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Comment #49252002
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Comment #49205322
It's funny how these articles always conveniently skip over the most important point: you first have to fill your city with Japanese people .
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Comment #49190761
"It looks like you're trying to bypass authorized firmware. I'm sorry, but I won't help you."
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Comment #48987431
We need to start teaching everything in Anglo-Saxon: "Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one, as for a showdeal ymirstuff-2…
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Comment #48878317
With me on the older side of things, believe it when I tell you that things actually used to, for the most part, Just Work. "Simple mistakes" and "process breakdowns" were uncommon…
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Comment #48838463
A substantial portion of software engineering -- and the fundamental jobs of a proper Product Owner and UX Designer -- is to turn "vague ideas about what we need to do" into "this …
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Comment #48827773
I'm really curious, what sort of work you were having it do such that you could execute multiple days of work with minimal supervision.
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Comment #48624056
I also still don't understand why the author thought this was wrong?
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Comment #48623997
Um... 話します is the correct conjugation for 話す, what am I missing here?
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Comment #48538000
Honestly, that is just bad management. It can make sense if it's your company, but even then, the risk profile is just off the charts. What happens if your only developer leaves or…
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Comment #48537445
As a manager, I will quite literally ding people for working when they are supposed to be off. Work during work time, don't work during not-work time. Good practices mean that ever…
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Comment #48537433
That was just a beautiful, period.
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Comment #48488945
Have you tried contacting Google for customer service? I’ve found that to be a sure-fire cure for whenever I catch a case of optimism.
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Comment #48431875
You’ve also had to flip the disk halfway through a movie, it couldn’t do two hours of continuous video, unlike a VHS tape. The lack of recording was also a killer, if you went with…
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Comment #48174803
... I haven't seen an ad in years, thanks to Brave, which is as of the last time I checked Chromium-based.
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Comment #47833057
This one was weird, too, like being on a boat in mildly choppy water, not a violent shake at all.
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Comment #47735493
My first job-job got hit by the dotcom crash, but was fortunately a real business with actual revenue, and the CEO was an absolute class act. He reduced pay, the higher on the food…
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Comment #47144947
We collectively decided nothing. Our political/ruling class wanted more of the pie for themselves, dropped the trade barriers protecting American industry, and gorged themselves on…
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Comment #47097137
Something that just occurred to me: RAGs are almost Gopher for AIs.
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Comment #46919725
Yeah, that's what Factorio is for.
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Comment #46703454
Same here. You have to slice things small enough for the agent to execute effectively, but beyond that, it’s magic.
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Comment #46699900
I mentioned this to Claude and this was the response: Ha! The irony is not lost on anyone. "We've built the world's most advanced AI coding assistant. It can refactor entire codeba…
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Comment #46687490
No heresy detected in this thread.
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Comment #46678059
If it’s a hydramatic, be careful to only lubricate it with snake oil.