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Comment · 2 days ago
For what it's worth, as bad as the site became for question askers, it got even worse for people who answer.

I don't particularly care for e-points and that sort of things, but SO had whole entire way of telling you you are wrong why did you even dare answering, then creating "classes" of user (I apparently made MORE ranking points after I stopped using it than before ? Giving me more moderation power), then seeing "your" answers being edited left and right by people who add a comma or whatever

The whole joy for me was in answering people. It's just fun, I think many hackers get it, bad questions notwithstanding. But as some point they made that ... Less fun, for a lack of a better description. So I just stopped answering.

I love it for what it brought and the great times I had on it for years, but I've stopped actively using it (as opposed to just finding the answer through a google search) for a while and it was way before the rise of LLMs.

Comment · 3 days ago
More to the point, I found fable to be actually more "intelligent" than opus once you step completly outside of the technical side of things (and I don't only mean code here), so for me it's hard to judge.

Eg asking "here are all the contract I'm subscribed to, here is what happened, is there any insurance that covers me and if yes which one is the best to make the claim to and why, and provide all the article to prove why and how i'm not in the exclusion list". Try it with random stuff of your every day life. Opus is both great and not great.

Comment · 8 days ago
Apparently they prefer amateur german message boards or something
Comment · 10 days ago
Given the % of traffic of the web it serves and over how long, I actually wonder if you have any proof that PHP actual track record in on the bad side because I think it will probably be on the better side actually, same for Wordpress specifically.
Comment · 10 days ago
Sury is up for all versions too
Comment · 10 days ago
Yes and no, you have two setup, you're on LTS, it will be backported (done as I write than on Debian), not on LTS and you already have hundreds of unsafe stuff running anyway so it's just one more to the pile.
Comment · 10 days ago
If those place at using a LTS release of their OSes they will be patched quickly (Debian already has). If they're not, they're already screwed by a lot more than just PHP I guess.
Comment · 10 days ago
They're updated for all versions
Comment · 10 days ago
One of my first boss called it the bus factor, not sure where the term comes from. What's the minimum number that need to get hit by a bus before it's impossible to keep things running. He used to say "you always have some bus factor, but it should never be one unless you're alone, otherwise you deserve whatever crap is going to rain on you someday".

I've found that to be incredibly true in my career.

Comment · 10 days ago
At least the last three I worked or consulted at, though I'm in Europe.

It really goes a long way when the law stop saying "it's not nice if" and starts saying "if you can even if you don't then you're guilty".

Comment · 10 days ago
Doesn't really matter for the end result though
Comment · 10 days ago
I agree on the "we're on the wrong path" though I don't share your conclusion's gravity, but some of these indicators feel very weird to be included imho. Total FDI and transistor per processor makes very little point on the matter.
Comment · 10 days ago
It is very important to add that not all targets were created equal in the agreement, that was a major part of the negotiation. Not saying anything else, just that a simple reading of that statement might make you come to an underlying conclusion that isn't correct.
Comment · 18 days ago
How naive of you. Are you saying it's not possible for Anthropic to have received a NSL ordering them to have the ability to spy on request on Airbus internal files for Boeing? I took on specific exemple where we have proof it happened, both sides both way, repeatedly, so the "of course it could / probably already did happen" is not a matter of discussion.
Comment · 25 days ago
It's Mistral Large, they usually publish Medium and Small later

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