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    Comment #48330852

    Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-sector_model

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    Comment #48166776

    Knock-off tokens from a replica router, that's hilarious. "If you look closely, the logo says Clod."

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    Comment #48166745

    It should have been "eight reasons to use std::simd". Inefficient.

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    Comment #48114023

    If you're afraid of buying derivatives from a trustworthy party that may have contractual obligations with Anthropic, but them from a trustworthy party that doesn't. If they expect…

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    Comment #48113798

    If you trust the other party, you can always write a derivative contract. If the other party was long, their position is closed. If they weren't, they're short now.

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    Comment #48113503

    This would have been better as a "spoiler alert."

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    Comment #48110482

    > Vacuum-tube amplifiers are not in the same class with techniques that are unlikely to have any perceptible influence on what you hear. I don't disagree. Not in the same class, bu…

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    Comment #48110092

    Not to mention the cost of the gold-plated audiophile cables to wire it...

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    Comment #48098470

    The true argument is about quantity - of people, not code. All qualitative arguments are missing the point.

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    Comment #48080974

    Cut me some slack, Jack.

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    Comment #48080942

    Even after we've all retired (pretty soon for those who can afford it) or transitioned out of software engineering (for those who can't), we'll still get to amuse each other with h…

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    Comment #48078188

    I harbor some hope that the (sad) fall of human SWEs will at least be accompanied by language defragmentation. We don't need 38 systems languages once human taste is mostly out of …

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    Comment #47881364

    Did you upgrade the tool binaries? I also couldn't see it until after the upgrade.

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    Comment #47831696

    I don't disagree with your findings, but here's the model I use: - Fiber: ^ - Dairy: v - Coffee: ^^ - NSAIDs: vv - Ice cream splurges: vvv

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    Comment #47803482

    I don't have any anecdotal data, just detecting a whiff of a possible pattern in your statement. DDoS is bots. Any chance the prevalent discourse is bots? "I ain't saying she a gol…

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    Comment #47762494

    > We just don't trust them enough to not have human pilots. Much of the value of a human crew is as an implicit dogfooding warranty for the passengers. If it wasn't safe to fly, th…

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    Comment #47748890

    I don't disagree. However, if we change nothing, one likely alternative outcome is planet of 100 trillionaires, 10000 concubines, and an ever-shrinking ghetto of scavenging paupers…

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    Comment #47735114

    Yep. I think the idea that the benchmark is determinative is just as deluded as the notion that it should be unbreakable. Benchmarks are on the honor system. Even the tightest benc…

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    Comment #47727661

    This is an odd choice of a thread for a laundry list of complaints about AI and about a person that, say what you will, is nowhere near the list of planetary "really bad guys". Eve…

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    Comment #47725816

    I understand the temptation to Streisand this, but for the love of, please don't. S1/2 were the best show I've seen on TV. It would be a crime against good taste.

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    Comment #47701347

    > He hasn't kept ahead of the destruction of the dollar very well. You can't price dollars in gold to measure value. Gold doesn't measure value better than the dollar at any point …

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    Comment #47685008

    Suits in agriculture don't drive the combine either, a farmer does. The other 99% of pre-automation farmers went on to other jobs. They happened to be better jobs than farming, but…

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    Comment #47681929

    > could we say it’s beyond AGI at least in cybersecurity? AGI is like the Holy Grail. Either in the Arthurian Hero's Journey sense, or in the sense of having been a myth all along.…