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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

They can be helpful when using a new library or development environment which you are not familiar with. I've noticed a tendency to make up functions that arguably should exist but often don't.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Sometimes I get an LLM to review a patch series before I send it as a quick once over. I would estimate about 50% of the suggestions are useful and about 10% are based on "misunderstanding". Last week it was suggesting a spelling fix I'd already made because it didn't understand the - in the diff meant I'd changed the line already.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The article implies they were already on AWS so this migration was from Xeon instances to Arm Graviton instances. I wonder how much of the AWS fleet is Arm now?

Edit to add apparently RDS and Aurora are two different database hosting solutions in the AWS service zoo.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Isn't that like a short holiday?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This seems to be mostly about the T in LGBT which has become such a toxic political football the politicians are running away and deferring to anyone else to avoid enacting policy themselves.

The supreme court judgement is only an interpretation of existing law, anything can be overturned with new legislation. Instead they sat back and let the EHCR commission issue unworkable guidance on who can use what loos.

I know the Cass review was controversial but it called for puberty blockers too be issued as part of medical trials with appropriate long term follow up. Somehow we got from that to indefinite bans of their use.

Meanwhile the widening gulf between the louder parts of the two sides of the debate have left a large chunk of the population fearful of even engaging in the discourse lest they be accused of wrong-think.

The whole thing is a mess.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do the inputs and configuration drop down menus say?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

So back in the days of the Atari ST we had compact disks (sic).

Most games shipped on a single floppy disk (so 720k or 1.4Mb) and rarely used compression given the base system only has 512k of RAM. The crackers would strip the protection, repack the data and patch the loading routines to handle that. Depending on the games they could fit 3 or 4 games on a single disk.

Nowadays the dynamics are different - games on consoles do use compression but they have to favour speed because they are streaming assets just in time. The PS5 even had dedicated decompression hardware to keep up with the data rate on it's fast SSD.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Why would you? Effectively you are storing the address of the address at the address. It would get more complicated if there where post/pre increments or index offsets involved.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I thought CoPilot was just a rebagged ChatGPT anyway?

It's a silly experiment anyway, there are very good AI chess grandmasters but they were actually trained to play chess, not predict the next word in a text.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I remember the old ADSL modems where effectively winmodems. I had to keep a Windows ME machine as my household router until the point the community had reversed engineered them enough to get them working on Linux.

At least they where usb based rather than some random card. I think the whole driver could work in user space.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seems fair enough, these things cost money and the #BBC is in a race to diversify it's income in preparation for the license fee going away. The dynamic description sounds like they want to preserve the casual visitors experience of an open site.

I get ads on my BBC podcasts when I'm abroad. I assume that's all part of it.

 

I wrote this as a layman's primer to the basics of LLMs and other generative AI. I'm still early on in my journey but hopefully it helps explain things to other newcomers even if it glosses over the details.

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