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golfer

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    Comment #48197844

    Arena.ai: > Gemini 3.5 Flash’s pricing shifts the Pareto frontier in Text. 8 models from GoogleDeepMind dominate the Text Arena Pareto curve where only 4 labs are represented for t…

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    Comment #48197832

    Arena.ai is saying "Gemini 3.5 Flash’s pricing shifts the Pareto frontier in Text. 8 models from GoogleDeepMind dominate the Text Arena Pareto curve where only 4 labs are represent…

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    Comment #48196927

    Here's the benchmark scoreboard they published: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...

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    Google changes its search box for the first time in 25 years

    https://archive.ph/XI1sQ https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/s... https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-...

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    Comment #47717214

    "Crying wolf" constantly like this is so frustrating. It waters down the message until they send something you really need to worry about, which you ignore like the rest of the poi…

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    Comment #47654873

    Agree wholeheartedly. Very confusing. If they want people to care, they need to explain the situation in a way to make people care.

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    Comment #47628765

    Non-walled article reporting the rescue: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-fighter-jet-f15e-downe...

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    Comment #47623011

    I found it plucky and intriguing. A great metaphor, not often seen in tech. Not everything has to be in the lowest common denominator of language.

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    Comment #47616841

    Why on God's green earth is Windows running on the Artemis spaceship?

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    Comment #47518520

    Wow, this seems to have hit a nerve, based on the early downvotes.

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    Comment #47518327

    It doesn't bother me at all -- in my post, I said it cracks me up. They all have their reasons for breaking up with Apple. FYI I'm not an Apple guy myself.

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    Comment #47518177

    These "breaking up with Apple" stories pop up from time to time here. Cracks me up because they all follow the same pattern: "I'm done with Apple. I've been a Mac user since since …

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    Comment #47439576

    This is very cool, nicely done. One note: the Property link, that links to the actual news source, is broken. Also, the test link you're using for Nautilus (the top scoring site) i…

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    Comment #47418894

    This is a very clever idea. Unfortunately I dislike installing extensions, because so many of them seem to get taken over by nefarious owners. Sadly it's poisoned the whole extensi…

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    Comment #47407470

    Early in my career I worked at a place where the sales people would half-joke about signing deals on December 40th -- to claim it in the previous quarter/year.

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    Comment #47373293

    A company in incredible turmoil. Would not want to be there now. Morale must be brutal.

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    Comment #47311498

    I'd say this post reads more like them beating their chest about how great their improvements are.

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    Comment #47311462

    Indeed, open source exists despite Microsoft trying its hardest to kill it. Microsoft was (and still is) a ruthless, savage competitor. Their image has softened as of late but I'll…

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    Comment #47202664

    I blame Yahoo's Jerry Yang for normalizing this silly writing technique.