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Re:If you love a website, back it up on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:57PM (#50347017)
A website I miss was a bullshit corporate jargon generator from Scott Adams. There were 3 columns with corporate jargon. And every time you refreshed the page, a new 3-word phrase would be highlighted. They were the most ridiculous phrases. But one could imagine them being used.
Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:54PM (#50237245)
Chrome's "tab group" feature is awesome and it ended my issue with unaddressed and open tabs. It even works on Chrome for Android mobile.
Simply fantastic. In my obscure little city, I've already discovered a bunch of historic places I had no idea about.
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:50AM (#50197075)
Must have been a high trust society.
Is 'bouba' pronounced 'bowba', 'bohba', or 'booba'? And why isn't it spelled like that instead?
Re:Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:01PM (#50121953)
Only half?
Re:Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:00PM (#50121940)
The sample size was 100.
There are a few people like this. They constantly eavesdrop on everyone and everything around them (via tools).

I knew a guy who, in the 1990's, had "gator spying tool" installed on his work PC, and then would casually invite people to use his PC (not everyone had a work PC back then), and then snag their passwords. And then spy on their private email. Was dumb enough to tell me, and then tried to get me to use his PC. No thank you bruh.

Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:43AM (#50073519)
HomeView will make it more feature-ful. I hope.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:12AM (#50072986)
Have they solved the problem where a cheating husband's texts with his mistress on his iPhone used to show up on his wife's iPad?
Re:Neuroscience Can Make Decluttering Easier on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:08PM (#50065709)
> "Ask yourself 'would I buy this today?'"

How would I buy a notebook filled with my thoughts from 20 years ago, today?

Why isn't the author worried about sending her/his ideas to DeepSeek online (instead of hosting it and using it locally)?
Remember, it's only "manufactured consent" when it's about something they don't like.
Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:52AM (#49874464)
Did you take it to Tonga with you?
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Sunday September 27, 2026 @06:49PM (#49871599)
AI has them badly shook.

I have the Gemini Pro subscription. The quality of its outputs are sometimes below those from the free version of Grok.

Hope they catch-up.

Re:Geothermal Heat Map of US Hot Springs on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:53PM (#49839330)
There's the town of Hot Springs.

They've commercialized the heck out of it. All the streams on public land have been dynamited (or so I was told), and there's the commercial facility that charges around $20 for a soak. That's South Dakota for you.

Someone recently fined Facebook $17 Billion. It was on the front page of NYT for 6 days (like as if it was a huge "get").

About 1% of FB's market cap. And their sins get washed away.

Everybody wins.

At this rate, fining tech-cos will be a major source of revenue for governments. Everybody wins.

Re:Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:38PM (#49734014)
So many misconceptions in this writeup.

Here's one: even if it were genetic, there could be triggering environmental factors that trigger the onset of autism (I'm just giving a hypothetical example, not making a claim here).

Re:Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:27PM (#49729420)
It says to read the complete history. Would that be analogous to reading all of one's chat threads, or just the history of the relevant chat thread that it's a part of?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:14AM (#49694016)
I like seeing Serif fonts on the screen for some reason.
Re:OpenAI might have stolen another major proof on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:30AM (#49640303)
Public posts on the internet are acceptable (to me).

For my (private) prompts, I need a warning telling me they may be used for training.

Re:OpenAI might have stolen another major proof on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:29AM (#49640296)
There is no fine-print (let alone a loud banner) on the chat thread page that tells me my prompts can be used for training.
Re:OpenAI might have stolen another major proof on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:58AM (#49639483)
Only after reading this post did I learn that my preferred AI trains on my inputs (prompts).

How was I not aware of this before?

can this clue be circumvented by using magnets oriented in a certain way around the workshop while constructing the pottery?
Re:John Margolies' Photographs of Roadside America on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:16PM (#49604636)
I love this. We need more whimsy. Unfortunately, refinement culture is taking over. Even the new McDonald's design is "private equity" refined.
Re:Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:42PM (#49603810)
this was in response to: "can I release the results?"
Re:Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:55AM (#49594384)
Should've asked Fable.
You are not wrong.

I wonder how it manages to find the middle ground in controversial topics. My own extreme views have become somewhat moderated thanks to reading AI-LLM opinions and reasonings on the topics.

This is where the Gemini "ask about this page" button on Chrome comes handy.

It was about 1 meter long (as another commenter pointed out) and lived around 400 million years ago.

Because mom is not around, so now he can go where he wants? You must believe that people in society follow all the expectations? Especially children?

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