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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:59PM (#50357340)
Is this regional? I’m the west coast, I never run into Jrs or 3rds.
Fwiw I game on a MBP M1. Plenty of gaming can be done on cheaper rigs.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:43PM (#50312083)
Source?
Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:30PM (#50291732)
Good point. Thanks for clarifying.
Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:45PM (#50277771)
That’s not the prompt. He’s not talking about average wealth skewed by mega rich, but middle and lower deciles also being richer is what a richer society means.
Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:42PM (#50277702)
The economy is great for most people, it’s usually the envy of the world. Opportunities abound. Most people have no wealth because they’re dumb, or choose not to— I know many of both. They should be able to live dignified lives, but their lack of wealth is not a slight against the system.
Iirc some of the prior math discoveries involved very very very heavy handed guidance to force the AI to discard prior assumptions, and to try many avenues with MAX effort. So ya models don’t behave like ground breaking theoreticians by default.
So if we get the same acceptance rate. This would be about a 10% reduction in headcount.
Same experience on my vibe coding side project. Astra seems autistic to the context, Claude seems more of an open minded partner with good taste.
Re:Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:38PM (#50145737)
Agree. Really enjoy it—without type effects libs.
Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Saturday October 17, 2026 @10:53PM (#50137445)
It’s gotten pretty good too. My employer has a team that wrote their own code review bot with the checks and values we care about and it has gotten quite good over the last six months.
Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Saturday October 17, 2026 @10:46PM (#50137385)
Today I had AI do a design doc cleanup and conciseness sweep on a vibe code project I have.

It removed ~50% totaling 30k words! So annoying how everything I discuss with AI gets documented in 10 the length, and then every subsequent decision is documented in 5 places.

Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:29PM (#50097055)
Otoh the Derm I go to is the most pleasant experience I have in medical care. Super nice office, very pleasant chatter, quick full body check in and out. Something to be said about wealthy elective care subsidizing my healthcare experience.
Re:LittleJS is 2D and 3D now on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:24PM (#50097022)
They are causing things to be made that they enjoy. And most likely having far more creative involvement than you’re giving credit for. I hang out on Ai game dev forums. Typical creations are garbage, but good stuff is made through human sweat and ingenuity, regardless of AI.
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:58PM (#50078644)
Yep. You need some amount of workspace separation and reconciliation.
The differences are interesting. But that’s not “the point” when it’s framed as a debate between promoters and detractors.
The engineering? SDLC is much bigger than typing code.
Re:Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:50PM (#49972333)
FOIA requests that have to be redacted are labor intensive. However, flock shouldn’t need to be redacted right? They’re just public webcams. Lots of those already exist and many stream live.
That’s the wrong phrase for a group of elite wealthy people who have a higher than average millionaire rate.
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:40PM (#49899209)
Sure but that’s a product decision. I don’t think a personal assistant needs to use highest tier model, and personal assist work tends to be kinda shallow, not that tile heavy.
Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:52PM (#49897498)
After all the hype, I’ve been kinda disappointed tbh. Modeling specific models are so much better (eg. Tripo3d). Astra still models some janky crap for me.
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:45PM (#49897360)
Muse is a fantastic name. Cuteness is debatable
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:43PM (#49897331)
Oh wow I assumed it’d be available for cheap/free mass market like Muse is. Strange.
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:42PM (#49897306)
I agree in spirit. But I’m also most worried about prompt injection attacks given the agent had access to all my stuff, and it seems frontier labs will be best equipt to handle prevention of that.
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:40PM (#49897255)
What’s nefarious about attracting users?
Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:12PM (#49887247)
> deliberate destruction of every civilian possible.

Clearly not? Sometime like 2% of gazans have been killed. IDF could kill many many more if it wanted.

Re:Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:54PM (#49838882)
The median used to be worse, but we always had ideals. Iirc the Bible comments of donky abuse.
Re:Best LLM for every budget, updated daily on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:47PM (#49838834)
20$ subscriptions offer “top up” too I’m pretty sure.
It’s a trade off of productivity and control.

It’s like learning to delegate and let go. The more senior I got the more I had to learn to let other engineers make decision i thought were suboptimal but mostly good enough. That positioned me well to be comfortable with agents. It’s contextual how much I’m willing to give them control and how much to review afterwards.

Re:GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:24PM (#49824074)
Why not? Benchmark all the things!

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