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Where do you expect to see the consequences of machines solving Millennium Prize problems in your life and in society at large?
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:03PM (#50280861)
>When they introduced the Apple Pencil and people were like “haha it’s a stylus”, the thing was decidedly NOT a stylus

Ironic: when they introduced the Apple Watch, the narrative around it was "whatever it will be, it WON'T be just another smartwatch" and yet it was.

Re:New iMac with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:04AM (#50272259)
Just how many grandmas can afford a 1500$ email box?
Re:IKEA – 3D Guide on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:23AM (#50177596)
Are you being sarcastic? Their 3D modeling tools are terrible, and notice I have used the plural because for some reason there's more than one.
Re:Jev Meets the Trolley Problem on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:44AM (#50115827)
>Asimov's entire point was these laws don't work

Was it? I haven't read the short stories in some times, but I remember the case in which they don't work always being treated like an extremely rare, newsworthy exception.

Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:24AM (#50105039)
> Windows are sheets of paper on a walnut desk.

The calculator is a sheet of paper..

Re:Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:37AM (#50101757)
>does it sound at least kinda like the quality you expect from a 200 USD Apple headphone

Do the Airpods Max sound like you'd expect from a 550 USD Apple headphone?

Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:33PM (#50078302)
> minipc will get you much further

If you don't care about Dolby Vision or HDR.

Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:30PM (#50078248)
How will you play HDR media then?
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:27PM (#50078198)
> 128GB is strange.

It's really not. It's so reviewers will be able to say "it costs more than the last version, but you also get much more storage" and the average consumer is happy. If there were a practical reason for it Apple would put it front and center.

Most piercings fit your description.
Now I understand, thank you, I know little about the gaming industry.
What would be the incentive for Rockstar to not have the earliest possible official PC release?
Re:Google Playground: Create and play custom games on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:13AM (#49993151)
Since this thread will contain the intersection of people interested in coding games and people interested in AI, can I ask whether the latest AI coding tools can help someone vibe code a simple low-poly 3D game? I only ever used Twine before.
Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:08AM (#49989745)
This is by far the most amazing fact I have heard recently.
Re:What's Earth's dominant species by mass? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @04:05AM (#49989723)
I've always imagined the US as including vast expanses of nothing, yet I recently heard that you are never more than 20 km away from a public road.
Re:Blindsight (Watts Novel) on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:45AM (#49963159)
I feel like the people that didn't understand Blindsight are probably better off reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.

What kind of criticism is "no need to have Dracula in space"? The novel is about other types of intelligence, and the question is whether a conscience is necessary for intelligence, a topic that in similar words is discussed every day on this same forum many times a day.

In the book there are normal humans, upgraded humans with severed emotions, there are absolute sociopaths that are still conscious, and there are intelligent aliens with no conscience at all. Were they supposed to be all different alien species? I prefer it this way, there's more variety.

> Men are evolutionary wired to seek money and status.

This sounds really interesting, do you have any studies to link?

Do you fear that for most young women dating is over? Because one can't happen without the other.
I also read a lot of manga and comic, but for me the tablet is the ideal experience. I can't read hundreds of pages, while travelling, on physical volumes.
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:14AM (#49907764)
The first half of Piranesi is brilliant, the second half is banal and anticlimactic. Have you read Blindsight?
Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:33AM (#49890905)
There are no technicalities, only sophisms written by bots.
Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:17AM (#49890785)
What do you think of the cultures that practiced it?
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:33AM (#49844421)
>please count how much money

1% of the budget. Is that supposed to be a lot?

Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:51AM (#49843931)
This is what already happens. While not via taxes, the COL already rises with how nice a place becomes.
Re:The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:16AM (#49751534)
> a solid analysis

This is AI slop.

Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:53AM (#49709658)
How is it solved? You can't disable the clipboard sync, only disable handoff altogether.
Re:Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE) on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:02AM (#49609791)
I know I could do without Euphrates clay in my cookbook cover, that's for sure.
Re:Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE) on Monday September 07, 2026 @04:41AM (#49595674)
The fact that they promote the preorder of a 200$ book without showing even a single page is crazy.
In the US a kid cannot walk half a mile on their own inside a gated community patrolled by security guards? This sounds more dystopian than all the AI talk.

"I told [the authorities] that kids need to be able to take reasonable risks," he says, "in order to grow up non-anxious."

I guess the system prefers to breed anxiety.

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