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So what stops it from sending a network request to a git repo that pushes what that placeholder resolves to?
Re:Assert(): A Modern How To on Sunday August 09, 2026 @09:21AM (#49231167)
Some of the newer Java features are really nice for this: sealed interfaces, records, sealed interfaces, and record pattern matching
Because the companies did it underhandedly without prior consent? Imagine you walked into a hardware store to grab some lumber, didn't pay for it, and the store had to call the cops to swing around your house? That's hardly the typical shopping experience, now is it?
You seem to have conflated a chemical engineering degree with the concept of baking being a chemical process
Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:13PM (#49188356)
Isn't IBM still going?
Many years ago I worked a technical support job for Xbox services, and the amount of calls about "unauthorized charges" was obscene. Xbox provided parental controls, but it required the parent to set up their child's account themselves, and many couldn't be bothered.

I imagine the same thing will happen here...

And how long does weeding out corruption take?
Re:The bottleneck was never the code on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @09:47AM (#48036224)
I've been paying attention to that line of division and came to the same conclusion. We're seeing the "tiers" diverge as AI becomes more capable. As the saying goes, you don't know what you don't know.
Only in certain bubbles, which certain people have trouble realising they're in
Re:GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay on Monday May 04, 2026 @06:14AM (#48006702)
He's a meme trader manipulating retailer investors, following Elon's footsteps
Codex quota is/was 2x its normal amount for some promotion or something. I thought it ran out today but can't check right now
The joke is that OnlyFans was for fans but was taken over by humans. Now it's not funny because I've had to explain it.
Some UFO guys have been claiming that a hoax will be conducted around the idea of an alien ship detected travelling towards Earth
It's dynamic, but it certainly isn't random, considering it follows a consistent sequence
Re:Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI? on Friday April 10, 2026 @11:07AM (#47719285)
My guess? Psychological disorders, like psychosis
Re:The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @09:11AM (#47689724)
Better for people to know they're just blindly copying tools and parroting their output as if it's automatically meaningfully. Any warning against that should be built into the individual, for their own sake
Re:Veracrypt Project Update on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:26AM (#47687584)
Misplaced trustworthiness?
They quite literally have insider knowledge that others wouldn't
Re:Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people on Thursday March 26, 2026 @01:21PM (#47533149)
How probable is your "probably"?
Very doubtful whatever agency you can conjour up as an excuse will be more impactful than the country wide changed induced by the overall administration
Monitor computer activity, don't give them a smart phone at 13
Delegation is generally all about outsourcing, so hard agree
Ireland isn't importing most of its population. Have you been scrolling social media too much? You know anyone can write anything they want on there, right? Lol
Re:Anthropic ditches its core safety promise on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:08AM (#47167954)
Maybe ultraintelligence is having an improved environment-action-outcome loop. Maybe that's all intelligence really is
Not all negativity is toxic. My sense of hunger is unpleasant but it keeps me healthy.
Re:Oxide raises $200M Series C on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:04PM (#46962999)
Heroes like Spiderman and Batman? Or strangers that put on a mask, and whose public image is maintained by PR firms?
Re:Omarchy First Impressions on Saturday February 07, 2026 @08:58AM (#46923935)
Submission is 404ing for me
Re:FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @07:03PM (#46789042)
They might not have the capacity to do more considering they still need to redact the rest of the epstein files that show their president is a child trafficking pedophile
Re:Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @03:22PM (#46711037)
Seems to be very common nowadays for PE
Damn, some other group trying to cause trouble for you?

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