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Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:18AM (#50315934)
Good start, but alas they cannot become a developed European nation until they sort out their historically ingrained russophilia.
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:40AM (#50304642)
First-order thinking fallacy.
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:05AM (#50304095)
Because we need velocity. If we don't have velocity, we die.
Re:Why are good developers so wary of agentic development? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:25PM (#50291642)
*transitive
Re:Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:56AM (#50271580)
It's a kind of Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://xkcd.com/1831/

Re:I will no longer upload to NEW on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:49AM (#50257719)
Yes, they were always tasteless. One job of a platform SDK is to enable creating tasteful things that mesh nicely with the platform idioms, and make it hard to create tasteless things.

With AI, creating the tasteless thing became easy.

If you give people the ability to select a font, they will select Comic Sans.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:40AM (#50257081)
>But why would billionaires want to kill everyone, exactly?

Most billionaires probably wouldn't. But the whole premise of A(S)I is that all it takes is a single billionaire with access to sufficient compute to do it.

Maybe they wanted to save the planet by culling the human population? Wouldn't be the weirdest thing the "effective altruists" (and their "rationalist" ilk) believed in.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:02PM (#50252961)
What if I told you we already have the tech to manufacture these autonomous self-replicating killer nanobots?

We just call them "virus".

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:00PM (#50252931)
By "self-replicating killer nanobots" I meant "viruses". We already have the tech to engineer them, even without AI.
Re:Diamond Transistor on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:30PM (#50252047)
Thermal conductivity measures the heat flux given a temperature gradient. That is, how fast heat energy flows across a surface, given a certain temperature gradient across it.

It has nothing to do with the velocity of the heat carriers themselves (phonons, or charged particles).

E.g. phonons always travel at the speed of sound, in any material.

I mean, when police is destroying cocaine bricks, they don't give the empty packaging back to the criminals, even though the packaging wouldn't be illegal by itself. So if you mix CSAM in your data, expect the whole device to be destroyed.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:23PM (#50249532)
>We have a looong time before we get fully autonomous self replicating decentralised robot armies.

We do have them actually. It's called: an engineered virus.

Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:22PM (#50249513)
Learn to read between the lines then.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:31PM (#50247607)
How do you do asymmetric warfare against autonomous self-replicating killer nanobots? In other words: AI-engineered bioweapons (with AI-engineered antidotes for the rich).
Re:SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:17PM (#50246339)
Just LLM it
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:48PM (#50225089)
Yes yes, AI has only become really good yesterday 4:30pm, you guys don't get it, it's literally over for the haters, they're not gonna make it.
Borneo is 3x the size of the UK. It's about as large as Texas.
So, now that we can observe them alive, how close are they to the reconstructions we've made based on the fossils?
Re:In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:21AM (#50176754)
What does "traversing" even mean if there's no time?
Re:In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:19AM (#50176745)
Prove it!
Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:36PM (#50174183)
Crypto trading.
I don't.
Re:Each step of decoding a PNG (2022) on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:50PM (#50137766)
>Gamma, Color Space Information, Physical Dimensions, and Background Color

Gamma is assumed to be sRGB gamma by default. Default color space is likewise sRGB. The Background Color is supposed to be used as the background color, against which the image is alpha-composited by viewers. Most modern viewers ignore it, because the whole point of the alpha channel is that it an be shown over any color.

>Meanwhile the Trailer IEND has an uppercase letter, indicating the zero-length outro byte is somehow more essential than all the color info

The IEND chunk was made mandatory, to make the format self-delimiting. i.e. a PNG file truncated at a chunk boundary would look just like a complete file. (although, one could argue that you could find out it's truncated when the uncompressed data comes back smaller than widthheightbytes_per_pixel)

So... When does the music stop?
A/I? You mean S/I, right?
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:30PM (#50079098)
>If I was an investor I would be on the phone with Dario asking why we are wasting engineering talent on reinventing source control and churning the product with 30k pulls per day.

To be able to write PR pieces, like TFA.

Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:55AM (#50041082)
Nice! Keep it up boys!
I would require IoT devices to pass a rigorous certification process, like we do for RF devices.
Re:Open-Source Rust Alternatives to Adobe Apps on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:22AM (#50004481)
I wonder which Adobe apps do they mean. From the screenshots/videos it looks like it has zero overlap with the functionality of Photoshop or Illustrator. This is just a slop generator.
Re:Meta and Microsoft Limit Employee Use of Claude AI Tools on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:24PM (#49998305)
Is the game even good?

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