The point of the summary is also to explain "why" something was done, most Claude-generated PR descriptions I've been seeing go through the "what" and "how" but if the human-in-the-loop didn't care to precisely describe the "why" it is just an English version of the changes made in the code... I can just read the code for that, give me the reasons behind the diff and I'm a happy camper.
If you have a large PR the existence of a good summary on "what" changed can help you to make a better review.
But I agree with you, when reading PR descriptions and code comments I want a "why" not a "what". And that is why I think most LLM-generated documentation is bad.
Current social consensus is that copyright exists and one can only use software on conditions stated in license. Thus, proprietary and copyleft have same protection.
Another possible consensus would be that copyright don't exist, and anyone can copy proprietary or copyleft work and improve it. Nobody would be harmed in such situation, original author still have its copy. I would have no problem with such state - but it must be same for everyone, not just FOSS.
If I release something as MIT or Apache, all I want is some credit, either for my own self-satisfaction or for resume fuel.
If a library I wrote was used by BigCo, then I could point to their license file and mention that in a job interview or something. If they have Claude generate something based on my code, they don't put it into their license, I don't get the resume fuel, and my work is unrewarded.
I have gone back and forth about how I feel about AI training on code, and whether I think it's "theft", but my point is that the original code being available is kind of missing the point.
The bitrate of the PCM is determined based on how quickly you can write a byte to the register. The fastest you could write general data is once every 6 cycles, which gives ~298 MHz of sample rate, so 44.2 kHz is easily doable if that's all you want to do with the CPU.
I'm somewhat surprised he didn't talk about evidence of space-faring ancient civilizations. If humans perish and a new intelligent species comes around in millions of years, they would be able to find stuff we've left on the moon, provided we pepper it all over its surface so as to survive any future meteor impacts.
12 people have been to the moon for about a total human surface time of about 6 days 17 hour mostly spent most of that time spent within a small radius near the six landing sites. and we haven't bothered to go back in over 51 years the number of tablet you would have to bury on the moon for a civilization as advanced as our to find one would be ridiculous you would essentially have to tile the moon in them for us to have guarantee we would have found one of them.
The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter has mapped the lunar surface to, best as I can tell from a quick search, about 1m resolution. So I think a reasonably sized stele or 2001-style monolith would probably have been discoverable at our current tech level.
But we wouldn’t be able to detect human level lunar activity in a million years time.
We can barely detect human activity from 50 years ago when we know exactly where it is.
I think we are More likely to spot ancient Geostationary satellites, which will have drifted away from a perfect circle but should still be noticeable. LAGEOS aren’t in anywhere near that high an orbit but should survive 8 million years. They have a plaque on them designed by Sagan should a future civilisation find them.
But we haven’t put anything built to last on the moon - rovers and landing stages are very small and relatively fragile
A similar civilisation may have gone to the moon, but thanks to irradiation and micrometeorites over millions of years. Footprints and tyre tracks would certainly be gone, and while you could land at an Apollo landing site and detect remains of refined metal, it’s unlikely to be something you could see from orbit with our level of equipment, you’d have to get up close and personal, and we haven’t done that.
How long would it survive as a monolith on the surface before it would appear to be another boulder? How long until it is illegible due to micrometorite abrasions?
The “2001” monolith was heavily implied to have been explicitly buried. It was detected first as a magnetic anomaly, and when touched while exposed to sunlight it emit an enormous RF burst.
In other words, it was specifically protected from the elements, in a way intended to be detected only by a species at a certain minimum level of technological development.
Says who? The point of the summary is so that I don't have to go look at the diff and figure out what happened.
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