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Re:ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:49PM (#49615959)
Wow, just a quick check .... it appears you are correct.

  Golf: ~531 billion gal/year
  Data centers: ~17 billion gal/year
  Golf ≈ 31× as much
Indirect Water footprint via Electricity Usage:

  Golf: ~500–531B gallons
  Data centers including electricity: ~228B gallons
Re:EFF is leaving X on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:43PM (#47708758)
Unfortunately this is true. Around a year, or two years ago the WaPo (back before it was a total shill, yes it was still bad but... you know) had an article about how all the rhetoric from the far right in the US was almost, word for word, what was said a little more than 100 years ago. It was downright scary. Some part of the US has _always_ been that way. Maybe someone can find the article.
Re:Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis on Sunday March 15, 2026 @06:46PM (#47392813)
Everytime I see a trailer for an american film I feel like it's the same crap just re-hashed with different actors and the same plots over and over again. Give me something original. Something from Japan, Turkey, India, someone with a new idea. The Koreans? Yup, they push the boundaries of story telling. For example the School Nurse Files, that was either one of the best or the worse series I've ever seen. I'm still trying to figure it out. No way a Hollywood studio would take a risk like TSNF.
> Version 145.0.7632.160 (Build officiel) (arm64)

Yeah, I've tried switching the languages, not ALL the text on the page changes from the default language and I've tried not changing the lang. Same thing.

ahh right, wrong error. This is the one I get: Uncaught Error: Minified React error #418; visit https://react.dev/errors/418?args[]=HTML&args[]= for the full message or use the non-minified dev environment for full errors and additional helpful warnings.

That's from an incognito window on Chrome

wow, ok. I definitely need this! This is my life now with French, Russian, German and whatever language of the moment I am messing around with.

However, it stills looks like it's tied to localhost? I get a web socket error (to localhost:8081) and when I type the name of the title into the search title. Nothing happens and the button doesn't look like I can click it (no highlighting)

> It’ll be Cuba

Yes, who is taking bets? Gotta get money on the line.

Shocked. I'm truly shocked. Absolutely, completely and utterly shocked. Who woulda thought?
Re:Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died on Friday February 27, 2026 @02:41PM (#47184634)
Yeah, I never got pulled into Hyperion but The Terror was.. something else. Just a masterpiece, and the TV series came nowhere near.
Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:24AM (#46960952)
Nothing in France takes Discover, and my bank decided to go with Discover about 6 months ago. "Great" decision, thanks.
Re:OpenClaw Is Changing My Life on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:58PM (#46936776)
Look I already told you, I deal with the @#$% customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
Re:Cows Can Use Sophisticated Tools on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:50PM (#46683606)
That definitely counts!
Re:Any level of alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia on Monday September 29, 2025 @08:06PM (#45420408)
>I have never heard of them, those are the mythical beings nobody has ever seen.

Cue my father-in-law.

Re:Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit on Friday September 19, 2025 @10:46PM (#45309799)
“Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence”
Re:Self Propagating NPM Malware Compromises over 40 Packages on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @08:38PM (#45270140)
For those of you without a security dept, hopefully this is of some help: https://github.com/Cobenian/shai-hulud-detect

more updates soon and PRs welcome.

Re:Does anyone still use Morse code? on Friday September 05, 2025 @01:36PM (#45141244)
This is comment I was looking for. Can't wait to read about your learning experience and thanks for the link to morsecode.world
Re:Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @03:49PM (#44586105)
Go for it. All that sounds like fun.
Re:LLM Inevitabilism on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:06PM (#44575820)
> 2. Almost three years in, companies investing in LLMs have not yet discovered a business model that justifies the massive expenditure of training and hosting them,

I always think back to how Bezos and Amazon were railed against for losing money for years. People thought that would never work. And then when he started selling stuff other than books? People I know were like: please, he's desperate.

Someone, somewhere will figure out how to make money off it - just not most people.

> Non-sequitor.

> Red herring.

> Must be true!

Someone took a class (or two) on Arguments!

Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms on Monday June 09, 2025 @08:21PM (#44231154)
> I’m autistic, but this won’t only affect autistic people. A lot of people are going to have problems with this. I hope there’s a very prominent way to turn it off.

How can that possibly be? Didn't he say it will: "bring joy and delight to _every_ user experience"

That means YOU as well. No way he could over-selling something. Inconceivable.

Re:My Engineering Craft Regressed on Thursday May 15, 2025 @11:19AM (#43995952)
Yes, especially if you don't take care of your body and your mental health.
Leigh is fantastic, I would also recommend Shaila Catherine's book `The Jhanas: A Practical Guide to Deep Meditative States`
Well obviously the roads, the roads go without saying, don't they?
Re:Don't be terrified of Pale Fire on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @09:59AM (#40584878)
> Much more fun than university seminars on Tolstoevsky, не так ли?

Только если вам не нравится Достоевский! Но мало кто может сравниться с Набоков.

Back to Firefox!
Re:The case for never reading the book jacket on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:52PM (#38455345)
I remember reading Ender's Game and being blown away by it when I was younger. Years later I picked up a new edition of it in a bookstore and read the back cover. The spoiler is right there. IMO that ruins the entire book if you know. I still can't believe the publishing house did that.
Douglas Crockford used to work there and several other JS programmers that were doing really interesting work. In a span of about 3 months they all left. I remember thinking WTH is going on there that they all bailed that quick?

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