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You can make that silly argument to justify almost any government overreach
Re:Various LLM Smells on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:01PM (#48317232)
These seem mostly like Claudeisms. I feel each model (and even generation) has their own set of these isms.
Re:The great memory panic of 2026 – Asymco on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:40PM (#48129164)
This is probably the natural conclusion but it will take some time to get there
Incidentally GSM-R problems led to a nationwide train service shutdown in Norway on December 25. Related?
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Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:06PM (#41881352)
You're right, my bad
Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:13PM (#41880773)
There was a controversy when Go came out about the naming due to another language also being called Go, and the top voted alternative name was Plan9, and as an homage they may have used that internally instead.
Re:Starlite on Saturday January 20, 2024 @06:51AM (#39066706)
A coating for projectiles to be able to withstand the heat from laser weapons would be one with possibly significant impact, given recent announcements.
Re:Tesla FSD Timeline on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:10AM (#38629464)
It probably does work for certain kinds of software, but groundbreaking research breakthroughs not so much.
Re:Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F) on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:45AM (#36846313)
Twitter has been rebranded as 'X'. Elon has the domain x.com and I suppose he wants to use it
That's one of the most jargon-dense sentences I've ever read
Re:[Updated] Apple Entertainment Services are slow or down on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:00PM (#34917998)
Was about to say this. Kudos to them for actually conveying the information! They seem to have learned that what they're (partially) in the business of selling is long term trust.
Considering continental drift is about 2.5cm per year (or one inch)...about 50km from where it is today.
Re:340k people moved out of CA in 2022, most of any state on Saturday December 24, 2022 @09:15PM (#34123406)
But SF is also very chilly for California so it really helps with the perception of humidity.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Tesla stock dropping? Meta? on Friday December 23, 2022 @07:05AM (#34104892)
This is the reason. Institutional investors (which hold the lions share) are more wary of stocks with astronomical P/E ratios when the macroeconomical forecasts are what they are today. Expect the bloodbath to continue until there is a semblance of calm waters on the horizon. I'm thinking around March.
Re:Tesla Market Cap Falls Below $400B on Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:14PM (#34097229)
There's very little relative trading volume on the price slope below 165-150 here, I wouldn't be surprised to see a fall to 95 and down to 30-50 in the medium term, and a cap of "only" about $100-150bn.
Re:There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:28PM (#34075020)
Well, I'd like it to be a standard size I could stack. Maybe I'm just nostalgic but I pine for the days where I had a shelf full of self-burnt CD's. Shame they're so prone to bit rot.
Re:There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:19PM (#34074952)
I've been thinking that there oughta be a human-sized cartridge for data in general. Current SD-cards are flimsy, and it's just getting worse. The Minidisc/Gameboy cartridge/MiniCD form factor was something that was tangible but not oversized. It could go in your drawer and not be lost. You could write something informative on it.
Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:53PM (#33001604)
The fallout from that scenario being discovered alone would make it absolutely not worth it, so I leave that for the conspiracy bin.
Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:33AM (#32541152)
I've been dreaming of a book decompiler that would some newfangled AI/ML to produce a perfectly typeset copy of an older book; in the same font or similar, recognizing multiple languages and scripts within the work.
Also rather interesting that Vladimir Putin is thought to have been involved as the RAF handler, if those sources are veritable.
Re:How to build homes with virtually no heating (2020) on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:03AM (#29976379)
How is the ventilation and air quality? I work in a passive house in and we're experiencing significant issues with the indoor air quality when the building HVAC turns low.
Not when what you write (compromises) literally mean something radically different. That’s not syntax.

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