

What a hopeless sorrow is that awful trendy, advertised, mind-atrophying mess…

To be frank, I don’t know any case when Valve forced these rules, and even when someone reported such cases to Steam support directly. The response was just - “Thank you. We will check it out.”, and that’s it.

Self-published developers I am aware of have been considering these “rules” as fair suggestion from Valve who point out that it’s important to Valve stay afloat in competition, where many developers will just follow these getting the point, which is straightforward.

A few developers I know do find following this “rule” a respect towards the platform in general even.

Holy smokes! This is freaking Doom-“seriously”-awesome! You should check it out, Sam Stone, too, and give it a serious test! 💣✨
It is a dear genius project, implementation, and it worked like a charm when I tested at https://doombuds.com/
Thank you very much, dear Artists… for the marvel you do…

The page of the device states the following:

The advantages of Bazzite Desktop Edition include: being developed by technical experts from renowned companies such as Microsoft, Ubuntu, Intel, Amazon, and Red Hat. It supports not only AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards but also Intel ARC+. With its Cloud Native architecture, even if updates cause software package corruption, users can roll back to any Bazzite version released within the past 90 days.
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After that, the website presents a screenshot (not HTML) of Bazzite Linux distribution contributors, though the first expression it raised is that these contributors are of this device and not the distribution ^^"

Have you checked out the following issue case:

- FYI, I spun up an instance of 4get since I needed an alternative. It has worked flawlessly with all included search engine sources, including Google.
- Thanks, 4get is also good…
- I was using it for the last couple of days and I didn’t get any captcha.
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Hosting your own is optional.

SearXNG can be added to your browser’s search bar; moreover, it can be set as the default search engine.
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This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hours…
Public instances listed here may yield less accurate results as they have much higher traffic and consequently have a higher chance of being blocked by search providers such as Google, Qwant, Bing, Startpage, etc. Hosting your own instance or using an instance that isn’t listed here may give you a more consistent search experience.
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Wonderful day! Have you checked out metasearch engines like the following?: SearXNG (…is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled…)

SearXNG is a fork of the well-known searx metasearch engine which was inspired by the Seeks project. It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data.
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