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Why the shipping manifest details were load bearing:
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:42PM (#49556637)
Its time to move on to the flamingo on a unicycle bench
Re:I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI on Thursday July 23, 2026 @11:55AM (#49023698)
I've been seeing a lot of this in online discourse where people are like "the bubble's gonna pop and then this will all be over!"

it's a combination of wishlful thinking and straightup delusion to think that AI will just poof and disappear (maybe the specific LLM approach eventually, but not the general idea of AI/the industry/product as a whole)

Re:Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's on Saturday July 04, 2026 @11:43PM (#48791084)
So one of those egg council creeps got to you too huh?
I shutdown mine too but only because suspend is still a crapshoot on linux
Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:31PM (#48737176)
this seems rather counter-productive, wouldn't a model with less cybersecurity capabilities be more likely to produce insecure code? Not to mention, Chinese models don't have these restrictions and can be used to exploit said unsecure code.

I supposed I shouldn't be surprised at how the trump admin is approaching AI regulation, counter-productive is really all they do

Re:There's still no point in gigabit broadband on Saturday June 06, 2026 @08:19AM (#48424294)
downloading a game on steam can fully utilize gigabit speeds, and modern games can be 100+gb
I've vibe coded a codemirror table editor (as a plugin for joplin) using a nested codemirror instance for the cell editor, in my case using joplin's built in command to render markup for the inactive cells: https://github.com/bwat47/joplin-rich-tables

it works well but I'm not much of a programmer and probably ended up with a crazy over engineered architecture lol

I was surprised that there weren't any existing libraries for this (there is one now but it was created after I started work on my plugin: https://github.com/ckant/codemirror-markdown-tables)

S3 as well, I sync with cloudflare r2's free tier and it works great
> "actually no", "hang on", "wait that makes no sense"

Claude does the same thing, claude code just hides the thinking now

well love or hate them, their service is at least reliable
Re:Where the Goblins Came From on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:39AM (#47960996)
gpt also loves talking about handwaving, "I'm going to do X, not just a hand-wavy victory lap"
Re:Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:27PM (#47858063)
its showing claude code as included in pro now on that page
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:01PM (#47808726)
in copilot I find it hard to justify using opus at even 3x vs just using GPT 5.4 high at 1x
Re:ChatGPT for Excel on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @06:49PM (#47786341)
its baffling how badly microsoft has handled copilot, this is exactly what copilot in office should have been
Re:An Introduction to Obsidian on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:38PM (#47759800)
no merging, they just show as sync conflicts
It does matter because oil is a global commodity, the fact that the US is a net exporter doesn't stop the prices from going up and other follow-on impacts to the global economy.
the big difference with Iran is the strait of hormuz. It doesn't matter how "well" it goes if it stays closed and torpedos the global economy

> inconsistent communication

I feel like "inconsistent communication" is putting it lightly, with trump going back and forth between "we won", "we'll take the oil", and "whatever we'll leave" often within the same day.

I haven't had issues with malware since windows vista
Re:GPT-5.4 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:19PM (#47269572)
yeah claude is great... but only if you pay $100-$200 a month
Re:Don't make me talk to your chatbot on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:12PM (#47240450)
Yeah a trend that I've noticed in online comments is people taking LLM generated text and just removing punctuation and making it all lowercase. It's like dude, it's still so obvious xD
Re:GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:43PM (#46982290)
> Your objective has explicit instruction that car has to be present for a wash.

Which is exactly how you're supposed to prompt an LLM, is the fact that giving a vague prompt gives poor results really suprising?

Re:Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:00PM (#46965957)
not to mention the OP mentioned 22 LTS which isn't even the most current LTS
Re:UEFI Bindings for JavaScript on Monday February 09, 2026 @10:06AM (#46946015)
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!
Re:LLMs as the new high level language on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:24PM (#46939663)
I feel so attacked right now
the $10 plan makes a great backup to claude or codex and the inline completions are nice
I think there's some middle ground possible between those two black and white groupings
yeah I actually use AI a lot, but copilot is... useless. When microsoft adds copilot to their various apps they don't seem to put any thought/effort behind it beyond sticking a copilot button somewhere.

And if the copilot button does nothing but open a chat window without any real integration with the app, what the hell is the point of that when there's already a copilot button in the windows taskbar?

> there is pressure to ship crappy code

this is true with or without AI

Re:Ghostty's AI Policy on Friday January 23, 2026 @09:09AM (#46732654)
I would hope that actually testing the changes is done regardless of whether or not AI is used

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