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Re:Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:20PM (#49365184)
I wonder how much it is related to the invisible watermarking
PC games were the last reason why I still used windows. Now that Proton works wonders in Linux, I hope I don’t need to ever come back again. Great times with 98, xp and win7 that were snappy, easy to install and with no slop
Interesting question - what I learned doing that is that sol ends up injecting its thinking traces as code and shell terminal comments. YMMV, but in my case what I saw was sufficient to use with my routine work in my projects
pi sends 1k (or less) -> https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/packages/codi...

My $20 sub using gpt 5.6 sol thinking-off lasts for hours using pi.

Always loved to have an e-ink reader but the walled gardens always made it so hard. Until I bought the xteink x4, as skeptical as I could be. What a great little device. https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x4
Re:Don't YOLO your file system on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:32PM (#47550607)
GPL v3…
Re:Places to Telnet on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @01:05PM (#46783796)
$> telnet tsunami.thebigwave.net

The one and only. Still online to my surprise.

JavaScript is not a great language for web development either, yet…
Re:Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @06:35AM (#45744981)
OP thank you for this generous text. I would add that these tips are amazing for people with post-covid/long-covid/brain-fog too
Re:The Mainframe Six on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:33PM (#45698290)
I just discovered that 90% of all credit card activity still rely on mainframes https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/mainfram...
Re:Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB" on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:08PM (#43042033)
<quietly turns airplane mode on for good>
Re:Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @01:57PM (#42856394)
Thank goodness it is a bug. For a second, I thought I was on the new squid game.
And it worked. Congrats for reaching Front Page, Bruno!
Re:Why sunlight in your eyes makes you healthier on Thursday September 12, 2024 @05:30PM (#41525793)
This article contains potentially harmful advice. I would never expose my eyes to direct sunlight - The risk of permanent retinal damage is insanely high, even if you gaze at the sun for a few seconds straight.
Re:Apache Zeppelin on Thursday September 05, 2024 @11:11AM (#41457381)
I was an user of zeppelin for a couple of years (v0.7-0.8), we used it to run Scala Spark and the UI has a lot of bells and whistles to make it easier to use Spark, display spark dataframes and simple dataviz features out-of-the-box. It is a bit relatable to the notebook experience you would have in databricks.
Re:The Lost Worlds of Telnet (2019) on Monday March 25, 2024 @09:24AM (#39815986)
$>telnet tsunami.thebigwave.net
Coffee and tobacco consumption is a known correlation (one of many refs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158991/). Curious to see if authors considered that, as tobacco is one of the main aggressors of vascular tissue, which causes dementia in the long run.

EDIT 1: Just in time, UK Biobank (almost 500.000 people) study pointing to increased longevity with coffee consumers, an interesting controversy that just doesn't fit with their smaller study conclusion (although overall longevity is a different outcome, you would expect to find more dementia in older people) https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/coffee-lo...

Our case took around 14 months for the EB-1 from the first call to lawyer to the green card in our mailbox.
Glad you made it OP, congrats! As an immigrant in the US I went through the "Extraordinary Ability" path and the process was a journey of pain and anxiety. Many roundabouts with a lawyer that promised me expertise in the process and it ended up with a NOID (Notice of Intention to Deny - something like that) from USCIS. My wife and I had to study the USCIS manual page by page and re-wrote almost all documentation from the lawyer. It wasn't easy but we made it.
Re:Beyond "Abolish the FDA" on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:06AM (#38568000)
Just read two paragraphs and sounded like someone asked ChatGPT to write this thing as a Joe Rogan podcast.
Re:A Bert for Laptops, from Scratch on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:42PM (#37426008)
This is awesome. Long time I wanted to pre-train a language model in Brazilian Portuguese and just got a 24GB 3090. This is the perfect timing. Thank you for sharing your notebook.
Re:MK-1 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @06:30PM (#37016868)
MKML == abstractions and wrappers for GGML?
Re:Scallop: A Neurosymbolic Programming Language on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:44AM (#31083839)
The idea is cool. But - which existing language is not neurosymbolic?
"come back to the office we got kombucha on tap"

https://twitter.com/Jobvo/status/1496507164445356032

Re:Ask HN: How do you start researching for a project idea? on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:23PM (#30458271)
Some things that help me a lot:

- Go walk outside

- Consume media / go to events with topics that are VERY different than my field of expertise

- Do any kind of art

- Play like a kid

- Last but not least, my favorite: Have a lot of bad ideas. https://seths.blog/2018/06/the-two-simple-secrets-to-good-id...

Re:Thanks to NFTs, you can own a piece of Bayes Theorem on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:21PM (#30117587)
That's the whole point on this NFT conundrum, right? One can post something without even have to confirm that they are the owner by rights of what they are selling. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdzb5/more-than-80-of-nfts-...

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