Good code documentation describes why something is done, and no just what or how.

To answer why you have to understand the context, and often, you have to be there when the code was written and went through the various iterations.

LLMs might be able to explain what is done, with some margin of error, but why something is done, I would be very surprised.

Nah, reality doesn’t have a liberal bias. “Liberal” is something that humans invented, and not something that comes from reality or some intrinsic part of nature.

LLMs are trained on past written stuff by humans, and humans for a long time have not been ridiculously right wing as the current political climate of the US.

If you train a model on only right wing propaganda, it will not miraculously turn “liberal”, it will be right wing. LLMs also argue not more logical than any propagandist, if they were fed by only propaganda.

I dislike it immensely when people argue that LLMs are truthful, unbiased, or somehow “know” or can create more that what was put into them. And connecting them with fundamental reality seems even more tech-bro-brained.

Arguing that “reality” is this or that is also very annoying, because reality doesn’t have any intrisic morales or politics that can be measured by logic or science. So many people argue that their morales are better then someone else’s, because they where given by god, or by science, this is bullshit. They are all derived by human society, and the same is true by whatever “liberal” means.

And lastly, assuming that some system somehow is “built into reality” shuts down any critique of the system. And critiquing any system in order to improve it is essential for any improvements, which should be part of any progressive thought.

I think you are mixing up SFP and optical fiber. SFP modules with copper wires exist, and are common. (e.g. SFP 1000base-T modules)

You can also use optical fiber without SFP, like the toslink connection.

Optical fiber also has issues with requiring a larger minimal bend radius, because they easily break. So you have to handle them more carefully.

SFP? You mean the every device has slots to plug in different transceiver modules? I guess that would make it more future proof, but I think that will raise the cost, and might confuse ordinary people.

You have to think about the slot-transceiver compatibility and transceiver-medium compatibility then. Hmm… but I guess that would make it more transparent what is going on than having those chips embedded inside the cables, but not sure if we can leave them out, and require the end users to take care of thinking of all these compatibilities themselves or risk fire hazards.

Well my point is that pretty much all of our laws are build around ethic values, which are developed within a society. There is no logical or scientific reason that would make killing other people bad, but we still should have strict rules about this.

Laws are always built around soft things like “what is obscene”, “at what point is someone naked in public”, “How much alcohol can a drink have before it is a alcoholic beverage?”, “did the person die of natural causes, or was killed by some event years ago, that wasn’t properly treated.”

Society decides what is acceptable and what isn’t and that changes through time and culture.

Your argument is therefore not a good one, you have to make a case based on ethics.

This sort of reminds myself on the discussion on “what is a women”. Is Siri a women? Many might say so, but t the same time Siri is not even human.

The question on how old the person on a specific generated image might be and if it even depicts a person at all, can only be answered through society. There is no scientific or any logical answer for this.

So this will always have grey areas and differing opinions and can be rulings in different cultures.

In the end it is about discussions about ethics not logic.

When the debate revolved around Emacs vs. Vim, I used Spacemacs. It seem we moved on from that?

Is it now about VScode vs. (Neo)Vim?

Guess that means Vim won the Emacs vs. Vim debate then, when it got into the next round.