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Comment #49222595
ok now I understand more the folly of my comment and yes, Claude would 100% do this. Maybe I should try first on https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/
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Comment #49222533
you didn't need to jump down my throat - and you are right - I left that comment without thinking. I was just saying that some mysterious old archaic programming paradigms can be d…
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Comment #49222417
im familiar with bugs i am an a qa engineer i am just saying, like fortran, the mysteries of old programs and old programming paradigms can be demystified with AI
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Comment #49218939
not to be that guy but I have faith a powerful AI could understand all the ins and outs of the voyager code no matter what language
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Comment #49026975
I've found I don't like marking up books, because what was highly insightful and revelatory on the first read, seems obvious and boring on the second read
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Comment #48980298
yea it's like when someone is a really good liar - some skills you shouldn't want to have. Being insanely sure of the history of the universe when you have incredibly scant informa…
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Comment #48970362
I feel that looking for God is spiritual but saying you've already found Him, know Him, know His kids, etc - that is religious
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Comment #48954923
that is so true in fact I have only heard a few people say that actually, most say it more in theory than practice. Because in practice I have always been asked to solve pretty sim…
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Comment #48954738
the people I know who hate AI have a bizarre and unrelatable love for the pure math aspect of software engineering - the elegant software architecture, the efficient programming la…
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Comment #48941538
this reminds me of the old IBM tabulation machines that were sold in 2 different models at different prices, the cheaper one just had a metal tab inserted to limit the processing s…
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Comment #48876576
yes I have hypothesized this as well - if you ask rudely on StackOverflow you will get bad or even misleading answers - but if you ask nicely you will more likely be given good inf…
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Comment #48872422
but is providing access to internet for billions of people worth not being able to see the big dipper as clearly at night? I say yes, but only just barely
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Comment #48826122
2026 hyundai is fine but is nothing special. Hyundai kona actually has an insane amount of physical buttons, around 50
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Comment #48826102
if it makes you feel better you are supporting American automakers and American workers when you buy tesla - has helped a lot of people swallow the musk pill when buying one
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Comment #48796321
>I can have fun without drugs. Yes!!! I love this approach! unironically
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Comment #48796282
cannabis is harder to quit because it doesn't have that "it's killing you" aspect to it - but staying in bed and playing video games can kill in a different way! Still better than …
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Comment #48795640
I feel by your logic, no one should ever use drugs or alcohol lest they become addicted to how good they make them feel. An abstinence approach. very modern!
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Comment #48795578
people rarely compare cannabis to fentanyl they normally compare it to alcohol and tobacco...
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Comment #48795563
not alcohol, they will use that no problem, they can handle it unlike others
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Comment #48753530
what if they improve the model and fix such errors? by writing off now you will take finger off pulse of our great vibrating ai lords
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Comment #48753510
funnily enough for me, Fable 5 was much better at refactoring my large codebase than Opus 4.8 was - perhaps the scope of Fable is very great
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Comment #48710870
what is happening is that the gap between what the experts and AI know is getting smaller each year. this year sure radiologists are mocking AI's ability to interpret MRI results, …
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Comment #48703296
just want to clarify it's not Peppa Pig himself who will be paying the royalties but the production company for the show.