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Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:46AM (#50179990)
Whilst I have personally never had an issue with LLMs writing unsafe rust my comment was meant to be facetious. I dont't mean to disregard the fact that LLMs are easily powerful enough to reduce the need for large frameworks and libraries.

I do question how sensible it is to write everything from scratch for every project instead of relying on existing libraries with greater support.

Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:53AM (#50179377)
Why use C when LLMs also write stellar rust? You're not giving up any performance and you gain a modern toolchain and a safer language.

And as a next step you could have the LLM write the code such that you can use it in multiple projects. Making the token spend even more worthwile. And then maybe you can package it for other people to use as well, since the LLM wrote such stellar code that it would be idiotic for anyone to use anything else.

I have grown tired of people not accepting that a party can truly be far right and try to put it off as being a shift in perception of the general public.
Re:Using any C++ library in Godot on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:31AM (#49893985)
I did not know that. Thanks for the info. I always use C# with Godot, but never had a use-case where i needed a web build.
Re:Using any C++ library in Godot on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:30AM (#49891444)
What motivated you to use c++ rather than C#? Especially when you mention the usage of c++ being tedious, when I would argue using C# is equally straight forward as gdscript is.
Re:Gemini-3.5-Transcribe on Friday August 28, 2026 @06:14AM (#49476632)
You share the same frustration that I any many others also have. Google absolutely jumped the gun with their push to Gemini over Google Assistant. Some things are tied to permissions that Gemini needs. Other thigs - afaik - simply don't work with Gemini because it doesn't 'know' that it should use certain device functions
Re:Everything I own, owned on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:21AM (#49416711)
My monitor can run a pixel cleaning automatically when it detects that there is no longer a signal coming in. That way it periodically cleans, but has never done so while I was using it. I presume the author uses the same mechanism and just doesn't want to be bothered about it.
Re:Go 1.27 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:30AM (#49371104)
Maybe he was talking in private.
Re:How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @05:31AM (#49343334)
Not only 'pocket computers' are an issue. I was thoroughly shocked when I found out that websites can detect that the dev-tools are open. That is something that a website should never be able to know, yet here we are.
Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics on Monday August 10, 2026 @05:34AM (#49241416)
There have been numerous approaches doing things akin to that. I remember my university working on such a project. Or at least a similar one, representing a code base as a street network with traffic showing how data flows through the system.

I too, would like to have such a tool for viewing larger projects where the flow can be cumbersome to reason about. One issue I guess would be finding the right level of abstraction in the representation.

Whilst I agree a smart home offers some benefits that your 1884 switch simply cannot match. And the cruicial point is that the 30 seconds are the worst case situation where something went wrong on the network. Its not the usual operational experience you'll get.

For me, having to wait 30 seconds once every blue moon is a tradeoff I'm willing to make.

Absolutely. My setup which is about 1 month old already has 14 devices and I'm just getting started. Only having 6 devices really feels comically small for a study investigating the performance of communication protocols where device count can really make a differnce, as observed by even then changes from 1 to 6 devices.
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:20AM (#49080495)
It ideally can, yes, but if you choose to partake in the military operations by providing your LLM you at least bear some responsibility. When you don't give the DoW access to your LLM it may still be the case that actions will be taken that inflict some humans suffering. In that case you won't have had a hand in it though.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:04AM (#48888914)
I've started building a visualization tool for mobile robots using the VDA5050 communication standard.

There are some solutions already out there but most are either slow, resource intensive, or both. Especially for larger fleets of robots. I'm using it to learn more about VDA5050, Rust and wgpu.

It depends for me. For my blog I have a web based editor, but one, that is just plain markdown with a preview. Similar to your described workflow. For a note taking app I decided to use WYSIWYG because I don't have the space for a split view and didn't want to just look at the markdown as is.

My main gripe with WYSIWYG is that they can get in your way. When I create a verbatim block and can't leave that block anymore (looking at you Teams). I guess thats also why I enjoyed LaTeX as much as I did.

Re:Bring Back Crappy Forums on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:21AM (#48758205)
With how many times I have seen the "forum" for a community be a Discord server I would say that there has been a noticable shift away from independently hosted forums. Which is what I would associate with a "proper" forum.
Re:The operating cost starts after the demo on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:02AM (#48732161)
I agree with your points, I just struggle with the stance that something is bad simply because AI was in the mix (which tbf is not what you are saying). The writing style is a little too much for my taste as well. At the same time, many of the stylistic choises that LLMs make are not far from how someone who can write well, would express their opinions.
Re:The operating cost starts after the demo on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:55AM (#48732076)
Thats a fair take. I think it still holds some value because an opinion does not lose validity simple because its being presented poorly, but I also understand that the importance an opinion has for you, should inform the amount of effort you spend, to share it with others.
Re:The operating cost starts after the demo on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:24AM (#48730659)
Yeah of course not. When nobody notices, then there is nothing to discuss. Otherwise it would just be conjecuture. And by that logic anything where AI is noticable would be categorizable as AI slop. Which is exactly what I'm criticizing
Re:The operating cost starts after the demo on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:00AM (#48730524)
Whether written with AI or not, I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment that it's AI slop. We too often only categorize between no AI used and AI slop.

Does them using AI to write the article invalidate the points stated in any way? I personally don't think so. I too am weary of constant bombardment with AI but at the same time being against something just because AI was in the loop isn't much better, if at all.

Re:The new HTTP QUERY method explained on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @08:57AM (#48644276)
This assumes that all of the infrastructure surrounding your application also plays nicely with it and supports it, as stated in the article. That's why I expressed my interest in speed of adoption in the first place.
Re:The new HTTP QUERY method explained on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:03AM (#48641817)
It's interesting to see additions to HTTP methods as it much feels like the existing ones are set in stone. At least for the time that I have been a developer. I'm curious to see how fast the adoption/support for HTTP QUERY will be. I've had my fair share of situations where I wished for something like HTTP QUERY.
Re:Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:21AM (#48382128)
If you do end up joining feel free to dm me. same user as here.
Re:Life and work is not meant to be spent in isolation on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:29AM (#48381809)
I found great enjoyment from https://late.sh/. I'm not as active as I would like to be but the small community is still active enought that there is basically always someone around to chat with.
Re:Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:49AM (#48006493)
I have noticed the same thing.The few times I wanted to use image generatation it always failed me in exactly these aspects. I always put if off as a lack of prompting skill on my end. Once you start to keep an eye out for these inconsistencies they turn out to be very common.
Re:The operating cost of adult and gambling startups on Saturday April 25, 2026 @12:27PM (#47902623)
Thank you. That is want I attempted to say.
Re:The operating cost of adult and gambling startups on Friday April 24, 2026 @09:40AM (#47890161)
While the porn industry has issue, at its core it isn't constructed to extract money from you.

Boiling Gambling down to just being "entertainment" is a bit too reductionist in my opinion.

Re:Hear your agent suffer through your code on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:24AM (#47889260)
Does this actually relate to the code quality being observed by the agent? The readme isn't very clear on that IMO. I have some projects I'd love to try this out on, but only if I am to get an accurate representation of the LLMs suffering.
Re:DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:48AM (#47764370)
It's generous but limited in some aspects. True 4k resolution is not supported (or at least wasn't the last time I checked). It also didn't support H.265 4:2:2 files.

I guess once you reach the level where you need to work on these types of files, it would be warranted to pay the very reasonable price for Resolve.

Re:DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:44AM (#47764336)
Damn, there really are no original ideas anymore. I have been working on essentially the exact thing that Spektrafilm is doing. I'll check that out to see how I can improve my setup.

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