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Re:How big is a Git commit? on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:54AM (#50041809)
Very interesting! Maybe the AST part is more useful for diffs and merges than for compression.
Re:European Alternatives on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:38AM (#50041686)
Are you proposing forks of existing languages but in gitlab, and only european can approve PRs? Or a new language and OS? How does that work in practice when open source is public and users can have VPNs?
Re:How big is a Git commit? on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:22AM (#50040510)
It is not public is it?
Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:21AM (#49867431)
TLDR: Neovim did a breaking change to persistent undo
Be careful there. LLMs may be good at identifying a condition based on a description of the symptoms, but they are much worse at recommending the correct course of action (getting it wrong half of the time).

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y

US military showed a version in 2012 [1], and there is a DARPA report[2]

That said, it's a solid student project. I'm sure she'll do well at university.

[1]: https://www.ifsecglobal.com/uncategorized/soundwaves-a-new-p...

[2]: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20...

Flat earthers don't use Mercator projection, they use polar azimuthal equidistant (AEQD) projection centered in the north pole.

I think it would be something like Portugal-Kamchatka:

https://i.ibb.co/9mqz8fvb/image.png

It would be a straight line (in their official map) from the south of Portugal to Kamchatka (east Russia)
If you are talking about the trail from Cape Town to Vladivostok, that one is not a straight line.
I'm so confused with the "Upgrade" example. Why does it lose the title case and why does it end up phrased as "upgrade to" instead of "Upgrade"?
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @03:22PM (#49026763)
Having tried gel rollerball and fountain pens, I always end up going back to clutch pencils with soft leads.

The author dismisses all pencils because he has to press down hard to use them, but I don't press down any more than I would with a fountain pen.

Being able to erase is also a bonus. Not to mention the ASMR sound!

Re:AI makes programming differently difficult on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:23PM (#48996935)
It's existential crisis Tuesday
Scroll down, there is a huge ad but the article continues.
It wasn't millions, it was half a million. And what they're getting is permission to work in Spain, so it's unrelated to the article.
Re:No Spanish Reading Crisis? on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:28AM (#48905775)
I don't think "less rich population" is an accurate description of Spain. It's a high-income developed country. Perhaps you assumed the article was about Spanish speakers worldwide rather than Spain specifically?
They're describing EU sanctions on individuals, just very dramatically
"Choose your browser cache folder to improve performance"
Re:Dav2d on Sunday May 31, 2026 @06:51PM (#48350539)
Well, if every asset request hits the origin (no CDN, no caching...) that would be a misconfiguration of the website. It should never happen for a blog.
for those with parents yes
Re:How to run Qwen 3.5 locally on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:13AM (#47296055)
That's why I start any prompt to Qwen 3.5 with:

persona: brief rude senior

Re:Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users on Friday January 30, 2026 @01:59PM (#46828419)
> draws a pretty clear picture

You have "memory" activated in your settings. It is recording information about you and using it in future conversations. Have a look at settings > personalization

I cannot audit and report GDPR violations if I do that.
> YouTube eventually restored both videos

Okay, nothing to see here then. Just some sensationalism around a content moderation mistake.

To the authors of the site, please know that your current "Cookiebot by Usercentrics" is old and pretty much illegal. You shouldn't need to click 5 times to "Reject all" if accepting all is one click. Newer versions have a "Deny" button.
Not at all, look at Tiktok
I use PlantUML because it renders in GitLab's markdown, including wikis, MD docs and even PR comments. However, I have to use Mermaid for projects hosted on GitHub.

The hassle of tweaking the layout in puml, such as pairing elements with an invisible connections and groups, adding or removing dashes from the arrows in class diagrams... is gone because Mermaid is simply inferior in that sense.

Mermaid always feels like it's in beta and I don't understand why GitHub ignores the request to support puml (1). It seems that adoption of diagrams as code is tied to what is supported by major vendors and they don't care enough. Or maybe it is because mermaidchart made an official vscode plugin, who knows.

While I agree that improvements are needed, I'm not convinced that creating a third standard is the answer. What I would like is to be able to assign weights to my elements and let the renderer do the work (not set x and y coordinates like in oxdraw).

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10111

Re:The Body Keeps the Score Is Bullshit on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:26PM (#45676440)
It's not about wanting sympathy. In peace and prosperity times, people has more time to reach adulthood and explore themselves, they don't have to suppress pain in order to survive. Not saying everyone, but many.

I'm no expert either, but for sure there are psychology and sociology studies about generational differences, openness, and things like that.

Re:Populism and Economic Prosperity on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:01PM (#45649338)
It is called sortition.
Discord uses Zendesk (1). However in the press release they don't name the third party that was compromised, and Zendesk denies that it was their service.

What other third party was Discord using if not Zendesk? Who's reputation are they protecting?

[1] https://www.zendesk.fr/customer/discord/

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