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Re:LLMs reward expertise on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:36PM (#49163812)
Honestly you should probably invest in baking the basic patterns and concepts of your codebase into shared skills that are applied to everyone's Claude sessions.
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session on Friday April 17, 2026 @01:17PM (#47808258)
Very unlikely that the article is wrong. the 4.7 intelligence bump is not that big, plus most of the token spend is in inputs/tool calls etc, much of which won't change even with this bump.
Re:I’m joining OpenAI on Sunday February 15, 2026 @05:30PM (#47028374)
i dont think so, its trivial to spin up an openclaw clone. the only value here is the brand
Re:Twin – The AI Company Builder on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:59PM (#46786607)
What are the chances they actually have the license to use that Justice song for their trailer?
Re:Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:55PM (#44193421)
I feel like instead of constantly releasing these preview versions with different dates attached they should just add a patch version and bump that.
Whether they have violated the contract, like all of law is up to interpretation; Most likely, given Amazon's large team of lawyers, I'm sure they could get away with almost anything.
Employment relationships and tradeoffs are negotiated at the time of hiring. Abruptly changing the terms in the middle with no re-negotiation is unfair. Sure, employees are free to leave and find another job, but with a layoff an employee has many benefits such as severance that are offered, where as in this case there are none. Instead of laying off people, should Amazon be able to just reduce their salary to 0, then say they're free to resign if they're not happy with it?
As if RTO solves this at all. Lots of teams are distributed across the many hubs. Amazon is basically asking a large number of its employees to commute hours into the office, or move across the country, just to sit on chime/slack all day anyway.
Yes. I would prefer gov. shutdown over republicans getting to have any say in anything.
Re:The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @02:04PM (#32998896)
Lmao this engine is down 6.9% for the year, when literally it's as simple as just buying some puts.
probably lack of intelligence
Re:Twitter to ban political advertising on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:38PM (#21402398)
Every time I see someone complaining about bots, its because there are a lot of likes for something they personally dislike. Not saying bots on the internet are not a problem, but I think lots of people are quick to blame bots instead of conceding that others may disagree with them. Its also virtually impossible to prove accounts as "real" or "bots" without some ID verification in place. People kinda do it via clustering/graph analysis, but I think even those are iffy at best.
Re:Blogging Like a Hacker (2008) on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:17PM (#21010324)
Recently set up a static gen blog. I went with Hugo over Jekyll. I think its a bit personal preference tbh, but I really liked Hugo's layout, speed, and kinda prefer hacking with Go over Ruby if it comes to that.
Re:Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:09PM (#20770255)
Well I was thinking investing more into something like this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/21/carbon-engineering-co2-captu... which captures co2 out of the air, rather than retrofitting stationary co2 emitters...
Re:Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan on Thursday August 22, 2019 @12:46PM (#20769962)
why do you say that?
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:33PM (#20762068)
You say that, but this still relies on trust of the institution. If you can't verify that your recorded vote matches what you put in, how can you trust it? All the ballots could've been switched out, or something. You are choosing to trust the institution.

Everyone has different levels of trust, and I'm sure generally the chance of some grand voting conspiracy is very low; however, for me to fully trust the system I would need to be able to verify the count myself, and verify that my own vote was recorded correctly.

Personally this feels more important than some issue around buying votes etc. That is mostly illegal, and plenty of people find ways to indirectly achieve the same effect anyway...

Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:23PM (#20761292)
I feel like if you can't verify your own vote was marked down correctly, and the overall data is not publicly auditable, then it is impossible to trust the election process...
Re:“The books will stop working.” on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:31PM (#20298395)
Piracy sucks for creators, but I also don't think it's fair that poor people should have less access to text books.
Inviting a variety of guests, with a variety of viewpoints is what makes podcasts like his interesting and informative.
Re:'Smartphone zombie' fine cheered on Chinese social media on Thursday January 17, 2019 @11:55AM (#18932337)
Anyone know the details of the law? "activities affecting other vehicles or pedestrians" seems pretty vague...
Re:There's no such thing as a free watch (2017) on Monday December 17, 2018 @02:47PM (#18701550)
yeah thats the one
Re:StockX Is a Stock Market for Nikes and Rolexes on Monday November 26, 2018 @06:00PM (#18537643)
Lol, that's such a dumb slogan. The stock market is a market of stocks. A "The Stock Market of Things" is just a market.
Probably amazon buys it from the same supplier, but they can sell it for less margin, because they don't have the overhead of running a store, and they have the scale of being amazon.
Sometimes though I think it can't be helped. I for one find myself in charge of maintaining a lot of code that I didn't originally write. For the things that need to be updated and maintained the most I find myself owning and becoming more of a frequent developer of it, but there are still a lot of things that I need to fix if some issue arises, but I have not touched in years if not ever. I can see why the original author wrote it the way they did--they are most likely a frequent developer in that language and in those patterns--but as someone stepping in, I can feel the pain of infrequent developers in that case.
Is this actually feasible to make money or will you still get killed on transaction fees?
Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP Plan on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:53AM (#15980430)
does this apply to all the alt coins or just eth-btc?
this seems like a great way to kill messenger lol

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