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Re:More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:00PM (#50111567)
Yea drop the B, replace a with c, and move all the letters around… other than that it’s the exact same.
Re:We Must Pace the Frontier on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:55PM (#49679157)
To me it reads like whoever can solve alignment should make money.
This is exactly what my kid said about why he doesn’t like Kahn academy.
Re:Agent Skill for TDD on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:38PM (#48420522)
I’m going to second this. Probably a side effect of its training to always produce an output, even if its some naive handling of issues it really should have root caused and fixed.
Re:$800 Monthly Car Payments Are Hurting Car Sales on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:47PM (#47270987)
Such a shame too
Re:Code and Let Live on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:25PM (#46595085)
The 3 em dash… kinda a flex move in this case.
Re:Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November on Friday December 12, 2025 @07:01PM (#46250561)
I saw it live (before all the commentary) and didn’t think it was a nazi salute :/
You can’t legislate morality.
Re:Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair? on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @01:46AM (#44166758)
Just yesterday I fixed a broken wireless N64 controller receiver with the help of ChatGPT. I tried looking for YouTube videos, but didn’t find the exact thing I needed, and since I’m such a newbie I needed a lot of hand holding.

Anyways, I took pictures of the components and described what I was seeing. It walked me through things really well and asked me to do tests and report back. It even told me how to use my specific multimeter after I took a picture of it. I ended up soldering a jumper cable from the console power supply line (not working) to the micro usb power line (working).

It actually works now and really saved me 30 bucks buying a new controller.

Re:How the U.S. Became a Science Superpower on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:52PM (#43695467)
> As someone whose lost a grant award under the current administration's attack on science, I can tell you with assurance that this is more about political power and revenge than it is about improving scientific rigor.

I'm sorry to hear this, but curious what makes you certain of this? Revenge for what? I ask, because I hear this same template over and over with this administration. eg. DOGE isn't about government efficiency its about revenge.

Do both. Integration hell is inescapable.
I read this to the tune of we didn’t start the fire. Was nice.
Re:Houston Is Going Broke Because of Its Sprawl on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @01:29AM (#39913901)
In my regular smallish suburban city I have a sidewalk stamped from 1922. However, they just redid all the roads, sewer, and certain side walks (bad sections). They are now running municipal fiber tubes throughout the whole sprawling city. As far as I can tell the city is still operated as a self-financing entity and has been since the 1800’s. Is this a facade or just an anomaly?
Re:Living Wage Calculator on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:08PM (#37067702)
I put in my information and I find it really interesting that 2 parents who both work need a combined ~$63 an hour living wage, but a couple where only a single parent working needs only ~$47 an hour. My wife is a stay at home mom and her monetary contribution comes from saving us money (not paying for childcare, not paying for restaurants, etc, etc, etc). Makes me think that in a lot of ways saving money is really tax efficient compared to slogging for more ordinary income.
Re:An Introduction to APIs on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:29PM (#36938523)
So like a kind of Application Programming Interface?
Tree tag :p
Re:Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search on Monday June 19, 2023 @03:51PM (#36395761)
The CEO’s name is Stockton Rush. Lol, you can’t make this stuff up.
Re:GPT makes learning fun again on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:51AM (#35783488)
It’s nice to be able to ask ChatGPT a half baked, poorly researched, poorly worded question with bad grammar yet get a totally good faith response back that’s a springboard for follow up questions. Whereas if you did the same thing on any stack exchange site you get downvotes and comments like “please read the guidelines and edit your question.”
Re:The moral case against equity language on Thursday March 02, 2023 @11:09PM (#35005705)
Name checks out.
I guess peacetime is kinda a fuzzy thing. The jihad is always on.
Reminds me of the flight traffic controller strike under Reagan. Can the same thing happen here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Con...
Re:Kevins got a bad rap in France on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @12:37AM (#32833374)
“You’re what the French call les incompetents.”
Re:The quiet cost of family caregiving on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @06:40PM (#32758104)
(USA here) My mother always would tell us kids to put her in a retirement home as soon as she became a burden to the family. Her favorite children's book was also The Giving Tree so there’s that.
Re:American policy is splitting state by state into two blocs on Thursday September 01, 2022 @04:07PM (#32682340)
> I want there to be natural consequences for people's actions.

Like bearing a child after choosing unprotected sex?

Weird that you would preface a reasonable perspective with “downvote if you will” then it appears you did get downvoted.
Re:The SQLite Code of Ethics on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:27PM (#31887115)
Free will
Re:When Greenswashing Backfires – Thank You North Face on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:24PM (#31346706)
Tomato tomato. Maybe he thinks his way is funner to say.
Re:Ukraine Post #2: Options on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:23PM (#30631945)
Option: NATO joins fight only on Ukrainian soil with no fly zone or whatever. Balls in putins court to move fight outside of Ukraine.
Would make for some pretty cool pop up books.

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