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Re:Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:23AM (#50103330)
Why does fashionibility matter? It's an OS, it just needs to work well. Ubuntu still does that.
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:18AM (#50085238)
Seriously. I'm so tired of the "make no mistakes" trope. In reality it's "make X improvements" after the fact.
Re:Fable Took My Job on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:20AM (#50054200)
I sincerely hope you are a founder of your company.
Re:LLMs Aren't Inevitable on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:38AM (#50032859)
It's likely similar to what happens when the humans don't.
Re:Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:39PM (#50009069)
And what's the problem with the (theoretical) replicator? Wouldn't it be better if more people got what they wanted and there was less scarcity?
Re:Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:36PM (#50009030)
Should people not be free to degrade themselves if they choose to do so?
Re:Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:56AM (#50005279)
I don't understand why. Aren't the ideas and results the important parts?
Re:Rust Port of TypeScript (Tsc) on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:54AM (#50005257)
The motivation was to see the result. Why is reading the code an important concern?
Two years? Pessimist.
Re:How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs on Sunday September 27, 2026 @08:39AM (#49866179)
From an employer's perspective, yes.
Straight to jail
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:53PM (#49555851)
Probably not. It's probably just gonna do tickets better and that'll be about it.
I run Qwen 3.8 27B just fine on my Mac mini M4 24GB. I use Unsloth's Q3 XXS with 128k context. It successfully completes long horizon tasks with OpenCode.
Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @05:36PM (#49456276)
Alternatively: Just unplug the servers.
Re:New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:56PM (#49441239)
Is it too much to give the harness a moment to load up the context when starting a new session? Is the brief pause truly a deal breaker?
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:23PM (#49423074)
Do they necessarily need to? We have ubiquitous tools for this.
Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Monday August 24, 2026 @12:09PM (#49421824)
Seems like we're doing fine though, yeah?
Also the legal system is not autistic. It's based on vibes more than anyone wants to admit.
Qwen 9B
Where is the pelican??
I'm genuinely not sure how else to interpret your previous comment. Do you see any situations where defense by lethal force is appropriate?
I agree that blindly assuming that all "adversaries" of the U.S. (per labeling by the U.S. government) want to kill us. But it does seem that some indeed do. It would further seem that proportionate countermeasures would be appropriate for those cases.
Do you believe that "death to America" chants should not be taken seriously?
I'm against the U.S.'s broken leadership as much as any sensible person. But even in normal times with sane leadership, national defense is often a matter of "kill or be killed." This is certainly an uncomfortable truth, but that's the way of the world.
Is the implication here that we should take the moral high ground and let our adversaries murder us first?
Re:The AI Billboards Are Killing SF on Friday August 07, 2026 @01:09PM (#49213424)
Muir Woods is right there.
This is a good analogy. Also I hate cooking; it feels like a chore and waste of time. Given the means, I prefer to have someone else do it for me so I can focus on more interesting things.
Re:Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:32AM (#49194887)
> Maybe I'll just get a cat

You could do worse.

Re:Claude Is Down on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @06:39PM (#49104016)
You joke, but this is _exactly_ what I want Claude to be doing.

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