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Oh, I didn’t know that. I knew there were a lot of very widely-used patches, especially on NAO, but not that their developers then got brought into the fold. Cool!

The devteam were silent for like a decade, then woke up and started making updates in 2015.

C99 compliant!!

Not yet…

Well you certainly aren’t giving me any reason to agree… :/

The objective reality of an AI hallucination being wrong is not what’s important though; what is important is the effect it has on people, which will in part be subjective.

Nothing prevents you from comparing harms and ease of checking.

It’s comparable because it’s a negative outcome that may cost something (cooking a new meal, ordering a takeaway) to fix, but can be checked quite easily. Information that is factually incorrect has a negative outcome as well, and can also be checked quite easily - but the negative outcome, and the ease of checking, varies vastly across the space of all possible information.

I am encouraging you to think about situations where the negative outcome is not that bad, and the ease of checking quite high. Does that make using AI more practical?

If you are using the bot just to perform things that you could easily look up, then yes, that is pointless.

If you can’t know if it’s right or wrong, and have to double check it, why use it in the first place?

Me and my partner alternate doing the cooking. She doesn’t know if I’m going to make a mistake and serve her something she doesn’t like (it has happened). Does that mean she’s better off doing all the cooking herself?

“If it’s not perfect, it’s useless” is a fallacy. So the question is, how good does it have to be to be useful? That depends on the task, and especially on the cost (however you measure it - dollars or hours or whatever) of verifying whether the result is good compare to the cost of a person doing the task.

Well fuck me sideways.

If it’s actually “age verification” as quoted, not “age recording” then it’s significantly worse than the state-level bills.

Back when I was on IRC, I wrote a bash script to upload (via scp) a file to an uploads location on my server, which it knew the public URL for. It then (using xclip) put the resulting URL into the clipboard so I could paste it into IRC. Worked well

Right. And when KDE (and whatever environments going back to time immemorial) added real name fields, that was a slippery fucking slope towards the Gestapo checking your papers every time you log in, was it?

Why can’t the conspiracy folks stick to funny stuff like flat earth?

From my limited journal submission experience, some at least just want a PDF. They’ll re-set the thing anyway.

This actually looks good. Though at this point I get annoyed at anything that doesn’t make an effort to be compatible with Markdown - idk if there’s any good reason they chose # as the symbol for introducing code lines, but surely it makes sense with the ubiquity of markdown to make that start a header. Similarly with * for emphasis and whatnot.

But it genuinely looks like a good effort to dispense with the backslashes and braces of LaTeX yet retain a coherent and comprehensive mathematical output.

What is surprising is that it doesn’t appear to ultimately just call through to TeX. That probably means it has a chance of having good error handling and decent performance… I will have to give it a try.

Age verification is fucking scaremongering for this.

It literally adds a field to record user ages. It doesn’t verify anything.

Opinions are just vibes based. Age checks are bad vibes, so everyone hates anything to do with them no matter what.

Ja but it still doesn’t make sense. He’s just doing it because the name is cool and it’d be big, and he thinks bigger = better.

It’s sad that all too often there is insufficient evidence to charge people with sexual crimes, but he’s being charged with a very serious crime for which there apparently is sufficient evidence. It’s no competition, but betraying your country causes small amounts of harm to millions of people, which is not less important than causing extreme harm to a small number of people.

Because even in the Epstein files most people aren’t saying “ay Jeff, cheers for the fifteen year-old lasses we all shagged, see you next time,” but they are saying “here are the minutes of the cabinet meeting/this is what the prime minister thinks about regulating your company/this is the most he’s willing to give you a tax break for” in emails because that stuff had to be communicated somehow.

We can all see that Andrew probably committed some sex crimes. But being a suspicious creepy fucker, being accused, and having a photo of you crouching over a girl would not be enough evidence to get you or me charged with a crime either. The counterweight to “nobody is above the law” is “nobody shall be convicted except on the evidence.”