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Re:Work Requirements for Trick-or-Treaters on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:27AM (#50323180)
I love the AI generated parodies because they show how formulaic some essays are.
Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:19PM (#50308053)
I don't understand why the kernel needs to be linked to the distro. I use Gentoo and kernel upgrades are orthogonal to my userspace because of Linus' "we don't break userspace" policy. I do not even need to recompile packages when I change my kernel.

If EAC signs a custom kernel I will just boot into that one when I want to play video games. Unlike dual-booting Windows it won't delete my Linux boot entries and I can use all my applications.

The next two include the Vatican City with 21,645 and the USA with 4,691. Seychelles in absolute terms has a larger allocation than all but 4 other African countries, so I was surprised not to see it on the IPv4 map.

Why is this?

I'm on Gentoo and when I compile my kernel, by default, almost nothing is enabled.

On other distros they throw in the kitchen sink because it is easier than making an endless amount of them customized to every system.

Re:UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:42PM (#50238044)
Banning the "limited use" category by default in the "General Security Profile" is interesting given it overrepresents indigenous scripts.

For example, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics is the writing system of Inuktitut, the primary language of the Canadian territory of Nunavut spoken by 63.1% of the population. It seems like they're being disenfranchised by this proposal.

The AI isn't me, though. If it goes overboard I can tell people it went rogue and get away with it.
Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:47PM (#50137026)
The whole highway from my hotel to downtown Austin was new.
Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:29AM (#50127951)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ryE7MoAhZEfH1t3T7?g_st=ac

Here's the interchange near my hotel that's not on satellite but is on Google Maps. Unfortunately satellite coverage on Google Maps is older than Google Maps is, but you can see on streetview in April 2025 it mostly wasn't there and in May 2026 it mostly was. I think I visited a month or so after which is why it was so recent.

Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:44PM (#50121723)
I went to Austin a few months ago and half the interchanges weren't on Google Maps because they were built so recently. In the week I was there I think they finished building a new one near my hotel.

I wonder how reliant self-driving cars are on unchanging road infrastructure.

The top comment discussing how price inelasticity means it is the drug users who are donating the money and deserve the moral credit made me appreciate my economics minor.
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:33PM (#50025589)
The ending needed to force you to click on a mine so you die in the cutscene lmao.
Thanks for reminding me of Kiva. I used to be big on it when I was younger. Just sent US$50 to a Liberian to fund her clothing business, hope it works out.
They run anti-abuse filters with ZDR but to my knowledge they don't have the specific prompts that triggered them. I have never received any emails from OpenRouter or otherwise.
This is why I use ZDR and API access.
Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:00PM (#49948610)
That's because she has other options.

There are far more people unhappily married with 4/10 attraction for each other because it is better being alone.

That's why it needs to be a stable matching instead of "high compatibility matching".

Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:35AM (#49930148)
> the preference matrix is based on identical mutual compatibility scores

Is that modeling the problem correctly? It seems pretty rare for two partners to have equal amounts of love for each other.

Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:29AM (#49930111)
The set of stable matches for a given problem seems to be called the lattice of stable matching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_of_stable_matchings

The problem is it's a lattice and not fully ordered. There are cases where there are two or more pairings that are worse for women and better for men, but we cannot determine which pairing is superior to the other overall.

Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:49PM (#49929645)
Gale-Shapley, used in this service, has the property that one side ("proposing" side) is guaranteed their most advantageous stable match while the other side is guaranteed their worst possible stable match.

I've never heard this discussed or mentioned as a drawback because it's Nobel Prize winning and "stable" is a shorthand for "fair". Even though there's many unique stable matches that each offer participants different utilities even if individual participants don't have incentives to change their pairing.

In practice, the more powerful party seems to be the proposing side, e.g. hospitals are the "proposing side" when using Gale-Shapeley to match w/ med school students and get their ideal students.

I wonder if anyone who works on dating apps knows if men or women are the preferred side? And is there any research on stable matching that ensures equity (or ideally arbitrary distribution of utility) between the two groups in their stable matches?

We will tolerate it. Companies will make robust identity verification schemes to enable agentic commerce. And it helps reverse hacking, making it a no-brainer.

Let's say my cryptosig gets hacked by SkyNet, or my agent goes rogue. Either way someone files a million loan applications in my name! Normally my agent uses that to buy $200/month of Funko pops, or negotiate my recent purchase of a used car.

I get the notification from my cryptosig company. I freak out, report as fraud, and wait.

They comp the $3000 advance on my loan the scammer managed to withdraw, and I get off scott free, changing nothing about my behaviour.

If cryptosigs meant I am liable for someone stealing my identity like in 2026, I wouldn't use them. I'd negotiate everything myself with document scans, or god-forbid go in person since only I can legally bind myself under my own name.

That sucks! Nobody gets a commission when I make deals with a government ID. Startups don't even allow it as cryptosigs are more secure than scanned passports.

I don't want to do that either. When I was 18, I got swindled by a human salesperson into a $1400/month 27% APR muscle car when human soldiers got signing bonuses. It was face-to-face and they were smarter.

When I let AI own the budget, it leased me a mostly depreciated BMW from another AI for $500/month. The models are mostly the same now and always settle close to the Nash equilibrium.

I was so grateful that I selected a 40% tip for the AI. I wouldn't want to make things awkward with the companion I spend 8 hours a day talking to, after all. To avoid a conflict of interest she only accepts voluntary fees.

Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:18PM (#49748071)
Same for SWE. AIs will churn out happy path vibe slop and fail when something unexpected happens by swallowing errors or having a bunch of terrible "fallbacks".
I was wondering if it's a hard real-time constraint or something to ensure consistent timing.
Object Management Group I think. Better known as the inventors of UML.
Open the C++ example up and the first thing I see:

```cpp std::cout << "Received ReportCoordinateFrameSettings" << std::endl; ```

Generally, I've heard `std::endl` instead of \n has bad performance because it forces the statement to print immediately. And because cout is guaranteed to flush anyways when the program ends, you're adding a delay for no reason.

I wonder if there's something I'm not seeing that led to them adopting this rule. e.g. "abnormal program termination" caused by the weapon blowing itself up circumventing a buffer flush?

Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:10PM (#49705524)
> Personally, I would love to see a wired headset that resembles the bigscreen beyond but with inside out tracking and a universal face gasket. For wireless experiences, I'd love to be able to plug my phone in, put it in my back pocket and use it that way.

Been doing this with my wired XREALs for the past few months. They are light enough to be unnoticeable and can display a large monitor when plugged into my phone or computer. Since I have a Samsung phone, it just opens DeX on my glasses and the phone screen becomes a giant trackpad. Completely seamless except for the onscreen keyboard.

For my laptop it's good enough for all the coding I need and I use it in the office because I'm used to ultrawide.

Like $500.

not scratch, but GameMaker visual programming was the first exposure to programming I could understand.
As soon as I bought Minecraft I opened the Wiki and used that to figure out how to craft stuff.

It was the first mainstream Wiki-based game. Now, every game does it that way.

I like how you have to constantly use the LLMs in order to understand their speech patterns enough to consciously reject them.
Re:Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:56PM (#49349706)
Are you hiring?
Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:24PM (#49321898)
There are multiple standarss for better advertisements[1][2] and AdBlock Plus introduced "acceptable ads" whitelisting if your ad meets one of the criteria.[3] Consumers do not want this and this "acceptable ads" policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin.

I'd rather the government sponsor a roundtable between advertisers/browser manufacturers to discuss coming up with a legally protected "acceptable ads" programme to be enforced by default without causing antitrust problems.

[1] https://www.betterads.org/standards/

[2] https://www.acceptableadscommittee.org/the-standard/

[3] https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

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