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bmitc

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    Comment #49223744

    > it was when the captain announced that the yacht of billionaire Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg was closer and hadn’t answered the radio call for help.

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    Comment #49196354

    So, how low?

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    Comment #49193086

    The tech world, in particular the Silicon Valley type, is the most dramatic thing.

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    Comment #49193054

    I have never understood what anyone has ever seen in Ive. He is a complete hack. He's never done anything interesting.

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    Comment #49193038

    How low are we talking?

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    Comment #49179237

    And then people added unhidable chat bot icons and even windows that hide entire parts of the interface with no recourse.

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    Comment #49178559

    > This is my experience with all Microsoft software. The worst thought out, buggy, untested pile of crap. That's not all true. .NET/C#/F# are all technical marvels.

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    Comment #49174940

    > He's definitely been successful as an entrepeneur. Has he had anything to do with the "success" of his companies other than as a fundraiser, i.e., grifter? Have people forgot abo…

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    Comment #49174861

    Oil can't be the whole story, can it? If it was, we'd be more heavily investing in moving away from oil. From what I can tell, it's as much extremism of "democracy", religion, and …

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    Comment #49174837

    And we've advertised it to the entire world. And we've destroyed our economy. And we've further isolated ourselves from the world, culturally, politically, and economically. Good j…

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    Comment #49174599

    How do you run Qwen? I tried setting it up the other day and got really confused with all the options between Ollama, LM Studio, and llama.cpp and also the bazillion different Qwen…

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    Comment #49173832

    Musk hasn't ever been intellectually successful in anything. He's a grifter.

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    Comment #49154839

    Also, Jane Street.

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    Comment #49151642

    That language is basically F#, except for perhaps the performance claims. But F# is definitely not a slow language.

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    Comment #49151629

    Two clicks take you to the tutorial: https://fstar-lang.org/tutorial/

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    Comment #49151620

    You'll be disappointed in F* then.

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    Comment #49130452

    > There is no liquid water on the moon. That is not definitive. There is frozen water and even water that sublimates on the bright side of the Moon. And the internal core of the Mo…

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    Comment #49119837

    > lifeless rock Do you know that for a fact? Unlikely sure, but the question isn't helped by ramming a thing that might have Earth-born life on it into it.

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    Comment #49119830

    From the pictures I just saw online, it seems like there have indeed been cases of rocket debris as well.

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    Comment #49119817

    > Generally speaking, such objects are very poorly tracked. Why is there not any regulations about this stuff? So we can't throw a napkin out the window (not that I condone litteri…

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    Comment #49115089

    The linked blob post says "public preview". That doesn't mean actually released or live, does it?

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    Comment #49105309

    You're basically just agreeing with the original comment that these tools don't do what's stated. And in my experience, Claude Code will often ignore LSPs, despite instructing Clau…

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    Comment #49105286

    > And there is a lot missing in the actual harnesses frankly that isn't about more parallel agent ninjutsu. Like why isn't there a 'move this function from this file to this file' …

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    Comment #49104796

    I've seen this particular in the post and others from Anthropic make similar claims of "oh, just do this or that", and I've always been of the opinion: "isn't this what everyone is…

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    Comment #49094464

    Seems like something they should work on, not customers. Reinventing my workflow every six months because a company/product is lazy is not high on my list.