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Comment #44906751
There's an interesting job interview question: do you want to be more like Woz or S. Jobs? Elon Musk's management style is very Jobs-like: Motivates via manipulation and wow-factor…
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Comment #44894710
GittoffmylawnGPT ;-)
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If the bottom falls out of AI market, what's job Plan B?
AI smells bubbly and there's a reasonable chance it could pop soon, throwing many thousands of AI engineers onto the streets to survive. What are similar alternative jobs and the b…
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Comment #41561748
I think the point is that anyone can enter the AI cloud market to compete with the fat cats if they get too pricy. NVIDIA's de-facto standards are the closest thing to a market moa…
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Comment #41561664
I don't think anyone is arguing it's giving zero value, only that the total value is not keeping up with investments. Look at the recent smart-speaker bubble: people indeed use the…
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Comment #41561540
Objective info is currently hard to come by, but my horse sense is that Big AI is subsidizing it for many projects, including those in other companies, to gain both market share an…
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Comment #41512539
Similarly, those of us who cannot afford high-end AI have to use Photoshop to fake the AI look for our memes, like gluing extra toes on people.
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Comment #41512453
"Sorry Grog, you weren't horney enough"
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Comment #41470335
Many companies are merely blaming layoffs on AI, when in fact it's due to poor sales. Investors seem to fall for this lie.
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Comment #41469408
If you simply had my personality, your pickle would never be at risk of getting used.
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Comment #41469383
End result of horny people watching "A Christmas Story".
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Comment #41469347
Once I coughed, sneezed, and farted at the same time. Very painful.
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Comment #41469318
That would have made a good Silicon Valley plot: they discover they accidentally put a trade secret in their logo, and have to jump through hoops to collect, hide, and delete the b…
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Ask HN: Opinion on browsers making drop-down lists longer via spacing?
It appears the Chromium UI engine was recently updated to increase the default spacing between items of drop-down lists (Html SELECT). Both Chrome and Edge users & devs have compla…
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Comment #41447667
Small dinosaurs are very worried.
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Comment #39985797
CP/M is the Yahoo of OS's: had a mile-wide opening of opportunity to step into, but blew their chance through greed, short-term thinking, and suits-gone-wrong. CP/M and co. could h…
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Comment #39443121
IT Fad Detection Kit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DilbertProgramming/comments/q3k1cb/...
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Comment #39391479
The Orange Man was right!
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Comment #38723076
What about embracing forms of tent cities rather than disparaging them? Homo Sapiens have been sleeping in teepees and portable huts for roughly a hundred thousand years; we have e…
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Comment #38722953
In the end it may be easier to reprocess the synth version with AI trained on acoustic sounds, ideally with options to select different performers' styles. The long list of algorit…
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Comment #38464689
The nice thing about line numbers is that you didn't have to learn a different code editor for different computer brands. I could walk up to any computer that had BASIC in a depart…
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Comment #38464624
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Comment #38270988
> had no idea what a pain it is to make an iPhone app. I’d tried a few times and never got beyond something that half worked. I found Apple’s programming environment forbidding. Wh…
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Comment #38270515
The only "good" programming language is the language I make! Everybody thinks different and wants to optimize for different things. There is no existing language I've found that I …
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Comment #38167723
It's been neutered. Poor "g".