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In remembrance of the fallen

Pure rent seeking. It's not the only example. So many products have artificial defects deliberately added by the manufacturer so that they can then charge you to disable the defect.

It's a catch 22. If everyone uses it, game companies get it shut down, and then it doesn't exist, and then nobody uses it. The only existing methods of piracy are little known. That you've never heard of it is expected.

Borrow the book of it's available and then pirate a digital copy. The physical book is available for someone else to use when you're done with it, but you can still refer back to the book whenever you want or just sit around staring at it in adoration.

If you're ever caught downloading knowledge, just say you're training a neural network and point at your head.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

Henri Matisse

They turned Windows into an IoT device. It's your refrigerator with a TCP/IP stack and a touch screen bolted on the front. How many watts does the fridge use? Oh, I don't know, but look, it has a digital calendar! How long does it take to cool items down? Who cares! You can use it to set reminders! When will I need to replace the gasket? What? I don't know. But it can scan barcodes and send it all to the cloud. Isn't that neat?! Cool, cool, but why does my fridge need to do that?

Using it for writing tests is attractive because the way we generally test software sucks. Programs are written abstractly for an unimaginably large number of cases, but only tested for a finite few. It's so ugly and boring and inexact. I'd be so giddy if a language/system came along that did formal methods properly, enabling me to formally prove correctness in every case. Programming is fun. Proofs are fun. Tests are not fun. And I'm here on Earth to have the most fun.

This is all to say that using LLMs to do the boring work of writing tests is a suboptimal solution for testing software. It fits a general pattern. Yes, you can learn X by having a conversation with an LLM, but I believe it will be a subpar experience compared to forcing yourself to read a professionally-written book on the subject.

memory safety isn’t the only source of security vulnerabilities

I would like you to produce an example of a Rust evangelist disputing this. They're not as dimwitted or misguided as you seem to think.

https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/

Ah, yes, the unofficial anthem for the state of Michigan.