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Re:The Amazon Tax on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:18AM (#49359030)
This also happens in physical stores. In Walmart and others, good quality and good price items are at hard to find, let alone notice places. That happens because lower quality more expensive products pay Walmart for better placement.
Re:GPT‑Live on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:19AM (#48844079)
Maybe they are trying to outmatch the world's worst translator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT9rsHmS24
It has sign up wall, so here is archive link: https://archive.ph/NTxzU
Re:A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro on Saturday May 09, 2026 @12:53PM (#48076349)
PhD students are already using AI models to work for them. Most of the PhD candidates I know have $200 Claude Max plan which they use to their fullest.

I see that they are able to do researches that they were not previously able to do. And although I see that using AI has certainly diminished their ability to code some stuff up, I see it the same way as someone using scikit-learn or Pytorch to code their ML models -- indeed the underlying details is abstracted away from you, and without AI, you won't be able to do much, but the research that you do is indeed happening because of you and wouldn't have happened with just the AI doing the research.

It starts from the day of judgement
Re:Java is fast, code might not be on Saturday March 21, 2026 @05:57PM (#47471885)
I feel like most of these things can be avoided if people just think what they are going to write in abstract terms before writing the code. If they do it like this, I think they are going to choose the best Data Structure for the job, which is what most of this article was.
Currently, Tiktok US is owned by US Companies
TikTok easily bends over backwards authoritarian government. In Nepal, during the GenZ protest, TikTok disabled the search for "NepoBabies" which is the term people used for the affluent lifestyle of leaders' children and which was why the GenZ protest happened. Every other social media was banned but not TikTok because they happily censor whatever the government tells them to
In Nepal, on Sep 8, teenagers and GenZ organized peaceful protests. They were there on school uniform -- but 21+ were killed on a single day of peaceful protest. The next day, all 3 branches of the government were burned -- the legislative, the executive and the judiciary too. Even the Fox News equivalent (Kantipur) was burned.

I think people always opt for peaceful protest at first, but when that is made impossible, people go for the violent one. MLK was successful because there was the threat of Malcolm X. Same thing with Gandhi.

There is a bypass paywall clean that is very useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean
Re:Bugs Apple Loves on Friday January 23, 2026 @07:30AM (#46731699)
Some other bugs:

1. Open a file using Preview, but it is behind all other windows. 2. If you connect to your own personal hotspot (iphone) on mac, you can't forget it and connect to someone else's hotspot.

Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:24AM (#46575544)
MS Office Online has been good with most of the things I need. Has that not been the experience for you?
Re:I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:21AM (#46575518)
I think using an atomic distro like Bazzite would have solved your problem.
To be honest, `awk` that the author references to as a good name, is not. It's just the initials of authors, which does not convey anything about what the tool does. It's yet another cognitive tax.

And I would go further, the extremely shortened names in Linux and other places is problematic too, given that most terminals now allow name completion on tab.

Re:Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:47AM (#46232817)
As an aside, I didn't know what Comic Sans looks like, so I searched on Google and it rendered the whole page in that font. I tried with other Fonts too like Arial and Times New Roman, and it did the same there. So cool!
Re:Nano Banana Pro on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:56PM (#45996257)
Did you check if the SynthID works when you edit the photos with filters like GrayScale?
>Long may it live

Off topic, I found out that my university blocks archive.is or any of its mirrors. Why does the university care about this?

It could be called "liberty-loading". You are at liberty to load/install software from anywhere
Isn't this the company that was commended for not bowing down to pressure from FBI?
Re:Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit on Saturday September 20, 2025 @10:09AM (#45313571)
This administration is not going to apply said regulations, especially when the said regulations us punishing what they are favoring
Re:Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:50PM (#45122972)
Here is AI being as close as possible to the most animated person I know and here I am sounding robotic in every conversation I have, despite my best efforts to sound otherwise. Sometimes, I just wish I could have an AI speak for me
Why would people publish a research with low population size?
How much is "more than a few bucks"? Several hundreds?
Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @08:45AM (#44887778)
Does anybody know which technology most of these companies that support 1M tokens use? Or is it all hidden?
It may be because the account you used to post is relatively new or that you tried to post the same thing across multiple subreddits.
Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:50PM (#44804856)
This makes me think that UBO Lite wasnt possible without something Apple added in the latest version. Is this true? Did they finally add something to Safari allowing UBO Lite to finally be made? Is that why UBO Lite for Safari didnt exist until now?
Re:IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone' on Friday August 01, 2025 @06:26PM (#44763142)
The people who need to see it needs to see it in the entertainment hour of Fox News. I don't think Fox News would be disseminating this information at that hour
Re:When We Get Komooted on Sunday July 27, 2025 @12:40PM (#44702530)
>In getting komooted, we feel the pain of not being represented in the companies we work for and the platforms we use. Komoot was supposed to be special, the darling of the German startup scene. A unicorn not only in terms of prospective valuation but also in its good working conditions and a progressive mission of enabling access to the outdoors.3 The owners’ assured their long-term commitment with the mantra “we won’t sell.”

Is there a legal way to ensure that a company adheres to claims like "we won't sell"? It seems that trusting companies with their word without any underwriting is foolish

Re:Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content on Friday July 25, 2025 @07:24AM (#44681952)
Agreed. When people say that we need to privatize something because the government is not doing its job effectively, I always think that the government is not doing its job effectively because of the lack of competition. If you just replace the governmental entity with a private entity, then you would end up with more problems than before. The better way to approach this would be to create a governmental entity that competes with the private sector. Each can keep the other in check with competition. For example, in the case of tax prep in the US, the government can set up a competing entity that makes the tax prep software and keep turbo tax in check.

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