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by ComputerGuru 4d ago
Damn bots copy and pasting a single sentence from the article as a comment.
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by ComputerGuru 4d ago
That mostly doesn’t count, since humans still regularly have kids of their own in their forties (so the direct link to natural selection would overshadow any lower-pressure grandmotherly effects), so you’d have to push the window out to t
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by ComputerGuru 4d ago
> I wonder if whales survive to an equivalent of human old age (where we can be pretty fragile and still survive for decades). They do and this is well-documented. They're one of the few (only?) other species where we can directly s
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by ComputerGuru 4d ago
Maybe. But whales don’t get cancer either, and whale metabolism is… impressive (well their resting heart rate is lower than ours but they grow orders of magnitude faster, to a point, and sustain themselves gorging on literal tons of food).
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by ComputerGuru 6d ago
So when will we get tier 1 debugging support in Visual Studio?
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by ComputerGuru 7d ago
Already available via the API as deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910, with vision.
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by ComputerGuru 8d ago
It’s very much an embodiment of the law that says to monitor a system is to interfere with it; it would be very hard to say they “predicted” general suicide attempts vs they set up a scenario that allowed them to nudge people into such acti
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by ComputerGuru 11d ago
Instagram is actively hostile to good ui. They constantly go out of their way to break extensions that add a video scrubber.
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by ComputerGuru 14d ago
No easy answer! You’d have to have a myriad of different test suites that as closely resemble your real world usage as possible. Or ship it behind a gate and let your users give you real world feedback if you’re at SQLite (not turso) scale
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by ComputerGuru 15d ago
> Mostly true but as someone else pointed out it’s still better to issue a single large multi-page contiguous read than the same read broken down into separate requests That’s the point I was ultimately making.
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by ComputerGuru 15d ago
OpenAI has separate dials for verbosity and reasoning_effort (but could still do a better job).
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by ComputerGuru 15d ago
Interesting article but it gave me a bit of a panic attack. Benchmarking (with TPC or otherwise) is NOT the way to determine the correct approach here; that is strictly only to be used for databases (typically RDBMS) effectively “owning” th
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by ComputerGuru 15d ago
I think that’s only true on paper; in practice it’ll be true only when you have competing reads (at a thousand-foot view) and it might be possible to algorithmically bundle a portion thereof. It originally let SCSI controllers attached to s
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by ComputerGuru 17d ago
FYI/fwiw Fish shell autocompletes branches sorted by last commit date when writing out git commands. It also provides completions for commitish objects grouped by class, giving precedence to the usual targets first, with each group sor
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by ComputerGuru 22d ago
I am merely pointing out additional revenue streams for Apple here. They make money off the hardware and again off the financing. Car manufacturers and have much lower margins and finance via their financial arms with much less predatory t
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by ComputerGuru 22d ago
Not even. They log the IP and your ISP (or VPN provider!) knows the name/address of the person using that ip at that time.
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by ComputerGuru 22d ago
The guardrails that prevent generating adult/explicit/whatever content are a completely separate step. This has nothing to do with that.
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by ComputerGuru 22d ago
My friend, the same way everyone else does. It goes from 0% to 28% interest when you miss a payment. Those are rates normal lenders fall asleep dreaming of.
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by ComputerGuru 22d ago
Not to knock on RISC-V, which I’ve been following from the embedded side of things for many years now, but I feel I must question the value of a license-free ISA in this specific market segment at this time. Surely between the squeeze on RA
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by ComputerGuru 22d ago
0% APR for 12 months (24 for iPhones only?) from Apple Financial Services for a device that can approach or even exceed what we were paying for new cars just a few years ago. Apple is definitely making bank off these financing offers, and w
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by ComputerGuru 22d ago
Neither is the right alternative to compare to. You aren’t going to hit 100% utilization (if you are, ignore me, this doesn’t some to you, and write a blogpost for me to read and share). The comparison should be against renting in the cloud
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by ComputerGuru 23d ago
I can totally see how this feature would upend most architectures. Great work, I am adding a todo list action item up see if the performance can’t work out in favor of using this in place of the browser APIs we currently run to maybe adopt
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by ComputerGuru 23d ago
I love your editor/comparison tool. Would you be open to adding browser WebP? Is the JpegXL lossless options the "transparent JPEG recompression" or the actual lossless profile? I'm presuming the latter because it more t
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by ComputerGuru 23d ago
I'm a fan of JpegXL and happy to see support finally begin to coalesce around it on the browser scene, but I was wondering if anyone knew what goes into the decision of whether or not to consider adding encode support, e.g. via offscre
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by ComputerGuru 23d ago
I think model naming has been atrocious in general, in part because newer "lite" models surpass the capabilities of previous "pro" models (case-in-point: Gemini Flash which now surpasses the capabilities of the latest Ge
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by ComputerGuru 23d ago
It's a 20% discount on input and a 33% discount on output through at least November 21, 2026; the revised pricing schedule is now Model Input Cached input Cache writes Output gpt-5.6-sol $4.00 $0.40 $5.00
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by ComputerGuru 23d ago
AI-generated text warning (I submitted - but did not author - the piece), but it seems MS Paint and MS Photos add both a visible (can be turned off) and invisible (cannot be disabled and happens silently in the background with no user notic
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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID(xusheng.dev)
861 points by ComputerGuru 23d ago|435 comments
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by ComputerGuru 26d ago
Nope. Handles vision differently.
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by ComputerGuru 26d ago
Gemini 3.7 Flash and 5.6-Sol (on all reasoning levels) also answer 8:10:25. The new "stealth" Ox Alpha also replies with the same. Opus 5 replies with 8:10 (no seconds). Not sure why this is so hard for them; Gemini is especially

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