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Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:46PM (#50344288)
tldr.. it's fiction
it also cost money, generally, to be social. Thats also an impingement.
Re:Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:20PM (#50081230)
right. one has to think that if this actually ever gains traction, that avenue is available to amplify what it could do in the future.
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:11PM (#50081165)
"why was this thing deprecated" is something i use llms to determine based on git history, as humans rarely explain what the new thing is and how to convert.
Re:Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:01PM (#50045953)
interesting that it is still 2 bit
Re:LG strongly denies TV spying claims on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:45PM (#49678766)
gamer's nexus responds to lg's response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME
Re:What will our economic future look like? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:35PM (#49637672)
it will cause unprecedented growth AND widespread unemployment of course. A distopian horror, not by the AI itself, but by its owners.
Re:Could AIs Become Conscious? on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:19PM (#49383337)
we'd probably all have to agree what consciousness is, first. good luck with that
"not necessarly" and "more likely" are not at all at odds with each other.
Gabriel Jesus is not a goal keeper.
The glaring truth is no Large company ever says WOW with AI we can do so much more with the same staff. It's always We can do the same, with much less staff.
you could have stopped with AI makes them rich. Why cares about anyone else.
Re:If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad? on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:17PM (#47893935)
This collection of people, well actually, more like the 1% set the tax rules. Compare the tax rules from 1970s, to today, and you will definitely see that wealth is a zero sum game.
Re:3.4M Solar Panels on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:03PM (#47878253)
What are all the tables and plots for rooftop solar presented in the article then? I am confused.
Re:3.4M Solar Panels on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:00PM (#47878203)
Amazing how politicized panel use is obvious by these maps, as opposed to effectiveness.
Re:If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad? on Thursday April 23, 2026 @12:45PM (#47877979)
The top 10% of American families own close to 70% of america's wealth. So if "America" is rich. Those are the folks who are rich. 90% of Americans are not rich.
I suspect if he changed the name to not include the college name, while people would be angry, there wouldn't be a real reason to take it down. The sending emails to the college system is also iffy.
Re:Hold on to Your Hardware on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:21AM (#47542343)
I've never have a personal computer that came even close to powerful enough to do what i want. Compiles that take 15 minutes, is really annoying for instance.
Re:A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:40PM (#47481281)
well, the mismatch here is widened by the fact that almost everyone it seems uses git with a central, prominent, visible, remote repository. Where as git was developed with the a true distributed vision. Now sure that truely distributed thing only becomes final when it reaches some 'central' repo, but it's quite a big different than we all do.
More importantly, the US has banned these cars in America to give protection to american manufacturers.
Re:How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996) on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:36PM (#47156668)
Now we need the 1 cut and fold algorithm.
Re:OpenClaw Is Changing My Life on Sunday February 08, 2026 @07:49PM (#46940263)
I definitely think it's language specific. My history may deceive me here, but i believe that LLMs are infinitely better at pumping out python scripts than java. Now i have much, much more experience with java than python, so maybe it's just a case of what you don't know.... However, The tools it writes in python just work for me, and i can incrementally improve them and the tools get rationally better and more aligned with what i want.

I then ask it to do the same thing in java, and it spends a half hour trying to do the same job and gets caught in some bit of trivia around how to convert html escape characters, for instance, s.replace("<", "<").replace(">", ">").replace("\"").replace("""); as an example and endlessly compiles and fails over and over again, never able to figure out what it has done wrong, nor decides to give up on the minutia and continue with the more important parts.

Re:Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems on Sunday February 01, 2026 @03:46PM (#46849213)
I wonder how one does like queries.
Re:Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% on Friday January 16, 2026 @11:03PM (#46655119)
Is there anything stopping americans buying chinese EVs in canada and bringing them home?
a pick up without flat bed rails has significantly reduced the areas where it can be used as a work truck. Pretty clear signal that the CyberTruck was a status symbol not a work truck.
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:25PM (#46479194)
why would you think that?
Re:Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after 10 years on Sunday December 28, 2025 @06:12PM (#46415466)
IMO mockito has a relatively good use experience. If you use MockitoExtension, especially, you write code that is relatively maintainable, and easy to mutate. The problem without MockitoExtension is you can throw all kinds of junk in there and it just sits there doing nothing, without you knowing it.

Spy's on the other hand, are a pain in the neck. I think they should be good in theory, but in practice they are difficult, the debuggers really don't work correctly, setting breakpoints, stepping, etc, is just broken in many cases. Would love to know if this is just a difficult bug, or something that is baked into spying.

Maybe where AI needs to take over is at the CEO level.
Re:Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff? on Monday December 01, 2025 @12:43AM (#46103910)
also, there is the case of the mismatched quantities for shopping, ie, the old hot dogs come in 10 packs, and rolls in 8 backs, etc.
Re:Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff? on Sunday November 30, 2025 @11:53PM (#46103609)
the advantage of fast-food over groceries, is that you don't have to worry about spoilage and waste. So the delta is probably less than you think. Now granted McD is an s-show, they are no longer the restaurant of the poor, You likely can get a better burger meal deal at a Chilis than a McD, as sad as that is.

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