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  • Let's hope he goes through with it.

  • Can we have that in the UK too?

  • That's true, but spaghetti code was always faster to write than good code before as well. I will agree that the speed gap probably has grown though. That's why tools like AI need discipline.

    If managers and engineers don't understand that their code will turn into garbage and the business will get reputational harm and lose customers / get sued / have more tech debt to fix and they'll eventually learn their lesson. In the meantime it's going to be a painful process where upper management see extra speed, expand their scope or downsize their staff, then learn that they have crumbling foundations and need to adjust. This has publically happened a few times already. Things will stabilize in time.

  • Maybe you've misunderstood something.

    No matter what framework or language you are using, AI can make the development process faster. It can help you debug a problem, write tests and refactor code. In some situations, it will be faster than writing code yourself, in others not.

  • Insane stuff.

    Hopefully, those are the sorts of companies that should fail or get sued, so they learn their lesson. Not holding my breath though.

    Companies have been doing insane shit for the sake of saving a buck or getting to market fast for decades, it's nothing new. AI may or may not just make it worse.

  • In my experience, AI is an amplifier.

    Good engineers will produce more good code, because they ask the right questions, know what good looks like and check the output.

    Bad engineers will produce reams more bad code. The mistakes they make will be amplified. They will give wrong and incomplete instructions, won't see what the problems are with the result and will ship it anyway.

    This amplification also means people will spend a larger proportion of time reviewing than coding, which I think is less interesting.

    All of this is stuff that can, to some extent, be addressed with policy. You help and instruct juniors, encourage people to better understand and own their code, or at worst reprimand them if they don't.

    You can adjust expectations of product managers and explain to them that more is not better, as it always has been. Faster development can often come with bugs and tech debt and this is more of the same.

    All I've said above is puts aside the ethical arguments of using or not using AI of course. That's a separate can of worms entirely.

  • With a lack of opposable thumbs playing cards would be hard. That said maybe we'll let him join someone's team next time in an advisory role.

  • He is indeed pretty photogenic!

    My brothers cat Poppy by comparison tends to look pretty goofy a lot of the time.

    I wouldn't be surprised if he's gotten into a few fights. He mostly stays at home nowadays though so he doesn't come across many other cats.

  • It's pretty complex for someone who knows no Arabic but I learnt a few things about Arabic script. Very cool!

  • I think Labour were left wing before, but they were compromised by right-wingers and now they are about as right wing as our right wing mainstream party, the conservatives.

    Pro-Israel, arresting activists, cutting welfare and disability benefits. I like to call them Forced Labour.

  • Google actually already has a system to automatically detect and filter incoming nude pictures. It allows apps to blur then and you can then opt to view them. It's a separate application and uses locally running machine learning.

    I can't remember the name of it and if it's just on Pixels, nor what applications it works with. Might just be for their own messaging apps or it might be more deeply integrated. If anyone is curious I'll try to look it up after work.

    The point is they already have something similar to this they could maybe leverage.

  • 24 MHz Arm Cortex M0+ processor. The chip also carried 24KB of flash storage and 3KB of static RAM.

    ... a 10y old phone can barely load Google, and this is about 100x slower.

    Wild that you can serve anything with that hardware. Granted, static websites are basically just sending files over the wire.

  • I've just discovered another use for grain synthesis:

    Adding grain using to DVD movies with badly compressed grain.

    I just bought Breakfast at Tiffany's on DVD and despite it being a 60s movie that should have had clean grain, it has very little and what is there looks bad because of mediocre DVD compression. You end up with some minor but distracting compression artifacts and static grain. By adding a little grain synthesis, you end up with an appearance that strangely seems more authentic and hides compression artifacts.

    Here are the results. I've added clips wit 0-36 strength grain synthesis strength, and I personally think 24 looks pretty good.

  • That's reasonable. I know a lot of people don't like it. In my case it's as much about loosing quality when trying to denoise as it is a case of preserving the visual style.

  • For whatever reason my local library only stocks books. I tried donating some movies and they said they don't take them. Weird.

  • I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. Would you like to elaborate?

  • Speaking of, I spotted this on the Steam Store today.

  • Open AI has done this too. It's literally just a marketing play. "We made something so scary and amazing. Pay attention to us".

    In reality it's probably a nothing burger.

    If you actually put forward a law to ban all AI development now they'd lobby against it.