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Sounds like you're expecting the AI-based tools that are finding bugs to also provide fixes.

I've been dealing with a bunch of AI-generated (or at least -assisted) vulnerability reports lately. In many cases the reports include proposed patches to fix the issues.

It's been..... interesting. In many cases, the analysis provided in the report has been accurate and helpful. In some cases, the proposed patches have also been good, and we've accepted them with minimal or no changes.

In other cases, despite finding a valid issue, and even providing a good analysis of the problem, the AI tool's suggested patch has been, quite simply, wrong.

Careful review from somebody who really _understands_ the code -- and the wider context in which it is operating -- is still absolutely necessary. That's not always going to happen in an hour.

Just to confirm, I'm seeing the same issue on other repos. Sometimes a subset of the expected PRs show up, other times none at all.

An example worth considering is TeX, which is now 43 years old (considering only TeX82; the earlier TeX78 was a substantially different piece of software). There has been some maintenance over the years, it's true, including a few feature additions in 1990 (TeX 3.0), but I would suggest it has shown itself to be extremely durable.

Except that it's not clear whether the intelligence† that underlies their homing ability is equally effective in helping them evade predators.

†Is "intelligence" even the right word here? I don't know. Much depends on how you define it, I guess, combined with the unknowability of the pigeon's own mental processes.

Glad to see you didn't acknowledge your source! :-)

(It's Tom Lehrer, for any who don't recognize it.)

"Some of you may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."

Does the article's "Example 31" look correct to anyone? I see no "small space between the two boxes" (as claimed) in any of the browsers I tried.

How large does the field have to be? I grow some in my back garden...does that count as zero, then?

Yes, agreed! The first time I visited San Antonio (as a Brit who was based in Dallas for some months) happened to be at exactly that time. We didn't know anything about it, but found ourselves on the river walk in the evening, and along came the parade of boats bringing Pancho Claus & co... it was a lovely surprise and a beautiful evening.

It does, but those would only be applied if the `font-variant-ligatures: historical-ligatures` property were specified, so they don't appear on this site.

Specifically, `font-variant-ligatures: discretionary-ligatures` enables this.

(So does `font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1`, which is the low-level equivalent; the site includes both.)

Ah, remembering the phone-book Inside Mac volumes! Those were the days.

(Kids these days with StackExchange and Copilot have no idea.... now get off my lawn!)

Some years ago I was very frustrated, as a UK citizen visiting the States and suffering from congestion, that I was completely unable to buy it because I wasn't carrying suitable ID that the pharmacy would recognize.