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People need to stop buying apple products. Anyone dumb enough to have already done so deserves what they get.
Please stop trying to trick us into reading AI generated text.

"This isn't a textbook or a tutorial. It's a mental model — the abstractions you need to reason about ML systems the way you already reason about software systems."

Re:Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor on Saturday March 28, 2026 @12:50PM (#47556271)
That was 10 months ago!!!
Re:I am leaving the AI party after one drink on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:16PM (#47549096)
You don't have to go back that far! Even now just listen to how they talk about cryptocurrency. Most people on this website hate anything they don't understand.
Re:I am leaving the AI party after one drink on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:15PM (#47549085)
Sounds like women...
Re:I am leaving the AI party after one drink on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:06PM (#47545369)
Exactly, the article is silly, the perspective, idiotic. She says it's, "addictive" like driving a car is addictive compared to walking???
Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:31PM (#47469169)
Get out of my head, lol :)

But yeh, never thought this was a problem anyone else delt with. My passwords are all a variant of my on "master password" and sometimes forget which session I'm in so trying to save keystrokes, count backward to where I think the cursor should be.

They are saying that things that have already been dumbed down can't go back. Obviously that's just their opinion, but I would guess that most people agree with them.
Re:The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:43AM (#47439325)
Because 1 is free and the other 2 cost $$$.
Re:The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:48PM (#47434686)
A lot of times I can't tell if I'm the idiot or if everyone else is. Says that this isn't an interesting question at all and the article was horrible. I studied data science for a few years but I'm no expert, but it seems pretty obvious to me that if you make a series of 50/50 choices randomly, that's the shape you end up with and there's really nothing more interesting about it than that.
Re:The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @10:28AM (#47426250)
As a Linux user it's hard to understand people using either windows or mac. At this point it's looking more like brainwashing than out of convenience.
Re:To the Polypropylene Makers on Sunday March 08, 2026 @08:34AM (#47296806)
Great article but it should have included some remarks about how unnecessary, fruitless and a waste of time and resources it all was.

Are people on average still not able to accept the whole thing was idiotic from start to finish? The very idea masking ever helped a single person avoid getting covid is just stilly at this point, right? Otherwise we'd still be doing it or at least getting the vaccine, I don't know anyone that's gotten it the last 3 years.

Article would have been better from the angle of, "look at all the stupid stuff people were doing, ha" not, "these people were HEROES!" At best they were misled, at worst, profiteer idiots.

Yes, palantir is lying to the press, suprise suprise!
Re:OpenAI – How to delete your account on Saturday February 28, 2026 @09:25AM (#47195750)
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That is not what we are talking about.

Also, amazing article, haven't laughed that hard all day!

The lightning network is a joke and always has been. It was never going to work and the creator has been open about that from day one.

Only question is, if Elizabeth Stark knows it's unworkable slop why does she keep raising money for it???

Thank you, had to ready this 3 times but wow, well said!!!
What a deeply troubling and cynical comment.

As far as I know, nowhere in the Bitcoin white paper or the original code base. Does it say anything about what you seem to think it's use cases are.

Bitcoin has one main use, digital cash, that can be sent instantly and for free or a very low fee.

Edit: I would agree though, that anything other than that is probably a scam.

That was the giveaway for me too!
Re:How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:09PM (#47106995)
AI writing about using AI, amazing time to be alive!
Re:An experiment and results on CO2 build up in N95 masks [pdf] on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:09PM (#47065680)
Thank you for the reply!

1. That's what I thought too, so went to a lot of work to test levels before, during and after breaths. I included results for at the end and beginning of a breath and found that levels JUST BARELY got below the OSHA allowed limit at the end of breathing in.

2. Yes, there is a lot of dead space on normal masks, the that's where the CO2 build up comes from.

3. I have found similar studies, one weirdly also vacuums the air out at the same time, but I'd suggest looking into it if interested and believe what you want. I'm just glad I know finally for myself, thought others might like to know too, and am satisfied :)

I've been curious about this for years so finally did an experiment.
Re:I made a site for locals to review elected judges on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:00AM (#47012917)
This site helps dads in Ohio going through divorce
Re:Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:14AM (#46990614)
Not for Linux???