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Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:32PM (#49076335)
> In fact, the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret and handed only to the People’s Liberation Army for use in drones and the Ministry of State Security for surveillance and repression.

Welcome to bizarro world!

Fist off: "the most dangerous model may be one that is trained in secret" <-- Says the guy that not only restricts commercial use for some of their models but develops them in utter secrecy. With the pretext of guardrails. Then show us the guardrails you really use by opening the weights.

Second: "use in drones [...] for surveillance and repression" <-- writes the King of FUD, as the US is an an active campaign with the help of their models. And/or OpenAI's.

I am very appreciative of the freedoms of the west but this type of hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness is bonkers and it should be called out.

Re:Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @06:30AM (#48918712)
Depends. If the AI fixes don't introduce new bugs or unnecessary complexity (where bugs like to hide), then yes.
Innovation? Who cares?? Regulation is where the real value is. /s
> I truly don't get Google's move.

Because the goal is not to provide the best answers.

It's for users to train their AI.

Re:The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden on Monday May 18, 2026 @12:03PM (#48181620)
I wouldn't worry.

The mythical Mythos can't even find Claude code bugs before releases.

So... this was a lie
Re:The vi family on Thursday May 14, 2026 @09:26AM (#48135075)
I use vim because it's addictive. And that's the highest compliment I can think of when it comes to user interfaces.

My fingers just love it. Every time I need to jump to a non-modal editor my muscle memory screams: "WTF?!"

Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:45PM (#48114281)
I sooooo want to buy it and have every single keyboard stroke, mouse and eye movement tracked.

I don't know about you but these AIs ran out of internet data to train and I volunteer all my blood, sweat, tears and movements to improve them.

All sites? No.

IAM? Def. But how critical is IAM, anyway?

Totally unrelated:

Amazon board: institutional knowledge is the real bottleneck, guys! Let's replace these entitled seniors and staff with juniors armed with kiro. Same difference, right?

Re:Just Fucking Use Go on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:05AM (#48095192)
Go probably wouldn't exist if Java devs went easy on overengineering design patterns.

But overall Java, like Go, IS a boring language. And that's a compliment.

Re:Building for the Future on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:13AM (#48063514)
First politics. Now businesses. This sounds like a wildly poorly written parody by teenagers.

"reduce Cloudflare’s workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally."

Are they 1) halting all the 1111 interns, 2) keeping the 1111 interns, now armed with AI, to replace mid-level/senior institutional knowledge or 3) a mix?

Educated AND motivated workforce will do the trick.

All the polish I know that work in IT enjoy handwork as well. They are hard workers.

Re:GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:06PM (#47936352)
You guys are all ugly and you smell.
Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:37PM (#47894825)
Keeping your employees on their toes can work in the short term.

On the long term, prolonged stress kills innovation and engagement.

Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:54PM (#47881797)
The firings will continue until morale improves.
Another one bits the dust.
Re: on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @08:50PM (#47698034)
So SQLite is versioned in SQLite.
Re:Isseven on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:11AM (#47661979)
$ du -sh node_modules/

371M node_modules/

GCP's support sucks compared the quality on AWS. On everything else I find GCP very pleasant.
Re:Put the zip code first on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:38PM (#47293429)
> A city can also exist in multiple zip codes.

Sure but a zip code belongs to only one city and one state, right?

Re:Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before) on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:53PM (#46992343)
I should change my linkedin to vibe coder fixer
Re:Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980) on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:25PM (#46951619)
Same here. Asimov threw a veiled tantrum.

> He did not have the science fictional knack of foreseeing a plausible future and, in actual fact, in almost all cases, the world of 1984 bears no relation to the real world of the 1980s.

Asimov refuses to concede that Orwell beat him at his game. The book is not about predicting future gadgets but societal patterns and operating models.

Re:An Update on Heroku on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:10PM (#46920274)
The cancer of corporations: bureaucracy.
Re:Eat Real Food on Thursday January 08, 2026 @03:50AM (#46538834)
Red meat is good for you. Animal fat is good for you.

Sugar is the real enemy.

Re:Google broke my heart on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:28AM (#46509337)
Gotta cut on support to buy those AI GPUs.
Re:Lessons from 14 Years at Google on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:01AM (#46495490)
Holy molly! This was a treat to read and should be mandatory to every senior and even management.
Re:The future of Terraform CDK on Thursday December 11, 2025 @04:35PM (#46237496)
> Terraform CDK is basically TypeScript transpired to HCL

transpiled to JSON

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