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Re:A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:12PM (#50234340)
So what? The average joe shouldn't be trying to diagnose people with cancer.
Re:Oracle Cites 'Force Majeure' to Shield Itself on Controversial Data...
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:42PM (#49835863)
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.
Re:Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models...
on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:35AM (#49694168)
Yes, the Gemini that might be “even behind the Chinese models” but is uniquely capable of “watching” video.
Re:Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:23PM (#49687682)
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.
Re:I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere's Self-Repair Service. Farmers A...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:37AM (#49681086)
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."
Re:AI's Biggest Unlock Isn't Productivity. It's Access to Expertise
on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:24PM (#48887493)
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.
Re:Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 ...
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:27PM (#48212810)
Municipal insurers already do that
Re:Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models with U.S.
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:45AM (#48024103)
It also posits that there are only two sides.
Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins ...
on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @09:57PM (#47698487)
Doesn't McMaster Carr still use sprites? Is that like the one optimization they managed to get wrong?
Re:EmDash: A spiritual successor to WordPress and plugin security
on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:18PM (#47608873)
Is this not often trivially solved with islands?
Re:Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context
on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @04:07PM (#47592751)
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
Re:Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipelin...
on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:45PM (#47240830)
That's not how jury selection works. You never have enough peremptory strikes to "dismiss a huge fraction of the jury pool."
Re:Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipelin...
on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @01:47AM (#47229006)
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.
Re:Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipelin...
on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:33AM (#47220230)
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)
I’ll see your Art and raise you Life https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdrey6U5dU&pp=ygUSVGVjaGNydW5...