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So what? The average joe shouldn't be trying to diagnose people with cancer.
My recollection from law school is that force majeure is more like a specific subset of "impossibility of performance", which is to say it's not generally the same as "something outside a company's control."
Re:Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:11AM (#49698278)
I think scale is less important than other considerations. For me the biggest motivator is when the use case prefers doing something exactly-once, the downside risk of failure is high, and robust failure handling is moderately complex. The canonical example I use is healthcare communications; others use payment/fulfillment.

Also having a unified control plane is handy even at a pretty small scale if your alternative is going full “cloud native” on hyperscaler microservices. The ability to see what’s happening when and where across a single workflow run is a dream compared to all the traditional logging approaches I’ve seen.

Yes, the Gemini that might be “even behind the Chinese models” but is uniquely capable of “watching” video.
All except Gemini which can be rather important depending on your use case.
Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:16AM (#49681357)
Do you remember how bad documentation was? I still have nightmares about Twisted.
They’re asset millionaires and maybe gross revenue millionaires, but not typically net income millionaires.
Re:A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 on Monday August 17, 2026 @03:34PM (#49336431)
Similar here. Lots of places where we replaced Pandas with DuckDB for transformations. Also have scriptable custom dashboards running on top of BigQuery data pre-aggregated and extracted to parquet on GCS. It's way faster and the only limiting factor is your viz library. It was pretty easy to build and the only big gotcha I encountered was finding, somewhat counter-intuitively, that it's often best minimize partitioning.
Re:Why I Left Google DeepMind on Monday July 27, 2026 @03:18PM (#49074389)
Depends on your definition of "customer."
The real biggest unlock is not using unlock as a noun.
Re:SpaceX launches $25B notes offering, source says on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @03:35PM (#48650184)
How does a $25B offering have $85B in orders?
Re:No, everyone is not using AI for everything on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:00PM (#48558331)
Yep. I sure do.
Re:No, everyone is not using AI for everything on Monday June 15, 2026 @03:57PM (#48546264)
You can’t interview effectively by limiting yourself to questions where the applicant knows what you want them to say.
Re:No, everyone is not using AI for everything on Monday June 15, 2026 @03:07PM (#48545655)
If you're going to have people use AI regularly, it's worth asking so that you can get a sense of their interest/willingness, experience level, and training needs. That said, more specific questions are typically more revealing. Personally I'm fond of "If you could give Claude only 1 instruction, what would it be?"
Re:No, everyone is not using AI for everything on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:45PM (#48543882)
In what way is “How are you using AI?” an objectively bad question?
Re:FarOutCompany on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:44AM (#48537466)
Communes typically fall apart when bad apples join and the commune fails to get rid of them.
Re:Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks on Friday June 12, 2026 @12:39AM (#48499992)
Biology? Why?
Re:It's Not Just X. It's Y on Sunday May 31, 2026 @09:44PM (#48351731)
Clean. This comment is the right shape.
Re:Training our own AI models on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:59PM (#48298871)
Friendly reminder that you don't have to enable PostHog replays at all. I have a site lightly instrumented server-side with the slim bundle, and I'm still gonna double check my account settings but I'm pretty sure it's not even capable of doing the replay telemetry.
Municipal insurers already do that
It also posits that there are only two sides.
Doesn't McMaster Carr still use sprites? Is that like the one optimization they managed to get wrong?
Is this not often trivially solved with islands?
No. Prophet is based on curve-fitting.
Re:Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @11:48AM (#47589177)
Guys they're just disclaiming warranties relax
That's not how jury selection works. You never have enough peremptory strikes to "dismiss a huge fraction of the jury pool."
It’s actually not that uncommon to lose a ton of people for cause in cases that are a good fit for a transfer of venue motion. But of course it does come down to the trial judge. I don’t understand who this “next judge” is that you’re referring to.
Not peremptory strikes, but you have unlimited removals for cause (and admittedly a steep appellate hill to climb if they’re unfairly denied)
Re:Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:17PM (#47097144)
You’re always on your own to collect.
Re:Why I Joined OpenAI on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:23AM (#46931550)

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