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guardian5x

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    Comment #47693985

    I wouldn't say that chess is a solved problem. Just a hard problem to make a better chess engine than current Stockfish.

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    Comment #47541600

    Let me be the devils advocate here. Ok, let's say you optimize that TODO list app to only use 16 mb of RAM. What did you gain by that? Would you buy a smartphone that has less RAM …

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    Comment #47486083

    Back in the day, when you saw as many ads or popups as some websites show today, it usually meant you had at least 3 viruses on the computer.

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    Comment #46218822

    So is the “binary” nature of today’s switches the core objection? We routinely simulate non-binary, continuous, and probabilistic systems using binary hardware. Neuroscientific mod…

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    Comment #46147357

    What is the advantage of using something like this instead of the IndexedDB Browser Feature

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    Comment #46131767

    Well not for long, if the US pressures Europe to go back on these

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    Comment #45917428

    Well, now you can set it up better like that.

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    Comment #45900707

    Back then, the focus was on optimising for the user. Now, however, companies prioritise their own interests over the user.

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    Comment #45718588

    With all the emojis in the source code, one can instantly recognize it as AI slop. :)

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    Comment #45536163

    Gees, Rust is fast!

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    Comment #45194146

    Maybe a supercomputer from a 1980s perspective.

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    Comment #45179027

    It's easy to say 'write tests', but it's difficult to do so if you don't know what the actual requirements are. People often think they are doing it 'properly' now by starting simp…

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    Comment #45178155

    I agree that it is a mostly well managed product, but I can think of a lot of things when it was in the news for something bad. Most controversial is probably the increase in the a…

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    Comment #45166988

    Dell has been very loyal to Intel all these years, but i guess that is under pressure as well. As more and more customers look for AMD CPUs nowadays. I guess the CPU doesn't matter…

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    Comment #45100420

    Just scaling them up might not leat to "AGI", but they can still lead to AGI as a bridge.

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    Comment #45039897

    I guess most ads are lying, but when that AI woman says, she now "gets stuff done". There isn't even a hint of believability anymore. A real developer, or maybe even a customer wou…

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    Comment #45023037

    I'm not a fan of restricting sideloading. But i do hope they get better at not offering malware in the official PlayStore

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    Comment #44837017

    Well, sometimes the user expects the focus to shift, like the example mentioned when you click a link in one application and your browser in the background should come into focus w…

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    Comment #44365687

    you say "I'm against it creeping into an existing eco-system for no reason.", while you ignore that there is at least one good reason: A lot better performance.

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    Comment #44287637

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUzgM6TiI4 I had forgotten this one. It's awesome.

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    Comment #44038819

    AI looks exactly like NFTs to you? I don't understand what you mean by that. AI already has tons more uses.

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    Comment #44038633

    And yet games run pretty fast on Windows.

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    Comment #43841915

    I guess it goes without saying, that the first thing should be to follow security best practices. Patch vulnerabilities fast etc., before doing things like that. Then maybe his fir…

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    Comment #43351530

    People said that about the internet as well. These kids don't even find the right books in a library!

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    Comment #43256208

    "More than a decade ago, Germany began to phase out nuclear power while failing to ramp up other energy production. The result has been catastrophic for citizens and for the ruling…