Technically an LLM is a tool for extracting candidate responses to plain-text requests. Since (textual) programming languages are languages, they can create passable candidate responses to queries about those. Certain LLMs such as Copilot and Claude have had their training focused a bit more towards programming tasks, but saying that LLMs as a class are for coding assistance is a little narrowly stated.
It would maybe be handy to feed the responses from an LLM through a computational reasoning engine to grade a few of them.
Case in point: Wells Fargo foreclosure fraud.
Case in point: Wells Fargo opening new accounts in customer names without direction from, approval by, or notification to said customers.
The primary incentive of a bank is to make money rather than customer satisfaction, security, or most other things. Sometimes other priorities suffer in the race to profit, sometimes including regulatory compliance and legality.
In particular a place I used to work had a plugin for threaded comments in Jira. The specific one we were using slowed things down noticeably with the DB on the same server, but not too much to be an improvement in overall usefulness.
Then we decided trying to make our Jira more reliable by splitting the DB out into a separate clustered DB system in the same data center. The latency difference going through a couple of switches and to another system really added up with those extra 1600 or so DB calls per page load.
We ended up doing an emergency reversion to an on-host DB. Later, we figured out what was causing that many queries.
You're referring to the on-prem Jira. That might suck, sure. My experience has been purely using Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud, both of which I've found to be snappy and responsive.
Amusingly, exactly opposite experience here. That said, our on-prem is jira and confluence integrated with db on same machine, and apache in front doing additional caching. I imagine like so many things it is how you set it up...
I use two 4k displays with an M1 Pro MBP. They work without any flickering. They’re using HDMI rather than DisplayPort.
I’m also, to get the two external displays without them being mirrored, using a docking station and a display driver from Silicon Motion called macOS InstantView.
This is of course not ideal if you need DP and DSC.
It would be if castle is available, not simply if the rook has never moved.
Likewise, the position of a pawn can be assigned the king’s position if it has made the double move. You know it’s actually in the legal file and in which rank it sits after the move.
The fact it’s the government who cares suggests whose interests the law is serving. Viet Nam is a pretty authoritarian country right now, and it loves the ability to track the activities of citizens.
I think it has more to do with the phone being tied to an individual, the banking and spending activities being tied to the phone, and the government having some hardware attestation about how people are spending their money and with whom. If you root a phone, you can change things like the MAC addresses. You may be able to futz with a softSIM/eSIM. That makes you harder to track.
Much of the world uses mobile payment apps instead of credit or debit cards. Some banks allow a setting that using a card can require a ping to the banking app for verification of the transaction. I don’t know if it’s legal to turn down cash payments in Vietnam, but some vendors may only accept digital payments.
I guess you could take your laptop out at the restaurant and in the taxi to pay. It seems a little strange. You might better just use a browser on the smartphone instead of the mobile app.
I guess I take credit and debit cards for granted. Surely the rest of the world had some solution before smartphones, though. Hopefully the US doesn't descend into needlessly using the phone as a middleman as the norm.
It would maybe be handy to feed the responses from an LLM through a computational reasoning engine to grade a few of them.
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