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Re:Richest 0.1% (8M) produce more carbon pollution than 3.5B on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:51AM (#50286603)
"It's not my fault, it's everyone else's fault!"
The entire world doesn't want their devices that they bought and own to be beholden to the corporate whims of Apple or Google just so your job can be easier.
Re:Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:58AM (#50163661)
Not "just as much".

The more functional the democracy, the less "just as much".

Re:How to engineer an AI harness for game development on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:13PM (#50077979)
> I dont use LLMs outside of occasional searches > I have a hunch LLMs will not take over game development

Not easy to make statements about things you don't use.

If you're developing software, LLMs will be ubiquitous eventually. They aren't going to tune the turn radius or how long to hold a freeze frame but they will bang out a UI to let you do that quickly with quick turn around times.

So many simple little things that are helpful but not really worth doing will now be worth doing because the implementation cost is a fraction of what it once was.

Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @12:11PM (#49742890)
All laws are made up. An associate member, not a full member, can be whatever we want it to be.
This tendency started long before airbnb and foreigners started buying a "big majority of properties".

People have been moving to cities for decades now. Many of humanities recent developments make much more sense at scale so people are going to places with that scale. Some prefer a quieter environment and don't move but most people rather have opportunities, jobs, services, etc and all that is made much easier when lots of people are concentrated in a smaller area.

Re:DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @04:31AM (#47762872)
But there's a couple orders of magnitude more photo shoots than movies and since once you write software once, you can copy it for free, investing in creating photo editing software still makes sense.
Maybe the attacks on allies aren't being done with bombs but the attacks are landing anyway and the hate is growing too.

It's not like America was super popular before all of this, it was more tolerated then celebrated. This very large straw broke the camel's back and everyone is working on moving away and after that's done, why come back?

Re:HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:00AM (#47572048)
Everything is 100% possible without AI. AI just shifts the effort cost.
Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion on Sunday March 15, 2026 @11:06AM (#47388110)
It depends on what you enjoy more — building the pieces or putting the pieces together in clever ways.

I'm more on the second group so LLMs let me get to that part faster without having to get bogged on in the "small stuff".

But I do get the people that enjoy the craftsmanship of the finer details instead.

Re:Iran official says 2k people have been killed in unrest on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:27AM (#46603197)
That's terrible...
Re:Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release on Thursday October 02, 2025 @08:04PM (#45457107)
QEMU has been in development for decades.

I'll take the high level language developed solution that I can use now over a low level language version that would reach feature parity with this 10 years from now.

Speed of development is a feature.

Re:Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release on Thursday October 02, 2025 @08:00PM (#45457076)
That post complaining about lack of context took longer than typping "immich" into duck duck go and reading the single sentence that pops up at the top describing exactly what immich is. ----------- Immich Immich is a project that lets you back up, organize, and manage your photos and videos on your own server. It is under active development and available under GNU AGPL v3 license.
Re:Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:31AM (#45447430)
Because it's not just an "image storage solution". A thumb drive would be an image storage solution. If you're indexing, making geo queries, serving over the network, categorize, transcode video and everything else that's needed to create a google photos competitor, you're going to need the hardware to back it up.
Re:People may age faster if their dad smoked during puberty on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @06:29AM (#45423877)
It's all probability, not guarantees.

Leading a healthy lifestyle increases your chances, eating like a pig decreases them.

Looking at the outliers and saying "See?! It's all a lie!" is like looking at a lottery winner and concluding that lottery tickets are a sound investment.

Re:Microsoft PowerToys on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @12:08PM (#45199753)
Including it in the OS is a much bigger support commitment.
I would say that displacement from a disaster-prone area is a good outcome, yes...
Seems like a pretty easy fix in treating the system that runs the cancer detection algorithm as an hospital machine and not as part of the IT system. It can be an airgapped system that runs just the needed software in a a controlled configuration.

This is not new, lots of mission critical software systems are run like this.

Re:A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @04:45AM (#44431901)
What's keeping anyone from using a trustworthy camera to take a trustworthy picture of a screen displaying an AI generated image?

And that's the low tech version. Taking a trustworthy camera and plugging the CMOS sensor connector into an LLM that generates its output as RAW data that feeds into the sensor isn't that hard if you want to make extra sure you're not detected.

Such a system might even cause more harm than good by giving people the impression that real/AI images can actually be certified.