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Re:The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence" on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:54PM (#50341721)
Or we could just talk a lot about a return to "norms" without reforming anything.
Looking bad isn't necessarily a deal-breaker for many applications, not even for decorative ones. Just look at the piercing bluish white LED Christmas lights that many people have put up, rather than the somewhat more expensive "warm" colored ones.
The problem with this is that you're looking at actually existing Zionism and the history of Zionist leaders' actual statements and deeds. When approaching a nuanced topic like this, it's important to imagine a hypothetical ideal Zionism that hasn't spent the last 78 years engaging in ethnic cleansing.
Re:Some Thing is Happening A note from the AI companies on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:01AM (#50314554)
In this context it means "text written before the advent of AI slop, so we know it at least came from humans and wasn't influenced by AI slop".
Aside: when did we start calling a period "full stop" in US English? I don't remember anyone saying that 15 years ago except British people.
There's already "After the Rapture Pet Care" which feels like a similar genre.

https://aftertherapturepetcare.com/

Re:CNC Stone Carving on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:04AM (#50284764)
I remember hearing on some podcast years ago that thanks to HGTV everyone started painting their houses white or beige, because they saw on reality TV shows that that made the house easier to sell. What you're describing sounds like a scaled up version of that.
> Say you’re cooking braised white beans and greens with parmesan, NYT Cooking app in hand. But you notice that you’re out of chard and only have spinach. Cooking veterans know that chard is a rough-and-tumble green that has some backbone, while spinach is a comparative wimp that will wilt the moment you look at it funny. If you need to sub in spinach for chard, how would the recipe change? Would you, for instance, add the spinach later than you would the chard to account for its pathetic stamina? That’s the sort of thing the new AI feature could account for.

Frankly I can see how this would be useful to some people. At least it would help prevent the ridiculous "I didn't have eggs so I added applesauce, the cake came out all flat IDK what's wrong" type of substitutions.

There are also of people with deep technical knowledge that has a lot of value but doesn't necessarily find a lucrative market outside Microsoft (e.g. Windows internals).
I wouldn't say it's zero skill but I'm always surprised by people who act like it's a big differentiator that requires significant "training". Uncharitably it feels like vibe-coders want to count their "skills" as equivalent to actual software engineering rather than something you can pick up in 2-3 weeks of effort.
One thing I've noticed about Microsoft is that the engineers seem much less mobile than people at SV companies might be used to. Part of it is that there just aren't as many good options in the Seattle area where many MSFT employees are based (by far the standout alternative alternative is Amazon and they don't exactly have the best reputation for workplace culture).

Also Microsoft has already been trashing morale with year after year of layoffs. They probably assume this won't move the needle.

Is there a transcript of the meeting anywhere?
Re:Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:02PM (#50233023)
It saved your muscles from the very tiring work of agitating the contents of the washtub.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:00PM (#50227144)
This is small-scale but I know a lot of Blind people who are vibe-coding accessible tools to solve their problems. Most of them have never done any programming at all.

For example, my friend Marco has built like 10 different apps. I've used some of them and they're useful. I think this is an example of something that just wouldn't be happening on this scale without LLMs.

https://marconius.com/

Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:53PM (#50227092)
This one showed up in HN a while ago

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-err...

AI transcribed chart said the patient took psychedelics when they never said that.

Unfortunately those sound like organizations that wouldn't see much value in the goodwill generated by funding PHP.
Slack's backend is PHP I believe.
Re:Reforming English Spelling on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:21PM (#50226889)
In my (mostly standard I think) dialect of American English sufficient and proficient are pronounced with a schwa and rhyme, while deficient is pronounced with a "short i" sound or a schwa.
If you appreciate street tree fruits just know you can eat these when they're red and soft, they taste like a slightly bland peach:

https://i0.wp.com/gathervictoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2019...

And the small plums on these purple plum trees (they're hard to see because they are the same color as the leaves when ripe):

https://www.thetreecenter.com/c/uploads/plum-purple-leaf-thu...

Both are popular ornamentals in the bay area.

> I's probably to take the side of caution, treat everything as important and update everything promptly

The risk is that if people keep seeing headlines about some vuln emergency that isn't in fact exploitable in most cases they'll just start to ignore them.

Re:Reforming English Spelling on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:52PM (#50216488)
I'm an American and don't remember ever hearing this pronunciation. Wiktionary lists /draʊt/ for both the US and UK pronunciation. America has a lot of regional accents though, it's not unbelievable to me that this exists somewhere.
Re:Reforming English Spelling on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:26PM (#50215592)
This doesn't seem clear cut to me. Sufficient and deficient have the same stress pattern, but deficient doesn't have a double letter. Neither does proficient.
Re:Reforming English Spelling on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:21PM (#50215520)
> In support of its adoption of "drouth" in place of "drought" THE TRIBUNE cites the fact that most persons use the pronunciation indicated by the first — and simpler — spelling.

This one seems very strange. Do people really pronounce the final sound as /θ/?

Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:26PM (#50201280)
I like how Muse Spark's looks like an Onion cartoon

https://www.modelcompare.ai/blog/ai-models-controversial-tak...

Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:53PM (#50198836)
Reminds me of this somewhat related video that describes the process of selling off state industries in East Germany

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrSiIoWm7U&pp=ygUMZ2RyIHRyZXV...

Re:The compiler was supposed to end programming too on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:47PM (#50198727)
It's not worth arguing with the troll. Obviously opining about a task is not the same job as doing the task. Everyone understands this. It's like saying "my cooking got better when I delegated the implementation to a private chef".
Re:Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:39AM (#50193985)
Japanese customers are very harsh with ratings on Google as well. When I was living in Japan I learned that restaurants with like 4.2 stars were often really good. It's calibrated differently inareas with a lot of foreign tourists though.
Maybe it's because Brad Lander "proudly" invested New York City's money in Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems during the midst of the Gaza genocide. That should count for something.

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