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Re:The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:52AM (#50272131)
if someone finds a O(n^100) algo for NP complete problems, the obvious next step is to start lowering that 100 exponent.

Given the current developments, I would not be confident that it would not lower dramatically pretty soon.

Re:Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:28AM (#49877642)
if your acres were in the middle of the city, with one lonely house surrounded by trees to stop the noise from outside, yes
Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:42AM (#49816922)
I wonder how that happened.

Maybe someone proposed Postgres and they said well who is going to support it. And then they'd have to pay some company to show they have postgres support anyway.

CSV has no support.

Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:46PM (#49545019)
well it is svg, it is doing it from circles and lines as primitives, it wants to do it simply and kind of builds the whole thing hierarchically. Making it 3d is way more complicated (as the POV example shows) and the prompt doesn't say 3d anyway
You haven't searched hard enough then.

At some point Google gets suspicious of your persistent searches and makes you solve captchas and puts cooldowns on your searches.

Re:A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:05AM (#49375684)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

Basically the following days have the same day of the week: Jan 3 or 4 on a leap year, last day of February, all the even pairs day / month days after that (4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12), 7/11 and 11/7, 9/5 and 5/9.

Re:A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:00AM (#49375613)
Respect to 2, don't you just look up at the start of the (gregorian) year when stuff is?

I mostly do that in my country just to check when the holy friday holiday is, a few saint holidays, a couple of celebrations for the virgin mary, etc.

Like, I know Easter follows a weird lunar calendar but I don't really calculate it.

Re:France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @07:47AM (#49256729)
It would work until you need to route an international call.

And there's a lot of telemarketing and scams happening across country lines.

I mean, they should still do it. It's just the first problem they'd face.

Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon on Saturday July 04, 2026 @09:05PM (#48790436)
I have to assume that unless the cost of buying at costco and driving back home is higher than buying it all at amazon and having it delivered.

The total price + driving cost is a good proxy for how efficient the whole process is; amazon will somehow include in the price somewhere the delivery home, and both companies largely won't subsidize their whole business method.

Social value is a little trickier; a lot of people benefit much from delivery, but in the end people probably don't buy everything from amazon or costco anyway.

Re:Reality has a surprising amount of detail on Friday July 03, 2026 @07:16AM (#48773667)
So how do you trace the boards?

I am assuming that you put the board at the correct angle on the floor, let it go over the upper entry floor, use a ruler to extend the line of the wall over to the board, trace that, cut it, then reverse the process but this time the part you just cut can go on the floor which will produce the correct angle on the wall?

Re:Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:12AM (#48536892)
Maybe they could have included an option to switch between GC implementations, like Java had done before.

Maybe in all those years they could have thought of that.

Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:43PM (#48315185)
I honestly doubt this; very few companies have enough data. Maybe we could see mergers so it happens but basically it would mean everyone would need to be Google sized for it to work.
Re:Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:56AM (#48280716)
Very few people are going to play this on a CRT, tho. And even if you included a CRT shader, most people will turn it off.

It's ok to pine for the old techniques, but this is a game made for a Genesis in modern times. It has to stride both.

Re:Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:22PM (#48215041)
This is great but keep in mind that Go allows the programmer skip these invariants in various ways.

I wish Go had a serious type system. Never mind algebraic types, but one that fucking respected private values and did things like validating enum values.

Newer, more expensive console runs better than older, cheaper one.

Insane.

I will give you 4.

1, 2 and 3 happened a ton in the good old times before AI. If anything, we can make the code be more tested than before, but that requires a lot more engineering, that is made easier by LLMs.

It's just we haven't adapted to do them.

Re:Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed] on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @09:39PM (#47957056)
Don't say single nine, it sounds ugly and bad.

Say five eights of reliability. Maybe six.

Re:Who owns the code Claude Code wrote? on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @11:10PM (#47943778)
Worst case, meta will sue the programmer who produced infringing code.

I mean if the code is not copyrighteable that does not mean anything; it's just public domain code except that meta will just use good old security by obscurity to protect it. If somehow a meta programmer vibes code, say, VVVVVV, and Terry Cavanagh recognizes it on his facebook feed and sues meta, and wins, all that will happen is that meta will take down the copy of VVVVVV, will fire and sue the engineer that vibe coded it and call it a day.

Re:GPT-5.5 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @07:42PM (#47883710)
Surely there are existing rails right now that could be transformed into a bullet train line.

Like properties and regulations are a true problem, but it's not like trains don't exist at all in America.

Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks on Sunday April 12, 2026 @12:10AM (#47736077)
Like the people who generally get rsi from playing their instrument?
Right but who is going to prosecute? the Department of Justice?
Re:System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @03:11PM (#47694851)
I mean they could just feed the solutions into the training data. Then suddenly the bot will do real good at HLE.
Re:Missile Defense Is NP-Complete on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @12:24PM (#47505129)
Ah yes, Russia, the famously territory starved country.
Re:Missile Defense Is NP-Complete on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @12:22PM (#47505075)
USA won't injure or kill 1 in 25 of young adults in the Iran war, unless somehow Iran does have a nuke and wants to use it, come on.
Re:No Semicolons Needed on Saturday March 21, 2026 @07:19PM (#47472570)
You are not telling the whole story.

You can mix indentation and braces to delimit blocks.

It's insane.

Re:“This is not the computer for you” on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:25AM (#47364935)
Dunno about Xcode, but if you put a go compiler in there, I doubt it will compile or run slowly. Some dependencies may require C, but you could avoid that mostly.
Have you ever looked at a dollar bill in your life.

Who do you think printed it. Who signed the bill?

The US can just print money and receive goods in exchange of literal paper. Or just put an extra zero in a bank account and receive goods in exchange.

And if a certain yahoo decides they want in the money printing scheme...who do you think is going to send the goons with guns to prevent the government monopoly in creating literal wealth.

No company ever got a man to the Moon.

Sure, some companies participated in the process. But it was a government that did it.

It's been more than 50 years and private companies haven't been able to match it.

The greatest technical achievement of mankind was done by a government. Private industry could, at best, help.

Sorry all the other things you name are great. But the winner is government.

Conservatives discovered a cheat code to get: (a) people to have to identify on the computer everywhere and (b) control what they can do with and without this identification.

Of course they are copying the play everywhere.

Re:Why I don't think AGI is imminent on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:55PM (#47040217)
Where are the robots going to sleep? Outside in the rain?

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