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Does quicksort explain the mechanics of the algorithm?

No, but it was also named in the 60s. If someone was three comments deep replying to people asking about it, at some point someone would say "it's quick and in place because it does a recursive partition".

It was alluded to in the post - contributors turn into maintainers. Someone who contributes has a small but plausible chance of sticking around.

For an open source project that isn't a business, that's really the only way to recruit people


But why recruit people, now that we have AI?

Couldn't an agent monitor feature requests and bug reports, reason about them, and then implement and fix the ones it deems important?


For the same reason software engineers still employed. AI is not yet capable of autonomous software development. From my perspective we're nowhere close.

Continously saying "FSD will be ready next year" for the last N years

Mythos was announced a few month ago and has been actually demoed in many companies who have all reported its abilities, supporting the claims made by Anthropic. How is this in any way similar to the FSD situation?

This might apply to the AI integrations in Gmail, but someone's own agent setup might have more references saved privately than yours. You can't ask your AI to search through my personal notes.

The people that send that crap are the guys who one-off it, not the guys who have a carefully crafted context, skills, and local references on top of the prompt.

I was going to say... Sometimes I load up my context with a ton of data. The output is shorter than the input.

It's a signal, and probably a high success signal in open source slop discovery, but it's more of a correlation than a causation. I've seen lots of changes that bear the co-authored tag that have had a lot of thought behind the code changes.


You are responsible, it doesn't matter if a LLM wrote it. Sometimes someone will touch my code and I got wish git blame still had my name. (That is they fixed the spelling of some variables - I'm a bad speller but know the codes are better)


I haven't experienced these issues with latest models writing performant and correct rust fwiw. It does seem to understand Rust's safety concepts quite well when working on reviewing or writing code


It's worth stating that historically these right-wing culture protests have been a bit more violent in nature than most protests are. I'm not suggesting that everyone in the protest is violent, but there's enough mob mentality that makes me (someone who lives in London) uncomfortable.


Sure, but there's a difference between surveillance after a crime vs before.


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> Keep is mind the UK left is aligned with Islam

The Left has a fascination with Palestine, not islam. People who push the "the left love poltical islam" are usally trying to sell you that London is a wasteland, or that white people can't speak in public


Depends how you interpret "aligned with" and "Islam".

They "left" has formed alliances with Islamist extremists so i think the "aligned with" bit is accurate.

The "Islam" is inaccurate and conflates Islamism with Islam. Most British Muslims are not extremist nutcases, and there are plenty on the "right" too - numerous Conservatives, some in Reform (e.g. Zia Yusuf), etc.


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> 46% of British Muslims openly admit support for Hamas

Your link says 25% hold a favourable view of Hamas. This is lower than the percentage that have an unfavourable view.

As your link says "substantial minorities holding views directly hostile to the liberal democratic order" which confirms my claim that most British Muslims do not.

"with younger British Muslims more radical than their parents rather than less"

Which IMO is a problem - and a direct result of multiple bad policies.

That entire article is heavily biased. For example: "British Hindus and Sikhs rank among the most economically successful and socially integrated minorities in the country. Polling consistently shows low antisemitism, near-zero sympathy for Islamic extremism"

Hindus and Sikhs are have no sympathy of Islamic extremism? How astonishing!

it is full of unfounded claims and assumptions too:

"Parallel social structures have emerged in cities and towns across the country, with Sharia councils operating outside the British legal system".

That is nonsense. You might as well accuse Jews and Catholics of the same: e.g. through operating their own marriage tribunals.

"The Pew Research Forum’s mid-range projection has the Muslim share of the British population reaching 17.2 percent by 2050 under continued high-migration assumptions."

So they get 17.2% under an extreme set of assumptions.


AI enhanced misinformation campaigns working as intended


I'm sorry I don't understand? are you saying that I'm the one affected by AI propaganda?


Hi, I do this at work.

It's not a one-shot prompt. I'm chatting with the agent for a while collecting knowledge and forming a substantive set of documentation or references. This takes a lot of time and effort to collect.

After this, I just get the agent to refine a doc for humans to read. I'm not very good at writing for humans, and it takes me far too much time that I usually give up and move onto other more important things instead. So it benefits everyone that I have vetted a set of documents in my expertise domain and shared them, even if not written by me they contain my ideas.


(Neon/databricks employee here)

Neon also only just disabled FPWs - so there is new substance here. We published a similar blog on Neon

https://neon.com/blog/turning-off-fpw-for-faster-writes


There's no side effects in f here, so the statement does not apply


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> State is in practice always subjected to side effects and concurrency.

There was never any claim or assumption regarding f. Maybe the way you interpreted it is what they meant, but it is not what was stated.


you are oversimplifying with your set variable example. the context is complex state management as with online purchases.


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