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Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:54PM (#50122769)
I hate to be the one to tell you, but you probably pass at least one very explosive tank of something very volatile each and every day on your commute.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:38PM (#50122499)
Right, which is exactly what someone that only wants to spend 25k is looking for.
Re:What on Earth Is Dekton? on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:35PM (#50122470)
Considering how much she paid for it, my jaw dropped when my mom first scolded me for putting a hot pan directly on her brand new quartz counter top. I'll take my cheap (probably fake) granite any day over such a useless counter. Like your Dekton, it just brushes everything off.
> The faster you go, the more the shielding matters.

Unless of course you just bend everything around your private bubble with your warp drive.

Re:The Folders Programming Language on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:44AM (#50118978)
> The names of the folders are ignored

Oh good, cuz naming things is hard!

Re:Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:52AM (#50118402)
> Why didn't it evolve like that in the first place?

It did, just in Arabic.

Re:Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:16PM (#50109635)
As someone who still pays for usenet, the benefit of torrents is anything older than a couple of days, since stuff gets pulled from usenet servers almost as soon as it's posted. Of course, if you have everything pre-configured to find and grab everything you're interested in, you won't even notice, but sometimes I just get an itch to watch something older off the cuff, and that's where torrents shine.
counter counter point: go as fast as is safe, and don't get caught (speed limits are generally well below what is safe)
At first, most do. After a while, it's only a few. The limits are only increased when most people are doing it. It pans out eventually.
Re:ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:11PM (#50095359)
Even those in slavery when the BoR was created?
Re:Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @04:55PM (#50095081)
Of all the questions I didn't expect to encounter today, this was one of them.
Re:How Tabasco Became the World's Hot Sauce on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:11PM (#50093296)
Cholula can't be beat for Mexican food, but I'd prefer if more restaurants offered Crystal.
Re:How Tabasco Became the World's Hot Sauce on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:09PM (#50093277)
To me, it can't be beat for eggs and oysters, but for everything else, there's Crystal!
Re:TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:25PM (#50092524)
Maybe their "backup system" was Onedrive and it was deleted with the local copy.
Re:A man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:26PM (#50079038)
Sorry, I consider cheese to be bacteria poop only, with no additional "processing". Casu martzu is just fly shit.
Re:Show HN: How Random Are You? on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:53PM (#50076744)
And all that GOOG-411 data!
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:17PM (#50074143)
> The problem is that if you take away the LLM, all of a sudden you can't do any of the things you "learned".

Even if that were true, LLMs aren't going away, so that isn't a problem.

Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:13AM (#50057628)
Linus Tech Tups tested this and determined that it's nowhere near ready for professional use. It's good enough, or even great, for amateur stuff though, so it has it's place. However, that won't even make a dent in Adobe's books, since the vase majority of their licenses go to professionals.
Re:"Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:36AM (#50057043)
The author's a sucker. YT premium pays for itself many times over.
Re:Reactions to 100 Solutions on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:26PM (#50024726)
> if we don't do something NOW

We are doing something now. We're making it so the AI does it all better, so we don't have to do it anymore. Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet, but it's going to be a delicious fucking omelet when it's ready. I don't understand why people are pushing back so hard on making the world a better place. I personally can't wait until it's clankers all the way down.

Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:21PM (#50024659)
No mention of the RSI caused by the Mac control key being in a place where a user has to scrunch up their hand unnaturally just to perform the most common control commands, copy and paste?
Still nothing to do with party affiliation. Voters disagree with the vast majority of what politicians in Washington want, regardless of party.
The article seems to be confusing Republicans with people in GOP counties. Republicans are politicians, and just like Democrats, they're only in it for the special interest groups that bribe them, while being completely out of touch with their constituents.
Re:I'm in a Meeting on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:52AM (#50021359)
Same in Chrome and Firefox for me
Re:I'm in a Meeting on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:50AM (#50021320)
Yes, because that's exactly what offices are for. I wouldn't do it if I had to sit out in the bullpen with the commoners though.
Re:I'm in a Meeting on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:46AM (#50021276)
Because there's so much more value to YT premium (including YT music) that goes beyond merely blocking ads. It's really a no-brainer if you watch YT often.
Re:The Dawn of the Age of the Exoskeleton on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:26PM (#50012542)
Cool, cool... Now how do we get an LLM inside of one of these bad boys?
The illustrator probably didn't want to pay for more prominent credit than the standard, which is included at the end of the post.
> Coffee machines don't need internet. Your thermostat doesn't either. reply

Yours may not, but that's just your personal preference. A lot of folks enjoy these products. An argument could be made that no one needs a coffee machine or thermostat to begin with.

Re:Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:03PM (#50012237)
> By the way - I'm speaking with heavy accent.

I chuckled at this because my inner voice had an accent as I was reading your comment, due to your writing style.

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