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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:18AM (#50300429)
Those people arent just independently wealthy and want for nothing. They are ultra rich. They have power.

That’s very different from saying everybody can now have a life style that is above the poverty line and never have to work to keep that.

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:04PM (#50280876)
Spoken like someone who’s not tried to buy any computer anywhere in the last year.

All the pricing is bad everywhere.

Re:It's still OK to enjoy programming on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:19AM (#50161303)
So? It’s for your own fun. Who cares if another tool exists? Multiple things that do the same thing exist everywhere.
Apple used to have maintenance releases. They used to be known for their taste.

They should absolutely cop the criticism. It’s not like they don’t have the resources to make their software better.

Re:Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:39PM (#50098484)
Which freecad MCP are you using?
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:36PM (#50098468)
All health professionals are hit or miss. Just like every other profession. You have to shop around and get 2nd opinions.

When you find a good provider it’s a real pain to have switch.

I’m in Australia though. Switching is cheap and easy.

Re:Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:04AM (#50082609)
“Snowflake” used to be a pejorative to describe the political left…
They should have brought back Hodgeman for the ad campagin
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:55PM (#50063590)
Sure, we need redundancies and checks and balances in the system. You can’t trust everyone.

It’s not as though people who cheat the system aren’t reported or found out. Academics that lie in their research and companies that use loop holes are found out all the time. Maybe there is no will in some countries to do anything about it, but they are found out.

Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:43PM (#50063461)
Which is why it’s not just up to a drug company to self approve itself.
Re:Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] on Sunday October 11, 2026 @07:53PM (#50049436)
I think his last point is important

* Could the AI solution be somehow misaligned by exploiting a weakness in the trial process or its math models?*

Maybe it’s a clumsy example but I think the difference is humans would follow the spirit of the trial process.

Could an AI find flaws in the process and then use them to get its drug passed? I think that’s the question.

Are you saying that the trail process is good enough that we shouldn’t worry about it?

I have heard the analysis by political pundits and I agree with it in context, but it’s still incredibly insane.

We basically cannot trust America anymore since its people have, as a whole, have lost the ability to reason and think critically. And the people in power want it that way. They prefer do disenfranchise most of their population so they can win elections using their core base who will believe anything.

Everybody just stop subscribing and do something else and pirate the shit out of their content.
Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:54AM (#49961909)
Fair point. It was OEMs. But that’s normally how you got windows. I don’t use windows much these days so I have no idea what the modern annoyances are.
Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:28PM (#49959438)
I’m not saying it’s not feasible. See Windows. The effort that Microsoft put into backwards compatibility was incredible. But it’s also questionable.

Even a good emulator might fix bugs that some piece of software relied on.

It’s certainly a shame if they got rid of Rosetta forever so hopefully it’s still available as an optional download.

Re:"No Vendor Lock-In" Is Code for "No Product" on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:05PM (#49959272)
And within what I can afford or what I want to spend, I think it’s useful to use different models for different tasks.

So I want a harness that I can use with multiple models.

Re:So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:56PM (#49958305)
Is not capability to pay though. Sometimes you have no control on who you hire or you just have no experience and make a bad choice.
Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:54PM (#49958292)
I’m not making any judgement on whether you should or should not like the feature.

I’m stating that the Windows problem was very different. Your machine would be loaded up with software for various vendors that the manufacturer did deals with to lower the price of the machine. They were all trials.

Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:48PM (#49958243)
The alternative is maintaining backwards compatibility forever and then everyone will complain about some weird behaviour that still happens to retain that compatibility.

Keep in mind this is the second time they have switched arches and the second round of complaints of Rosetta removal.

Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:43PM (#49958195)
On windows you got garbage like trial versions of Blah software.

This is a fully functioning feature that people don’t like for what ever reason.

Re:So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:00AM (#49951675)
>* I’ve worked trades. I loved a lot about it! But I’m so glad this article pointed out the range of status: not all trades, or roles within one are equal. If you are an incredible welder who can run a perfect seam every time you can command a huge salary. For the rest of the welders it is quite different. If you can handle customers and a crew you can run a quite lucrative electrician shop, for the rest of construction it is quite different. Repeat.*

This is quite obviously true whenever you hire trades people. I had a guy just cut into a pipe behind some dry wall. I’m uncertain how after looking at hole and the pipe.

I remain convinced that anyone enterprising could build a very lucrative trades business simply because so many trades people are bad.

Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Saturday October 03, 2026 @09:49PM (#49949799)
Did the post actually justify anything? Reads like a list of things that make simplification of laws hard.

And if you can’t sympathise with any of those cases, I hope you’re never called upon to decide anything involving other people.

Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:26PM (#49916587)
56k modems is an application of Shannon’s Theorem.

You only got max speeds where the noise was low enough.

You’re absolutely right. I’m on my phone trying to imagine the scenarios in my head and trying to find the simplest possible example.

Maybe 4 participants is too few to clearly see what happens.

Imagine you are the proposer. You will start at the top of your list and work your way down only if rejected. So you are guaranteed to the best you could possibly do.

Imagine A ranks X and Y in that order B ranks Y and X in that order

Both X and Y rank A and B in that order.

A will propose to X and match. B will propose to X and get rejected. B will propose to Y and match. Y will never get a proposal from A.

Gale-Shapely provides the best possible stable outcome for the proposing side.

You’re never going to match with people who aren’t actively looking.

You’re only ever going to match with the people who are looking at the same time as you.

Your criticisms are true of real life without apps. That’s why we have this thing called “divorce”.

Comments like these always seem to miss the point. They aren’t trying to solve marriage. They are trying to create social lubricants to get young people more interested in dating. This algorithm tries to ensure that at the very least your core values at the time match up.

Re:Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:14AM (#49890758)
The solution is testing it yourself, not more AI
MongoDB is a publicly traded company. You have to have inform people when C-level (other key personnel???) get shares, sell them.
D2 has some support for this. You can fix the position of certain elements and then it will redraw things around it.

I’ve been thinking about something similar to this but D2 wasn’t totally open source until now.

Re:The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014) on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:46PM (#49849741)
This is a reflection of those people.

My core group will backstab each other gleefully and when the game is over, that’s it. We’re done. Because none of this is real. We wouldn’t even help each other if we played with other people. We’re all trying to win.

Although I suppose you’re right. If I played with two people, and the role of one of them is simply to help the others game, I’d never play with them.

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