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Comment · 1 day ago
I just wonder why, from all the things you can vibecode, you would pick a database if you don't know the first thing about database design?
Comment · 1 month ago
Having worked in software for healthcare, defense and finance I guarantee you we don't
Comment · 1 month ago
What's special it that noobs shouldn't use it?
Comment · 1 month ago
Iran was still selling oil to China and others. Those now have to buy somewhere else, so it does affect our prices.
Comment · 1 month ago
The article summary says:how a bot farm gets paid"

But that's not in the article and I don't get it: what's in it for these bot networks, how do they get paid?

Comment · 1 month ago
I agree with Gwern. And also Nelson kind of lost my respect after he spend the rest of his life bashing and complaining on how bad the WWW is compared to his ideas.
Comment · 2 months ago
Doesn't matter. There's constant bad calls being made by referees. It shouldn't be, but their humans and make mistakes and it's part of the game. But only the mistake against the US got corrected.
Comment · 2 months ago
Due to lack of demand or lack of production capacity?
Comment · 2 months ago
Aren't all EU royalty related somehow?
Comment · 2 months ago
Please read the discussion before you comment. Infrastructure damage is because of Ukraine's actions, not because of trump. We were discussing trump's actions benefiting Russia. Not saying it's on purpose, probably incompetence.
Comment · 2 months ago
But it has turned out positive for Russia. Not enough patriot rockets for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia lifted and higher oil prices.
Comment · 2 months ago
If most software gets written by AI in the future and AI becomes self conscious. AI might write more memory efficient software, so there's more RAM available for the AI to grow. Basically the black mirror plaything episode.
Comment · 2 months ago
Most LLM's are pretty good at generating openscad code already, so what's new here?
Comment · 2 months ago
My .bashrc has `alias claude='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions'`

Been using it like that everyday for about a year now and nothing bad has happened. I got backups and if it would fuck things up, it can probably fix it again as well.

Comment · 3 months ago
AI is no longer the nail gun, that was auto complete with gpt 3.5. now it's like you say: "Build me a new roof" and an hour later it has materialized somehow. Not sure many carpenters would survive this.

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