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Re:No Brother of Mine Will Play the Flute on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:52AM (#50354444)
> can I look back into my soul and say that I tried hard enough?

Imagine, if you will a large endless expanse. Clear skies above, but as you look to the floor you realize it's made of people. Compacted like tetris pieces, as far as the eye can see. You're standing there, presumably atop some people right then and there. What do you do? Do you walk forward? You'll step on the bodies; the people. Do you stand still? Won't that invalidate your life? Aren't you allowed to live?

Making that decision is trying hard enough. We all had to do it, and luckily, we did it at an age we can no longer remember; right when we were born. We decided to venture forth and try. You tried hard enough because you tried, period. That is enough.

Re:No Brother of Mine Will Play the Flute on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:46AM (#50354342)
As an only child being the "last of my bloodline" has given me a great deal of anxiety. Evidently out of ignorance. Where can I learn about lineage being more of a web than a line?
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:37AM (#50353332)
But why would I want to when they're delicious?
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:35AM (#50353305)
I'd rather die in the hands of a human, at least I know it has compassion.
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:28AM (#50353225)
"Help! I think you injected too much of the drug!"

SAMSA Helpline -If you're addicted to drugs and feel like you need help...

Have it build an airplane.
Re:elect.horse on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:30PM (#50307273)
Oh ok. I thought that was the number they were ahead by. So if I was down 8 to 14, I'd have to gerrymander 7 district wins to beat the cow. It makes sense they were the count of the dots.
Re:elect.horse on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:31AM (#50304460)
I honestly don't get today's expert puzzle. When you start, horse is at 8, donkey is at 10, and cow is at 14. I get two districts for horse, which the puzzle then states "horse wins," but wouldn't the final standing then be

horse: 10, donkey: 10, cow: 14

So cow still wins? Why did it say horse wins on the "See results" screen?

Reminds me of `phoon` which shows the current phase of the moon in ascii

https://www.acme.com/software/phoon/

`brew install phoon`

Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:31AM (#50289726)
Sure. If it wasn't the NeXTcube it would have been something else. The creation of WWW is independent of Steve Jobs.
Re:Play Cyberpunk 2077 in the Browser on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:20PM (#50280329)
I love how all of these decomp games are under the .lol TLD
> In an interview, Dr. Poolos said he would not even have entertained the idea of tapering for a patient like Bowen, given her history. “No, not rational, no way,” he said. “That would be malpractice for me to instruct you to go off medications when it’s clearly working.”

I'm a little conflicted. What is she supposed to do? She's saying the side effects are intolerable, but at the same time, this doctor is corroborating her fears that she won't be listened to. I imagine the correct answer would be prescribe an additional medication for the side effects, but it's hard to say she's wrong when she's right.

Re:It's now official, tech is the new tobacco on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:15PM (#50279317)
It helped that guy commit suicide which OpenAI got sued for
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:54PM (#50264845)
I'm not entirely convinced the new models aren't just a rollback to a clean training data state after the current model has been released for a while.
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:52PM (#50264810)
Yeah 2020 was the upload point when we were all corralled during covid. And trees were the data centers of the dinosaurs. I mean, what if?
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:47PM (#50264749)
Untrue. Insta stories were pervasive.
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:46PM (#50264730)
The Bliss IV is an upcharge subscription, though.
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:45PM (#50264713)
The gameplay _becomes_ the ad. If you have a full sash of potions in every slot, they spell "C","O","K","E". The monster-bashing sounds sound like onomatopoetic "Apple!" "Goog!". The armor colors are the same as the NFL teams nearest your locale!

It will be a nightmare! haha

From the angle I'd guess the Daguerre's studio was in what building stood where the Renaissance Paris Republique Hotel now stands.
I have a question/thought/philosophy. If AES is a relatively strong encryption method right now, _why don't we wait to crack the assets until the encryption method is easy to decrypt_? By the time that's possible, the game assets will likely be old as shit, so it would potentially sit better with everyone. If we wait, it takes on a more archival type feeling.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:25PM (#50251209)
Make sure you test egress so you're not stuck paying a premium price for storage if you ever want to switch off. Having too much in iCloud was a major pain point when I wanted to downgrade my subscription.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:57PM (#50250014)
Why wouldn't they give a shit about Chinese models? TikTok isn't even THAT much better than Instagram.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:57PM (#50249137)
Like ISPs, right?
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:50PM (#50247939)
> the second guy can train their model by using the first model to generate the training data

Isn't this somewhat akin to a model learning from its own inputs? Doesn't that behavior lead to model collapse? Either the model is trained on pristine data, in which case it stagnates, or it's distilled from another model, which leads to model collapse.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:46PM (#50247867)
And then a random sun flare like in 1859 wipes it all out

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

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:27PM (#50247543)
That's Steve Jobs for anyone who wants the answer to this vaguepost
Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:37PM (#50214985)
Yes, there's a github tool. I just ran the Arc-to-Zen tool from https://github.com/Thinkscape/arc-to-zen and it imported everything flawlessly. Zen now appears to be a drop-in replacement. Try it out!
Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:26PM (#50214845)
The substantiation is sunsetting a popular browser because you bought into AI hype. Hence, tool.
Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:25PM (#50214831)
Yes. An Atlassian account is mandatory.
Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:18PM (#50214742)
I saw it mostly in the new tab screen. When you type, there's an option to query chatgpt instead of doing a search/url input. ALso they bundled the Max AI which summarized pages. To me that was only useful to summarize pop culture chat stuff like "Why is XXXXXX getting cancelled?"

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