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That is not quite accurate -- the Game Pass library was a subset of what could be streamed -- things that were not available in Game Pass could still be streamed provided you owned them. When games went out of Game Pass you could purchase them and continue streaming.
Re:No more leap seconds Timekeeping is officially changing on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:12AM (#50117423)
Everyone ready for the new "date/time hates you" bugs?

Though not having to do the leap smear might be easier?

Re:Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa? on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:11AM (#49773651)
The cons example is conflating implementation details (return the value passed in to cons) with the semantics (return the left-side of this pair that was instantiated by cons). In the first case it is a category error to think about mutability. In the second mutability makes perfect sense.

Moreover, I suspect it is possible to construct an interface such that to prove statically that you can Liskov Substitute a type into it would be equivalent to deciding Halt: All you need are extensional semantics in your type system.

Re:Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" on Monday August 10, 2026 @10:54AM (#49244528)
This is called CodeAct (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01030) and is available in a number of frameworks.

Patent was applied for 04.03.2026. langgraph-codeact _shipped_ this capability in February.

Re:TypeScript 7 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:46PM (#48839918)
Or implement tsaot
Re:Unicode's Transliteration Rules Are Turing-Complete on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:40PM (#48839878)
At this point it feels more difficult to ensure that your format cannot compute than to ensure it can
Re:We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:34AM (#48830597)
In their defense (both OP and HubSpot) the original is written to customers already aware of the context, and HackerNews asks submitters not to editorialize by default.
Re:If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:05PM (#48469502)
Moreover, the Library of Congress ruled that LLM outputs are not copyrightable, so technically, Anthropic has even less claim here.
Clair Obscur was perfectly playable for me through GeForce Now, for what it is worth, even when hitting parry timing. (N = 1, but a datum nonetheless)
The harness? I believe the company is planning to ease off in favor of Copilot. But we have our choice of models to use in Copilot, which feature Anthropic's as well.
I work at Microsoft. This is in the top tier of “things that did not happen”
Re:AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @08:14AM (#48120910)
Given that AI has successfully induced lawyers to use hallucinated cases, I would argue it is already convincing at it, to boot.
Re:Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:05PM (#48057622)
To be fair, to some extent that’s up to us. Time to get cleaning, I guess.
Re:Software Is Not Sentient on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:08PM (#48012533)
This article seems to miss Dawkins' point, which is not to assert that Claude is conscious -- he clearly states that he does not actually know. He seeks to wonder what brought about the evolution of consciousness in the first place.
Re:The future of AI is on-prem on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:05PM (#47352875)
They aren't wrong, but I suspect they are not going far enough in their prediction.

The future of AI will be dominated by Personal Computing, just like with normal application software, since AI, particularly voice and video and computer interaction, are at the IO layer and thus latency-sensitive for online tasks, and that is before privacy gets into the picture at all.

Re:Banned in California on Thursday February 26, 2026 @10:23AM (#47167306)
Much of the pharmaceutical industry depends on petroleum byproducts.
Re:I Fixed Windows Native Development on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:01AM (#47024758)
You do not need a Professional or Enterprise license to use the Visual Studio Build Tools:

> Previously, if the application you were developing was not OSS, installing VSBT was permitted only if you had a valid Visual Studio license (e.g., Visual Studio Community or higher).

From (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/updates-to-visual-stu...). For OSS, you do not even need a Community License anymore.

Re:I Fixed Windows Native Development on Sunday February 15, 2026 @10:59AM (#47024732)
Why not use winget to do it?

`winget install --id Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools`.

If you need the Windows(/App) SDK too for the WinRT-features, you can add `winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsSDK.10.0.18362` and/or `winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8`

Re:Why Today's Python Developers Are Embracing Type Hints on Sunday September 28, 2025 @11:00AM (#45404820)
> Google and Microsoft have already shut down several failed projects

Could you elaborate on this?

Re:Grok chats exposed in Google results on Thursday August 21, 2025 @10:46AM (#44973470)
The framing is a bit off - every one of those URLs was created by the user having that conversation. They had to opt in to making it publicly visible.

What’s more curious is how Google got ahold of the URL list itself. Was the individual URLs indexed from somewhere else? Did a clever engineer notice a pattern and add some additional directives for the crawler? Did xAI put them in a sitemap they sent to Google? Something else?

I'm feeling a little maximalist about this: How about both?
Re:Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:21PM (#43016225)
I did not realize the outlet impacts the amperage… Is it a rating issue, or is there an actual part there that will trip?
And also journalists keep getting leaked as having internal journalist-only messaging lists, and often discuss the seemingly coordinated articles (or at least the events leading to them) in advent of publishing. See the JournoList (and related) scandals.
Re:Please, Stop the Coding Challenges on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:14PM (#42153537)
This is the most Software Engineer answer. Emphasizing only the distinctions that make no difference :D
Nobody seems to be suggesting it is any better when Google does it; but on Android (if you ignore the efforts that Google has gone to to make the experience be limited) one can at least avoid the AppStore altogether, while still installing and running various things on device.
Unless it is a design patent, though I have no idea if Japanese law even supports this kind of IP protection.
Re:The same origin of quantum physics and general relativity on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:10PM (#41489980)
Note that this appears to be a pre-print? (Dated Jan 2025)
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky on Saturday August 31, 2024 @08:28PM (#41413127)
Yes, it is; governments do not have a magic right to never be questioned or even advocated against.

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