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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:53AM (#50350002)
You are right, my bad.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:47PM (#50344305)
GP is correct. Ivanov or Ivanova would generally be surnames, whereas Ivanov or Ivanov[n]a would be patronyms. In Russian culture, they generally don't use matronyms. And yes, it is indeed common in Russia to refer to individuals whom you are not close with using their surname, similar to Japanese culture.
> That's the dream!

I hope your joking.

Re:Why do we have so many meetings? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:40PM (#50170757)
I feel you.
https://i.imgur.com/HvzIZ6v.png

This is "Preview" — Apple's document viewer on macOS 27. Do you think the testing went well?

Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:11PM (#50107774)
Why would anyone want to run an LLM on Apple's hardware? Why not buy an NVIDIA GPU?
Re:Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:54AM (#49989648)
Claude generated it and it stuck.
Re:Integer multiplication below n log n on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:36PM (#49986299)
Why is that funny?
Re:Needed 1+1, Built a Functional Programming Language on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:28PM (#49927803)
In LeetCode, it's a very common optimization. If your key values are dense, you use an array. If your key values are sparse, you use a dict.
Why is this better than just using Docker?
Re:How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:13PM (#49903947)
> If you're going to survive in this industry

I really feel like it's very much random.

When job hunting -> does the recruiter shortlist you?

When on the job -> do you get laid off?

Neither has anything to do with your skills at the actual job.

Re:Needed 1+1, Built a Functional Programming Language on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:48PM (#49902967)
Arrays are hash tables. You can implement a very simple hash table from a tutorial, but can you implement a sophisticated one? What about a concurrent hash table?
I am not buying this. I use AI to check my work, but it is absolutely terrible at teaching or explaining.
For me it's about time management, not about getting math help. I am consistent at attending classes because it's mandatory, but not consistent at finding time to practice math every day. If I could practice during classes, I think that would help me.
This. I am currently a university student and I wish I could practice in class and not at home.
What alternatives are you using?
Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:46PM (#49749649)
Are implying that an LLM can accurately evaluate whether a contract is legally valid?
Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:37PM (#49749610)
I suppose not. I am not a mathematician, and there has been too much drama to understand anything.
Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:33PM (#49749598)
> I'll buy that - but, how often does one need an honest-to-goodness expert?

Any time you are doing anything important, where the outcome actually matters. For example, I was recently applying for a study permit and if I generated my application using an LLM instead of consulting with an immigration lawyer and writing it myself, I would not have gotten my study permit. I was recently applying for internships, and if I hadn't paid a real recruiter to review my resume and advise me, I would not have gotten my interview. And trust me, I spent at least an hour trying to get an LLM to generate what I wanted, but no matter how I begged or described what I wanted, it was no use. Good luck fine tuning an LLM to be good at any of this.

> they are getting consistently better

No, they are not getting better, and they will never replace an actual human expert, because a human expert has the actual experience and up-to-date knowledge of what they are an expert at, and also all the complementary context and the current state of affairs in that area. The LLM has none of that.

Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:46PM (#49748830)
Then hopefully at some point they get to experience the consequences of having low quality thresholds, and perhaps then their quality thresholds will increase.
Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:29PM (#49748704)
in cases where the quality of the output doesn't matter
Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:24PM (#49748660)
LLMs will never replace human experts.
Re:I Don't Like LLMs on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:42PM (#49744818)
There is no negativity in my previous message, and I have read some of his writing on DDD a long time ago, so this is not a first impression. In fact, at the time I did not find anything wrong with his DDD writing, but I also didn't know much about him. It's just that in general, I have experienced at numerous instances consuming a piece of content, and later out of curiosity investigating the author's background, and finding out that they had no credibility to back up the authority they were claiming. Even in person, I have seen people go up on stage, spout complete nonsense, especially about AI, and having the crowd cheer.
Re:I Don't Like LLMs on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:08PM (#49744418)
From my experience, professional content creators tend to either have little idea of the actual topic they create content on, or their knowledge is very outdated. For example, one might have been a software engineer previously, but at some point they pivoted towards being a writer, and over the years their software engineering skills became atrophied and outdated. Martin Fowler in particular appears to have only worked for two companies, PwC and "Thoughtworks," both obscure outstaffing/consulting firms, and yet he claims to be "a leading authority on agile, refactoring, architecture, and software design." I am not convinced he has the credibility to call himself that, or claim to be some kind of expert in software engineering. Would be happy to be proven wrong.
Re:I Don't Like LLMs on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:29AM (#49742291)
> Very disappointing given what figure is in question.

Are you implying that Martin Fowler is a highly respected figure or something? He just comes off as a grifter from what I can see.

Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:58PM (#49735543)
I couldn't even finish it man, it was so fucking sloppy. I had to throw away like 40% of it.
Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:03PM (#49735186)
McDonald's food is not even that unhealthy. I just tried a Burger King burger the other day and it's terrible. I think it's like 2000 calories in a single burger or something.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:32PM (#49580372)
What's the term for the kind of designer who does vector graphics? Graphic designer?
Re:GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:11PM (#49572416)
I thought all the designers have been using vector graphics for a long time now.
Re:METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:19PM (#49545208)
I have a hard time believing this isn't made up given OpenAI Codex performance on my tasks.

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