I have wanted to transform things

I didn’t know how but it seemed possible. I searched and didn’t quickly come up with an answer.

I asked an LLM, and it gave me a confident answer.

I checked the man for the tool and the LLM had used creative writing to create the interface I expected should exist… but it did not exist.

I don’t know how you’re swapping or merging these basic facts:

1. If you’re told the binary and the flag, the validation of the LLMs output is fast (either with man or executing the command)
2. If you have a process you’re searching for then the searching can be slow to find the combination of commands and flags (and that’s why so many people, by the sounds of it yourself included, use LLMs)

I do think a “linux tutor” is one of the better use cases for LLMs for beginners, since you can quickly validate when its recommended commands are incorrect (but you still can’t quickly validate if its description of internals is misleading). I just think it falls apart as you start requiring more specialised things, or are at a situation where “this should exist” because the LLMs habitually make things up that sound reasonable to fill in the gaps in what the tools can do. That’s not an issue for beginners / the basics especially if there are lots and lots of tutorials the LLMs are sourcing from (although, that opens ethical issues too)

Agreed, but I think a framing or two is missing here, and it only applies to a subset, is that the people of the world shouldn’t have to deal with more/larger bot nets because these things haven’t been considered.

Another is just that the average great aunt isn’t opting into a concept of insecurity they’re simply ignorant to what threats there are. If it’s possible to distinguish between the two sets of people, or to maybe even bucket devices by potential threat, it might go a long away. I probably a lot wrong here, I just woke up.

But yeah, agreed security is an argument that’s hidden behind

Ahhh… what!?

Its linux, its faster to man the command or to type it. Point is that it usefulness to bullshit ratio for me in that situation was far too low

Kind of, but that would be a fault in the system that ideally would be charged. Maybe with some sort of verification to ensure they have the skills already. Maybe that’s even what this is abusing and they’re not examining enough / tolerant of LLMs yet. But agreed that is something a flaw with credentials

Any time I want to know if a linux command exists to manipulate data

This is one of the reasons I’m very cautious of my genAI use. Most of the time I got to the stage where I thought “there should be a command / way to do this” and I asked an LLM it would tell me the intuitive interface that I expected existed. But when I tested it didn’t exist, the answer had just been creative writing

Ahh… “rather” reads as a point contrasted to the comment? So what are you expecting comes after questioning why the oil subsidies still exist?

It seems to be evidence of vowels and consonants, not evidence for complex grammar like the title might imply

There are improvements but physics and chemistry kick in at some point. I don’t know enough to presume where that point is, but you seem to be presuming that the limits for sodium will be better than lithium and I’m not seeing any evidence provided, just faith. May as well work with the reality we have while we see how that pans out. Like someone else said, we recycle a lot of lead from lead batteries, we didn’t stop when lithium batteries came along

How is that the perfect example?

Shouldn’t it open up the question “why do these subsidies still exist and can we phase them out” not “subsidies are bad”?

Kickstarting new infrastructure is one place government money tends to work well. You can always phase out the subsidies and there is an argument that battery tech benefited from a feedback loop (used in phones until infra and tech was cheap enough for cars+) and something needs to kickstart that for their recycling, government stepping in to start that loop isn’t uncommon or as terrible as you seem to be making it out

I don’t think the title is amazing here. The “race” seemed dramatic and a bit confusing for me. It’s referring to conservation though (actually little of the article seems to be science focused so the “understand” is a bit misleading too). Here’s a quote after it goes through a long winded intro:

This interest in conserving fungi has been spurred in part by increasing evidence that they play a far larger role in how ecosystems function than was previously understood: 90% of plants on Earth rely on fungi to supply them with crucial nutrients, and newer evidence is increasingly pointing to the key role that fungi play in helping maintain a stable climate.