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Oh cool, someone talking about the really weird bug that I've never seen reported elsewhere. Seems like an issue where certain versions of Unity (to name one engine) doesn't like i…

Why did Anthropic settle with authors for 1.5 billion then? Surely their lawyers must have decided there's a pretty good chance of judges ultimately deciding that it is copyright i…

> It's implicitly assumed when you read something that a person write it. I basically agree, but it's more specific than that, I think. The basic promise is that the writer believe…

Because the point of the test is to see what the agentic swarm approach is capable of. If your test assumes that a version of the thing you are trying to build is available in the …

It's clearly vibecoded if you look at the commit history.

Right, I think the problem with a lot of the economics-based analyses in this thread is that they rely on the assumption that Valve ought to, or wants to, sell the device at its ma…

Well, I suppose that's true strictly speaking. What I'm reacting to is your claim that this is a simple "choice" that everyone else is making: > Embracing or shunning the society y…

Surely the solution to this social problem, however, can't be "everyone should simply convert to my religion / achieve a higher state of mind where they're not bothered by any form…

> about how Claude or even Codex have refused to perform some normal program development tasks > a lot of reports that the US LLMs refuse to answer questions I think the specific a…

Looks like the SVG was converted from an EPS file, and the resulting SVG contains individual glyph positions (advances) for the characters in "Personality score", but it doesn't sp…

> i reckon Meta would have found it challenging to download very large files without sharing. It's certainly much faster if you don't get throttled or banned by many peers. You're …

I believe they changed the app since Trixie was released (Trixie has KDE 6.3, the changes were in 6.4) and buried a lot of the really common settings behind menus. E.g. you might w…

I don't think this is quite right. It's not that the question is inherently underspecified, it's that the context of being asked a question is itself information that we use to hel…

I like this article a lot, but if I can put forward one mild criticism, it seems to depend entirely on having exactly the same measure of semantic distance for word pairs as the or…

This is totally hypothetical, but I wonder if a system whereby your dollars went to the publications you actually read, but you could immediately, at any time read anything else yo…

> TCP tuning I think a lot of file transfer issues that occur outside of the corporate intranet world involve hardware that you don't fully control on (at least) one hand. In scien…

It is relevant, though. I have 1.2 Gbps down with a 2 TB monthly cap. I've never hit the monthly cap even once, but by your standard I have "1.2 Gbps down for 3 hours, 42 minutes".…

I do think it's vastly superior to preferential treatment for some traffic, which seems to be the most popular alternative. The one caveat is that ISPs need to be forced to be tran…

I believe they are saying they literally edit the media files to add / change metadata. Cross-seeding is only possible if the files are kept the same.

QSH?

I thought the same, but no doubt pawn promotion rules dramatically increase the depth needed to reach certain positions.

I endorse the view that everyone should use an ad blocker, but for what it's worth I keep seeing this techcrunch article and the original advice offered by the FBI [1] is actually …

The promise is especially dangerous when a huge fraction of traffic doesn't use Encrypted Client Hello, [1] so the domain name is sent in the clear with the initial request to the …

IMO the denoising looks rather unnatural and emphasizes the remaining artifacts, especially color fringe around details. Personally I'd leave that turned off. Also, with respect to…

Best phone I've ever owned and it's not close. Every phone since then has been a compromise, to the point that (in a sunk cost fallacy kind of way) I've just quit caring about phon…