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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:36PM (#50317650)
VMs would work pretty well.
I’m curious on people’s opinions here cause I have seen this both ways. I have seen people say gender in the language at all is bad. And have said Spanish is sexist.

I’ve also seen people argue that we should learn to not see vocabulary gender as gender at all, just start associating some words as “la” and some as “el” with no boy/girl idea behind it.

Gives vibes of saying “unhoused” instead of homeless.

I feel like the affluent just love to invent new words to show the “others” that aren’t using it how backwards they are, and how the affluent are truly enlightened.

What makes you think it’s unproven? Microsoft’s profit has gone up each year, and they have been shrinking workforce while doing it.

• Fiscal Year 2026: $133.75 billion (up 31.34% YoY)

• Fiscal Year 2025: $101.83 billion (up 15.54% YoY)

• Fiscal Year 2024: $88.14 billion (up 21.80% YoY)

• Fiscal Year 2023: $72.36 billion

Seems like they can decrease workforce, make up the gap with AI, and increase revenue while doing it

Re:C for Rust Programmers on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:28AM (#50033372)
All fun and games with arrays being pointers, until you declare an array in a function and return it.
Re:Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:02AM (#49944354)
I think for most big NFL fans, they know that tanking can help, but nothing is stronger than team ownership and team culture.

The Browns are perpetually bad because their owners allow it.

Look at the Lions, new owner, completely new mentality.

Re:The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:43AM (#49844574)
It’s way easier to keep fentanyl out of drugs when you are distributing the drugs.

The government can’t regulate a black market.

Re:Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:49AM (#49645784)
The question in terms of memory is, will vibe coded rust get around ownership issues by .clone()-ing everything.

Maybe this has changed since I wrote Rust, but that was a classic beginner fix. Just throw memory at it.

Having used it in Mexico, they usually have a suggested price that you can just pitch with, and usually people would accept that or add a tiny amount on it.
No it’s not. Look up the definition of an order of magnitude.
People say this and then use AI for literally everything they do.
Valid point, but this looks like (roughly) 1 billion to 5 billion in a period of 10 years.

5x in a decade. The way it’s talked about you would think it’s orders of magnitude.

What about the constitution specifically?

You are saying this like there are other of nations that didn’t need to struggle for equal rights, workers’ right etc.

This is well thought out and a good point, it does feel like though there should be some “special case” for donating land to keep for public use as a park.

You are right though, how long can someone who doesn’t own that land, have authority on how it is used.

Maybe a bit out of scope for this article, but seems like in every country “Younger millenials and Gen-Zers” are turning to gambling online while traditional gambling (like Vegas) dies.

I feel like this might be a net negative from the pure speed and access in which you can lose money online vs real life, but idk.

Re:Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:19PM (#48243202)
In regard to number 1, it really is such a hard problem to get money and aid to those that need it. Autocrats and every person with power along the way is happy to pocket it.
“Tbh they could've just hooked up zig translate-c to c2rust”

This doesn’t work like you think it does. These things are full of errors and make the code very verbose and hard to reason about. It works with small apps, not entire rewrites.

Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust on Monday May 04, 2026 @10:57PM (#48017585)
Having dabbled with both Zig and Rust, they do things so fundamentally differently, it isn’t possible to do exact lines like that.
Re:GPT-5.5 on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:08PM (#47894538)
Because you are worried about bills or are concerned about waste.

If we design an AI to do work, it won’t innately care about not working to preserve power.

Re:GPT-5.5 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:56PM (#47881830)
Saving energy is something we are biologically trained to prefer.

Computers won’t necessarily have the same drivers.

If evolution wanted us to always prefer to spend energy, we would prefer it. Same way you wouldn’t expect us to get to AGI, and have AGI desperately want to drink water or fly south for the winter.

Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:45PM (#47881670)
Not saying you are wrong, but you could argue they made their big move with the Metaverse. Then again with those crazy AI contracts to ML people.

Maybe Meta missed on those big plays and now there’s too much pressure to make another.

I don’t know if I believe that, but worth considering

> But traders weren’t just active on Polymarket: there were similar surges of oil futures trading activity just hours before Trump announced updates to the conflict that would lower oil prices.

Prediction markets are all the buzz, but banning them isn’t fixing the problem. This has happened forever. Let’s not forget there was an unusual amount of put option buying right before 9/11: https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jnlbus/v79y2006i4p1703-1726.ht...

I don’t know if just one instance means direct democracy is bad. For example, in the US referendums have been used a lot for issues that are popular for voters, but politicians won’t touch.

(Weed legalization in many states, Abortion protection in Missouri I believe)

You could also argue Brexit. Ultimately, most of the UK was okay with shooting themselves in the foot to feel more independent like the good olds days. Maybe was wrong long-term, but if it’s what the people wanted, then maybe it’s good. Politicians never would have done it despite the people wanting it.

Re:The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet) on Monday April 13, 2026 @07:36PM (#47759362)
Layoffs.fyi maybe? Not sure if that’s the data you are asking for
Untrue for polymarket. True for kalshi. No bookie fees on polymarket
Re:Plague Ships on Saturday April 04, 2026 @08:25PM (#47644937)
> 12 trading ships from Black Sea ports made desperately incompetent efforts to dock alongside the harbour walls. Then the reason became devastatingly clear; very few of their crews were still alive. The living were emaciated skeletons, covered with black boils that oozed blood and pus.

Can’t imagine what that must have been like to witness in medieval Italy.

That’s like having your security on the frontend.

If someone owns the keyboard then they can fake those metrics and tell the server it is happening when it isn’t.

That will be easy to beat.

My understanding of vibe coding is when someone doesn’t look at the code and just uses prompts until the app “looks and acts” correct.

I doubt you are making regex and not looking at it, even if it was AI generated.

It’s trained on mostly internet content, right?

If it learned language based on how the internet talks, then the best way to communicate is using similar language.

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