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Re:The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:45AM (#50273463)
agents are certainly not better at coordinating than the animals that built them and the entire world of systems around them.
Than North Koreans? Show your bias more
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:38AM (#50244508)
uh oh, everyone's watching the big game... I better leave, so my child doesn't hear the big scary TV
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:50AM (#50243687)
not allowing them to hear a TV for 3 years is such overkill and would remove them from being around many spaces
Re:Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:29PM (#50187172)
I love how the "public benefit" is just them trying to force everyone to do AI their way
Re:Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:21AM (#50180499)
yeah sure, they're so bored they spend half their week cutting people out of their wrecked cars. Just to make you think their salary is justified
"He seems pretty apolitical" is a crazy thing to say about someone who assassinated someone for political reasons.
Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:06AM (#50088003)
The free market is a myth because the market players aren't acting how you think they should?
Re:There's no point at which turning your brain off will work on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:28PM (#49757528)
Why do you assume that the fully engaged employee would be laid off at all?
Have you been to a public university recently? Its abysmal.
If nobody is failing, nobody is learning
Once you cross a certain threshold, it's luck of the draw if you're selected. Clearly the entire thing is broken.
Re:A Sick People on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:20AM (#49183332)
There are millions of happy, good people in America. Grass is always greener. You see novelty when you travel.
I don't care about comparison. I just need to know how far I ran or it doesn't count lol
really the only value is for runners/cyclists/swimmers. Being able to run without a bulky device is sooo much better.
Re: on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:07PM (#48939553)
> “Markets already move on Truth Social posts,” Kevin McGurn, interim chief executive officer at TMTG, said in a statement.

Not because of some inherent value in the network... but because the President is literally changing market policies and announcing it there.

So don't regurgitate it without checking. You're putting the onus on the person you're talking with
> Nonetheless, that is not want I wanted to focus my thoughts on here.

Typo second paragraph, 4th line. I think you meant "what"

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Re: on Friday June 19, 2026 @11:39AM (#48599846)
> He is believed to be the first person to die in a horse carriage accident since they were introduced in Central Park more than 150 years ago
> He is believed to be the first person to die in a horse carriage accident since they were introduced in Central Park more than 150 years ago, according to the labor union representing the industry and the Central Park Conservancy, which manages the 843-acre (341-hectare) park.
How could a cloud provider *not* qualify as a gatekeeper under these guidelines?
Re:The AirPods Effect on Friday June 19, 2026 @08:21AM (#48597752)
> I'm not a team player at all

could ya try?

Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:00PM (#48575109)
There's an emergency!!! To find out what it is, pay me!!!
The reports will be just as useless as they were before
Sir, this is a Wendys. I just want my burger
Re:Nobody clicks your share buttons on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:23PM (#48562341)
Who tf uses a government website to judge sharing metrics... "look at this awesome new regulation, buddy!"
Re:The unwritten laws of software engineering on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:58PM (#48481770)
> 2. Backups aren’t real until you’ve restored from them

Soooooo true. People get comfortable with archaic backup systems created by a mythical former employee. Then there's an outage, and you realize nobody knows how it works.

Re:Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @04:23PM (#48375723)
Don't worry, Apple has been watching for a decade plus. And it seems they will continue just watching

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