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Re:Ah, peptides. where to begin? on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:03AM (#47673912)
Not US, but the seminars to fill in the hours in my country were closer to legal bribes and/or holidays in often exotic places. They usually were provided/funded by the medicine lobby.
Re:A Founder Tried to Pitch – and Got a Restraining Order on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:04AM (#47613923)
Can't wait for his LinkedIn post.
Re:I Quit. The Clankers Won on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:28AM (#47600580)
Hard same over 20 years
Accessing the shop by going through the wall with a tank is not the same as walking in the door. Hosting costs money. These botnets should be charged for the costs they incur
I think the second is incorrect too. DDoS is a DDoS no matter what the intent is.
There are way too many to do that
I will join the club. +1 for ruining M$ AI with my garbage code
Re:A Coherent Vision for the Future of Version Control on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:05PM (#47480910)
The only reason I have not defaulted to jj already is the inability to be messy with it. Easy to make mistakes without "git add"
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality on Friday March 20, 2026 @06:30PM (#47461582)
I had a chat with a Linux fan the other day. They said Linux is better because you can replace kernels easily to get driver support for something that wasn't working.

The problem is that I do not want to mess around to make things work. This is the power of Windows. Everything is built around it and it does not need or want you to keep hacking it.

Don't get me wrong I am working on Mac and my personal dev laptop is a Linux Mint, but sometimes it physically hurt to find something that sends me down a rabbit hole yet again on Linux. I just think the whole "you have to hack it because you can and otherwise you don't really own it" thing is a big hurdle on Linux that keeps mainstream peeps to stay away

Not sure if I made sense, but yeah basically in order to challenge Windows Linux would need to "just work" which is not the case right now (or ever was)

Re:I'm OK being left behind, thanks on Friday March 20, 2026 @10:08AM (#47454751)
Not to defend crypto, but this all applies to fiat too
Re:Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:09AM (#47362490)
It is not hygienic, but with only the account-id you are fine. In the IAM rules the attacker can always just use a * on their end, so it does not make a difference. You have to be conscious to set proper rules for your (owner) end tho.
I was a big fan of pidgin, but this premise makes me feel iffy.

Why would I ever want my work to intrude on my personal messaging? My private time is my own. Slack/Teams is perfect because I can mute it on a schedule when I stop for the day.

Anything that is urgent can be managed via Pagerduty or similar on a controlled fashion

Re:I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21 on Thursday January 22, 2026 @07:53PM (#46727041)
"Dump a good friend or family member because they're on a rough patch"

Suuuuure

Re:Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky) on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:20PM (#46671185)
If you've enjoyed these, give a go for Dogs of War too.
When did CF do this?
So far they proved to do the opposite.
Re:Clicks Communicator on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:07PM (#46468187)
It would be nice to have something like this with a privacy OS
Re:I'm a developer for a major food delivery app on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:00AM (#46462864)
Raising awareness is not a bad call. I would not know about this, if it would surface in a random US paper
Thank you for sharing your story. Cannot wait for the next part
Take my condolences, Sunday outages are rough
This will age badly
This is a bit misguided. If you lose weight too fast, you will have tons of side effects no matter how safe the medication is. Your heart, kidney, pancreas can be stressed with too fast weight loss even without meds. Also you might end up with a lot of loose skin...

Also a new medication will have unknown long term side effects for sure that will surface over time, similar to the current ones.

In my case mounjaro was life changing (for the better). I would say 42kg over 15 months was fast enough already.

Oil still flowing
Re:Messing with Scraper Bots on Saturday November 15, 2025 @07:17AM (#45936931)
I wonder if the abuse bots could be somehow made to mine some crypto to give back to the bills they cause
Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:41PM (#45929334)
I can give you an example. Single divorced mother with two kids. Working in social care for minimal wage, often earning lower amounts than the people she cares for. There are no savings, no relatives to help. Job change is an uncertainty that could introduce homelessness for the whole family if it doesn't work out. Not many options there. Now if you move this scenario out of rich countries it will get even worse
Re:You misunderstand what it means to be poor on Friday November 14, 2025 @12:37PM (#45929279)
You are now educated about being poor. Enjoy!
Re:Helm v4.0.0 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:45PM (#45920298)
CRDs in helm are such a freaking nightmare! You want a clean install because you are in a hole? No worries let's remove all the crds and delete/create everything else relying on them. Separating the two (crds and other objects) is a solution but then you have a bastardize thing to maintain that is not latching upstream

Also I cannot count how many times I had to double/triple run charts because crds were in a circular dependency. In a perfect world this must not be an issue but if you want to be a user of an upstream chart this is a pain

Re:The Farmer Was Replaced [video] on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @09:35AM (#45811488)
The Farmer Was Made Into Sausage By Automation
Re:D2: Diagram Scripting Language on Monday October 27, 2025 @04:28PM (#45725893)
I would share it, but BigCorp would come after me. It is nothing terribly smart really. I am using steampipe to list all the regions for VPC/Subnets/NAT GW/IGW/[everything else networky] and loop through the list adding nodes to the diagram. There is a long list of accounts which all gets generated and committed in a git repo. The big challenge was to make it all readable instead of making a mess.
Re:D2: Diagram Scripting Language on Sunday October 26, 2025 @11:23AM (#45712626)
First of all, thanks for your work on D2, it is the coolest of them all IMHO. I would definitely use animations because management loves shiny things and if they are happy I get my salary bumped.

I have recently made a solution for dynamically codifying the network layout of AWS accounts with D2. D2 was the only solution that was allowing to render a lot of objects without having to fight the engine with tons of hints. My only complaint was/is that the sdk/d2lib was very under-documented, so initially I started off with generating text as a map before realizing that there is a better way that is barely used. It took me some time to figure out how to use the lib for the trickier parts.

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