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Re:I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:59PM (#49026455)
Where’s your proof? No anecdotes plz.
Re:I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:59PM (#49024784)
Taking your anecdotes at face value for a moment (which I should not), how does this benefit of AI you describe justify the nearly 1 trillion dollar investment?

Do you think that your perceived increased productivity offsets the true, unsubsidised cost of AI?

Re:I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:52PM (#49024683)
This mostly reads like wishful thinking about the future, that's not a basis to make decisions on right now.
Re:I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:51PM (#49024666)
Thank you.
Re:Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026) on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:47AM (#48760682)
Quiet quit aka : do the actual amount of work you are are paid for and don't let yourself get ripped off due to 'pressures'.
Re:I Build a 10 Inch Mini Rack from Aluminium Extrusions on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:15AM (#48742913)
The chassis is not connected to ground, tbh. Not really.
All that output needs to be checked, thus why making mistakes faster doesn't seem valuable. How do we determine mistakes are made in the first place. Is it determined by people?
That word 'some' does quite a bit of heavy lifting.

Because there is a ton of work that people tend to perform that falls out the scope of that 'some'. And a lot of work requires alignment with other people, and so on. LLMs don't have agency, despite people hyping 'agents'.

LLM by their nature can't really replace people. Companies found this out from experience, as they fired and rehired people multiple times, you've seen the articles.
About the - humans aren't accurate either - 'argument'. Why replace people with something objectively worse and more unpredictable?
Re:I Build a 10 Inch Mini Rack from Aluminium Extrusions on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:30PM (#48738057)
Thank you
I haven’t found a solution for a single DC power supply I can connect to the systems. Maybe I have to solder something together myself.
Re:I Build a 10 Inch Mini Rack from Aluminium Extrusions on Thursday June 25, 2026 @09:34PM (#48681368)
Thanks for sharing. I’m running a lack rack for 15 years, would have been fitting
I've played this game so much on a Laser (Dutch computer brand) 286 with VGA monochrome screen, in the early '90s.
Re:What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes on Monday June 15, 2026 @07:49PM (#48548707)
I'm going against the grain but I read: we have a cultural/policy issue and we 'fix' it with tools.

I think what you hear is never the whole story, there is much more going on.

Re:What the Fuck Happened to Nerds on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:20AM (#48538719)
Nothing happened to the Nerds. They are all showing their true colours.

They may have shared a love for technology, what they also shared is a deep immaturity.

The immaturity of a person not wanting to acknowledge and cary any responsibility for other people, for the consequences of their work, for any kind of accountability. Just play with their toys without any concern for the external world.

'I'm just here playing with tech and code'. Sure! but that stuff you're building is being weaponised by other (the venn diagram unfortunately overlaps) tech bro's so men can film women with their glasses in public like the little sick creeps they are. Or steal all their data. You can't pretend you are not responsible and complicit.

They want "what's theirs" and anything in their way - including people - have to comply or be destroyed.

Author: I've had multiple HN hits and the Pi4 (on residential gigabit fiber) never got any significant load.
Smart Glasses are for creepy men who want to make pictures of women without their consent in secret. I hope these glasses will be banned.

  Lawmaker Cifrová Ostrihoňová said that, from a gender-based violence perspective, it is "simply unacceptable for any woman to worry about being filmed in public secretly and then worry about those images being shared online.”
100% this
I'm so sad that there's no backstory to this huge throve of old computers.

Where are all these machines from? Who owned them, and why? Why were they all there in storage, in a hangar. Would have been even more interesting.

Re:DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:03AM (#48396908)
I would not use containers in the first place as this adds added complexity and overhead in the first place.
Re:DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:34AM (#48394853)
I wasn't talking about an office environment. I'm talking server-to-server communication. Like all the internal infrastructure to support a web application. Maybe I should have been more explicit about that.

How a new device bootstraps on the network without DNS? Depends, on the device, but a physical server doesn't need DNS, only PXE boot / TFTP / HTTP as usual and maybe a proxy to access an update server if you don't run one yourself.

Re:DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:23AM (#48394757)
> Whatever does the canonical management is the piece that when it breaks everything breaks.

That is absolutely true. I believe that a solution where you provision a text file with an updated ip address or /etc/hosts file is inherently simpler, less risky and easier to recover from, although I admit I don't explicitly state this in the article.

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