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Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:19AM (#50350595)
Then they shouldn't invest, no? That is the rational choice for them. When you are not sure and do not have an appetite for gambling, you move on.
Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:17AM (#50350575)
> Without that there is simply not enough information for an investor to make a rational choice.

Then the investor can invest in something else if it doesn't have enough information about Anthropic to invest in it.

Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:56AM (#50334879)
Both OpenAI and Anyhropic use PostgreSQL. They could spare some processing capability to run the codebase through their most advanced models and output a cleaned up version with all the legacy cruft removed. It would give Postgres a major boost in reducing the codebase and the number of bugs present.
The article text and tone sounds like an April Fool's article published sooner than it should have.
My last comment on this: it is not "one URL" or "just configuration pages", it is an entire application, it does not have distinct "pages" that can be replaced with something written in a different programming language.

You can always take a look at the UI of a PAN device and use your browser in developer mode to see how it works and understand the concept of a web application.

I don’t think you ever went through something like this ever.

It is a huge effort even migrating from one PHP framework to another.

Coming back to your point, there is no single “page” to be migrated one at a time.

When discussing programming languages, you need to take into consideration how easy it is to find developers with experience on a certain language.

Sure, you can do web apps in Perl with Catalyst or other frameworks, but the PHP developers are easier to find.

And then, after you develop entire GUIs in a language, it is a herculean effort to port that to another.

And lastly, JavaScript has its own issues too.

> giving migratory workers no choice but to stay illegally

Are you serious? The choice for them was to go back to their home countries.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:51AM (#50271138)
It is not a terminal multiplexer feature, it is one of the terminal software itself.

I do not know if you read my initial commment, but MacOS Terminal (native app) has this feature. And it is not a terminal multiplexer like tmux or what you proposed.

Re:Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:10AM (#50270516)
We are not perfect as human beings, and we can’t expect AI, which is modeled after us to be perfect too. This fear of AI is irrational.

The argument here is that AI can run permutations faster than any human can. And, feeding it a company’s proprietary data about what worked, what did not, how it worked and so on can be invaluable at accelerating the discovery process of new drugs.

Plus, it can work 24/7/365.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:31AM (#50270261)
I am not interested in workarounds.
To add a little bit to your comment, the US invented the term "enemy combatant" to evade the Geneva Convention rules about prisoners of war. And it also gave itself the right to designate whoever it wants as an enemy combatant.

You have the law, you have precedent, best not to get on the naughty list.

Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:03PM (#50266473)
Any plans for Ghostty to have the history of the terminal window reloaded on restart? Like the Mac native terminal app does? I am a heavy terminal user with a lot of tabs open, and after I restart the computer for whatever reason, I would like to have my terminal(s) as I left them.
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:45AM (#50178161)
We might not like how it fixes it.
This will never fly. Some devices can be used for tens of years and they may face vulnerabilities that the hardware cannot support any kind of software fix for them. Imagine the world moves to TLS2 or whatever something new will be called and the hardware you have is too slow for it.

On the other hand, saying an industrial device should receive security updates for 10-15 years instead 5 or whatever happens this days it will be a major step forward. This will incentivise vendors to use better hardware with room to grow, not just the cheapest components possible.

Or, make componente modular so that you can upgrade just the control unit instead of the whole fridge or whatever.

My belief is that is more about convenience than anything else.

It is also worth looking at why this is so, which most likely stems from the lack of technically inclined staff in every location and the cost of having a tech going from store to store everyday to deal with POS, back office computers, amd any other kind of device.

Now, can you secure all this? For the most part yes, but it is quite expensive to do it. Maybe they will do it now or they will go with “it cannot happen to us twice” thinking and not do anything substantial about it.

Re:ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:14PM (#50157482)
Thank you for the very documented response.

I understand the deportation to their own countries, but deporting US citizens to random countries is something else. Not to mention all the court drama of proving you’re actually a citizen.

Re:ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:22AM (#50117503)
> Some US citizens have been deported.

Where were they deported to?

On the upside, there is little that surprises you and you thrive in any environment. Balkans FTW.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:54PM (#50008333)
It's pretty simple: you work as much as we tell you or we fire you. And good luck finding another job super fast with another company willing to sponsor a visa. This is the abuse. Plus, I think the pay is also not that great compared to US counterparts.
While I "vibe code" more and more these days, an IDE that still does code highlighting, I can use it to look up functions source and so on, it is very useful to be able to figure out what the LLM did.

And yes, there are people who use vim in a screen session, but I don't fit into that category. I like my GoLand IDE.

And while there are a ton of IDEs out there, I use what I'm used to.

RedHat Virtualization is pretty expensive too.

Regarding k8s, I am not aware of any emerging technology being developed to replace it.

Re:GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:30AM (#49905188)
Maybe Anthropic is in some kind of trouble and if the IPO does not go the way they dream of, there is a scapegoat they can blame.

Or Amodei is really far gone in his beliefs.

Re:GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:26AM (#49905165)
Right, because this is what tge world is missing right now: a black market for AI models.

For all the good things Anthropic makes, it is a very unhinged company.

> He's never going to be hired as CEO by anybody for the rest of his career.

You must be new to the corporate world or incredibly naive.

> What do you think happens if they refuse to do it?

In war time they can be shot on the spot for disobeying orders.

> Either nothing, or if they get sued or prosecuted for not doing it then they get brought in front of a court, and a judge who is doing their job would say that they were right not to do it.

I think you confuse the military with corporate environments. Worst thing that can happen in the private sector is that you get fired.

In the military you can spend the rest of your life in prison if “you did not feel like obeying orders”. The military is built ob discipline and followimg orders, not Gen Z mood swings.

I don't think you understand what "No warranty" means in a software license. It means Anthropic cannot be held liable for results if the software misbehaves and instead of bombing a terrorist compound it bombs a wedding (I chose this example because the US has a tradition to bomb weddings in Iraq and Afghanistan). But in no form does it mean "yeah, I don't feel like doing what you prompted me".

Hence, Anthropic sabotaged the models on purpose to not respond properly to all prompts.

That means that the software was not tested for every scenario. Not that the user cannot try to use it in a way it was never intended to.

If, on the other hand, Anthropic deliberately blocks the user from doing something, then it is sabotage.

Yes, a very small list of NOs. Everything else goes.
Again: if Anthropic deliberately blocks a user from ordering it to prosecute a target, then it is degrading the software capability on purpose.

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