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Re:Dream-1
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:09PM (#50224123)
Well, the whole point of the current AI boom is about finding ways to stop keeping a large portion of society employed, so in that sleep what dreams may come must give us pause...
Re:Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:36AM (#50139797)
That algorithm fails for languages as exotic as English with its three character ligatures like ffl that are used in truffle, but not in cufflink.
The real challenge is Arabic, though, see https://fontspec.org/opentype-shaping/opentype-shaping-arabi...
Re:The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC
on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:09AM (#50114709)
So now all software engineers should fight with all their power to keep DST where ever possible, so we do not loose the cultural ability to write software that can do the one hour adjustments required by this...
Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security...
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:05PM (#50094275)
No, the operators of the C&C infrastructure.
Re:Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:54PM (#49997990)
There is talkie that was published https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
Re:Bug Blindness
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @10:38AM (#49499070)
Also, more than 90% of the title bar are active UI elements like menus and close buttons, and you have to guess which few pixels are actually inert enough to allow dragging.
Re:Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:59AM (#49497913)
Note that the 2023 article also cites the submission, which is five years older.
Re:Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tr...
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:16PM (#49350056)
DDR4, and from some comments I have seen around here of only marginally acceptable reliability. It may still take a few years if until they have all the production processes fully under control.
Re:AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:00PM (#49160002)
It is a bit more than four tokens per millifortnight.
Re:Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]
on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:43PM (#49129377)
In a Faraday cage?
Re:Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resol...
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:33PM (#49101266)
The Qwen-35B-A3B numbers are even weirder, did you drop a digit? I get half of that speed on a AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT (RADV NAVI14) (8192 MiB) (unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF:Q6_K with q8_0 context).
Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:02AM (#48847109)
This book would probably disagree :-)
https://www.fnac.com/a19325120/Bernard-Cerquiglini-La-langue...
Re:GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded...
on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:30AM (#48794201)
No, the answer is 21. You ignored the "Shape is distinguishable by touch before drawing".
Re:Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal
on Monday June 29, 2026 @11:44AM (#48720787)
If you like scary, there are also emacs based agents like gptel which support tools like "eval-elisp".
A kitchen sink is almost indistinguishable from a sandbox, right?
... right?
Re:5k Restaurant Menus, Years 1880-1920
on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:49AM (#48715704)
I have always seen this a a signal that the drinker doesn't want drowned wasps in their beer.
Re:The last Romans are still around
on Friday June 26, 2026 @02:22AM (#48683004)
Depending on who's legal fiction you believe, the Roman Empire was only dissolved in 1806 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsdeputationshauptschluss
Re:Ending All Respiratory Infections
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:21AM (#48670541)
Yeah, that number is probably too low by a factor of two or so.
Re:Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't se...
on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @10:29AM (#48660521)
They are not trying to just open a company, they are trying to create one the more complex nested company setups allowed by German law.
Re:Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:51PM (#48652639)
That is the point of failing safe. It would me much worse if some of the trains kept running...
Re:Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem
on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:49PM (#48652604)
It's not, it was a scheduled software update.
Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
on Friday June 19, 2026 @04:47PM (#48603085)
Just like RAM and disk prices have been continually decreasing for as long as people remember.
Re:Perlisisms
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @01:12PM (#48529794)
The actual prescient LLM quote is "7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one."
Re:Claude Fable 5
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:53AM (#48474405)
Re:How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @07:05AM (#48433685)
Yeah, even nostalgia is no longer what it used to be...
Welcome to old age :-).
Re:Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @02:47PM (#48374467)
On the other hand, I recently installed a system with debian 13, and it was really easy to distinguish between X11 and wayland sessions: if the session displays a plasma desktop, it's X11, if it crashes on login, it is wayland. YMMV if you try to switch to wayland.
Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters withou...
on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:13AM (#48355784)
And if you ever run out of things to do in your copious free time, it looks like that PR #1744 was merged without the has_target_ctx assert two days after you uploaded your drafter quants. So you can now redo all your quants and rerun all your benchmarks ;-).
Re:Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion
on Friday May 29, 2026 @04:55AM (#48320748)
It means that the request to the API contains cryptographic proof that is was generated by a legitimate, reviewed app running on a unmodified and non-rooted mobile device controlled by Apple or Google.
Re:Don't just paste the AI at me
on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:52PM (#48243411)
No, because both positions boil down to "don't waste my time by refusing to think".
Re:Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:11AM (#48178596)
Nobody would be so weird as to put the "four" first when pronouncing "14".
:-)