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Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:58PM (#50327947)
The ROI is shit
Might want to change that to “spent 15 years there, ~15 years ago” :)
Excluded: marketing, commercial business, security, quantum
Company sends you offer first
Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:33AM (#50167962)
They don’t do periodic BCDR testing?!
Re:Credit Where Credit Is Due on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:11PM (#50157443)
But people are tools, usually
Does anyone have more info on the cupholders? I need to know it won’t spill my coffee.
Re:Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:04AM (#50114674)
Here’s one simple test: have AI “decompile” an existing codebase into a prompt, and then have it “compile” the prompt back into code. Is the app identical?
The solution: open play pickleball
You need an agent to give you the xcancel version of the link, duh
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:39PM (#50074572)
Simon’s headstone is going to have a pelican on a bicycle, isn’t it
Re:'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:18PM (#50065346)
Something something tolerances
“51st state”
Re:The value of not getting to the point (2015) on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:01PM (#50024372)
What makes you believe they don’t own the second-level TLD here?
“but we still need an ambiguity-free way to tell the AIs building the world around us what we want done”

Do we? I would argue one of the main reasons AI can be so productive is because it makes assumptions where it finds ambiguity, and we reduce the number of things we need to specify.

Re:Don't Just Say Hello on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:59PM (#49745751)
Good advice. Anyway, hello everyone.
Re:Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:03AM (#49644989)
If the Walkman is recording all the time, then of course they would be a party.
Re:Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:49AM (#49644707)
Yes, let’s do something illegal to force a discussion. A discussion that already happened when writing the law…
Re:Wendell Berry has died, age 92 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @06:41PM (#49543577)
As per One Hundred Years of Solitude: progress tends to destroy as much as it creates.
Re:Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:56PM (#49457055)
“We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad.”

How apt… for Bill Gates to state this.

Re:Disruption with Some GitHub Services on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:53PM (#49453966)
Keep in mind the seniority of the author. This was not written by a staff+ engineer.
Re:Government Proposes New Six-Figure Fee for H1B Visas on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:58PM (#49425760)
This is why their forests are currently burning
I plan to build a datacenter in Jackson hole with expensive paintings on the walls.
Perhaps this too explains the frustration one may feel at times working with LLMs to code - the steering/interpretation by the LLM may distract and second-guess our process within our cognitive space.
Re:We just raised $400M in Series C on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @03:25PM (#49277375)
Welcome to the stock market.
Re:US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @02:09PM (#49276448)
Yeah but do they read hacker news? Are they hackers?! Are hackers controlling our skies now?!
This letter clearly wasn’t written by AI.
What was your assumption about social media ca. 2010?
Re:What AI First Engineering Orgs Look Like on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:00AM (#49192997)
…and this is what an AI First post looks like

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