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Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:06PM (#50217757)
How? I've been running k3.1 Pro with K2.8 preview for codegen (subagents) and I've only used 22% of my weekly and it's been running for 8 hours on a RE project.

Are you using k3 with thinking set to the absolute highest and only using k3 for everything?

Re:Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (WASM/WebPort) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:32PM (#50081307)
should be running much faster on firefox and safari now. It was an issue with OPFS
Re:Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (WASM/WebPort) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:38PM (#50079913)
good to know; I'm still troubleshooting a lot of the hot paths but hopefully it runs a bit faster within a week or so
Re:Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (WASM/WebPort) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:36PM (#50079189)
Works well on Chrome, can't speak much for other browsers
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:59PM (#50066027)
The notion that AI is outperforming reasoning skills of humans is a wild take.

I'm not sure if you the author knows how LLMs function, but "reason" is debatable at best.

Re:Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:52PM (#49826050)
I will give you that this instance is extreme.

How does being critical of AI directly connect to a spurious association with antifa or any connection to a riot or shooting?

These two categories are different. I agree there is overreach in Sanchez's case however i don't know how one can assume the same will happen to some guy saying "AI bad"

If they were rioting; or connected to a rioting group, that might be different.

Re:Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents" on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:39PM (#49825962)
you make it more than it is.

we are not Russia nor China thankfully, any litigation at this stage against an AI critic would fall flat.

In the future, maybe? However in the current climate it's just a bunch of empty words like the rest of the admin has been

Well yeah, but I'm pretty sure there was another breach around 2016 that had similar info from the FBI
Hasn't that db been pwned previously?
Re:Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:58PM (#49749350)
It is pretty funny to me that the transhumanist movement is hoping that these LLMs can eventually move past a parody of human intelligence.

A lot of weird folks in that arena, a lot of strange books too that they wrote for the consumption of the public. It's always the same backstory too.

Re:Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:50PM (#49749309)
this u?

> AI will replace all of them soon.

What is that spaghetti of words you tied together to form a sentence? Were you trying to be comprehensible?

Re:How to Write with an LLM on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:57PM (#49748460)
It's sad that reading has become that way for you.

I love reading, but I mostly read non-fiction and I'm a bit of an amateur history buff. Last time I read a fiction book I was left feeling like I was preached to by an alien about how life doesn't really matter (sci-fi authors will often do that). The state of literature is pretty dire.

Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:47PM (#49748363)
> If someone is spreading deception, intentionally or not, then it's entirely within my rights to point out they are without engaging further.

What is it with millennials and "rights"? It's a sincere question. People don't owe you anything and neither do you owe me anything, sure... so why do you demand another have a higher standard that you yourself hold to. I know you don't hold yourself to that standard because you would rather nitpick someone on a single inaccuracy then grapple with a very real issue (which you yourself would not appreciate if they did that to you). The respectable thing to do is to note the inaccuracy and approach the valid portion of the argument sincerely.

What you demonstrate is a lack of care for those around you, and a lack of care for what is actually true. You would rather "umm actually" then treat others with an ounce of respect. It's shameful and devoid of grace.

Re:How to Write with an LLM on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:50PM (#49747773)
I fear in the future people will read even less because of how often people cheap out and use AI to write. I know the author of this article tells you never to use a single word it suggests, however I still, while reading, am checking for any amount of AI used. This makes reading less enjoyable, and even a bit stressful.

If you can't spend the time to write it, why should anyone read it?

Everything I post is from my own finger tips, only to get a reply from someone using a bot. I'm tired.

Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:57PM (#49747181)
As long as they can operate under capacity (for the grid) I don't disagree.

However I live in a much nicer area than Chicago and any Walmart, large mass of people, or DC would really destroy the PV as well as it would be an eyesore.

I don't really understand why so many just want to over industrialize so many beautiful places so that a corp. can sell the next gimmicky iteration of our "best model yet" which is just slightly slower and more expensive then the previous.

Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:34PM (#49746883)
Thanks <3
Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:30PM (#49746837)
It's mostly the emissions from diesel generators which many DCs use as it's far too expensive to ever shut them down. Often diesel generators are used to lighten the load on a power grid as well, so many DCs will run generators 24/7.

That source of power, since our grid is so outdated and struggles with the weight of these power-hogs, EVs as well as increased usage of AC during the summers create some dangerous conditions.

There is the risk of heavy metals getting into the water supply as the copper degrades but that will only be a problem down the line, that's prescient but not yet realized.

> I'm willing to bet that a datacenter creates a fraction of the pollution of a similarly sized industrial facility such as a chemical plant, refinery, smelter, or steel mill.

I agree; however I would not want a DC or a refinery, smelter or steel mill anywhere near my town. We have industrial districting for that reason, and because a lot of DC projects want to be put next to lakes and water sources, this causes issues for the residents.

Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:11PM (#49746607)
You still have to grapple with the merits of their argument to find out if the indicator is correct or not.

In a world where everybody seems to be quoting grok with no further thought process you would think people would be more welcoming of someone who is "slightly wrong" on occasion. It's the strongest indicator that a flawed human being got their information not directly from a machine.

Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:38PM (#49746205)
datacenters are stinky though and ruin property values. (as well as can, and has, polluted water sources in some cases)

I don't disagree with your assertion; however you do have to realize that their grievances, while not completely informed, are not wrong.

Re:Everybody's Lost Their Minds on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:36PM (#49746165)
This is someone's vent post.
Re:Dario, Please on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:59PM (#49718850)
Conveniently the only companies that warn of a new and dangerous advancement are the ones hemorrhaging money.

Remember when Mythos marked the end of man and the birth of a new race of bots nuking secure systems from orbit?

If a company of a bunch of startup grifters can come up with a tactical nuke of LLM supremacy, why can't the brightest China has to offer already have that technology?

How would you suggest someone make a good tutorial for DF that doesn't leave the player exhausted by the time they start a new game?

That's my core complaint w/ strategy games. By the time I'm done with the tutorial i have to do other things only to forget everything I learned the next time I get to sit down with it.

At best "hints" or a glossary/help menu is the best way imo.

macOS is also just a proper PITA through and through. I'm annoyed that I can't play it on my m4 but I also understand that supporting macOS has always been a nuisance.

If I were making games I wouldn't support it either. Apple does just about everything to not support backwards compat.

Re:Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:46AM (#49474466)
The term "original assembly code" is sufficient enough to communicate that the binaries that are being reversed are what is disclosed to the public intentionally.

Their comment still stands; whether it's machine code or "original assembly code" that shipped on the disk it falls under "clean room" reversing and by extension implementation.

Sorry that you are incapable of seeing how others perceive you
idk man, it seems like a bunch of glass houses.

In context if you read what I said I didn't imply Metux was the best out there; I was highlighting how absolutely terrible Wayland is and how I will take anything at this point.

The "be better" comment was used exclusively by the worst people i knew for 4 years straight. So for me, absolutely.

It's condescending, unnecessary, and it is a polarizing comment people who are miserable leave to annoy the rest of us.

I don't doubt you. I think it's a good way to look at it. I appreciate what he's trying to do with Xlibre but I would never work in that environment with or without him.

As I said to the other guy I just hope this is better than what we have and I'll take about anything at this rate. I don't care to deal with people on that level anymore, which is why I stopped developing OSS over 10 years ago; everyone has their opinions about the code, if they can't solve that they fight over politics to "justify" forking and the downward spiral ever goes downward.

> Be better

What year are we in?

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