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Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results
on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:58PM (#50346058)
I don’t think a successful console can take a 30% cut and I don’t think Apple is really interested in anything less.
Re:US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for...
on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:47AM (#50304734)
The fed was always a backstop to the FDIC by design. None of what happened suggests depositors "almost got wiped out."
Re:I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:17PM (#50197463)
So, uhh, what's your sudo password? Can't get this thing to install software...
Re:Starcraft: Ashfall
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:18PM (#50147987)
Game basically plays itself but fun nonetheless
Re:New Apple TV 4K
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:29AM (#50073266)
If they put Steam on it with your whole existing library we'd be talking.
"We have tomb raider and death stranding 2 for $69.99" is not an interesting proposition except for Apple fanboy dads who hope that will placate their gamer child (it won't).
Re:Apple HomeView
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:09AM (#50072936)
Ternus was the Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering and by reports was leading the charge on this stuff.
Re:New Apple TV 4K
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:04AM (#50072872)
It's comparable to the free-tier AIs from the other providers but with a decent index of your personal data in a relatively secure and private fashion. It's not completely useless is the nicest thing I can say at this time. I hope it will become good.
Re:New Apple TV 4K
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:01AM (#50072823)
A lot of hardware and not much to do with it.
A different company could turn this hardware into a pretty serious gaming machine or a zero config NAS or something but Apple is not that company.
They couldn't think of any compelling Siri AI use cases to put in the advertising and neither can I.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:11PM (#50058503)
Suppose you're taking a math class and the instructor writes on the board:
> An eigenvector or characteristic vector is a (nonzero) vector that has its direction unchanged (or reversed) by a given linear transformation.
Do you understand eigenvectors now? Speaking for myself: certainly not. To really understand even that definition I'd need to do the calculations, play around with how they can be used in different circumstances, and allow my brain time to sit with all this new information and become comfortable with it.
I think LLM code descriptions are similar. They don't really bring understanding. Sometimes that is fine.
Re:Page Table Memory Consumption
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:19PM (#49958502)
Sounds like a reason to prefer multi threading over multi processing.
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:57AM (#49696977)
Well, AI do lack motivation unless you use goal mode or whatever.
Re:Nvidia is the central bank of AI
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:57PM (#49674400)
But for the duration, there is more money. This isn’t some crank theory, it’s orthodox economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
Re:Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @02:08PM (#49146839)
Why wouldn’t you be surprised?
Re:The only road in London where you have to drive on the right
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @09:48AM (#49097491)
No it makes it sound like much of the rest of the world drives on the right.
Re:VLC for Unity now supported on Linux
on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:16PM (#49078442)
My understanding is that VLC and FFMpeg are both projects which develop in house codecs and also incorporate codecs developed by third parties.
Re:VLC for Unity now supported on Linux
on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:05PM (#49078352)
I assume it’s a GPL workaround.
Re:Bitchat Is Now on Radicle
on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:40PM (#49050348)
Did banning it cause it to get adopted even faster in India than it otherwise would have? That seems like the salient point to me.
Re:Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
on Friday July 03, 2026 @01:38PM (#48777630)
I found that if you allow any low value things into memory, Claude will notice that established pattern and start trying to add low value memories at an ever increasing pace.
Re:Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @02:20PM (#48437321)
If all you want is a chat interface you can install Claude.ai as a PWA. The value proposition of the Claude desktop app includes being able to screenshot and interact with desktop app windows, the file system, etc. That drags you into desktop environment and compositor API hell.
Re:Poll: How often do you check "newest"?
on Friday May 29, 2026 @12:44PM (#48325706)
The recents list on my browser got changed to newest so I end up checking it by accident.
Re:Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell...
on Friday May 29, 2026 @09:52AM (#48323120)
There’s a slash command that’ll look through your conversation history to add allow permissions.
Re:What is Demand Coop and why tech workers should join one
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @09:27AM (#48222280)
Pre-agricultural Hunter-gatherer bands aren’t a monolith. Many were radically egalitarian, yes, many others were strictly hierarchical including slavery and human sacrifice. A surprisingly large proportion of them were hierarchical for one part of the year and egalitarian for the rest (often coinciding with religious festivals and/or different means of sustenance depending on the season).
Re:Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-spo...
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @10:06AM (#47765848)
That isn’t how they were pitched to the FTC but it does appear to be their ultimate use case.
Re:Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed t...
on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:38PM (#47532644)
That’s like saying the solution to cigarettes is that tobacco shops must be forced to sell clove cigarettes as a not-addictive alternative.
Re:In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC
on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:58PM (#47525836)
I was just looking at these funny parts: https://www.vicorpower.com/products?productType=cfg&productK...
130A, 48V -> 1.2V @ 94% efficiency! Except:
- $100 ea.
- Fixed 1/40 voltage ratio, regulation done by upstream regulator.
- Look at the minimum specs for efficiency…
Re:An Incoherent Rust
on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:27PM (#47497105)
Language changes could help for sure. There’s a library implementation we can use right now though: https://facet.rs/ Basically a derive macro for reflection. Yeah it’s one (more) trait to derive on all your types but then users can use that to do reflection or pretty printing or diffing or whatever they want.
Re:The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:40PM (#47463762)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor
The M-15 is still uglier. Also intended as a cropduster, though unlike the AirTruk it was really bad at that job in every way.
Re:Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
on Friday March 20, 2026 @02:52PM (#47458952)
Was the Nuscale cost estimate somehow worse than AP1000 or EPR(2)? That seems very unlikely to me given the history of those programs.
Re:Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", ye...
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:26AM (#47426966)
Out of all the SSO login flows Microsoft has to have the buggiest. It’s the only one I can remember routinely having issues with. Why are there so many redirects? And why doesn’t the “remember me” checkbox ever work?
Re:Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:48PM (#47389840)
The modern Atari has no relation to the original Atari. They’re essentially copyright trolls. I do not believe we owe them any moral obligation for the works they bought from the original Atari via a series of many intermediaries.