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Re:Combustion Engine Web-Based Simulator on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:39PM (#48863583)
Am I missing something? Setting the throttle to 0% seems to do nothing?
Re:Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025) on Sunday May 24, 2026 @10:47AM (#48257691)
Is that the same BASIC as this?
I'd love to see more info on this
I assume because the discovery is branching. If the an agent using the CLI for for GitHub needs to make an issue, it can check the help message for the issue sub-command and go from there, doesn't need to know anything about pull requests, or pipelines, or account configuration, etc, so it doesn't query those subcommands.

Compare this to an MCP, where my understanding is that the entire API usage is injected into the context.

Re:Sunsetting Jazzband on Saturday March 14, 2026 @02:44PM (#47379761)
What is happening with Ghostty?
Re:Returning to Rails in 2026 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:05AM (#47347804)
Does batteries included somehow result in upgrading years old projects being a larger lift? I would think the opposite.
Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Sunday March 01, 2026 @06:07PM (#47211748)
Also, as someone who has tried to build tools that automate finding flights, The existing players in the space have made it nearly impossible to do. But now Google is just going to open the door for it?
Re:WebMCP is available for early preview on Sunday March 01, 2026 @06:06PM (#47211732)
Can someone explain what the hell is going on here?

Do websites want to prevent automated tooling, as indicated by everyone putting everything behind Cloudfare and CAPTCHAs since forever, or do websites want you to be able to automate things? Because I don't see how you can have both.

If I'm using Selenium it's a problem, but if I'm using Claude it's fine??

(genuinely asking) why not SQLite by default?
Re:Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:15PM (#46321153)
Pendragon?
Re:Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:01PM (#46316204)
Consider that this isn't just a random AI slopped assortment of 9,000 tests, but instead is a robust suite of tests that cover 100% of the HTML5 spec.

Does this guarantee that it functions completely with no errors whatsoever? Certainly not. You need formal verification for that. I don't think that contradicts what Simon was advocating for though in this post.

Re:Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden on Monday December 08, 2025 @09:50PM (#46200709)
The equivalency here is not 9 billion versus 90 billion, it's 9 billion versus 90 million, and the question is how does the decline look? Does it look like the standard of living for everyone increasing so high that the replacement rate is in the single digit percentage range, or does it look like some version of Elysium where millions have immense wealth and billions have nothing and die off?
Re:All British adults to require a digital ID 'Brit Card' on Friday September 26, 2025 @03:20PM (#45390051)
Do you mean gait recognition?
Re:Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @09:36PM (#45368304)
What's wrong with Docker for this?
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:47AM (#45289652)
Campfire is definitely not FOSS: https://once.com/license
Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:46PM (#44741228)
No it's not
Re:Claude 4 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @08:32PM (#44068609)
I'm curious what tooling you are using to accomplish this?
Re:Email Forwarding for Your Domain on Saturday May 10, 2025 @04:58PM (#43948942)
How does this compare to https://mxroute.com/?
Re:Keeping Open WebUI Free, Fair, and Sustainable on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @12:00AM (#43901694)
Why does this keep happening? Do people not understand the implications choosing an open source license.in the first place? There are a million licenses, in fact you can just make your own one up! But when you choose a class of license the specifically allows commercial exploitation... you don't get to act wronged when it happens.
Anyone know what keyboard that is and where I could get my hands on one?

Just the keyboard. Not the entire unit.

Android effectively stopped being "open source" when they added Google Play Services. Try running anything on stock AOSP now. Good luck!
Why is a binary (compiled machine code) protected by copyright, but the raw output of an AI model is not?
Can you explain what you mean by this?
Re:Query Apple's FindMy Network with Python on Saturday December 21, 2024 @11:04AM (#42480401)
What does "x-platform" mean in this context?
Re:FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:59PM (#42391399)
Chart of all US frequency allocations (as of 2016, but there doesn't appear to be a more up to date one?): https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/publications/januar...
Re:From where I left on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @02:17PM (#42380321)
All the conversations about SSPL seem to go the same way:

- Someone complains about the extra restrictions imposed on AWS (lets be real, it's basically just about AWS)

- People point out that SSPL is basically AGPL+, and that for the vast vast majority of people it doesn't make any difference

- People counter that the SSPL is written ambiguously/untested in court, and so while it might seem like it's AGPL+ and doesn't matter for most users, you can't rely on that

- People complain about rug pulling (valid, IMO)

My question is this: Can there be a AGPL+ that is OSI approved? Could there be a "AAGPL" that GNU releases that covers this (very common, and IMO valid) "need" for open source companies to not be cannibalized by cloud providers?

Is this conceptually unacceptable, or is it just that the SSPL is poorly executed?

Re:RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind [video] on Saturday December 07, 2024 @12:35AM (#42347523)
Minecraft?
Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @07:56AM (#42182908)
> browsers aren't really a self funding product

Yeah... Because massive companies use them anti-competitively as a moat against other companies, and as a loss leader to enable massive data collection and vendor lock in.

"browsers aren't really a self funding product" is a symptom of dysfunction, not the inevitable conclusion of a fair market.

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