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marcosdumay

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    Comment #49224857

    > I guess the workaround (with any monitor, really) is to ensure that the light sources are not behind you. Offices are notoriously bad at optimizing that kind of thing.

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    Comment #49223743

    LLMs are a much better experience than what web search has become nowadays. And they probably are a better experience than what standard search could ever be. But yeah, that doesn'…

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    Comment #49211049

    It solves static files... If you are extremely careful to set the executable properties of your PHP scripts. No other.

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    Comment #49203740

    It seems to relate much more to the size of the proposal than to its confidence. Even more because the confidence changes all the time, but people do go around renaming well known …

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    Comment #49196905

    Hurd is not just a kernel, but yes, it does provide approximately the same functionality of Linux.

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    Comment #49188068

    Not to say we shouldn't grow plants... But we can do it 2 or 3 orders of magnitude more efficiently with machines.

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    Comment #49187990

    Where do you find the information for 2026?

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    Comment #49187268

    Well... Your example is way more likely than the GP's LLM getting the facts right.

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    Comment #49170535

    > since they couldn't have been more than a decade behind the smallpox/diseases They weren't. It took centuries for them to make any inroad into the Amazon.

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    Comment #49170145

    Since some time around 2024, the problems started to grow way more numerous than they already were; the workarounds started to be disallowed; and more broken software started to be…

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    Comment #49159971

    That article doesn't have any extra information that wasn't in the original poster on this thread. As fas as everybody here knows, it's rotten fish, salt and vinegar.

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    Comment #49159493

    People don't like factory work. Given options, they will choose to do some less physically wearing work that pays more, and pay somebody else to do it. Robots are the answer to rei…

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    Comment #49158699

    Looks stable: https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/industrial-production-m... Of course, stable is probably bad here. But it's not declining.

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    Comment #49158543

    Architecture dependent is not the same as undefined.

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    Comment #49158418

    What is not on the title: For an entire year, that year being 2025. Also, yes, absolute generation from fossil fuels is declining quickly. The total generation is changing way more…

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    Comment #49157597

    So... AGI in 6 months?

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    Comment #49147641

    To the point that inflation is growing, it's unwinding. It's not clear if it will actually stop of if people will get the process running again.

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    Comment #49146929

    Look at the left menu. There isn't a reference, because the concept really doesn't need a reference. All the others are there.

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    Comment #49146829

    Well, it was always a safe guess that their "Unknown" numbers were almost all Linux.

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    Comment #49146374

    That "historic" characterization has a smell of sports statistics. Yeah, that player never scored a goal in a Friday when it's a full Moon on the team's home stadium; no, that's me…

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    Comment #49146224

    My understanding is that Japan experienced the same kind of phenomenon that is unwinding in the US right now. As long as your markets and tax policy are vicious enough that lots of…

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    Comment #49145639

    Well, now that components finally work we can have basic tooling for web pages...

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    Comment #49140977

    LLMs are mediocre for every topic that people talk about all the time. When it's software development, it just happens that your mediocre code is incredibly bad. When it's financia…

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    Comment #49128027

    It takes a special kind of company for counting it as a burnt bridge for somebody that said "I hope you all fail" and gone away after being fired.

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    Comment #49127959

    The only AI-only stocks you will find are Oracle and Space-X. Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet are all reasonably diversified companies that can possibly take the loses without breakin…