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Are there studies regarding the improvement of productivity with AI?

Or at least economic measurements in terms of money/profits brought by companies/entities who used it?

I mean of course it's going to depend on the field and how it's being used, but there could be a comparison between how much money was spent making AI overall, and how much actual measurable good things it brought.

And I don't mean the amount of customers paying for AI, I mean an actual demonstration that AI is worth doing.

Re:IRCv3 on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:33AM (#50053238)
Can clients delete their message now?
reddit is being less and less trustworthy and interesting, the constant opinion bubbles make it impossible to have a thoughtful conversation anywhere.
Re:Using any C++ library in Godot on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:47AM (#49890542)
So it requires writing a CMake script, some python, and some weird C++ code.

A bit tedious but that's how it goes.

Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:35PM (#49822914)
I don't understand how an LLM is able to reason about those things

LLM use language, but it can't "think" about biochemistry

I saw that LLM have reasoning capabilities, which is different from machine learning, but I don't understand how it works.

I mean, even if android is/was open source, it was always fastidious to build a de-googled android image for a phone model.

Of course it's not great for their business model. Not to mention, no more trustworthy app distribution.

I don't see the EU really being able to forcing them to de-google android phones.

I am also curious how much those phones would cost, BTW, since the cost calculation to release such an OS would be a bit complicated.

Re:Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:24AM (#49724990)
As long as you have critical thinking, it's fine.

So I would say it accentuates the gap between good developers and bad ones.

A sharp sense for logic and causality etc is what differentiates.

Re:I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:49AM (#49671820)
I'll never get over game dev people arguing that I should spend half my budget on marketing, which they mean ads.

The internet has so much fraud, bad actors and toxicity, yet it makes so much money.

hey, no threats, please
Re:Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions on Saturday September 05, 2026 @09:00AM (#49576110)
I prefer firefox, but doesn't firefox have a history of more similar exploits?
Re:Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux on Thursday September 03, 2026 @12:43PM (#49552936)
That was the last software that held me to windows

I hope plugin makers are going to port them too

Sorry what's the link between valve and kremlin?
Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:33AM (#49479125)
the problem is that HTML is so bloated nowadays, that medium phones cannot deal with it, so apps always have better performance
Re:France's tax agency got hacked (in French) on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:10AM (#49433409)
I want to believe this will reveal people who do tax fraud or potentially illegal tax dodging schemes

It's probably the quickest way to punish those people, just regular data leaks from the tax bureau.

I'm probably too optimistic, since this data is probably not admissible in court.

win10, firefox

freezing for no reason

could this be used to create some panic and make some money through trading or something?

no idea who submitted all of those, but it sounds like malicious intent

How could they manage to forget that underscore if that's their only evidence?
Re:VLC for Unity now supported on Linux on Monday July 27, 2026 @02:14PM (#49073502)
I don't know why, but on windows, the first time I start VLC after a windows boot, it takes about 5s to 8s to open a video file, any sort of video file

I suspect it's a graphics driver issue, or something else

I fear that in the future, opengl will be made obsolete and GPU vendors will stop supplying drivers for it, because it won't be worth it for them. Of course there are layers to be put on top of vulkan, but I don't know if they're reliable enough and can support 100% of opengl.

I would say that's one thing that the "stop killing games" movement would not see coming. I am not expert enough in graphics programming.

I am wary because lately, I realized I could not run blender 4.5 on a thinkpad from 2014, on windows, I had to use a 3.x version because that thinkpad has a chipset.

Generally in software, making things work for a long time doesn't generate profits, and it feels like opengl is getting a bit old already. I hope it won't happen and people can contradict me here.

Re:So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @08:53PM (#49015509)
got banned on my EU country subreddit for saying hamas dresses as civilians

reddit is probably the worst echo chamber of the internet

Re:Blender 5.2 LTS on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:45PM (#48970668)
Blender is certainly a great software, but there are still remains of bad UI choices, for example how zooming works

https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/644/why-does-the...

They improved the UI already, but maybe they could improve it a little bit more. And this is not the only frustration, I constantly have to ask around for little things like that.

Also important to know, but late blender versions don't support old GPU, which is a bit sad: I can't use late blender version on my old thinkpad which only has a graphics chipset.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:40PM (#48752090)
france

remote yes

willing to relocate yes

my english is good

C++, python

résumé: worked for oil drilling software, xray medical imaging, robotic, good at math

ezjonas -__..333_-- on g _ mail

Care to give arguments?
Does Israel has the intent of genocide? I don't think so.

Does Hamas try to maximize civilian casualties with martyrdom? By meshing its combattants with civilians? Yes.

The Geneva convention, unfortunately, allows collateral to a certain extent.

Hamas also executed gazans several times.

Israel does have a very aggressive strategy, but labeling it a genocide doesn't help the Palestinian cause.

Words matter.

Re:Steam Machine on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:58AM (#48644296)
I read many people saying "it's just a PC", but I am a bit skeptical for now.

I will probably wait for reviews to see how it goes

I still feel very interested, though, but I would need to adapt some workflows that I have with paint.net for now

Re:Steam Machine on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @07:57AM (#48643641)
so the available software is a bit limited then

I can still customize and configure things, or not really?

does that mean I can't customize the OS, like shortcuts?

Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @06:49PM (#48637521)
So SteamOS is just arch linux?

I guess there are important differences?

This is just wishful thinking

We don't have a good definition of intelligence

Also, the premise that this thing would take over, it's hard to reason why it would do so

Anthropocentrism is also problematic in this article.

I did not say everyone is a gamer, but it's still a big market share
valve is on the brink of replacing windows with steam for many people

it's probably not a big dent in market share, but it's probably a good tipping point

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