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Re:How employment is changing at Anthropic
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:43AM (#50141040)
yeah, you just have to flip the wrong switch at us-east-1
Re:Sublime Text Build 4213
on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:37PM (#49795385)
cool. and if you're not?
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:18PM (#49612475)
I tried MUTHR from Alien, but had to keep toning it down because it took it too far, and eventually disabled it (in favour of caveman mode) because it didn't seem to be able to function properly talking like that.
Re:Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support fo...
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:15PM (#49612434)
With the shoehorning of certain topics into absolutely every conversation on every platform... agree.
Re:DaVinci Resolve 21.1
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:07PM (#49612336)
Taking away some of the more monotonous and "uncreative" tasks in any job can be taking away some of the variety in the work. Variety is nice. Variety affords us downtime. As the job gets stripped down to its core function, while a machine keeps the pipeline full so that the work can continue uninterrupted, the downtime slips away.
And great for beginners, now they get to pay some chatbot company to cover the gaps left by detereorating software design. Lucky they're already using agents... are they?
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame
on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:33PM (#49604726)
Not proprietary.
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame
on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:20PM (#49604654)
The pogo connector isn't proprietary.
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame
on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:18PM (#49604648)
It isn't proprietary.
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:57PM (#49529991)
I'd really rather they did talk and behave more like classic sci-fi said they would. Far less engaging and fluffy with nonsense.
Re:Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @08:43AM (#49195883)
This is plainly wrong considering many people's complaints about the ridiculous amount of noise these things spew out.
The whiring of gas turbines and cooling systems of complete, fully operational, data centres has nothing to do with construction.
Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:28AM (#48890005)
Rust requires discipline too. I can go around using Arc, Rc and .clone() everywhere without upsetting the borrow checker, I can use let mut a bunch and pretend if, match, etc. aren't expressions. This results in worse code, and Rust didn't stop me.
The borrow checker prevents a set of errors from being possible, but it doesn't prevent bad code from being written.
Re:Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @07:01AM (#48870893)
Where I am from it is common to use "20 to" and "20 past" too.
Re:I feel like giving up on coding
on Saturday June 20, 2026 @01:15AM (#48606547)
You speak as though everyone on HN has the same attitude towards these things, but that's just not true.
There were naysayers then and there are naysayers now.
Re:Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2...
on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:36AM (#48501898)
Why? We know the price was $1300. Doesn't mean anyone would buy it for that much.
So try lowering the number and see what you think?
The value is what someone is willing to pay for it.
Re:America's Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule
on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:38AM (#48380309)
I keep seeing people all over the internet adding the caveat that the data centres are necessary in comments following stories about rollout (and often the stories themselves). But never why that's the case.
So the question is why are more data centres necessary at the proposed rollout rates? What actually drives this demand?
Re:Left to Right Programming
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @07:32AM (#44950421)
Right, but which columns?
The goal absolutely IS to select columns from a table.
ie. my goal is not to select created_at, my goal is to select Foo's created_at.
Re:E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space
on Sunday September 01, 2024 @06:02AM (#41415612)
I dunno, I can barely see my OLED phone's screen when I'm using it on full brightness in the sun.
Re:GDScript – Custom scripting language to be used with the Godot game...
on Saturday December 30, 2023 @12:59AM (#38813105)
I am grateful they left it at "inspired by python", as I find python with its libraries and all its warts strangely complex and indigestible. Then, from a tooling and ecosystem perspective, wildly frustrating and unfriendly to work with.
So I'm glad they took the chance and made something that's tailored to their use case and gives them the space to diverge and optimise where and when it makes sense.
Also C# is available as a scripting language for Godot, which makes a lot more sense than python from a performance perspective.
Re:Honey, I shrunk the NPM package · Jamie Magee
on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:07PM (#37757592)
Amdahl's law states that "the overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used".
For anyone else who didn't know.
Re:Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:35PM (#36425638)
I think they're essentially using "hashtags", so they could have many for one note.
Re:Why teens are suddenly obsessed with chess
on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:07AM (#35770534)
I've taken to "installing" the webapp version on my phone. It's only a little bit different, but doesn't come with the frustrating issues the android app does.
Re:A New Beginning for LifeHacker
on Saturday April 01, 2023 @07:10AM (#35399249)
And what would that advice be?
Re:How to find a tiny radioactive source while doing 70 kph
on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:50AM (#34625814)
The road you're talking about was 1400km long
Re:Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?
on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:33AM (#32247820)
Perhaps consciousness is just an observer of those physical systems that exist in the brain, and under anaesthetic the interface between consciousness and those systems is interfered with.
I don't know what I'm getting at.
Re:Fetch API has landed into Node.js
on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:45AM (#30163089)
They're talking about JavaScript's fetch API. It's not an external library.
I think most people who would be happy with such a simple webpage are the same people who know how easy it is to do.
Re:Google can't pass its own page speed test
on Saturday June 05, 2021 @11:47AM (#27406013)
Sure, but these people must have left that golden zone at some point and had their clicks stolen like the rest of us.