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Re:Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:15PM (#50127571)
Owning all cryptocurrency, and really all financial transactions over the internet, might briefly justify the Anthropic valuation
With pay-per-token, there’s also an incentive for over-engineered but functionally harmless architectures. A json based css engine is probably something that can be test-cased really well in the training set.
Re:Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:34AM (#49695793)
Same idiots think folks are at risk from firearms printed from a desktop PLA 3d printer
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @08:53PM (#49355137)
Ok porridge drawer is definitely someone having a laff
Re:Bitchat Is Now on Radicle on Saturday July 25, 2026 @12:37PM (#49049041)
Or a misspelling of bitch hat
Did you consider using canbus? esp32s can handle canbus, and it would simplify the topology.
Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:58PM (#48961075)
That’s my only experience. Asking a direct technical question, only for it to be modified to a totally different question filled with essays of non-answers by folks who liked to answer their own questions I guess
Why should customers need to care about a store’s employees tax bracket
Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:48PM (#48520232)
The actual effective strategy is “tit for tat”
Re:AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:32AM (#48489455)
I’m really not qualified to investigate, but this seems suspiciously like a crafted privilege escalation vector: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/7074#issue-4492...
Reading the Spacex S-1, there’s a notable footnote (notable in that it’s a unique disclosure amongst all filers in the context it’s presented and is not required by any FASB standard). It calls out that land is not a depreciable asset.

That really didn’t need to be said and it seems to be sourced from memes from Reddit. It is the kind of infantile patronizing feedback you would get if you asked for comments on financial statements from chatGPT.

Don’t joke about that, you’ll give them ideas. particularly as Fourier is credited with discovering the greenhouse effect.
That’s a fun fact!
Re:Apple reports second quarter results on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:42PM (#47968593)
So hardware independent, they don’t even have any Mac minis, Mac pros or Mac studios in stock anymore
Re:Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @10:29AM (#47849343)
Well you currently can’t buy a desktop Mac with decent ram at any price, and right now ebay and marketplace are full of people scalping Mac minis.
if its not a faithful representation of the actual thinking, why would they be scared of people distilling against it
Re:Talk like caveman on Sunday April 05, 2026 @09:45AM (#47649384)
Words <> tokens
Re:Local LLM App by Ente on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @12:25PM (#47519533)
I was just thinking their end goal seems to be to harvest creds by putting their own rebadged distribution of local models. That’s the only “business” model that makes sense.

Expressly harvesting creds through a 2FA app seems a little more direct.

Re:Layoffs at Block on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:54PM (#47174123)
Yea, look over there!!! AI.

(Don’t mention the bitcoin investment that’s in the shitter)

Re:Google De-Indexed My Bear Blog and I Don't Know Why on Friday December 12, 2025 @07:31AM (#46243510)
It’s probably also reflective of the fact that google are throwing all their new resources at AI, as soon as you’ve hit cache invalidation you’re gone, and anything new that’s crawled is probably ranked differently in the post llm world.
Re:DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @12:52PM (#46220963)
This explains the 1000s of “no core no vram” listings for 5090s If it were due to parts substitution for repairs, would have expected they would be RMA’d rather than salvaged as they’d all be within warranty.
Re:Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C# on Monday November 17, 2025 @09:40AM (#45953979)
Being constrained by page sizes is “a feature, not a bug” in most contexts. If I’m calling out numbers on the 3rd line of page 38 of a report, it helps if that’s consistent.
Aren’t they already supply constrained? Seems like this would be counterproductive in further limiting supply vs a strategy of commoditizing your complements. This seems closer to PR designed to boost share price rather than a cogent strategy.
Re:Operating Margins on Friday November 14, 2025 @08:04AM (#45926343)
Certainly possible if their calculation of income included non operating income otherwise excluded from revenue. (Eg. A gain on sale that dwarfs the underlying business). Such presentation is prevalent and a disclosure of “gross profit” isn’t uniformly required under GAAP
“This is not fraud” - that’s a big claim. There’s no accountability for accuracy, so of course there’s some fraud, waste or abuse.
Isn’t this cellophane?
Re:Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:51AM (#45102459)
I wonder if 2) is a result of published bias for positive results in the training set. An “I don’t know” response is probably ranked unsatisfactory by human feedback and most published scientific literature are biased towards positive results and factual explanations.
Re:The Promised LAN on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:04AM (#44670168)
Token-ring marathon
Re:Kermit: A typeface for kids on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:10AM (#43715182)
I’m working on a workflow to automating font weight and sizing to cover silent letters and prosody which should cover a bit of that. One of the key aspects though as a transitional learning tool is to teach children the diversity of sounds. So it’s intentional to not have a 1:1 mapping between phonemes and graphemes.
Re:Kermit: A typeface for kids on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:55AM (#43715095)
Thanks for that. Working on automating that but currently relies on macrons being typed manually.

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