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Streisand effect?
THIS is the question!

Henry Ford II: "Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?" Walter Reuther: "Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?"

Re:Checkmate in Iran on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @12:17PM (#48123927)
The actual significance of this article is that, finally, the establishment is beginning to accept that the US may be in big trouble because of this war.
Re:How ICE Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:06PM (#46829168)
What happened to enforcing the law on those who assaulted the Capitol?
Re:Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:08AM (#45655303)
Well, i feel a bit reluctant about sharing this, because it is so sad, but the following was recorded not long ago ... wouldn't be surprised if they took it down

https://youtu.be/6_anRV5ZFWY?si=csobK4NBKKT-tE8H

Re:Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:04AM (#45655251)
Sure, but all the same, given what you've said, isn't it a bit weird that Kramnik himself has rushed to raise drug taking suspicions? Is he trying to divert attention? Regardless of whether he has anything to do with this, it would have been classy of him to stay quiet for a while about this
Re:Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:00AM (#45655217)
Indeed, he also quit commenting, which he was really good at and seemed to enjoy doing in the past
I think that Cursor is doing the same. A couple of weeks ago they removed the 500 prime model requests limit per month in the $20 plan, it seemed like this was going to be good for users, in fact it's worse, my impression is that now the limit is effectively much lower, and you can't check anymore in your account's dashboard how many of these requests you've made over the last month.
Re:AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone on Monday July 14, 2025 @01:51PM (#44563124)
Thank you, I will certainly check this out because this is something I've been sort of doing, manually, but I am still struggling to get the right workflow.

This recent OpenAI presentation might resonate too then:

Prompt Engineering is dead (everything is a spec)

In an era where AI transforms software development, the most valuable skill isn't writing code - it's communicating intent with precision. This talk reveals how specifications, not prompts or code, are becoming the fundamental unit of programming, and why spec-writing is the new superpower.

Drawing from production experience, we demonstrate how rigorous, versioned specifications serve as the source of truth that compiles to documentation, evaluations, model behaviors, and maybe even code.

Just as the US Constitution acts as a versioned spec with judicial review as its grader, AI systems need executable specifications that align both human teams and machine intelligence. We'll look at OpenAI's Model Spec as a real-world example.

https://youtu.be/8rABwKRsec4?si=waiZj9CnqsX9TXrM

Re:AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone on Monday July 14, 2025 @11:35AM (#44561401)
Is it something similar to Harper Reed's "My LLM codegen workflow atm"?

https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/

Here is a good documentary about these scam centers, where some management staff even openly admit what is going on there:

https://youtu.be/kSNn2pHtRH4?si=6WAbOG4p6bd80dJ8

In stackoverflow's survey [1] it ranks below the 40th position in popularity, near the bottom and below the likes of Prolog, Apex, MicroPython, and just above Cobol.

If that isn't obscure, nevermind building all your tech around it like the article says, then I guess that nothing is.

Where does Linux rank in OSs?

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology

Re:U.S. Pauses All Military Aid to Ukraine on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:58AM (#43263698)
The Taliban are not a terrorist group, awful as they are
They want to destroy the so called "dark state" by scaring and scarring officials out of their wits to do their biding, "the art of the deal", trimming the budget is the excuse.
Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @02:35PM (#42310269)
The moka is pretty good though (and much more expensive)
Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @01:49AM (#42303574)
Very interesting. And there is still ethnic tension in that area to this day.
Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) on Monday December 02, 2024 @03:50PM (#42300247)
It was the DDR who developed the modern Vietnamese coffee industry, collapsing before it could benefit.

Beginning in 1975, largely parallel with the coffee crisis in East Germany, the production of Robusta coffee began in Vietnam. Robusta plants grow faster, contain more caffeine, suit the climate of the Vietnamese Central Highlands, and lend themselves better to mechanized harvesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_coffee_crisis

+ Chinese polygamy, as Marco Polo observed, allowing well-off men to parallelize reproduction
Vultures are actually fascinating, team workers that collaborate with crows and magpies to clean the countryside from carcasses.

There is an excellent documentary about this in Spanish: https://youtu.be/4bLO8d0e9O4?si=z2BUAz-90BhWGBdl

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