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ifdefdebug··on F-Droid 2.0
Not the answer to your question but... do your eyes a favor and use an e-ink device for reading.

You can thank me later (in 20 years).

ifdefdebug··on AI is breaking our proxies for expertise
No. Whenever you are done with all strings of length n, you still have to check all strings of length n+1. So that moment you identify by "eventually" can never be reached.
ifdefdebug··on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
That's the problem, nobody is going to test the new software unless they have to, it will sit unused until the end of the pilot period as long as the old software is available too. Those people are no cs nerds who like testing new software, they are office people and learning new tools is stressful for (most of) them. I have been there.
ifdefdebug··on Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers
> Do note that during the pilot phase, the new system runs in parallel with Microsoft 365 rather than replacing it outright. That's okay, I think.

Well I think it's not ok without at least a fixed deadline for removal of MS365. People usually have work to do and learning new ways to get it done means extra work, and (almost) nobody takes upon extra work if they don't have to. So the new software will be largely ignored by default.

ifdefdebug··on Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?
But since the mass that entered the black hole continues to produce gravitational pull in our universe, the child universe must still be anchored within ours, at least gravitationally, and we should feel the pull from all the additional mass the new universe generates?
ifdefdebug··on Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?
>... proposed that mass/energy in a parent universe collapsed to form a black hole (thus leaving the bubble of space-time that was the parent universe). It then “bounced” at the singularity, and expanded in a Big Bang, to form a new universe...

So any universe expanding within a black hole of ours has to exist with only the mass that fell into it? How would it produce black holes itself with so little mass?

ifdefdebug··on The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
Usually people trying to be helpful just post an archive link, instead of requesting others to do so...
ifdefdebug··on Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
You mean 1024 right?
ifdefdebug··on Kimi K3 built a Windows XP in browser
minesweeper works seemingly until you find some number that don't sum up...
ifdefdebug··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
As long as trying to break that fiction has real-world consequences like jail time etc., it will work anyway.
ifdefdebug··on Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
> Is GPT5.6 Sol Superhuman?

This is not a simple y/n question. Computers have been superhuman at playing chess for decades now. Reading this article, I guess they are superhuman at understanding code now as well.

ifdefdebug··on The state of open source AI
And to keep around a concurrent browser with full adblock abilities so they can cripple their own without too much of an outcry.
ifdefdebug··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
Because your sex slave uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion?
ifdefdebug··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
> The company says the robot completes Laundry Flow and Daily Reset tasks autonomously by default, but uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion.

Does that mean some random human looking at my dirty laundry in the middle of my home, the most intimate place in existence for me? No thank you.

ifdefdebug··on Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM
Do you want the honest answer?
ifdefdebug··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Everybody and their grandma can "use AI". Reading (and understanding what you read), writing (coherently) and calculating (in your head) are those basic skills that need to be trained and will give you an advantage no matter in what kind of world you live.
ifdefdebug··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
well I see more problematic the people actually doing the Iran attacks and murder of heads of state. Betting on those is distasteful, but doing those things is where the damage lies.
ifdefdebug··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
> So if instead of text we come up with a different representation for mathematical or physical problems, that could both improve

But then, wouldn't we first have to translate all of our current math and physics knowledge into that new representation in order to be able to train a model on it? Looks like a tremendous amount of work to me.

ifdefdebug··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
This is like saying that talking about my financial limitations is irrelevant because Jeff Bezos also has financial limitations...
ifdefdebug··on Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies
well I AM aware that my comments here are shared with the whole world, which Y Combinator startups are a subset of...
ifdefdebug··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
it's actually black and white, and needed some programming to work like this.
ifdefdebug··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
I have an e-ink photo frame on the wall that switches picture once every 24h, picking one of my pictures of the last 10+ years by random. So every single one of my tens of thousands of pictures gets a real chance to be seen at least once during my lifetime :)
ifdefdebug··on ChatGPT Pulse
But transistor designers didn't pivot away from designing transistors. They left Facebook and all the other stuff to others and kept designing better transistors.
ifdefdebug··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
Sure, now show us how to recycle spent fuel rods (and become a billionaire).
ifdefdebug··on A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
Newton's laws are a good enough approximation for many tasks so it's not a "false understanding" as long as their limits are taken into account.
ifdefdebug··on A deep critique of AI 2027's bad timeline models
Analogy doesn't work because the bomb came first and the reactor later, that is, regarding fission the reactor isn't even here yet. And it was clear from the beginning that the chain reaction is real not hypothetical.
ifdefdebug··on One thing Tesla and Comma.ai overlooked in self-driving
No way I get into a car that has a human driver who literally has no skin in the game.
ifdefdebug··on A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine
The fact check will come when some foreign soldier kicks in the door to your basement computer room.
ifdefdebug··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
haha that word. back in the 80ies,some polish friends of mine taught me that but refused to tell me what it meant and instructed me to never, ever use it. Until today I don't know what it is about...
ifdefdebug··on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Obviously they are not talking about the difference between the two browsers, but between the two situations. Your post looks like you chose the least charitable interpretation in order to pick a fight.
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