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LLMs have shown us how easily humans are fooled. Just provide a similar answer to which was seen in similar circumstances, and we start misleading ourselves into it's method and "u…

It's been amusing to watch the points bounce up and down on my comment. I guess equally half the readers agree with my sentiment, and half down-vote, being upset by my attitude to …

> GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture Very misleading article title. Title should be "Un-named humans produce unverified proof of CDC Conjecture u…

Is there anything on the website that isn't "AI" generated? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear :(

Can't imagine it would survive the first descent storm. Unlike conventiolnal turbines, it doesn't seem to have any way of protecting itself.

Few thousand? Really? Larousse Gastronomique is 3600 pages, averaging maybe 1 recipe and 1 ingredient per page - and that's just classic French cooking.

Me too. The number of "revolutionary" designs that are announced but disappear makes me cynical. Looking wings on real aircraft, unless freshly painted, they're pretty close to fin…

I'm inclined towards keeping an ancient android for those apps that require it, and maybe something open for actual use. Or perhaps a crappy old android for android and a small non…

Same reason as "make another (better) windows" is very difficult - almost everyone wants to be able to run existing apps and drivers, so you're forever playing compatibility catchu…

I've always felt that to treat infinity as number is to commit a category error (aka type conflict), to confuse the process with the outcome of the process. Infinity has proven to …

It's a great pity but I won't be buy more Ubiquiti hardware unless their direction improves. I loved the Ubiquiti hardware until a year or so ago. It was well spec'd, well priced, …

>> However, the tech exists for a reason and is not inherently bad, the issue is the lock-in, the lack of choice and interoperability. The marketing excuse for the tech might be fe…

>> It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing. Well, the curve has got to level-out at 100%.

From Corsair >> DDR5 technology comes with an exclusive data-checking feature that serves to improve memory cell reliability and increase memory yield for memory manufacturers. Thi…

As I understand it, the 50-move rule must be invoked by one of the players, lets assume our immortal players agree not to invoke that rule. The 75-move rule is automatic, so that w…

Personally, I would like the name to be somehow related to the system. When I'm facing a stack of names and icons, make it easy for me. Names without some connection to the thing a…

And I though the arbitrary, non-mnemonic, unrelated-to-anything project/app names had got too much ... obviously we're way past that :(

To me, it looks like the whole article was generated by AI. Using slop to promote slop ;(

How about requiring all APIs to be open? Companies are free to run/maintain/drop servers and apps, but we'd have the ability to use the hardware we bought, if we write our own apps…

There are several versions of the Cray 1 Hardware Reference manual online. They're not as descriptive as Design of a Computer, but still informative.

Oh great - yet another way to get AI slop. Slop text, a slop cover - just raw slop, straight from the slopperizor. And the internet gets another little bit deader.

> software is easier than hardware Software is certainly easier to replicate that hardware, 1M copies cost almost exactly the same as 1 copy :)

I thought for a long time that rather than move to Wayland, we could come up with a tidied-up version of X. Sounds like a good and useful project, I hope it progresses.

Where do they say they're omitting drawing and xrender?