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Re:Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:46PM (#50322024)
Are we talking Oracle null or ansi null? I'm just being sarcastic and I don't actually remember all the fed up s** Oracle did
AIs are already doing illegal things
Psst.... that's called "dumping".
Middle Management Machivallianism
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:30PM (#50237483)
And standards are what's going to probably fall to the wayside, since that's something that engineers care about. Vibe coders don't

Despite the fact that fundamentally vibe coding is enabled by good interface specification and design specs by engineers

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:30PM (#50237479)
And standards are what's going to probably fall to the wayside, since that's something that engineers care about. Vibe coders don't
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:29PM (#50237473)
The massive category of software that companies actually don't want to write or maintain....

Now we just have to get them to expose interfaces so that we can write the software for the interfaces that we want.

The ick is the lack of passion for the game and making sure it is accurate and faithful.

Instead it is: hey I burned some tokens on this... I dodn't test it or give you any indication thereof, so it's probably a waste of your time, since it's legacy is well known enough, it'll get some attention.

Get used to it!

AI is the perfect tool of total permanent authorization control, and it seems inevitable at this point between the ample supply of authoritarian wannabes and the fundamentally compromised institutions that would resist them
Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:56PM (#50188845)
There's probably a bit of a lottery winners effect.

So consider backing there. There may have been 20 companies trying to make 20 games, All in startup mode.

Now two or three of those succeed ed.. which means the management and team chemistry and creativity all worked really well. And the team members will have them mistaken impression that it's that easy.

But then some people leave some people ad in the next games, sure, they may have a better foundation than some other team situations at others, but it's going to gradually regress to the mean

Are there focused and tuned decompilation AI agents, outside of these llm ones which I think are going to be more expensive?

The compilation recompilation and automatic porting represents such a quantum leap in terms of software, preservation and software freedom.

Almost like every single piece of software written in the last 50 years can be repurposed by the end users for what they need, not the oppression copyright laws and judgements handed out by a corrupt judiciary and legislative branch

Re:Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:14PM (#50049578)
It's almost like they are run for the benefit of the ultra rich...

Let them eat cake.

Re:Why Were Victorian Elites So Effective? on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:07AM (#50002291)
Ideal state of capitalism: a few ultra rich, and many categories of slaves.
Our entire "free" civilization is a Trump (or the next guy) whim from an AI-processed ubiquitously monitored complete authoritarian lockdown.

Legislative, Executive, Judicial, doesn't matter: everything since 9/11, and likely much longer before in unofficial capacities, has been the steady groundwork for complete overturn of civil and constitutional rights indefinitely ... and therefore permanently.

Gulf of Tonkin / Reichstag Fire as justification. Secret courts, enemy combatants, warrantless monitoring, disappearing of people, dismantling of institutional memory. Databases, social networks, graph inference of behavior, secret lists. Massive prison infrastructure with no regard for cruel and unusual punishment.

This is the imminent great filter: not some nuclear armageddon. It's staring at us in China -- the human race placed under boot, and everyone stops having kids. A couple generations, and a civilization essentially disappears.

Re:Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:00PM (#49940416)
HN killjoy: AI will make better food than humans
If cuda is an API, and llms make apis effortless, then how big of a moat is cuda?
Re:S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past on Sunday September 27, 2026 @07:22PM (#49871823)
Well there was also a period of low inflation in them during that time.

God why am I defending Amazon?

Hey how about we go back to LLM/AI being a simple knowledge request service? You have a model trained on data, you request a text or media response from that knowledge model.

No agents. And if someone loops the response into an agent, well, then they are legally liable for personally doing that.

Re:Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:37AM (#49856434)
Agents should be a no-go.

We should pause with AI/LLMs being super search engines that reply with static text or media files, based on the training data.

I know that a user can still do a "tell me how to" then autoexec and then loop and do an agent, but the key thing here is, THAT WOULD MAKE THEM LIABLE.

OpenAI should be criminally liable here as well. Why aren't they? Why are we pretending this is just an innocent mistake?

Re:What even is an OS now? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:34AM (#49856403)
Your post basically is Alexa.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:07PM (#49824450)
Yes, think about the US military budget.

I'd argue at least half of it basically functions as a petroleum subsidy.

And the other thing that people just simply do not understand is it's solar and wind are now cheaper than anything else, even if the subsidies are applied to them, and would be even more so if the trump tarrifs were eliminated.

The only justification in nuclear right now it's deglobalization and energy independence. But I would argue all the money you throw into nuclear for that, it's much better served simply building out solar and wind

Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:05PM (#49824433)
I am generally of the opinion that nuclear power is not justified on the basis of base economics.

But I thought South Korea made a good swing at it, but I haven't kept up on things much

Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:03PM (#49824425)
That's why I think lifters are really the only true path to cost reasonable nuclear power... They "burn" almost all fuel and have separation procedures for the other fission products, and I believe they can consume nuclear waste since it's a breeder reactor.
Re:Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:01PM (#49824409)
This really is about business strategy than any technical effort these days. Porting code should be among the easiest things for the llms to do these days
Re:Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:26PM (#49804939)
Microsoft runs monopolies. Business software Monopoly specifically.

They cannot make user and customer focused software. They cannot make user and customer focused hardware. They do not care about customers.

Although I guess they have proven to be okay at data centers.

What should the Xbox be if Microsoft was a competent organization, like half of what apple is? And I'm not an Apple fan by the way

- since they have a monopoly of PC gaming, much to the pain of PC gaming users, that should afford them the ability to effortlessly Port x86 base games to an x86 gaming console platform

- because of their extensive relationships with PC hardware manufacturers, it should afford them the ability to produce a very powerful but cost-effective gaming platform

- Maybe even since steam runs primarily on x86, Microsoft could have partnered with steam to get their games onto that platform relatively seamlessly

- The PC gaming has several decades of dos and windows games that could have been updated, remade, or the like, so there should have been a wealth of ip available to them

- and with good coordination, should have been able to bootstrap dozens of software gaming studios to make actual good games exclusive to their platform

Well Microsoft succeeded at some of this. They did not succeed to the necessary degree, especially with treating their own custom games

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:24PM (#49804895)
If they were really about putting brakes on these, they would simply make these things non-agentic.

Simply make them something that derives a text response from its training data.

Re:TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:31AM (#49763621)
Whatever happened to the problem of electrons just hopping around since they are areas of probability rather than particles when you get small enough
Isn't the supply chain on advanced semiconductors ludicrously extended?

Wafers rare Earth's, specialized equipment, etc?

Re:Most people prefer traditional architecture on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:05PM (#49716374)
Am I hot or not architecture edition?

Nonetheless, I think it is a failure of architecture that modern design is ugly. It shouldn't be impossible to make good looking, practical, cost-effective buildings with all the options of materials and engineering that is available.

So let's start as the baseline of these 77 to 23 blowout victories by traditional architecture.

Now gradually substitute other modern designs until you can get more of a 50/50 agreement at least, and hopefully 60/40 in favor of modernism.

You could be right. Some of these might be cherry picked bad modern designs. From the article one of them looked like it should have the wicked witch of the West telling her pretties to fly out from their caves to go attack Dorothy. Another one looks like a massive collection of missile launch tubes.

Some designs I almost have to laugh at, when almost similarly disjointed mcmansion hell type monstrosities are snootily dismissed.

Re:25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:30PM (#49715842)
Wasn't carnivore in the 1990s?

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