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    Comment #49212998

    I heard they invented the GIF

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    Comment #49198719

    It's sad. For all the lamenting that the US is losing industrial capacity (or lost it long ago), we can't even handle some of the lightest industry possible. A big building that hu…

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    Comment #49189863

    Might actually try this

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    Comment #49130942

    Why is this "for the AI era"? Isn't it kind of not for the AI era since an LLM can create a gnarly python or js chart of whatever you want in seconds?

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    Comment #49130934

    hosting and distributing binaries to one person, who is also the person who created the app is free

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    Comment #49103087

    Not everything is a conspiracy

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    Comment #49101014

    They inflamed an online programming language fandom. It's kinda like if they dissed BTS

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    Comment #49025803

    Just gotta make it a few more months now to the IPO

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    Comment #48766484

    Man rebels against capitalist system by living off of proceeds of ownership shares of capitalist system

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    Comment #48763090

    This is a news article about a dumb publicity stunt where a crank put his "AI" on a patent application, and the court said "you have to put your own name on it". It has no bearing …

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    Comment #48711752

    > Why would a carpentry shop buy hundreds of thousands of dollars of power tools without consulting with their employees to see what they actually need to get their job done more e…

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    Comment #48688629

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48688535

    Previous piece from this genre: https://short-edition.com/en/classic/story/mark-twain/a-tele...

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    Comment #48663393

    Is that why it's so hard to get capital, credit, loans, and investment in the USA?

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    Comment #48663375

    This is a core difference between common law and civil law. In common law systems, things tend to get sorted out after the fact, with a judge's discretion, only if things go really…

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    Comment #48634616

    I did some software consulting years ago. Were we overpriced? Probably. But I also saw why we were brought in: - A TDD loop where the Indian QA team played the role of the tests. T…

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    Comment #48574478

    This is less insightful than what people might want to read into it. The democratic party has adopted an anti-ai stance as a position in the partisan football game. NPR tote bag ca…

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    Comment #48560771

    Wait... are you saying that talking about an ex-colleague with anyone (without filing a bunch of paperwork or something) is a "giant loophole in the Fair Credit Reporting Act"?

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    Comment #48483616

    I've simplified it and made it more flexible 3._ 1 _415926535897932384626433832795_ 0 _288419716939

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    Comment #48481691

    In terms of aeronautics, went from the Wright brothers to the moon in 40 years. After that, everyone understandably thought that we'd be living in space and flying everywhere with …

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    Comment #48466972

    Lol I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not

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    Comment #48465297

    At the same time, the only things that get built and sold are the things that someone is capable of building and selling

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    Comment #48463276

    I believe that the issue was that the EU wanted Apple to open up their new AI agent interface (the ability to control every app on your phone so Siri can call you an Uber or whatev…

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    Comment #48453738

    > There are 2 potential outcomes: either the sky really does fall, and there's a meaningful uptick in bad things happening to iPhone users, in which Apple can easily point the fing…

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    Comment #48420106

    > I won’t deny they are useful tools, but the hyperbole from the tech CEOs about them replacing all white collar workers in 12-18 months set the expectation so high that I’m still …