PeterStuer
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:55PM (#50318930)
Having spent a significant time in academia, the problem is you are never judged on what works, but on what idea you can take credit for. Now this is not great for innovation, but it is disasterous for keeping things running.
Re:OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:21AM (#50289563)
All the money is in enterprise. Contrary to your experience in software development and other frontier knowledge tasks, 90% of enterprise ai tasks are pretty mundane so much so that GPT 4o was already plenty enough.
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:40AM (#50288878)
The attrocious moderation was just an accelerator. SO was doomed the second it gained enough traction to become a resume padder and consultancy funnel.
Re:If IPv4 Were Land
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:56AM (#50288193)
Then again, given some even failed to adopt the metric system ...
Also, that same tech industry has shown remarcable competence in working around IPv4's limitations.
Re:Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @01:40PM (#50233999)
From observation there is definitly a difference in attitude regarding automation between the sexes on average. Men seem much more eager to automate chores than woman.
Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:42PM (#50222932)
We've had plenty of reasons to "replace American technology" for at least 50 years. Did we? Not one bit.
Re:Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:33PM (#50222866)
Maybe naive on my part, but from a security pov I trust my bank's app more than the browser on my pc.
Re:The Public Pays to Produce Research. Shareholders Collect the Return
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:55PM (#50143515)
Btw. You'd be surprised how many academics favor the good old publisher system over open access. The exorbitant library fees were always from the general budget. The open access publishing fees get charged to the labs publishing. And yes, often 1 layer down it is all the same government subsidies payed by your tax dollar. But the last layer just sees my dollar vs not my dollar.
Re:Why do computers/phones have a restart option along with the power ...
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:56PM (#50134505)
On Windows restart is not the same as shutdown/power on. I had a pc thar could not restart, but could boot after shutdown.
Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:37PM (#50134353)
I've been around research enough to be allowed to comment: "oh you sweet summer child".
Re:Fruits and Vegetables 50% Less Nutritious Than in the 1960s
on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:32PM (#50120547)
I predict GLP-1 infused foods with even more addictive sugar/salt/fat bliss points and other substances. Keep your junkies less aware for longer.
Re:A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:18PM (#50045485)
It is January 2015. San Francisco is short of housing in the middle of a tech boom, and most of its land has a 40-foot height limit. You are a resident with a fully paid of mortgage living in the home you love. Nearby, three project teams "landed" with a list of parking lots. Your goal is to keep your neighbourhood 'till 2031 when "tech" will abandon the valley.
Re:Ukrainian Drones Strike Russia's Lukoil Refinery 1,700 Km Away
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:50PM (#50045183)
The main victims of this attack seem to be not the Russians, but the UK and the EU. If winter hits hard, is the UK still ok after this strike? How's the state of their national reserves?
Re:Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:44PM (#50045123)
My gut instinct and observations are that the root is not "ultraprocessed" but the level of what I would call "calory accessibility". They do overlap but are not the same. Take the same steak, eaten raw or artisanally minced into a sausage. Neither would be called "ultraprocessed". However, the "predigestion" process in the latter means our metabolism will have a far easier time extracting the energy from that same meat. Look at the foods obese people gravitate towards: it is not just high sugary salty fats. Yes, it is those, but on top of that those under easy release forms.
Re:Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:29PM (#50023887)
And you bought a dvd player with rom burned "region" code.
Re:US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Pea...
on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:23PM (#50023788)
In your flawed analogy it would be more like unlimited mail-in ballot harvesting vs. supervision inside the voting booth.
Re:US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hate...
on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:03PM (#50023455)
What are the odds a US's "NGO" and Hamas's concept of "Hate Speech" would allign?
Re:US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Pea...
on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:55PM (#50023349)
Both actions were 100% political.
Re:Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications us...
on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:35PM (#50023031)
"Journalism" hasn't worked for decades. It's all nepo-baby emo diaries, subsidy milking and clickbait farming these days.
Re:Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:59AM (#50018782)
In my case Pangolin as a secured gateway to my homelab services.
Re:Show HN: Microsoft Office Running with Wine on Linux with No Virtua...
on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:51PM (#49757005)
365 on Linux with a sup? Why would MS not celebrate this? Windows consumer has been a loss leader for quite some time, and entreprise wont touch it till its 100% cleared.
Re:Backups Aren't Simple
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:59AM (#49739011)
The only backup system that I truly love and trust (from experience) is Proxmox Backup Server.
Re:Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:28AM (#49682774)
The remote driver/observer has full access to the cabin footage no?
Re:Eating Fruit Skins
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:23PM (#49675437)
Only in America.
Re:Eating Fruit Skins
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:22PM (#49675427)
You pince of the leaves. Where do you imagine the waste?
Re:Eating Fruit Skins
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:21PM (#49675415)
You can shave the hairy ones.
Re:Eating Fruit Skins
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:19PM (#49675388)
Umless specifically indicated as untreated, citrus peel in soaked in very nasty antifungal waxes. In the EU they are specifucally warned about not fit for consumption.
Re:Eating Fruit Skins
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:16PM (#49675354)
Most of the insecticide sprays are on the skin. You can eat the seeds, maybe don't bite them as they taste nasty. Eating the core is not the most pleasant part, and the top and bottom might be be most difficult to rinse the sprays from.
Re:IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:43PM (#49674264)
Cut the cardboard crap. Make Billy great again!
Re:Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived
on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:24PM (#49662986)
Difference between then and now is back then you still had to clear an in person exam. Not a lot of room for cheating when you were on your own standing at a blackboard on front of the professor.