@brucelawson this simple maths bug has already been fixed by Deezer, not sure why other streaming services are stuck in their old way https://support.deezer.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360002471277-Artist-Centric-Payment-Model-ACPS

@cpswan @david_chisnall So, either you have a system with anonymity and abuse, or you have a system where new users struggle. It's very naive to believe once again that technology could solve such a NON-technical, social dilemma. Good technology can optimize/minimize these issues, and it should. But it cannot make them go away.

@kees LLVM recently switched to Discourse, away from mailing lists. Some people are not happy. Fans of this or that tool and everyone else are all missing the most important point: where is the high-level, _design document_ for "get_maintainer.pl" ? It's a really hard/impossible problem, so there's no such document and no design. The choice of Perl is only the icing on the cake.

@david_chisnall this problem is extremely hard/impossible to solve because different users can have vastly different needs (in terms of granularity/number of forums, filters, etc.) yet they must share the same channels to communicate with each other. Also, the (meta-)discussion is monopolized by fans of this or that low level tool while the much more important, high-level organization is rarely mentioned. Typical case where people who should get the job are the ones running away from it.

@Gargron it has always been possible to make some money with bad translations (or bad code, etc.) long before LLMs. Now, it is possible to make much more money with them thanks to LLMs. So of course LLMs are here to stay.

@mathew Numbers are too abstract and the human species hasn't evolved to comprehend them yet. We are more binary than computers. "Let's reduce plastic use": numbers. "But I can't stop using plastics" (zero), "so I keep using plastics!" (one). Purity is number illiteracy: same reason how billionaires get away with it and why awful voting systems allow gerrymandering. It's everywhere. Oh and defund education to keep it that way, doomscrolling instead. Easy enough: funding is numbers.

@tarix29 sorry I should have picked a non-generative AI example like image recognition or something. There is still a critical usage difference though: unlike scary and/or bogus use cases, web search summaries rarely ever go into production. Because it's just an unreliable starting point. Exactly like a non-summarized web searches before. But faster now.

@quixoticgeek the relevant question is: why do people in _cars_ wear a helmet only when racing? Shouldn't they always wear one? By law maybe?

@mjg59 a while back i found this fallback happening when... the monitor is merely missing!? https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-test/discussions/964