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Re:AI was great until it was not on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:40AM (#50102263)
what did you switch to?
Re:SlutCon on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:13AM (#49932624)
do you have any basis for that claim? the furry community is very tight-knit and there is a culture of looking out for each other.
Re:AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @12:24PM (#49803819)
git ls-files | xargs cloc

~41k SLOC, ~11k lines of comments

Re: on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:45AM (#49523581)
https://unwall.app/theintercept.com/2026/09/01/christian-emp...

it's worse than that - they can discriminate, and are shielded from any EEOC action against them. disgusting government corruption.

Re:One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:02PM (#49349830)
They're definitely talking about the police officer from this story, not you!
not like that impacts anything anymore, apparently.
ah, didn't know that. thanks!
the page is nearly just a .txt file.
Re:Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @08:12AM (#49082632)
I remember reading a blog post a year or two ago about prompting like a printer driver and asking for increasingly ridiculous changes like time travel or wormhole capability. I don't know if I hallucinated that post but I haven't been able to find it again and I REALLY wish I could
dear lord, what kinda size are you talking about? in terms of TB/# of shows/files?
that sounds like a good idea to try, thanks!
spam account created a few days ago.
Re:Proof of care in the age of AI on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:21AM (#48921279)
There's a few books that are coupled with the term ergodic literature, chief among them House of Leaves. It really is a thoroughly enjoyable exercise to read that book, I highly recommend.

> (By the way, is your user name a joke on "sparky", the slang word for an electrician?)

It wasn't originally when I used it as a kid, but I grew in to that term later :)

Re:Proof of care in the age of AI on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @11:04AM (#48907992)
Not surprised to see such negative comments, this forum is fried by LLMs nowadays. I was immediately intrigued by reading a handwritten blog post, and enjoy ergodic literature, like this! I liked the message too, and this might shove me toward some handwriting projects I've been meaning to tackle lately.
I always feel like I'm losing my mind when reading LLM comments or prose for code. It's so esoteric and 'i-am-very-smart' and makes me feel like I'm not supposed to read the comments in the first place
Re:IBM Debuts First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology on Thursday June 25, 2026 @11:39PM (#48682080)
Hi Dr. Cutress! I loved reading your deep dives on Anand, they're what got me interested in semiconductors. Hope you're well <3
if this is about you, good luck :) starting prog helps a lot!
libido is fixed with progesterone (which is commonly taken ~1-2 years into hrt) for better breast growth. anecdotally it makes you completely f*king feral
Re:CUDA Books on Sunday May 17, 2026 @02:04PM (#48171453)
I liked going through https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/cuda-training-series/ for an intro and some fundamentals.
go to a profile and open image in new tab, the URL is /u/# (im # ~4 million!)
if you're on android, advanced is a blessing to de-shorts your YouTube.
Not really the time for that. There's also PRs being merged every hour of the day.
Re:The enshittification of Amazon paperback books on Monday March 16, 2026 @11:36AM (#47400419)
I love alibris
Re:MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:17PM (#47339162)
> The machine has a single thread performance that exceeds any and all Intel/AMD processors

Not true at all: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

It's current year, of course they used AI to help [0], and it does feel like the article was AI assited.

"This map isn't flat — it has 5 levels of elevation."

"The ocean isn't just a blue plane — it has animated caustic sparkles"

"The fundamental issue:" and "The key constraint:"

I still enjoyed the article.

[0] https://github.com/felixturner/hex-map-wfc/commit/1679be

They link to that site in the post

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