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Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:49AM (#50072630)
> Am I doing it wrong?

No, you're not. You've promoted yourself into middle management. Congratulations.

Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:39AM (#50072481)
> Of course this is best case scenario version where AI handles the real work and we can just enjoy the benefits of all this automation.

Explain how this would not lead to an eventual Eloi & Morlocks situation.

Did you verify with tcpdump/Wireshark?
> How are you getting ready?

Finding out how to make the best use of the large amount of DDR3 RAM I have.

Those Chinese C612-based boards for the E5-2696v3, et al. (which support DDR3 and DDR4) seem OK with the custom BIOSen out there.

Acrid is probably the word they were looking for. Wine isn't sour.

It could be that my affinity for port & madeira biases me, but the wine-haters I know have all expressed a strong dislike of what they described as its "acidity".

Re:Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:02PM (#49883563)
> I don't know how this is related

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

> Can someone explain why the old books could really be relevant.

Lots and lots of information is not online. You'd be surprised.

Re:Enjoy Every Sandwich on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:35PM (#49833134)
I noticed this too and thought I was going crazy.
> Philosophically, what is the difference between empty space and space that will be reclaimed when you need it?

It makes large allocations fail which would have otherwise succeeded.

"When you need it" is a state you can only enter into, AFAICT, when you approach the limit gradually, not abruptly.

I'm not a student. I work with SDRs and in latency-critical problem domains at a telecommunications research laboratory.

I'm also not upset. I just want to know which compilers you're using which honor the "register" keyword in C.

Is it possible you're confusing LLVM with JIT compilation?

Clang targeting LLVM, despite the name, produces binaries compiled 100% ahead-of-time.

The "LLVM" is just the intermediate representation used by the compiler. GCC uses GIMPLE and RTL.

> In C... it is still possible to bake what is placed in "register" a priori

By what mechanism? Even ancient GCC circa 1989 ignored the "register" keyword/storage-class. Automatic register allocation algorithms have been the default for a long time. You have to go back to the K&R days to find a compiler willing to honor it (or find an esoteric compiler like AZTEC C for the 6502).

But DOS 6 was buggy as hell due to DoubleSpace.
Re:"Please Remove All Mannered Prose" and Other LLM Incantations on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:26PM (#49630058)
Just tell it to write in ASD-STE100.
Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:09PM (#49629793)
What incentive would it have to stay on Earth?
Re:Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker on Monday September 07, 2026 @08:39PM (#49604394)
"Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft's CEO and maintained that position from 2000 until his resignation in 2014."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

Re:No Country for Mediocre Mathematicians on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:36AM (#49523398)
Choose a non-competitive hobby then.
Re:AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:23AM (#49523201)
> For a lot of people, "fixing" means adding code to make it work.

What if the fix requires deleting a single line of code?

Is the additive fix to enshroud it in if (0) { } ?

Just tell it to exclusively write briefly and in ASD-STE100.
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record on Monday August 24, 2026 @06:34PM (#49426787)
Just figure out how many 7-foot-tall persons you'd have to add to your country to increase the average height by 1 inch.

7 feet = 2.1336 meters 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters

Re:Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:55PM (#49367118)
Can this help tiny models like Qwen3.5-0.8B?
Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:58AM (#49165157)
I'm not GP, but in research very diverse teams are not uncommon. I'm on a team now in which I'm the embedded software engineer / Android SME and my coworker is the 4G LTE/5G NR SME.

I ask him 4G LTE/5G NR questions all the time. I don't know ahead of time if he'll know the answer, but (1) it'd be a solid bet that he does and (2) it's his responsibility to know it given his role.

Re:About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @10:58AM (#49084936)
> I do not see a "typical" user needing to access a path with say...

Typical users run software written by atypical users.

> some sort of OS-wide single-implementation

How do you propose handling migration? What if someone tries to expand an old archive file containing a now-forbidden path?

Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:15AM (#48758151)
> No point in wasting your time with them.

I've been arguing with people online since Usenet was mostly used for discourse instead of piracy. Trust me, I know that there's no point.

> That would be impossible in a suburban setting;

Not necessarily true. The "village center" idea Jim Rouse used in his design of Columbia, MD could be used to solve the problem.

All of these things are within walking distance if you live in Columbia's village of Wilde Lake (and, of course, your health insurance covers the primary care physicians in walking distance).

I'm guessing you're thinking of typical "stroad" suburbs, but alternatives are possible and do exist.

Unfortunately, the suburb has to be the product of planning like Columbia. Typical "emergent" suburbs turn into unwalkable ones.

Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @11:22PM (#48741893)
What if you're using it for Mathematics (e.g., making progress on unsolved problems) instead of writing software? Would you consider that a valid use-case?
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Re:The Smelly Baby Problem on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:48PM (#47983126)
> It's not an easy thing, but some of the histrionic claims about child raising on the internet are really out there.

Have you considered that objectively difficult infants/toddlers/children exist? Children with O.D.D., for instance, show symptoms early, but diagnosis usually doesn't come until much later.

Perhaps the comments you came across online were from the parents of those kids.

-A parent of a very challenging child with Level II Autism

Re:Where the Goblins Came From on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:03AM (#47957952)
Weird. I thought they came from Nilbog.
Re:Aspartame is not that bad? on Friday April 24, 2026 @11:23AM (#47891534)
> Why do people shy away from such things?

Have you ever met someone with a true addiction to food? I'm not talking about someone with a habitual craving for sweets. I'm talking about someone who consumes food compulsively like a chain-smoker; someone who, in the absence of whatever their favorites are, will consume and consume with little regard for what the food is: an entire jar of pickles, multiple pounds of grapes, a whole rotisserie chicken, et al.

I used to be one. I once ate six baked white onions¹ in one sitting before vomiting everywhere and rethinking my life.

I broke through naturally, but I wish GLP-1s had been prevalent at the time. Want to know what made breaking it so challenging?

  1. Unlike other addictions, you have to continue consuming this one or else you will die.

  2. Nearly every social event in the USA is tied in some way to food which means that you have to exercise willpower __constantly__ if you have a social life.

  3. People are more interested in shaming you than supporting you. Most want you to fail.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV9spqCzSkQ
Re:The Story of Mel on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:58PM (#47870380)
Tomer's website is great! Thanks for sharing it here.

I'm mentioned on there, FWIW, toward the end of the CV page. I really wish I hadn't scared Mel away after my first e-mail exchange with him.

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