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> This is why I laugh every time somebody seriously suggests there's going to be a war with China because the West would collapse without Chinese exports. It's just not going to happen.

> The problem with outsourcing all your manufacturing

Not having a war is a good thing, not a problem.

A regex might be a programming language, a proper regular expression (which there are libraries for, like Google RE2) is just a regular language and I don't think you can even charitably call that a programming language.
The New England Patriots lost the 2026 Superbowl, and that list of losers includes all the second and third stringers who didn't play.
Re:Emacs Turns 50 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:30PM (#50277419)
I will say in regards to the electron editors, wrangling emacs frames and windows can range from a chore to painful. That is one area we can still improve on!
Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:03AM (#50260452)
It makes poor writing readable, not good.
This thread is literally about Grok publicly nudifying women, and people are out here saying it's comparable to seeing somebody's lunch...I know HN is a boys' club and all but this is pretty bad even by normal HN standards.
Stating literally exactly what is being done is a bad faith argument now?
People really out here directly comparing women to food, unbelievable.
That is literally how it works in many places in the USA. They have to pay for the prison stay too.
Re:What Is Gridifcation on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:48AM (#50195294)
It's not just pop music. This plague has infested metal and it's unbearable.
Re:Archive of Our Own on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @06:30PM (#50173591)
It's nice that this sprung up after the owners of fanfiction.net seemed to completely stop caring about it. It's nice to have a place where the people who run it actually care.
Re:Using AI to reverse engineer hardware on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:51PM (#50120906)
OP was talking about reversing some pedals of more established pedal manufacturers; the proper comparison is Boss to Strymon or Wampler and whatnot, not Boss to OP.
I'd hope so. Cleaning up elephant dung is doing something of actual value, unlike this.
Re:Using AI to reverse engineer hardware on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:56PM (#50111543)
Boss still exists and sells pedals even though Behringer has made a $30 (more in the USA now thanks to tariffs) clone of virtually all of their guitar pedals. One of those clones (as opposed to the original) even being the best selling pedal ever.
Re:Using AI to reverse engineer hardware on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:52PM (#50111502)
It'll be kind of nice that DSP guitar pedals will be cloneable like old-school analog guitar pedals.
My point is hiding behind passive language like that is cowardly. You actively chose to do literally all of those things. It's not that you "could" do them, you did do them. Own up to it.
> I could

You did, not could. All those things that you said you could do? You literally did them.

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping? on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:23PM (#50038905)
It's absolutely normal in most of the USA. Inflation in the last decade has been outlandish.
Not personally but Junie was what made the fellow developer I respect most in the world actually start taking notice of LLMs as something useful instead of bad.
Re:Claude partial outage on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:32AM (#49895076)
Hardly a unique problem to AI systems. You certainly can't bootstrap pretty much any industry to its current state without the existing items of its current state. Any sort of chip fab is a great example. Or most manufacturing. Or even more fundamental: mining (both metals like iron, and energy like coal or gas).
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:53AM (#49880027)
I don't think you need to go that far but not punishing teachers for defending themselves from violence would be a good start honestly. Defend yourself from a kid hitting you and you're the one in trouble in most places.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:05AM (#49879212)
It happens more often in special education, but non special ed teachers have plenty of stories too. Also, special ed teachers are not some underclass and are also deserving of a safe workplace.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:46AM (#49878868)
Serious question. Do you know any teachers, especially any special education teachers? They all have stories about the violence they receive, and a lot of them.
How often do you fiddle with the drive parameter (if it's not just boosting the input directly, which works fine with NAM too) mid song? Pretty much never, right? So a lot of folks don't need that control and if the drive level isn't great and that parameter isn't just boosting the input, use a different capture .
coyopedal is the original they open sourced a month ago, it was a pretty impressive technical achievement to get NAM A2-full running on that hardware.
Hasn't it effectively been suspended for over a year now?
Well, on the civilian side that's exactly what's happening with openai hacking other companies, so I guess it stands to reason that the military wants to get in on that too.
Re:P(doom) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @09:00AM (#49683519)
The nazi solute and everything that led up to it, for one.
Chin up progression is eccentrics and band assists. They'll get you to your first chin up faster than lat pulldowns since you're actually doing the movement.

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