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I am in exactly the same spot you're in. I have two phone numbers available to me and neither is accepted. However, I have a different take on it: Hanlon's Razor says "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." This being the federal government in 2026, I think it's more likely that bureaucratic incompetence at play.
Extrapolate:
Our clients are already asking: "If AI can do this, why do I need a team of five?"
to:
"If AI can do this, why do I even need to do business with your company?"
The point of the ban was not to ban children from social media. The point of the ban was to be seen to ban children from social media.
Astronomers? I know they don't like starlink satellites. Might somebody have access to a powerful enough laser?
It would be nice if we could leave a note explaining why we chose the name we're proposing.
What do you need a super computer for when you have a sharpie?
I've been thinking about how ISO-9000 will be reconciled with LLMs? Will businesses abandon their ISO-9000 certifications in favor of "We use AI" or will ISO-9000 adapt in some way to the "need" for LLMs?
While I'm slaloming between and around potholes and recessed man hole covers, my Accord keeps popping up a "Lane Departure" warning. After a couple hours of this, it will pop up a picture of a coffee cup, hinting that I need break and dose of caffeine. When this happens, I kind of wish the program knew I was avoiding hazards, not driving impaired. I hope this is part of Honda's pothole software.
The decision is aimed at de-escalating the violence between federal agents and rioters...
There were riots? That's the first I heard of it.
I'm not sure how to respond because I don't know what you mean by "systems." Can you offer any examples of systems that were built by average people?
mRNA vaccine? To be fair, the technology has been around for a while, so it may not meet your criteria.
I'm giddy. The megachurch grifters are going to lose their minds. The money people are spending these godless AI companies is rightfully theirs. How are they going to pay for their private jets now?
These two don't seem to agree:
Banning mercury fillings is an easy and cost-effective way to cut pollution... said said Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link
British Dental Association chair, Eddie Crouch, said: “Dental amalgam is tried and tested material and pulling the plug without a transition period would effectively bankrupt NHS dentistry.
Perhaps pulling the teeth with fillings before cremation would be just as environmentally friendly and less likely to bankrupt anyone.
Great puzzle. I enjoyed that.
This is like losing an election and accusing the voters of bias.
Will the LLM recognize that incorrect code is wrong if you add comments?
Will this do?
Does anyone know what this is supposed to mean?:
He said a problem with eliminating fraudulent claims is that “the information that we use through knowledge-based authentication is already in the public domain.”
IMO, I don't think you should necessarily master it, but you should learn it. While I'm sure there is a better language to choose for almost any task, what you learn from Haskell will make you a better programmer in most other languages. In my case, I learned Haskell while I was a using C++ in my job, and my code improved as a result.
I wonder if we worked for the same company?
In my last job, requirements, such as they were, were based on some idea that someone in authority thought we might need. No consideration was given to the needs of the clients of the code. They weren't savvy in the any of the current technologies, so it wasn't even the latest fad.
I developed the skill needed to implement their dumbfsck idea-du-jour quickly and without breaking existing code. However, the resulting code was increasingly more convoluted and incomprehensible. I had inherited a god object that I only added to over time.
When I quit, my boss knew he was not going to find anyone that could keep up my pace, much less understand the code. He tried to get me to stay, but I told him that I will never work on this code again, so there'd be no point in staying.
A couple years later a former coworker told me that the guy that had taken over had a bug in some code that was convoluted but rock solid when I left. I figured he had noodled with the code and broken it. Sucks to be him.
Told my coworker to tell him that my advice it to look for another job.
So yes, I hear you when you say they're perfectly capable of sabotaging themselves.
"I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book" - Albert Einstein
Are these organizations only specifying "memory safe languages" or are they specifying specific languages?
There's something I don't understand. In the trap line for the parent process, the variable "$child_pid" appears. How did that get set?
"C Is Not a Low-level Language. Your computer is not a fast PDP-11." (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479)
If a vaccine exists, it might be cheaper - certainly easier to get approval - to vaccinate the cattle. Maybe nip it in the bud.
More people do use Linux. Everyone with an Android phone uses Linux. Linux runs on many web servers. It runs on many IoT devices. I mean, I know the point this person is trying to make, but they did a sloppy job of it.
Now I totally understand why most computer users aren't interested in an intellectual workout when all they want to do is browse the web or use an app.
This is exactly what my wife's elderly mother wanted to do. We got fed up trying to support her windows computer so I slapped Debian on an old laptop and gave it to her. She loves it and has been using it for years.
An interesting take on the subject: https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-you-do-have-to-tolera...
...leaving only a few to oversee the AI's work.
What, exactly, would this entail, and how many is "only a few?"
Start with https://map.blitzortung.org/ . Zoom in to your area. Pull down the hamburger menu at the top right. Select the "Detectors" check box and slide the slider to the right. I found someone operating a detector a few miles from my house.