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They may be illegal to run if they are made to depend on servers, even for single player, and those servers are taken offline.

On top of the shenanigans we have seen recently about revoking paid licenses to watch movies.

You mean the Copilot-ed sounds?

Kinda related, but I hate how the big studios go after old videogames and try to take them down. It looks like, in the future, this era will be called the "digital dark ages", not because all the stuff got lost to bitrot, but because all the stuff became illegal to own so that the studios could sell the new stuff again and again.

No, but it was bound to replace everything that Microsoft touches, by virtue of having its buttons everywhere displacing everything else.

Thanks to MS stopping, the next Word is just not a huge COPILOT button in the middle to who you have to chat to write your stuff.

I don't think we can do anything right now (or ever) to stop intentional attacks. Maybe we can do a little bit for careless use.

Sandboxes may reduce the blast radius.

What government do you claim it wants to ban strong AI?

Definitely not the one at Washington, maybe the one at Beijing?

Yay, more anti-censoring stuff.

Forbidding stuff at the LLM level has the same future as implementing password checking at the frontend level.

We need better sandboxes just to limit the damage.

> and you have no way of telling apart AI slop vs. good maintainable code. (If you could you would just train the AI.)

I know how to distinguish good maintainable code from garbage. I have known for quite a few years. But knowing how to train someone, or an AI? I'm a good coder, not necessarily a good teacher. And there are things about code that I _feel_, not that I can rationally explain.

Microsoft pioneer it with "ask again in 30 minutes". Or maybe someone else, can't tell for sure who was the original bastard.

No AI included, it uses Google Gemini.

> which means the thing you like probably gets deleted anyway when it's deemed unprofitable

And the difference from the current situation is?

How is Qwen3.8 27B behaving in comparison with, say, the free models available at OpenRouter or OpenCode?

I'm interested in running models locally, and 27B is in the range of my budget.

Meat proxies. Artificially intelligent.

Because doing this would reduce their profits.

Java's HashMap also has O(log(N)) complexity on hash collision, and that is before memory/cache details.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/HashMap....

In fact, some studying on data structures probably leads to the conclusion that it is impossible to guarantee that an unbounded set/map to have access performance under O(log(N)).

What I have seen is the industry transferring the responsibility from themselves to the object and/or the operator.

See the last years of the industry constructing bigger and bigger tank-ish SUVs and pickups, the more aggressive the better.

One of these days, they will start putting stuff copied from Carmageddom, and then fake surprise as someone causes a carnage in a road rage incident.

It wasn't me. It was the car. The car ran over and killed the guy! Not me!

We have regulations and requirements and licences and insurance in most of the civilized world for dangerous stuff that is intended for public use. Maybe AI should also have some of that.

No, jockster. It's not zero sum. It's negative sum at this point.

It wasn't me. It was the gun. The gun killed the guy! Not me!

Don't worry. GPT-6 will have its own new and truly original mess.

At this point they are using residential proxies and stuff, and increasing the difficulty level is not going to help, among other things because they don't pay for it.

Why cannot we turn this whole proof of work thing into an official "help mining $SHITCOIN"? I mean, if they really want the data that badly, at least have them pay the hosting with their CPU/GPU/ASIC cycles.

> this had the second-order effect of leading devs to believe they could put all their local env secrets in ~/.bashrc files

Teach them to use dotenv.

We are moving away from configuration in config files because it is a pain to modify, especially if part of that configuration is secrets. You have to throw everything into your secrets vault of preference, and editing it requires extracting and reuploading the whole thing.

We are currently doing config in env by loading one or multiple secrets per kubernetes pod (mix and match).

What would be your suggestion?

My job improved significantly since I managed to get into their (managers) thick skulls to tell Claude to not be verbose. I'm tired of 1200-word tickets for "put the totals in the automated emails".

I kept saying that about heavy design patterns and unergonomic OO programming languages that end up requiring code generators (you know exactly what programming languages I'm saying). I kept hearing rejection after rejection, and angry words.

People don't like abstracting, or just don't understand abstractions, often just mistaking it for indirections. The few that understand it just take the message, apply it and go away to live their lives with improved coding.

The US also has to purchase raw materials and imports at higher and higher and higher prices.

You also have the Mitsubishi Pajero. Feel free to find the derogatory term in the wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero

I work in HR. We had to mangle our salary analytics stuff because it kept suggesting that clients should pay more to attract talent. Like most employees in the same sector and position were being paid more that what they wanted to pay and that meant our analytics were wrong.

I would like to know where that 1% retail business is located. My family has a bunch of hardware/electricity retail businesses and the margins are way more than that. Like 30%-500%.

If there is an extra buck to be made, or another promotion to be handed to a middle manager, it will be enshittified to get it.

That is why we are seeing paid streaming services with ads.

For as long as I can remember, I turned off the lights in the bathroom. Yet, I just checked, and turns out they are on.

Feel free to remember the past how you want, that doesn't change it.