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asdfologist

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    Comment #49134615

    Unlike math, software is constrained by the physical world.

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    Comment #49047546

    Meh, I doubt it was intentional. Deliberate benchmaxxing is incredibly damaging to credibility once it's discovered (see what happened to Meta with LlaMa 4). It's more likely that …

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    Comment #48618163

    Why was this downvoted? The math checks out. Multiplying by 4 and then dividing by 12 is wrong. Easy way to verify this: assume only 1 person in the queue and only 1 machine. Then …

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    Comment #48470887

    But you said you've been working on those problems for months, so didn't you throw those same problems at Opus?

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    Comment #48271397

    Aren't there regulations on all sorts of technology? Medicine, nuclear power, etc.

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    Comment #48235377

    Diminishing returns on additional labor.

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    Comment #44831298

    Not sure. So far Reddit seems largely negative on Cursor CLI + GPT-5 https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1mk8ks5/discussion_...

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    Comment #44640662

    It did partially, which is why top players are nowadays playing Freestyle (chess 960) more and more.

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    Comment #43301525

    Someone on Reddit suspected this 3 years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/wopjw8/how_sure_a...

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    Comment #42532153

    >I myself have had a difficult time landing an interview over the last year despite having two decades of experience. Unfortunately many employers see that as a minus, not a plus.

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    Comment #40468526

    Summarization Translation Writing emails Code generation ...

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    Comment #38767850

    Whoa, I had no idea PDFs can have formulas.

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    Comment #38767732

    I find Chrome's built-in PDF viewer much snappier than Adobe Acrobat.

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    Comment #38510802

    Amnesia? Or did you mean insomnia?

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    Comment #34936250

    If AI makes engineers more productive, then it follows that companies will hire fewer engineers for the same work. So AI is making some engineers obsolete.

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    Comment #34723396

    For those of you with families and took a sabbatical, what did you do about health insurance?

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    Comment #27943975

    Sensationalism?

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    Comment #25868165

    Amazon Fresh.

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    Comment #23716578

    This pretty much sums up Christian ethics.