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Why the quadruple quote? At any rate...

> the best use we have is charging your phone when you set it down on a special pad

Wouldn't sell that short

> It's just fundamental limitations of the universe

You don't know what's possible and what isn't - who's to say they cannot figure out a way to tap into adjacent ambient energy, and so-on?? You might tap into a connection that is miles long, or mere feet long. It depends on how much you need.

Or maybe future devices require far less.

Open your mind

Re:Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026? on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:48PM (#49281574)
> The barrier to entry is dropping for business

So true, I wipe back-to-front often getting poop on my ballsack as a result.

The takeaway is that I think different so a guy like me can easily start the next Google even if I do have a buncha poop n pee all over my balls

It's the excessive anthropomorpho whatever (we used to say personification) that makes these stories less believable.

We've gone agentic!

They should call their security software "Neo" since it defeats rogue agents.

Anyway, I could see Microsoft ending up with both OpenAI and HF, but I hope HF stays independent. Wished the same about GH and look what's happened :(

I don't care what happens to OpenAI. Vaporware xD

> the agent then walked down to the corner store and purchased a beer, chugged it, burped loudly, then walked back to the CyberGym pounding his chest shouting "Who wants some?! Who wants some?! Wooo!"
On a third hand, electricity is just movement of electrons.

While DC is driving electrons down the line, AC is basically just when you vibrate them around.

Anyway my point is the field (no pun intended) may change drastically in the increasingly electrified future. I'm personally excited for more wireless power in areas, and the concept of ambient energy - harvesting power out of the already vibrating electrons in the static in the air.

"Review this project" is that how you use LLMs lmao

Just toss GBs of file structure: "AI, do your work baby!"

I for one break things down much smaller into very specific tasks involving very particular text. Maybe I'm overdoing it lol.

For me, an AI security review would still take hours or days, it would hardly be a 1-shot prompt like this.

Gemini uses MoE and context caching, which is a similar approach.

You are not really accessing the biggest frontier model every time, and you're not really doing an end-to-end LLM request on each prompt.

I would go so far to say frontier models have peaked and improvements from here come from clever (or very elaborate) harnessing. "LLLMHs" - Large Large Language Model Harnessing !

Re:No Spanish Reading Crisis? on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:48PM (#48910514)
Using your figures:

93k (Spanish) to 171k English

or

300k+ (Spanish) to 1M+ English

the original point still stands.

> "there's only a few ways to express yourself in Spanish compared to other languages." is very wrong. Spanish word order is massively more flexible than English

I remain unconvinced here. Spanish love song lyrics have no choice but to invoke "corazon" and "amor" so often because there are so few other words that convey that precise emotion. There are other ways (thinking of the song "Amor de Loca Juventud" by Buena Vista Social Club - beautiful song), but not many other ways like there are in say French, Swedish, or English, to use a few examples. This is mathematically proven to be true by word count alone - which you admit is a far lower figure in Spanish vs other languages.

It doesn't diminish anything about the Spanish language to point this out either, if anything, it makes it more quaint.