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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:42AM (#50231500)
Yes, but don’t forget one of the variables for the “what to build” equation is the cost of having people now also machines who know how to build it. Jury still out on the machines because the “how” is much more complicated than “make it work, make no mistakes”, but still, the cost of code production has come down so much that the whole equation is different now.
Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab on Saturday October 24, 2026 @02:20PM (#50223765)
Gitlab, for all it's flaws fits so much better in "regular" company/organization projects. It's more in line on what people involved in software dev and all the tasks around it have as a mental model and less of a "open source dev social network" like Github tried to be almost from the start and lately got Microsofted. An lets not even bring the CI / Github Actions topic..
Re:Porsche Mission S on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:09AM (#50115995)
It’s mostly a marketing exercise and Germans are notoriously bad from an Anglo perspective.

From the opposite side Tesla’s presentation was way “yee-ahh” and tacky from the perspective of other publics

Re:Major ICQ security hole (1998) on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:13AM (#50115589)
AI is really a dangerous technology, look how fast it’s discovering major security flaws!
Re:Donaldson Futuro House in Idyllwild, California, USA on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:50AM (#50105442)
> "If you want to preserve it for the next generation, it is on the market right now with a price of $1,495,000."

This is boomer-core all over from the house to the price.

It's an object from another time.

While this is "interesting" for nerds like me.

This is also portrait of how embarrassing, fake, boring and not-racing F1 has become. Even the "boring" low overtaking 00's were orders of magnitude more exciting than this clown show.

This is also one of the consequences of the FIA Emperor being a complete power hungry fool and many competent people being pushed out of the FIA. Congratulations.

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:32PM (#49531054)
Codex Luna, Terra and Sol. Claude Opus, Sonnet and sometime Fable.

They all work, they all are "good", they all are both "smart" and commit incredible basic mistakes a fair amount of times.

Then there's the cost situation..

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:38PM (#49526116)
I sometimes have that feeling too, then ask another LLM to do a code and vulnerability review and OMG: rookie mistakes, over complications and security gaps even a 1st year student would not make regularly.

So.. one more year of untreated bipolar AI psychosis I guess..

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:31PM (#49526005)
This post and comment makes me believe "science" is the new "code" for Anthropic now that the code advantage is mostly gone and lost for OpenAI, ie. they got much better and Claude become significantly worse over these months.
Don’t forget to mention part of those players are the clients.

“Clients” usually are even worse offenders than these extractive scam companies, mostly because the “clients” are playing with someone else’s money, usually the taxpayer.

Just because a thing is true doesn't mean you can apply it. There are vast numbers of active ingredients discovered or developed that are effective in curing many deceases but there aren't "drugs"/pills with it because we haven't found a delivery mechanism for them to be effective where they should in the human body.

Going back to the subject: Have you ever been clinically depressed or dealt with people in that predicament? Getting up from the bed is already a huge win for that day, let alone exercising and doing it consistently and regularly. Even taking medication regularly can be a hit or miss.

So, yeah the prescription is easy to write and thank god it's real and effective, but that's only ~5% of the work.

There has been a long discussion and "conflict" of opinions regarding the use of AI in kernel dev.

Linus is pro-AI as a tool ( and I mostly agree, there are consequences however that at least need to be talked about ). That's why I was talking about firing up those AI machines and fix those CVEs ( "make no mistakes" ).

But it seems every Linux topic related to security or languages is the ultimate mine field for knee-jerk reactions. :)

Linus better put his money where mouth is and fire up those AI tokens ASAP.

I don't consider this a tragedy, it's just unearthing the reality.

Old samurai lost his marbles and his heir to the throne is busy making kingdom ending deals pretending to be an Hollywood mogul.

Life is good, I guess.. Java people should start sweating.

> Petty theft, snatching, pickpockets, scams, etc are relatively uncommon compared to e.g. many popular places in Europe.

Yes, in non-popular places in Europe those are also quite uncommon, even more then in the US on average..

So the lesson here is that those type of crimes are common in tourist heavy places, like.. Times Square in NYC for example.

Re:Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things on Friday July 03, 2026 @12:47PM (#48777084)
It can be.

Because most automations never capture the complete scope of the job/task ( not even close ). Just like neurons, if you don't use it you lose it and when the inevitable problems come, nobody knows the why, the how and the what. At that point someone smart would incorporate all those real costs and opportunity loses on the "automating everything" equation. But they usually don't.

Of course automating tasks is a must, but it's very far from being a black and white situation. These dynamics have been happening for centuries by now, nothing new.

Good for you, just try to remember those old days when you complained about bosses and "whine" about things to your friends and some work colleges about day to day stuff. Now think what you would say about a situation when you were fed up and had to quit because you couldn't take it anymore and every day you had these tasks going against your values ( doesn't matter if they are "right" or "wrong", they are yours ).

Also, Google is a multi-billion dreadnought with hundreds of millions of dollars for PR, lawyers and lobbying every year. I'm sure they can take a post about someone "whining" and quitting their job in disagreement. Something tells me Google be fine...

Re:Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:24PM (#48510556)
The cheapest EV model Renault sells is around €20K, the cheapest BMW EV is around €65K.

It's safe to say the companies are not in the market bracket, no?

Re:AI Is Slowing Down on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:25PM (#48449237)
> undeniable, massive productivity gains.

The jury is still out on that.

Re:Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:20PM (#48449147)
It's great, yet you "used to have it" :)
Re:Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:19PM (#48449113)
That AI segment was a boomer core slop fest. But to be fair, it's clear that Apple is not on the AI bleeding edge and it appears it doesn't want to be, it cannot afford to ignore it tho.

Let's hope they don't get overconfident with Gemini and pull a MS Copilot..

Don't want to be too harsh, maybe I'm missing something, but the CPU is at least 2 years old, internally it has been a complete shitshow and that's a minor hiccup when compared to the firmware and software situation.

It's an interesting "newcomer" and the more the better but calling this a "beast" and a "game changer" is ridiculous to say the least.

Then there is the price..

Re:Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:41PM (#48340416)
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I get the feeling this also means AI works very well for the general coding tasks and that's their biggest success in terms of difficulty AND people paying for it.

Of course every AI company has been over promising and pumping the numbers as much as possible but OpenAI has been hitting the reality wall more because both their people not being able to keep improving at a faster rate and their whole cost structure and financial plates spinning.

This doesn't invalidate the fact Anthropic is also overhyped to the max for their IPO.

The type of people Intelligence agencies need and use to accomplish their goals are also the type of people who tend to do these things.
Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:06PM (#48272512)
Someone inside Ferrari had the terrible idea of greenlighting this and even more terrible lack of courage to not cancel this mistake because it was the baby turd of Jony Ive and Marc Newson.

Fortunately everyone will laugh and cringe, the usual car "journalists" will bite their tongues because they don't want to lose access, time will pass and it will be forgotten because Ferrari can afford to make these mistakes ( for now.. )

Re:Are Prediction Markets Good for Anything? on Saturday May 09, 2026 @12:02AM (#48071708)
Good source.

The only complain I have ( not really directed at the article, but.. ) is to put all these theories and somewhat private experiments into the same room as pure gambling schemes turbocharged by "the algorithm" and political corruption.

While far from Heaven's gates, some guy trying to predict the price of corn next year is not in the same plane as those who had the "very original" idea every guy in his early 20s had at some point but never went further because he read some articles about "the law". Like it or not, the laws or the remnants of it were put in place due to the obvious degenerate attitudes and it's consequences gambling was always known for.

And no, it's not a "market", even Uber appears to have some usefulness to offset all the lying, corruption and criminality they had to do in order to become what they are. These ones don't even take you places other than gambler addiction.

End of run, sorry.

Great to know, but what was the cost both in terms of $$ and tokens used?

Not to invalidate these benchmark results because they are useful, but the real usefulness it what they are capable to do when real people interact with them at scale.

Regardless, these are good news, because now that Microsoft is basically giving up their all-in strategy with Github's Copilot and Anthropic is playing the "I'm too good for you" game, it's about time for them to get pressed into not making this AI world into a divide between the haves and the have-nots.

Re:Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:22PM (#47858022)
This is such a rug pull.

I'm a paying customer and I did not receive ANY communication about this. Was using Opus this afternoon and then it disappeared.

Microsoft really can't stop being Microsoft. I don't dispute the need to charge more for those models, but there is a basic decency to do things and as usual the Big Tech fuckery and complete lack of morals makes them do this in a way that generates total mistrust where it could be just annoyance.

I'll see how Sonnet handles the most difficult problems but I'm foresee a subscription cancelation soon.

It appears what really ended their little scam was the $421 million of reported revenue based on complete lies.

Because lying to investors about product hasn't been really an issue lately, even Intel ~5 years ago did some presentations that were a complete fantasy back when they were desperate to keep their stock value but could not produce a chip smaller than 14nm.

If they prosecute CEOs based on lies to investors other than accounting, almost all AI startups would go down.

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