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Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All on Thursday April 16, 2026 @04:40PM (#47799206)
A dimming IBM x40 Thinkpad missing its F key.
Re:Google search is becoming one of those dying malls on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:16AM (#33353016)
That’s the same thing. The quality decreases when the automated trash can beat the system.
Re:Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:00AM (#26408627)
In this example rust doesn't just make me aware of the tradeoffs. It almost feels like the language is actively standing in the way of making the trade offs I want to make. At least as the language is today. I think a bunch of upcoming features like unsized rvalues and async fns in traits will help.
Re:Signal Desktop is corrupting its database on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:21PM (#26295625)
Meaningless? I value private communication with my friends and family. I don't exactly need anonymity there. In fact I want the opposite. In the absence of phone numbers I would be adding very explicit metadata on my device to distinguish between my friends.

Signal has taken measures to limit its ability to know who I'm sending and receiving messages from. Though it's still possible by mapping my IP address to me. So yes there is still a centralized metadata problem, but I'm not letting perfect stand in the way of better.

Re:Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting? on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:26AM (#22286611)
That still sounds like a bad model for paying artists. If I sign up for Spotify and only listen to a few artists I'm fond of, those artists get next to nothing of my subscription fees. Instead I'm subsidizing the payouts to artists like Drake. Who I have nothing against, I'm just not listening to his work.