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That really depends how you measure and define intelligence and does a disservice to them.

Toddlers for example dont tend to have gang wars for territories and certainly couldnt do battle outcome predictions from a glance at a group across thick canopy and the sounds of branches and hollering.

Re:Use protocols, not services on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:58PM (#47040896)
Preventing spam may not be possible for much longer without verified IDs considering how advanced ai agents are.

Do any fully trustable ID validation services exist? Ones that verifiably never store your ID but just a validity status for a given ID on a blockchain?

Re:Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:52PM (#47040825)
Thats an incredibly unsettling thought.
Most pc users are using laptops, yes. Above 60%.

Even offices usually give people laptops over desktops so that they can bring it to meetings.

Re:LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:11AM (#46614314)
Hn commenters are not representative
Re:Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:40AM (#46539943)
But that take ruins all the intrigue of their comment... But youre spot on. They fabricated a story.
Re:Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017) on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:47AM (#46489026)
GetNameMatchedTransfersWithin(int Days)

Gives a good idea of what but not why and if anyone considers that method name too long they can get back in their cave, tbh.

I wonder if we will see more DC grids. You can get a decent 5 - 20% efficiency improvement out of it as most end user devices are DC now.
Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:06PM (#46458596)
Is that weighted by land cost?
Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:05PM (#46458581)
No theyre saying that since that day everyone has given up and nothing matters anymore. We all collectively decided that it is OKAY and didnt change a single thing since.
Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:03PM (#46458562)
Thank you for taking the time to respond.

A thousand bots can spread a thousand lies faster than we can dispell them, but giving up the public square to them is worse.

What a situation...

Re:The British Empire's Resilient Subsea Telegraph Network on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:15AM (#46442916)
I think their point is that most peoole aware of the time period know child labour in factories was prominent, especially thanks to Dickens and other authors, so most would guess or be unsurprised to find these cable factories employed children.
It is and it isnt. The more goals a design has the harder it is to achieve all of them well.
Despite our advantages intelligent hominids were an endangered species confined to a small pocket of africa for ~80,000 years.
Some programs are error resistant and need an additional level: Fatal.

A warning can be ignored safely. Warnings may be 'debugging enabled, results cannot be certified' or something similar.

An error should not be ignored, an operation is failing, data loss may be occurring, etc.

Some users may be okay with that data loss or failing operation. Maybe it isnt important to them. If the program continues and does not error in the parts that matter to the user, then they can ignore it, but it is still objectively an error occurring.

A fatal message cannot be ignored, the system has crashed. Its the last thing you see before shutdown is attempted.

No point in responding to you, you have no clue what a modern LSCO looks like. itd be nothing like Ukraine.
Re:Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union on Friday December 12, 2025 @01:53PM (#46247358)
Losing devs that built a service, its infrastructure, build pipelines, tests, etc. Can sometimes mean losing deep knowledge.

Sometimes an issue arises and without that deep knowledge you'll be waiting weeks for a fix. Better hope it isnt a critical issue like a serious vulnerability or that you can hire the deep knowledge on a temporary consultancy contract.

Sometimes services are fully rewritten from scratch because the new devs cant get a build of the old service to compile/run/do the thing™.

The f35, the growler, awacs, etc. Mean there will be nowhere close enough to launch low cost fpvs against the west in a war. Air dominance is what we do.

Look what happened to iran and all their air defences when f35s showed up lol.

So then youre left with shahed style drones that have range but are still fairly slow, loud, lack good guidance in jammed environments and will be shot down easily.

So you put better guidance on them so they dont need satellite connections and make them stealthy...oh wait now its just a regular ass cruise missile.

NATO doesnt use small cheap drones. Why would they?

The only reason iran and russia do is because theyre too broke to stack mq9 reapers.

Re:Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux on Thursday December 11, 2025 @03:25PM (#46236653)
Im shocked i had to scroll so far to find a real hard stop blocker mentioned.

Valve has no reason to care about using the HDMI trademark. Consumers dont care if it says HDMI 2.1 or HMDI 2.1 Compatible.

The connector isnt trademarked and neither is compatibility.

The oss nature of isnt one either as valve could just release a compiled binary instead of open sourcing it.

The 'get sued for copying the leak' argument implies someone would actually fancy going toe to toe with valves legal team which so far have rekt the eu, activision, riot games, microsoft, etc. in court.

Proving beyond doubt that valve or their devs accessed the leaks would be hard. Especially if valve were clever from the get go, and lets face it, they probably were. Theyre easily one of the leanest, most profitable, and savviest software companies around.

Re:United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf] on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:37PM (#46196623)
Am a young dev but it shocks me how few of my fellow developers actually consider tech from the ground up.

Most just say 'x has y, we can use that', even when x does a thousand other things and we only want y.

They completely skip the design phase of Y because they have X.

If you design something with actual minimal requirements, ignoring frameworks and language choices, you may end up using X to do Y, but youll at least know what your system should be doing under the hood.

The thought of designing something from scratch seems to be an alien concept these days.

Re:United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf] on Monday December 08, 2025 @02:31PM (#46196552)
Good UX for emergency situations is underrated.
Re:The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video] on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:18AM (#46194110)
They always have openings so investors think theyre hiring and growing. Many ads are for fictional positions.
Re:Bag of words, have mercy on us on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:10AM (#46194002)
If you cant parse the sentence about BS i dont even know how they should respond to you. Its a very simple sentence.
Its not even an option in most titles and the industry as a whole has moved away from such hosting models, partly to ensure players receive a consistent and fair experience. Community servers were rife with admin abuse.

Its okay if you havent played an online game in 20 years mate

What an outburst lol. I didnt call it cheating. Its just as worth noting as when it happens elsewhere. Perhaps you should stop reading what isnt there.
In raw cpu and gpu performance terms it is quite weak compared to other flagships.

You dont notice unless youre gaming or encoding video or doing other heavy workloads. The daily driver experience is very smooth.

The cameras and camera software is in the top 5 consistently though, the screens are also really good, so its a mixed bag hardware wise.

GrapheneOS is the community picking up the pieces.
Equally lets not forget that china sees this as a key strategic necessity for a forced reunification attempt on taiwan, both for national security and the ability to produce chips solo.

Two things can be true. They can have great engineers and government money. Theyre not mutually exclusive.

Good! Thats a much better situation than the one we are in. Thrre is a limit to how much damage a good legit player can do to the average player experience. Just the psychological damage a blatant or rage hacker does is immense. Kills your motive to play, makes you question others, etc.

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