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Re:Geist Serif on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:53PM (#50306668)
Outside-the-box big brain idea for font webpages with walls of gibberish: Make the font for the gibberish the font.
Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:31PM (#50292829)
You can't legally make a crawler to compete with Google anymore, it's explicitly stated in a lot of robots.txt's.
Re:How the Claude Code team does code review on Friday October 16, 2026 @03:55PM (#50123697)
Not true, LLM’s will struggle with badly organized and designed large codebases just the same, though likely with less errors and profanities.
Re:I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:46PM (#49810237)
You literally cite the wikipedia page that explains this? Or was this anti-AI slop also written by AI..
There's a better way to do this, you use inverse CDF to avoid all the RNG calls. Generate a random number, then skip items until you reach that number:

selectRandomFromIteratorOptimized(iterator) { if (!iterator.moveNext()) { return null; }

    var winner = iterator.current();
    var count = 1;

    while (true) {
        var u = random_float_open(0.0, 1.0);
        var skip = (int)Math.Floor(Math.Log(u) / Math.Log(1.0 - (1.0 / (count + 1))));

        for (var i = 0; i < skip; ++i) {
            if (!iterator.moveNext()) {
                return winner;
            }
            ++count;
        }

        if (!iterator.moveNext()) {
            return winner;
        }

        ++count;
        winner = iterator.current();
    }
}
Re:Online age verification is the hill to die on on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:22PM (#47954892)
The EFF has long been a skin suit my dude, they're just here to dissipate and confuse opposition.
What is TSLA's valuation based on anymore? Maybe next week it'll be the moon colony they’ll have up and running in 2028.
The escalation of commitment scam, interesting to see it so effective when applied to AI.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
Re:Are We Watching the Internet Die? on Monday March 11, 2024 @03:55PM (#39672574)
They’re burning 30 million dollars a year on a site that’s torched over a billion since its inception. Just give the product manager one signup for their kpi before they/them are put out on the street.
Re:Are We Watching the Internet Die? on Monday March 11, 2024 @03:08PM (#39672128)
You can't, it's very expensive and controlled now: https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-n...
Re:Eternal Shell History on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:35AM (#39559498)
What's the deal with bash history on macos anyway? It absolutely refuses to persist, no matter which combination of incantations are entered.
Re:ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015) on Thursday February 29, 2024 @05:47PM (#39556258)
What “kinds of things” are “we” really worried about? Representative government, public referendums? Very much on what table?
Re:Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @12:56PM (#39527162)
No, perfectly sane. The party says there are five fingers.
> Phind-70B is also less "lazy" than GPT-4 Turbo and doesn't hesistate to generate detailed code examples.

OpenAI's leaked prompt literally encourages it to try harder[1]:

> Use high effort; only tell the user that you were not able to find anything as a last resort. Keep trying instead of giving up.

1: https://pastebin.com/vnxJ7kQk

Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:50PM (#39282598)
The regime doesn’t want people saying or thinking things they aren’t being currently told to say and think. The regime is technically not allowed to use the legal system directly to punish people for this quasi-crime but is very happy to ruin everything else in same pursuit. So why should a protocol for p2p financial transactions the regime doesn’t control be allowed to exist?
Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @02:00PM (#39278872)
Porn can be an understandable concern because of the amount of chargebacks it can create for processors, though the excessive chargebacks should be the rule not the porn. Hate speech they never tried to explain afaik. FWIW repealing fair banking[1] was immediate priority for Biden up there with fortifying elections[2].

1: https://reason.com/2021/02/11/biden-administration-suspends-...

2: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1

Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:26PM (#39278297)
In the US the receiver gets unbanked without warning or explanation and permanently loses the ability to accept money through any service via systems like MATCH.
Re:What Happened with the Web Monetization API? on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:35AM (#39276449)
What if money gets sent to websites that host hate speech?
Incredible effort. Text of scroll is essentially "drink more Ovaltine" which is on theme.
Did they ever explain the logo thing? https://longform.asmartbear.com/logo/
What lawsuits? They send updated terms of service ahead of it so it’s all totally legal.
No, Tesla already sold these cars and took people's money. They continue to sell cars the same. This is about charging the existing and new customers $100/mo because it's a number Tesla thought of. It's not for extras it's for all non-legally-required safety functionality- e.g. the tablet screen, a/c, ability to adjust your seat.

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