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Re:SaaS Is Dead on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:41AM (#50176907)
isn't the premise that larger saas companies are being replaced by in-house solutions and by more and smaller players cannibalizing each other?
Re:Apple's hostile App Store rating system on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @11:47AM (#49099026)
Negative reviews inflate genuine good software just because positive reviews are simply not written usually. people like to complain and not to give positive feedback if things work as expected.
isn't it because there are too many contradictions and ambiguity? the reason it works for humans is because we don't apply everything at once either.
Re:Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:24AM (#48800625)
the word your looking for is idiomatic
Re:Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:06PM (#48492254)
doesn't mean we won't run out of drinking water in our lifetime
Re:Spherical Voronoi Diagram on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:00PM (#48447079)
“You don’t choose anything. You’re born into it, man. One side or the other. You play it out.” Miller (the expanse)
Any form of centralized power is bad for the vast majority of civilization. always has been
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We're way past just collecting for a while now.

it's more like knowledge extraction at this point. younger generations don't build up knowledge any more, everyone else is slowly losing their knowledge by not using it.

Eventually the rug pull comes and knowledge will only be accessible by those who can afford it.

What if they don't? What if there are manufacturer errors? What if they burn your battery with updates along the way?
it's probably even worse, because knowledge is basically extracted out of all communities and eventually the rug pull comes where you're denied access one way or another.

not only do students graduate now only due to chatgpt but also 10 year old kids never build up education while using ai to do their homework.

Gates Law
Re:The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @12:30PM (#47692484)
tbh I'm not convinced that a git log history should be treated as a group journal because it's not.

relying on git commit messages assumes they're correct by convention since there is no technical constraint to enforce it. and it assumes no work in progress commits, sometimes it's just necessary to hit the save button real quick or move a workspace from one device to another.

my point is: git is a way of storing and loading files at its core.

reminds me of `don't look up` a bit. there clearly is an imbalance in regards to licenses with model providers, not even talking about knowledge extraction (yes younger people don't learn properly now, older generations forget) shortly before the rug-pull happens in form of accessibility to not rich people
aren't online curses a lot text only which inherently is harder to communicate
law texts feel like a layering problem, like just decoration around decoration to avoid breaking existing 'code' without ever simplifying it
Re:Why Is There a Tiny Hole in the Airplane Window? on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:19AM (#46554792)
you could also use openai whisper for transcription. takes longer but beats bad subtitles
Re:New LLM jailbreak bypasses all major FMs on Friday April 25, 2025 @12:00PM (#43795070)
This is assuming people are responsible and with good will. But how many of the gun victims each year would be dead if there were no guns? How many radiation victims would there be without the invention of nuclear bombs? safety is indeed a property of knowledge.
No Chernobyl is the reason why we don't have nuclear reactors. either Tokio tsunami disaster or the 600 nukes after Hiroshima should prove that mankind can't be trusted with this technology imho. there has to be a better way.