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Re:Radiation Map of the World on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:11PM (#50330863)
A month and a half salary after tax here. That is still particularly expensive, and besides its sinking money into a steeply depreciating asset.
2x Spark? As in two DGX Spark machines? That is obscenely expensive.
Mt Isa Mines when done is a good spot, and as a bonus you largely get to avoid issues with indigenous opposition since the area is already suitably dug up.
Absolutely disastrous policy decision.
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:03AM (#50286285)
I found it quite helpful at times. Learning in my own projects, and some professional things that I got stuck on I found some incredible help at times.

In my niche, we also had an absolute dictator of a moderator who was a condescending jerk online. Open belittling of people asking questions, connecting new questions to those which had been asked years ago in a different part of the stack and then closing the question, etc. Real tin pot tyrant nonsense, and frankly, a bully.

There was a day where I saw they had been denied a role they interviewed for since they posted about it. I already knew they were in my city. It was a role I had advertised and was the chair for. Im still not sure exactly which candidate, but have my suspicions. In any case, bullet dodged.

Re:Vegemite is not a human right on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:18PM (#50268948)
Why the move overseas?
Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:17PM (#50268190)
Still likely to be GPU intensive even with relinking
13kW on the roof and a 48kW battery. It produces on cloudy days, and battery alone can last 3-4 days with regular unmoderated use with 6 adults at home. That includes split system air-conditioners on eco mode.

It produces enough on cloudy days to still.top the batteries up to full.

I had a day recently where production topped 80kW and was exporting bulk before late afternoon grid production limiting kicked in. That's a lot of juice, and Ive basically not touched the grid in 7 months.

Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:09PM (#50236515)
Now is this an unanticipated fault, or is the phone preventing some shady happenings, as that mode is designed to do?
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:18PM (#50199809)
That's perilously close to a standard door key, and thats way too much security compared to these certs.
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:14PM (#50199763)
Well reposted.
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:06PM (#50199665)
It's not clear what you have linked there.
Re:Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:14PM (#50186979)
Rural lost almost all of the good will, and foe good reason. It was a dumpster fire with a half arsed ecosystem of extensions. During that period WordPress was flourishing, listening to users, and making sure administration was a lot easier.

Saying that Drupal is better than it has ever been is not much of a statement. It still isnt as easily extensible due to having a smaller community of contributors as an after effect of mismanagement.

I hope they have improved, but their reputation has been earned repeatedly.

Re:Bleached corals thrive within days on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:52PM (#50135036)
Having been a diver on the Great Barrier Reef numerous times, the scale of bleaching events means that there is often no non-bleached neighbour for vast distances. Healthy propagation rarely occurs before the brown sludge sets in, then its game over.
Apps like photopea exist because of client side processing. They shift cost to client compute and that makes them supportable by indie devs.

I'd wager we will start to see more web apps like this have greater obfuscation and dependencies on operating on a particular domain. Sure AI can help to circumvent many things, but at a certain point they pay-off may not be worth the effort.

Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:31AM (#49963057)
I reckon you might be asking for a little too much from a single web dev there.
Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:20AM (#49962967)
Because I learned on this, it made learning everything else that much harder. Even today I wish there was something as functional, basic, and intuitive, even though I well.understand the reasons for doing things different ways.
Re:Windows 11½ on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:44PM (#49884858)
Lmfao. What are they even doing with Copilot? Paying for premium and then handicapping it because they think that being able to search online sources might exfiltrate your sharepoint data? That is not at all how that works.
Re:Windows 11½ on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:41PM (#49884805)
Sounds like Proton and SteamOS are very successfully closing the gap with games. Ironically hardware pricing might be the reason SteamOS doesnt progress at the same speed that it has been as Steam machines are pricey.

Specialist software on the otherhand. I get that. Its the same reasonw hy I have a macboom for academic work and Windows for other work. Vendors not building across ecosystems is frustrating, though presumably thats due to tooling lock in.

Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:32AM (#49864986)
And this is why we see ever better attempts to mimic human skin, faces, movement, emotions, etc, with robot manufacturers.
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:30AM (#49864960)
The issue is the breadth of scale. At the time of the industrial revolution those who we would consider knowledge workers were a much smaller percentage of the population. Today, they are a significant part of the workforce, and it is them who are being displaced first, and in increasing numbers.

The second issue is one of migration between skill sets. By the numbers, today is likely harder as non Ai-affected skilled professions take longer to train into in a general sense.

The third is the synthesis of AI and robotics. Humanoid help is good. As the Venn diagram overlap of capabilities between humans and humanoid robots increases, many professions defined by complex vision and environmental manipulation that are currently safe will not be.

There are, of course, upsides. But the world is right to wonder what the future looks like, and where people fit within that future in terms of earning an income if whatever path they choose seems to be able to be replaced by a machine within their lifetime. How do they achieve personal stability and safety if, even when thinking about their multitude of career options, the machines are so good that they can do almost anything.

Cheap and poor decision by a company not acting in good faith. Right up there with the globally popular Ford Ranger whose oil change needs to be completed in under 10 minutes because thats how long it takes the oil pump to drain residual oil and it has no self priming capability, so itll run dry and seize the engine despite the oil sump being full.
Much like you, anyone who wants to get deep into emulation and reverse engineering will. They will do so because AI cant quite do what they want, and probably because they are curious. The upside is that when they are that deep they will have a bot to ask questions of along the way, and they will recognise where it comes up short eventually.

Yes people will lazy their way out of it. Many of us program, but few of us ever bothered to learn, with fluency, assembly. Those who wanted to did, and those who didnt stuck to higher level languages.

There are many cultures and parts of the world where dogs are considered dirty and dangerous and should not be anywhere near the home.

Now you and I know rather differently, but those places are still going through their own 'journey of discovery' when it comes to animal intelligence and social benefit.

The above said, I'd have not expected a Finnish researcher to be one making such a 'new' discovery as Finnish culture does include extensive animal husbandry and dog/horse culture.

Some farm, typically agriculture. Your average cattle, sheep, or other livestock farmer will not be running a 400+ HP tractor in most cases. 50-110 hp is common for general property use such as clearing, slashing, loading, material moving. In these cases a Mahondra, or any number of others is ideal. You can get John Deere in the same size, but would be mad to do so with the repairability issues and higher cost.
Re:Pandas Should Go Extinct on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:09AM (#49669385)
Ive seen it in such a wide variety of scenarios where it causes vectorisation removal because of its implementation that I dont reach for it by default any more. I've a number of devs around me who have similar opinions. Each know how to use it, but you dont always write the code you're reviewing or optimising.
Re:Pandas Should Go Extinct on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:32AM (#49669176)
Personally, I think the inclusion of lambda functions in the pandas code shows that the approach isnt ideal to begin with. Fine on smaller datasets, but typically becomes a slow and cumbersome overhead when interacting with larger datasets. More verbose per line vector operations are generally orders of magnitude faster, and become more so as the data grows. They also tend to be easier to read / identify what is going on or what the intent is for people unfamiliar with the code base.
Aussie here - exported 650+ kW to the grid last month from our solar, and consumed the remainder that was generated. Overnight covered entirely by battery.

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