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Didn't you consider that the comment you're replying to was for the benefit of other readers not necessarily the OP? I found it useful and yes I did read both.

Most recently it was the configuration app for my keyboard firmware, and then video calling in FB messenger (that one might work in other browsers besides Chrome. I didn't dig too …

I never intentionally used any AI features in Chrome but first was made aware of the models when my disk was running out of space. I investigated with a disk usage tool and found I…

I use Firefox as my main browser but occasionally run into Chrome requirements for certain web apps so end up begrudgingly installing it. I'm in the habit of going straight to the …

Congratulations and thank you to all the contributors! KiCad is an amazing piece of software.

"Designed by Apple in California, not for use in California" would be quite the statement.

This post here has the most comments on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181208

I pay mainly because a really like being able to play the videos in iOS pip background mode. I do find it crazy that Apple allows that OS level feature to be paywalled by apps.

Consciousness isn't a requirement for potentially dangerous behavior. When the science fiction the probabilistic models are trained on tend towards "AI uprising" and you give them …

They are running on individuals machines who can give them access to any number of "tools" which allow them to do things other than just writing words.

I keep seeing people dismiss this as an exaggerated danger because the bots are only pretending to be sentient and we're a long way off from AGI. The whole sentience debate is irre…

> The US Tax Filing system (and its associated software) meets that goal. I disagree with the argument that the US Tax Filing system meets the goal of: > "allows everyone, at scale…

Such confusing naming they can't even keep it straight in the announcement. "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app" in the introductory paragraph. Then there's a button "Buy Microsoft 365"…

How does lifetime elision affect performance? I thought the compiler just inferred lifetimes that you would have had to manually annotate. Naively, it seems to me that the performa…

I absolutely agree with you. I think this quote in the article gave me the impression that they are talking more about vibe coding it at scale rather than llm assisted engineering.…

Anyone who's done some vibe coding can imagine what a mess a vibe coded operating system is going to be with current day tools. LLM agent coding is good at making small prototype w…

I just noticed last week that Chrome was putting multiple versions of some 4GB AI model [1] on my hard disk that I'd never asked for, so when I upgraded my laptop I took the opport…

I agree. One recent example is in the Zig community a popular tool for benchmarking is "poop" [1] (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform). It could have easily been "pop" (Per…

Kudos to Raspberry Pi for addressing the known issues with a new stepping in just a year! I feel like that's a pretty great turn around for errata that they could have pointed to t…

Etymology of the word is irrelevant when it comes to current usage, and current usage and understanding is neatly summarized by Wikipedia in the first sentence of that same article…

> Iran and Hamas firing missiles and rockets into population centers is a war crime too. So is their embedding and use of civilians. The entire strategy of Israel's opponents in th…