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> As it turns out, the majority of the Elo gains (+720 of the +1335 gained) can be attributed to better programming, and not better hardware.

It's not so easy, a lot of that better programming can be attributed to better hardware, it wouldn't have been possible to implement NNUE or Fishtest without modern hardware.

Re:People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:05PM (#49809524)
The unhealthy part of smoking is the smoke, not the nicotine.
Or using the saturating methods.
Re:Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:14PM (#49735993)
The problem with:

    ret = ""
    for s in strings:
        ret += s
is that it re-allocates O(n) times, even if ret is referenced only once.
Re:Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:06PM (#49735956)
Re:Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:48PM (#49674330)
You have probably run WebAssembly without noticing it, I would call that a success.
Re:Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:48PM (#49674318)
Obviously it is, I've been writing a scientific library that runs in-browser and WebAssembly has been a blessing, it's easily 10x faster than the backend Python code it replaced, and 2-5x faster than I could achieved with JavaScript.
Re:Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:13AM (#49669049)
Unless you're using DNS over HTTPS they can see the unencrypted DNS traffic. There's also Encrypted Client Hello, but they can also see which IP you're connecting to.
Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:09PM (#49443779)
Isn't this already happening with ADHD drugs?
Re:Why Addresses Have Numbers on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:56PM (#49249613)
There was a study a decade or so ago, where they found Costa Rica loses around $720M annually due to productivity loses due to their address system.

https://archive.is/qvgOI

The kid dying is sad, but it could have probably been prevented if the batteries were coated with a bitter agent such as denatonium.
Re:DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:23AM (#49230776)
The new thing is data centers in the ocean.

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#compute-at-sea

Yes, it gets boring that each time one of these supply chain attack article appears everybody starts talking about cooldowns, 2FA, MFA, etc. Just don't give Node the permissions to your complete filesystem / network.
A compromised device still can't access the secure enclave.
Maybe just use an incognito window?
Instagram is the worst offender, I only want to receive message notifications, but I got notifications about inane random stuff I've tried to disable but it won't work. I ended up having to disable notifications altogether.
They technically allow you to, but make it really annoying to. Uber for example:

Account > Settings > Accessibility > Communication Settings

Re:Auto Polo on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:30AM (#47972758)
There's also e-wheel polo
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:54PM (#47797061)
My theory is that they rate limit that URL aggressively due to AI scrapers. At this point it's faster to just clone the repo and do your searching locally.
Re:A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:14PM (#47468973)
It's just awkward, I've held the knife with my dominant hand all my life.
Re:Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines on Saturday January 10, 2026 @03:45PM (#46569748)
The idea would be to use autonomous drones, so they wouldn't need to communicate, the problem would be that the GPS signal is jammed.
Re:FracturedJson on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:03PM (#46467520)
I don't know, but you can always use <() process substitution to create a temp file.
Re:Our New Sam Audio Model Transforms Audio Editing on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:37AM (#46363562)
This new SAM model actually competes against SOTA models.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pp9w31/ama_wit...

Re:This is not the future on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:59AM (#46289317)
Have you seen YouTube's front-page? It's pretty much 20-40min videos full of fluff.
Re:Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @08:48PM (#46213113)
What privacy? Whoever is watching your traffic can see you accessed their website with HTTPS, they can guess with high accuracy which article you are reading based on the response size.
Re:Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @08:46PM (#46213103)
You can enable it in the settings.
I'm guessing you're not storing the CLIP for every single frame, instead of every second or so? Also, are you using the cosine similarity? How are you finding the nearest vector?

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