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New comment by subarctic in "Mistral Large 4"

subarctic — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:00:54 +0000

Economic warfare against the US? I mean maybe against specific US companies and stakeholders but on the whole it seems like it's good for the US economy as well as the rest of the world, kind of like supplying free electricity would be

New comment by subarctic in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

subarctic — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:59:43 +0000

> The communication must be made in a manner in which another person may view it

IANAL but it will be interesting to see how the legal system decides if this counts as "another person may view it" or not. What has happened in similar ish cases where someone writes a threat like that that they thing is private to them but actually ends up in the hands of Someone at some tech company that reports it?

New comment by subarctic in "Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped"

subarctic — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:40:04 +0000

I saw an interview with Bill Gates once where he said that one thing he would've done differently is more quickly come around to the idea of sending people to Washington. Apparently he didn't like the idea of lobbying and that cost them when the regulators started coming for them

New comment by subarctic in "English: A vs. An"

subarctic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:26:04 +0000

GP is talking about the name of the letter H like when you're saying the ABCs. How do you pronounce it?

New comment by subarctic in "English: A vs. An"

subarctic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:23:01 +0000

Some YouTubers always say a like the letter a (e.g. the vowel in "day")

I find it pretty annoying. A different YouTuber had a good video about it though https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4IJLyFAzYes&ra=m

New comment by subarctic in "English: A vs. An"

subarctic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:18:28 +0000

An historic just sounds pretentious, sorry :p

New comment by subarctic in "English: A vs. An"

subarctic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:17:17 +0000

Some people pronounce nvidia as nuhvidia others as envidia so when the writer puts "a" or "an" before it they're revealing how they pronounce it

New comment by subarctic in "English: A vs. An"

subarctic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:11:40 +0000

It's similar to a/an, thuh is before a consonant and thee is before a vowel. And thee is also used for emphasis. But some people use a / thuh before a vowel. Do you have an example?

New comment by subarctic in "English: A vs. An"

subarctic — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:59:43 +0000

That one is more natural without the word "some" imo

New comment by subarctic in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

subarctic — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:59:26 +0000

Not everyone hates them. A lot of people do, it can be a tough job because of that but it's just a form of marketing/sales. So is cold emailing. You can get customers that love your work or your product that way, some people will be annoyed along the way but if you're providing real value to the people who become your customers I think it's usually reasonable to be using those channels.

Anyway I was being facetious i hate ads as much as the next guy when I'm using a service like YouTube where they force ads on you and fight against my ad blocker. But having run ads myself i have some sympathy for the advertisers now.

New comment by subarctic in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

subarctic — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:44:35 +0000

I wasn't saying people who receive ads find them useful, although that can sometimes be true. I was saying they are useful for the people that are paying to run them

New comment by subarctic in "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"

subarctic — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:40:12 +0000

At least traditionally, software engineers avoided everything except coding for a long time, but now i guess that's changed

New comment by subarctic in "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"

subarctic — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:37:26 +0000

> Closing this as I expect many of the remaining problems described in this issues comments to be fixed by #51208. > > Once that PR makes it to stable (expected March 25th 2026), please create new issues if you are still experiencing problems.

Did you open a new issue?

New comment by subarctic in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

subarctic — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:50:17 +0000

Ads are useful, they help you reach customers

New comment by subarctic in "We know what a world without work looks like"

subarctic — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:46:11 +0000

Reminds me of the mouse utopia studies i read about where the mice didn't have to work and there was plenty of food and water, no diseases etc and eventually everything got all messed up and the mice lost the ability to reproduce

New comment by subarctic in "The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada"

subarctic — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:34:20 +0000

I probably wouldn't want to drink milk from an unhealthy cow though

New comment by subarctic in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

subarctic — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:29:24 +0000

If you're on Android you can use AntennaPod. I switched to pocketcasts when I switched to iOS

New comment by subarctic in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

subarctic — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:28:05 +0000

Beeper and Pocket Casts

New comment by subarctic in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

subarctic — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:25:47 +0000

What if they charged money? Is it something you'd pay for?

New comment by subarctic in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

subarctic — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:09:18 +0000

Too bad because they have some incredible products