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by aboardRat4 1mo ago
Hallucination is not something specific to LLM by any means. Remember when you were a kid, your teacher probably told you "At an exam, leave no question unanswered, even if you don't know what to write. Nobody is penalised for wro
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by aboardRat4 1mo ago
Newspapers never required logging in to buy a copy.
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by aboardRat4 1mo ago
Usenet worked without any antispam, until the first spammer appeared.
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by aboardRat4 1mo ago
Connect to what? dig AAAA guthub.com is still empty.
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by aboardRat4 1mo ago
What does this mean?
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by aboardRat4 1mo ago
End of an era.
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by aboardRat4 1mo ago
How are we to do currying from now on?
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
Enshittification.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
I don't blame LLMs for the enshittification. The real reason for the enshittification is "the smartphone". We had all of the modern internet advantages with very few issues when internet was limited to desktops. But wearable
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
What did Center for Disease Control use before? Mysql?
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
In which extensions, such as a dictionary, don't work.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
This is entirely unrelated to the point made. Binder is just C++ with a thin IPC compiler, more or less similar to any IPC idl. Could be sunrpc, but Google wanted a c++ wrapper. But in any case this is completely irrelevant, because there i
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
It's just demagoguery. Windows could switch to Linux kernel if Microsoft cared enough to invest into Wine. But this will not happen any time soon. All smartphone drivers would have to be rewritten for a different kernel.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
Google Docs is a program for Android written in java and compiled into dalvik/art byte code. MS Word is just a program for Windows, written C/C++.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
It's not useless, it's just dangerous to use. It's like heroin basically. It does make you feel good instantly, and it can be a life-saver in certain situations of extreme pain or chronic pain (cancer), but there is a reason
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
Until you have to submit your tax declaration.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
There is no such a thing as a "WebApp". There are "web pages", which are just plain text html downloaded over http (or even ftp). In 99.9% of the cases it's completely enough.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
Android is Linux and it's written in C. Bionic is still a posix libc.
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Datalog Disassembly(github.com)
67 points by aboardRat4 2mo ago|6 comments
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
HN does not seem to have discussed ddisasm enough. When I discovered it, I was amazed, astonished, stunned, thrilled, and in disbelief. It turns out that it actually works.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-... DMCA and other anti-circumvention regulations.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
>Is it because it wouldn't run on the phone hardware otherwise? Because those 11 features mentioned in the OP post need to be unlocked.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
Emm.. as if Samsung doesn't..?
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
This is all smoke and mirrors. The core issue is not "Google not allowing a feature", it's that small businesses cannot buy phones, install a patched version of Android without a restriction and sell them to make money. Until
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
We are already switching to English slowly, but steadily.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
>Knowing multiple languages, in particular less related or unrelated ones, is mentally enriching Just as being able to play an instrument or dance or actually reading literature from other cultures, even in English.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
>Not to be "gotcha", but out of true curiosity: may I ask if you speak multiple languages fluently? yeah, I speak 4 languages fluently, and can get through more with a dictionary >Imho monoculture is toward death, not toward
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
The golden age of languages is when there is only one language left, and everyone can understand everyone without cunning translators and hallucinating llms.
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by aboardRat4 2mo ago
Vibecoded lie.

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