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Re:Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:48PM (#50169167)
The frequently incorrect or misleading Gemini answer at the top of search results is busy eroding that trust.
Re:Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:25AM (#49722073)
If you read the page it says 2026-06-04.
Re:Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:46PM (#49678776)
Somehow some sites are able to get around the video autoplay, I especially notice it on news sites.
Re:Anthropic Sees over $30T in Potential Revenue on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:44PM (#49436943)
Over what period of time?
Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:38AM (#48157142)
I had this happen once - I flew to a city about 8 hours of driving time away to buy a motorcycle and landed late in the evening. My card was declined when I got gas a little after midnight and I had no cash or other card with me so I called the 24 hour support line. I had a quick conversation with a support agent explaining that I was traveling and the card needed to be reactivated right away. Within five minutes the card was working and I was back to working my way down a long chain of mistakes.
Re:Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:57AM (#47794084)
On the most current version (v2.1.110) of claude:

> /model claude-opus-4.7

  ⎿  Model 'claude-opus-4.7' not found
Search for anything mechanically car related and the results are terrible or wrong.
This is going to sound nuts, but I've noticed comments lately with multiple misspellings that seem intentional - it's almost like they're trying to signal that they're human, rather than LLM written. I've started to think it makes them even more likely to be LLM written than not.
Re:Most of the US economy is in a recession on Sunday March 08, 2026 @07:45PM (#47302915)
I found this video pretty interesting, it talks about why Iran is going after its neighbors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0
Re:Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @11:06AM (#47249531)
Single core is close to M4, even.
This is one of those shows I've had in the rolling background rewatch queue for years, I love it and I try to recommend it to as many people as possible. Flawed, yes, but still special.
Re:Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:46PM (#46997460)
Holding option while hovering gives you more placement / sizing options too. If you click and drag a top bar to the right or left it'll snap to the right or left half of the screen. Dragging it to the top or double clicking will snap it to full size. Dragging to corners will snap to quarter.
The GPUs going into data centers aren't the kind that can just be reused by putting them into a consumer PC and playing some video games, most don't even have video output ports and put out FPS similar to cheap integrated GPUs.
Re:Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D on Friday September 26, 2025 @02:08PM (#45389322)
I agree, this was a great read.
Re:Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City on Friday August 22, 2025 @04:14PM (#44989275)
New speedbumps were installed in a school zone near my housing complex recently, we're a heavy Waymo area and I watched one of them launch itself over one without slowing down.
They're going in alphabetical order: A - Alchemist B - Battlemage C - Celestial (Future gen) D - Druid (Future gen)
Re:How good are American roads? on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @12:56PM (#42196501)
Yeah, the 93 between Kingman and Nevada is absolutely terrible. Last time I was through there (9 months ago) they were doing a small bit of paving but it wasn't in one of the rougher areas.
Re:New iMac with M4 on Monday October 28, 2024 @01:43PM (#41973881)
The unfortunate part is that these aren't for sale yet and we don't know how they actually compare to the existing LG 5k or Apple Studio display. It is nice to see more options coming to market.
I saw that, but I was curious once X decides to pull the money from the accounts (assuming they can, which I guess is a big assumption at this point).
How do they plan on collecting on that if the money is moved out of Brazilian accounts?
Re:Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @05:33PM (#40517287)
A long time ago I knew a guy that uploaded a Counter-Strike patch to his ISP personal hosting and ended up on the official mirror list. Ended up taking down the ISP iirc.
Is there an official source for this yet?
What do you mean? This is what Universal Clipboard does.
I thought this happened because the claw was pretty heavily damaged during deployment, only a small bit of it was actually able to grip.
While not directly related to your question, back in the day (like 2002-2003 or something) Jagex added fatigue in attempt to combat botting. The solution was an addition to the botting client that encoded the captcha image and dumped it into an IRC channel. There was a second client called Sleepwalker, iirc, that read the encoded captcha images from IRC, a user would type the captcha text, and the client would put the decoded text back into the IRC channel for the bot client to pick up and use. There was basically a credit system so you had to spend some time typing others captchas so yours would be decoded by others.
Ah, yes, the APC was the best way to die in cs_siege
Re:New Mac Mini on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:44AM (#34414785)
It was available on the Intel Mac Minis, nice to see it making a comeback.
or Flux by David Baxter, maybe :)
Re:Learning Car Speed Using Inertial Sensors on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @01:52PM (#31425642)
The speedometer may be driven off the transmission, wheel speed sensors, or something else. It doesn't take into account slip.

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