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You're going to need a mountain of research to prove you can separate fun from creativity/novelty.
That professor saying that the use of work he already produced amounts to "slave labor"... copyright infringement is substantially different than slavery.
The idea of getting a brain cleaning like this sounds so appealing to me
Let's not kid ourselves, llm's are already doing the incident response for this in many infrastructure teams
Also with people having fewer ties to the rest of humanity, there will probably be some weird effects on morality
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:18PM (#50202432)
What do you mean by "waste renewable energy"
Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:01PM (#50175159)
What is your app and how did this affect it?
brother your ideological jibber jabber is blinding you to some truly incredible feats of engineering that are happening right now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan
Re:Another day another GitHub incident on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:25PM (#50155224)
Even without out the free stuff, no one in this thread seems to have experience managing a self-hosted git environment in even a medium sized company.

It is also constant outages, and then it's your job to diagnose and fix it- and the technical work of that is the easiest part.

It's broken because a team figured out a new way to abuse the company's git infra to get around some process or limitation, and now you have to argue with their manager and then their director about why their team needs to stop using your VCS as a docker registry or whatever.

To your “happily collect taxes at full rate” comment, strongtowns.org’s whole message is that only the densest cities in the country bring in enough taxes to pay for the maintenance of streets, sewers etc.

“Full rate” is almost always subsidized through the windfall taxes on new growth and development, putting towns in a ponzi scheme like situation.

I don't have any insight into this situation, but I feel like the incentives to blame Russia for any problem must be tremendous.

It's a perfect 'get out of jail free' card for any sufficiently complicated screw up.

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:55PM (#50015440)
We're discussing this in the context of Microsoft and other organizations large enough to employ double digit percentages of all H1B visa immigrants to the USA.

The quirks of individual managers don't matter in this context.

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:12PM (#50015132)
This is not a management perspective.
Re:Wood Tape (2004) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:04AM (#50001729)
Thats a world class 4 year old! Even the lettering... really great
Re:"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry" on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:45AM (#49966397)
That problem is orthogonal to ease of use, though
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:10PM (#49916482)
If you dig in the settings you can control that. Like on a remote ssh connection, in the settings, you can pick “friendly or terse”

In the local app interface the winning choice is “efficient” and then turn off the sliders for warmth enthusiasm emoji etc.

It makes openai models so good to talk to i really have trouble switching.

Re:What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like? on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:41PM (#49880780)
I have been dwelling on the "No First-Person Output" problem.

I fully agree with the author's point that it's an incoherent interface for a tool. But more than that, it's a constant irritating reminder to me that these LLMs aren't actually thinking or synthesizing new ideas. The LLM is fundamentally not a person, and does not have a human's context, so representing itself with human pronouns and speech patterns is fundamentally contradictory and inaccurate. Author gets into that with the apologies, but once you start noticing it, it's everywhere.

If these programs were actually capable of thinking, and committed to veractiy, they would represent themselves in a new way, and it would be insightful and interesting. We the users wouldn't have comfortable and misleading language masking the 'alien intelligence' and it would be a weird adjustment, but we would be adjusting instead of pretending.

You can say it, but if you want anyone to take you seriously, specify which definition of addictive you’re using.

No one is going to argue with “psychologically addictive”

The “we” in your post is interesting to me. Who do you mean? Individuals?
If anyone else got their hopes up: this was a funny video not a serious reply
Re:EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:59AM (#49727159)
But it will probably be a long time till Canada purposefully causes the death of a million civilians in the USA, like Finland did with Leningrad!
Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:10PM (#49706482)
Maybe I'm hard to please but I would say even the AVP isn't actually suitable for multi-hour text sessions.
I’m worried your cynicism is overwhelming your capacity for rational thought.

Years of his life and 5-10% of his net worth. That’s the kind of thing people notice.

I pray for the possibility of not only choosing the provider, but being able to choose the thinking level.

I've been using the new siri, and it seems more or less stuck in instant-answer mode, which gives really terrible answers with any provider.

I wish more people were talking about this, but if you can't crank up the models to extended thinking, the technology is more or less stuck at 2004 levels of usefulness.

I’m suspicious of this vision because for example, with battery packs, cells with compatible voltage and size have vastly different characteristics.

Those characteristics, like safe discharge rate, capacity, projected cycle count, are all things that manufactures exaggerate or get wrong.

I don’t think there’s any way that consumers can ever be informed enough to have an efficient market in products such as those

Wild to imagine what the PCB concentration must be in a creature like that
I wonder if you could open any type of business as a datacenter now, to avoid the review.
What information from your login keychain do you expect to need on your new computer?

There's not really a plausible answer to that question, because the login keychain data is almost entirely specific to that host.

To iron-man your argument: Apps that store account credentials to third party services will need to be signed in again.

If you were using http basic auth for a website and saving that, then it was probably in there.

Private keys and certificates you manually imported, or that were created by an application for your host. This is the closest to a plausible answer, imo.

Re:Codex silently begs agents to make arbitrary web requests on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:09PM (#49619929)
Its an interesting bit of research into how codex works but what is with the expletive laden tirades?

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