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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment on Thursday July 10, 2025 @02:14PM (#44523901)
Despite all the great technology and improvements over the years, consumer energy in Europe has never been so expensive.
In the beginning there was a saying, "nobody cares what your code looks like, as long as it works". We went full circle.
VB came around 9 years later.
As long as we dont fine the people in charge, these fines are useless and have no impact.
Re:Sycophancy in GPT-4o on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @09:59AM (#43845374)
I see more and more GROK used responses on X, so its picking up.
Re:AI TIMLINE – All prominent events in the field on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @05:50AM (#43843020)
Typo in the title, TIMELINE.
If you ask, where is this photo taken and you provide the EXIF data, why would that be cheating?
404 on the demo link.
Re:Google Is Winning on Every AI Front on Saturday April 12, 2025 @07:27AM (#43663475)
But, its Google, you will end up as the product.
Re:Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @12:20PM (#43633833)
Why doesnt google offer the most advanced voice technology when they offer a playback version, it still sounds like the most basic text to voice.
Re:Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @12:29PM (#43473161)
Its a great tool and for a front end developer its reasonable.
Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:20AM (#43469660)
Bluetooth comes to mind.
Re:Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström has died on Thursday March 13, 2025 @09:15AM (#43352987)
We are getting older and so are your heroes. They just die.
Re:Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @01:14PM (#43175345)
I am a bad player, but this was pretty easy to win, but i like the idea, Nice work.
Sounds more like you can taste static electricity.
Or ask the original creator if he can publish the script used.
Re:Sunsetting Create React App on Saturday February 15, 2025 @04:06AM (#43057097)
Nobody knows how to write react anymore.
Re:Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play? on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:13AM (#43034513)
I use it because most of my clients use it. Chrome still has a market share of 66%.
Re:The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:45AM (#43023244)
I applaud the work and thoughts the author put in this system, but for me it just demonstrates why all these complex digital controls fail. I have a older mercedes, my seat heating has one knob, 3 settings, high, low, off. Those buttons, i can find them blindfolded.
Thats what i meant, the phone part.
Re:Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog on Thursday January 30, 2025 @01:23PM (#42880548)
Host your own. Keep it simple.
Born in 1959, i miss the days without cellphones.
Re:A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet on Friday January 24, 2025 @01:02PM (#42815641)
Twitter was based on sms, the standard SMS character limit is 160. They used 140 so they could use the remained 20 chars for other purposes.
Re:Nokia Design Archive on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:55AM (#42724137)
The interface is a mess, but the data is phenomenal.
Re:Take the Pedals Off the Bike on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:36AM (#42708713)
We call them steps or sitting steps, thats how we learned how to ride a bike.
Re:Bogus Software on Thursday January 02, 2025 @07:57AM (#42574015)
Compiling Clipper those days took around 45 minutes.
Re:Dog Aging Project on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @05:22AM (#42557771)
So when i join the project, my dog becomes a guinea pig for testing Rapamycin?
Re:Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:50AM (#42538625)
Isnt that just a modified mp3 player, according to the text they only just recite it.
There is a demo video on the page.
Re:Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' on Monday December 23, 2024 @04:08AM (#42492991)
This contradicts the finds of the author, this story means it was regular DTMF used while the author could not find that. Or am i missing something?

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