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franktankbank··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
We follow a path governed only by the logic chain of previous mistakes. Our next recognition of one could be pretty brutal.
franktankbank··on The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
Do not answer calls from random numbers. When has that ever been a benefit?
franktankbank··on Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
The person you are replying to is on every Zig thread bashing it.
franktankbank··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
I think its worthwhile to hear how some self promoting person is actually a piece of crap.
franktankbank··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
And I see AI maximalists circling the wagon.
franktankbank··on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
LLMs don't know anything.
franktankbank··on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
Probably should just import more labor I guess
franktankbank··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
Microsoft is a mafia that sometimes produces code (poorly).
franktankbank··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Freakin useless is hiding OBD codes.
franktankbank··on Alan Greenspan has died
HILARIOUS!
franktankbank··on U.S. science is in chaos
I'm sorry but Rome certainly didn't have airplanes.
franktankbank··on Linux 7.1
Maybe that points to an architecture issue? Is kernel driver support general enough to support all hardware in theory? If so it should be on hardware to provide a compatible api IMO. Note: I really have no experience in any of this there is probably more important things to consider like security/control or something.
franktankbank··on There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing
Avoid walls when walking in hallways.
franktankbank··on Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
> we might finally become productive enough to exhaust the world’s appetite for software.

I think we are past this point personally. Lots of blasphemously useless crap being built.

franktankbank··on Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)
Does not consider global kickback schemes skimming money off the before profit revenue.
franktankbank··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
What hardware are you running? I haven't had issues like you describe in the last decade.
franktankbank··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
Who has the balls to form that team? Were they disbanded?
franktankbank··on Appearing productive in the workplace
You will lose every time. The bar is being lowered to the ground so far that any human can do better, guess where thats cheap as fuck?

Tech in America can't implode soon enough.

franktankbank··on Appearing productive in the workplace
> mechanics also have a pricing book for the task, they know how many hours a task will take on a certain car

I do want to point out that this is used to suppress mechanic salary. Certain jobs are absolutely fucked how its time calibrated. Doesn't matter to business owner they can charge $$$ how they want.

franktankbank··on The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis
Its right there in the damn name!
franktankbank··on McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)
That sounds illegal.
franktankbank··on Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
No I don't really have any expectation at all, just sharing my experience how hard it is even with a pretty bog standard native English upbringing.
franktankbank··on Write some software, give it away for free
Reminds me of "Jia Tan" using sock puppets to bully the maintainer of a critical infrastructure project.
franktankbank··on Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
English has a wide variety of accents, expose yourself enough and its probably healthy for your brain. I used to not be able to understand different American accents and I'm from the Midwest. Context and patience is king.
franktankbank··on For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
> but apparently it's the responsibility of whoever finds the vulnerability

Aka a white hat professional which should be a prized function richly rewarded. Do you really want these things to be calcified into a government function?

franktankbank··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
Same case goes to the same court too many times and you are gonna raise eyebrows.
franktankbank··on U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
> Don't worry, this is beyond unlikely

Ch-eye-na

franktankbank··on U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
Faulty to think we can outsource our inflation globally when that chain can get yanked outside our control.
franktankbank··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
Would you let your nanny subcontract?

edit: Can't reply because I've posted a whole 4 times.

I believe we have different world views which is hardly a disagreement. Answering my question could pretty well highlight our difference of opinion.

franktankbank··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
Because you are at the whims of the bot they are at least partially dependent on.
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