When I have thoughts like this I imagine that I am dealing with a friend who is having these thoughts.

If your friend was constantly struggling with their mental health and you were trying to help them would you call them an toxic, horrible, emotional abuser? I don’t think you would. I certainly don’t feel that way about my friends who struggle.

I also try to look at the evidence. Is there any actual evidence that people feel this way beyond your own thoughts and feelings?

Mental health is constant battle and separating real life from your condition can be an incredibly hard but rewarding exercise.

I’m sorry you’re struggling so much.

They literally voted for it. You can’t say don’t blame the people who chose it. Blame both.

Most likely about getting laid. Probably left over from our monkey days.

“ChatGpt is really good if you use it properly”

Gets torrents of down votes every time. But I literally use it a lot at work and it’s brilliant.

This used to happen when new subs opened. Most of my feed was just them.

My assumption was that as the sub grew the posts kept getting voted higher than any other on the sub and therefore pushed as top material relative to the subs normal amount of up votes.

Indeed. But the pdf file itself isn’t the issue here. They very clearly don’t know what serialisation is.

And while there are risks with java serialisation it isn’t being deserialized here.

It’s literally just the format of the file here. If you skip the java serialisation header it’s a normal pdf file. I said nothing about the pdf file itself.

I did explain what it is. I just don’t know why certain programs encode it this way. It’s supported by multiple pdf readers so it must be semi common but I can’t find a reason for it to be encoded this way.

I’m trying to help you out there’s no need to be a dick.

The file is a serialised java array that contains a pdf file. I’ve seen a few things online about this. Some pdf readers accept it, some don’t.

And I’m not sure why an application would output a pdf this way. But there’s nothing harmful going on.

You’re kind of freaking out about nothing.

This is definitely the answer. Bonus points for contextless clues to getting the other half.

2.6% increase in thread ops when copying data from user space seems pretty significant.

I love things like this.

There was a set of brick stairs leading up into a giant hedge full of brambles in my hometown. Straight from the pavement up and you couldn’t see the end.

Fascinated us as kids.

This one is relatively as well.

You have to trust the person you’re communicating with has turned it off. That’s my point. It’s an optional feature

There’s literally an option to turn it off

It can be turned off so it’s up to the person you’re messaging. Once you send something the person at the other end is in control of what happens to it.

No it’s not. It’s pedantic and arguing semantics. It is essentially useless and a waste of everyone’s time.

It applies a statistical model and returns an analysis.

I’ve never heard anyone argue when you say they used a computer to analyse it.

It’s just the same AI bad bullshit and it’s tiring in every single thread about them.

I literally quoted the word for that exact reason. It just gets really tiring when you talk about AIs and someone always has to make this point. We all know they don’t think or understand in the same way we do. No one gains anything by it being pointed out constantly.

I mean they literally do analyze text. They’re great at it. Give it some text and it will analyze it really well. I do it with code at work all the time.

Because they are two completely different tasks. Asking them to recall information from their training is a very bad use. Asking them to analyze information passed into them is what they are great at.

Give it a sample of code and it will very accurately analyse and explain it. Ask it to generate code and the results are wildly varied in accuracy.

I’m not assuming anything you can literally go and use one right now and see.

One of LLMs main strengths over traditional text analysis tools is the ability to “understand” context.

They are bad at generating factual responses. They are amazing at analysing text.

Just installed this and made my cursor bigger. Single best customisation I’ve ever made on windows!