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Google and Apple are going to move consumers and ordinary business users to edge inference. This is more disruptive to the upcoming IPOs than most investors understand.
There was about 50 different origin conspiracies.

Vaccine absolutely was proven to work in reducing deaths and building immunity in the community.

Lockdowns absolutely slowed the spread of COVID to allow the hospital systems to rationalise the limited PPE.

Really? I missed the evidence that the vaccine was mind a controlled experiment linked to 5G funded by Bill Gates that killed everyone who had the vaccine within 6 months.
So am I understanding correctly, putting a listening device into a conference room gets you fired and arrested but hacking multiple partners, governments and other institutions is just normal part of business?
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:15PM (#50078879)
Em dashes are commonly used in most countries that speak English. I get the feeling that people from the USA don’t use them often and now have tarnished the use of them.
Hey. When you accidentally double tap on the joystick it zooms in and you cannot zoom out. This is a known issue with threejs.
Re:Where is all the new, good software? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:03AM (#50068734)
Coding is only one part of software. There is resourcing, financing, research, planning, design, development, testing, distribution, training and support.
So much easier then JavaScript/typescript, Python, and many other languages.
In Australia, my kids are using Google Classroom and Pages as chat apps.
Re:Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:04PM (#49837326)
I had Sol 5.6 about a month ago populated a test account, take screen shots, write a script, used ElevenLabs TTS, with Remotion. It did an amazing job.
Surely there has to be some responsibility.
Re:Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:51PM (#49770770)
When I was a graduate 20 years ago, the partner would sit with a print out of every word I wrote and a red pen marking every change required, as the partner knew anything that was written in his name had to be exactly what he would have said.

Same needs to go for LLMs, leverage them for productivity both make sure you are owning their output.

Same thought I had.
Sovereign AI is going to be the next frontier. It’s apparent that all nations need to prepare themselves for possible challenges from foreign hyperscalers facing laws that are being rushed through to alleviate fear caused by fear mongers.
Strange. I had an app the other day approved in hours on Google 15 days on Apple.
An intern who was there barely a minute, who has said nothing of substance. Surely we can get a better source with concrete evidence rather than the vibes of junior burger.
I agree with the host of the All In podcast, often I don’t. This is about creating a moat that open source models cannot compete with, regulation.

It is purely ensuring only a few providers can compete.

The future is edge and open source models.

Both Apple and Google are working towards this.

Cloud AI will be for offloading when the edge is not capable.

Most cases edge will be suffice.

Further inference costs keep coming down.

Vertical integration might be the biggest challenge of the AI industry. Trying to manage electricity generation, training, inference, harness and end user for enterprise and consumer is a lot of moving parts.

Re:My Feed, My Way on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:50AM (#49607497)
Maybe read the bill first before commenting.
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:40PM (#49556612)
OpenAI is killing it now that they are more focused. Killing projects like Sora et al have seen it go from irrelevant to level footing with Anthropic.

Sol is so much better than Fable 5. Then we get Astra (yet to use it) few days after Fable 5.1 (which is very impressive).

Codex is slightly better than Claude Code.

Good on Sam Altman getting back to basics and turning OpenAI around.

Re:Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:58PM (#49352619)
Why do Python users use acronyms instead of verbose variable names?
Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:56PM (#49352581)
*Atlassian from Australia has joined the chat*
We have come full circle.
agreed, this is where we have the biggest opportunity for innovation.
Re:How Claude marks AI-generated content on Monday August 10, 2026 @06:23PM (#49250682)
People with dyslexia and dystrophia, commonly use LLMs to proofread content. Even Anthropic admits this is a limitation.
Re:Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" on Monday August 10, 2026 @06:07PM (#49250483)
I don't see anything unique nor novel to what everyone has been doing since GPT-3.5, before OpenAI introduced function calling, I was building my own JSON and tool calling.
Re:Saying No on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:58PM (#49250363)
thank you
Re:Saying No on Sunday August 09, 2026 @05:57PM (#49236509)
Hollow victory.

The landlord was probably trying to squeeze some small margin by leasing unoccupied hours. The loss of occupancy is probably a small rounding error.

The yoga group now without a space. A major loss for them.

Re:Saying No on Sunday August 09, 2026 @05:36PM (#49236251)
I remember an executive who was like this person. They had a private office and it was a little cold so they brought in a space heater. That sent the thermostat off, suddenly the whole office became ice cold. He would not listen to anyone’s else pleas because his comfort was more important. People from building maintenance would put up signs and he would rip them down. Some people’s idea of negotiating is just forcing peoples hand until they have no choice but to terminate the relationship. We were also kicked out of the building.

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