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Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:42AM (#50338375)
They're totally asleep at the wheel, it's malpractice. The pitch for RHEL is highly competent maintenance you can't get elsewhere
Re:How Fast is Python 3.15? on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:05PM (#49987575)
I had kind of thought PyPy was dead, I'm glad to see they made it to 3.12
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:03AM (#49879166)
What about the kids they assault while not being expelled?
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:02AM (#49879155)
Special Ed is a special case- those kids are specifically segregated because they cannot be taught at grade level or be expected to behave safely for their size.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:58AM (#49879096)
We're talking about schools in the US, which means we're talking about black and latino students. This trips the culture war wires, so people get wink winky.
Re:An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:01AM (#49755375)
I'm not totally convinced that models are fungible, the claudes/gpts/Gemini all have pretty individual feels when you're working with them. I wouldn't be surprised if the approaches don't scale or even work the same in a poly model setup
Re:Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously on Monday September 14, 2026 @03:39PM (#49702743)
They said that the current models could run a vending machine profitably, just not more complex things.
Bring back wheel covers!
Is this a proprietary harness? I feel like harnesses have a huge influence on how models behave
Re:We have a year to fix security everywhere on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:25AM (#49610037)
I wonder if the inference acceleration companies will ever produce a consumer product
Re:Letting AI Debug Production on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:21AM (#49609991)
> But you can’t just set an agent loose in production. It can easily corrupt the database, and all it can do afterwards is apologize and promise not to do it again.

More and more, people are just gonna do it. After all, the same statement is true if employees, and they're rapidly becoming less trustworthy that frontier models.

Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @06:03PM (#49570778)
I don't know why we're jumping to conspiracy when incompetence is right there
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:11PM (#49560095)
Laundry folding has become a doable demo for startups, and ChatGPT has been spitting out college essays for years.
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:36AM (#49463819)
> As an interviewer, I don't even know if the person I interview is a US citizen

I don't either, but my guess is almost none are

Re:Toddlers' Truce on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:39AM (#49298539)
Bring it back to Netflix
> The reason is structural, not incidental

It's almost insulting

Re:Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:41AM (#49178644)
It's so easy- npm install, a little markdown boot camp, and you get great results.
Re:Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:40AM (#49178634)
I don't really want to do approvals though. Either I put stuff into a real sandbox, or #yolo
Re:Norway Salmon on Monday August 03, 2026 @12:15AM (#49151153)
> Children and pregnant women should also limit the intake because it can disrupt development

Do farm raised fish still have elevated heavy metal levels? I figured that getting human controlled food would cut down on that.

I preferred the Gemini 3-6 ones with all the extra kingly decorations
We've finally imported European style technology regulation
Averages aren't super useful for data centers, since local costs vary so much, and because siting decisions are often made around power generation (ie, they're deliberately getting lower than average costs).
> A "high-risk" plan to use old machines to produce modern M795 artillery shells backfired, an Inspector General report found.

I would say that this indicates that the decision makers adequately appreciated the possibility this wouldn't work. This is generally what a high risk plan is.

If China/Taiwan kicks off, you're not getting new parts from Taiwan
Stuff like https://www.hadrian.co/ is pretty neat, but the whole "electric stack" is hopelessly Chinese from this perspective- batteries, motors, all kinds of small and crucial electrical things- and critical minerals, like Gallium for radar.
Re:Slate EV truck starts at $24,950 on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:12PM (#48662052)
It's pretty big, too
SpaceX is good at building data centers in tough regulatory environments, in a way that other players have been unable to match
The thing people are worried about is "Seoul is a pile of rubble and so are all the factories". The people in Europe are probably going to stay for a little bit.
Wizard spells more than engineering
Re:Building Pi with Pi on Thursday May 28, 2026 @03:29PM (#48314217)
I mean, have you tried Pi? It's really good out of the box.

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