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Re:And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:23PM (#49363641)
denham's dentifrice...denham's dentifrice...denham's dentifrice
Re:Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:21PM (#48494363)
No idea where you're based, nor am I trying to argue there isn't racism in Mississippi. However, Mississippi has one of the highest percentages of black population per US states.
Re:Website Is for Humans on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @05:39PM (#44894184)
Seems like recipe websites are written to attract new recipe seekers, not return cooks.
Re:Website Is for Humans on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @05:33PM (#44894127)
Paprika or one of the other ones?
Re:Nazgul on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:14AM (#44520652)
Thanks!
Re:AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:33PM (#42816249)
i think there will still be a need for "programmers" with those skills. We'll always need specialists and people building new language/frameworks/etc.

But I think everyone who isn't at least a standard deviation above the average programmer (like myself) shouldn't be focused on being able to read, write, and debug code. For this cohort the important ability is to see the bigger picture, understand the end goal of the code, and then match those needs to appropriate technology stacks. Essentially just moving more and more towards a product manager managing AI programming agents.

Re:AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:18AM (#42813882)
exactly. Programming languages are all just levels of abstraction above the analog/digital interface.

While it is important to understand the fundamentals of coding, if we expected every software engineer to be well versed in assembly that wouldn't necessarily result in increased productivity.

LLMs are just the next rung up on the abstraction ladder.

There will always be people interested in the gritty details of low level languages like Assembly, C, that give you a lot more granular control over memory. While large enterprises and codebases, as well as niche use cases can absolutely benefit from these low level abstraction specialists, the avg. org doesn't need an engineer with these skills. Especially startups, where getting the 80% done ASAP is critical to growth.

Re:Bayesian Yacht Sinking on Friday November 01, 2024 @09:10AM (#42016609)
https://www.perininavi.it/yacht/2008-bayesian-formerly-salut...

the yacht maker may want to take the yacht off their website...

Re:Waymo closes $5.6B investment round on Friday October 25, 2024 @10:55AM (#41945860)
to my knowledge, Tesla has gone the computer vision route where they are solely relying on cameras and algorithms, while Waymo went the way of more traditional LIDAR and other scanners to close achieve the safe full self drive.

The disadvantage of using the LIDAR and full sensor stack is largely price.

Re:Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:42AM (#41742576)
need this for LLM chatbots