Features can be migrated (wasn’t that the whole point of POSIX? And GNU?).

At least it has a properly designed kernel, instead of some student’s monolithic toy project, bloated beyond any semblance of maintainability.

Once Torvald’s gone Linux will inevitably fracture (more). With no one with historical authority to settle disputes every distribution will end up maintaining its own version of the kernel, which will eventually become mutually incompatible.

This incompatibility will cause most distributions that stick to the remnants of the Linux kernel to be abandoned, with only the largest and commercial ones surviving, and eventually becoming closed source blobs enshittified beyond any semblance of usability.

Any distribution willing to survive and remain open source will have to migrate to a new, more stable kernel, and barring the emergence of HURD as an actually useable one BSD will be the only available option (and a much saner one at that).

I prefer Rockstar, personally.

That way I can say I’m a Rockstar programmer.

It won’t. We’ll all move on to BSD.

Exactly. Nothing technical about it: they simply produce the statistically most likely token (in their training model) to follow a given list of tokens.

Any information contained in their output (other than the fact that each of the tokens is probably the most statistically likely to appear after the previous ones in the texts used as their models, which I imagine could be useful for philologists) is purely circumstantial, and was already contained in their training model.

There’s no reasoning involved in the process (other than possibly in the writing of the texts in their training mode if they predate LLM, if we’re feeling optimistic about human intelligence), nor any mechanism in the LLM for reasoning to take place.

They are as far from AI as Markov chains were, just slightly more correct in their token likelihood predictions and several orders of magnitude more costly.

And them being sold as AI doesn’t make them any closer, it just means the people and companies selling them are scammers.

No they’re not. They’re fancy autocomplete. Statistics engines. Extremely more expensive but not particularly more capable Markov chains.

Them being marketed as AI doesn’t make them AI, it just makes them a scam.

The what race? No one has been working on AI for a while… if he means LLMs and similar generative models there’s only the race to see how long it takes for the models to be so poisoned by being trained on their own slop that they no longer can produce the illusion of giving useful results (seems like the current generation is almost there, already giving diminishing results), and the race to extract as much money as possible from the economy before the first one ends and the bubble pops…

The sink, obviously.

What kind of maniac would keep their toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and whatnot in the shower? (Or even worse, carry them into the shower, wash their teeth, shower with only one hand while awkwardly holding onto them with the other, awkwardly dry themselves using only one hand, and then store them back next to the sink where they belong?)

I brush them in my mouth.