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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...

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...
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.
Note that the 2023 article also cites the submission, which is five years older.
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.
In a Faraday cage?
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).
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.
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.
That is the point of failing safe. It would me much worse if some of the trains kept running...
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."
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.
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 ;-).
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".
Nobody would be so weird as to put the "four" first when pronouncing "14".

:-)

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