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Re:Dostoyevsky Isn't Difficult on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:09PM (#48675502)
This is just the past and the modern propaganda nothing more.
Re:Google changes its search box on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:49AM (#48208801)
According to Wikipedia "As of April 2024, Kagi listed that its sources for search results were derived from Google, Brave Search, Mojeek and Yandex" so I suppose Google won't be available there as a source anymore? And perhaps all others in the future if they choose the same path.
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:38PM (#48087726)
I noticed that ChatGPT started to add the utm_source parameters for all links it recommends. For example, for GitHub links. Not sure if this critical or not but it could affect users for sure if URLs with any query parameters are blocked.
And make all these batteries compatible among all smartphone brands
Sometimes cross-references don't have links, is this expected? For example, here https://britannica11.org/article/26-0828-theosophy/theosophy there is no links for BOEHME and SWEDENBORG but all other references have the links.
Great project, thanks! Is there a chance to add a "random article" feature similar to which Wikipedia has? :)
I've read that there were very rare conditions to launch Voyagers which gave them tremendous advantage with gravitational maneuvers. It happens very rarely, I don't remember the exact periods but maybe it happens once per hundreds of years.
I guess they got rid of bunch of rockets with near expiration date
And then you use AI to summarize those 50 pages :)
Could it be also a toggle to skip/not show any AI-generated content? And all child branches?
Re:Oil prices surge 20% on supply fears on Monday March 09, 2026 @02:21AM (#47305436)
When I opened the link the title was adjusted and showed 25%..
I was thinking the "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE.txt" is rather special than a proper README :)
Thanks for sharing! Good old README.md in the repo would not hurt :)
Re:Building a New Flash on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:29PM (#47278157)
Long live the new Flash! :)
Re:LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:10PM (#47027037)
> One thing I do know for sure. LLMs would have been impossible.

Maybe they could, as ASICs in some laboratories :)

Are there any nice TTS models? It could be handy to have them as well.
Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube on Saturday February 14, 2026 @03:54PM (#47018287)
I wish they published it in a more organized manner.. At the moment all published episodes are mixed with other content of their channel.
Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:12PM (#46993554)
The cyberpunk we deserved :)
Oh, I was very wrong, my apologies!

I was sure this one was for Python from 3.7 up to 3.10. But it is still here.. But as for 2026 it will not stay forever as it was supposed to - there are 2 PEPs which are suppose to fix it in Python 3.14 - https://peps.python.org/pep-0649/ and https://peps.python.org/pep-0749/

All modern AI tools tend to put `from __future__ import annotations` line into Python code which isn't required by recent Python versions.

I guess this is because they all are trained on an intermediate code bases when this was required some times (even at that time the real usage was quite rare).

And now this line is parroting everywhere like a junk DNA :)

Re:The Discombobulator on Saturday January 24, 2026 @01:03PM (#46745892)
Any ideas what can this "discombobulator" be??
Re:The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:27AM (#46729151)
+1 for this show )
LLMs initial purpose is translation from one language to another, nothing surprising they are good in that.
It is estimated that the size of the "shadow fleet" is more than 1000 ships now.
Re:Where I find free game assets (compiled my go-to sources) on Thursday January 22, 2026 @01:04AM (#46715828)
Thank you for collecting all of this!
Re:The Zen of Reticulum on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:52PM (#46712101)
A nice citation in MIRROR.md - असतो मा सद्गमय तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय
Re:Disaster planning for regular folks (2015) on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:15AM (#46706814)
I'd add some reasonable water supplies, at least bottled, and some pills to disinfect water from rivers, springs etc could be handy as well.

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