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Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:33PM (#50341355)
what are the chances that some broke kids with no governance and expertise, raised by naive parents, outsmart political and electoral expert like vucic? is it even possible? apparently everything is possible in serbia.
Re:NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:25AM (#50130978)
This will probably lead to the os-free foss ai agent
Re:I know why Mathematicians weep on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:01AM (#50129590)
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
Re:How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies? on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:34AM (#50129436)
"I am still attached to every study that I cited, and have not unbelieved them, to use Daniel Gilbert’s phrase. I would be happy to see each of them replicated in a large sample." - Kahneman's comment
there's no link
i'm pretty sure that john tuld is not a bozo. maybe jared cohen, but he's a killer.
Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Saturday August 15, 2026 @10:54AM (#49311101)
i was working for outsourcing companies for about 15 years. software engineering was already pointless in that circumstances. this is just a culmination, but now you are affected.
Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? on Sunday June 07, 2026 @05:57AM (#48433352)
it's an identity problem
Re:The Upper Middle Class Trap on Sunday May 10, 2026 @08:00AM (#48083260)
probably main reason why people send their kids to expensive schools is networking and connections
what's wrong with eliminating programmers?
Re:Ghosts'n Goblins – "Worse danger is ahead" on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:50PM (#47198184)
"Cut a stout blackthorn to banish ghosts and goblins"
Re:All it takes is for one to work out on Saturday December 13, 2025 @09:09AM (#46254608)
all it takes is for one to work out? yes, if your mind is set. if it is not, you don't stand a chance. either you have right mindset all along and it worked out eventually or you changed your mind in the course of the process. otherwise, you will fail all the time.
Re:Good engineers write bad code at big companies on Sunday November 30, 2025 @06:27AM (#46095771)
it all comes down to being responsible (and/or accountable) for some process for which you have no power and control over. hence burnout. relinquish good code and save yourself.
Re:AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:27AM (#44863003)
what's fair? how do you measure fairness?
Re:The ultimate meeting culture on Friday August 01, 2025 @09:31AM (#44756548)
employee's time is company's time, so no time wasted
Re:Who Likes Authoritarianism? on Friday August 01, 2025 @07:41AM (#44755445)
neither do democrats in low/middle income countries
this is a new horror movie script idea
we will all be script writers
Re:Ask HN: What would you work on if you couldn't fail? on Sunday June 08, 2025 @09:52AM (#44217010)
Fixing opportunities is a better choice imho
Re:Atomics and Concurrency on Sunday June 01, 2025 @08:37AM (#44150428)
Shared-Memory Synchronization by Michael L. Scott

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38684-8

Re:Please Fund More Science (2020) on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:40AM (#44096429)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/1ckndxx/four_...

it looks like microsoft growth is combination of products, investments and aquisitions. one can say that they spend money wisely.

Re:Catalog of Novel Operating Systems on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @06:53AM (#44040044)
Are there any operating systems that support heterogeneous computing?
Re:Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @06:59AM (#41244699)
Shared-Memory Synchronization by Michael L. Scott

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38684-8