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bfeynman

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    Comment #49198716

    This would be incredible for innovation if we can bring this back domestically. It's very hard given lack of raw materials and the supply chain around it often also requires robust…

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    Comment #49134237

    Can someone give me an example where this is truly and uniquely useful? I've seen so many of these things and I can't tell if part of it is like mostly for enabling nontechnical fo…

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    Comment #49115091

    this is not noteworthy - simple misconfiguration and over-provisioning can result in same thing, and that happens all the time.

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    Comment #49085879

    is this an ad? | Harvey's legal agent beats GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on its own rubrics, and Intercom's Fin Apex resolves more support issues at lower cost. The rubric and cost …

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    Comment #49041121

    kuzudb was sunsetted. I think for graph workloads duckdb is best bet, even though this is just a community plugin the upstream duckdb has really robust community doing a lot of hea…

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    Comment #48981565

    Trying to ascribe causality on macro/global level when the interesting tidbits are certainly on the regionalized scale seems mostly useless, although somewhat there is irony in aga…

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    Comment #48913358

    despite having multibillion dollar valuation and a real product and service doordashes tech blogs have always been surprisingly simplistic and borderline elementary or in this case…

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    Comment #48907587

    The whole point of agentic tool calling is for there to be runtime decisions made by the agent based on the outcome of a tool call. Anything that can be serialized like this could …

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    Comment #48786308

    fwiw, this could be a bug but the submitters level of arrogance places this rather high on the dunning-kruger side of things. There are multiple other plausible explanations, but t…

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    Comment #48762437

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    Comment #48634191

    The massive information loss from officials who do not understand tech communicating about this has lead to these outrageous claims. I am super interested into what actually the re…

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    Comment #48624866

    What I've finally come to understand is that there is a large amount of people who are now able to write and use software through claude and coding agents. Those people have differ…

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    Comment #48603268

    probably all AI slop but I find it hilarious in the blog post they actually posture like they would know how to fine tune a model to sound like them given that what they actually d…

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    Comment #48601166

    This article and ones like it are nonsense, there is really no control group as they try to make like an absolute comparison of things instead of relative to in office work. You do…

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    Comment #48589995

    factors are not invariant under different economic levels though. For example - if you didn't need to work you can spend all the time in the world with your kids. Someone who has n…

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    Comment #48588820

    can someone tell me the actual market size for technophiles who I think are only people who use this stuff? I get lost in fact that people can't really understand that end of day t…

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    Comment #48575248

    they kind of do.. gcp has their lambda equivalent which i believe comes with chromium preinstalled, its how major search tools like jina work, sure thre problaby somethign about se…

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    Comment #48464903

    Given it was made by cognition (team behind devin flop) who now just got to wait out until claude and gpt5 basically do all of the work for them - not very. When you read about it,…

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    Comment #48420687

    In what world or frame of reference would doing TDD have "little" bearing on output quality? If you build a system around satisfying some set of requirements it seems logical that …

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    Comment #48420599

    I hate to break it to you but those are almost all economic problems in the grand scheme of things.

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    Comment #48420589

    This is talked about all the time in the US as a huge impending problem with articles about all the time. You have segment of population with higher education and higher wealth tha…

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    Comment #48419263

    why is "solving" the issue somehow the bar? software engineering has more practices rooted in psychology than engineering, its a moving and ambiguous target. Using conventional com…

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    Comment #48419222

    From my own experience in big tech and various OSS things, the crux of this piece rests on this whole scope not being focal point misses that in general the other practice is makin…

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    Comment #48197139

    You are missing the point. Of course people want to live in one of the most vibrant cities in the world. People also want a vacation home at the beach or in the mountains thats pri…