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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:51AM (#50351970)
It is my belief that teaching math serves an important secondary purpose, other than the plain ability to multiply or substract. It teaches logic and reasoning, both skills now more important than ever in the age of hallucination.
Re:DiscImageStudio on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:01AM (#50350926)
It supports putting data files either at the inner or outer rim, but it's at the cost of image space. So yes it can play, but not much storage.
Yeah seeing GOSUB and no line numbers was an instant warning light.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:13AM (#50334988)
Having experienced LLM driven gamedev, I watch the movement with utter disdain. I recommend you to do the same, to actually play the products of such endeavor that you bought with your own money, for more than a dozen minutes.
By the way, since fandom and fextralife were already such a huge blight on the concept of wiki, for a while people have been making solutions that might incidentally also help with AI slop wikis. For instance, https://getindie.wiki/
> Attempts to reach GameDB for comment via their public contact email resulted in an error, stating "the remote server is misconfigured".

this is such an emblematic thing for the slop peddlers

Even here we see the AI bit rot - we're getting CVE's and vulnerability disclosures for imaginary issues.
Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:41PM (#50307445)
Human brain does a lot more at any given time than just whatever you're consciously thinking about.
Re:LLM Voice on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:59AM (#50300641)
Oh boy, more IP theft and copyright infringement!
That's a whole another discussion though. You're bringing in manufacturing to the hypothetical, where it wasn't there before.
Re:SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:26AM (#50272518)
Or, as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU+rms
Re:Genie 4 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:25AM (#50270986)
> Fluxer is the first Discord competitor that when you show to someone they can't say "well Discord does X better", and it was largely made using AI.

Didn't know that before, but considering its abysmal failures to scale, yeah in hindsight it does make a lot of sense. (one of) My group(s) tried to move and we came back to Discord rather quickly.

That analogy is rather poor. Woodworking produces discrete, unique, and physical objects, that can be made, and found use for, as many times as the craftsman wishes. Once you discover a law of physics, you can't discover it again, and it's not yours to do with as you please.
Civ2 - well, at least its Test of Time incarnation - has specific patches to keep it running without external tools.
Re:How to run a city builder on 16 MHz on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:05AM (#50229320)
16 MHz? Where the heck did the OP pull that number from? Is that a hallucination?

I ran it on 7 MHz 68k, and the PC port ran on an 8088 IIRC, slower still. Hell, the cover OP used for the post reads "XT/AT/PS2 compatibles".

Re:The Alien Space of Science on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:57AM (#50206605)
I'm on the other hand reminded of a certain Lem sub-story from A Perfect Vacuum, which was about geniuses whose discoveries were too divorced from the mainstream to be useful / worth following upon.
Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:57AM (#50192500)
> If you noticed all AAA failures in recent times, almost all of them were live service games. Meanwhile the single player market seems to have finally recovering from the neglect it’s gotten in the last decade.

That's because almost all of them were live service games anyway. Do not put the chicken before the egg.

Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:32AM (#50192350)
Well, a finger curled on the monkey paw, that's for sure.
Re:Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:06AM (#50162356)
Okay, now it's obvious you're just posting whatever to "win" a discussion without any familiarity with the subject. I suggest you start educating yourself by familiarising yourself with the Brimstone missiles, 1996 tech in service for over 20 years at this point.
Re:Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:23AM (#50161669)
Wrong on the first count (last I saw they were well below $200k a pop), and the second count comes with significant loss of anti-armor capability.
Re:Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:09AM (#50161252)
We've had this capability for years. We have had missiles that could identify a convoy, strike its front and back to block it, and then hit targets inside, all on their own.
Solving 600 10x10 jigsaw puzzles in a row would easily exhaust you without posing any challenge at all.
Lavrov is a known liar: you can tell by the fact that he's moving his lips. That's kind of his job, really: lying.
Russia is exporting less than a day's worth of diesel per month. They don't have a surplus, they're trying to get US to stop Ukrainian attacks on their refineries, since they cannot do that on their own.
Scram, Elon.
And Opera! God I miss old Opera.
As always, there's a crucial difference between losing your finger in an accident and shoving your entire arm into a woodchipper while screaming that nothing can be done about it.
That's 2014. Hardly "previous regime".
Using a tired analogy, 9 pregnant women won't deliver a baby in a month.

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