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Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:44AM (#49961418)
And don't forget about the 40 gb of background videos
Re:ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf] on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:04PM (#49947767)
ADHD and Autism here. The only thing that has worked for me, and I'm strictly speaking of the ADHD part, has been medication. Everything else has been a waste of time. As for trauma, I strongly believe the correct causal relation is ADHD exposes you to increased chances of trauma. Not the other way around.
Bring back usenet! It was free and distributed
Re:OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @09:01AM (#49006111)
The same thing is true in software engineering: an AI model is equivalent to an average programer (average with a huge standard deviation). Averigua is better than half, but still way behind the top performers
Re:Semgrep: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:16AM (#48748269)
How are you using it? A subscription from z.ai?
Credit cards in Europe are a form of very short term credit: you spend and pay the entire balance on the next month. The is very different from the model in the US, which is designed to keep you in debt forever.
We have all overused a single solution to "finding stuff on the web": the search engine. Now it's dying, killed by AI and by Google's greed.

There's no alternative left, no webrings, no web directories. If all your content is now only on your server, you're invisible.

I do, with different tools and most of the time at a higher level of abstraction. The same way we understood the machine code 2 years ago, even though we didn't write it directly. Just another layer, nothing more.
I used to be obsessed about language design and now, since I almost never write code directly (it's always Claude), I completely lost interest.

It feels like a total waste of time and I wonder if other feel the same.

One of the consequences of the LLM tsunami might be the freezing of research and development in programming languages.

Maybe we'll be stuck with J's and python forever...

It's still the best thing that happened to Python in a long time
Re:I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers on Thursday May 21, 2026 @11:26AM (#48224369)
One of the first things I removed from my Mac was the 45 gb (sic) worth of wallpaper videos.
I see a lot of people trying to run away from Anthropic "window of doom" affair lately, me myself included. What has stopped me so far is the lack of real alternative to Opus. Not even gpt5.4 comes close
Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:56AM (#46575808)
I've been using fedora desktop on laptop for years, alongside a Mac, without any issues
Re:You're a little company, now act like one on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:05AM (#44086549)
I'm experience, that doesn't work if you main clients are big corporations. The average corporate drone mistrusts and disregards small companies. Not out of arrogance, I believe, but out of fear: a generalized version of the old "no one was fired for buying IBM" trope. Small companies are seen as higher risk.
Re:AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:44AM (#42713301)
Maybe the scammer was the ex husband.
Re:How Discord stores trillions of messages on Monday September 30, 2024 @04:44AM (#41694915)
What's the problem with Scylla? Honest question, BTW
And doesn't need to wear warm jumpers.
Biggoted powermods are the worst of Reddit's issues. If spez hits them hard, it should be enough to gain the trust and support of the "peasants".
Re:Enshittification: How Platforms Die on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:48AM (#36307446)
Sounds just like reddit the last few years
Re:A Case of the Mumps (2007) on Saturday June 10, 2023 @07:05AM (#36269475)
I'll check it out, thanks!
Re:A Case of the Mumps (2007) on Saturday June 10, 2023 @06:01AM (#36269175)
MUMPS: A lousy language with a brilliant data structure
Re:The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @05:15PM (#34811503)
Shut up and take my money! Now!
Re:The Python Paradox on Friday January 27, 2023 @04:45AM (#34544308)
Icon, that's a name I havent heard in a long time...
Re:Fun with Magnets on Thursday January 19, 2023 @03:29AM (#34438013)
Wont it shut come out the other end?
Evwn better, Spain and the Philipines
Google calenfar includes this sort of information
Re:Forth: A New Way to Program a Mini Computer (1974) on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:27AM (#33188952)
What is a good modern Forth to play around with?

Is it still used im some industry?

Yes, and Spain has the largest high speed train network after China. Too bad our power plants run mostly on natural gas...
Re:I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:58AM (#33152170)
Why not just dart?

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