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Re:Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:37PM (#50109856)
It seems like the developer is Japanese (the dev log is in Japanese according to the readme) so for once I am willing to believe this is a case of “the dev is not a native speaker” - but yes, I wondered several times reading the readme if this whole thing is vibe coded
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:54PM (#50098577)
Fucking crazy they didn’t go with 1 crown and 3 fillings. That’s still a very good bill that just came walking in the door.

14 cavities and 3 crowns isn’t just greedy, it sounds outright unrealistic.

There was half a decade between the Mozilla Browser stopped being called Phoenix and the launch of Chrome. Firefox usage peaked at some 30% of desktops the year after Chrome was released.

It's not like Firefox wasn't a "viable" browser at the time. It was quite mainstream.

> It was such a relief to move away from IE and all the arcane levels of details I had to remember ...

Why hadn't you moved on to Firefox?

Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:46AM (#50068163)
I’ve driven k-cars on Japan highways. Granted, the speed limit is only 100km/h, but it is absolutely fine, if you can live with the slow acceleration.

Much less noise than in my FJ Cruiser.

Only thing is being overtaken by a large truck - that is scary!

Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:27AM (#50068026)
To me it just sounds absolutely bonkers that you can feed electricity _into_ a power outlet.

I passed high school physics with good grades, so … I’m not surprised other people instinctively say this can’t possibly be a good idea.

I mean, they are the premier showcase of vibe coding - can we really expect anything but the finest soup of slop?
>from concentrate, so mostly water anyway

Even if it wasn't from concentrate it would be mostly water.

Re:Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:00AM (#50040190)
> The DuckDB team rewrote the recursive CTE engine and claims 40x on graph reachability. Don't worry, I'll explain what that means on a table you already know.

I mean, even the article admits that "40x on graph reachability" is difficult to parse.

How old is "The tipping point"? It has a whole chapter devoted to how Blues Clue and Sesame street test episodes in rooms with children and toys, and producers notes which scenes the children look away or play with toys, so they can be edited or rewritten.
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Saturday October 10, 2026 @12:50AM (#50029680)
You’re right. The old IBM I grew up with just have a bend arrow and the numpad enter says English.

I was always taught the big one was return and as an adult I stumbled on an article describing the difference between return and enter.

But windows could easily have called both enter without me realizing.

Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:29PM (#50024782)
Didn't we use to say that the startup exit strategy was to sell to Yahoo. I guess now a days it is sell to AI
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:48AM (#50017390)
> What Windows calls ⏎ Enter, Mac calls ⏎ Return. However, Macs also have an ⌤ Enter, although only on a numeric keypad

Just looked down on my windows keyboard and yes, the return key (the one above the right shift key) says "enter". That did not use to be the case. The return key used to say return and the tall key next to 3 and the numpad used to be the only enter key.

When did that change in PC land? I remember reading nerdy articles about the difference between return and enter.

Re:DuckDB Ducklake on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:47AM (#50016091)
I had no idea!

I always thought the catalogue was a duckdb file. E.g, data lives in partitioned parquet files, but which parquet files are current or soft deleted, etc, etc, is managed in a duckdb data file.

However, looking at https://ducklake.select/, it seems the catalogue lives in PostgresSQL - so it is not really a ducklake, but a postgresslake.

The more you know.

Re:SynthID Detector on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:55AM (#49993729)
The EULA you have to accept hints that they are afraid you are going to abuse it to remove synthID - e.g, set up and edit and check loop
The article claims 10.1 is a reference to a 101 keyboard by IBM.
Re:Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:48AM (#49962712)
I think it is worth mentioning that age and sex is encoded in the social security number.

There are exceptions where the encoded birth date will be wrong (like immigrants with unknown birth dates) or dates where there are more people than the 4 digits that encode checksum validation and gender can handle.

Re:cp: -r or -R? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:31PM (#49960396)
That’s for gnu implementation. For the BSD implementation author just links to the source code.
Barefoot is the Heineken or Budweiser of wine.

So that sorta explains everything- price, taste, reach.

Re:Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:23AM (#49908605)
Tesla has managed to alienate the entire left wing while not enticing the right wing.
I’m having a really hard time understanding this. I don’t work on Postgres so cut me some slack.

Apparently both timestamp and timestamptz saves 8 bit integer that represents a datetime in a similar fashion as Unix epoch.

Neither of them stores a timezone or an offset.

So what are they?

I travel with my dual esim iPhone and the dual esim doesn't disappear.
So how are you solving the example in the article where they join on timestamps? Read both tables from the DB into the application?
Re:Jev in 25 Lines of Python on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:36AM (#49815959)
Off the top of my head it's 3 things it advertises:

- By not being a optimised for chat, it can deliver confidence for answer and not for how an answer should be phrased

- Speed. It can take seconds for OpenAI to compile schemas, jev can respond before openAI has even begun thinking

- Token efficiency and price. I think its the output token they don't even charge for because they are negligible, and the tokens they do charge for are at a fraction of a comparable model.

If you are using structured output, I think those 3 together is a really big deal.

>But their example is classification but that would also be possible and faster with a classic BERT model.

I believe the things you can classify with ChatGPT without any tuning or training is way beyond what BERT can do.

> a $20 million state grant paid for both the research and the infrastructure.

Weimer described the project as a “proof of concept” that generates just 1.7 megawatts of energy, a tiny fraction of the 56 megawatts that they generate with a solar farm in the desert.

But the canal site hosts more than just panels. Bales said they “have instruments out there to measure temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, incoming radiation, outgoing radiation, and a prototype instrument to measure evaporation directly.”

It’s not that simple. It’s a research projects that does more than just solar.

So you need to ask “how much of the grant went into the solar-cover”, and set that up against the value produced (water evaporation, water quality, electricity, etc).

What you did is set the price of the entire research project up against one of its output.

What’s the deal with dual eSIM disappearing in Hong Kong?
Re:Can gzip be a language model? on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:52PM (#49807164)
Just collect common bi- and trigrams and a naive bayesian classifier.
Re:Spymarks, Not Watermarks on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:44AM (#49796868)
> Spymarks just seem like another word for https://en.wikipedia.org/…

Stop using links instead of words. Your comment is literally unreadable without going on to other websites.

Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:02AM (#49783935)
It's a game design document.

My guess is it is kinda like a first draft that some higher ups approve and budgets and then dialogue and game development and puzzle testing can begin.

Re:Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:03AM (#49782925)
I’m having a very hard time telling the blur of the trees apart between the iPhone 18 picture and the iPhone 17 picture of the same subject also posted in the article available here: https://www.dxomark.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/PoleHDR_D...

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