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Re:I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI on Sunday June 28, 2026 @01:02PM (#48709230)
Nightmare because users approach LLMs with the false confidence that they're always right, and present LLM outputs as fact to Doctors who have to waste time explaining that it's wrong most of the time. It hurts more than it helps.
Re:Choosing a Public DNS Resolver on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:53PM (#48709127)
Cloudflare famously does anycast so the DNS answer you get is the same no matter where you're coming from. Your numbers there can't be attributable to DNS. On the contrary, Cloudflare can short circuit the recursive lookup for any of their properties, providing potential speedups at the resolution stage, and can use eDNS client subnet to route based on where you are if necessary
Re:The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom on Saturday March 14, 2026 @02:35PM (#47379676)
You betray your ignorance of how parasocial OnlyFans and their ilk get. Yes, people get real connection out of it, whether its with who they think they're talking to or not. I think that connecting those people into a chat bot instead of a real human is depressing, and a bad thing for society, but you're welcome to disagree with that
Re:The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom on Saturday March 14, 2026 @01:56PM (#47379259)
God that's depressing. Even when you _pay_ for human connection you're being fobbed off onto an AI
Re:Cloudflare Crawl Endpoint on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:35PM (#47339408)
This already happens in the opposite direction. See: news websites that drop their pay wall for GoogleBot
Re:Elevated errors on login with Claude Code on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:48PM (#47338787)
These reliability issues are starting to feel like a pretty big indictment of their product, which they are presumably using to write their software and build their systems. If _Anthropic_ can't make Claude build reliable systems, what hope do the rest of us have?
Re:Time-Travel Debugging: Replaying Production Bugs Locally on Saturday February 28, 2026 @06:00AM (#47193620)
OP is basically describing functional programming
"domestic" "mass" surveillance, two words that can be stretched so thin they basically invalidate the whole term. Mass surveillance on other countries? Guess that's fine. Surveillance on just a couple of cities that happen to be resisting the regime? Well, it's not _mass_ surveillance, just a couple of cities!
Re:We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM on Friday February 27, 2026 @11:53AM (#47182722)
RLMs are a new architecture, but you can mimic an RLM by providing the context through a tool, yes
Kind of leaving out a lot of detail there:

- Amazon's $50B is only $15B, with the rest being "after certain conditions are met", whatever that means (probably an IPO, which isn't happening)

- The $30B each from softbank and NVIDIA is paid in installments

So this is more a $35B fundraise, with a _promise_ of more, maybe, if conditions are met. Not _bad_, but yet more gaslighting from Mr Altman. Anyone reporting this as a closed fundraising deal is being disingenuous at best.

Re:Layoffs at Block on Friday February 27, 2026 @06:28AM (#47179271)
Profitable, and yet missed their revenue targets in Q3, causing their stock to tumble. That's an emergency. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-06/dorsey-s-...
Re:The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) on Monday February 23, 2026 @04:16PM (#47128984)
A lot of Japanese websites also have to be tremendously over provisioned because of how regimented the country is. A friend of mine worked infrastructure for a local newspaper, and every day at 6PM they'd send a push notification to all their subscribers and had to provision for that peak. When he asked if they could smooth out traffic, send the notification to some folks a minute before, or a minute after he was almost thrown out of the room. "Japan runs on time. Not a minute early, not a minute late. On time".
Re:Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026 on Saturday February 21, 2026 @04:08PM (#47104775)
One has to wonder when the board realises Dane was a bad replacement for JGC. These outages are getting ridiculous
I would love to know how this compares to just prompting Claude Code with "please find and fix any security vulnerabilities in this code"
"It was a social experiment" has the same energy as "it's just a prank bro", as if that somehow makes it highbrow and not prima facie offensive
Right, and the court decides wether that information is relevant anymore. You're suggesting we take that ability and give it to random third parties
I find this a weird take. Are you saying you _want_ unaccountable and profit driven third party companies to become quasi-judicial arbiters of justice?
You absolutely can, either through the system prompt or by hardcoding overrides in the backend before it even hits the LLM, and I can guarantee that companies like Google are doing both
Re:MinIO repository is no longer maintained on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:02AM (#47004229)
Ceph is the OG. Every now and then different attempts to replace it pop up, work well for some use cases, and then realise how hard the actual problem they are trying to solve is. Ceph always wins in the end.
They are testing it, every time someone signs up and it fails. We don't know that this wasn't something that changed on Google's side, so IMO it's a bigger indictment that no one is monitoring their live email deliverability
Re:GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:36PM (#46995580)
At this point Tech investment and analysis is so divorced from any kind of reality that it's more akin to lemmings on the cliff than careful analysis of fundamentals
Re:Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:37PM (#46984632)
Neat that this exists, but priming children to copy/paste random JavaScript into their Dev consoles feels like a recipe for disaster. Bets on how long before malware starts buying up "discord age verification bypass" ad spots?
Re:Railway (PaaS) Global Outage on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @11:49AM (#46977318)
You don't think "railway" at least conjures ideas about the company? It's not some random word. Not every company needs to be "helps you ship software quickly inc"
Re:Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail' on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:37PM (#46963624)
This is the Dropbox problem. People are willing to pay for convenience, and tech folks tend to underestimate how much convenience comes from seemingly simple solutions
Re:More Mac malware from Google search on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:18AM (#46944438)
It may not be their duty to filter it out, but it should definitely be their duty to not take money to bump it to the top of their results. Let the algorithm dump random unlinked medium posts on the 5th page where they belong
Re:OpenClaw Is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been on Thursday February 05, 2026 @03:01AM (#46896975)
Poe's Law strikes again
Telegram which famously didn't have _any_ end to end encryption for ages, and even now only has very limited opt-in "secret chats"?
It's a bit vague, but the idea is right. If your SaaS is built with AI, then any customer you have can also build it with AI, and whatever they build is going to be better suited to their needs and will run cheaper because they aren't paying your margin. AI skews the build vs buy curve massively, because it makes building so much easier
But not everyone else is the problem? OTel works well for humans. Sometimes AIs are just shit
Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:36AM (#46810738)
How are those "bugs" not immediately disqualifying? "Move fast and break things" is not an acceptable strategy for controlling 2 tonne bricks hurtling down the freeway

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