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Re:Proton goes all in on using AI on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:09PM (#50299445)
Sure, but that’s not infinite. It’s always a zero sum game: if someone is playing my game then they're not playing yours (even if someone else might be)
Re:Proton goes all in on using AI on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:46PM (#50299286)
How? Isn’t there a finite number of people and a finite amount of time to interact with software?
Re:I DO Understand Relativity on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:28PM (#50236675)
I don’t have knowledge on these topics beyond some YouTube videos, but if you entangled two particles and then transported one to Alpha Centauri, wouldn’t you have a common “now” if you were able to transmit data between them?
We had similar ideas! Except mine is less customizable, I never thought to add formatting.

https://github.com/abejfehr/bigtext

https://www.abefehr.com/bigtext/

Re:Writing code by hand is over, forever on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:30PM (#49948829)
Figuring out how to fit together off-the-shelf parts to solve a problem is (was) fun
I made the same mistake as the other person. When I click the breezewiki link I get a full screen banner (on mobile) that directs me to a wiki page with different information.

I didn’t realize there was content underneath the banner on the first page

It seems like Kobo eReaders don't come with a mic.

You could probably use an ESP32-S3-PhotoPainter (which comes with a mic) to do this for even cheaper: https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-photopainter.htm

Re:Whoisinspace.com/ on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:42PM (#49760008)
It's disappointing that a YouTuber who presumably doesn't need extra cash resorted to an ad-ridden copy of this great, ad-free, already-existing site.
The page you linked says "Attack type: Double tap missile strike"

Edit: it also explicitly says "double tap" under "Events" and links to the article for "Double-tap strike"

Re:IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video] on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:59PM (#49677643)
I saw beads at a bead store today that were clearly Pepsi/Sprite but they were "Pepsis" and "Spritc", presumably to be legally distinct.

Is it important that the beads looked like Pepsi/Sprite? Kind of, people want recognizable brands

How does someone unaffiliated with LG make use of this feature? If they don’t have an API for it then presumably you’re safe from third parties unless the TV is rooted, right?
It’s because all sites are made by the same “person” now.

If you get past the anthropomorphism, it’s basically that Claude is just a set of knowledge, including opinions (things they’d more likely do than other things) and everyone is getting the same person to make their sites which is why they all look the same.

Also the same reason everything ends up with the same tech stack (if you don’t steer it specifically) which probably contributes to why GitHub is overwhelmed.

I can only see a mouth and nose on mobile
Re:Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:17PM (#49025895)
> Bun stopped shipping a Zig-based runtime after 1.3.14 — the project moved on to a Rust rewrite. Cruller forks that last Zig-era Bun and ports it forward to Zig 0.16 instead of following Bun into its rewrite.

I might be missing something, but where does it mention why specifically they're interested in having this be Zig and not Rust?

They might be referring to the e-Points system, where hitting targets awards points and you can trade the points in for drones, etc
Re:Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP on Friday July 03, 2026 @12:35PM (#48776940)
isn't that what they're saying with "not both at the same time"? the papers both have opposite signs, one has != and the other has =
Re:My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable on Saturday June 27, 2026 @12:24AM (#48695124)
I do this.

I have a gaming PC connected to my living room TV, but sometimes I’m lazy and want to play games from my bed.

My solution is that my bedroom TV has a Steam Deck dock connected, so I take my wireless controller to the bedroom and stream the games there instead.

Elbow, Eyebrow, Heart’s Content, Heart’s Desire, and Heart’s Delight
Re:Life is too short for a slow terminal on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:40PM (#48447627)
This wasn't an option for us because as an org we used their recommended hook (1) to automatically change node versions when switching directories, but it effectively undoes the lazy loading.

With mise you get the behaviour of automatically switching when you change directories effectively for free.

1. https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#zsh

Edit: unless you aliased it to `node` or `npm`, which would be fine I guess but super annoying if you ran node or npm commands often. It is not worth the hassle, no one should use nvm in 2026 imo

Re:Life is too short for a slow terminal on Monday June 08, 2026 @11:16AM (#48446464)
I'm surprised people are still using nvm, considering it's impact on shell startup time.

I can't recommend switching to mise highly enough: https://mise.en.dev/

Re:CSS-Native Parallax Effect on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:45AM (#48369530)
I don’t think it did for me. Are you on iOS 26?
Re:I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:17AM (#48346386)
Based on the title I was really hoping to see how this was used for gaming, but they just ran an LLM on it
> ... they won’t want rich people to vote.

I think it might be more than that

Re:GitHub Actions down again today on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:56AM (#48279166)
Yes, I truly believe that GitHub is recommended by an LLM orders of magnitude more frequently than any other forge
Re:GitHub Actions down again today on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:53AM (#48279136)
I think it’s much more than 80%, it’s probably the default recommendation and folks who aren’t technical would just accept it. Probably closer to 95% or more
Re:Leave Me Behind on Monday May 25, 2026 @12:55PM (#48268981)
It definitely doesn’t hold true for the average person, I was only thinking of the fittest today.

I’m not sure what it means if we want the average person to be fitter, it seems like we’d have to reinstitute manual labour if that was the goal.

Which is maybe a good analogy for not using AI in the classroom and forcing kids to use their minds

Re:Leave Me Behind on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:46AM (#48267493)
I think probably actually. The fittest people back then probably weren't as fit as people today with specialized diets and medical science, and surely those findings were a result of better equipment, which were a result of better tooling to manufacture that equipment.

Introducing a machine to a manufacturing role obviously makes the manufacturer less fit, but it enables society to break through fitness barriers in general

If your point is that it's not orders of magnitude fitter, that's a good one. I don't think people will be much more intelligent in the future than they are today but they'll probably just be more specialized and have deeper knowledge

There’s a few sites that do what I think you’re asking for, not navigation though. This is one I’ve used recently: https://shademap.app/
I’m pretty sure I heard the same quote at my high school and university graduation ceremonies, and those were many years before AI. It’s a standard way to inspire new grads, right?

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