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>Spawning Sub-Agent: "Dr. Evil"
For me, it's Bottish
Re:NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:41AM (#48717971)
There is one instance where the NUMA performance never disappoints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqd1Gvq-RBY
Re:The 2-Year Apartment Rule on Thursday June 18, 2026 @06:12AM (#48583238)
Duly noted.
Re:The 2-Year Apartment Rule on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:53AM (#48582686)
The best thing I've found after dealing with mold is a simple 3% hydrogen peroxide solution that is sold in any drugstore. Put it in a spray bottle and soak the area deeply enough and it should kill it down to the roots.

And a plus is that when it breaks down the only fumes it gives off is pure oxygen, unlike other cleaners like bleach. It did such a good job that I use peroxide as a general purpose cleaner now.

I will add one note that you should rinse your hands regularly if cleaning with peroxide. Just a few days ago I had a leaky spray nozzle, and the peroxide was on my finger long enough that it was able to soak in. It turned my skin chalk-white and caused an uncomfortable bubbling sensation inside my skin. I had no idea it was even a reaction that could happen. It only lasted for a few hours, but it's not something I would want to happen again.

Re:Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:35AM (#48514498)
BAA VRAM EWE
Re:GPT‑5.3 Instant on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:21PM (#47240539)
>Making fun of white people is different because it's a social construct for the privileged class and not some fixed ethnic group. It's a critique of power and not a group of people.

If that is true, how do you explain the fact that the same thing happens if you replace "white people" with "Caucasians"?

>artery-on-a-chip devices

Can they run DOOM?

Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:21AM (#44623649)
The last two times I purchased men's socks off the shelf at a big box store, they looked like fishnets after I put them on. Perfectly normal looking, brand name crew socks.
Re:Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods on Saturday July 12, 2025 @04:15AM (#44540248)
It's agendas all the way down
Re:Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @03:32AM (#44113537)
>Maybe the universe has some crazy repulsive force when atoms or subatomic particles get really really close (closer than in neutron stars, where atoms are femtometers apart).

The Celestial Ick

Re:The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023) on Saturday April 19, 2025 @05:43AM (#43735332)
>Alan Partridge

Let's not forget that the Alan Partridge character was borne on Chris Morris' absolutely genius radio show "On The Hour", and made it onto tv on Morris' televised successor "The Day Today".

Which reminds me of the actual high water mark of British comedy, which was Chris Morris' third and final series "Brass Eye". He rustled too many feathers with that one.

It's a damn shame that those shows have been wiped from YouTube. For my money, Chris Morris is the most unappreciated creator of the 90s/00s, limey or not.

Re:The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023) on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:34AM (#43735080)
You might not like it, but this is what peak bri'ish comedy looks like.

https://youtu.be/B74_ZoniuPE

Birds, mostly
Re:Open source, 3D-printable smart chess board on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @04:10AM (#43554601)
You can use a cheap desktop CNC machine to mill circuit boards.
i'll let you go ahead and explain how they controlled for squirming, I'm interested
How vivid are we talking, on a scale of 1 to Young Sheldon? https://youtu.be/od6Zq5T57R0?&t=26
>Failure of any of these steps [encoding, long-term etching, and recall of memory] causes amnesia. So, which steps are responsible for the erosion of baby memories?

>Who knows! Kids squirm around too much in MRI machines! But they start encoding things around a year, or maybe before, or maybe after!

I've been clickbaited

Re:ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving on Sunday March 23, 2025 @04:39AM (#43451607)
Define 'magic'.
There's a mote on the crack on the Mössbauer spectrometer on the instrument arm on the rover in the hole in the bottom of the sea of tranquility
Perhaps a more accurate title would be "Why parents of young children should focus on building trust with their kids". In any case, thanks for the enlightening article.
Re:How does DeepSeek work: An inside look on Saturday February 08, 2025 @05:16AM (#42981928)
Back when I started using LLMs for writing code I would type out long, gently phrased explanations about why it was wrong, as if I was teaching a pupil, hoping it would help. I'm sure a lot of us did. If they can parse and mine those prompts, they'll have a nice little metacorpus to build on.

Now I just tell it to stop being stupid over and over until it does a good job. I wonder if it would improve the model to keep all of the beratement in the training data.

Edit: Apparently a 'metacorpus' is a swollen nematode ass. My sincerest apologies, bros.

Re:Kagi – Introducing Fair Pricing on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:57AM (#42946336)
Note to self: Make something good enough that friends will feel the need to make up pitches for their friends to use said thing.
>This is madness

THIS

IS

CALIFORNIA!

Re:Authoritarian Coups Are Gradual Then Sudden on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:49AM (#42896658)
What constitutes infiltration?
Re:Authoritarian Coups Are Gradual Then Sudden on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:31AM (#42896568)
>Infiltrating police departments and the enlisted ranks of the military

>Taking over school boards and local boards of elections

Just to play devil's advocate, is it possible that the far right has been under the impression that the far left has been doing the same thing?

Re:Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer on Sunday January 05, 2025 @04:11AM (#42600631)
>BPA in thermal paper was a concern of mine as well, but I thankfully found some BPA-free thermal paper on Amazon!

Cheers to that. A note about buying BPA-free thermal paper on the site might be nice, especially for those who plan to have children interact with your project.

Re:Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer on Sunday January 05, 2025 @03:39AM (#42600536)
Sure, but it's a lot easier to avoid a harmful chemical (and protect children from it) when you have been informed that it's there.
Re:Guten: A Tiny Newspaper Printer on Sunday January 05, 2025 @12:45AM (#42600018)
Very cool, but FYI, many types of thermal paper contain extremely high levels of the chemical BPA.
Re:Show HN: Stable Diffusion 3.5 – Advanced AI Image Generator on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @03:00AM (#41922557)
>click generate

>"you must be logged in to view billing information"

wow

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