I meant easier to do the bad thing than to do the good thing. A hammer does not specifically make it easier to attack someone than to use it for carpentry. And hammers are rarely used to attack other people in practice.

I don’t understand why you bring guns into this argument. Like LLMs, they should indeed be banned, except for some very narrow use cases. Most developed countries do ban guns in that way.

For most people, LLMs do make it specifically easier to skip learning than to enhance learning. We can see this in practice where teachers are noticing higher grades for homework but lower grades for the final exams.

To take it to the extreme: you could say buying a lottery ticket can be both a bad and a good financial decision because it costs money, but it can also earn you a lot of money. That statement is technically true, but I hope you agree it is misleading.

When someone says “AI is just a tool” they are actually saying it can enable people to do very good or very bad things. People might respond with “AI is just a tool” if someone says AI is evil, because machine learning is not evil, it is a technology.

Saying you can do both good and bad with any tool is misleading if the tool makes it easier to do the bad thing (and I think that is one of the points of the article). Also, it is common, and in my opinion valid, to use metonymy and refer to the practice of how LLMs are made and used rather than just the LLM itself when saying “LLMs are evil”.

Which LISP? :P

I when I read reports of the downtime on mastodon I checked status.codeberg.org and saw that almost everything was a red line, except for the authenticated traffic. I guess I was lucky that I still had my cookies.

Not completely down; as a signed in user I didn’t notice a thing.

I made it on there with my revival of Real World Haskell :D

Cabal is more than sufficient for my purposes nowadays. I’d recommend reading their Getting Started page:

https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/3.10/getting-started.html

That gives an overview of the basic functions and for example how to add new dependencies.

For setting up the entire toolchain, I’d also recommend GHCUp’s first steps guide:

https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/steps/

. means function composition in Haskell. (f .) . (+) is just an obscure way to write \x y -> f (x + y). It’s not recommended to use this point-free style in production code, but it is sometimes fun to experiment with for challenges like this.

They are considered volunteers in the Netherlands as long as the compensation is way below market rates. I don’t understand why you think this is a problem.

In the Netherlands, volunteers can be paid up to €5.60 per hour and up to €2100 per year (tax-free).

The Netherlands also has mandatory ID.

It’s e2e encrypted, so what could they do if they were evil? (honest question)

Not only is it convenient, it also enables parallelism:

“How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!” - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010)

I’m confused. It does go straight to the discourse post when I click it.

You can choose a custom donation and make most of your money go to the EFF. Then the top tier is just like a €24 donation to the EFF and you only really “pay” €10.30 for the actual books.

Een belangrijke overweging van mij is dat de partij groot genoeg is om echt het verschil te maken. Daarom ben ik recent lid geworden van Groenlinks. Ik denk dat Groenlinks-PvdA de enige fractie is die groot genoeg en ook duidelijk pro-europa is.

Or anywhere in the EU. And I don’t think the USA is more lenient on piracy. But perhaps they are if a big company is the one doing it.

That’s is how things used to work here in the Netherlands, until the EU forced us to change our laws in 2014:

https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/aci-adam-bv-and-others-v-stichting-de-thuiskopie-stichting-onderhandelingen-thuiskopie-vergoeding/

Why? They immediately explain that the difference in performance would not be significant on such a small problem and I see no other reason to prefer arrays over maps.