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Cake day: March 23rd, 2020

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  • From what I understand, xorg has fundamental security flaws. How will they remedy this?

    They won’t. Don’t download random shit and if you’re worried, run it in Flatpak

    What happens when the Linux kernel drops support for xorg? Do they intend to fork an older version of the kernel in order to keep support?

    Not really possible, since X11 is only built on top of the kernel’s graphical interface (same as Wayland). Even if that wasn’t the case, the kernel doesn’t delete any code that anybody uses (that’s why 30 year old programs still run)














  • You didn’t get good answers so I’ll explain.

    First, an LLM can easily write a program to calculate the number of rs. If you ask an LLM to do this, you will get the code back.

    But the website ChatGPT.com has no way of executing this code, even if it was generated.

    The second explanation is how LLMs work. They work on the word (technically token, but think word) level. They don’t see letters. The AI behind it literally can only see words. The way it generates output is it starts typing words, and then guesses what word is most likely to come next. So it literally does not know how many rs are in strawberry. The impressive part is how good this “guessing what word comes next” is at answering more complex questions.