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New comment by smallerize in "Genie 4"

smallerize — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:55:59 +0000

I don't think so, and in fact an em dash would be much less confusing.

audio, e.g. music

audio — like music

New comment by smallerize in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

smallerize — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:29:28 +0000

You only vote once every couple years. Political movements mean less waiting.

New comment by smallerize in "New iPad mini"

smallerize — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:06:43 +0000

If your phone is choppy when scrolling a list on a 60 Hz display, it's not going to scroll smoothly on a 120Hz display.

New comment by smallerize in "Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI"

smallerize — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:39:29 +0000

That one is dead, and not flagged dead. Maybe email the Contact link at the bottom of the page and ask what's up.

New comment by smallerize in "Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI"

smallerize — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 13:38:10 +0000

I still don't think the disqualified photographer was intentionally cheating. He was pretty open about his process, and Nikon took some time to determine whether it was within the rules or not. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/winning-nikon-small-...

Edit: an earlier statement from Nikon said that he was complying with the investigation and "At this time, we don't see that any rules were violated" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck4gjn1yzprno

New comment by smallerize in "Dream-1"

smallerize — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:19:00 +0000

It only takes a few upvotes to get any story to the front page briefly. And on Saturdays there is just less competition.

New comment by smallerize in "Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'"

smallerize — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:45:46 +0000

Notably, those didn't need a ton of patching over time. I mean relatively speaking. We've known how to build and deploy defensible software for a long time. We might just have to stop using the projects that need constant patching to keep up, and migrate to ones that are designed better.

New comment by smallerize in "The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions"

smallerize — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:39:53 +0000

Damn, this was the killer app for semantic spaces I'd been waiting for since Word2vec.

New comment by smallerize in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

smallerize — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:35:31 +0000

AI thinks atheism is "controversial"

New comment by smallerize in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

smallerize — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:48:09 +0000

They mean it's technically possible, but you wouldn't want to.

New comment by smallerize in "Subscribe and Save items have a price increase"

smallerize — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:16:09 +0000

Is this the first time you have ever seen a price increase on a subscription item? It's pretty routine.

This probably isn't about Covid (although Covid is still killing and disabling people). The prices that wholesalers pay for goods (Producer Price Index) went up a whole percent just last month, bringing their prices to 6% above where they were a year ago. So not all of it is price-gouging.

We already had one disastrous Trump administration. Why did you expect a second one to go any better? You elected this government with your eyes wide open.

New comment by smallerize in "Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not"

smallerize — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:26:02 +0000

The HTML spec actually includes how to parse broken HTML. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#parse-er...

New comment by smallerize in "Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not"

smallerize — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:40:46 +0000

The main one is that even a slightly broken XHTML document will fail to render. HTML is much more forgiving.

New comment by smallerize in "Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour"

smallerize — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:47:53 +0000

I think the article says they just haven't tested other cases. I wouldn't expect the symbiotic microalgae to be that picky.

Edit - The article makes Okkef's point, I just missed it.

New comment by smallerize in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

smallerize — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:15:50 +0000

China's power generation is still >50% coal, so I don't know if I would call renewables "overbuilt" yet.

New comment by smallerize in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

smallerize — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:00:19 +0000

Denmark's power generation from wind is around 20TWh/year, Norway hydro 140 TWh/year, and Swedish nuclear 50 TWh/year.

China's wind power is at 1,000TWh/year, hydro 1,500 TWh/year, nuclear 326 TWh/year.

(Stats mostly from statbase.org which is a couple years out of date.)

So on the one hand, it's less likely that all of the wind power in China will lull at the same time. Then on the other hand, their hydro and nuclear can't absorb nearly as much % fluctuation. Maybe they could make up the difference with batteries though.

New comment by smallerize in "US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion"

smallerize — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:47:41 +0000

$1 billion/day way the initial estimate, but it was never actually that high. CBO estimates $38B through August 1, or ~ $7B/month. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62756

New comment by smallerize in "Plex Media Server Unauth RCE Exploit"

smallerize — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:02:09 +0000

https://zmain.info/blog/plex2shell

Some of those individual bugs are egregious. A guard that doesn't work at all? A /player/timeline endpoint that doesn't check the token value?

New comment by smallerize in "Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia"

smallerize — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:36:29 +0000

I would be surprised if these robots were taking many jobs. Aren't they mostly piloted by people?

New comment by smallerize in "Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit"

smallerize — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:40:33 +0000

What I mean is, using LLMs for search and coding, they return the wrong answer all the time, unpredictably. Often if I redirect them, they will agree that they were wrong. So even though the knowledge that I need is in there somewhere, it doesn't get applied reliably. I don't want that experience for my infrastructure, where the model usually gets it right, but it just goes wrong a noticeable fraction of the time.

Do you know what I mean?