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Re:So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:52AM (#50339691)
It slows down my reading speed. I A/B tested my page reading speed on my kindle a few years ago
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:45AM (#50274548)
Mid 00's, its part of why Xbox 360s were dying left and right.
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:45AM (#50274529)
That's what Linux is for I've got a 2011 MacBook Pro running Debian and its still perfectly usable(after maxing it out to 16 GB RAM, installing an SSD, tossing the CD drive, repasting the CPU, and replacing the battery). I'm curious to see how long it can keep on trucking, at some point the charger may be the difficult part to procure; it’s not very robust.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:53AM (#50259363)
You could try having it rewrite parts of the hot path into Rust with PyO3.
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:52AM (#49992919)
Sony was already planning to do that by ending disc production entirely
The unspoken part may be “if I was 10 years younger”, I knew one of the engineers who worked on the engines he’s still alive but almost a 100, I don’t think he’s up to the challenge of this particular boondoggle
Re:Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:10AM (#49878256)
Broadly true but in a marketplace overrun with all sorts of ideas filtering out people who engage in acts or behavior you find abhorrent can be a useful filter for ideas to consider.

Or to put it another way, have you sat through a timeshare pitch to evaluate if the idea is good or bad?

Re:Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:56AM (#49867169)
Immediately what I thought of
Re:Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:54PM (#49851668)
Its a paid add-on but @Risk gives the functionality you're looking for
Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:02AM (#49830753)
I know this one you ask jev for that right?
Re:OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:53PM (#49780952)
What does AGI mean is probably the sticking point for most. I'm inclined to call it AGI if they can create something currently matching SOTA where there is no difference between training and inference time, i.e. it can continuously learn. Without the model collapsing.
Re:AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:10PM (#49747348)
More like if it’s a desire to have a consensual non-consensual encounter, a sort of kayfabe at the least
Re:AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:10AM (#49741037)
Many rock climbers have felt the "call of the void" when climbing, I've felt it myself on a multi-pitch once, I'd hardly claim they are suicidal or have suicidal ideations and would not identify myself as either. I think there needs to be a certain level of intention to make the fantasy reality for it to be a kink.
Re:How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us? on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:51AM (#49740751)
You'd have mass casualties on a hitherto unseen scale, but hardly an extinction
Re:We have a year to fix security everywhere on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:09AM (#49609879)
Itself in reaction to someone wielding a big rock
Re:US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:10AM (#49388328)
No
Re:Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware on Sunday August 16, 2026 @11:03AM (#49320762)
There are clone devices but nothing else I’m aware of
Re:Darktable on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @11:12AM (#49098594)
I used Darktable on Mac yesterday
It’s fine to be Howard Roark on a commission or pet project by yourself or a small team, but not when working on a subdivision with many hands touching it
Re:AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence on Saturday July 11, 2026 @03:11PM (#48874841)
That was basically stuxnet
Thinking of past notable Goliaths: Ma Bell has been reconstituting herself from the split apart companies, IBM and GE are… alive, and Edison Illuminating Company and Carnegie Steel are alive in successor companies.
Re:Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:50PM (#48854037)
What does teach how to use AI mean for grade schoolers? It’s a search engine for those purposes, the lesson is a blend of the Google and Wikipedia lessons.
How? I thought hospital AC had the dual role of air filtration to reduce spread of bacteria and viruses
>require sessions with a tutoring AI and grade the level of comprehension exhibited.

What fresh hell is this?

I recommend reading this article, there is a very good reason that's not an option for this professor.
In comparison to textbooks or tuition even a $1000 a month could be palatable
Re:Job application asked for my SAT scores on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:29PM (#48654747)
I've hired dozens of people and have never done that.
Re:Job application asked for my SAT scores on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:23PM (#48654708)
I didn't take the SATs in the 80s but in 00s I don't remember any of the concepts translating well to understanding calculus or statistics and I scored well enough it gave me a free ride to college (well that was the PSAT but it was in line with my SAT score). If they wanted to test that they should have tailored an exam similar to my college when assessing my math capability.
Re:Converting Books into Visual Novels on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:42AM (#48587123)
Now we can see Ishmael meet his husbando Queequeg
You can take LET and LAMBDA from my cold dead hands

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