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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:41PM (#50371196)
Everything is legacy garbage, except the new hot thing, which is next year’s legacy garbage
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:29PM (#50078232)
They never said it would be Ultra only. They said, "starting with paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers" in the initial announcement.

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...

Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:15PM (#49808218)
I was just responding to the error in the parenthesis.
Re:GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:38PM (#49807735)
That's not what the Pareto frontier is; you're mixing up Pareto frontier with Pareto principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

>you need to watch over and destruct goroutines manually to prevent memory leaks

No, you don’t. Any stack-allocated resources are freed when the function returns. WaitGroup is just there for synchronization.

Early-career person here. How do you protect yourself from corporate politics?
Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:52PM (#30770654)
> I'd be less inclined to unleash a bunch of mid-level devs using Go to create a huge codebase

Why?

My propeller hat is a dignified part of my professional attire, thank you very much.
No, they’re right. A non-negligible amount of software engineers in the US make >$1.2M per year.
Your company sounds great. Are you hiring?
Re:Stop Death Shaming on Sunday September 05, 2021 @01:41AM (#28421890)
Let me know if you need someone to talk with. Contact info is in profile
Re:The EU: Made in America on Saturday June 19, 2021 @09:48PM (#27566320)
It's correct. You must be thinking of the Web.