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gchamonlive commented on AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust   spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-... · Posted by u/WolfOliver
jbstack · a day ago
But what is meant by "real coder"? Does it mean an experienced senior coder? In that case, no, AI isn't ready to replace one. How about a junior coder who is fresh out of university and starting his first job? Surely that counts as a "real coder"? I'd argue that AI can and does already replace such coders, depending on the type of work they have been assigned.
gchamonlive · a day ago
Could you elaborate your argument? I'd say AI is far from replacing any human contributor at this point.

Context doesn't work the same way as memory + experience in humans. While humans have an impression and a flexible mental model of any single domain, AI needs hard data, which is hard to manage with context and can't really be worked around by fine-tuning in practice, lest you have to retrain the model on each and every code merge.

gchamonlive commented on Intel's "Clearwater Forest" Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be a Beast   nextplatform.com/2025/08/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
ddtaylor · a day ago
I mean if the guy wants he can de-lid the processor and start fiddling around with transistors if he can operate at 6nm scale.
gchamonlive · a day ago
- Hi, Intel customer support, how may I help you

- I've delid the processor and now it doesn't work. Can I have it replaced under warranty?

- dead tone

gchamonlive commented on Intel's "Clearwater Forest" Xeon 7 E-Core CPU Will Be a Beast   nextplatform.com/2025/08/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Blackthorn · a day ago
After Intel released a microcode update that turned my processor into one that retails for $100 less, I don't really trust claims or even benchmarks until they're > 1 year old.

Intel also, as far as I'm concerned, owes me $100.

gchamonlive · a day ago
Other comments miss the point entirely. Sure it's possible to circumvent this performance impact, but that's not without its risks and you are still right about being skeptical over performance claims.
gchamonlive commented on Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward   ghacks.net/2025/08/27/you... · Posted by u/speckx
beng-nl · 3 days ago
Which distribution is she using, out of curiosity? I wonder if I could do this for (to) my wife..
gchamonlive · 3 days ago
Not OP, but if I was installing Linux for the first time I'd either go with pop_os (not sure if it's as good anymore as last time I checked it, a couples years ago) or kubuntu, because KDE is a bit more familiar to windows users.
gchamonlive commented on The GitHub website is slow on Safari   github.com/orgs/community... · Posted by u/talboren
DrBenCarson · 3 days ago
Well yeah, but just imagine how much money they’re saving by delivering a subpar experience!
gchamonlive · 3 days ago
Or how much money they are capturing in investiments or corporate deals because of the tech stack
gchamonlive commented on Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser   bphilip.uk/blog/2025-08-2... · Posted by u/shaokind
shaokind · 5 days ago
All feedback on the latter point appreciated :).
gchamonlive · 4 days ago
Maybe op isn't familiar with counterstrike servers as they were back in the day. For me it was a very easy read.
gchamonlive commented on 'Ten Martini' Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals   quantamagazine.org/ten-ma... · Posted by u/pseudolus
NoMoreNicksLeft · 4 days ago
Most people generally think that it means that there is a higher-level reality, and that there are beings within that higher-level reality engaged in creating our simulation. "Gods" for lack of a better word.

I prefer Greg Egan's interpretation in Permutation City, where simulations can become self-bootstrapping and that simulations need no "simulator" at all. No one's loaded universe.exe in some higher-lever reality, it runs itself.

That still won't stop me from attempting rowhammer attacks.

gchamonlive · 4 days ago
Until we can download some else's consciousness from a different universe into this one, similar to what happens to Durham, this is just an interesting thought experiment. And even then, how could we distinguish an alien human consciousness from someone having a severe dissociation episode?
gchamonlive commented on SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious   chrislockard.net/posts/ss... · Posted by u/unl0ckd
Intermernet · 4 days ago
Since the advent of LetsEncrypt, ACME, and Caddy I haven't thought about SSL/TLS for more than about an hour per year, and that's only because I forget the steps required to setup auto-renewal. I pay nothing, I spend a tiny amount of time dealing with it, and it works brilliantly.

I'm not sure why many people are still dealing with legacy manual certificate renewal. Maybe some regulatory requirements? I even have a wildcard cert that covers my entire local network which is generated and deployed automatically by a cron job I wrote about 5 years ago. It's working perfectly and it would probably take me longer to track down exactly what it's doing than to re-write it from scratch.

For 99.something% of use cases, this is a solved problem.

gchamonlive · 4 days ago
I think part of this can be explained by the fact that in many corporations, code and everything supporting it, like development time, developer quality, infrastructure maintenance and software architecture aren't seen as investiment but sunk cost that needs to be reduced ad infinitum to appease shareholders, so they throw human suffering and business risk at it to make it look good in the next quarterly report.
gchamonlive commented on 'Ten Martini' Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals   quantamagazine.org/ten-ma... · Posted by u/pseudolus
hawkjo · 5 days ago
The cantor set exists in a real phenomenon? Any real phenomenon? That makes me feel like we live in a simulation perhaps more than anything else I’ve heard. This story is a nice description of the people, but I want more on implications. What is going on here?
gchamonlive · 4 days ago
> That makes me feel like we live in a simulation perhaps more than anything else I’ve heard

I'm never quite sure what this is meant to mean. Is it comparing to other simulations like computer games or physical simulations where you could change a seed or a data structure and have it manifest in reality? What is expected from a simulation to differ from reality? What does it even mean to make this distinction when we are observing inside the process we are trying to distinguish between real and simulated?

gchamonlive commented on Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser   bphilip.uk/blog/2025-08-2... · Posted by u/shaokind
gchamonlive · 5 days ago
> Unfortunately a steam account is required to run a server, and that burner accounts are no problem for server operators, which was mentioned at the end of the article, so the strategy you suggested wouldn't work

FTFY

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