I dunno about that, I think any of the hard sciences have a lot of crossover with computing. It generally rewards the curious, patient and methodical.

Maybe it was just the cultural fit? Silicon Valley is certainly keenly observed 😉

I’m not sure there is a better way - all the user moderation approaches I’ve seen involve leaning on the regulars to spot stuff. The alternative is dedicated moderators which tends to lead to it’s own problems. I don’t think you want to rely on those who have just signed up as that would be open to abuse pretty quickly.

Out of an abundance of caution we don’t let the agent close bugs or assign CVEs but tell it to defer to a real human for that. I’ll have to experiment with how we can do a better job of detecting duplicates because I’m sure a fair number of the issues are.

If the bugs were being found in code that is used heavily in production I’d agree. Spamming the tracker with 100’s of bugs in random unmaintained areas of the code base just wastes everyone’s time. Perhaps as a project we should be more aggressive in deprecating code but the threat profile for someone running firmware blobs from their camera is very different from people launching untrusted guests on their shared hosting infrastructure.

I do run a bot that can do the initial triage, it doesn’t solve the problem of bugs stacking up in unmaintained areas of the code. I have experimented with auto-fixing the bugs with an LLM but currently the project policy is no AI contributions at all. We are in the process of debating a new policy which might allow for simple fixes to be done with AI.

Gymnastics might not be a bad alagory for catalysis. It’s all about getting the molecules lined up to make the reactions easier than relying on heat and random collisions to get you there.

I’m sure Reagan deserves a lot of the criticism and he was possibly in early stage Alzheimer’s in his second term. However I mostly remember him being the president in charge when the cold war ended and Eastern Europe was finally liberated.

No screen protector but I did have a fairly solid caseology case for my Pixel.

I think it’s a mistake to think of it as a homogeneous community. The original free software hackers where a mix of libertarians working alongside communists. The growth of the distros brought there own communitarian vibes. And that’s fine, the license is the thing that allows everyone to potentially benefit whatever direction any particular group go in. Don’t like the direction don’t follow that group.

In the discussions our project are having about how to approach LLM use in the community there has been a lot of consensus in the human taking ownership. Ultimately it’s the human who has to direct the tool and if they have little interest other than blindly hitting accept then we’re not interested in the contribution.

Exactly, there is only one person in control and the helper works under instruction.

My wife and I have very different cooking styles. I like my kitchen to be clean with dirty things either washed up or waiting by the sink. My wife is more of the style that the kitchen tells the story of the meal preparation and how all the workspace was used.

Quite a lot of the trailer was about revamped controls. I might have another go when it drops. I didn’t get far because fighting felt very fiddly.

Some of the AI generated bug reports we get are good because the author had verified them, added a test case and at least reviewed if it is guest trigger able. Yesterday’s flood however was low effort spam.

Is that like Deviled Lettuce?

I don’t think the UK wants the war in Ukraine to continue without end but the proscription by the writer in this piece seems to be Ukraine can’t win so we should stop giving them weapons to defend themselves and force Ukraine to capitulate.

There does seem to be a desire to get to a ceasefire but so far Russia hasn’t backed down from demanding territory they haven’t taken as a precondition to that. Does anyone seriously trust Russia wouldn’t just use the ceasefire to rebuild before taking the next chunk out of Ukraine? It takes two parties serious about peace to stop the fighting.

With the recent heat waves we’ve been having it’s nice to visit the cellar for a few minutes of cooling down. Of course I can’t stay too long because of the radon.