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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:15PM (#50347989)
How the heck can one state of Australia prohibit certain types of names? Doesn't that cause all kinds of problems with documentation mismatches if someone moves?
Re:We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:49PM (#50295709)
Copyright doesn't care whether it's expensive. The fact that someone else, with the infrastructure and training data could get the same or almost the same weights makes it obvious there's no human originality in the weights, which means they aren't eligible for copyright. Some aspect of the infrastructure or processing of the training data might be copyrightable (or patentable), but the weights themselves? No human originality. No copyright.
Re:Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:31AM (#50240807)
Oh, I'm not saying it wasn't awful. I'm just saying that generally speaking, rural living involved more backbreaking labor than city living.
Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:38PM (#50237148)
Bookmarks are so badly neglected tabs might be preferable. Firefox mobile doesn't even allow you to tag new bookmarks.
Re:Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:49PM (#50233523)
Urban women definitely had easier lives. In a certain class, of course, you had a servant, but even below that professional laundresses existed. Only the poorest did all of their own laundry.

This extends to a whole lot of things. Rural life historically meant having to do much of what you need yourself.

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:05AM (#50209238)
This is probably my favorite metaphor in this thread. Most of the others feel fairly stretched, but this one is less concerned with matching something in the real world 1:1, and I think as a result is clearer.
The idea that any LLM trained on public data in 2026 or later could be invisibly poisoned in multiple ways by multiple parties is horrifying.

If it actually works that way, I think it's almost guaranteed organizations and people will be doing it, and soon.

PTM is still all the rage, but liquid metal is more marketable.

Of the latest gen of AMD GPUs, a bunch used PTM.

Do napkin math on how much lead is actually in a 3d print. Then think about the exposure that actually translates to, since most of that is buried inside a print.

We're talking micrograms per kg with a brass nozzle, unless you're printing in an abrasive filament. Possibly less - nozzle wear with non-abrasive filaments is very minor. If you're using a steel nozzle... Well, besides the fact that your steel nozzle probably doesn't contain lead, you're looking at an order of magnitude less wear or better.

Or, look at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6530847/ for a worst case scenario.

Lead in 3d prints is not just overblown, but a total non-issue outside of a laboratory context.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Thursday October 15, 2026 @01:10PM (#50106820)
Did you throw it into ChatGPT 5.6 pro? Some people claim 5.6 is smarter than 6.
Re:How Protein Took over the World on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:30PM (#50039248)
0.82g/lb of lean body mass is a ton of protein compared to any normal diet. That's like 5 scoops of whey protein powder for a 180lb person.
I think almost the exact opposite. They want open models. Without credible open models, they only have a few customers, and those customers have leverage against nvidia. With open models, they have tons of customers, and nvidia has all the leverage.

Smaller customers are also less able to develop their own hardware and threaten NVidia's business.

Re:Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:44AM (#50029647)
I wonder if that shielding would show up in WiFi imaging techniques.
Re:Southern Olive Oil on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:16PM (#50000057)
China produces roasted unrefined rapeseed oil (caizyou) from low erucic acid rapeseed these days. It might just be for export, but it exists.
Re:Account bans on Reddit on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:25PM (#49997608)
I don't even know what I lost it for. I was talking about Dwarf Fortress, trying to help someone backport a dfhack script to fix a bug (I was the author of the script). Next thing I know the post was deleted by admins and I was banned. Did an appeal but I didn't get a response.

Also, it's true. In some subs I swear a third of the comments are obvious bots. I don't think the admins care - as long as the officials user numbers keep going up, they're happy.

Re:Account bans on Reddit on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:26PM (#49987274)
At some point in the recent (last few years) past, reddit account bans became a fully-automated process with no oversight. Unfortunately, that leads to people getting banned for nothing. That happened to me.

In this case, you did violate reddiquette. Historically, you were expected to make 10 posts in a subreddit for every one self promo post. But violation of this usually led to a subreddit ban, not to a reddit ban. Also, no one actually cares about reddiquette anymore, not even Reddit.

I expect that they auto-ban self promos these days because they want people to pay for ads.

Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:08PM (#49870858)
Even ignoring the AI, I hate how useless exact text search has become. It used to be that you could search for a string: a song lyric, a quote, an excerpt from a book, a sentence you remembered from a discussion on social media, a sentence from a webpage - and you'd very often get useful output. Now I usually get garbage or nothing at all.
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:59PM (#49870772)
Searching first is how Kagi assistant works and it's great.
Re:Meta VR Glasses on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:08PM (#49824921)
After my experience with the Quest 3's software, I'm not really interested in anything Meta. That's ignoring the privacy issues and other issues with Meta as a company.
Re:How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:01PM (#49824854)
Did you set it to do memory training on every boot? That's a big stability help. Should also run Memtest86+ a few times. With some stick swapping you can determine if you have a bad stick or slot.
Re:Smart Ring Maker Oura, Backers Seek $2.2B in US IPO on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:00AM (#49796652)
I just can't see how a smart ring company is worth 14b, or how they need 2b. This seems insane to me.
Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:22PM (#49747484)
It's not in front of your eyes, optically speaking.
Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:42PM (#49717820)
Once the resolution is there (which is taking an awful long time), you could have whatever 'monitor' setup you want in a small space.

Personally I wouldn't want to replace my desktop, but replacing my monitor? I'd do it if I could.

Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:39PM (#49717779)
Wireless gets better if you mount a dedicated AP on your wall, but that's a pretty big ask when an appropriate AP isn't cheap.

Steam Frame is solving this with a dedicated dongle, if I recall, which I think is a good choice.

Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:32PM (#49717672)
It has worse pass-through than the Quest 3, which is still much cheaper. That said, I'm now eyeing the Arcturus Vision camera, so thanks.
Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:35PM (#49703565)
The Steam Frame looks like a heck of a device. At the cost, though, I question why they didn't include a better pass-through camera. A device with onboard processing and a good pass-through camera would be very neat. If they were trying to make this an affordable device I'd understand, but it's over a thousand dollars.
Re:GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:26PM (#49593542)
Well, the web was already designed to be compatible with multiple browsers, so that's one element there.
Re:Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:11PM (#49589771)
While true, parent comment's first point (that the plaintiff would be unwilling to make the winning argument) would have an impact on their ability to spend the defendent to death. Judges do notice when you don't have an actual argument.
At the very least, if political opposition is a problem, they could have a very loud noise played to the conductor if they're due to stop and haven't yet.
Nonsense like this is part of why we've gone from being able to locate any song with a snippet of lyrics in the mid 2000s, to being unable to locate many songs. It's infuriating.

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