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Anyone have idea the likely cost range?
Re:LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:45PM (#49613836)
Hardware switches would be plus in modern era. Not just for mics.
Re:An Alien Mind on Sunday September 06, 2026 @04:23PM (#49590508)
It would be nice to postulate some of these potential emergent systems outlines with timelines. Then it may help better map the granular alignment needs.
Re:The August 17 outage, and the work ahead on Friday August 21, 2026 @05:30AM (#49385747)
Interview question. How would you handle the growing traffic needs and traffic spikes. I'm curious whether any existing architectural diagram of theirs would highlight a potential failure post-mordem.
Isn't much of all this the modern couch potato and same as many research done being glued to the TV? It's channel surfing.
I have it off. Although not backed up I see the image sorta AI scanned where, for a moment it outlines, segments people for a brief moment. Anyone notice this and what is going on?
From article: > The marker's notes - seen by the BBC - raise concerns about the "polished/uniform tone" of the work, noting the "consistent flawless grammar and similar sentence structure with no variation in style". The notes also mention a "formulaic paragraph structure that follows a typical AI pattern of 'general claim, the example/result, and conclusion'." Other observations point to repetitive phrasing and a lack of "nuanced critique" as well as a high usage of "em" dashes, a type of punctuation thought to be favoured by AI models.

Judging by the given remarks I see nothing here which proves AI use.

I get the privacy concern in regards to advertising ones age, but I wonder if this is akin to a underage walking into a liquor store, interacting with stranger adults, etc. There are obvious appropriate and inappropriate behaviors to minors.

Let's confine only of consumer OS and is provisioned with an underage bracket (you set it to what you want, And Not a Require verify). All sites/app the OS interacts must honor certain child protection laws (privacy, selling, gathering etc)?

What is the main discussion surrounding placing (by choice) some 'optional' age bracket to enter during the OS setup/provisioning? The OS as provider only declares an age and it seems the sites/apps it interacts with to be the ones in the hook, not the OS.

Re:DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:01AM (#49031699)
Ender's Game has arrived! One of my favorite books. Spoiler, read the book. Don't just vibe read it.
How to ensure physical devices like keyboard, monitor, mouse are safe? Essentially all recording devices.
So a button big bang. Born the Light (Minimalist) and Dark patterns
Re:Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @02:21AM (#48916929)
In the 2nd image (clearest) and other images, there appears to be some binary encoding in red. It must encode something!
Re:Kids (With Phones) Are Alright on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @02:13AM (#48916877)
Who is recording? Who is watching? Who controls the data? All compounded issues when data is hardly ephemeral and is long-lived.
Re:The Tower Keeps Rising on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:33PM (#48911921)
> the people is one, ... one language, ..., nothing will be restrained from them

Why being one (I see as collaborative) was it not desired? Interpretations? Why is it seemed *more* harmful rather than good?

Re:How to build a circular LCD clock on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:30AM (#48902645)
$159 quite expensive for the LCD
This seems more of inertia, Newton's first law. "An object at rest stays at rest,...". What comes to mind say there is some threshold acceleration (e.g. or at extreme, accelerate to c within some short time, t), then essentially you have a body at rest and breaks at the weakest point. Interesting would be seeing this effect with varying viscosity.
Nintendo (subscription I have for my switch to access some older a classic games btw) is very good reminding me I have a subscription and whether I want to cancel (or renew). I don't have the email at hand but what I remember is thinking they really desire you to reflect to cancel (rather than a push to renew) if not wanting continued service. Sentiment of politeness and I find a good example what to do.

Also, not a subscription but seeing some dark practices after COVID onset at any fast-food like business (including cafes, juices, cupcakes, etc) where a preselected tip is selected. Default should be no.

Re:Why American ambulance rides are so expensive on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:07AM (#48857133)
So what is the practical advice to avoid high costs? Also for foreigners, long ago had a friend visit from Asia and wave away ambulance after a potential serious injury (waiver not to be transported) knowing of the high medical costs.
Re:Show HN: 18 Words on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:39PM (#48851348)
M-E-T-I-R
Re:The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @01:32AM (#48827922)
Let C, chapters V, volumes W, words Is Knuth producing V, optimally and asymptomatically approaches O(n)? Explain. If not O(n) the explain how to approach or better.
Re:OpenPrinter on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:06PM (#48798372)
Can we expect photos to be looking nice?
Interested to here what you all might like using this for.
Re:Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally on Friday July 03, 2026 @11:27PM (#48782398)
What's the technical reason we call call these a harness? Seems right but want to understand better.
Any truth to whether water pumped by tree (branches) is potable?
Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:17AM (#48759101)
As user wouldn't you like knowing there is a non-verified app? Is it restricting And still providing way to override if you choose?
Re:What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:58PM (#48755956)
Any insights? If not traditional Computer Graphics due to change, where might be the good to spend your attention within the field. Or is OP saying to stay away?
So there is O2 dissolved in the water. Most of what I read explains we can boiling away O2 as seen forming on the side of the walls of a pot as temp rises. What's curious is why those bubbles seem endless if they have been expelled out, like some equilibrium of oxygen getting dissolved again back into the water.
Could someone explain why raising standing water temperature to boiling, I see a constant stream of bubbles forming at the bottom of pan and floating up? Was there air between the water molecules to begin with? Any articles to help explain? I understand the obvious phase transition to gas which would escape at the top, but cannot quite grasp how we get the trapped air at the bottom.
Re:Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:04AM (#48695302)
My phone crawls with all the processing happening on the site.

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