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Re:Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:19AM (#50018072)
We could mandate an onboard chip that would safely and securely vet models, denying bad people the ability to run naughty models.
We could call the chip … ClAIpper … or something
Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:16PM (#49986669)
Is the cynical take on this experiment the one where the detectors have a dual purpose?
I was interested to see the photos of the modules. LEDs and an Ethernet port!
Re:You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int ...
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:57AM (#49775404)
Similar to the WoW diamond flask set: https://www.wowhead.com/classic/item=20130/diamond-flask#com...
Re:New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replac...
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @09:59PM (#49238422)
Same for electronic music in Australia - well off context here but fora such as spraci, ITM, and then its sibling FL were great for discovering and connecting with new music and people.
Re:New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replac...
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:27PM (#49237329)
Reminds me of the Tokyo Gig Guide, which I always hit up when I’m in town.
Re:The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent
on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:39AM (#48718493)
Not sure if you ever make it over to HKG but there are quite a few cargo 747s that still seem to be making the rounds. CX and others have them on the GA / cargo side, and when on Lantau you often see (and hear!) them on final or takeoff.
I think CX would hate to retire them because from what I understand their load capacity is unparalleled. And you can load horses in them! There'll always be money from that for HAECO to keep them aloft.
It's even better when you're at the bus terminal at HKIA and watching them fly overhead...
Re:AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @03:05AM (#48705101)
How many MS-01s did you have clustered?
And could you not use something like an N5 + iSCSI for storage?
Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony
on Monday June 08, 2026 @06:18AM (#48443447)
Your story also reminded me of the early LUG scene, distributed all over the world. We believed and all we had access to were the dirtiest ratshit computers but hey they could boot Slackware or Debian and maybe if you said the right incantation you could get that 10Mb card you got for free but was still the most valuable part to work with cat5 Ethernet so you could download stuff from a local sunsite mirror so you could join in the future.
Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @11:13PM (#48440936)
Did you ever bounce around the crackmonkey list? nick and friends seemed to know people with similar backgrounds.
Re:Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:39PM (#48351385)
Absolutely, I just linked to this in another comment, I couldn't easily find another story: https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-a...
Re:Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:38PM (#48351377)
Aren't people here old enough to recall paying for WhatsApp's original subscription fee?
Circa 2016: https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-a...
Re:Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test
on Friday May 29, 2026 @01:01AM (#48319237)
Why use fuel, though? Is there something about its specific density and weight distribution that rules out using other types of ballast?
Re:Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
on Saturday May 23, 2026 @08:19PM (#48252987)
Thanks, I will try that!
Re:Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:28AM (#48220375)
I was a little disappointed with the results I was seeing in F#. I thought the .NET + GPT-5.* pull through would be sufficient but it never seemed to work out. Maybe I just wasn’t approaching it correctly.
Re:The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:16AM (#48189854)
My pipeline for this is vscode + prompts + markdown templates + GitHub copilot -> markdown docs -> pandoc to produce.docx -> copilot in word for “nice” formatting -> copilot in ppt for nice decks. LLMs all the way down.
I find it’s easier to version control and diff the .md artefacts, those remain my authoritative source.
Re:The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:13AM (#48189832)
Copilot Cowork in the M365 ecosystem. It inherits all the permissions from my account, has access to exchange to send me emails, and OneDrive to save each day’s summary for posterity and future refinement.
Re:The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:24AM (#48189509)
In business: using coworking tools to review and propose filing of emails; manage my files and folders; on a daily basis scour the intranet for interesting and relevant content.
Personal: my wife tutors in her native language to non-native primary and high school kids. They are all using these tools now generate fresh content for practice based on school lesson plans. The kids are improving much more quickly now than they were just a few months ago.
Re:Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots eje...
on Sunday May 17, 2026 @11:09PM (#48175173)
Cue the development of a limpet drone that would be enough to take down one of these birds in a non-destructive way… although perhaps these ones in particular would be uniquely positioned to deal with such adversaries.
Re:Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:42AM (#48082407)
But surely, a Casio would be the fitting watch to wear while wielding this work: https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.MRG-B2000JS-...
Re:Appearing productive in the workplace
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @09:26AM (#48049171)
I am somewhat relieved to be working in a regulated industry where deterministic outputs are still needed. Maybe when someone has a validated AI model there will be trouble ...
Re:Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:01PM (#47950277)
Let's add that to the words of wisdom.
Re:Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:09AM (#47898809)
When all we needed was /. , freshmeat, and themes.org …
Re:Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased o...
on Friday April 24, 2026 @11:47PM (#47898462)
both my kids are using my old Filco TKL keyboards with blues. Absolutely no complaints from either of them. Only issues are that the footpads are getting a little worn down, one is missing, and I think I spilled beer on one many years ago before I gave them up.
I also have the Filco keycap puller. Keyboard cleaned and saved!
I now use a Keychron K2 with browns. My fingers are getting too old to use blues on a regular basis.
Re:Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @06:29AM (#47777112)
This was the era of !hurl, after all …
Re:Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @02:47AM (#47775527)
I still remember how cool I thought raster was with his vaio and everything. This was the future! Transparent eterms and tasteful backgrounds everywhere.
Re:The Shinkansen
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:45AM (#47764346)
Ah! But is your bicycle registered and do you have insurance.
(I agree with the trains. I love the trains.)
Re:OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be hel...
on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:00AM (#47718294)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Anarchist_Cook...
We work in the dark
we do what we can
we give what we have.
Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.
The rest is the madness of art.
Re:Why the US Navy Won't Blast the Iranians and 'Open' Strait of Hormuz
on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:00AM (#47597009)
Bush and his son in one gulf, Bobby and his in another. Crisis after crisis.
Re:Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive
on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:51PM (#47498134)
We had a lot more TUIs and transparent terms / libs with transparency. Things like Xchat, etc.
Re:Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
on Friday February 27, 2026 @10:15PM (#47189782)
I read the books as a young teenager in highschool before watching the TV show. I loved the books!
Actually, I realised I lie, I did occasionally watch a few of them in primary school. I remembered being absolutely terrified of Polymorph.