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Jesus_666

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  • All shows used to be like that

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  • On the other hand, sometimes episodes written specifically to be take it easy can still be exceptionally good. Duet was a cost-saving exercise and I consider it to be one of the best Trek episodes of all time. A modern show with a movie-tier per-episode budget is not going to have the kind of constraints that caused the writers to focus that intensely on characterization.

  • Rural Americans say they're worried AI data centers will drain their wallets

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  • A business is under no obligation to ensure that employees in underperforming departments get the star treatment. If agriculture-oriented rural towns generated as much money as grifting the stock market with AI does they'd be treated accordingly. As it is they're a cost center and will be neglected or cut entirely.

    That's not how a country is usually run but for a business it's very much on par.

  • Trump Gets Negative Reviews Internationally as Fewer Say U.S. Is a Reliable Partner

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  • Has been since Dubya, Obama just tried to convince everyone it was a fluke.

  • Trump threatens 100% tax on European imports

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  • The companies can stay. Their IP rights, though..

  • Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code

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  • I recently helped evaluate it for company use. My test considered of vibecoding an App that takes a Pipewire screencast and does some basic image processing on each frame. In C#, which doesn't have great options for talking to Pipewire. I did several runs with various iterations of Claude.

    On the upside, it had few problems navigating DBus to negotiate a screencast handle. So that's one annoying API out of the way.

    On the downside, all attempts at taking to libpipewire through P/Invoke failed, usually because Claude hallucinated parts of the API or set constants to incorrect values. I only got a working program when I allowed the use of a prerelease Pipewire NuGet package.

    The generated code was of acceptable quality but I wouldn't allow it into a codebase without a refactor. The code has zero consistency and one time the whole solution didn't have any namespaces. The fact that the LLM writes and rewrites the code during a single prompt means that you can get mild spaghetti as an initial state.

    Honestly, I can see it for something like rapid prototyping or implementing basic scaffolding for an annoying API. But damn is Claude bad at detail work.

  • Horror story

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  • "Houston, what is 'New Teams Classic' and why is it asking me to log in three times in a row?"

  • I really don't get the anti AC fraction

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  • My company actually realized that an open-plan office with barely controllable AC isn't very attractive in 2026. Now they're looking for a new office so they can get rid of the current one.

    Good riddance. The building has a (painted) metal facade so mobile reception is crap and you can hear the espresso machine from every point in the office with perfect clarity.

  • The greatest injustice in modern British history has just taken place, and we should all be terrified.

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  • The sentence length is not the problem here. The problem is that the judge has established legal precedent for "upgrading" a crime to terrorism. Secretly at that, without informing the defense or jury.

    So now any crime can get you punished under terrorism statutes at the judge's discretion and the judge can announce that after the jury has delivered a verdict. That's not how a justice system should work.

    I hope that the defense will move for a mistrial and win. Not that I think the perpetrators should walk free; they certainly seem to be guilty. But they should be convicted under the correct statutes for their crimes.

  • Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives

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  • I am perfectly aware that these settings aren't very private and I usually run something a bit tighter. My point was that even a mostly vanilla setup couldn't get past hCaptcha.

  • Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives

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  • That is... a rather byzantine list of requirements to get a captcha service to work as opposed to just running a Firefox derivative with tracking protection on standard and a default-configuration uBO (which is the specific configuration that led to the 100 repetitions, not some kind of recommendation).

  • Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives

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  • It's almost every time for me. Maybe they don't like my ad blocker or my browser's privacy settings but it's rare for hCaptcha to let me through after three or four repetitions.

    Usually I give up after ten because of it won't let me in by then it won't let me in after a hundred. I tried.

  • Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives

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  • Please not hCaptcha. It's basically guaranteed to generate infinite loops.

  • 'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

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  • It would be nice but someone would have to rip them out of existing products and put them into new ones. Theoretically possible as a (probably fairly janky) one-off product but unlikely. Still, similar products have been made.

  • 'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

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  • I don't think those sellers are going to have much lower prices when the bubble pops. DDR RAM prices are high because not much of it is being produced. What is being produced is HBM, which isn't compatible with DDR and doesn't even come on DIMMs. Even if DDR production picks up quickly after the bubble pops, it's still going to take a while until consumer products appear again.

  • 'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

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  • So while times are hard right now for home PC users, I’d expect there to be period in the near future of oversupply and cheap components.

    From where? Data center equipment isn't really suitable for the home. A used SXM module on an adapter might give you reasonably affordable compute but is completely useless for graphics. Data center memory is often HBM, which you can't just transplant into your home PC. Getting an EDSFF SSD into your PC might work with an adapter but it's also going to take up a lot of space.

    Plus, there have been cases in the past of companies buying up and destroying the inventory of closing data centers specifically so it doesn't end up on the market to compete with current products. That might very well repeat.

    When the bubble bursts I expect to see a semi-decent supply of high-end hardware for specific use cases. If you have a space for a rack with noisy fans and a 3000 W power draw you'll be able to build a kick-ass AI inference rig for like 2000 bucks. Or a really fast file server. But I don't think there's going to be much in it for people who just want 60 FPS in current games and an SSD those games fit onto. That'll take another couple years.

    I think it'll be 2030 at the earliest until we see actually interesting consumer hardware from the usual companies. Maybe China will swoop in and deliver something worthwhile in the meantime but I'm not holding my breath.

  • Exclusive: Tesla presented misleading ‘Full Self-Driving’ safety data to European regulators

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  • I mean, if they got fined something like 100 days' revenues¹ they'd change their tune right quick. European law allows for that kind of fine.

    ¹ One day's revenues being calculated as the total revenues in their last fiscal year divided by 365.

  • What if it doesn't? [But a Jape]

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  • The term "irrational exuberance" comes to mind.

  • TIL out of all gemstones, diamonds are the most common

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  • I was going to point out that some of the stones you mentioned are semiprecious stones but it turns out that "gemstone" actually includes precious and semiprecious stones. Also, the distinction between the two is arbitrary and mostly based on how expensive they were in the Copper Age. TIL.

  • Kid Rock humiliated as he's snubbed from Donald Trump's MAGA festival line-up

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  • I think Milli Vanilli considering the gig beneath them is even more delicious.