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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:22AM (#50191504)
It's great there's an exception, but that isn't the point, they're talking about people who get paychecks as mathematicians. BTW what did Grigori do for a paycheck?
Re:Android apps running native on macOS on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:11AM (#50191437)
You probably won't see this, but yes they would - that is why they're grating, the syntax is just awful
Re:Android apps running native on macOS on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:40PM (#50158439)
"Why does it matter to you?" Many Claudisms are grating to many people. Annoying is enough of a justification.
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:34AM (#50148413)
But you did something else for a paycheck in the meantime, right? They're talking about what mathematicians do for their meager paycheck.
Re:Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:18PM (#49947880)
Is "wall-clock" an actual term you used before Claude? I had never heard it before the model used it and I can't stand it.
Re:Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) on Friday September 18, 2026 @10:19PM (#49762676)
Do you feel like this is a very meaningful comment? Will someone go "mm yes, actually it's spaghetti, I didn't think of that.."

Are you trying to succinctly say AL'S spaghetti code outweighs the benefits of what it produces quickly?

If you're not saying it outweighs it, what are you saying?

I still see mashed peas as an introductory path to solid food for kids, but unlike attending Montessori schools, I have never seen a "success story", where someone credits their early experience with avant-garde curriculum as a key to a fulfilling career. Anyone?

Same distance, from A to B to C. Thanks for wasting all of our time with you comment.

Plasma is matter, not a force
Shouldn't you consider individual populations, cultures separately, and not be lumping all native people's together? One can do something another didn't.
You know "wilderness" serves functions too, right?
Anyone else having the text squeezed to only ~1/3 the page width? On mobile

Edit: Switched to desktop site, and.. that's just how it is

Re:Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:08PM (#48900153)
It can use a lot of tokens in the background or tooling without being too verbose with the user
Re:The Annotated JEPA on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:50PM (#48868553)
"To keep the discussion concrete,"
Remove the emdash from the front page
Re:"Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering on Monday July 06, 2026 @08:47AM (#48803846)
It many countries it actually is, if you call yourself an engineer professionally without a license you can be heavily fined. Canada, Germany, France..
Grug find rock. Krunk slug Durg with rock. Grug, you do this.
I'll only disagree that it's not large swaths. I've never met my coworkers in person and we're doing immensely interesting things, anecdotally. And we're moving so much faster than my last in-person workplace. But my perspective isn't just based on that.

Or maybe "large swaths" is too imprecise to quibble over. Certainly some industries are better in person, but who can say how many? I think my precise point is that I don't think the industries that have gone remote are worse for it and don't need to to back, and many more can afford to go remote.

Are you saying we need to be in the office and not remote to do interesting things?

Or are you misunderstanding the context and talking about employment or something?

This is such a useless comment. What even is your point?
Re:Better Images of AI on Sunday June 28, 2026 @11:52PM (#48714590)
This guy is the opposite of the fear mongers, don't listen to "everything is fine and normal!"
Friction. Work isn't just about height.
Re:How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? on Saturday June 27, 2026 @11:10AM (#48698950)
Do you have a meaningful quantitative explanation with some math we can start building tech on, or will that require some... experiments?
Re:How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? on Saturday June 27, 2026 @11:08AM (#48698933)
A wave is already what we call a manifestation of a field, maybe I skimmed too quickly but I don't get the author's breakthrough point.
Re:Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:48AM (#48695534)
No, if a name gives some hint as to what the product does, it isn't random.
Re:Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:47AM (#48695527)
I'd suggest a descriptive name. Baking what makes it unique in the name would be ideal, but even narrowing it down to a category, like your version of my message had, would be an improvement. Knowing what class of thing the noun is would be an improvement over a tree or a or a sound effect or an obscure foreign concept being equally interchangeable as titles.

Further, while your version wven presupposes that the name is useful enough to narrow it down to a category, if the name was specific enough it would avoid the confusion of your example. "Which program of this category? Oh, the one with that unique feature."

Re:You all think it's normal to sit behind a laptop all day on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:48PM (#48668622)
This is such a weird post. Nobody thinks thats normal for primates.
Re:Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:09PM (#48633734)
I wish we as a society would stop using random words for products. "Slacked about Oak, but they need in Fizzle. The deck's in Slate, the assets are in Vault, the timeline's in Pulse, the copy's in Quill, the build's in Forge, and the launch party's already in Ember."
Re:When I reject AI code even if it works on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:53PM (#48620994)
Are you questioning how LLMs work? It's not a mystery up for debate, it's an open, well known system, you can go learn it for yourself and see.
Re:The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:26PM (#48620760)
Losing*
All models are wrong, but some are useful

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