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That leaves just the San Diego Padres (founded in 1969), Seattle Mariners (1977), Colorado Rockies (1993) and Tampa Bay Rays (1998) left who have never won a World Series.

Since this is baseball, I might as well provide the other stats I just pulled up as that's very much in the spirit of the game:

21 teams have won more than once: Yankees (27), Cardinals (11), Athletics (9), Red Sox (9), Dodgers (9), Giants (8), Pirates (5), Reds (5), Tigers (4), Braves (4), Cubs (3), White Sox (3), Twins (3), Orioles (3), Phillies (2), Guardians (2), Mets (2), Royals (2), Blue Jays (2), Marlins (2), Astros (2).

5 teams have won just once: Angels, Diamondbacks, Nationals, Rangers, Brewers.

The Mariners are the only team to never have played in the Series.

It's been 78 years since Cleveland last won. Followed by Pittsburgh (47), Baltimore (43) and Detroit (42), not counting the two teams that have never won above - San Diego (58) and Seattle (50).

The longest gaps between Series wins are the Cubs at 107 years (1908-2016), White Sox at 87 years (1917-2005) and Red Sox at 85 years (1918-2004).

And in case you're unaware, the first World Series was played in 1903.

That's 124 total scheduled championship seasons (1903 through 2026), minus 2 canceled seasons (1904 boycott and 1994 strike) for a total of 122 World Series.

Re:Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:45PM (#50251482)
I'm imagining a future where Microsoft's Copilot pops up in the corner, Clippy style, and gives you a message like, "Hey, I noticed you're running an app that looks like it was developed when Windows Vista was new. Want me to freshen that up for you?" Then it runs a decomp/recomp process that updates the app at the binary machine code level so that it looks and feels like a modern app without any translation layers or weird bugs. No more user complaints about Windows having an inconsistent GUI.
Re:Apple Music 404 Not Found on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:14PM (#50216092)
Also, holding down the menu key for a second turns on the "backlight", like the real iPod (for those that don't know).

Though it's cute that it's the 404 page, you can get to the page directly via https://music.apple.com/us/ipod.

Re:Elon Musk pours $366M into midterm Republican campaigns on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:49PM (#50202712)
I hope the very first thing the next Democratic president does is immediately open up an immigration case against Musk the same way that they're doing with Omar.

The difference of course is that Musk is legitimately guilty of immigration fraud. Denaturalization and a ban from stepping foot in the country again would be absolutely fantastic and a well deserved consequence of his actions.

Re:Claude Duet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:54PM (#50188834)
> "Each session runs in its own cloud Linux container with a shell, code tools and a browser, so I can run scripts and work through sites, not just call APIs. ... [but] I can't share my setup, including my instructions, skills or the files behind them, so I won't list those out. I'm happy to tell you what I can actually do for you, or just show you by taking something off your plate."

I got access a little while ago and was curious to compare how Duet worked to Muse's setup, so I asked it to give me an ls of its VM's files and it refused.

I'm not a fan of Meta in any way (standard disclaimer), but the way they developed and launched Muse was really well done in terms of both functionality and transparency. There's a button to view all its System Files right in the phone app! And the AI is quite happy to help you take a deeper look at everything contained in its VM, even going so far as zipping up the main "Hatch" harness binary for download. I've gone in several times to view the memory files its generated out of curiosity, and checked out the various skills it has built in, etc. It's just all there (with the caveat that who knows what else Meta might be doing, because the company is run by a sociopath.)

If one would have asked me how a consumer-grade Clawbot-like AI agent such as Muse, Dots, GrokBot, or Duet should be made to instill the most confidence, the way Meta did it is exactly what I would have described: Bundle the whole thing into a lightweight VM and make sure it's all visible to the end user. Done.

In terms of what this means for Duet as a consumer service? Very little. No one besides techies are going to bother to look at an agent's directory structure or care much about the loads of text it creates. But still, Anthropic should open up.

Re:I Built a Drone with Only One Motor [video] on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:31PM (#50156926)
It's incredible that changes in velocity still work to adjust the angle of the blades even at the insane speeds they're moving at. I would never have thought that was possible.

I have to wonder why this guy didn't give his drone a leash while testing so it couldn't go flying off. It's the first thing that popped into my head, so I'm sure it's something he thought of as well and didn't use for a good reason. Maybe a string would get caught in the blades?

Well this works too:

    <svg onload="this.replaceWith(new Date().getFullYear())"/>
Instead of:

    <script>document.currentScript.replaceWith(new Date().getFullYear())</script>
How about:

    <svg onload="this.outerHTML=new Date().getFullYear()"/>
Not as pretty, and you'd have to escape all the quotes, but still pretty usable.
Re:Gnome OS Preview on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:22AM (#50130088)
LOL. I love how you read someone else's smug comment and thought to yourself that repeating it would be so cool!
Re:Gnome OS Preview on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:14PM (#50127232)
It's been 7 years and counting since Gnome removed the ability to set the desktop background to a solid color using the GUI. The solutions to it are to use a solid-color image, or use the "gsettings" command line tool to set the color manually... Rather than, you know, an actual basic color-picker user interface.

The threads about it are awesome.

Re:Gnome OS Preview on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:03PM (#50126785)
In a year or so when today's top frontier AI models are free with your breakfast cereal, Gnome OS might actually be something to take seriously.

Here's my thinking: Gnome is notoriously 80% everything you ever wanted in a desktop environment and 20% "screw you, implement it yourself if you don't like it." It's been that way for decades and we all love them for it.

But obviously that level of support is not ideal in an underlying OS. However, the OS could have an automated trigger that fired any time a Gnome developer told you to go pound sand (a common enough occurrence). It would automatically ask your computer's integrated Codex or Claude equivalent coding agent to fix whatever issue you're having and to close the bug report after. Think about it! That might be an actual viable new way of running an OS distribution!

Bug fixes will just be prompts you can copy/paste! "Make this idiot's printer work. Decompile the driver and reflash the firmware if needed. Then mark the issue as resolved."

"Works on my machine" becomes a whole new thing as everyone ends up running their own bespoke AI augmented version of the base OS.

The future is now.

Obligatory... "Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?"
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:37PM (#50077423)
It's Apple - they know more than you or I about their products and what their customers will buy, and they know how to market them.

That said, I think the screen is a tad small. My guess is that they felt the need to differentiate the HomeView with a smallish square screen in an effort to avoid comparisons to an iPad on a stand and to invite comparisons to the Apple Watch.

Version 2 will undoubtedly have a new larger screen launched with great fanfare.

Re:Muse Wonder on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:18PM (#50063867)
The term is "artificial intelligence", you bunch of simpering spineless cowards.
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:21PM (#50047427)
The "trick" I'm pointing out here is that you don't have to aim your drop. As soon as you see the + icon, you let go and it's pasted below, even if you've scrolled too far to actually see the active prompt.

Other than this, I don't think I've ever found a use for highlighting a chunk of text and dragging it somewhere. Maybe someone else loves it, but the risk of accidentally dropping it somewhere you don't want makes it not worth it for me.

Re:Don't Put Tilde In Your Path on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:53PM (#50046519)
While we're all getting pedantic and esoteric, in zsh you can do this:

path+=(~/.local/bin)

You don't even have to use the "export" keyword. Not that I would do this, but since we're all pointing out random shell stuff...

(In zsh the lowercase "path" variable is an array that's automatically tied to the $PATH string, so you can just add to it using parens to signify new array elements, separated by a space.)

Re:I'm in a Meeting on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:08PM (#50028474)
That's some cute management jiujitsu there, scheduling "focus time" two hours before anyone normally gets to work. Morning people absolutely kill me.

I try to warn junior devs about people like you who "have their back".

> "They loved it!"

No they didn't. Especially if you were in the "meeting".

Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:01AM (#50017035)
I only recently learned that when using the MacOS trackpad with the terminal, you can simulate a middle button click to paste: Highlight some text anywhere in the console, drag it a little and let go. As you pull the text, a little green arrow will pop up and when you let go of the drag (anywhere) it'll paste the text into the prompt, just like middle click does.

Maybe everyone has known this forever and I'm the last to find out, but I thought I'd share as it was a revelation. I middle click all the time when using a mouse, so it was nice to finally discover a replacement while using the trackpad.

Re:Orkut.com on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:22PM (#50014332)
Why aren't they just doing it? The cost for developing, launching and hosting a new social network app is minimal compared to what it was 22 years ago.

Part of it is how cheap and easy cloud providers have made assembling all the services you would need to host and scale the app, the other part is that an AI coding agent can do literally all the development and sys-admin tasks that would be needed to get it done.

It would take an experienced full-stack developer about a week or two of effort to direct and manage the development of the entire web app, plus mobile, plus infrastructure, including everything needed to set it up and launch it online. Given a "social network" is a well known category of app? It might even take as little as a couple days.

There's almost no reason for signups given the name recognition already that I can see. Throw the app together, put a "donate" button on the sign up page to pay for the first few months of hosting until ad revenue kicks in and be done with it.

Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:26PM (#50013281)
"AI" is now an unword. The all-powerful delusional sociopath in the White House has decreed the latest bit of Newspeak, and the spineless cowards throughout the government are scrambling to make sure to stay in lockstep with The Party.

This U.S. Attorney is obviously frightened he'll be taken to re-education should he use banned terminology.

Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:16PM (#50008694)
In a normal world, I would praise the government for taking a action to address issues with a program that has definitely been abused by major tech companies for a long time.

However, it's really hard to separate the message from the messenger here.

Beyond the fact that this is obviously a political stunt designed to make headlines just a few weeks before the mid-term elections, there is little reason to believe that this is being done in good faith targeting the worst offenders. The people who have been chosen to run the federal government are simply corrupt sociopaths who will do anything to promote their extreme ideological agenda and are not to be trusted in any way.

Until proven otherwise, I have to assume this effort has to do with kickbacks or political retribution mixed with blatant racism, rather than for any sort of public benefit. I doubt this will result in anything besides a larger donation to the Republican party - or direct payments to Trump family members - by the affected companies.

Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:37PM (#50001005)
I truly hope this ushers in the end of Markdown as the preferred AI document format.

It's time to promote an .htmd HTML document standard so that we can actually have nice looking documents again. Remember columns? Colors? Typography? Layouts? Graphic design? Interactivity?

Just think - we could actually have a true rich text standard! Imagine if it were adopted everywhere and you could send WYSIWYG bold, italicized or underlined text as easily as you can a custom skin-colored emoji?

It would almost be like were living in the 21st century again!

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:54PM (#49983222)
Muse Spark 1.3: lighthouse

The caveat is that this was done using the phone app, and I've been playing with it since it launched, so who knows what it sent in the initial context that could change the inference math.

Actually, that makes me wonder: Did you do all that testing via a harness or via a straight API call where you control the entire system prompt?

I'd be willing to bet that using the same model from different harnesses produce different results, but I'd have to test.

Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:45PM (#49983099)
This comes up every thread. I think we've all noticed how similar they are becoming.

I would guess that they've definitely been trained on previous results, as they obviously share way too many traits at this point to be totally random. That said, I don't think we're seeing any signs of pelicanmaxxing yet from the providers, so it's still a useful (or at least fun) benchmark.

Once all the models produce pristine, elaborate pelicans riding perfectly drawn bicycles, then it'll be time to move on to pigs driving a racecar or something.

Re:Bob Cringely Has Died on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:38PM (#49950078)
This is really sad - Triumph of the Nerds played a big part in my move to California from the East Coast at the beginning of my career in the 1990s and I've rewatched the series regularly ever since... RIP Bob.
Re:Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:29PM (#49949298)
Oh, I really meant the latest trend of every AI agent having their own dot folder in root. I think Anthropic set off the trend with ~/.claude/ and I really wish everyone would stop now.
Re:Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:25PM (#49949267)
It's taken me a while to get used to "cargo cult coding," but I'm surprisingly OK with it now. (I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.)

Do these tips work? Probably. Do we know why they work? Sorta. Could we be just copy/pasting whatever text someone else kinda thought worked one time and now enters every time out of some weird feeling that it helps nudge the LLM, like some remote islanders building airport control towers out of bamboo in the hopes of a new airdrop from the gods?? Totally. But here we are.

Re:Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:59PM (#49938549)
Maybe it's just my pet peeve, but it's less about my documents and mail and more about programs, tools and AI harnesses deciding they can fill hidden dotfile folders at root with whatever they want (which they do indiscriminately). I don't just hate that there's tons of untracked caches and temp file data that isn't easily discoverable, but more specifically, I don't want all that crap in my root directory.

Who decided that hidden folders are a good thing anyways? .agent, .agents, .aws, .bun, .cache, .cargo, .claude, .codex , .config, .docker, .gemini, etc. I just end up having to show hidden folders all the time, which defeats the point.

It's gotten truly ridiculous. I want the OS to strictly enforce my root directory. There should be a few global preference files in there for like .zsh, and everything else organized in proper, unhidden folders.

Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:43PM (#49917485)
I agree with all of that - I'm just saying it must have happened in 1997 as the modems came out too late in 1996 to be particularly useful right away except maybe for your local BBS. I can't remember though - 30 years is a long time - so I'm willing to accept maybe I'm incorrect. I do remember how expensive the modems were - I don't think I ever upgraded, but instead got a DSL line.
Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:31PM (#49916268)
I'm sure someone pointed this out in the other thread, but 56kpbs modems essentially didn't exist in 1996. They launched at the end of the year, cost a ton, and the manufacturers hadn't standardized the speeds, so it really didn't matter much as you weren't browsing AOL, MSN or Compuserve with it yet.

33.6k.rip is a harder domain name to get though, so I get it.

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