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Re:There's no such thing as a small software team anymore on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:17AM (#49383729)
I really don't think they can. I feel like if I rush a PR using AI, I can only just kinda hope the AI is good enough that my trust isn't misplaced. It becomes slightly less likely to be bad if you add a thorough AI review on top but it's just rolling the dice.
Why isn't it and what do they have? I'm not really informed on this stuff.
Had a similar experience getting a niche app running under wine. The bot had to bring in a different open source renderer, patch dlls, adapt a mapping tool from a different chip architecture to partly map and modify the binary, crazy stuff. Alternatives exist but are expensive, this got it working in an hour when doing it myself would probably be 2 weeks.
Violent crime has been slowly declining for many decades

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/violent-crime-rate-us

When there are other things we could be spending effort on that don't entail mass surveillance, why are you so interested in it being done with AI cameras? Besides, it's still only reactive. You'll still have criminals but you'll catch them a bit more often. You're not addressing the root issues that cause crime.

Re:Grok Bot on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:59PM (#49276310)
That's not AI it's just capitalism
Re:Grok Bot on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:56PM (#49276277)
Good news is there's Chinese companies doing it outside of US jurisdiction
That's different lol?
It's not teens pushing for it
Re:Europe's fires are just the start on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:30PM (#49129671)
I love how you didn't even take a beat before suggesting that it be used as a weapon.
Oh yo sick I've been thinking about making a solver too with them being so overpriced. Will be super fun to mess with this.
Re:An Uncomplicated Man on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @02:08PM (#49087732)
I think that the point is simply that the casting failed at the implicit goal of being in some way progressive (and was probably a marketing stunt). Who cares if French people would be fine with a homogeneous movie? It was made in America.
Re:An Uncomplicated Man on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @01:46PM (#49087428)
This didn't read at all as "I could have done it better" and there's no way for any one person to create that movie, so of course she couldn't have done it better. Every single criticism of any kind will read as "I could have done it better" because the criticism points out flaws in the thing.
Social expectations, upbringing, interpersonal ties that make social behaviors potentially costly on a personal level to do wrong, all things the same people making the glasses made all of their money degrading?
Re:Why Write Code in 2026 on Sunday July 12, 2026 @10:01PM (#48886972)
Ai will fall apart as an industry but it's likely that models on par with e.g. opus 4.8 will be runnable on a home server within the next year and a half and that model hosts will still exist. I figure these tools aren't likely to go away.
More interested in a study on e-readers
I don't think the majority here work for ai companies and I also see a lot of people critical of AI and copyright violations by ai companies. They're also very clearly different things, one is done on a massive scale by a company for profit and another is done by one person to use the work in the way it was intended to be used.
I'm not gonna buy the book as an alternative you know. If I'm pirating a book it's usually because I can't really afford to go buying the books I'm interested in. Sometimes if I love a book I'll get a physical copy so I can finish it in a more comfortable format and so I'll have it for another read. I figure most people who pirate are pretty similar, so I wouldn't expect an outsized effect on book sales. Add to that the fact that books by people who are literally dead still have copyright. That has nothing to do with it being hard to write a book, cause I don't think their fucking estate wrote the book.
Re:The bottleneck might be the air in the room on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:12AM (#48792869)
Nice bait
Yeah I kinda feel bad for the trees but they probably don't care
I don't generally get why tests are designed to rush a student. Is speed a proxy for understanding?
I dislike that legal arguments often fail to distinguish cases where scale or speed create something transformative in themselves. Yes you could keep a few people out of a small venue, but good luck keeping a list of 1000 people out of a stadium. The tech creates new powers for large entities able to deploy it that aren't countered by any capacities gained by individuals and small groups. The argument should be made on the basis of what this tech enables itself and not by reference to some old tech that had different consequences.
Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Friday June 19, 2026 @05:01AM (#48596447)
Wait a second you're kind of right. That's why they always want to pretend they "could've done physics"
Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Friday June 19, 2026 @12:19AM (#48594720)
I don't think any of this gets better by cutting funding.
I mean they at least can afford to eat that way. I figure a solid portion, maybe the majority of the people who work in call centers are doing pretty much the cushiest job available to them.
Yeah skipped mine too. Couldn't see the point and still did a grad party with the family so we could do something together.
God fucking dammit I like cursor
Re:Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:21PM (#48495171)
365*4=1420

Distance from Panama to Texas is like 1700 miles.

It's not a large difference, wouldn't need much unnatural transport.

Re:Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:50PM (#48493865)
Yall ain't sending your best huh
Re:Oh Good, Screwworms Are Back on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:48PM (#48493805)
Yeah we did have it solved for a long time. We had no screwworms at all in the country. That was a great solution that lasted decades. Why would having to do all the work of applying medication, paying for the medication, animals that you catch late dying of infection and paying for those animals, people occasionally getting screwworms, pets dying to screwworms, etc etc etc be better or cheaper?

Also they don't genetically modify flies they still just irradiate the larva.

Then go write a blog asshole

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