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Re:Elevated errors for Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:36AM (#50228909)
Seems that the Auto mode command filter is keeping rejecting my Shell script runs with 'Classifier unavailable'
Re:CPI-U rises 7.2% annualized in September (3.7% YoY) on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:55AM (#50088649)
I thought the same a bit too. My conjecture is that people working in tech usually live a high-growth area, and tend to experience much higher inflation due to local growth. This also explains why younger people tend to be hitted more
Re:Why do Americans hate A.I.? on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:58AM (#46466772)
Not true. China is definitely adopting AI more universally than western countries, and I have friends in China losing designing jobs due to AI. They remain optimistic as (1) the society typically doesn't blame the technology advancement (2) they switched to an AI powered content creator (fortune telling and meme videos) and continued to make money
Re:Why do Americans hate A.I.? on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:21AM (#46466331)
https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report

> In countries like China (83%), Indonesia (80%), and Thailand (77%), strong majorities see AI products and services as more beneficial than harmful. In contrast, optimism remains far lower in places like Canada (40%), the United States (39%), and the Netherlands (36%).

Re:Why do Americans hate A.I.? on Friday January 02, 2026 @11:05AM (#46466145)
Note that most countries in the list are developed countries.

In a separate research at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/trust-in-... , people found that low income countries have higher trust in AI.

Re:C++ move semantics from scratch (2022) on Saturday November 08, 2025 @12:55PM (#45858535)
Correct. As someone who maintain a 16-year-old C++ code base with new features added every day, The status quo is the best incremental improvement over deep copy semantics.

There are better choices if everything is built from scratch, but changing wheels from a running car isn't easy.

Re:Grok3 Launch on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @01:26AM (#43086653)
I have a close friend working in core research teams there. Based on our chats, the secret seems to be (1) massive compute power (2) ridiculous pay to attract top talents from established teams (3) extremelly hard work without big corp bureaucracy.
Re:21st Century C++ on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @03:40PM (#42954786)
While I sort of agree on the complaint, personally I think the best spot of C++ in this ecosystem is still on great backward-compatibility and marginal safety improvements.

I would never expect our 10M+ LOC performance-sensive C++ code base to be formally memory safe, but so far only C++ allowed us to maintain it for 15 years with partial refactor and minimal upgrade pain.

Meanwhile VSCode's terminal still leaks Electron fds: https://github.com/microsoft/node-pty/issues/657

I get this proposal's rationale, but it seems that it would implicitly make fd leaks more prone in python programs

Re:Terence Tao on O1 on Sunday September 15, 2024 @12:16PM (#41548349)
It raises the bar of 'professional 3D artist'.

There're hundreds of thousands of '3D worker' working behind the scene to create the 3D models for makeshift ads, and as far as I know many of them (including my high school mate) already got displaced by Midjourney and lost their job. This used to be a big industry but now almost entirely wiped out by AI.

Re:NASA Open Source Software on Sunday December 03, 2023 @12:44AM (#38505123)
It appears that some of the links point to obsolete URL. Googling SequenceMiner points to https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/sequenceminer-algorithm
Re:NASA Open Source Software on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:45PM (#38504624)
Note that there's a more reader-friendly list with support for filtering by category at https://software.nasa.gov/ . Specifically I found DATA SERVERS PROCESSING AND HANDLING especially helpful for general SWEs. Here's a list of my personal picks:

- Shift: Self-Healing Independent File Transfer

- BASSHFS: Bash-Accessible SSH File System: SSHFS but without fuse dependency

- Ballast: Balancing Load Across Systems: load balance for SSH servers

Re:Speed Up C++ Compilation on Saturday August 05, 2023 @10:18PM (#37018327)
It depends. O0 turns off a few trimming optimizations and could potentially causes more information (code or DWARF) to be included in the objects, which may eventually slow down the compilation. In our large code base, we found that -O1 works best in terms of compilation speed.
Re:C++23: The Next C++ Standard on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @12:36PM (#36683459)
A Tour of C++ for syntax, https://www.cpp-lang.net/tools/ for dev tools

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