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Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:38PM (#50346403)
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Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:46PM (#50345906)
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The west doesn’t want to move forward and instead are doubling down on fossil fuel energy. It’s so sad. Car manufacturers have succeeded in lobbying out change and making your vehicle a subscription.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:26PM (#50330572)
Find an old projector TV
What about binding to external C ABI? I can haz Vulkan?
This reminds me of another wonderful video I saw today.

https://youtu.be/EMSQtqUIlXY

We aren't quite there yet on sentience with released models. Maybe in the labs but that's one of the criteria. We are very close though.
In case people are wondering... This is THE scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHAkfoxSFM

Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:57AM (#50303226)
I think we watched the wrong TNG because the entire show Riker was clamoring for the captains chair but kept turning it down to stay with Picard. By DS9 he has his own command. Geordi gets promoted, Worf gets promoted, Troi gets promoted, even Wesley Crusher gets promoted (he wouldn't stop talking about it!).
circumventing DRM is exactly what separates breaking the law from preservation...
I think law enforcement should be barred from carrying lethal weapons.
Shot in the neck and lived. 420 years. Pretti filming peacefully and shot in the back. 0 years.
That isn’t true, you preserve the data as is for the software as is. You can emulate under it if you need to run it. This is what internet archive has done and the proper preservation of the media is in tact. In NO WAY do you ever need to convert the data back to a workable source in its original authoring program.
So, pre-crime... which is illegal.
I think you are missing the point here. The art assets in question belong to the studio. Yes, they are painstakingly made. They are made with the assistance of some very very expensive technologies. Full body scans. Facial rigging with 180 high fps cameras. Mocap suits and props in a full blown warehouse studio. The works. It's not just a 3D model. It's a rigged 3d digital twin of an actor. There's image rights, etc that have to be negotiated and deals made. Preservation would be to preserve the data as is rather than reworking it into a blender scene.
their staff posts these things. their staff creates videos of how to rip assets from games. they are fully aware of what their users are doing and they openly encourage it.
No, it protects fossil fuel energy companies from having to retool and change.
We need to up the ante, we all know it's the Mumbai Indians. ;)

One can train a decent model at home, for a specific task but you are absolutely correct that in order to have a model that's an expert in any topic it requires training and data on all topics.

Re:Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM on Monday October 26, 2026 @02:31PM (#50248664)
This is the approach I took. Before leaving scope, results are filtered to remove tool call errors and bloat and instead append those errors to a different system. A much smaller tool call error result is returned to the agent while keeping the reasoning for failure intact.
Re:Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:28AM (#50228327)
30% on $10M and under. 25% on $10M to $50M. 20% on $50M+.
They still can’t technically obtain it without a warrant. They do it anyway.
Follow the money
The issue is when they censor the version they host
Re:Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:33AM (#50179155)
While we’re at it, MechWarrior/BattleTech could use some TLC in the form of the same treatment.

This and titles like it made my childhood

Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:29AM (#50179130)
No and having strong opinions codified into patterns that an agent can utilize is exactly what we need today so, no not wrong and in fact, more needed than ever.
Re:IKEA – 3D Guide on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:53PM (#50171742)
Indeed, step 3 has the shelve boards in backwards.
Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:54AM (#50166510)
in which case it sees it's been cited, that it's the "source of truth" and approves the fake data.
Re:RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video] on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:43AM (#50161454)
People complained and they changed it.

Contrast with Origin Systems at the time and Richard Garriott getting murdered as Lord British and the chaos that followed.

I miss those days. When your avatar/player had consequences.

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