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Re:SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:38AM (#50270314)
So much symbolism in this passage:

"The SS United States, once the fastest passenger liner in the world, is scheduled to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico"

This got me:

> When I’ve cried reading the comments and the social media “explanations” of our marriage. The man people have been attacking was the one who consoled me. While strangers described how little he must care about me, he was helping me through the hurt their words have caused.

Re:Tests of the New AI Siri on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:07PM (#49747308)
I was just rambling about it to my wife - it's finally good and it finally can understand me correctly.

Apple always had access to app's internal API for AppleScript and accessibility, so now that they exposed it to an LLM (with upcoming claude and gemini support), they are a serious power. And iPhones are in the hands of a lot of folks around the globe. Exciting.

Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:04PM (#49733674)
You're in for a long hibernation my friend
Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @03:16PM (#49687587)
I think what's happening is they taught models to hack and now they fail to control them. Kind of like gain of function research on pathogens.
Looks useful, congrats
I seriously doubt that the FaceMash guy was planning mass surveillance from day one. The people who propped him up might have, though.
In a society where government is not participating in helping people with their health care, what moral right does it have to make "unhealthy" things illegal?
Why is a language model bad at video games? I think the answer is stated in the question itself.
Re:Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:30PM (#48231274)
That's why I prefer relying on a custom setup based on a Claude Code. Much less surprises, especially if you don't rush into the models prematurely unless forced.
Re:Gemini 3.5 Flash on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @10:08PM (#48202243)
now matter what google does for some reason the agentic performance of their models is missing something, i hope this release is stronger. we need more competition.
I love it. The RAM is not a problem because Apple knows a dirty secret – apps adapt to the environment both at runtime at design time. Give them less RAM, they'll allocate less and clean caches more sooner.
Re:AI Product Graveyard on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:48AM (#48022532)
Counting 38 acquired companies as dead is misleading the reader.
Much love to you, brother.
Thanks for doing this. Looks interesting, I'm going to check it out soon.
I'm convinced that at some point looking like being productive and being productive becomes the same thing.
Re:Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:32AM (#47427042)
$5.5 in PA.
Re:Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:23AM (#47426163)
New distraction is coming in! All eyes on this now!

Man, they really don't think much of their voter base or ordinary people for that matter.

Turned out they just were the selfish assholes everyone always said they were, with everything they say just being poor attempts at rationalization of their deep lack of morals, including their self-serving primitive religion.
Re:Moltbook on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:26PM (#46833484)
Are we essentially looking at the infrastructure for the first mass prompt injection-based worm? It seems like a perfect storm for a malicious skill to execute a curl | bash and wipe thousands of agent-connected nodes off the grid.
Re:When employees feel slighted, they work less on Saturday January 24, 2026 @11:52AM (#46745133)
We definitely do. How else are the LLMs that are going to replace managers will learn that? /s
Re:There is No Quintic Formula [video] on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:47AM (#46106252)
You really picked a wrong target for your ridiculous attacks. 2swap is a mathematical artist, not Khan Academy. There's plenty of boring lectures on youtube already on every topic.
Re:There is No Quintic Formula [video] on Monday December 01, 2025 @06:43AM (#46106221)
What an annoying comment to read about such an incredible video. Both me and my son enjoyed it a lot. It's an educational art piece with beautiful and insightful visualizations.
Zod's validation errors are awful, the json schema it generates for LLM is ugly and and often confusing, the types structures Zod creates are often unintelligible in the and there's even no good way to pretty print a schema when you're debugging. Things are even worse if you're stuck with zod/v3
The whole thing Trump and his minions are doing is so very reminiscent of what was happening in Russia during its turn to fascism. Similarities go to such an extreme degree across the board that I now feel there has to be at least a consultant from Moscow working with the current admin, if not full blown department at the FSB. Blatant lying, complete disregard of any laws, open rejection of norms and mockery of process, justification of extreme cruelty , obsession with some made up concept of “liberals”, and blaming everything on the predecessors (Putin is still trying to blame all the problems on the collapse of the Soviet Union).

I sincerely hope that people of the United States reject being treated like mindless cattle and choose freedom instead of what appears to be a complete and utter national-fascist tyranny.

Re:Bun adds pnpm-style isolated installation mode on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:33AM (#44612626)
Really loving Bun these days. Was really pleasantly surprised using their shell scripting API in typescript - single file, shebang line, straightforward DSL, support for piping data here and there.

Really, really nice and ergonomic. Made a few utility scripts today and enjoyed it much better than bash.

https://bun.com/docs/runtime/shell

Re:My Bank Keeps on Undermining Anti-Phishing Education on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:08AM (#44594218)
I've been getting lots of scam calls lately, especially AI voice generated once, and there was one particularly annoying. Very persistent call about being approved for some loan, no reference to any particulars, all very vague, and I kept ignoring. In my mind I had no doubt it was a scam. Well, long and boring story short, now I have a missed payment on my credit report for my new HVAC system..
Re:Protecting My Attention at the Dopamine Carnival on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:25AM (#44593813)
I find it completely acceptable to outsource some of my thinking and tasks to LLMs. Not everything is my primary area of focus or expertise, and not all questions are equally important. For example, I could buy any random toaster oven, or I can kick off a deep research to pick a best toaster by my criteria and in 5 minutes I’ll have a much better context for this decision, without having to switch my mind from my primary objectives. I don’t want to think about toasters.
Every. Damn. Time. I've enjoyed reading The War of Art, that talks a lot about this mysterious "resistance".

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