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I would say the problem is that it NOW is just a job... it used to be the fourth estate
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:12PM (#50026620)
Ok but like... Kojima vibes. 10/10 best trippppllleee AAYYyyyyy game to come out this year lol
Re:HuggingFace: Security.txt on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:05PM (#49660720)
Robots.txt became 0% effective eventually. But this? With the way LLMs work? You never know.
It is so easy to get lulled into a false sense of security.
Re:US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:34PM (#49567663)
Oh boy, what an easy way to see if the phone's user is military or not.
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:46PM (#49340605)
And Mai-Code-1.1-Flash seems like a really good cooperative player to GPT 5.6 Sol. You get Sol to help you make a detailed plan, and Mai codes it up and you can get pretty decent code out the other end without too many tokens if you are careful.
And thus procone spoketh the truth.
Old web vibes!
Re:LLMs reward expertise on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:17AM (#49169365)
You can get pretty dang far asking the AI to explain things and show you where it got that info, especially with IT/DEV stuff. Thing that has been very useful to me is specifically asking AI for that vocabulary. AI is suprisingly useful for giving a vague description of something you want and asking for possible words that match. But you have to KNOW to try that. A tinkerer might have started that convo with the chatbot by asking "What are web pages built from" "Can we use those building blocks to make our own simple app" and gotten there from a place of low expertise in web development but juicing out the knowlege from a place of low expertise is itself a skill.
Re:Anime User Interfaces on Saturday August 01, 2026 @07:35PM (#49139648)
oh yeah, this is nice
Time to make a better version for $4 install and a similar name... out of spite.
Re:Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:18AM (#48894055)
Disagree, corvids collecting bullet casings because they are shiny is heavily Shadowrun/WoD/Hellboy coded aesthetically. Regular birds gathering fiber optic cables for nests is EXTREMELY CYBERPUNK are you kidding? The image evokes so much: capitalist excess, tech waste involving computers/internet/cybernetics, war bad, environmental degredation etc... the only part about this concept that isnt heavily cyberpunk is that the bird isn't sick, dying, or dead and is somehow happy to find such a workable and durable nest building material.
"A lot of reasonably good coders have never seen an example of a good manager, and have all kinds of weird ideas about what management is."

Banger of a quote that one.

A drop in the bucket compared to the value of the collective human work that was stolen to train it.

edit: come to think about it I think the ratio of one drop to one bucket is vastly over estimating the ratio of the trainer's effort.

Re:Who will buy your services if you fire us all? on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:26PM (#48186644)
What people dont understand is we already invented Roko's Basilisk in the 1600s. It just doesnt have the power to torment you for more than 1 human lifetime yet.
Re:loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:10PM (#48186461)
I really want to see what would happen if you got a musically talented math teacher to teach a bunch of kids trig, music, and programming with this...
Hopefully the EU can get the battery situation to mirror the charging cable situation. IE force them all to adopt an industry standard.
You can go wherever you want whenever you want... until everyone does this and now you are stalled in traffic with no end in sight.
Re:God Sleeps in the Minerals on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:15AM (#47779286)
pretty crystals are pretty, gonna file this under "cool game dev inspo"
Literally giving children the means of production is way out of line. To the corporate owned gulag with you! /s
Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:40PM (#46964728)
if people believe its a threat and it is also real then what matters is timing
reminds me of a friend of mine who turned his alabama football passion into a cameraman career
Re:Non-Zero-Sum Games on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @02:41PM (#46437102)
ugh what a pain

Another issue is that often effort is the only lever one has in providing value as what tasks you are assigned constrains potential value output.Hypothetically, If my boss assigns me a stupid project destined to failure and tells me to shut up when I push back I'm really not going to get much value regardless of how much effort I put in... unless I was wrong in my assesment which is admittedly possible. Good management I suppose would then use effort as a proxy to try to find projects with potential to match one's effort.

Re:Non-Zero-Sum Games on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @12:46PM (#46435884)
This is further complicated by the difference between direct and indirect value. I build a thing that produces n value and is directly attributable to me. I also do things that help 100 others produce 10% more value themselves but most of that is attributed to themselves producing 10 * n value overall. How will I be rewarded if at all? Most likely as someone who produced n value.
3. Private equity has made long term investment a poor mans game.
I have had to tell several people I know they can't just take whatever OTC meds they want whenever they want with no side effects and it is always important to read the bottle's instructions/warnings.
I suppose to mitigate that you could have that data not immediately viewable to the patient because seeing "stress line go up" would be pretty stressful and would skew the data anyway.
Re:New records on Wendelstein 7-X on Monday July 21, 2025 @11:48AM (#44636614)
mmmm plasma cruller uhuhuhuhuhu

-Homer Simpson

Re:The Daily Life of a Medieval King on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:44AM (#44635714)
Also because salt itself was much more valuable back then you wouldn't have as much or even any salt in your fresh food so you use the "preserved in an intolerable amount of salt" food products with the unsalted food products to get a quite tolerable middle ground at consumption time. Mash potatoes and pickle bits mmm
Re:Master Foo and the Script Kiddie on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:20PM (#44627819)
Did anyone else hear mystical music in the background and smell fragrantly burning incense while they read that? I loved this, short, funny, interesting.

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