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I’d still take it over the obscene prices of electric cars in the American market.
Re:Herdr has released native app on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:06AM (#50304964)
Compared to the usual agent manager guis, it's not even that opinionated.
Re:Herdr has released native app on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:04AM (#50304928)
Herdr doesn't force any particular workflow, it's just a way to organize terminal sessions with built-in agent awareness
Projecting that none of these AI companies will demand bailouts after the bubble crash is wildly speculative in the other direction. This has nothing to do with politics.
Don’t forget the Bilderberg Group, Bigfoot, and aliens!
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:23PM (#50278551)
Much like the Touch Bar, I expect that Apple will learn this lesson the hard way.
Re:Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:17AM (#50231857)
There are, in fact, countless late medieval manuscripts just like this one. LLMs have been trained on many of them.

What scientific value are you looking for?

Re:Reforming English Spelling on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:32PM (#50222852)
The lack of rhoticity in “after” really shows how untenable this idea is.
Re:Getting Banned from r/java on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:02PM (#50168412)
I'd define a manager as someone who doesn't, in principle, need to understand the fundamental details of the work, just those that affect the managing.

If you make this stand, you're committed to calling many other professions managers, which you don't. You probably haven't fully cashed out your own position yet.

Well, nothing functions in NYC, so using it as an example for the adoption of anything could yield a misleading answer.
Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @10:16AM (#50131393)
This is a false equivalency. American providers don't answer to their government.
Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @10:10AM (#50131337)
This is really a roundabout way of saying you have no plans to live, or perhaps even travel, to China.
Or, when something is that cheap, it's going to take multiple tries to get it right anyway, so you might as well build that into the cost.
FYI, Feather is the official harness offered by Paper Instruments.
Price/performance is as advertised in my limited testing. I happened to be testing the same task with Haiku, GPT-mini, and Deepseek v4 0731 yesterday, so I had a reasonable baseline to compare the model to.
Signed up yesterday, got it today
The headline doesn’t match the story. It is TBD whether the economics of AI actually work or not. A small company (that wasn’t vertically-integrated) going bankrupt doesn’t demonstrate a whole lot, other than that some paths aren’t viable for an AI-based business.
Perhaps the printing workshop or guild that produced the book thought it would give them a competitive advantage. What's the incentive to mass produce the book, then?
How about a James Randi style prize for someone who can actually demonstrate AIs that cannot be physically unplugged?

(This was someone else's idea, but I still want to see it happen.)

I've seen this opinion elsewhere, but it's not clear how their TUI decisions actually affect the functionality of the software.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:59AM (#50056597)
I'd reframe the question slightly. It has less to do with bias and more to do with experience. Anyone with experience to judge AI matters is likely going to be vaguely pro-AI in the first place, otherwise they wouldn't be qualified to answer.

Those that are opposed to AI development in principle, or have dealt only with its worst consequences, like neverending PR-slop, are going to have trouble engaging due to a lack of experience.

Once again, why do all these CEOs think they are thought leaders all of a sudden?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:36PM (#50010020)
Most developed countries are at least this hostile to immigrants. And if they aren't, it's because they aren't desirable places in the first place.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:34PM (#50009992)
Sounds like Yanis Varoufakis's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technofeudalism
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:31PM (#50009946)
Most developers are still overpaid from the pre-AI boom, so this sounds about right.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:23PM (#50009824)
Why does "qualified" always mean someone who commands an inflated salary and can do the job from day one?

Why couldn't it mean someone young, with a reasonable education, who's willing to work at half the price and be trained over the course of years?

Re:Orkut.com on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:09PM (#50008576)
Is the platform or network really the issue? Digg tried this same kind of reboot, but the same dynamics of Reddit (plus AI bots) emerged practically overnight. This is how social networks are now.
Re:Account bans on Reddit on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:45AM (#49988301)
It compleletly varies by subreddit. Generalizations like this are lazy.
Re:Account bans on Reddit on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:04AM (#49988015)
Not enough info here to draw any conclusions. Changing IP only will likely trigger a ban-evasion ban.

I’ve been using Reddit since 2008, a dozen accounts, only got banned from one subreddit ever for calling out racism (actual, not the deflated, wishy-washy kind). It’s hard to take these stories at face value.

It's amazing that it even costs extra. Basic functionality shouldn't cost an extra fee, period.

I'm paying hundreds of dollars to use the IDE. The least they could do is integrate well with other harnesses (like every other text editor in the world does).

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