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I had the same experience in the mid 90s. We had a computer lab with windows 98 and VB was around but all the library books were for qbasic and older things. Luckily 98 did have qb…

Because it rarely does end up in courts. But having a fair and strong judicial system is a feature not a bug. The parent points out, in the end there must be a way to resolve accou…

I am a bit (ok very) worried AI will most likely kill language diversity in programming. I also don't see it settling on a more optimal solution it will probably just use the most …

When you say leap ahead do you mean leap forward of their current position or lead ahead of competitors in the world? I would agree many countries are making progress but I would c…

I've been wondering, Stallman was driven to create free software after an incident trying to get the code for firmware on his office printer. I'm wondering if today, would he have …

Just understand that you are one of the player groups that Blizzard targets and they found that a significant if not plurality of their player groups were solo players. This is why…

That's not really the comparable here, you need to find a person with vested interest in the outcome of the student loan forgiveness program.* Someone that was working within the a…

Just like then we were naive about folks not abusing these things to the point of making everyone need to block them to oblivion. I think we are relearning these lessons 30 years l…

OpenAI's post about their contract has the "redlines" described and they don't match what Anthropic wanted. (even if the text tries to imply they do) https://openai.com/index/our-a…

This blog post really doesn't make it sound any better there is no clear refusal to participate in the questionable uses Anthropic was against. Merely must be legal and must be tes…

Basically now all those projects are screwed and need to restart with another provider. I'm sure that's not going to be a massive PITA and delay for all involved.

That's argument is a bit rough given manufacturing is one of the areas seeing the most automation progress and success. One of the main reason it's not more successful is labor cos…

This feels like the same moment for me when I realized I couldn't keep using Gentoo and needed to move on to a Linux distribution that was ready to go without lots of manual effort…

Yep sorry fixed typing too fast missed an I

Henry VIII* or Louis XIV?

Was the same in the 1990s I'd contend. I distinctly remember talking to my dad about how the internet was going to revolutionize everything. As a teenager I was all into everything…

That kind of gives a point in favor of AI enabled IDEs, these kind of operations could often be achieved with simple refactoring tools available without AI today and save massive a…

Ah that's sad, haven't been in several years that's unfortunate.

Really depends where you live. Obviously if you live in tech hub cities you'll do better than other non hub cities. Some recommendations: Seattle has Ada technical books. Portland …

My tinfoil hat says they want to privatize this through one of the administrations friends. A disastrous decision here.

Research grants come with stipulations on how research is conducted, these grants were already granted so this is essentially breaking their contract. So there is no by default gra…

Ok have that argument on it's own and do it right legal, go through the legislature and discuss the appropriateness of public funding for private institution. The Trump administrat…

This is why they needed to be the one to fight, if they folded no one else had a chance to stop this government overreach.

Banking as well, this is the kind of offering they've been looking for a while. Google just saw the demand decided to jump in while OpenAI and Anthropic probably calculated they do…

His signature could be the size of a full size rack on this one.