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nullorempty··on The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979
Looking at all those steel beams I have only one thought...
nullorempty··on Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
'3.14159265359...' - there is a lot of room to grow - keep it at pi
nullorempty··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
The biggest issue yet is paying for stuff that pushes woke crap on you.
nullorempty··on AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing
Neither chat-gpt nor gemini got the same answer as the article for me

` What animal is featured on a flag of a country where the first small British colony was established in the same year that Sweden's King Gustav IV Adolf declared war on France? `

chatgpt: Final answer: Lion

gemini: A lion is featured on the flag of Sri Lanka.

nullorempty··on GPT-5
Issue https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/2472 they worked and promised to submit the PR after the show is still open.

Just saying.

nullorempty··on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
I love this response.
nullorempty··on Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce
More a pursuit of short term profit I'd think.
nullorempty··on Amazon CEO says AI agents will soon reduce company's corporate workforce
> We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.

What he hopes for is to just reduce the number of people they employ. So the "more people doing other types of jobs" just makes the message more palatable.

Suppose all companies follow the suite who is going to buy their crap?

nullorempty··on Understanding Tool Calling in LLMs – Step-by-Step with REST and Spring AI
I don't think Spring is well regarded on HN.
nullorempty··on National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records
Or advanced extraterrestrial tech :) How 'bout a photo from july 1975 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Meier#/media/File:Billy_...
nullorempty··on The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing
Yeah, AI crawlers - add that to my list of phobias. Though for a bootstrapped startup why not look to cut all recurrent expenses and just deploy imagemagik that I am sure will do the trick for less.
nullorempty··on Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods
And what teams use these methods exactly?
nullorempty··on Take this on-call rotation and shove it
Nothing like that in Canada or, I suspect, the USA. You'd be expected to work the morning after.
nullorempty··on Take this on-call rotation and shove it
The users of your flawless frameworks absorbed all on-call load.
nullorempty··on Take this on-call rotation and shove it
Yeah, I can relate to people saying they nearly got PTSD, I sure did get it. Paging apps use seriously offensive alarm sounds. I hated every sound they had in the options. It made me instantly sick. Fuck that!
nullorempty··on When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
... we had an amazing sysadmin. He had a shell open on that box when I came to tell the news. He started to type quickly and thoughtfully, trying utilities I haven't even heard of. Then, he echoed a small C program that was supposed to set `x` on the chmod. Quickly he typed `cc x.c` to compile... and then it dawned on him.
nullorempty··on When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
At the start of my career I removed the `x` attribute from all files :)
nullorempty··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
anything that brings value of my money back where travel to Maui was affordable.
nullorempty··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
not from alberta.
nullorempty··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
Invasion? nope, totally voluntarily.
nullorempty··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
didn't hear about this poll. probably cooked.
nullorempty··on Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia
Better that than Maidan.
nullorempty··on Why Layoffs Don't Work
what about layoffs that balance hiring elsewhere - laying off in NA hiring in India.
nullorempty··on Discovery Coding
Discovery coding may be fine, but discovery architecture is a disaster.
nullorempty··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
Try again may be, it had no problem answering this for me.
nullorempty··on Why Canada Should Join the EU
Agrees with my experience with adults and young.
nullorempty··on OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs
I always use AI impersonator to DM my favourite OnlyFans models.
nullorempty··on Implementing Brainfuck in APL
How does Brainfuck compare to Rust?
nullorempty··on Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry
What criteria do you use when calling regime a terrorist regime?
nullorempty··on The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry
Re democracy: we bank online I am sure we have enough tech to make voting secure
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