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Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:29PM (#50317590)
The Iranian revolution is more complex than that.
Re:Cartographers of North Korea on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:52PM (#50060139)
Why are there dates "scrolling" on the right side of the screen for the first few text boxes? Is the map supposed to display something as well?

This looks like it would be cool, but it is quite broken.

Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @09:19PM (#49886822)
what
Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:03PM (#49882869)
"use a different tool" is a pointless comment if the OP isn't asking for alternatives.

It's equivalent to the "if you don't like it here, leave" line used when someone complains about an issue in society.

That is what has been done
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:16PM (#49838555)
Yes, concept cars are more about the stylistic "vibe" than actual design cues.
Why did they bury the lede so much on what the ISA is?
Re:An Update on Wayback Machine Access on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:43PM (#49720360)
Only some of them, it is not universal.
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#49685817)
Okay
It drove me to setup Qwen 3.8 this weekend. I couldn't see the value in just giving them money for a higher tier plan instead.

I've never run a local LLM model before. Certainly won't take as long to iterate on this.

Surely it depends on the specific information in question?
>How would it help the world for Aaron Swartz to download 3.5 million research and primary source PDFs

Knowledge is power.

Hardly helpful when your company's headcount exceeds Dunbar's Number by 100x

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

You stop purposefully ignoring the scenario just to pick a fight.
You may literally be the only one.
Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:32PM (#49321955)
Total speculation, but I wonder if Apple wouldn't approve a single app with all of those features.
Re:Mea Culpa – Dark Hours on Sunday August 09, 2026 @01:09PM (#49233297)
> Isn't this exactly the kind of discrimination against fields of endeavour that would make a slam-dunk case for any antitrust enforcement?

No.

Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:12PM (#49177416)
Definitely never seen it written as "Edgewood Georgia" before but I there really is only one.

Okay two, Avenue and the shopping center.

Re:Waymo – Dallas Open to All on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @09:11PM (#49177408)
Buddy, be real.
Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @04:30PM (#48997825)
It is simply a benchmark. It is well known that benchmarks are not meant to apply to every possible task you might perform.
Re:REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500 on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:25PM (#48961368)
Slate already has that covered.
That's what the person you replied to is saying. You don't need this model.
Re: on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:30PM (#48840649)
Well tyvm, I found a new tweak for my transcoding pipeline :)
Once you add multiple machines reading and writing simultaneously, you'll hit a limit. But that's fine, build what you need now, no need to over-optimize.
>should be reported, discussed, dissected and critiqued early and often.

And why does anonymity detract from any of that?

As pigs start to fly, we may need to build porcine heliports.
It will make it harder for "worthy" companies to get loans and credit.
Re:Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:56PM (#48561045)
Restricting knowledge is fundamentally different.
Re:Google Flight Simulator on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:18PM (#48545099)
Yes it was. And probably still is.
Re:"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:02PM (#48511786)
> You'd be laughed at if you said that ChatGPT could help you with graduate level mathematics in 2024, but this year, AI models on simple prompts are solving previously unsolved Erdos problems.

I'm curious, do you have a graduate degree in mathematics?

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