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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:46PM (#49581904)
Maybe I'm pulling at a fake distinction here but the progenitor blog posts of this format that I'm thinking of were incorrect models of constructs that almost everyone uses in their everyday life constantly ( names, dates, time etc )

Whereas I find it kinda unlikely that someone both knows what a DHCP server is, and holds a belief that there is only ever exactly one on their network?

Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:21PM (#49581709)
This feels like a bastardization of the already questionable "Falsehoods ___ believe about ___" format.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:36AM (#49560573)
Are you guaranteed to solve an arbitrary task eventually?
Re:Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:53PM (#49201529)
>It appeared to listen intently as a man in a cleric's uniform railed. "God made all intelligent creatures," the man was saying in a powerful voice. "You may have the apprearance of thinking, but you are really just parroting the responses taught you by that man there." He pointed at Lawrence.
Re:The Great Unwind on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @01:21PM (#46889506)
>By anchoring borrowing costs at or near zero, the BOJ enabled Wall Street to borrow Yen cheaply and invest it with leverage into higher yielding instruments globally, such as U.S. treasuries, equities, and cryptography

Think you mean crypto currency here?