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Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:10AM (#50333938)
I hope the maintainers can make this release, and then just skip the next one to focus on bugfixing and the probable refactoring needed for some of the bugs.
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @03:08AM (#50285446)
SO's motto was to ignore the particular constraints of your use case, rewrite your question for you and then answer that (often marking it as a duplicate).

No wonder no ones uses it anymore, its environment is actively hostile to new users.

Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:35AM (#50067635)
>These systems aren’t going to get popular enough to make a big difference in anything.

They already are in a few countries.

Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:34AM (#50067625)
I don't believe this is real. I'm in Europe and installed 4kW with 4kW of storage for a total of ~3.6k.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:05AM (#50055167)
>it will improve the quality of the code

That does not mean the product becomes more useful. I could rewrite Windows 1-to-1 with better code quality and no one would care because it still provides the exact same features. Unless "better code" means "better features", better code is useless.

Re-discovering databases from first principles.
Re:Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:14AM (#50052004)
Can someone post the actual data sources for this ? I keep seeing people claim this and even post graphs, but 0 sources.
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:36AM (#50002874)
The goal is to do everything good enough, and if possible almost as good as purpose-built. So yes, every other format is better when looking at specifics. But JPEG XL's goal is the best average.
They didn't, it just needed a restart. From the first reports the first car's software genuinely glitched out because of the new track/rain/etc and had to be restarted, the other cars got anti-traction control triggered because going this slow for this long unspools the turbo, which got so bad the detection software made a false positive.
Re:Why the Bronze Age Collapsed on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:27AM (#49918348)
>the event that really kicked things off was the explosion of Santorini

That was centuries before. Volcanic winter(s) for sure occurred, but they would be distant memory if anything by the time of the collapse.

Re:The systems that no one will test on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:28AM (#49892903)
Software is more than 10x more complicated than a bicycle though. Like, this is orders of magnitude off ; we're talking about comparing something purely mechanical to Turing machines inside Turing machines.
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:13AM (#49826851)
>While this underlying RT, found in a jumbo phage, had been identified in previous studies, Claude appears to be the first to notice the system’s defining features—an associated array of non-coding DNA sequences and an additional accessory protein of unknown function.

So they investigated an already known thing. Not exactly "discovering a new system"... Anyone with money to throw at this already-known thing would have gotten those results I assume.

Re:Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:21AM (#49654216)
If we have AGI, it can just solve all the memory issues in the existing codebase instead of rewriting it all.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @02:06AM (#49654115)
We have no idea how many of these engineers work on the mobile app. This comment is somehow both AI slop and human slop.
Re:I advertise malicious software on Google Ads on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:51AM (#49639422)
Google is guilty of this across their whole range of product. We hear a lot about Youtube, but it's the same for Ads and Android. I had my developer account banned for a copyright issue, and to this day I don't know what the issue actually was.
“If [virtualization is] not built into a broader AI operation stack, the value is even lower again,” Pickering said.

For the love of god keep Gen AI off of infrastructure...

Re:GPT-6 Astra on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:43AM (#49561284)
>The harder question, in Chollet’s framing, is: how efficiently can a system learn to do something genuinely new?

The more diverse stuff it knows, the easier it will be to learn something new.

The people that go through the trouble of installing apks from random websites to not pay $1 are in the minority. What's more, most of them wouldn't pay that dollar if they couldn't find the cracked apk. So the only thing you're realistically doing is cutting yourself off of a huge market. Convenience sells, the Play Store does that
Re:Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:48AM (#48906828)
You already have an agent freely doing stuff on your machine. Subagents prompts are a weird place to draw a line. It's not like you're reading everything the agent is doing in any case, let's not kid ourselves.
It's useful to show the actual team that it's possible. From there, they can make the decision of whether to go the bun route with more information.
> I’m happy to explain why an essential app is worth your money

This is a podcast app. It's in no way essential, how did you use to explain this to your customers ?

Re:A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days) on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:20AM (#48394731)
So you think that it's mostly a lack of general "stamina" for actually doing things, over the lessening of abilities to do things ?
Very few, entreprise users (aka volume) will pay the license, hobbyists will pirate it if need be. AMD doesn't want to do support for the hobbyists for free, that's all.
Re:The worst job interview I ever had on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:57AM (#48291540)
From the way this is written, it's clear that the interview was not about "at work". If it was the interview would have stopped OP to say it after the first question, which obviously didn't happen.
If this is true, I hope AI exploit-finding will force the industry to harden itself against supply-chain vulnerabilities.
Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit on Friday May 08, 2026 @02:11AM (#48059253)
Of course, why didn't anyone think of that ? I bet if someone started to ship software that has no errors they'll make a huge amount of money, especially from all the people that are security-minded !

Please grow a brain.

Re:The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:13AM (#48005216)
Hardware is cheap ; human labor is not. Companies have figured out that the best way to extract monye from customers is to give them something that barely works now, rather then something that works great later.
>the question of model-level responsibility versus integration-level responsibility is a story I'll write separately

This guy blames everyone and everything but himself.

"I've put enough safety around the bomb that the bomb is worth using. The other people that exploded just didn't have enough safety but I do !"
Re:We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees on Monday April 13, 2026 @02:27AM (#47748325)
You are spam. It doesn't get any simpler than this.

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