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4 days agoI asked a lecturer some question, I think it was what happens when bit shifting signed integers.
He asked an LLM and read the answer.
Similarly he asked an LLM how to determine memory size allocated by malloc. It said that it was not possible, and that was the answer. But a 2009 answer from stack overflow begged to differ.
At least he actually tried it out when I told him.
But at this point I even had my father send me an LLM written slop that was clearly bullshit (made up information about non-existent internal system at our college), which he probably didn’t even read as he copied everything including “AI answers may be inaccurate.”
I am probably not the right person to answer, but to me it seems decent.
Hell, under current conditions, half the price is in that RAM.
Anyway, for the use case, definitely seems fine.
Now, for me the minimum requirements for such use case, if Windows isn’t required, are simply a 64 bit CPU, 4GB of RAM, and an SSD. SSD makes a really huge difference.
It’s now been maybe 2 years that it died, but I’ve been doing fine with a Core 2 Duo T7500, 4GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT and random 128GB SSD powered laptop. It only struggled when I tried to use it for YouTube… and when I tried Gentoo on it. The compilation took 3 days just for me to realize I screwed up something in the config and had no network.