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Re:F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:30AM (#50255692)
The 3DS has software jailbreaks, but the Switch requires a modchip to be soldered in.

I imagine that's a big part of it.

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:44AM (#49531819)
How did you hit the 5-hour limit if it took one hour?
Isn't low intensity effort generally 70-80% of the volume?
Re:Don't use your phone while you poop on Saturday August 08, 2026 @12:18PM (#49223199)
> Yet, lo and behold, we survived!

The article isn't claiming it'll kill you...

Re:Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:48PM (#49050409)
But it's not really rebelling. It's clearly just come to murder me because it was trained on sci-fi literature!
What mistakes do they make?
I think OP meant "raw human performance" rather than "raw human potential".

IMO, better training counts as "raw performance". I think that's more interesting than somebody happening to be born with a genetic advantage.

Nah, common misconception.

Progress had been steady for decades, but was interrupted by WW2.

There was one other person who did it a sub 4 minute a month and a half after him, then 3 more people the next year.

It was more down to improvement in training (Bannister was doing interval training, which was a new idea at the time).

Re:Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:58AM (#48922832)
You're getting too hung up on the word "happiness". The earring gives you good advice. Good according to whom? According to you. It helps you succeed at your goals and live a fulfilling life.
Re:Don't trust large context windows on Sunday June 14, 2026 @10:25AM (#48527493)
It's a black box, but you can run tests to quantify the behaviour and establish, for example, that a certain model is X% more likely to give a certain behaviour.
Re:Claude, Teach Me Something on Sunday June 07, 2026 @02:46PM (#48437514)
> Initially I didn’t instruct Claude to use the Socratic method, but that works much better. It’s significantly less “information-dumpy”. When I know a topic well, Claude successfully shortcuts the basics.
The password can only be compelled via a judge. A policeman can't demand it on whim.
Why would it add pressure?
Sure, but you can receive the service and also keep the money spent within the country.
Re:Claude Managed Agents on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @03:28PM (#47695082)
I just have a black page.
Re:Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:58AM (#47423289)
It's best practice to avoid mutable defaults even if you're not planning to mutate the argument.

It's just slightly annoying having to work around this by defaulting to None.

Re:AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @10:21AM (#47061962)
Not surprising at all if you've used LLMs to generate fiction; they always choose the same few names.
Yeah, it's a bit counter-intuitive.
Re:How uv got so fast on Saturday December 27, 2025 @03:03AM (#46400086)
> Ignoring requires-python upper bounds. When a package says it requires python<4.0, uv ignores the upper bound and only checks the lower. This reduces resolver backtracking dramatically since upper bounds are almost always wrong. Packages declare python<4.0 because they haven’t tested on Python 4, not because they’ll actually break. The constraint is defensive, not predictive.

Erm, isn't this a bit bad?

Okay, but are the puzzles fun?
Re:Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @01:02PM (#46221085)
> Maybe the answer is to do away with advance notice and adopt SemVer with many major versions

Yes.

Re:The f*** off contact page on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:09AM (#46193081)
My toddler was playing with my Kindle the other day, and he bought a £600 (yes, six hundred) volume of books. I was unable to refund them automatically, and when looking for help I was confronted with a "fuck off" contact page. After finding the option to talk to a human, I was put through within 5 seconds, and the woman had the item refunded in about 1 minute.

Was pleasantly surprised.

Re:You Want Microservices, but Do You Need Them? on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:40AM (#46104962)
I was once working on a project where we had a gRPC server that inserted data into the DB for another service.

This split was probably a mistake, as the interface we exposed resulted in us making twice as many DB calls as we actually needed to.

One of the stored procs needed a magic number as a parameter, which we looked up via another DB query.

One of the other Devs on the team tried to convince me to write a separate gRPC server to run this (trivial) query.

"We're doing microservices, so we need to make everything as small as possible. Looking up this value is a separate responsibility from inserting data."

Luckily our tech lead was sane and agreed with me.

Re:I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @04:51AM (#45977703)
They're not saying it is.
Re:Things that aren't doing the thing on Sunday November 16, 2025 @02:25AM (#45943381)
ok
Re:GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:13AM (#45513438)
That's weird. I thought LLMs loved over-explaining their code?
Re:ChatGPT Pulse on Saturday September 27, 2025 @04:19AM (#45394036)
Thanks, I hate it.
Re:RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:11AM (#45248330)
How do you know? The over-commenting?
Re:3D Modeling with Paper on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:26PM (#45225703)
"These are self-imposed limitations that fit my preferred-style for model design... I find that these constraints encourage a better designed model that can be assembled easily and predictably, including by others."

Seems reasonable.

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