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Re:Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching on Sunday October 18, 2026 @02:27PM (#50143880)
Eating your own dogfood has always been a milestone of maturity.
Re:Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching on Sunday October 18, 2026 @02:19PM (#50143804)
The issue is that it's hard to predict how certain features will be misused and even harder to remove a harmful feature from a language. That's why Java goes slow. (Although I think there's too much pussyfooting around string interpolation. But I also think too much type inference makes the code harder to read.)
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:53PM (#50097299)
> If anything, they generally want more.

As long as they wake up ...

Even the $20 tier of ChatGPT has privacy settings that forbid using the user's data to be used for training. The question is, whether this setting is respected.
Re:Learn Programming with OCaml on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:00AM (#49585280)
For someone just starting to learn CS, it should not matter whether they're on PDP-11 or x64 or ARM. You can't start teaching with pipelining and speculative branch execution. So C is good choice because there is a simple CPU architecture that it maps to well.
What designing cards taught me about B2B sales ...
Re:Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:35AM (#48870373)
tl;dr: author "discovers" hypertext
Yep, putting a DRM free version in escrow should be a legal requirement.
However in the EU end users have the right to resell that license.
Re:Fable created novel 4D splat format on Saturday July 04, 2026 @06:28PM (#48789653)
Me neither on Chrome on Win10. "WEBGPU initialization failed".
Re:Domain expertise has always been the real moat on Sunday May 31, 2026 @05:49AM (#48344342)
It's easy to make a chessbot that only makes valid moves. Making a chessbot that plays optimally is hard.

But OP wasn't talking about solving optimalization problems, but understanding the rules of a business domain.

Re:MCP Is Dead on Saturday May 30, 2026 @06:00AM (#48334552)
That wouldn't solve the core issue: if Claude makes a mistake during the MCP generaration, it would poison further agentic use.

It's adding another failure point to the process for no gain.

Re:The Dead Economy Theory on Friday May 29, 2026 @08:18PM (#48331023)
"Graeber wrote about this astutely in his original 2013 Bullshit Jobs essay"

I wouldn't take his word too seriously. According to him, corporate lawyers, administrative assistants and compliance officers shouldn't exist.

Re:The Dead Economy Theory on Friday May 29, 2026 @08:10PM (#48330969)
Helped or overworked?
Or they're a prolog programmer.
Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format on Saturday May 16, 2026 @06:32AM (#48158863)
That's an American problem though. In most of Europe you need a masters degree to teach highschool and that involves at least an undergrad level of understanding the subjects you will teach.

E.g. in Hungary I had a university CS professor that originally wanted to be a highschool teacher and a highschool physics teacher that originally wanted to be researcher. Their choice of degree didn't determine which outcome they got. The researcher and teacher curriculum had an 80%+ overlap.

Re:LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate on Saturday May 09, 2026 @02:01PM (#48076882)
> If you can come up with a way to do math without reasoning, that would be, in a sense, even more interesting than AI.

Logic is just syntactic manipulation of formulas. By the early 90s logical reasoning was pretty much solved with classical AI (the last building block being constraint logic programming).

Re:The Disappearance of the Public Bench on Saturday May 09, 2026 @08:11AM (#48074331)
Every public toilet eventually becomes and ad-hoc homeless shelter.
Covid boosted the sale of canned food, but people avoid the sugary syrup of canned fruits in non emergency situations.
Did they? How long have they been around?
Stockpiling uranium ore, or lowly enriched uranium is much simpler than stockpiling natural gas.
Re:The Woes of Sanitizing SVGs on Monday April 27, 2026 @09:37PM (#47929534)
OG actionscript was very similar to Javascript. It only started to diverge when type hints were introduced.
Re:AI agents that argue with each other to improve decisions on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:22PM (#47904273)
Sounds like a less efficient version of the mixture of experts approach.
Why are you doing meaningless microbenchmarks?
Re:Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty on Saturday September 20, 2025 @02:58PM (#45316231)
Since OpenJDK was released there isn't much point maintaining GCJ.
Re:Made for People, Not Cars: Reclaiming European Cities on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:20AM (#45199055)
American cities lack medium density mixed commercial-residential areas.
Re:Made for People, Not Cars: Reclaiming European Cities on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:12AM (#45198959)
The problems you mentioned are policing and welfare problems, both things that America sucks at.
> Reason Japanese carpenters do or did that is that sea air + high humidity would absolutely rot anything with nail and screw.

The other reason was that iron was very expensive in Japan as they had only low quality iron ore.

Re:OpenAI Progress on Saturday August 16, 2025 @08:18PM (#44927917)
The most useful feature of LLMs is giving sources (with URL preferably). It can cut through a lot of SEO crap, and you still get to factcheck just like with a Google search.

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