ChairmanMeow

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[–] ChairmanMeow 21 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

It could, if it annoumced itself as such.

Instead it pretended to be a rape victim and offered "its own experience".

[–] ChairmanMeow -1 points 13 hours ago

Also it's not a single line - when looking at the source file - and a complete section instead.

True, I misjudged the original screenshot at the top of the thread. Still, it is all the way at the bottom of the page.

  1. It's inside the dotnet Docs. dotnet has nothing to do with an IDE. You can code/run dotnet code in any editor or terminal if you like.
  2. This person assumes that Visual Studio is the only IDE for dotnet. Looks like they never heard of Rider or VS Code or anything else.

This seems a bit harsh. The dotnet docs have tons of examples where it's shown how to do something in VS Studio or VSCode. "How to use dotnet feature X in product Y" doesn't seem like an unreasonable thing to include in your docs, especially with Microsoft having developed both.

WTF is he defining as an ad? "Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service". The whole section is bascially "Hey you can use Copilot to do this" - that's an ad right there.

Again I think you're being too harsh here. Not every mention of a product is necessarily an ad. The dotnet docs aren't an ad for dotnet for example. Given that this section is at the bottom of the page, doesn't demand any attention from the user and doesn't really seem like a direction for the user to start using Copilot, I find it hard to really consider it a proper advertisement. It's not saying "Hey you can use Copilot to do this", it's saying "If you want to use this with Copilot, here's how to do so". It makes no effort in convincing the reader that they should use Copilot, it's just instructions for those who already do use it.

There's also plenty of other places where the dotnet docs refer to non-dotnet products, e.g. this page on deep learning: https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/machine-learning/deep-learning-overview.md

It mentions other products like Tensorflow and ONNX there. Are these mentions also ads?

  1. A deployment target is not the same as "AI"
  2. If a page/section is not named like "How to deploy example app to Azure" then it shouldn't contain any reference to Azure. And yes you should complain about such stuff if it exists.

Plenty of the how-to guides end with "and here's how to deploy your stuff to Azure!". The dotnet docs even have an entire section on Azure, a service that has very little if nothing to do with how dotnet works. But it's still mentioned and documented in the dotnet docs, because it can be useful information for dotnet developers.

That's basically what the whole issue is about. WTF are you even talking about then? Just shut up and give an upvote.

They're referring to how they don't find it useful info, but other people who do use Copilot more intensively might find it useful. It's also a completely different point: the creator of the issue objects to the docs section because they consider it an ad for Copilot. The comment author disagrees, but says they'd rather see it removed because it's just not that useful information, though acknowledging that they might not be the target audience. It's a different argument that does contribute to the discussion imo.

[–] ChairmanMeow 1 points 16 hours ago

1 is a tragedy. 100000 is a statistic.

[–] ChairmanMeow 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's relevant in the sense of its capability of actually becoming smarter. The way these models are set up at the moment puts a mathematical upper limit to what they can achieve. We don't quite know exactly where, but we know that each step taken will take significantly more effort and data than the last.

Without some kind of breakthrough w.r.t. how we model these things (so something other than LLMs), we're not going to see AI intelligence skyrocket.

[–] ChairmanMeow 4 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

I mean, this user does quite eloquently raise a good point: https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues/45996#issuecomment-2848267714

It's a single link all the way at the bottom of the page, so not really obtrusive. And given that there are people using Copilot this way, it's probably better to give them something to use docs-wise rather than leaving them to Copilot's mercy. The article linked to is also pretty much just instructions on how to do it, no real gushing about how amazing Copilot supposedly is.

[–] ChairmanMeow 7 points 1 day ago

Literally from the Wikipedia link you listed:

The Soviet Union and Mongolian People's Republic toppled the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo in Manchuria and Mengjiang in Inner Mongolia, as well as northern Korea, Karafuto on the island of Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. The defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army helped bring about the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II. The Soviet entry into the war was a significant factor in the Japanese government's decision to surrender unconditionally, as it was made apparent that the Soviet Union was not willing to act as a third party in negotiating an end to hostilities on conditional terms.

Not that the writing wasn't on the wall for the Japanese thanks to the US efforts in the war, but that wasn't enough for them to surrender just yet. It's speculated that the Soviet entry may have been more important than the A-bomb in the end.

[–] ChairmanMeow 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Soviets did fight Japan and were a significant factor in the Japanese capitulation. But the victory against Nazi Germany was far more important to them.

[–] ChairmanMeow 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His hands are even floating above his body, not even resting.

[–] ChairmanMeow 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nuclear isn't 100% up, France had significant issues due to the summer heat raising riverwater temps, forcing plants to shut down because they couldn't cool effectively.

Renewables are too cheap to keep nuclear economically viable, even when including battery storage to keep supply up.

[–] ChairmanMeow 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nuclear is far too expensive for that.

[–] ChairmanMeow 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Proton edited and deleted some of their responses because it made them look even worse. You can find one here: https://archive.ph/quYyb

Complete delusion believing Trump will "stand up for the little guy". The GOP is the party that gutted net neutrality after all. They had the Chevron doctrime overturned. The Thiel-Musk funded party standing up for "little tech"? Please.

The CEO tried to spin it off as "missing context" but the responses show he's either completely delusional, has been comatose for the past two decades or is just pro-Trump. I can't look inside his head, but his tacit endorsement of the party actively dismantling US democracy is not something that can really "lack context".

Proton, the company, has donated to liberal parties. The CEO seems to be a bit more of the "libertarian" type, that doesn't seem to mind everything the GOP did in the past years.

[–] ChairmanMeow 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The company seems fine but I think they're referring to the pro-Trump comments the CEO made.

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