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Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:16AM (#50260628)
If the volume of work goes up, its cost goes down. Supply and demand.

Unless you think you should pay more now for more content that can be delivered to you via AI generation?

And yet the tube has poor service a lot. 2 minutes is required but it very, very often isn't met, leading to wild overcrowding on platforms.

"But it's old!"

Okay - that's why it's unreliable, not an excuse for it.

You can't just randomly exclude entire sectors of an economy.
What is your definition of depression, exactly?

Besides "sounds cool with shock value online"

Disagree. The only part an AI can't do is the people aligning and box drawing. The implementation part is trivial. That's who will get replaced.
>This many layoffs is likely far beyond "checked out" employees.

25% offers != 25% layoffs

The far left: overthrow society and smash our entire economic model and murder every rich person

The far right: maybe prioritize citizens over others first

Completely the same opinion, both equally extremist!

Be gone, bot

Wait till you read some of the far left or right newspapers and leaflets in France. Why aren't those being banned?
As opposed to a senile Brazilian felon?
Is this because of your mistaken belief that the Chinese Communist party doesn't filter and censor the Internet for their subjects?
Re:How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:20AM (#50219844)
>The tell here

Is this AI written? It has "this is the smoking gun" vibes, just rewritten.

Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:56PM (#50169299)
I don't get why people say Oppenheimer was a talented scientist when I don't want nuclear weapons to exist
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:48AM (#50166402)
Exactly, the EU only deals with ethical countries that support Ukraine

ahahahah

Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:43AM (#50164181)
>How can two different developers say those very different things about the same product?

Well the Dunning-Kruger effect could certainly explain the cohort that thinks they're skills are amazing and unbeatable.

Source they were selling this fridge data in real-time? Can you post a link where I can buy it?

What customer data is this even giving me? How do I get someone's personal information based on the temperature of the drinks fridge in Store #138 in Nantes?

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:15PM (#50009705)
"I hate burgers covered in shit, I'd rather eat pizza"

"That pizza is covered in shit too, so do you actually hate shit?"

"Who said anything about shit!!1!"

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:35AM (#50007103)
Is this the same Europe that's cutting work visas, tightening restrictions, and increasing naturalization requirements across the board?

What's really interesting to see is your blindness to that self destruction.

Taking a statement to its limits is useful for that reason. This is why it's so common to do in physics & math, in fact!

If your mental model breaks at the limits, it maybe means there's some truth in what you say, but there's a nuance that's clearly missing.

And that's the case here: nobody argues when automation comes for many types of other tasks, so why is mathematics special? Or even art? We should either find that line or accept that maybe they aren't as special as we assumed.

Hence the funding was never for "advancing the understanding", but the problems themselves.
This. Farming used to be such a rich and meaningful job where you connected with the earth, until machinery came along and ruined it.

I loathe what's happened with agscience, all farms should be plowed by hand with donkeys and plows.

>They somehow invented a way of solving an open problem without advancing the field.

And nothing stops mathematicians from solving it in a way that does advance the field. Claude's existence doesn't change that.

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:16AM (#49978864)
China has been owning and controlling key companies in its industry for going on 6 decades.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:08AM (#49978747)
What makes you think the rest of the world trusts Europe more than the Chinese?
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:06AM (#49978721)
>Up until recently the Chinese government wasn't even that invested in these companies

>Last time I checked, it was ourselves (USA) waging economic warefare on 2/3rds of the world.

Up until recently the USA Wasn't waging economic "warefare" on 2/3rds of the world

Re:Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now? on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:22AM (#49918744)
Agent Babysitter
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:00AM (#49909108)
If you want naming exceptionalism, here's where you should be looking: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/24/france-says-eu...
The rest of the world should maybe try take care of its own problems first, starting with the active wars in Europe.

Too bad all's they can do is sit back and condemn things, by your own admission.

Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:28AM (#49906440)
Because it isn't america.geography, it's america.gov, and everyone who isn't playing dumb knows exactly what government that refers to.

Not to mention the only context you ever hear people using America to refer to both South and North American continents is people complaining that it should be only used in this way.

Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:24AM (#49906408)
>Maybe some things just are not easy. Maybe they should not be.

Okay. So why should government websites like the French one be well designed? Maybe it should not be.

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