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Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:56AM (#50336853)
Which episode has muppets?
Re:Opus 5.5 causing an identity crisis is real on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:12AM (#50272354)
I love the comparison to the last time artisans lost some influence and purchasing power to automation: the Industrial Revolution.
We need this, but running on smartphones.

Also, I am surprised that the difference between 32GB and 128GB in right answers is so small:

* Mac with 128 GB or more memory NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super 21 of 22 right 80 GB

* Windows PC with 32 GB or more NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 19 of 22 right 25 GB

Re:Websites Should Be Printable on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:50AM (#50242747)
When I want to save a page for myself I usually use the PrintFriendly (https://www.printfriendly.com/) plugin to save to PDF, minus the cruft of images and ads.

This way, I've built an archchive of useful pdf's that are now (since they are clean text) fully indexed and searchable on my devices.

Re:Ask HN: Claude gets over my 5h limit today in 10 minutes? on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:47PM (#50211877)
I crossed my limit too this week. It was because I set Opus to Max by accident. Normally I use Sonnnet or Opus on the Normal setting which is fine.
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:51AM (#50178790)
The number #1 best thing we in the west can do to mitigate climate change is having fewer to no children.

Source:https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541

The problem is that having no children means having no skin in the game. Which defeats the whole purpose.

It is better in one way: Taildrop supports iOS.
I remember seeing this at a presentation two or three years ago. I’m surprised it wasn’t rolled out right after?
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:19AM (#50068395)
When books were first given indexes, many complained.

It would erode reading the whole book. After all, you can just look up the proper chapter or even just the page and be done with it.

Critical thinking and reading and focusing would no doubt go downhill.

It turned out to have gone exactly as badly as people predicted.

So maybe we should have stopped there?

No more indexes, and certainly no internet and no Large Lying Machine anymore.

I think DAT is mostly dead, even the Beaker browser is no longer around I think?

Anyways, new projects like Keet.io keep the p2p dream alive, or at least, give it a zombie-like undead experience.

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