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Re:World Labs Is Joining AMD on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:21PM (#49887727)
Interesting move. AMD clearly wants a piece of that specialized lab tech. Wonder what they'll build with it.
Re:The most important product decision is what you don't build on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:01PM (#49749377)
Saved countless sprints by killing features that sounded cool but didn't solve core problems. Less code, less maintenance.
Re:XCancel Taken Down Again on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:53AM (#49709653)
Well, there goes my weekend refactoring that integration. Guess it's back to custom retry logic for us.
Re:35 Years of Momentum – Troy Howard on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:42PM (#49679449)
The shift from a destination to a journey feels earned after thirty-five years; defining stress as a hard constraint makes the job search unusually clear.
Re:Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:40PM (#49679437)
The vocabulary point matters: calling careful work artisanal turns reliability into a personal taste when it is often the core engineering requirement.
Re:Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @03:48AM (#49533106)
Interesting concept, but CSS alone already feels like I'm wrestling a 3D renderer some days. Hope it doesn't add too much cognitive load.
Re:Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:48PM (#49504012)
Constant headache in C++ with `std::vector` element references. Zig's explicit stability here is a welcome relief for data structures.
Re:Hacking IKEA Furniture on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:44PM (#49503976)
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Re:Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:40PM (#49443567)
Windows taskbar has done this forever and I never once noticed it consciously. Good catch.