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Comment #49033619
I think he just means that AI companies are not people.
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Comment #48763846
So, same thing as today then?
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Comment #48632880
> Then the old Sony Ericssons would be her best option I think. Definitely not. No chat apps, no proper camera, no email, no video calls.
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Comment #48622211
Is there a reason to think that this might not have equally good software for taking pictures? Almost, at least. There are a lot of phones in the market with good cameras (yes, + s…
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Comment #48622184
I can see a niche (or two) for this. My wife hates every smartphone that is currently in the market. They are all too huge for her. She has an iphone SE which was the best compromi…
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Comment #48622046
You can't do video calls on those sub $100 phones though. Don't let the form factor fool you, this is not a dumb phone.
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Comment #48620555
They say that it has a 48MP camera so that shouldn't be a problem. I think I saw them comparing it to the iphone's camera even. Remains to be seen of course.
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Comment #48620400
goto has its uses in C. This is not one of them though. The resulting code is horrible.
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Comment #48574798
> It's difficult for me to imagine what it would take to get a doctoral thesis revoked. Personal grudges. Academia is full of them.
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Comment #48472191
Oh, I stand corrected, thank you. I actually looked and couldn't find it. Indeed they could market it better.
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Comment #48457024
No it isn't. Not unless it's free. This is the main reason letsencrypt is so popular.
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Comment #48184269
You don't have to span several centuries to witness that. "και" is pronounced in several different ways in modern greek as well. But that's besides my original point.
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Comment #48179380
Haha, right!
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Comment #48179365
Indeed, in ancient greek they put the "δέκα" (ten) part second. Τρία και δέκα (13), τέσσερα και δέκα (14), πέντε και δέκα (15), etc, but 11 and 12 was (and still is in modern greek…
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Comment #48177976
As the sibling comment already said "kai" (pronounced ke like in keg) just means "and". So it literally means 4 and 10 sides in greek. But I have often seen it written as τετραδεκά…
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Comment #48082677
So, should they stop commuting to work to afford their AI subscription? Or perhaps just don't eat anything for 5 days a month?
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Comment #48034458
Yes, that's precisely the reason why California is one of the poorest states in the US. People are just dumber there, it's the heat you see. What a load of pseudoscientific garbage…
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Comment #47636934
At this point why not make it millions? Millions of Iranian jets have been shot down! It sounds better.
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Comment #47603205
I hate April fools' day.
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Comment #47385930
You can run this on a 10 year old celeron laptop.
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Comment #47099474
> The deeply nested menu for entering the url, that’s bad, I agree. I'm not saying it is perfect, but it was not that bad, really. It's only one level down. And then you could also…
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Comment #47098812
> When watching this I'm shocked how bad the UX Was these days. The scrollbar left, the triple steped menu... Perhaps the only thing "bad" about it is that you're simply not used t…
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Comment #46839710
Directory support and hierarchical filesystems were only supported after version 2.0. Until then, the experience was identical to CP/M. Not that it was that much of an important fe…
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Comment #46125139
GPT-OSS 120B: "Yes—the next calendar year after 2025 is 2026." Good. LLama 4 Scout: "To determine if 2026 is next year, we need to consider the current year. As of my knowledge cut…
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Comment #46066642
"We've removed the distractions..." So, no browser is included then? That won't be very useful. And also "Commercial-grade media support". Those two things are at odds, aren't they…