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Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Saturday October 10, 2026 @01:37AM (#50029914)
They even used yellow markers, explicitly parodying the yellow paint they've been putting in AAAA games to show players where to go next or what crate to break.
I think it's not just Apple. Everyone and every company seem to become greedier and greedier. Economically, the world is not in a great place, apart from a minority which just gets richer and richer.
Re:Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:36AM (#49017677)
This sends a really bad signal.

Why would I host my project there, taking the risk that they changed their mind overnight and declare my project inappropriate because of XYZ?

Re:Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:55AM (#49007797)
That's the definition of judging a book by its cover. Maybe they don't care about spending money on design and just want to focus on the food they serve, you'll never know. I would also probably be less inclined to enter a restaurant if I saw generated images advertising the food as opposed to real ones. But I would never ever dare put a one star review without even having been a customer there in the first place. I would remove 2 stars at most from a 5 stars review, if the food and service was impeccable but they ruined the settings with AI.
> So I could have deposited $1000 via CC into Kalshi and paid it back $83/mo over 12 months

Are you sure those are the correct figures? That's a 4$ win in your favor if you don't use any of the deposited money and cash it back one year later.

Re:There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:16AM (#48289963)
> bullying the indexes

Bullying with a fat check, yeah. Corruption in this country is off the charts right now.

Re:We've made the world too complicated on Sunday May 17, 2026 @04:05AM (#48166948)
There is only one ethical way to solve that moral issue: Schrödinger birthing
Same. I am getting crazy good value from Claude at work, on both scientific applications and deployment environments.

There is one caveat, and that is you have to give the model well thought out constraints to guide it properly, and absolutely take the time to read all the thinking it's doing and not be afraid to stop the process whenever things go sideway.

People who just let Claude roam free on their repository deserve everything they end up with.

I already have to log to their website with 2 factor authentification. I had to walk and physically present my id card, install the numerical identity app. That should be enough.

Also, apart from reuploading IDs, they ask for information such as age, name, place of living, and a thousand more things that they already have and doesn't need to be provided to establish that you really are you.

I find it especially ironic that they would leak all my data, given the fact that they would ask of me to forward them every piece of id imaginable whenever I needed to forge or amend a new one (when adding a mention on my driver's license for instance).

Like they didn't have access to it anyway.

Really nice. My mother is an applied Physics teacher, and she told me they had a hard time at work figuring out how they could connect their teaching material to LLM in a relevant way. This should be useful to her.
> There is zero chance any human who put so much effort into creating something would remain silent while it became a $2 trillion phenomenon

I'd argue this is the best reason to remain silent as much as one can.

Re:Anthropic Subprocessor Changes on Friday March 27, 2026 @05:11AM (#47540492)
Coincidently, Claude Code appears to be down right now (in Europe West at least).

Everytime I hear of something X Azure announcement, that something just seem to break right away.

I know correlation is not causation, but my opinion of Azure is already too damn low to not link those two events.

Re:GitHub is once again down on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:45PM (#47509875)
Azure, the color of BSOD
The ability for some people to perpetually move the goalpost will never cease to amaze me.

I guess that's one way to tell us apart from AIs.

That's the plan. But if they do it right away people will revolt.
Re:Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:12PM (#47430135)
Same here!

I found now was a good time to build that NAS I wanted to have a long time ago, and the first thing I installed on it was a Navidrome server so I could listen to my curated music everywhere.

Hopefully we're entering the era of people ditching megacorp craps and switching to personal cloud solutions.

YouTube will be very hard to replace though.

> Microsoft's best security measure was making something nobody cared enough about to hack in the first place

Maybe that's what they're trying to achieve with Windows as well.

Re:Nasdaq's Shame on Sunday March 15, 2026 @08:15PM (#47393568)
Does this only affect money invested after June 15th, or does this also devalues money invested before this date? If you don't invest anymore money in the index during the interim rebalancing period refered to by the author, then one should be alright. Right?
EAGER is not enough. EAGER only guarantees one side of the conjoined triangles of success. They teach this at business school.
Re:Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:41AM (#47232172)
>By the way old chap, you have gone over your storage limit. Do you want to buy more or delete some stuff?

Why does my AWS counselor sound British. Am I in eu-west-2?

Re:I Gave Claude Access to My Pen Plotter on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:08AM (#47032696)
Spirals again.

Those AIs have read too much Junji Ito.

Re:King – man and woman is queen; but why? on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @05:34AM (#46690324)
The meaning is not in the numbers themselves, but in how they each relate to one another.

Also those are not mere numbers here, but vectors. Dimensionality and orthogonality is key to define complex relationships.

Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:35AM (#46689844)
Depends on how many of those gambling addicts there are.

If a huge enough portion of the population try to solve the statue quo of their economic problems by betting all on red, that's not gonna be great for society, including those who don't gamble.

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:39AM (#46665640)
Phew. This is a relief, honestly!
Re:We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon on Saturday January 17, 2026 @11:35AM (#46659367)
Spatial awareness was also a huge limitation to Claude playing pokemon.

It really seems to me that the first AI company getting to implement "spatial awareness" vector tokens and integrating them neatly with the other conventional text, image and sound tokens will be reaping huge rewards. Some are already partnering with robot companies, it's only a matter of time before one of those gets there.

LLMs just do be paperclipping
Re:Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:16PM (#46649796)
First the fact that she received the price when a ton of people where far more deserving of it in terms of raw achievements toward peace. Then the fact that she would sell the price and what it represents for a slim (read inexistent)k shot at being instated as the president of Venezuella, where I read that the majority of people have a very unfavorable opinion of her. And finally the fact that she would sell away the Peace price to Donald Trump, the very same person considering invading Greenland for aura farming purposes!

I think they have to shut down the Noble peace price at this point, there's no recovering from such an embarrassing turn of events.

Re:There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:44AM (#46614493)
Our whole current civilization could be construed as advanced alien tech servicing a humongous tribe of moronic apes. The fact that one fifth of the internet is dedicated to porn just speaks for itself. Just thinking about all the tech involved, from the capturing of footage using highly sophisticated camera, to the transmission over kilometers of fiber optics, to the stokage into redundant and consistent databases backed by highly optimized hardware and brilliantly engineered file format, to the distribution to your phone device, which is literally a personal computer that fits in your palm.. all of that just to show porn to satisfy your monkey brain.

It seems almost absurd to what length humanity has gone just to satisfy it's primitive needs.

Re: on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:48PM (#46610222)
> Reliably constructing 10k bug free lines is probably the least successful.

You imperatively need to try Claude Code, because it absolutely does that.

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