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The only cromulent coupon is a gun.

It’s been headline news (at least by Lemmy standards), so it’s a safe bet that Earthwormjim91 was alluding to it when he initially brought up Torvalds, and I was referring to it when I initially brought up optimisation. It wouldn’t have been clear to you if you hadn’t known about it already, as no one linked an article or said explicitly that that’s what they were referring to, but for someone who did, it would have been obvious. You wouldn’t expect someone to explicitly say they were referencing Shrek if they said that something had layers or something was sacrifice someone was willing to make when it clearly would only affect other people, and you wouldn’t expect someone to explicitly say they were referring to Trump’s infamous COVID-era press conference if they mentioned injecting bleach.

This comment chain is specifically referencing a single LLM-assisted patch that Linus Torvalds posted to the mailing list for review a few days ago that solves a longstanding performance problem that interacts with enough things parts of the kernel that there are only a handful of people in the world qualified to deal with it, and that none of them have had the time to investigate and fix properly until just now. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-posts-his-first-llm-assisted-patch-to-the-linux-kernel-after-issuing-clear-pro-ai-directives-the-bossman-makes-use-of-ai-tooling-himself

It’s not really gaming the algorithm. There’s no karma here, no one buying high-karma accounts for advertising, and no one chasing attention when the maximum attention a Lemmy post gets isn’t very much because there aren’t very many users, so there’s no point trying to artificially boost engagement. People are just posting things when they’re online and not posting things when they’re offline, and there are few enough users that it doesn’t take many to create a pattern, and it sounds like you just happen to check at a similar cadence to a few anime fans, so keep seeing things right after they’ve browsed and upvoted what they like. I just checked the All Communities Hot feed on lemmy.world with no communities blocked, and only see one anime-related post in the first five pages, so they’re clearly not constantly at the top. Considering the demographics that would typically use Lemmy, that’s a really low number.

It only needs to save a few hundreds of seconds on one computer, or one second on a few hundreds of computers, or a tiny fraction of a second on the number of computers that actually run Linux to save trillions of cycles. A trillion cycles isn’t very many at all. A hundred-word prompt on a frontier model running on GPUs in a datacentre burns much more power than a trillion cycles on a CPU, so for a large Linux kernel patch, trillions is the wrong number by many orders of magnitude. There are also a lot of computers spending a lot of time running Linux, so it kind of balances out. There’s only one Linus Torvalds, and he’s very busy, so it’s likely that if he’d not used an LLM to get this work done, it simply wouldn’t have happened, even if someone had been willing to fund a different human to do it.

Either way, the original point of the post was that LLM-generated code is always shitty (even when it’s not immediately obvious to whoever’s responsible for it that it’s shitty) and so having any amount of it already makes things worse, even ignoring the huge environmental cost. With that context, it is the case that there’s a huge difference between Timmy and Torvalds as Torvalds is famous for having very high standards, so if he’s using it, he might be able to make something that isn’t shitty.

The default sort prioritises posts from within the last few minutes above posts that are hours old with far more votes. If one anime fan posts a handful of things right when another checks their feed, there’ll be anime posts at the top for half an hour or so, as they’ve got the most votes per minute.

Both things are going on at the same time, as Torvalds and Timmy are both paying Sam Altman to pour oil into the river as a byproduct of the service he’s providing. For something as important as the Linux kernel, it wasting fewer CPU cycles as a result of LLM-aided optimisation work might even be net beneficial for the environment once you take into account that it’ll affect billions of computers for years to come. If the end product is shitty, though, there’s no question that it wasn’t worth the environmental damage.

Some Markdown renderers interpret two dashes as an en dash and three as an em dash, so on some Lemmy clients, that might show up as a real en dash.

The sand is pressed harder against the screen if it’s being pressed by another screen than if it’s being pressed by the fabric of your pocket.

That’s clearly bamboo, which isn’t a tree and isn’t wood.

Israel also admits to doing cancer research. That doesn’t automatically make cancer good, it just means that one of their many enemies also happens to be a bad thing. Obviously, Israel will want to support any enemies of their enemies, and will be willing to force the hand of their enemies in ways that make them look bad on the international stage to make their future attacks more palatable. That doesn’t mean that the only people in Iran who don’t support the government are Mossad assets.

You’re putting a lot of words into my mouth. No one’s more to blame for the current situation in Iran than the West, but the Iranian government has more than its fair share of what could be incredibly charitably referred to as unforced errors. There are plenty of Iranians living outside of Iran who have such a warped view of the CIA-backed Shah regime that they want his son reinstalled as monarch, which is fucking nuts. That doesn’t include any of my relatives.

It’s pretty easy to find my real name from my username here and see that it’s blatantly of Persian origin. You’ve jumped the gun with that accusation. It works much better if you point out that I’m overwhelmingly likely to be biased given that people that oppose a country’s government are much more likely to emigrate and I’ve only claimed to have relatives in Iran, as that undermines my point without risking being totally fucking wrong.

I’m going to believe my relatives who live there above a comment with a wojack in it.

Rupert Lowe is recognised by a large proportion of the population to be backwards. Unfortunately, a large proportion of the population is also backwards (not a wildly different percentage to the percentage of Iranians that continued to support their government after protests had been violently and lethally suppressed) and somehow think he’s great.