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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:44PM (#50344251)
Isn't this because their training data (from human devs) have been answering "6 weeks" for so long? Only half-joking here.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:09PM (#50278291)
There is an earnings call today for Alphabet.
Re:Anthropic's Disproof of the ETH on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:45PM (#50261907)
Newton meet Leibniz. Alexander Graham Bell meet Elisha Grey. Fable meet Astra.
I cannot help but wonder, "What did the cop do with the body?"
Re:Pillowfort Is Closing on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:36AM (#50182801)
Cannot help but think of the Dogfort image meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/88320-dog-fort

These numbers make Uber's losses in the beginning seem like a trip to the grocery store.
Re:EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:35PM (#50169842)
https://xkcd.com/221/

Given that 4 is the value shown in this well known XKCD panel, it almost seems like a (im)practical joke or trolling.

Rocky McRockface is the perfect name and gets my vote.
Re:Microsoft Teams is a red flag on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:35PM (#50144539)
From the article: "...file sharing involves SharePoint for some reason, and search is abysmal."

Search in Teams is like a really bad joke, practically non-existent.

Why does the audience need a proxy?

Bringing Amanda Seyfried in as a primary character was unnecessary as was the entire third hour of this movie.

>> It's still a documentary.

Then what was the point of bringing Amanda Seyfried into the "documentary" as a major character?

What does Amanda Seyfried actually have to do with the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos?

They show Holmes reluctantly watching the movie "The Dropout" which is a dramatized version of "the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes" starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes.

Later in "You Can See Everything" Amanda Seyfried literally becomes an important character in the documentary including voicing her opinions and impressions, arguing with and challenging Holmes' husband Billy (they have just met for the first time) and talking at length with Fielder about his opinions and impressions.

This inclusion of Seyfried in this manner ruined for me any chance of this film feeling like a "documentary." This is the point for me where the film went "off-the-rails" and begins to feel like a very confusing experiment in audience manipulation.

It suddenly feels contrived because of this.

Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:22PM (#50096284)
I celebrated 20 years since my last drink on Monday of this week.

People who want to drink--should drink.

People who don't want to drink but find that they keep doing it anyway, might want to check out what AA has to offer. It worked for me when nothing else did.

Are you familiar with this signal hijacking incident from 1987?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijackings

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:46PM (#50012000)
"Oh sorry...That's a typo the newspaper made. The position is actually 75K/year" </sarc>
Re:Margaret Hamilton has died on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:29AM (#50005600)
Also the name of the actress who played Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz, who died in 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(actress)

I am pleased to have now learned more about the Margaret Hamilton of "software engineering."

"Shut the @#$% up Donny!"
You forgot GitHub Copilot which most of us refer to as VS Code Copilot.

(point-of-clarity: I am referring to Copilot within VS Code IDE not Copilot manifestations within the GitHub website UX, which I think is also called GitHub Copilot)

IMHO this is the primary reason that Copilot as a brand has been polluted to the point of "meaningless." Today, a year later, there are probably 60 different permutations.
It is because Meta wants to show that they really care about "protecting the children." </sarc>

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-reaches-18-billion-set...

Re:Jev in 25 Lines of Python on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:00AM (#49816308)
Or even repetition, repetition.
Re:I don't want the details on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:42AM (#49816042)
My father who was also involved in IT tells a similar story where the executive cut him off and said "I asked you for the baby, not the labor pains."
Re:Anthropic at $2T isn't far-fetched on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:34PM (#49794368)
>> such an uncritical way to think that you will find it consistently promulgated by the drunkest person at the shittiest dive bar in the most backwater town in any state in the US

I have been to that bar, and trust me, they do not talk about the stock market or IPOs there.

Re:George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:24PM (#49794280)
I used to see him (and occasionally his wife) eating breakfast at "greasy spoon" restaurant called Hilda's in San Anselmo (Marin County, CA).

Hilda's sadly closed for good in the past year or so.

Re:Transformers Explained Visually on Monday September 21, 2026 @05:01PM (#49793365)
Nice work. I really appreciate this tool for enhancing my limited understanding the mechanism(s) behind attention and LLMs.
Re:Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:14PM (#49791114)
Now do Amazon deliveries. I'm only half-joking.
Re:GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher on Sunday September 20, 2026 @01:19AM (#49772692)
<well-played>
Re:AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:33PM (#49748224)
Thank you for writing this piece. It was completely worth the length and amount of ground/time covered.
Re:Dario, Please on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:47PM (#49701946)
Heading: "OAI-HF Incident"

First sentence: "This incident has Dario shook, there ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks."

Additionally they likely never were "hobby programmers", so the specific generation (Gen-X) may be a match, the question was defined more specific.

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