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Re:C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur on Saturday October 24, 2026 @02:21AM (#50218750)
It surprises me that it runs on the CPU at all, honestly.
Republican policies probably benefit them, and the donation also curries favor with the politician.
Re:Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:14PM (#49637017)
IMO the benchmark to pass will be to show it has better safety than the average sober, non-speeding, non-phone-using, seatbelt-wearing driver.

IDK how that could even feasibly be shown but that's when people will actually start going all-in on it. Otherwise I will simply meet those criteria myself for free.

Re:Put the zip code first on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:45PM (#47292649)
Galaxy brain: address should just be a multi-line field
Re:UEFI Bindings for JavaScript on Monday February 09, 2026 @10:08AM (#46946036)
Finally!
Re:Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @07:26PM (#46699634)
Thanks for the lawnchair recommendations, y'all. It's been real, Nova Launcher. Sleep now my sweet prince.
Sorry by power I meant in terms of capability not like, wattage
Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual [pdf] on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:49PM (#46684970)
another day another field effecting the "deviant" weight in the FBI's model
And cigarettes and fossil fuels
Re:"Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?" on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:38PM (#46683478)
The trick is, LLMs are only as good as they are at writing code because of all the publicly available source code, tutorials, blog posts and Q&A it can slurp up.
Well obviously cell phones have very powerful tx/rx so my question would be "what is stopping us from using this for p2p", I assume the answer is we don't have software access to the radio, and I assume that's for regulatory reasons but idk
Once again, using a computer system to launder a conclusion someone has already made
Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:59PM (#46670245)
this already happens
Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:50PM (#46670158)
I'm not so sure. Much like search engines, you can run one yourself or pay Kagi but most people prefer to keep their money and deal with the ads. Streaming services have demonstrated that people have a pretty high tolerance for ads.
Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:01PM (#46669552)
I am now imagining a "A Case Of Spring Fever" style educational film about how ads are good actually
Re:The recurring dream of replacing developers on Saturday January 17, 2026 @07:40PM (#46663682)
what is special about programming jobs that makes them permanently immune from the high skilled workers being in low demand
Re:The recurring dream of replacing developers on Saturday January 17, 2026 @07:13PM (#46663527)
The honest truth is it can go either way, really. Just ask all the sign-painters and portrait artists how their career is going
Re:Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:11PM (#46661001)
conversely, the mechanism by which the KT impactor killed off the dinosaurs was atmospheric
Re:Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:09PM (#46660979)
Sulfates are not good to spray into the air, they are bad for you
Re:Just the Browser on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:35AM (#46646759)
Adding an AI button is not an innovative feature
Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:04PM (#46641746)
As a kid I went to church with my family and it was full of nice people who wanted to help others and were very kind, lots of my parents friends were and are from church.

Unfortunately, it is gut-wrenching for me to be in church. I feel terrible, because I simply don't believe any of it. To stand there and be phony and pretend to love and believe in Jesus just kills me.

Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:59PM (#46626977)
Even if you do manage to get a refund, it obviously sucks to be in that position where you need one
Re:Anthropic is making a huge mistake on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:47PM (#46626856)
The invocation of "first they came" is pretty hilariously tone-deaf. Come on dude, they restricted your API access, it will be ok
Re:SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:53PM (#46626415)
Adafruit in particular is very good at providing step by step tutorials on how to use their products, most of them that are nontrivial have a little example project to go with them.

It's also been a good one-stop shop, if you want a little character display to go with your esp32 project they will have one, along with addressable LEDs, battery circuitry, etc.

It's a bummer both sites are melting down

Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:46PM (#46610196)
Gatekeepy to not like something that's not to your taste
If you're an American, what could protesting Iran possibly accomplish? They are already sanctioned out the wazoo and our government already doesn't like the government there.
Re:Text-Based Web Browsers on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @10:26AM (#46602201)
Wrong Gemini, the above poster is talking about the protocol, you are talking about the LLM
Re:"Food JPEGs" in Super Smash Bros. & Kirby Air Riders on Sunday January 11, 2026 @11:56AM (#46577369)
Then what is your objection. You're doing it
I write c++ for a living and I feel the same way. And many c++ codebases have that OOP AbstractObjectInterfaceFactory stink which makes it even worse
Re:"Food JPEGs" in Super Smash Bros. & Kirby Air Riders on Sunday January 11, 2026 @11:49AM (#46577288)
> I want to make films that look like Denis Villeneuve's Dune. (Just to cite one example, not that I'm interested in replicating his style.) How am I supposed to do that?

As an artist you should know that being able to achieve whatever you want with whatever level of effort you want and get the reception you want is often not achievable

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