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We all are, mostly.

In my experience Sonnet is actually pretty good at coding tasks, at least with Go.

Another AI slop post — so hot these days.

> Energy drinks don't have much caffeine in them I'm just pulling the most prominent ones at my nearest gas station: * Celsius: 200mg * Alani Nu: 200mg * Rockstar: 160mg * Monster:…

I thought Elon and Trump broke up?

90% of my coworkers are H1B and are basically perpetually terrified of being deported. I completely disagree with your assessment. > so I think protecting his feelings is not neces…

I have no context of who you are/your position here, but the responses you're getting seem absurd to me. I just don't understand people placing the blame on you when it should be o…

> If your company offers an FSA, it's asking to make a gamble on how much medical needs you'll have in the next 1 year. Conflating this with gambling is dishonest. I'll grant you t…

You're misinterpreting what I said. Being dense, honestly. The start of this thread was primarily people saying they were taking their money elsewhere - and then suggesting Proton,…

Have you ever considered purchasing a calculator?

This is a bizarre thread. People are surprised that a privacy-oriented businessman is right-wing is very strange. "Millions" in the title is also misleading in this context - it's …

> 1 billion isn't a thousand times a million. What?

> bringing US workers rights up to the bar set by China I don't strive for 996. Is this really the bar we want to meet?

> unless we figure out how to make developers 2x, 5x, 10x as productive on stuff that matters, this isn't going to play out well. Simple - you make them work 2x, 5x, or 10x more ho…

Why wouldn't Claude just impose this same loop in the code it writes - or better, write better code before it needs such review?

Same! I am specifically left handed for pool and cannot figure out how to play it right handed - absolutely zero coordination.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some plan to generate a subscription model for appliances.

I tried this service a few weeks ago, and I commend the goal - but there were a few issues I ran into: 1. There are many interactions I just could not get to work. I may have done …

Wow, we've brought mogging to the programming world. Nothing is safe from looksmaxxing it seems.

This is honestly a fantastic question. AGI has no emotions, no drive, anything. Maybe, just maybe, it would want to: * Conserve power as much as possible, to "stay alive". * Optimi…

Any recommended courses? I'm a SWE and never felt compelled for the CCNA but my intersection with networking-related problems seems to continuously increase and I would like to up …

This was epic, and reminded me of the magic of programming when I first found a video game maker at a wee 11 years old. Writing code to make music feels so natural to me (a musical…

I could not get in a Waymo and travel across San Francisco five years ago, are you serious?

LLMs, Apple Silicon, self-driving cars just off the top of my head without really thinking about it.

> while a corporation is easy to fine, it's hard to put in prison... It would be interesting if there were some tangible way to prevent the company from performing operations for s…