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Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:38PM (#50282484)
They get that many?!
Re:Decision Models vs. ML Classification on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:40AM (#49951004)
As far as I understand it; Jev et al can be considered Zero Shot Classifiers.

It’s likely the system you built was trained on images of just cats and dogs; but Jev is using a general training set, and there is tuned for general purpose zero shot classification, rather than domain specific “is this a cat or a dog”.

Re:ActivityPub Won by Being Boring on Friday August 14, 2026 @03:11PM (#49303297)
Yes it’s boring, but where did it win?
Re:New Google sheet favicon – but why? on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @12:57AM (#48275180)
shrug – same reason Google Meet now looks like a duck...
Can you share the link or has it bean and gone, and skipped your mind?
I’m not certain here, because I think Cursor drives a chunk of cash through token usage to Anthropic.
Show value in as little steps as possible.

If it needs access to my real system data, tell me why, and guide me through the all steps I need to complete to set it up.

Write out every step. Make it obvious. Come back to your instructions the next day and make them simpler, and more obvious.

Have as few steps as possible.

Time to value is key here.

$50 to move past your bottleneck? I’d say that’s worth a fortune in ROI if you had:

a) poor design sense; b) poor design engineering (you have good design sense but can’t figure out how to build it); c) taken more than your hourly salary to learn a + b.

Agree with understanding if you could do it cheaper and faster next time, but the rule of 3 usually applies: “good, fast and cheap, pick 2”

It looks like you’re on the right track; pragmatism about specific tools, and their use cases.

Hopefully your friend sees the value in the tool and a big ROI too!

Re:Qutting GitHub: Jpt.sh on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:01PM (#44955689)
Re:X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:52AM (#44510734)
Now the Ex-X CEO!
Still hoping to grow legs for the Metaverse?
It's not very confidential then, is it?
Re:MCP, Easy as 1-2-3? on Monday April 14, 2025 @11:25PM (#43688717)
Doh! Ray! Me!
Yes. As shown in the movie Minority Report, this will surely be flawless in preventing all future crime.
Re:WordPress Scales Back to One Major Release in 2025 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @02:21PM (#43624879)
this is fine.
Re: on Thursday March 27, 2025 @12:28PM (#43495269)
how long until this one is flagged?
This reads like an Austin Powers movie!
Re:AI Is Killing How Developers Learn on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:28AM (#43058752)
Like GPS replaced Paper Maps and map reading with Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze etc.

The world still spins, directions are now something we take from a computer.

Most people arrive quicker; and some without any thought, arrive in a pond at the end of a laneway because they haven’t considered the computer might be wrong.

Trump Media to get payments before X?
As with all things Google, don't be tied to the solution, be tied to the problem you're trying to solve, and be adaptable.

Much easier said than done.

Nothing spells IPO like mid January layoffs
Re:Social Media Dashboard/Aggregator? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @04:11PM (#42785244)
Hootsuite, Sprinklr, Sprout, Buffer all do this.
Re:TikTok Brought Back to Life Thanks to Trump? [video] on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:37PM (#42782919)
Is this the same TikTok that was banned by Trump in 2020?
Re:OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:58PM (#42745685)
They should call it …

Don’t Die AI

Sure, but seems like a glaring system fault to allow a single worker to forget, without any quality checks?!
This looks great, with potential for other ball sports too.

I coach field hockey and can see how this could be adapted.

Some feedback; Perhaps you would consider making the first screenshot of your listing into a video, so people can see what a recordable play looks like?

Re: on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:08PM (#42324869)
I’m not sure he did, since NYPD said Citi bike was not used. The author on X said the same in the thread too
Re:Ask HN: Will Bluesky become more popular than Twitter? on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:41PM (#42129174)
Yep
Re:Yales is set to offer a course on Beyoncé and her legacy on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:45AM (#42123757)
Uh oh uh!
Re:Why Code Authors Should Have the Final Say on Code Reviews on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:41PM (#42073475)
Yeehaw! Screw y’all and your lintin’ ‘n’ rules. I gets the final say!

Plenty of cowboy developers rejoicing reading this ;)

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