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vasachi

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    Comment #49057474

    In reality it got me 30% there.

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    Comment #48879309

    You could have free education, for instance. I think that would be preferable to any sort of student loans.

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    Comment #48655275

    I don’t get it. How much do AC units cost in EU? I can buy one for, like, $200-300.

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    Comment #48471685

    Surely git’s source is already in LLM’s training corpus. So this is far from clean room approach.

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    Comment #48157282

    You wouldn’t get one if you followed the law and released the server.

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    Comment #48144945

    I find that most “techniques” are basically user hallucinations. Simple plan-write-refactor loops and trivial CLAUDE/AGENTS.md, generated by the harness itself, work nicely. Maaaaa…

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    Comment #48144872

    I can’t compare raw intelligence of these models, and I certainly can’t say anything about their advances in mathematics (without repeating press releases). But, erm, does it reall…

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    Comment #48144779

    I’ve used DeepSeek 4 Pro through Claude. It’s fine. Plans are similar to what sonnet/opus make. Same massage-the-plan -> massage-the-code loop. Maybe the code is a bit worse, but t…

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    Comment #47859595

    The economy, not the workers :) It feels like pretty soon white collar workers will be in a “You have nothing to lose but your chains” situation. Except we are not as fit as the pr…

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    Comment #47827601

    Look, it is calming to think that Trump is somehow a Russian agent, and not a sign of collapsing political class, but let’s be realistic here. If it is indeed true, then Russia man…

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    Comment #47789280

    IP is what, four layers of protocols lower than OAUTH?

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    Comment #47721602

    Doesn't USA do that all the time with .com and such?

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    Comment #46972109

    Didn’t Juicero get more than a $100M? Do you think they had a clear plan? How much did Rome get? Did they have a clear plan?

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    Comment #45704968

    First, they released it only 10 years ago, and second, Microsoft marketed it as the last windows version. So yes, this is a own goal)

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    Comment #45402414

    Are… Are you pulling out the “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” trick?

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    Comment #45287134

    If only there was a high-ranking official at Microsoft, who could prioritize security[1]! /s [1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/03/prioritizing-sec...

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    Comment #45273529

    I'm pretty sure Google can buy a femtocell to simulate local mobile network of their own.

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    Comment #44970327

    Initial commit: Jun 24, 2025. Already has a migration path from 0.x to 1.x. Why am I feeling so old now? On a more serious note, do any models support this?

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    Comment #44865807

    Given that it’s going to be a part of “Microsoft CoreAI organization”, whatever that is, there will be even more AI stuff.

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    Comment #44853495

    Ah yes, because only Russians can be criminals. And also Russians cannot be born in Eastern Europe.

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    Comment #44326097

    Usual arguments for "upgrading" are: * We can't hire specialists for older frameworks. * We can't generate positive hipe over older technologies. * New technologies are better, so …

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    Comment #43959876

    I’d just wait a bit. At current rate of progress winner will be apparent sooner rather than later.

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    Comment #43561466

    My coworker uses thunderbird since time immemorial, and I don’t think it ever corrupted his mailbox.

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    Comment #43362192

    Microsoft doesn't compete with Google.