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Same here! It took me a while to realize that as a beginner. At first I was thinking that it was left handed or something.
I fully agree with your point of view. I think that I saw it the clearest when, in a Magic the Gathering subreddit I usually follow one person started a thread on a set of rare cards and immediately was downvoted to oblivion, and later on closed by the mods. Turns out that those cards were indeed legit, and just because everyone else thought they were not nobody got to see them once the booster opened.
Re:Reversing Factorio's RNG on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:29AM (#49738751)
C++ is uglier than punching one's dad.
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:41AM (#49518722)
Make MSTeams Great Again when? Amazing work btw.
Re:Oceans hit highest temperature on record on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:24AM (#49431481)
Sea water temperature here in Valencia was something crazy this year. I do not remember anything like this before.
That's what state libraries are for, although I understand that sometimes is hard to wrap around the concept of using public money for something different than producing money.
The latter sounds very plausible, it covers all bases.
Re:France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @07:40AM (#49256639)
The only limitation is cold hard cash. The phone companies make big bucks from telemarketers by providing an endless list of new numbers and multiple lines. The whole racket wouldn't work without the companies' greenlight.
Re:The World's 2,400 Castles on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:30AM (#49002229)
In Castilla y León it is showing 9 castles and we have more than 300, hence the name Castilla...
Hey what do you think about vibe coding weapon systems? Do you want to be my cofounder?
Re:Richard Scolyer Has Died on Monday June 08, 2026 @09:25AM (#48445060)
Sorry to hear that :( In my case I only lost hearing from one side due to nerve damage, it also impacted balance in those early years but interestingly enough that improved a lot just by using the other inner ear.
This search: https://uruky.com/search?il=en&it=system&q=php+array+search Produced the same results for the first 2 items, only that one is separated with dash '-' and the other with underscore '_' in the result slug. Perhaps that can be normalized.
Re:Richard Scolyer Has Died on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:21AM (#48441884)
As a brain tumor survivor I count each day as a blessing. I was diagnosed at 14 and your chances are slightly better as a kid. Even then it came back at 16 again but now I do not even do checks anymore and I am 44 now.

People like Dr. Scoyler or my own doctor are always in my heart, we owe them so much.

Re:The desperation of NYTimes on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:58PM (#48403839)
That is correct, and it his also correct that most of the spam we receive comes from outside the EU.
It is a bit hard to evaluate the potential when you need to top up and do a captcha just for evaluation purposes. The barrier of entry is quite high.
Re:Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:01AM (#48381616)
When I started working in software I took a job in a city different than mine, so I had to go there to live alone, and the job was by myself in a room with no windows. Most lonely 2 years of my life.
Re:macOS needs its grid back on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:50AM (#48366870)
I was a linux user for some time in my youth, then corporate appeared and with that the locked windows Thinkpads, the MacOS's and such. I am finally back in Linux at home and I find it so amazing, and all my video games work too!
Re:Proton Meet on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:44PM (#48040781)
One can only dream!
In my humble opinion, the parent of my comment seems to paint a picture that is quite drastic. I see why many people would have Chrome installed and I do not think something like that should be impose on to anyone.
Here in Spain you see a lot of BYD, considerable amount for Europe. But when I was in Uruguay that was a shock, almost all cabs, all electric cars, and some buses are BYD.
Sometimes I marvel at how nice it would be to have such a narrow view of the world and other's perspectives and contexts. Life would be so much easier!
The only viable future-proof solution to this hellscape is what you mention, local models and/or corporate models for work.
Damn! That is so dystopic to me. The future of businesses determined by the will of some customer support interpretations of bogus rules. Ain't that a bit black mirroresque?
Re:Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:39AM (#47700072)
Open to whom? AFAIK some nationalities can cross freely.
Re:You Are Not Your Job on Monday March 23, 2026 @03:23AM (#47486379)
Since the beginning of human history, people have always defined themselves by what they contribute to the group; a hunter, a farmer, a king... Today is no different. We may not be our job, but that is how others see us at first. They are not trying to get to know you; they just want to know where you fit, so they know how to deal with you. Only later, if things get personal, might they become interested in you as a person.
Re:Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:59PM (#47267209)
Work is not good per-se.
Thanks for your input. The way I saw this and how it looks Knuth interpreted it is that there were some reasoning steps taken by Claude independently. Some internal decisions in the model that made it try different things, finally succeeding.
Are not LLMs supposed to just find the most probable word that follows next like many people here have touted? How this can be explained under that pretense? Is this way of problem solving 'thinking'?
Re:C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime on Saturday February 21, 2026 @09:12AM (#47101017)
Crowdstrike level shot in the foot.
I am ready to ban AI LLMs. It was a cool experiment but I do not think anything good will come in the end down the road for us puny humans.

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