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Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:54AM (#50073720)
Yup, using eARC with ATV and HomePods, and it just works. Just switch input on tv to my PS5 and audio comes right through the HomePods

No issue whatsoever, latency is fine, but a little too high for shooters and the like—but I use headphones then anyway.

Re:Cartographers of North Korea on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:48PM (#50048814)
Interesting! I like most.

I might replace tvtropes with imdb, and while I’ve never used gamefaqs, I’m unsure what to put in its place.

Thanks for this thought exercise.

Re:Decade-old RAM is making a comeback on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:40AM (#50041372)
Please. There are so many human stories out there—read those.
Re:City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2 on Saturday October 03, 2026 @01:08PM (#49945963)
Nah, look at the second set of photos. It’s more lived-in, not all the way apocalyptic. The first photo looks like a render from an architect.
Re:The Copilot+ PC brand is dead on Saturday September 26, 2026 @04:59PM (#49860491)
A keyboard key is not generally considered a consumable, though.
Re:LLMs as a Cognitive Virus on Saturday September 05, 2026 @06:31PM (#49581351)
I don’t suppose he was entirely wrong. I would probably be able to recall a lot more (verbatim) if it all had to be stored in me noggin. I think the trade off worthwhile, however.
Re:What We Tell AI on Monday August 31, 2026 @07:18AM (#49508322)
Re:No AI Fridays on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:05AM (#49499299)
So you’re left with the least interesting tasks? Not trying to be too snarky, or too much of a luddite, but that would be a killer for me, motivationally.
The PS5 jailbreak scene is pretty sizable. Good chunk of money to be made if accomplished: https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/playstation-5
> You can just tell an LLM to debate, find out inconsistencies and issues in your writing, and challenge you, and it will very well do that!

Sure, but the point is that you are supposed to be able to find these inconsistencies and issues in your writing. That is the skill.

Indeed, LLMs can be helpful as an alternative to a teacher, if thought of as a sophist (I have even done research on this [0]). But that is not the approach you are proposing.

If you want students to be able to reason about these things on their own, then LLMs doing the hard work of identifying the gaps in their logic is counter-intuitive.

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98197-5_31

Depends on what skills you want the students to have.

In e.g., philosophy, allowing students to write their assessments with the help of LLMs changes the students’ depth of understanding, as well as their ability to synthesize, formalize, and drum up their own arguments and objections.

These are all useful skills, even in a post-LLM world.

Re:KOReader on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:07AM (#49096395)
> Unfortunately on MacOS it seems you have to use Amazon's app to access the filesystem.

KOReader comes with SSH, so you can just SSH into it.

Re:KOReader on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:06AM (#49096388)
KOReader is my jam! With its reflow for PDFs, I've used it on my Kindle Oasis 2 to read everything for my undergrad and graduate degree. Some years ago now, I wrote a script that converts the annotations to Obsidian [0], and then another little script to automatically keep my "Articles" folders in sync between the Kindle and my laptop.

Very grateful for this software!

[0]: https://github.com/simonpacis/kohico

Re:Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:59AM (#48989412)
Biggest reason for me - for a long time - was no Apple TV app. Using Infuse has fixed that for me, however.
Re:If you're a button, you have one job on Sunday July 05, 2026 @03:31AM (#48792042)
I suppose a lack of testing and an assumption that the action will fail so rarely that it’s not worth accounting for? But yes, such patterns make it hard to trust and efficiently use an interface.
Re:Help I Accidentally a Wigglegram on Monday June 22, 2026 @06:47AM (#48628420)
Yes, the author notes as much: ‘many of them come out as less "stereoscopic" and more "kinescopic" - like little unintentional movies.’
Re:Gaussian Point Splatting on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:10AM (#48397518)
Imo they need to pad it just a bit. My scrollbar overlaps.
Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:16AM (#48306144)
I mostly refrain from watching any
Am I right in that I cannot demo a couple of searches without subscribing?
I don't think you're overreacting. Received mine in 2020 and decided to move as well.
Re:Shunning AI is the human choice on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:02AM (#48222753)
Even just in my family, the attitude has shifted significantly over the last year. Most of my family members are now critical of it and its effects.

Add to this that if ~6B people are using the internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage), and ChatGPT only has almost a billion users (and is the largest player in the space), then I’d argue that LLM-users are in fact the minority.

Re:Flipper One – we need your help on Thursday May 21, 2026 @08:34AM (#48221641)
I think this is the optimal outcome of the “Slop Police.” Normalization of these acknowledgements. Transparency is good, like a journalist declaring whether they have vested interests.
Yeah, I’m not disputing that, and it’s worth a lot of consideration and research. But, it’s quite far from 36 years.
Source please?

I’m seeing M75/F77 w/o learning disability, and M72/F70 w/ learning disability: https://www.autism.org.uk/learn/knowledge-hub/professional-p...

Re:CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler on Monday May 11, 2026 @04:25PM (#48100215)
Might be the only thing that matters to you. And, perhaps, the only thing that matters in a functional sense. But, whether it’s human-coded/written or not matters deeply to some.
Re:Killed by Apple on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:49AM (#48096611)
Yeah. Still daily driving my two 8-year old OG HomePods. Compared to e.g., Sonos, who discontinued the Play:1 after 5 years, that's pretty good.
Re:Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:04AM (#48095177)
Ah, whoops! Thanks for correcting my mistake.
Re:Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:09AM (#48092708)
Don't have a handle on it, unfortunately. But the algorithm is in here: https://github.com/tautme/phone-sensors/blob/main/guitar-tun.... Esp. lines 221–257 and 373–417.
Re:Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:15AM (#47995045)
In happier news, that house is being demolished: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqqv17v1vo
Yes, let the LLM bias and misinterpret it instead.

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