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They're being sarcastic.

It would certainly help if it could taste what it produced. Or see, with its eyes, how the result is changing as its process changes. Or learn, from first principles, what is happe…

It can't 'learn' on its own. Models only get better with mountains of RnD for data, training, and lots of fine tuning. So the moment investment dries up, models stop improving. How…

That is an exceptional outlier. It's almost entirely (>90%) made up of one religious group that has strict cultural rules about early marriage and having many children. That's not …

I agree, but I don't think #3 is possible. For a variety of reasons, both biological and societal, the older people get the less likely they are to have kids, and fewer of them.

LLMs can't parse the entire codebase at once, understand it, and then make decisions based on that understanding. The hard part of programming almost is never how ONE function or O…

Knowing your constraints perfectly is impossible, and takes more and more effort the closer you get. And frankly, they change on a regular basis. By the time you figure them out th…

Minecraft 1.7.10, covered in mods, can run fantastic (300+ FPS) if Java 25 is used. That used to be impossible.

It did used to be required. Older Java versions performed pretty terrible. However, Java 17+ completely fixed that. Even the heaviest modded setups run buttery smooth, even on olde…

It's hard to say if we ever would . We used up a lot of the very easy to access sources of many resources - minerals, oil, etc. Without having access to the advanced techniques, I …

Consoles are more and more supporting VRR, as are televisions. But yes, given the limitations of the hardware, they often offer two modes - a high framerate but lower quality mode …

Clicks and mouse movement do have different latency, but it doesn't matter for this test. The click is the constant part to show relative positioning of X11/wayland/low latency/vrr…

IMO, it can be profitable - but only at the business level. A business with many software devs can pay the steep price for access. For almost everything else, the answer is no. No …

Well said. I do get the appeal of a somewhat fiddly tool though. Tool gives you a little puzzle each day, then you solve it! A little puzzle solved/accomplishment a day keeps peopl…

I think the 'pelican test' is becoming useless. It's been around long enough that now I'm sure good examples are in the training data, and hell they might even do some hand tuning …

Now let's see this working for Darkest Hours. ;) (Assuming they didn't fix it themselves, it is a pretty big overhaul to MC1) 99% sure it should work fine for (Exodus and Turncoat)…

It seems like AmazonBrandFilterList is one of the lists they use. It also seems like there a couple extra features that doesn't have. Either way, it's not like they're hiding the u…

There's a bit of misinformation here. At the end of the day, a blu-ray player is reading information from the disc and passing it onto the TV digitally - one player or another are …

AI has essentially nothing to do with it. This was standard well before AI took off.

If the server can't be rebooted without anxiety, something has been configured very poorly.

Actually, it's more or less the opposite. In some OS's (Windows, at least) a reboot does additional purging and loss of state that a shutdown will not do. That's by design, so a no…

I shut my desktop down every night and bring it back up in the morning. It only takes all of 2 seconds these days with NVME drives, even with Fast Boot disabled. It's kind of a pow…

No they don't. Why should they bother? * Costs them money to make * Costs them money to maintain * Will only be used by a TINY subset of ultra-enthusiasts (no, neither HN or Reddit…

Microsoft doesn't care about end users like you or I. We don't impact their bottom line at all. 0%. They care about business customers using other products, and occasionally data c…

I'm honestly not sure why this is making headlines. The move to digital-only has been happening for years . I mean, when I got Skyrim's legendary edition, the box only had a code i…