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Because humans don't want to spend time to learn how to use "dead" languages and humans still play a role in programming. Having LLMs churn out more COBOL instead of Java means mor…

You can replace the Android TV launcher with an alternative like Projectivy [1] to get rid of whatever nonsense the stock launcher tries to push. Add Flicky [2] to address F-Droid …

Racism?

Just make sure to use a local model if you're really serious about this since there is no guarantee the cloud models can't not won't add watermarks to the output.

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Nothing except for the link with the well-known and -regarded VPN provider Mullvad. The ban on political articles here is not complete nor unbiased.

Yes, many manufacturers know. I have a number of Motorola Defy phones from 2010/2011 with replaceable batteries, all waterproof. My daughter left hers in her back pocket when she p…

> The real benefit I think is when stuff like tax codes, carbon credits and government subsidies come into play and ROI goes down significantly. Those are unreliable and vary at th…

More "Microsoft called, they want the 90's back".

When referring to really ancient tombs you're fortunately in a diminishingly small minority or we wouldn't know a fraction about some culture's history compared to what we know now…

You forgot 'signalling' which is what people in the West - not just the USA - are tired of. I know I am tired of it and I'm neither an American nor in the USA. Stating that a whole…

A man goes to a psychiatrist. To start things off, the psychiatrist suggests they start with a Rorschach Test. He holds up the first picture and asks the man what he sees. "A man a…

Is writing thinking? Good writing requires thinking but does that also go for sloppy writing? What is thinking? This is the subject of a discussion [1, 2] I'm in - which in true HN…

I've read a bit through your comment history which gives me the impression of a mostly rational individual with whom I agree on some things while disagreeing on others. You don't s…

You're describing a process by which a 'thinking' entity uses cognition to refine a solution to a stated problem. That's a lot of words so usually we shorten this to 'reasoning'. D…

It is fine 'cause it uses the browser you're already using anyway instead of importing a new one for each and every application. Run the backend on a server somewhere and you can g…

AI designs will start to look more (biologicaly) evolved, less intentionally designed. Museums, especially older ones are full of jars with pickled specimens, bags of bones and tub…

"how do you use an ax in the age of AI" Exactly the same as I used it on the age of frameworks, the age of Java and .NET, the age of compilers, the age of ...: you take it by the h…

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It can be done mostly right but isn't in many places in the USA where ballots are sent to everyone on the voter records no matter whether they still live there or even live at all.…

Not so much "poor" 'cause that is rare in the Netherlands. Having said that fatbikes are significantly less expensive than other electric bicycles so they are more popular with tho…

Interesting, a local search option. I made the recoll engine for SearX and now SearXNG and still use this daily over a rather large archive of journal articles and other non-fictio…

Carney seems to flirt with China [1] so they might make him an offer he can't refuse. [1] https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/01/16/prime-...

Nah, not a fatbike, he was a native Dutchman.

> The constitution is extremely flawed and should be abandoned. The Constitution is mostly fine and has carried your (?) country for 250 years. It is mostly fine because it is most…