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I genuinely think that was the worst example he could have possibly used. There might be something to electro-gardening, and everybody will agree that a tractor doesn't need to be …

Yes. People could be saying bad stuff about Israel online!! We need the Palantir Filter.

Kimi K3 is huge, though. Deepseek V4 Flash is a much more moderate model (284B total), and it works extremely well. Models of that size, and smaller, are just going to keep getting…

This is probably a win-win. The team gets paid, and we get greater assurance that their best ideas and architectures -- which are truly impressive -- are going to see the light of …

It was the greatest state to ever exist. "Live and Let Live" was, for generations, a Habsburg principle. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg -- noting "the centur…

Yeah, you're not the only one to notice this. Cory Doctorow wrote a long post on it just earlier today: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/ We're increasingly in …

> Dark clouds hovering over Google's AI game. It's not really clear what their gameplan is. From the outside, it looks like they're asleep at the wheel. Qwen/Deepseek/Kimi are crus…

Not only Syd Mead, but he's in that set. (One of the great environment designers, but not a particularly noteworthy character designer or, e.g., UI designer.) Put it like this: The…

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Warmest anybody in Vienna has experienced, haha. Today the all-time record in Austria was broken with 40.8°C (105.4°F) in Vienna. > https://www.krone.at/4242196

Glass half full, I suppose. Germany is in the grip of an unusual and prolonged drought -- clear skies, intense daytime heat, no rain. > https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78gn8zvrx…

Deus Ex:HR did the same thing, and did it in a much more original way. That game's black-and-gold color palette was objectively unusual for the cyberpunk genre -- where the convent…

Dude they literally just aped the styles that were popular on tumblr in the decade before the game was released. Here you go: > https://tacticalneuralimplant.tumblr.com/archive/201…

I agree with that, and there was another thing that really bothered me: The combination of "realistic" graphics and weaponry with "RPG-style" hit-points and combat mechanics simply…

> Randomness assuming true uncaused nondeterministic, by definition cannot be modeled by deterministic mathematics An infinite/unbounded universe can literally be modeled by a sing…

What do the authors assume is not simulatable even in principle ? Whatever it is, I think they'd be making a strong technical claim that needs a lot of support. If they can ascerta…

I'm not that commenter, but it seemed clear from the context. Inflexible, decision-tree-like behavior -- like an NPC from a video-game.

On the one hand, it's one of the most popular genres out there. 84% of the U.S. population age 13+ are "True Crime consumers": > https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-true-crime-consu…

The Danish are not interested in selling it, nor does it seem that Greenlanders are interested in declaring independence and then voting to join the US. (IIRC such a move was polli…

> Meursault already denies any sense of hope (reflecting his position as the absurd hero), rather, embracing the absurd. It is a bit weird if there would be a focus on the end resu…

The problem as I see it is in the fact that the book describes the world very naturalistically. The first half of the book is basically Proust, if Proust were less introspective an…

As it happens, I recently re-read The Stranger -- the last time was in 2006, so it was essentially fresh. The first half of the short book is easily on-par with any of the great ma…

Same here. Found the article, though: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197

> before AI what were the connotations of the sparkle emoji ? It generally stood for either: - fireworks (combined with other firework emojis,) - birthdays/festivals (next to the b…