martin1975

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you...gov't stuff

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you...unless you have TS.

last time I found CNN appealing was in the early 90's...if that tells you anything about it.

wow, an e-reader with opensource firmware? been living under my kindle rock for a while, this sounds exciting.

> I work where privacy isn't just good behavior, it's enforced by law

HIPAA/medical?

freakin Qualcomm isn't faring much better w/the Snapdragon X/X2 Elite... they were supposed to be on board w/Linux, yet I dare someone who's a newb install Ubuntu on a Snapdragon box the same way they would on a ThinkPad.

Funnily enough, none of these companies have issues consuming the 'free' fruits of labor of the open source community.

I got the same capabilities from mxroute.com, another worthwhile alternative - hosted in the USA. Plus they offer a no subscription, 10GB one time fee (I think $150 at the time I got it) account...unlimited domains/subdomains, etc -everything managed thru directadmin. Replaced my Google Workspace email w/this and never looked back. I still use Google for authentication and Google Drive.

nailed it.

i use it, but i could re-create everything the AI produced, it just takes me longer (I'm a dev). And yeah, that latter part of your sentence is what freaks me out - that someone thinks they can start thinking like a dev because they have an AI bot available to them. You know, "Become a super dev in 21 days" kind of book... Then you wonder why s*t breaks left and right.

I guess it was only a matter of time before this niche of business developed.

AI is an imprecise "programming" language, full of ambiguity (English) trying to produce precise relationships between different concepts.

It certainly works great on small scale, building block type of things, but the more a project grows in complexity, components, interfacing with other heterogenous systems in other languages or APIs, understanding wtf is going on top to bottom.... it fails miserably.

Reminds me of how xUML was going to be the panacea to replace coding. AI is failing for the same reasons. At least with xUML you have a precise definition - with AI, you're vibing your way into one.

nephesh (נֶפֶשׁ), is a word in the Hebrew bible that the KJV (English) renders as "soul" hundreds of times, and it also translates the very same word as "life," "person," "creature," "self"

So, the question can be asked another way - do you 'have' life, e.g. are you alive? If yes, then you are (or 'have') a soul.

The mistake many of us will make, not due to our own fault but rather due to inability to discern, is that this is somehow not apparent to most if not all people with a sane mind.

> the moment an artificial inteligence is going to "receive" a soul, is the moment it is going to be made to sustain itself.

You should try your hand at sci-fi writing. You may be onto something there. You seen Westworld?

Easily one of my top 10 favorite episodes.

The judge broached on the subject of what makes us distinct from Data (e.g. machines w/great heuristics) - the existence of a soul. Or rather, I'd like to think, in the words of CS Lewis, that we are a soul with bodies attached.

> How can you have a subjective experience without a body?

Great q. Deepening it further-how can you have a subjective experience without consciousness, which isn't necessarily tied to physicality. Taking it one step further-can you have consciousness without a mind? Who's the first mind, the first cause of it all, that begot both the material and immaterial world?

Fun stuff eh?

Thank you, human being! Have you looked at the price of a RTX 5090? I can get a used car for that.

Not quite.

You have machines that can aid and expand your (human) understanding greatly, that wasn't possible without machines.

Machines don't think. They aren't human. They have no soul, agency/free will, self-reflection/awareness, moral imperatives or ethics.

You've been watching too much Terminator, son.

Reading this invoked the image of ouroboros in my mind.

Curious, what type of code and in what language do you write that the compiler wouldn't take care of this without you even trying?

What's with the antisemitism? Did some Jew hurt you personally?

And they will soon find out that world's make believe. No one I know, and I know hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of people would allow themselves in a room to be recorded surreptitiously.

I've been writing C/C++/Java for 25 years and am trying to learn forex disciplined, risk managed forex trading, It's a whole new level of hard work/thinking.

Sounds like Windows needs to undergo a similar evolution, or rather, renewal as what OS 9 did moving to OS X. I'm not sure what that might look like, but the easiest route is to probably rebase Windows atop Linux, with a WINE emulation layer to start with to keep compatibility with old apps, as they transition/port their cash cows to Linux/Rust. Rust has been in their sights for a long time now and seems MS is committed to it. They have a 4+ decade long legacy and it needs to be shed, not hauled into the future forever. It will breathe new life into MS. They know they need it. Question is, is Nadella the one to pull this off?

this is the extent to what I use any LLM - they're really good at looking up just about anything, in natural language, and most of the time even the first hit, without reprompting, is a pretty decent answer. I used to have to sort thru things to get there, so there's definitely an upside to LLMs in this manner.

Am I the only one who has never owned an Apple iPhone? I just got my Pixel 7 upgraded to Pixel 10 Pro XL, couldn't be happier.

Nothing against emacs, but check out NeoVIM. If you like Emacs, you might like NeoVIM and its powerful extensibility features.

Reminds me of one of my favorite ST: TNG episodes, "The Measure of a Man" - I urge anyone who read this note to watch this episode.

Ultimately it comes down to the question of whether machines, regardless of how smart they can be made to appear, even if they pass the Turing test with flying colors, are imbued with a soul.

In the episode, the Enterprise JAG officer, questions whether we humans "have souls."

C.S. Lewis felt that our souls transcend time/are immortal, whereas our bodies are temporal (https://checkyourfact.com/2019/09/18/fact-check-cs-lewis-sou...).

What we call "AI", is created in our image, e.g. training the model defines its range/category of responses.

We humans, if you'll believe it, are created in our Creator's image. By Creator, I do not mean our parents here.

FFT - what do you believe?

I never buy routers w wifi. Running PC Engines APU4 with Ubiquiti AP is more rock solid/stable than anything else I ever ran which had wifi+wired in a single router.

To all the CS folk, he was a legend.

Just came to see if anyone here got interested in MS-DOS TSR programs as a result of their exposure to Sidekick :).

Just hire Chinese engineers who were born/raised here. It would meet the DEI quota and decrease the chance of industrial espionage. No guarantees, but I think this would help.