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by rob74 17d ago
Don't mention the Jihad!
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by rob74 17d ago
Doesn't this just move the need to be smarter from the model to the harness - if a human sometimes can't tell whether a model has produced something correct or just mostly correct-looking BS, how can an automated harness do it? OT
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by rob74 18d ago
> We have efficient heat pumps and solar panels, but it's still a disturbing amount of energy usage and something I'm trying to debug. Perhaps we have too many windows letting in too much sunlight... External window blinds wo
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by rob74 18d ago
One hand washes the other: they buy ads from Google (I think), so Google prefers them in the indexing process, so they get more traffic, so Google prefers them even more.
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by rob74 18d ago
Well at least Wikipedia doesn't pester you with tons of ads that sometimes make it hard to even find the content (except for the occasional donation banner, but that's a minor annoyance compared to what Fandom does).
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by rob74 19d ago
More or less the same over here in Germany, except with WhatsApp, which is only slightly better than X, but at least you are likely to already have it installed because of all your contacts that refuse to use a more secure messaging app...
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by rob74 19d ago
Makes me glad I bought a Sony TV which has the microphone on the remote - and is compatible with older remotes without a microphone, so the new remote with its microphone and sponsored streaming service buttons gathers dust (without batteri
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by rob74 1mo ago
Also, depending on how flexible the material is, it looks like those screws might scratch the floor on which the chair sits?
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by rob74 1mo ago
Are non-coders these days aware that they should use version control (and push their code to GitHub)? Or does their agent helpfully suggest setting up a GitHub repo?
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by rob74 1mo ago
Ok, the Spice Girls were formed 1994, the same year Kurt Cobain died, but Take That and lots of other boy/girl bands and other extremely commercial pop acts were contemporary with Nirvana and the whole grunge phenomenon. So it's n
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by rob74 1mo ago
It was called Fleet (I almost forgot about it too) and has since been retired: https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/12/the-future-of-fleet... (if you wanted to be snarky, you could say that Fleet dissolved i
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by rob74 1mo ago
No, I'm not (a lawyer might recommend to sue, hoping for a big payout, even if the chances of it happening are small?). I looked at the GPL text, and what Google is doing is really pushing the "If you convey a covered work, knowin
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by rob74 1mo ago
If you look at Google's Android phone market share (currently 1.1% according to https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers ), and consider that the foldable version is probably the least popular model in this
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by rob74 1mo ago
Yes, I thought that too. But no, that wouldn't be realistic. Their IDEs are massive, to rewrite them in Rust they would probably also have to rewrite half of the library code in the Java ecosystem.
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by rob74 1mo ago
> complete rewrites in Rust remain far more common than incremental ones, particularly when rewriting from a language other than C. Well yeah, that has obvious practical reasons: unless you're using C/C++, you can't real
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by rob74 1mo ago
Sorry, I stand corrected: Despite owning a Pixel 9 Pro myself, I didn't realize Google's Android phones market share was so tiny (1.1%! according to https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers ). In that
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by rob74 1mo ago
In the US? Under the current political and economic circumstances? Against Google's legal department? I wouldn't get my hopes up...
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by rob74 1mo ago
Well, it's as you wrote: they are making the source available, albeit in a very inconvenient way, and because there is no time limit specified, they're complying with the letter of the GPL (although not with its spirit), so you
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by rob74 1mo ago
Actually, you both misunderstood what I wrote: the team is spread across multiple locations in three countries. They all work from their respective offices, but for meetings we still have to use Teams. That's especially galling: my c
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by rob74 1mo ago
From what I have seen, layoffs tend to go hand in hand with pushing for more work from the office (which companies hope will help them get rid of some employees without severance), so if being in the office helps combat layoff paranoia and
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by rob74 1mo ago
If you actually had melanoma (a very aggressive type of skin cancer) you would be glad for one more chance of maybe still being alive a few years from now.
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by rob74 1mo ago
They're probably also less confronted with articles/videos/social media posts telling them they're doing it wrong and how they should sleep instead. Sometimes ignorance (or rather, not overthinking things) is bliss...
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by rob74 1mo ago
Opinion article on this by Sadiq Khan, the London mayor who introduced ULEZ: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/18/ulez-h...
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by rob74 1mo ago
Don't you think that if the books that Anthropic orders from New Zealand were available (online) anywhere else, they would order them from there rather than from New Zealand? So yes, I would say there's a pretty big chance that th
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by rob74 1mo ago
Not sure copyright laws allow that?
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by rob74 1mo ago
> Some institutions will become human-AI hybrids; others where agents outcompete on speed or cost will become agent-only. The scary thing about articles from AI companies is how they casually mention dystopian scenarios such as this on
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by rob74 1mo ago
Ah, ok, that's why many are blank. I imagined that some of them may no longer be maintained, but then I actually tried one directly from pldb.info, and it worked. Well, typical I guess: vibe coded in 5 minutes and then uploaded without
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by rob74 1mo ago
I mean, in the meantime, the US president is weighing in on technical design decisions of aircraft carriers, and he has neither a PhD nor a Nobel Prize, so... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13&#x
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by rob74 1mo ago
(2019) * * according to the copyright notice, although, going by the mention of Covid, it could also be 2020?
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by rob74 1mo ago
I'm not that up to date with the latest AI developments, but I noticed that this article seems to use "Cyber Capabilities" as a shorthand for the model's ability at cybersecurity tasks? Is that now an established express

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