Does it? How are you legally intending to use copyright to license this machine output? How would you know it's not encumbered in any way?
It wasn't even a disasm/pseudocode to formal spec flow, and then a separate human implementation. The same human has been in the loop throughout, and large parts of it were generated directly.
It's basically guaranteed tainted.
"This is copyright-encumbered and nonfree because it's a derivative work of the legacy RAR binaries" is a different argument (and seems like it depends on details of the setup that were somewhat glossed over in the post).
Were you flagged for a cybersecurity violation?
You can draw your own conclusions as to what this says about the state of agentic development.
One thing I have been curious at is are there any ways to stop a rar compression mid way and then continue it later?
Like suppose I have a compression happening for a large file, then would there be a possibility with this project to shut down the computer mid compression and continue it after starting it again?
I would really love it if you can add this functionality!
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::prelude::*;
fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let mut file = File::create("content.txt")?;
file.write_all(b"3!")?;
Ok(())
}For actual correctness verification in the strong sense, you'd need to start from a specification written in a formal language so that it's machine checkable, which if I had to guess not even win.rar GmbH has.
Added, later: hey you changed your comment, added a whole paragraph.
I was immediately proven right once I pressed "update". That said, I have now deleted my snarky response that followed. Not in the game of capitalizing off of the human equivalent of a race condition.
I should make a browser addon to delay posting, this is the 2nd time this happens in the past few days.
Edit:
Nevermind, it's already a feature built into the site. Turned it on. I wonder if it applies to edits also...
Nope, doesn't seem to. Oh well, should still help.
How can you shout at Claude when it’s
1) foobaring, bamblabooing and fghrtawing all the time without telling you what’s going on
2) when it finally interacts, it’s asking for a permission you told it 30 seconds ago "yes and do not ever ask me again until heat death of the Universe"
3) and after all of that, it just spits out: "you’re out of tokens, give up your liver or wait until next Trump’s war"
Kudos to the author. A fun read, thank you for sharing.
davidsong•1h ago
It's not fast and it's not pretty, but it works.
esafak•1h ago
As mathematicians say, optimization is left as an exercise to the reader. You did the hard part.