> But that said -- and as others have noted -- the explanation here is misleading, and that's because of the dependence on romaji / transliteration. Japanese conjugation is extremely simple, and the author is missing some essential context that would make it all much clearer. For example:
Doesn't going straight to kana actually kind of obscure the relationship between nomu and nomi that they both begin nom-?
I think there's no question that auditing open-source software is easier, but it can be harmful if auditing actually basically never happens yet people wrongly believe that all the open-source software they're installing must be audited. At that point it's not any better than relying on the fact that technically someone could disassemble binaries to try and inspect them without worrying too much about whether that happened.
I would say that it's not just an academic argument that's being made about what is technically possible but a stronger claim about what is likely. If the claim is just you technically _could_ do it, sure, that's true by definition.
I know. But the problem is that in reality the only way to get people to audit software reliably is to pay them to do it, so it's not really true as a general principle that open-source software is more thoroughly vetted.
I have to say, the principle that open-source software can't do anything nefarious because the source is open just hasn't held up for a lot of reasons -- including that nobody has the time to inspect the code, let alone ensure that it matches the binaries; and also that GitHub has become a distribution hub for software used by lots of people with no ability or interest in auditing the software they use.
Yeah, it'd be easy, but the hard part is getting people to agree what the standard will be.
Plus, frankly, a lot of people (myself included) who want a richer experience are pretty much just happy turning on emacs keybindings in VSCode or IntelliJ or whatever.
That's interesting on Deepseek. But I think as long as the models are still making noticeable gains with each iteration it's hard to say "good enough."
Amazon and Uber are other examples of businesses that looked like total basket cases for years. I remember reading, and at the time being persuaded by, articles arguing that Uber was doomed because there are no real economies of scale in livery services, and so the minute they began to achieve a dominant position and hike prices, countless competitors would easily swoop in and undercut them. Didn't turn out that way.