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Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:30AM (#49741340)
A (baseless) hypothesis: perhaps there are plenty of YouTube creators who use the proper, mature terminology but you never see their videos because the algorithm really is penalizing them for it...
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:05PM (#47250504)
The left side has two USB-C, a headphone jack, and a speaker. The right side just has a speaker.
Re:Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:56AM (#46328036)
It does, at least in theory. It displays the option to enable VR for me on Chrome for Android which pops you into Google Cardboard. I can look around fine but without a controller I don't think there's a way to move.

For Chrome on Windows, I had to enable "WebXR Incubations" (chrome://flags/#webxr-incubations), manually start Steam VR, then restart Chrome. The option to enable VR appears, but then in the headset it's just a white screen. Maybe I'm missing a step or maybe it's just broken.

> for some reason

It's so you/the teacher have room to leave comments/corrections.

Re:Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor on Friday April 25, 2025 @10:26AM (#43793923)
We faced a similar issue in our application. Our internal Red Team was publishing data with XSS and other injection attack attempts. The attacks themselves didn't work, but the presence of these entries caused our internal admin page to stop loading because our corporate firewall was blocking the network requests with those payloads in them. So an unsuccessful XSS attack became an effective DoS attack instead.
Re:Nintendo Switch 2 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:12AM (#42726317)
What's not to understand? If the bezels were smaller, either the screen would be larger or the system would be smaller. Both are desirable.
There's also an official app that has some nice features:

- You can generate grids on multiple devices with a seed

- If the phone displaying the grid falls over, it automatically hides the grid.

I don't know if the grids in the app are truly random or if they follow some constraints though.

Re:Immersive Math on Saturday May 11, 2024 @03:11PM (#40330040)
I found if I resize my browser window the spinny thing on the landing page starts spinning really fast. I like it :)
Re:Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer? on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:44AM (#40002763)
If your only issue with TeamViewer is that it's falsely flagging you for commercial use, you can fill out a form to reset it (it's not instant though)

https://www.teamviewer.com/en-us/special/reset-management/

I forget where I originally heard this idea, but I always explain to people that LLMs are (affectionately) "bullshitters." Terms like "lying" or "hallucinating" imply that it's trying to tell the truth, but actually it doesn't care if what it says is true or not at all save for the fact that true text is slightly more plausible than false text.
Not really? There's a webcam, an indicator LED, an ambient light sensor, and a lot of empty space. As far as I can tell, the MacBook notch is wide just to make it look like the iPhone notch.

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/5JIdAqwLsxWAFAyZ

Partners can choose to disable all types/placements of ads ("skippable video ads", "non-skippable video ads", "pre-roll ads", "mid-roll ads", and "post-roll ads") except for "display ads" (that is, banner ads). As for whether those options actually work, I can only assume so, but the article you linked is specifically about non-partners.

https://i.imgur.com/RynaVin.png

This annoyed me particularly because I pay for YouTube premium... but I can't sign into my Google account on my work computer. So if they block ad blockers, paying for YouTube isn't even enough to get rid of the ads for me.
Re:Can GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 play Wordle? on Monday March 20, 2023 @11:23PM (#35242184)
>it couldn't possibly understand how to spell "platoggle" if it's treating it just as a single, never-before-seen, opaque token

That's not how the tokenizer works. A novel word like "platoggle" is decomposed into three separate tokens, "pl", "at", and "oggle". You can see for yourself how prompts are tokenized: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

Re:Contexto: Find the Secret Word on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:46PM (#35031962)
I might as well take this opportunity to plug my clone of Semantle which uses a tSNE visualization. I've heard many people say this helps them visualize the chains of logic in their guesses.

https://semantle.pimanrul.es/