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Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:38PM (#50309830)
The bigger the task, the bigger the surface, the bigger the risk.
The same as with introduction of indexing web pages by any search engine few decades ago, if you posted on a forum that was public accessible, your posts were indexed without your input.
Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:02PM (#50073871)
Rust allows for type-proofing your logic, but it can't force you to.
Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:00PM (#50073840)
You can iterate through all unsafe sections of the codebase by simply grepping for `unsafe`, the rules are followed everywhere else. It's a great improvement.
Re:Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore? on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:09AM (#49786236)
I love maths, but I stumble over concepts being named by a prominent figure's last name and not by some taxonomy.
Re:Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:13PM (#49689258)
The whole idea behind scam sites marketing is to present an ad that knowledgeable people will find unattractive but gullible people will be lured into. Self selection keeps the based demographic from investigating the scam.
From another thread: GPT6 plays Factorio and wins https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2867906622
Sleep is a bottleneck
Re:Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:11AM (#49594959)
I imagine it hexdumps it and looks for patterns.
Re:Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:45PM (#49589548)
Such speculation is just fear mongering and that is exactly what the daft bullies want.
Re:Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd on Saturday August 29, 2026 @03:19PM (#49492517)
Making computers understand what concentration means is still decades away despite obvious advances.
Re:Aphantasia Beginner's Guide on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:19AM (#49478881)
In my experience with IQ tests involving complete the sequence many of the solutions when I looked up the intent behind them made very little sense to me.
Re:Bhartrhari's Paradox on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:07AM (#49478720)
I'll write you as soon as I can
Re:Queryable Executables on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:10AM (#49447591)
Tabular representation is like the RISC for machine code architecture, but for data.
Humans are not a resource to be inventoried.
It won't be confirmed until we record all the stimuli and outputs of a fruit fly's nervous system in normal environment.
Fitness also contributes to most common physical tasks becoming trivial, you can literally jump out of bed in the morning if it strikes your fancy.
Agreed, don't train fellow human beings (users) to follow, educate them.

"Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." - commonly known quote.

We're making things so simple, the users don't get to have a proper chance at learning what's happening. Training people away from giving programs access, makes it opaque and dangerous. Unfortunately at the same time for non technology inclined users even Windows approach of file->Properties->Security visual UI proves challenging.

Unless the whole paradigm shifts and we value caring about our neighbours whoever they might be. Do what people do best, make a village.
Or a whole lot of people. Like a team who put human beings in space. We can do great things that a single person cannot.
If and only if you give up, you forfeit and oouse.
Re:Why Meta Suddenly Loves the Kids Online Safety Act on Thursday June 18, 2026 @08:22PM (#48593438)
I guess legislative capture of the market. Moderation is a cost center and becones mandatory so the barrier to creating competition rises.
It's someone up there looking at previous great human achievements and expecting them instead of helping them happen. The philosophy of value capture is the term. Get people who are influential or otherwise able and squeeze it out of them for the immediate profit.
This seems like statistical bias in measurement, but it's also likely that enthusiasts would have both more count and more valuable items while also being more likely to show them off.
Re:I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:15AM (#47972035)
What about identifying different instances of the same service?
Sounds like something Macx character from the book Accelerando would do.
Re:Lessons from Building Multiplayer Browsers on Monday April 27, 2026 @12:10AM (#47917610)
One of the best interactive designs of the future I keep wishing were fleshed out is Eagle Mode.

: https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/

Re:Simulacrum of Knowledge Work on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:16AM (#47908761)
What if subatomic particles are actually whole universes, and their properties are a reflection of... what kind of peoples dominated, conquered their universe, and what kind of automation was left running after them themselves were gone. Some kinds of entropy harvesting automata that perpetually self build and become everything in their spacetime.

We're creating forces bigger than ourselves, and we may reach a point of no return.

HDMI spec includes ethernet that can be used to connect otherwise isolated hardware
Re:GPT-5.5 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:51PM (#47881757)
The distinction is that it's not drawing. It's generating an SVG document containing descriptors of the shapes.

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