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Re:Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:35AM (#50018572)
It is not Anthropic’s job to police society. This line of thinking sets a very dangerous precedent.
Re:Margaret Hamilton has died on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:07AM (#50005379)
I believe it is protected in some states. https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
It’s not Amazon’s place to police this at all.
Safety critical systems demand formal verification. This wasn't bad luck, this was poor craft.
Re:Nvidia's Risky Business on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @09:57AM (#49258480)
That has literally nothing to do with the article.
Re:The Shape of Things to Come on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:03AM (#49153604)
I think the domain "yegge.ai" says it all. It's becoming like the NFT craze, and I say that as someone who uses AI every day.
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @04:28AM (#49081003)
Whataboutism is juvenile.
Re:Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5 on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:58PM (#48509921)
hugged to death
Re:GTA 6 Developers Unionize on Friday May 29, 2026 @08:34PM (#48331132)
Former gamedev here. This matches my experience. However, working in the games industry from 2000-2011 did wonders for my ability to thrive in big tech. It is easy mode compared to games.
Some knowledge is fundamental and has no recent cut-off. See also: there is nothing new under the sun.
Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:31AM (#46630221)
Maybe, but these days a vast amount of software is hidden behind online services. I'm not sure you'd see the hidden iceberg.
Re:Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:30AM (#46630207)
8GB? What is this, an LLM for ants?
Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:43AM (#46586652)
This is such a stupid argument. A very significant amount of code never makes it into the public sphere. None of the code I've written professionally in the last 26 years is publicly accessible, and if someone uses a product I've written they likely don't care if it was written with the aid of an LLM or not.

Not to mention agent capabilities at the end of last year were vastly different to those at the start of the year.

Re:Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:51AM (#46384734)
Googling for it brings up a ton of results.
Re:Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture on Thursday December 25, 2025 @06:04AM (#46383676)
I'm confused, is this meant to be presented as new work? Windows has done this for a very long time.
Re:UniFi 5G on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:28AM (#46163508)
How does this differ from Invisagig?
What a load of ableist bullshit. Guess what, you can have autism, ADHD and anxiety and still be really fucking clever. The article starts with the premise that they are incompatible.
Re:Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:28AM (#45665189)
They both offer virtualized guests under a hypervisor host. EC2 does have more offload specialization hardware but for the most part they are functionally equivalent, unless I'm missing something...
Yes, the negativity is infuriating. This is the mindset that is going to get left behind. I'm no LLM maximalist but they clearly have their uses in the right context and the right hands.
Re:WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @09:51AM (#45103124)
" Run Any App: If it runs on Windows, it can run on WinBoat. Enjoy the full range of Windows applications as native OS-level windows in your Linux environment"

Bold claim. Lets see it run Fortnite with anti-cheat.

Re:Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:58AM (#44684670)
128MB? Quantization has come a long way!
Re:The Members of the Dull Men's Club on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:43PM (#44303066)
There’s actually a large amount of women in the DMC FB group. Everyone is welcome.
Re:John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes) on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:48PM (#44075404)
Why would John Carmack who is so rich that he does things for shits, giggles and personal development, give a hoot what a VC cares about?
Re:John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes) on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:36PM (#44075282)
GLQuake was released 11 months before Quake 2.
Re:John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes) on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:32PM (#44075251)
Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. People often fall into the trap of thinking that because they are highly intelligent and an expert in one domain that this makes them an expert in one or more other domains. You see this all the time.
Could a case have been made for defamation, as their actions had caused Steam to falsely label them as a cheat?
Re:Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:00AM (#42619420)
Ken, how has the technology for interconnects changed over the years? Seeing all of these disparate regions in 2D it really interests me on how they are routed.
Literally a real-world race condition in the end to end tests.
Re:RISC-V is currently slow compared to modern CPUs on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @12:20PM (#41926557)
Ask the Itanium team how putting faith in software optimizations to overcome hardware issues saved their bacon.
If you have a page mapped at address 0, accessing address 0 is valid.

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