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ape4··on GPT-6.1 Terra
They say it has "A significant step up on factuality and coding". My browser is underlining "factuality" in red. AI hallucinations or hallucinatiality are still a big problem in my experience.
ape4··on We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
Idiocracy
ape4··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
You're aren't looking at all factors here. I look at solar and think its beautiful for what its displacing.
ape4··on C++26 Contracts: Introduction to Preconditions and Postconditions
Exactly. Many years ago people used to use C `struct` for objects but then that was formalized as `class`.
ape4··on Tiny Little Office
Anyone know what language or framework this was written in?
ape4··on Tiny Little Office
Often pages say "made with love in <place>" which seems over the top to me.
ape4··on Pulsar at ESUG 2026 (new Smalltalk IDE)
Its odd that some words have a squiggly red underline in that image.
ape4··on Knuth reward check
The error was saying that "infinitely many alphabets can be generated" but there is a finite number of parameters which have a finite range of values. If Knuth had just written "a humongous number of alphabets" he would be correct.
ape4··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
Maybe non-Americans would keep a baseball bat there
ape4··on Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
Yeah, the webpage doesn't have the ASCII in it. It's images.
ape4··on Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app
The network is the computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer

ape4··on Questions for believers in AI consciousness
One way to decide might be something like the Turing Test. If the AI you are talking to can conceive you that its conscious then it is.
ape4··on The lamps in my house
lol. https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/krux-led-work-lamp-white-503254...
ape4··on Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)
Its Furtura https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/futura-pt
ape4··on A 20-year-long permanent cookie: America.gov and tracking
Of course, America.gov uses "SI". From its FAQ: America.gov uses SI to find and explain information from official government sources. SI can make mistakes, so check the sources included with each answer before making an important decision. To report a problem, select the feedback button below the answer and describe what was incorrect or out of date.
ape4··on Using any C++ library in Godot
A big issue. If you can't ship a library its basically useless.
ape4··on Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
If I remember right, it was memory safe - something C/C++ has yet to achieve.
ape4··on I don't want the details
A Senior Vice President of ENGINEERING doesn't want the technical details?
ape4··on Can gzip be a language model?
There would be some overlap with business sports analogies - eg team huddle.
ape4··on Can gzip be a language model?
Or maybe make a list of the most used 1000 words in each language. And see which list has the most occurrences.
ape4··on Minimal Phone 2
Sending messages with BBM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBM_(software)

ape4··on Vinix – A modern operating system written in V
This seems to be the language's main page https://vlang.io/
ape4··on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac
If an article is a few years old then it could be out-of-date. But if an article is almost 100 years old then its classic.
ape4··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
It's somewhat odd that filesystems don't have a call to tell you how many files are in a folder.
ape4··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
thats_the_joke.jpg
ape4··on New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd)
Do you use memory to emulate memory
ape4··on Nobody has built a software factory
Well there's the Factory Method Pattern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_method_pattern
ape4··on Playa Phone
I looked but I don't see how it works. How does it get power? I suppose it uses a some single board computer and VOIP.
ape4··on P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
How are the icons (for the domains) fetched so quickly?
ape4··on Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
I understand unskilled humans are used to train AIs
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