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Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:33PM (#50346357)
some pension funds definitely do
etymology is not relevant to the conversation
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:31PM (#50311511)
well maybe they did reduce supply chain risk, but still need to reduce it some more
wide events feel like structured logs, great for high cardinality data but not so much for time series
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:27PM (#50064491)
96% AI written article btw
Re:Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:42PM (#50045106)
the graphs are pretty clearly made and labeled with AI
writing specs is hard. For instance the easiest way to comply with "player should never reach the flag" is to disable movement completely, so then you have to specify "player should never reach the flag while still being allowed to move" and so on (liveness). It's not practical for most programs
Re:iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:30PM (#49637146)
you could do edits like crops in a way that preserves the signature using ZK proofs
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:31PM (#49426136)
1.5% of electricity, not energy

that would be 0.3% of global energy use

Re:Mea Culpa – Dark Hours on Sunday August 09, 2026 @12:35PM (#49232964)
"that's on me" just sounds like Claude is doing the talking
> The results were achieved by an internal version of Astra, our next major model.
Re:The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol) on Friday July 31, 2026 @12:08PM (#49124936)
of course it does, but it's still the best thing we have
Re:Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:27AM (#48979353)
fires? floods? documents getting lost/misplaced/stolen/destroyed?
Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:13PM (#48854959)
the problems are general and abstract, domain specific knowledge and memorization don't help. Figuring out the rules, the goal, the controls, and how to solve in a reasonable budget all indicate some level of general ability.
Re:Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:14AM (#48342974)
Counterpoint: don't read the comments
Re:The Last Technical Interview on Friday May 29, 2026 @10:03PM (#48331665)
> And it can pay for itself twice: once in real work shipped, and once again in something else you could probably use more of, which is gravity.

what?

as someone who doesn't know how to get better design out of LLMs, can you elaborate?
Re:Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu on Sunday May 24, 2026 @07:43PM (#48262154)
I have finally embraced squashing PRs and realized I wasted my youth trying to write Good Commits.
Re:Shunning AI is the human choice on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:06PM (#48225938)
it's tribal, it feels good to rally against a common enemy
Re:Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @05:55PM (#47785836)
good luck formally verifying everything
that ship has sailed
Re:I’m joining OpenAI on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:05AM (#47035925)
for me it's that it works remotely and my kids can access it over Discord
Re:Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM Era on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:59PM (#46727079)
this seems like what MCPs should have been from the beginning. If you think MCPs are better, can you explain why?
Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:04PM (#46618666)
the problem with any approach like this based on usage metrics is that it will be abused to death
Re:Claude Code CLI Broken on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:16PM (#46532951)
...but is it good?
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:01AM (#46327260)
have you tried adjusting the reasoning effort?
Re:GPT-5.2-Codex on Friday December 19, 2025 @10:54AM (#46327183)
5.2-codex just came out. You could use codex with regular 5.2 for a week or so.
Re:Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @01:32AM (#46201904)
ok but these are details, the point is that the operators of the database are external, selfish and fluctuating
death before Jenkins

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