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New comment by stvltvs in "Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

stvltvs — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:59:22 +0000

I got mouths to feed, and if I only worked at places where I respected everyone in top leadership, well ... we'd probably starve.

New comment by stvltvs in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

stvltvs — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:32:27 +0000

Depending on how we measure it, either 58% or 75% of that heavily subsidized soy goes to feed animals.

https://insideanimalag.org/share-of-soybean-crop-for-feed/

New comment by stvltvs in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

stvltvs — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:52:07 +0000

The real risk is when shareholders realize an LLM can do the CEO's job.

New comment by stvltvs in "The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?"

stvltvs — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:28:41 +0000

CS hiring has always been very cyclical, and there have been more flush times prior to 2010 where CS more or less guaranteed a good paying job.

New comment by stvltvs in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

stvltvs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:56:10 +0000

Insurance companies are using AI (whatever that means in this case) to make coverage denial decisions. That can be reasonably summarized as robots are taking away our healthcare.

New comment by stvltvs in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

stvltvs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:50:18 +0000

Nobody in your circle of friends/acquaintances perhaps.

New comment by stvltvs in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

stvltvs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:48:11 +0000

Even if it can give the right answer when asked, will it necessarily account for that in a recipe it generates? A beginning cook may not know enough to ask.

New comment by stvltvs in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

stvltvs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:44:51 +0000

A naive hope perhaps, but this ignores the risk of LLMs just creating a bad recipe based on the blind combination of various recipes in their training data.

New comment by stvltvs in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

stvltvs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:28:17 +0000

Even if I change the setting, my messages aren't truly secure against this unless all recipients do the same on all of their devices.

New comment by stvltvs in "Helium Is Hard to Replace"

stvltvs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:57:45 +0000

Even if it didn't, collecting it seems wildly expensive.

New comment by stvltvs in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

stvltvs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:46:39 +0000

* is unrelated to the modern form

New comment by stvltvs in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

stvltvs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:17:43 +0000

I think this is straining the meaning of false friends. They are derived from closely related forms and differ only slightly in meaning: "to us two" versus "to us all". I guess if you see that as a significant difference, but a more typical example would be English parents vuersus Italian parenti meaning kin.

New comment by stvltvs in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

stvltvs — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:24:30 +0000

Contrary to what GP said, they're not false friends. They're a (lost) part of English's Germanic roots, shared with modern German.

Edit: Check out the Proto-Germanic personal pronouns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Proto-Germanic_person...

New comment by stvltvs in "Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates"

stvltvs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:55:55 +0000

Are you converting the SSIS automatically somehow or rewriting it?

New comment by stvltvs in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

stvltvs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:24:33 +0000

How so?

New comment by stvltvs in "US reputation hits 'depths not seen this century' – and 'may never recover'"

stvltvs — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:59:37 +0000

The US is relatively weak without its allies. NATO was the real superpower in the west. The current regime got too big for their britches and tried to go it alone.

New comment by stvltvs in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

stvltvs — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:20:05 +0000

Whether or not the UX is better, from a security standpoint I choose the web version because of browser sandboxing unless I'm forced to use the app. If I'm forced to use the app, I probably choose not to use the service.

New comment by stvltvs in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

stvltvs — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:55:53 +0000

Pending availability of specialists, willingness to travel, etc.

New comment by stvltvs in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

stvltvs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:10:34 +0000

True, but I'm guessing they're referring to anatomically modern humans which have only been here for a couple hundred thousand years. Not sure that's a meaningful way to look at it since I'm assume Neanderthals also evolved somewhat during that time.

New comment by stvltvs in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

stvltvs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:47:50 +0000

Missing the point. If CEOs realize that they're more replaceable by AI than nurses and medical assistants, for example, then maybe they'll take a more nuanced view of the technology.