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Re:Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:07AM (#50141739)
The Algernon web server comes with built-in support for Teal.
Re:Yes, and on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:00PM (#50025894)
Yes, I added support for deterministic `.prompt` files to the Algernon web server 2 years ago: https://github.com/xyproto/algernon/commit/e09858f9364f8e018...
Re:Yes, and on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:03AM (#50018811)
AI tools can be deterministic by setting the temperature to 0. This does allow it to behave as a high level programming language, contrary to what the article claims.
What do you mean by regulation? Laws that could lead to a fine or jail time, or the enforcement of laws through ie. the police?
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:07AM (#49462332)
What will the long term effects of this be? Models on Hugging Face that only runs properly on NVIDIA hardware?
Achtually... if it's a 31556952 second clock, it's only right once a year.
As long as one didn't have to downgrade X11, they were straightforward to install. You are right that upgrades was a pain, but I believe the drivers themselves were on-par with the Windows drivers.
NVIDIA created quality (but proprietary) drivers for Linux early on, when supporting Linux at all was not a given. They should get at least a tiny bit of credit for this.
Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:28PM (#49189924)
Quick, solve a double integral by hand!
Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:54AM (#49156622)
Some skills are easy re-pick-uppable, like bicycling. Mathematics is probably more challenging. Not sure about programming, especially "borint" business-like programming.
Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:38AM (#49153897)
It's also very easy to dismiss everyone falling into the "AI trap" as being mediocre in the first place, though. But one just can't know this without having seen their work pre-AI.
I can't tell if this is insightful or copium.
Oh how the wheels have turned.
Re:CSSQuake on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:16PM (#48611501)
Has science gone too far?
Re:AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:15AM (#48382467)
Having long time perspective, seeing the wider context, talking to people, having vision and taste. Curating and sanity-checking the results. Security and trust.

The reasons are many.

Re:Appearing productive in the workplace on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:20AM (#48046834)
I believe that the assumption that customers reviewing the output artifacts is "the final boss" is wrong. If AI use spreads, customers are also likely to use AI to review the artifacts. Vision, taste and curation remains, though.
Re:Ti-84 Evo on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:30PM (#47989038)
I wonder why they don't have a "Buy now" button on their website.
Re:A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:55AM (#47918168)
I am all for taking AI out of education, like China recently announced that they will do.
Re:A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it on Sunday April 26, 2026 @04:40PM (#47914162)
Even if a tool can only be used for lobotomizing humans, the usage of the tool is where the main blame should be placed.
Re:A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it on Sunday April 26, 2026 @04:38PM (#47914137)
Calculators and computers are creating engineers that can't think without them either. There are many problems with AI, but from my point of view, the title has not thought things through.
Re:Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:48AM (#47687811)
FT2 was written in Borland Pascal 7 and TASM, btw.
Re:GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @06:24AM (#47423778)
OpenAI has "open" in the name without being anything similar to "open source". Additionally, they have not rejected using their technology for automatically killing people and for mass surveillance. I deleted my OpenAI account, and it felt good. Recommended.
Re:"Car Wash" test with 53 models on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @03:15AM (#47134318)
Referring to "the normal people you know" is purely anecdotal evidence and can't be used to infer anything at all about "side-ideology". Perhaps you only know people that don't care about the environment?
Now we can have operating systems that write the drivers they need at boot.
Re:GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:45AM (#47037191)
Ah yes, thousands separator.
Re:Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:32AM (#47002505)
Yes, but cencorship is also politics. What happens if someone just tries to stay apolitical and "work safe" and are still cencored? Any attempt at fighting this will be categorized as "political", "difficult" or worse.
Re:GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:30AM (#47002478)
Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers.

Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematics should just adopt it, IMO.

Re:GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @11:43AM (#46977234)
Fax is still hard to hack, so some organizations have kept it alive for security.

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