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Re:Can't fish Ethernet? Use "invisible" fiber instead on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:32PM (#50344941)
I guess there is no point in taking a picture of invisible fiber
They got equitable grades. Why would you want them to get equitable communities?
So the Republican Party, that hasn't controlled public school policy in Queens since ever (Democratic since formation in 1898), is somehow responsible for the policy to give failing students As?

That's a fascinating twist.

It's similar propaganda to the 1619 author's story a few weeks ago.
Re:Napping characteristics and incident dementia on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:58AM (#50339792)
Yet I intentionally nap in the chair when I become overcome with lassitude
Re:Napping characteristics and incident dementia on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:57AM (#50339775)
Except intentional napping, which could be "yawn, I slept bad last night; I'm gonna go take a nap" is not a risk.
So in mice running doesn't do it but vice grips on the bones do?

How would that translate to lifting weights or other exercises?

Re:So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:33PM (#50333149)
The author is clearly opposed to progress as hen does not use capital letters.

I'm somewhat surprised that there are punctuation and spaces between words.

It makes me wonder if there is a logical consistency

Re:US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:55PM (#50330328)
The initial report is not worth responding to since the error rate is so high, +/- 122,000.

What you're reading in this Bloomberg report is an expectation of an employment gain of -57,000 to +187,000.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.tn.htm

It's not healthcare mostly, it's medical care.

Otherwise we would tax added sugar out to wazoo and use it to pay gym memberships.

"People in the knowledge realm caught on very quickly that you have to use AI iteratively and constantly back check what you get and correct it."

If lawyers and article writers are in the knowledge realm. Then your thesis has plenty of counter-examples of people who just use AI to create stuff and don't correct it.

Re:Somebody please stop the spam texts on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:02PM (#50250890)
I have a Google Pixel phone and I have been overwhelmed with text messages related to the current election.

At least the phone calls are handled properly...

Re:Reforming English Spelling on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:59AM (#50242859)
When you're saying the alphabet Em en o pee ????

The point is about the typical pronunciation of the letter as it is enunciated in the alphabet by itself without any other letters around it form a longer word.

"He was fortunate to live at a time (the mid-1600s) when, if you were born to the right parents, nobody told you you needed to specialize."

Or, he could have been just that much smarter than you you, dismissive author.

"At age 11, Pascal had re-derived much of Euclid’s geometry from scratch because his father kept the books from him"

Guessing not in the author's bio

Re:Lula Wins Brazilian Election on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:50PM (#50237607)
Is no one under 80 competent to lead the country?

Asking for a friend...

A better link to the actual list of hundreds of banking apps supported

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Re:Reforming English Spelling on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:38PM (#50214993)
Huh? How do you pronounce the name of the first letter of the word queue, and how does that differ from when you pronounce the word queue?
Re:The Kevin Bacon on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:42PM (#50211791)
Only has 2 text blobs and a few actors? Not really worth a "tap to continue" a. If the continue doesn't have any value
A good example of a monster whose professional life benefits the world.

Worth the cost? I'd say not, but I'm generally an optimist.

Re:The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:04PM (#50199641)
Nominative determinism for an architectural oriented painter
Re:Κ = 0.003 for integer multiplication crossed on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:46PM (#50190115)
"Apply the verified fresh-helper retiming to all 19 full native calls of #4440's p17 query-thinned complex controller. All 16 paid query shears, whole idle calls, main operators and the stronger BIT supplier are retained. "

I understand many of those words but apparently none of them within context...

I'm surprised that they did not resign in backlash from how behind Google has become in the AI domain
If they had morals and spines they never would have worked there to begin with. Google has been doing evil for quite a while.

I suspect that they now have morals and spines and wealth.

Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:42PM (#50188091)
When you say carefully considered, you're going with the the Aristotelian process that led him to argue that feathers fall slower than rock.

It would have been a very easy thing to test the people outside there bubble.

Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:41PM (#50188066)
By recent, you mean since just after the iPhone 3s?

The iPhone 4 was such a letdown...

Tldr:

Hit his dad on the head with a metal baseball bat with other family members around.

Re:Most advice is right for the person giving it on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:38AM (#50181820)
No support for the assertion in the title.
Re:Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:28AM (#50177222)
Everyone knows that unless a game is programmed with handcrafted machine code (assembly is a modern crutch for those who can't program of course) that it is simply not worth playing
Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:32AM (#50148723)
I imagine this is what farriers felt when the automobile came out.

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