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On your theory 1:

Just like you can make AI train to play chess or go by playing against itself, you can kind of gamify writing code (bonus points for compiling, and passing more and more tests).

You can't do that with prose much.

Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:38PM (#50293865)
>killing

But the search revenue is growing at a high speed.

The article wording is just unfortunate.

The non-misleading title would be: "Google Cloud growing way faster than other sources of Alphabet revenue".

It feels like overmonitized free to play Slack.
Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:07PM (#50262274)
On the same note, I wonder why AI almost never gives me links to Wikipedia. Do they have it in training data without any attribution?

It feels like the distribution of sources/links it outputs is 33% Reddit, 33% Random blog, 33% Not Found.

Even in the developed world, you don't need to register solar instalation as long as you don't plan to plug it into the general network, right?

If you have your own circuit with solar and battery and devices disconnected from the rest of the grid, then there is nothing to register, right?

Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:58PM (#50249159)
I would guess only on the nitpicked benchmarks?

The pelicans place it nicely between Sol and Luna in terms of both pricing and results.

Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:54PM (#50249085)
Flip it around. The number (generation) is the most important. Just like it's often with hardware.

And some variants (e.g., the medium one) being skipped or delayed for a certain generation doesn't really change the overall size branding.

Re:iPhone Duo Teardown on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:18AM (#50240715)
OPs point wasn't that people don't want a bigger screen.

The point was that there are so many tradeoffs it makes it a hard sell.

It's basically worse in every category *except* for the screen. Durability, price, battery, etc.

Re:iPhone Duo Teardown on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:16AM (#50240686)
>Reviewing PRs on the larger screen is way more comfortable than a normal phone size.

I believe you on that.

Yet I cannot think of a worse device to do code reviews on than a phone.

Re:What goes into making an animated film? on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:58AM (#50240533)
>A lot of AI content is better than human slop.

Whether it's better is personal preference. And many find it so bad/soulless it makes anything around it impossible to enjoy.

Feels like going from artisanal sourdough bread to factory-made wonderbread. Sure it's "cleaner" looking... but that doesn't make it immediately better.

Shady politicians are some of the quickest individuals to jump to lawsuit threats.

So the leakers may have already been under some pressure to not end up in jail for doing the right thing.

In that sense, isn't it "anti-discovery"?

The goal is to replace your "best hamburgers in X-city" search by just defaulting to McDonalds.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:31AM (#50180669)
>It's the whole reason that tofu isn't more popular

I wouldn't be so sure to claim that it is more popular. Tofu is big in asian countries.

Pork is more popular not because it's somehow superior. It's popular in the west because that was historically available so that's what people there know how to "grow" and cook.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:09AM (#50180331)
Anything could help.

I know people that do like 4 transatlantic trips per year and eat meat for every single dish.

Convincing them to reduce their impact would have waaaay more effect than lecturing someone that already travels by bike/train and eats vegetarian diet.

Re:Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:26PM (#50169738)
Because TSGO is stable and compatible?

I assume that most of the speedup in ts-rs does not simply stem from using a language without garbage collection, but actually from doing smart optimizations that can be done in any langauge.

Similar to how uv in the Python world explained that their implementation being in Rust has very little to do with the most impactful speedups they did.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:16PM (#50169586)
My new criteria is that Sam and Dario finally stop talking about it.
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:14PM (#50169565)
>The vast majority of operations don’t need SOTA anyway.

I agree. But people rarely pay only for the minimum they need.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:08PM (#50169471)
My mouth is at: I don't want to be exposed to anything related to Musk.

My mind is at: Even though it's overvalued, it will likely keep climbing and won't crash.

Where is the market at?

Re:MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:29PM (#50156889)
It's always cheaper (*than the next more expensive model) and better (*than the next worse model).

And often they also don't mention how verbose it is, that the same text splits into more tokens than in competing models, how slow it is, that the pricing is temporary, that the cost per task actually isn't that good despite being both cheap and capable.

Re:CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:35PM (#50155347)
I have a feeling that many more fields are utilizing AI and having some success with it and we just don't know about it in our STEM bubble.

On the other hand, you could downplay the math findings a bit, since it didn't further our understanding of mathematics just yet, only provided proves to things we didn't have proves for.

Re:Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:36PM (#50144544)
The analogy is very sensible, but I would like to add that Kotlin isn't really hoardning features in the same way Scala did.

Compared to Scala, C++, or even Typescript and C#, Kotlin feels a like a well thought out minimal modern language (as minimal as you can be, while still providing conviniences that we have grown to expect like nullability checks, or data classes).

(*Except coroutines, I feel like Java is achieving that goal waaay better with virtual threads and structured concurrency than Kotlin did with "forever experimental" API that is full of footguns and lacks any observability.)

>but it feels like it would be a massive headache for me to work out how to select and implement some harness for this and set it up for people

Switching to OpenCode or Pi harness is trivial for developers. So it certainly makes sense for those of us.

If it's problematic or not worth in your organization, then the switch doesn't make sense as you pointed out.

Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:13PM (#50106866)
I can't help but empathise.

If users kept repeatedly coming to me with bug reports, where I have no logs, metrics or anything else to go by, other than their words.

After I gave them my recomendation/fix there would be a good chance I never see them again without any feedback on whether I failed or succeeded at solving their problem.

And the bug reports would be predominantly of similar nature (I assume most doctors and dentists keep solving the same common issues), I would also probably learn to jump to recommending the same common solutions.

After reading the article, I think they didn't.

>"Both companies found that overweight or diabetic patients taking the drugs, called GLP-1s, had reduced biological age compared to those taking a placebo"

>“In an unhealthy population, I do think it’s an anti-aging drug, but in a healthy population, no one knows.”

Well, clinging on something that might be dying off also doesn't sound like a sound business strategy.

If AI continues to be improving then it's reasonable to assume most people won't need a full blown IDE.

Move to Germany.

The company has always been registered in Prague, Czechia.

They just moved the development center from St. Peterburg, Russia to Munich, Germany.

>Though the US seems to be on the high end, using 3x more than Japan and 4x more than France

I wouldn't be surprised if this 4x difference was purely caused by lawns.

Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:45AM (#49890088)
I know it's not a perfect benchmark, but in the "Create a Pacman" prompt it did cost 4 times as much, while producing way worse result than Sol-6: https://jonclegg.github.io/pacman-bakeoff/
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @10:26AM (#49766848)
Maybe.

I don't think clickrate on Youtube is a meaningful metric if all you want is for the right people to show up at your event.

Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:36AM (#49727731)
Looks like it.

A general AI classifier that can be set up easily and used to classify anything… but with probably lower quality than a purpose built one.

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