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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @12:56PM (#44649933)
Someday computers will be able to do basic arithmetic and people will learn that 95000/600 < 500.
Re:AI LLMs can't count lines in a file on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @09:36PM (#44176456)
An LLM itself can't use wc. Coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor will call out to command line tools for this kind of problem when the LLM detects it.
Re:Push Ifs Up and Fors Down on Sunday May 18, 2025 @02:04AM (#44019315)
You don't need an explicit rule, you just need to be smarter than than the average mid-curve tries-too-hard-to-feel-right hn poster and realize when you're repeating a calling convention too much.
Re:LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @02:30PM (#43836302)
The gamification is what made it work for me. I had 2 months to learn some Turkish before a trip and once I realized it was a game I beat everyone else in my cohort every day. When someone would come up on my heels I'd make sure to spend 30-60 extra minutes that day. I still know Turkish better than any other language and I've been immersed in Spanish for 3 years.
This is right by where I grew up and the broadcast tower and turnpike sign were the first two things I noticed too, but the ability to realize it was the East side instead of the West side because the tower platforms are lower is impressive.
Re:Claude Code Best Practices on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:54PM (#43739388)
$200 per PR is significantly cheaper development than businesses are paying.
There's nothing you can do even with an account.
Re:Claude can now search the web on Thursday March 20, 2025 @01:48PM (#43426467)
It's a user agent not a robot.
It's not trained on "the commons", it's trained on a large number of individual products with their own ownership and licensing. If copyrights are being violated the restitution will go to those owners, not to "everyone".
I think the inline command pallete likely ran into an internal error making it be unable to generate, and then its "come up with a message telling the user we can't do this" generation got StackOverflow'd.
For many people, Sam is a more relevant adversary than the Department of Corrections.
Re:Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation on Friday March 07, 2025 @01:32PM (#43292791)
They've always been behind. They're closer than ever but still miles away from Claude's code abilities.
Re:Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation on Friday March 07, 2025 @01:30PM (#43292770)
No free models are even in the same class as Claude when it comes to code. Investors are clearly confident that moat won't be crossed soon.
Re:Git Without a Forge on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:34AM (#43277459)
> monocultures are bad, and doesn't want to support them

is just

> it's popular, it must be eschewed.

after a chatgpt pass

Re:Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting? on Saturday February 15, 2025 @02:32PM (#43061489)
Fire the bad engineer.
Re:Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @01:35AM (#42631618)
Nobody is actually confused, it's just performative whining.
Re:iTerm2 critical security release on Thursday January 02, 2025 @06:18PM (#42580137)
Ghostty hasn't had to put out a critical update since before 1.0 launched.
Re:Ghostty 1.0 on Friday December 27, 2024 @06:50AM (#42521469)
You have OpenGL 3.2 but need 3.3
Yes, it's called bias.
Re:Boeing to sell at least $10B in shares to plug cash drain on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @06:25PM (#41853770)
Who decided that's what they were supposed to do with it?
Re:How to Succeed in Mrbeast Production (Leaked PDF) on Sunday September 15, 2024 @11:19PM (#41552443)
Why did you expect that? Why would someone reward your personal choice in dedication?
The value of all human labor does not come from copyright.
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @06:31PM (#40652402)
It's so cool how so many important women in computing are trans women.
Re:You'll regret using natural keys on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @11:37PM (#40581136)
Which only reenforces the point that using what is exposed as the ID is not safe as a natural key.
Re:Orthodox C++ on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @08:02PM (#40448568)
That is what HolyC is.
Re:Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners on Thursday May 16, 2024 @04:43PM (#40382875)
The arbitrage is happening on on-chain exchanges which require transactions to work with.
There will always be people unable to figure out basic skills but that's not a reason to handicap the entire system.
Yes, and Dropbox is an rsync server.
Why should it be that way?
Re:A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:22PM (#40277004)
> But to push back, if you’re talking about a 5 minute task, that you’re using once every few months, a free trial timed the way you are asking, might mean you never end up needing to purchase a license.

That's why they want that model. Complaints like the GP's are just a thin veil over being too cheap to pay for the software they use. You can see it in the other responses to your comment.

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