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More like unregulated capture. There is simply no way it legal for a utility to means test people. Regardless of where the data originated.

Will we ever break free of the 10,000 monkeys typing Shakespeare problem?

10,000 LLMs doesn't fix that

Yes,

Unfortunately I disagree as LLMs are not traditional software and not input /output systems. Additionally, like other types of high value, power imbued software like say credit scoring engines and b2 bomber flight controls, the maintainers of AI systems will be the equivalent of high priests.

The controllability of output of AI by merely writing code is not something that exists today and what we call bugs in traditional software is not the same concept as a slightly incorrect or completely fabricated LLM response.

Software engineers need to start having serious conversations about whether non contract employment is even a good idea.

Yes there are pitfalls to permanent contracting, and some folks dont have the stomach for it. As a contractor, I see employees doing less and less dedicated work, and also when it comes to devops training and cloud adoption employees usually seem behind the curve.

Just because something has a cost doesn't mean it's irreplacable or rare.

There's other things that cost alot on a vehicle, wheels and tires on an SUV cost more or about equal to the catalytic converter, so by design wheels and tires are from a supply and demand perspective more precious and rare than catalytic converters.

What thieves choose to steal has nothing to do with scarcity and everything to do with convenience. While these small amounts of precious metals may sound important rare earth metals are literally everywhere.

Were just too rich to care about mining them in the first world.

An easy very easy way to fool this would be to introduce a random non zero distribution aka salt to every datum.

Hoarding terabytes is sort of a thing you can never get your head around unless you are stealing mp3s.

But hoarding gigabytes is pretty easy, also I think the term hoarding is pretty loaded language in this context? Saving things so they don't get lost is the way to go.

Just as an example, after Steve Jobs died apple went into everyone's email at .me and deleted their emails between them and SJ.

You probably didnt see that coming.

Not now because they leveled up

The old boys club which has been outsourcing programmer for 20 years to India figured out that they can just fake it since nobody has complained yet.

And before software engineers unionize they came up with some snake oil to put us in our place, maybe try to force us back into offices, or just eliminate us.

Nobody can deny that Sam Altman and Bill Gates have been trying to "reduce costs" for a long time. The startups with devs in portugal, costa rica, Mexico, Spain, the Ukraine, India, China, anyplace where they can pay 5 dollars for a day's work.

When Bill gates said he would pay programmers 7 dollars an hour, we were all offended, we didn't realize that he was already doing it and that would be a significant raise in pay.

No the slight crackling. Also even though I live in a detached house, I hear my neighbors morning alarms going off. One time I had to walk into the warehouse of a local newspaper because they bought new forklifts that made a high pitch sound when they were in reverse, and the guys riding the forklifts had ear protection and it was vibrating the windows of my apt a half mile away. They turned the sound off only after weeks of calling the police.

I used to play in a symphony orchestra as a professional and I suspect that studying my whole life to listen to a pin drop has led me into this place.

The idea that training a machine on fiction owned by others and facts published with distribution rights can be surfaced in a LLM is not only absurd, it's illegal, locally and internationally.

Bring your horse and your carriage, you will lose to the human race before your horse clears the first turn.

ChatGPT is Sam Altman's "last scam"

And Wikipedia is not a US company, and has no bearing on US copyright law.

Common law copyright will always exist for provably original content, regardless of distriibution.

And since Wikipedia has disclaimed it I now am the sole owner.

But a new company is not sourcing the information and claiming it as fact.

It was removed from Wikipedia many years ago and replaced with more fiction.

Unfortunately, rather than tinnitus I have misophonia, and I can hear ice melting. No treatment or cure. But I would bet at least some cases of subjective tinnitus are actually people who have super hearing abilities.

RabbitMQ may have been overkill for the need, but it's also clear that there was an implementation bug which was missed.

Db queues are simple to implement and so given the volume it's one way to approach working around an mq client issue.

Personally, and I mean personally, I have found messaging platforms to be full of complexity, fluff, and non-standard "standards", it's just alot of baggage and in the case of messaging alot of bugs.

I have seen Kafka deployed and ripped out a year later, and countless bugs in client implementations due to developer misunderstanding, poor documentation, and unnecessary complexity.

For this reason, I refer to event driven systems as "expert systems" to be avoided. But in your life "there will be queues"

Now do it with shared nothing architecture. When you share all this stuff you are twisting the meaning of "distributed transaction"

I think this is not the best representation. Although I appreciate the commentary of the blog. Is github a valid platform for this kind of sampling? I dont know I have hundreds of java repos elsewhere and would never host my code on a Microsoft platform. But somehow Kotlin is not represented when it's the default language for android....because mobile projects don't host on github publicly. And what about PRs makes them special anyway? As one commenter mentioned this could be more about volatility/stability.

As a side note, I'm pretty shocked that the OSS community is "just fine" with leaving their projects on github after MS took over and scanned all their code for machine learning.