Andrew_nenakhov

Instead of blahblahblahing endlessly you could just go render an explicit photo on Grok and post it here to prove your point.

I'm rather confident that you would not be able to do that.

However, I'm also confident that instead of doing that you'll continue spreading information that is now obsolete and incorrect: in your original post you said that Musk has a bot, but when confronted with the current state of affairs continue to cite Wikipedia about what Musk had a year ago.

I don't know what was in back 2025. We tested it late October, 2026. Couldn't generate anything explicit at all.

That is simply not true, Grok refuses to make explicit images, and with uploaded media it refuses to do even mildly enticing ones. *

* — We did a test of it after similar claim a few weeks ago, and what pushed us to do a research is because my friend who works in a hotel industry was getting moderation blocks on Grok left and right — they now use only AI images to not bother with copyright trolls ever again who threaten lawsuits for things like improperly credited bought stock photo — and in their case moderation was a serious hindrance for creating images.

Allegedly. There were no proofs of that, not confessions.

It's amusing that their grand dream was basically a clone of Roblox, just with better VR tech and far more advanced graphics. But thing is, kids playing Roblox absolutely do not care about graphics.

Expanse is a very strange tv show. Their main cast is utterly bland and have absolutely no chemistry with each other, the only interesting character is maybe Amos, but almost all secondary characters are top notch, with lots of great actors and tons of charisma. It is typical for some belter captain who appears in 2 episodes to effortlessly outshine the whole Rocinante crew.

My favorite scene with Patrick Stewart is him leading the defence of the Atreides palace while being armed with an adorable puppy in Lynch's "Dune". RIP.

Except that for computer screen you need to hold your hands up in the air, while with mouse and keyboard they basically rest upon the surface. That's far less tiring.

I told you a true story about my experience and you call it 'hyperbole'. Well, ok if it suits you.

On your second point, proper developers release security updates and backports for software released decades ago, while others always chase new shiny things and contribute a lot to this unsupportable legacy hell that we have to deal with.

It does, because everyone and their dog started releasing software that only runs on the latest version of macos. So if you are not running the latest macos, you can't use the latest software version.

For example, I used Sketch on my ond mac once and was quite happy, but then they dropped support for the OS version that mac was stuck upon. And since newer libraries resources etc all target latest version of Sketch, the version of Sketch I could run quickly became useless.

The GP was preaching the virties of information control, and we Russians know far too well how it ends.

And no, your claim that US has a firm grasp on what information reaches its people is laughable: you can host and serve any information critical of government without issues. The closest you had to putinism was when companies en masse started deplatforming Trump and his supporters in early 2021.

Trump was censored by social networks long before January 2021, under all kinds of bullshit reasons.

It's rather strange to see such shameless apologetic of Putinism on HN. Yeah right, let's give the government more power and control over the information, what could go wrong???!

Stackoverflow killed itself long before AI appeared: they developed so hostile and toxic culture that it basically collapsed its utility to zero.

I beg to differ; SF Symbol icons serve their purpose much better than Apple's old raster icons of yore.

But hey, tastes differ.

Most likely it was this: McDougall, S. J. P., de Bruijn, O., & Curry, M. B. (2000). Exploring the effects of icon characteristics on user performance: The role of icon concreteness, complexity, and distinctiveness

I think I stumbled upon it while reading that era's GNOME HIG, that had some very similar thoughts about icons..

Some very long time ago, in the early 00s, I read some UX study about icons. Ppl there replaced regular icons in app like MS word with random shapes, red square, blue circle, purple triangle, etc, and found out, that after initial learning period people find these icons just as fast as more meaningful ones. Recently, I tried finding that material, but couldn't find it. Still, it matches my experience with icons.

Humans are very good at distinguishing shapes and colors. Visually distinct icons of various shapes help build muscle memory and quickly find the needed option.

One of the worst trends in icons is this insatiable desire to put different icons into uniform shapes.

For example, this trend resulted in tragic replacement of beautiful varied and distinct Android icons that were introduced in Android 5 to the uglicity we have now.

On iOS, beautiful SFSymbol icons that floated beautifully on flat surfaces since iOS 7.0 were encased in absolutely similar circular 'liquid Glass' blobs. Sad.

The only reason AfD grows in popularity is because the other parties are deaf to what worries their constituents.

Other parties are so indoctrinated and zealous in their beliefs that they fail to see this simple truth and would rather resort to some authoritarian actions than think of changing their ways and try to win the electorate back.

Yeah, nothing smells like protecting the democracy more than banning opposing parties. /s

Well, Tesla is a car company.

If you want all that you listed, you can't start clean water company, or stable climate company, or bee survival company, and offer all that you want. No?

Why would Apple even create this thing? There are lots of similar apps out there.

apparently, the website in question is libgen.io (appears to have been taken down now), currently it has lots of mirrors like libgen.im , libgen.com.de, etc.

> but it must be said, as genius as Franklin was, sadly ..

Some people can't help themselves from bringing irrelevant facts to the conversation.

The real reason for dark ages was not the fall of the western roman empire, but the arabian conquests, which turned the international trade highway (the Mediterranean sea) into a highway by which pirates and slave traders had easy access to their prey.

All the best jokes are only part jokes.

> Why a randomized reservation order?

Lies, they just want to protect themselves from the German Tank Problem [0] type of analysis.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem

Yeah right, that worked out for Iranians quite well all these times.

You see, the problem is that all exit points of our VPNs are in Europe. These too can be banned quite easily. Where to will we run next, given that this cancer tends to spread?

In Russia, they claimed that new measures to block websites are necessary to protect the children online. Of course, they immediately used these new capabilities to block opposition websites and sources critical of the government.

Now, seeing many European governments tirelessly push for these new measures to protect the children, I'm pretty sure that the children are finally going to be safe online.