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Re:The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:01AM (#49622343)
I don't get the sales pitch, spend 15 million dollars to win a 1 million dollar price?

Showing of the model's capabilities - okay, but it's not like it solved the problem on its own, and apparently not particularly efficient. Are there practical applications that justify the investment?

Re:The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:56AM (#49622281)
Aren't business consulting firms even worse? They are explicitly for business and there are known cases where they shared confidential information of one of their customers with another one.
Remote attestation?
Re:America has lost its war with Iran on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:47AM (#48551056)
… and let's not forget about Iran's Lego videos!
Re:Pozzo: A Fast Lucky Number Checker on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:27PM (#48495955)
> Motivation: […] After spending several hackathons making things like "Uber for dogs with hearing loss"…

A perfectly normal thing to do.

Re:Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:19PM (#48495871)
I suppose it's not about patents or copyright but rather the fear that a re-submitted patch can't be trusted because the original patch is considered not trustworthy, or that the resubmission is carried out by the sanction person itself or a friend under an email address that doesn't fall under the sanctions. Either way, it could be seen as a liability.
Certainly the most fun website about a security vulnerability
Re:Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:17AM (#48399031)
In what general direction would the innovation be?

I'm not sure if it's actually needed - a lot of things have been tried and the paradigms that persisted you can choose between but it seems to be a matter of taste. I often feel that the real issue is the lack of maturity and stability. I rather want a complete UI toolkit including learning resources (not reference docs!), no matter how boring, instead of super clever implementation that is never in a usable state.

Wondering if it's just the marketing that Noctua did, and the actual mold and process engineering left to some fab in China?
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:17AM (#47945929)
Isn't it a dumbed down version of Azure Pipelines?
Re:Euro-Office on Saturday March 28, 2026 @02:04PM (#47556923)
A fork of OnlyOffice with some big names behind it who want to make it easier to build and contribute to, great. Yet LibreOffice seems to remain the only FOSS office solution with native apps (although they aren't particularly good).
Re:JPEG Compression on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @04:38AM (#47423177)
My dog doesn't react to familiar voices over the phone at all. The compression and reproduction of audio, while fine for humans, definitely doesn't work for her animal ears.
Re:A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch on Monday January 26, 2026 @12:43AM (#46762234)
No image in the readme, bummer.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @01:46PM (#46124872)
Classic - brand new blog post:

> We’re hiring engineers.

Careers page:

> Sorry, no job openings at the moment.

Re:Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:28AM (#45990763)
Zig has the concept of illegal behavior, of which a subset is unchecked illegal behavior - basically undefined behavior, but if evaluated at comptime, it results in a compile error. The documentation also states that most illegal behavior is safety-checked unless you use the ReleaseFast or ReleaseSmall optimization modes (and don't enable safety checks for individual blocks).
Re:Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:17AM (#45990674)
Generics though
Re:C++26: range support for std:optional on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:02PM (#45596302)
I'm sensing a pinch of sarcasm
Re:Zig builds are getting faster on Saturday October 04, 2025 @08:50AM (#45472954)
How does Zig's compilation and codegen compare to TPDE? The claim is that it's 10-20x faster than LLVM with -O0 but with limitations.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:32AM (#45287547)
Maybe a good use case for AI to help with a quick transition?
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:25AM (#45287493)
I liked Zulip a lot until that Flutter rewrite. Maybe it's more accessible now but the new look is not for me. I believe the app navigation is largely unchanged, and still doesn't quite feel right. I love the topic-based model nonetheless.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:19AM (#45287442)
I'm pretty sure they want to lose all of the non-lucrative customers.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:16AM (#45287412)
Funny you would mention GitLab - I find it extremely clunky, especially compared to GitHub. Maybe GitHub is primitive in comparison, but it never makes me hunt for basic functionality and the search just works for about everything.
Re:YouTube Is a Mysterious Monopoly on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:38AM (#45178275)
Did they drop support for the YouTube app on very old TVs or ban a bunch of those cheap Android TV boxes with a lot of spyware on them by any chance?
Re:YouTube Is a Mysterious Monopoly on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:34AM (#45178237)
My first thought when I read AI search was that people might use it for instructions rather than tutorials and troubleshooting videos.
Re:Kubernetes v1.34: Of Wind and Will (O' WaW) on Friday August 29, 2025 @03:12AM (#45061128)
Everyone keeps bringing up the YAML Norway bug but it has been addressed by the YAML 1.2.0 spec in 2009 (!). Blame the implementors that stuck to the 1.1 spec
Re:Inside Zig's New Writer on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:49AM (#45049204)
Thanks a lot, this was quite enlightening, like what "buffering in the interface" really means. A follow-up post would nice!

I'm also curious what preserve in rebase is used for in practice. Prevent drain from writing buffered bytes too eagerly? But if it can write more data in a single syscall, what benefits does it give you? If the end of the buffer could still change, then you wouldn't want to write it yet, but then drain would need a similar parameter to not touch the bytes at the end (and therefore write none of the data). But the bytes in the buffer would still move towards the front, so this makes no sense.

Re:Faking a JPEG on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:42AM (#44540126)
Then captions that are somewhat believable? "Abstract digital art piece by F. U. Botts resembling wide landscapes in vibrant colors"
Re:Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux on Thursday June 26, 2025 @06:08AM (#44385872)
Flatpak considers to move from OSTree to containers, citing the well-maintained tooling as a major plus point. How would that differ from Apptainers?
Re:PNG Is Back on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:34AM (#44374195)
I doubt it can get anywhere near. What is even the point of a new PNG version if there's something as advanced as JXL that is also royalty-free?

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