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This post shows that there are a Brazilian ways in which using AI to administer legal proceedings can go wrong.
My biological clock is ticking like this!
Re:When electric cars were for women on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:40PM (#50321345)
40 years from now: "When black F150s and Dodge Rams were for children"
This is a practical big-O notation question just waiting to happen.
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:34PM (#50309786)
It's probably both.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:34PM (#50306352)
This is a poor analogy because I don't think your inability to do long division will cause as much damage as an inability to bring the site back up in an emergency situation.
Yeah, this really blew me away. I took a graduate computational complexity course and the original prof had to drop out due to health reasons. We got another professor from a completely different field who was basically as green in the field as we were, but with far better research chops. It turned the course into kind of a long-running lab where we just kind of did whatever we wanted. We spent a lot of time just philosophizing (mostly uselessly) about the ETH. I am very chuffed to see this result.
I don't think we need a diagnosis for "asshole"
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:43PM (#50227419)
How long would you be able to sustain a mostly-comfortable lifestyle if you were to lose your job right now with no chance of finding new employment? If the answer is, say, more than a year, that might alter your perspective on the issue.
Re:Google's Rust Style Guide on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:02PM (#50189311)
C++ requires defensive programming, so I guess it fits that defense requires C++ programming.
Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:15PM (#50184395)
> All of humanity's problems stem from a man's inability to stop a 4-pool.

—Arcturus Mengsk, 2495

Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:52AM (#50166485)
Sort of. It's an FPS. I also highly doubt it will ever be released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQUtOQXYgQ

Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:58PM (#50158659)
Hi I posted it. I'm just a guy in the chat who saw it on YouTube.
Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:18PM (#50156735)
Ahhhh yeahhhh
Username checks out. Why age when you can sacrifice your life for climate preservation.
Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:03PM (#50147897)
I did not make this, for the record. I just found it.
Re:Laptop Based on 6502 CPU on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:24PM (#50147274)
When I saw the domain name, I thought this might be:

https://basharchive.org/#s/Maddox

Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @11:50PM (#50098921)
A few years ago, I had a series of health conditions that left me in unbearable suffering every moment of every day. At a certain point, when it was obvious that there was no probable way out, my mind reflexively starting tell me to kill myself. I would look at any menial object and my mind would automatically start considering ways I could use that object to end my life.

This went on for months, on and off. I wouldn't say I "endured" it, but I trained myself to just try to get through the next hour, or the next minute if things were really bad.

I'm much better now and that experience in many ways helped me, but I have no romantic feelings about it and I'd prefer if it hadn't happened. If someone had given me a painless out that I could trust back then, I almost certainly would have taken it. Instead, I learned acceptance in a pretty awful way.

I'm saying this for a specific reason: for many people, their suicide isn't some act of "giving up" or not being willing to endure; it's that some physiological process has begun that strongly urges you to do it every moment of every day. I understand why people have some anger or disappointment with loved ones who have died by suicide, but I personally do not feel that way. After what I experienced, I'm just happy that any of us get a chance to live in peace at all.

Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:58PM (#50096717)
For the record, this is how I feel working with other software engineers.

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