OK, you first Altman.

I still need 3-4 years probably, minimum :(. I feel really badly for younger people having to deal with this shit. I’m also in a sub-field which doesn’t seem yet to have been hit so hard with all this BS. Sooo glad I didn’t become a JS/web developer, it sounds like vibe-coding and swarms of agents have taken over.

I’m hoping to exit the industry (eg., retire) as soon as is practical. It’s just not fun any more and this was the shit-icing on the cake for me.

Now, LLMs being used to check for vulnerabilities… that I’m not really against, machine-learning is good at pattern recognition and it seems to be legitimately useful at that from what I’ve heard.

But as ‘intelligence’ or a trustworthy search mechanism for retrieving and re-synthesizing (note I did not use the words ‘authoring’ or ‘creating’) anything more than simple standalone functions? Nope, nope nope. Too many hallucinations and I didn’t fall in love with programming and computer science only to end up being a reverse centaur, slaving away at prompts to actively steer a stochastic slot-machine into writing the proper code for a task.

Sadly, I feel there are still too many bigots and sexists in the US who cannot bring themselves to vote for a woman, esp. one who isn’t ‘white enough’. That, piled on top of the ‘establishment’ Dem factions that will do everything possible to subvert a campaign… which will let the right-wingers/fascists drive right up the middle again.

Feel free to prove me wrong, USA. Please.

Ow. That sounds horrible. I’m glad I’d never heard of it then, I guess. :(

I’m at the age now where I actually feel relieved if I hear news that Hollywood has decided not to go ahead with a prequel, remake, ‘re-imagining’, or whatever… and I purposefully avoid now the ones that sound like they’re going to be a disaster.

Max Headroom could work, IFF they went full-bore with the mockery of media, corporatism-as-government and cynical view of advertising. Though the desolation inside and outside the cities and the plight of ‘blanks’ might hit too close to home nowadays as it’s pretty much a literal reality now.

There is GNU APL which is OSS. Can’t be bothered to create a HN acct just to reply to the main comment thread, which has no mention of it.

Unless they’re actively moving to remove him from power, “revolt” is not really the correct word. They’re complicit in everything else.

I must admit, I wish /u/shittymorph was active on the fediverse. His comments were good for a laugh.

In theatres this summer, the depressing sequel to Alien vs. Predator: Musk vs. Altman – whomever wins, we lose

I was saying online in Aug 2024, right after the SCOTUS ruled that sitting Presidents were immune for all ‘official acts’, that the Democrats should have convinced Biden to immediately remove all sitting SCOTUS judges which the previous GOP admins had installed, all GOP-installed state SC judges, GOP-installed FBI, IRS staff, etc., impose maximum age and term limits for all judges, and explicitly limit the powers of all future Presidents and close as many loopholes everywhere as possible. I mean, what could they really do? They’d just handed all sitting Presidents including Biden that power, he’d be immune! Or they’d have their bluff called and have reversed their decision right there and then.

But of course the two parties are really not opposing, the Dems are just Controlled Opposition so they wouldn’t dare actually fix things when they had the chance.

Now, everyone in the US (and the rest of the World, indirectly) is pretty much f*cked. I hope everyone in the GOP, their rich asshole billionaire string-pullers and the Dems who were all complicit, all rot.

Having worked on IPsec many years ago, I became convinced it could never be fully secure due to its sheer complexity, either intentionally (hi, NSA!) or merely due to design-by-committee. Just don’t use it, please. SSH tunnels or openVPN are preferable.

Nah, a cheque or large buy of trump/melania coin or a tacky ‘gold’ trophy would do it too.

“… used to transfer resource heavy HTML pages.” Uhm, Gemini does not use HTML – that’s the freaking point.

I can’t be arsed to try to edit the Wiki page but this is just entirely wrong.

Fuck Kevin O’Leary.

Once they discovered the drug-like quick rush of having LLMs spit out code that might work, might look plausible, but might eat your dog … the VCs realized they might be able to get the world hooked on it.

Ah, OK. I get that angle.

Big corps always wave away debt if they can pay it off via revenue, or future promises of revenue, or … reasons. Why is it different here? Honest question. They have more cash on hand, it seems, than their current debt, so could pay that at any time. Why is it a true liability?

Nice ad hominim BTW. I’m neither stoned nor a teenager, and make no pretense to be some financial guru.

But that same link says they have $9B in Working Capital and Invested Capital. What’s the true net value then?

From article:

The proposal does not sound like a “terribly good offer” as it would saddle eBay with GameStop’s debt, said retail industry analyst Sucharita Kodali from market research firm Forrester.

Uh… Gamestop has , depending on who one asks, no debt, or some sort of convertible thing to do with their warrant issuing last year. This article seems mis-informed. It’s an ambitious gambit, but would certainly not saddle E-Bay with any significant new debt.