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Re:SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:38PM (#50254110)
a microphone that streams to birdnet-go in my home assistant with that firmware https://github.com/Sukecz/esp32-birdnet-mic
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:57PM (#50226272)
Most browsers have a reader mode that you can configure to your liking.
as Zaphod Beeblebrox said "anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Re:Regex visualized as 3D marble run on Sunday October 18, 2026 @02:41PM (#50144020)
You are barely scratching the surface! You forgot about positive and negative look ahead and behind, lookaround, backreferences, recursion, inline engine flags settings and probably some other things I forgotten about. PCRE2 compatible regexes are potentially monstrously complex things.
Bluejays are corvid and in my experience they are as smart as crows.
Re:Platform-Independent SIMD in Go on Friday September 25, 2026 @12:45PM (#49846872)
Since we are not at some point in the future where that correct compiler exists and there is only one official compiler, the distinction you make is practically meaningless!
Re:Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:09PM (#49836754)
Roughly, Vitamine D3 make the body effective at extracting calcium from food and dumping it into the bloodstream; vitamin k2 make it easier for the body to use that calcium. Too D3 without K2 can cause hypercalcemia; K2 make it less likely but there is still a point where too much D3 is too much!

And too much D3 without calcium supplements make the body use the calcium from it's bones !

Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @10:50PM (#49545403)
If you used, you would know. There's something addicting seeing the vertigo inducing progression of that technology.

I am a light user so I don't get the shakes when my monthly azure dev credits run out but I would be susceptible to being addicted to it if I was on a subscription with generous usage allowance and random usage counter resets.

Re:Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:11PM (#49542628)
I don't frequently downvote but you deserve one. I cannot see the racial slur, other posters cannot either; you know the story about the boy who cried wolf, you're doing exactly as that boy and therefore you are unhelpful your cause!
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:16PM (#49527527)
idempotent was frequently used before LLM; it's hard to talk about REST and infrastructure as code without using that word...
I don't like acid rain, please find something else
Re:Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" on Saturday August 29, 2026 @01:05PM (#49491488)
Sol and Fable are not doers, they are thinkers. Using them to "copy a few dozen HTML/JS/CSS snippets properly into a slightly obscure codebase, despite the reference being fully featured" is one of the most ineffective possible usage of those model. What you described is a job for luna.

Also I suspect you overprompt, with GPT-5.6 (sol, terra and luna), a lot's of what's used to be mandatory in the AGENT.md is redondant at best and frequantly actively harmful.

Re:Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:32PM (#49470823)
What else but pity should I feel toward non verbal autistic people?
Re:Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:29PM (#49470788)
There a point on the spectrum where someone cannot function without supervised housing and another one where you have non verbal autistic folks.

But I agree broken is not the right word for those poor folks because they were never functional to begin with!

Re:The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:18PM (#49456694)
They just have to find someone who believes in Rocko's basilisk, that makes an even better servant than someone who just want chaos.
looks fun and much more entertaining than the hundred pushups program.
Re:AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:49PM (#49338152)
If those behaviors bothers you enough you can always mail [email protected] because dang is not omniscient even if sometimes it looks like he is...
Re:Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified on Thursday August 13, 2026 @07:57AM (#49284667)
Caffeine is beneficial; it's not just a feeling. It has a neuroprotective effect shown in animal model of ALZ and a statistically significant effect in humans that decaffeinated beverages don't provide.

https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/12/3737

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-nutrition/harvard-st...

Re:AI is removing the middle class of software engineering on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @09:41PM (#49280887)
Wasp the defunct PL group from washington.edu or wasp as in owasp or something else entirely?
Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:02PM (#49264430)
I am pretty certain that Nestlé ranks well above openai on the most unethical companies on the planet rankings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Nestl%C3%A9

I made the same error as you, before realizing that in this molecule the fluorine is bounded to a carbon not an oxygen. Fluorine once bounded to a carbon won't move from there unless it receive a lot's of energy. A fluorine bounded to an oxygen really wants to be elsewhere and it's ready to pay a lot's of energy to make it happen! So the scary looking part of that chemical is incredibly stable and this is what make this substance potentially dangerous.
Re:Does creatine make you smarter? on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @12:06PM (#49008966)
Creatine is dosed in grams not milligrams, otherwise your number are correct.
You are underestimating how much co2 is released during ciment production and overestimating what is released by powering datancenters.

In 2024, datancenter have consumed 1% of the total worldwide electricity production and are responsible for 0.5% of the co2 emissions.¹

1- https://www.carbonbrief.org/ai-five-charts-that-put-data-cen...

Ruining concrete seems to go against extinction rebellion main goal. According to the World Economic Forum the co2 released during ciment production account for 8% of global co2 emissions, datancenter are estimated to contribute between 1 and 2 percent....

Math is not theirs forte!

Re:SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:52PM (#48937016)
I disagree, SQLite is a production embedded database, the extensive test¹ suite is a testament to that. It's just has different default and behavior than a database designed for being served to multiples simultaneous writers.

1- https://sqlite.org/testing.html

I would choose promox or ovirt (oracle virtualiztion manager is pretty nice, I use it because the licence of the only oracle database of our institution requires it, that and a specialc cores pinning configuration, to avoid licensing every cores in all clusters, https://houseofbrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Oracle-P... ) but it's oracle so we went with proxmox.
The FC multipathing was a learning experience and the manual workload placement requires good metrics on your workloads. The built-in ceph is decently configured and more performant than FC if you have 100GBS mellanox NICs and adequate quantity of ram. Veeam integration is serviceable but it's not as mature and polished as the integration available on vmware.

Having tried azure local before (it seems magical but the more you use it the worst it gets, update failed for no apparent reason on only some supposedlyidentical nodes, the sdn was atrocious to deploy and was manageable from wac only), I would recommend proxmox over it anyday.

If you don't have linux expertise on hand and have traditional FC based storage, I would recommend something else, probably nutanix if your budget is big enough.

I wish I knew ... at least it was a span volume so we could use proxmox support for vmdk and achieve about 30 minutes of planned downtime but a week of storage vmotion followed by another week of the proxmox equivalent.

When I get back to work I will finish the samba configuration of the ceph cluster front-ends to replace those elephants.

Before my vacation we (3 colleagues and myself) completedan 8 months long migration (coordination with stakeholders is longer and more complex than migrating a 192TB VM !!!) to 6 proxmox clusters so 20 to 40 clusters for 40k is certainly possible but imo it would be unwieldy.

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