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mangamadaiyan

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    Comment #49033408

    This is likely because you're writing by moving your wrist, as opposed to "arm writing". Learning to use your arm muscles to move the pencil will slow your writing down initially, …

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    Comment #46626498

    Hm. I thought LLMs weren't free. Am I missing something?

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    Comment #46549092

    I was referring to a couple of countries in Asia.

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    Comment #46538321

    Something to think about: perhaps the problem is with the duration of the appointment, and the difficulty of getting one in the first place? Elsewhere in the world, doctors can and…

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    Comment #46497383

    Tell us you've never worked in a faang without telling us.

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    Comment #45716572

    Your claim is that LLMs are better at "x" than the alternatives, for some value of x. My point is that your claim is unsubstantiated.

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    Comment #45672839

    ... and bear more load as well.

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    Comment #45672756

    Wow, the Mandelbrot set example really put things into perspective. Unoptimized code would easily take tens of minutes to render the Mandelbrot in 640x480x256 on a 486. FractInt (w…

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    Comment #45667133

    Transputers were a 1980s CPU innovation that didn't live up to their original hype, and have little to no connection with TransMeta.

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    Comment #45653569

    Indeed. It is the enigma of success in an industry with no franchise value.

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    Comment #45642757

    I think you just proved my point - but hey, to each their own. Good luck, again!

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    Comment #45641907

    You're concerned about the author's bias contaminating your thinking, so the solution is to outsource your thinking to the LLM, because it's impossible for one of them to have any …

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    Comment #45641272

    Maybe actually making the interviews less of a hazing ritual would help. Hell, maybe making today's tech workplace more about getting work done instead of the series of ritualistic…

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    Comment #45641121

    After reading this post, I fear that LLMs and their ilk will make humans terrible at reading and comprehension, and impair their ability to think, much as how the advent of a car-f…

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    Comment #45635411

    The article, you mean?

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    Comment #45539042

    Also, where's it going to _go_ to?

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    Comment #45260540

    They've explained why. Now why do you think the economics are not horrible?

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    Comment #45251583

    Question 1: is this indeed what is most valued at the moment? Question 2: Do you think this will ever become valuable?

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    Comment #44991740

    > Could having a solid grasp on memory management/access in C be the same? Perhaps not when the code is getting written (by yourself or by an AI). When you're dealing with a memory…

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    Comment #44957482

    I thought the Poles needed to be either all on the left-hand plane, or within the unit disk, for stability? (I haven't had my coffee yet, so maybe I'm remembering wrong). Either wa…

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    Comment #44946087

    The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.

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    Comment #44883629

    > Leadership always asks for more, better, faster. More and faster, yes. Almost never better.

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    Comment #44371992

    Aren't they actually an investment firm with a passing interest in software?

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    Comment #43780349

    What are the odds that the comment you're responding to was AI-generated?