squibonpig
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.
Re:A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @07:51PM (#49354609)
Why isn't it and what do they have? I'm not really informed on this stuff.
Re:Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @06:59PM (#49354024)
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.
Re:Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency s...
on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:18PM (#49312890)
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.
Good news is there's Chinese companies doing it outside of US jurisdiction
Re:University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades To'Curb Mental H...
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:44PM (#49276109)
That's different lol?
Re:Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting...
on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:57PM (#49161341)
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.
Re:We don't need no stinkin' tensor library: solving poker in custom W...
on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:55AM (#49120664)
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.
Re:Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner's Meta Glasses Campaign
on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:27AM (#48930343)
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.
Re:Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:34PM (#48797710)
More interested in a study on e-readers
Re:Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:32PM (#48797702)
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.
Re:Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:27PM (#48797675)
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
Re:Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees...
on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:50PM (#48721666)
Yeah I kinda feel bad for the trees but they probably don't care
Re:Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @07:38PM (#48712957)
I don't generally get why tests are designed to rush a student. Is speed a proxy for understanding?
Re:MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:53PM (#48648664)
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.
Re:Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
on Thursday June 18, 2026 @10:24PM (#48594174)
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.
Re:Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:52PM (#48561902)
Yeah skipped mine too. Couldn't see the point and still did a grad party with the family so we could do something together.
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:05PM (#48561214)
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.
Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:55PM (#48440848)
Then go write a blog asshole