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961.
by layer8 5mo ago
Most academic math is still done with pencil and paper, so there is that.
962.
by layer8 5mo ago
Luckily, humans will always remain relevant to humans.
963.
by layer8 5mo ago
I’m curious, why is it awkward to write with a regular Russian keyboard layout? Presumably due to punctuation and not due to the Cyrillic characters?
964.
by layer8 5mo ago
Can’t it run restricted to a single application in kiosk mode? Unless the application itself provides distraction, what would be distracting?
965.
by layer8 5mo ago
This could happen with a large number of integrations or agent swarms working 24/7 with high throughput and long contexts.
966.
by layer8 5mo ago
The alternative is what the Visual Basic editor does: It indents automatically; not only when pressing return, but whenever the caret is moved to another line. This means you virtually can’t fail to notice that you missed an END IF or simil
967.
by layer8 5mo ago
Sure. I was challenging the parent on how the “game” they are positing would play out.
968.
by layer8 5mo ago
There wasn’t 20x value to pay for in the middle ages either.
969.
by layer8 5mo ago
“Through” 2029 is a bit more than three and a half years. The $2T are likely the yearly average of the $7T in that period.
970.
by layer8 5mo ago
Who pays for that value, and from what, if all knowledge workers lose their jobs? It sounds like the economy would largely reduce to the small minority class of independently wealthy people.
971.
by layer8 5mo ago
IMO Morse code misses the point, because it doesn’t depict letters, it encodes the abstract characters into completely different “glyphs”. In particular, knowing the English letters doesn’t make you understand Morse code the way it makes yo
972.
by layer8 5mo ago
I remember back in 1995 thinking that it was stupid for Java not to have generics, so instead you had to always cast Vector/Hashtable elements from Object, or implement your own type-specific container classes for every element type (a
973.
by layer8 5mo ago
It’s still annoying ~20 years after Java did the same mistake of not including generics, which was already clear to many people with C++ experience back then.
974.
by layer8 5mo ago
You might get fired for still using spreadsheets. ;)
975.
by layer8 5mo ago
That experience is better characterized as unprofessional, then. ;)
976.
by layer8 5mo ago
I feel that if there was a startup that would tackle automating copy&paste, they could take over the world. ;)
977.
by layer8 5mo ago
Because those don’t boot into a fixed interactive programming environment with a BASIC-like language and REPL to easily do simple things on the same screen and using the same keyboard you also use for programming. Your proposed setup has mo
978.
by layer8 5mo ago
The language (MicroScript) doesn’t require indentation, it’s only used for readability, like in BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and similar languages. Blocks are delimited by key words (“end if” etc.).
979.
by layer8 5mo ago
Apparently it’s high-level only, i.e. no underlying machine instruction set or addressable memory.
980.
by layer8 5mo ago
It’s a case of sour grapes though, in reality they’d still want Anthropic’s grapes.
981.
by layer8 5mo ago
> If one works for a gun manufacturer, should they feel personally guilty when crimes are committed? I would be very conflicted, because the inherent purpose of a gun is its ability to harm people, regardless of whether any given concret
982.
by layer8 5mo ago
Where did you find a parachute?
983.
by layer8 5mo ago
The article is weird, but I wouldn’t take the major AI companies as being representative of companies in general.
984.
by layer8 5mo ago
I would add: Either you are an engineer that management trusts and whose judgement they value, or you aren’t. If you aren’t, you’re in a bad position anyway.
985.
by layer8 5mo ago
Previous discussion (124 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45236263
986.
by layer8 5mo ago
Yeah, I understand that Dropbox isn’t thinking how I think. My argument is that even if they lose these corporate contracts, it should still be a viable (if much smaller) business to serve those users that do care. In other words, it wouldn
987.
by layer8 5mo ago
Not true. They state “ just add "generated by an LLM" but do not give those companies free advertising space ”, and the reference to merge requests is specifically in regard to disclosing which AI tool was used.
988.
by layer8 5mo ago
You could do that without naming the AI product.
989.
by layer8 5mo ago
Bad AI code can look superficially good in a way that bad human code doesn’t. That’s why AI attribution is useful. That’s before you know whether the code is actually good.
990.
by layer8 5mo ago
Ah, I see. But that usage is exactly why they don’t permit it anymore, it’s been abused too much. People were hosting whole sites on Dropbox, that’s not what it’s for.

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