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In virtually every company there are questions you intuitively know that your managers don't necessarily want to know the answers to (or at least, they only want to know the answers to them if you have a solution), usually it's something relatively trivial like minor infractions of corporate rules.

There are some leaders who are extremely good at convincing you about the importance of belief in a particular thing to the point where you avoid even thinking up those questions - if they are ever cornered (and they rarely allow it to get to that point) they will wriggle endlessly rather than responding to a line of inquiry that bursts the collective bubble.

Do they know? It's hard to argue about their internal motivations.

That gap explains much of the spike. Companies who never used any scanning tools on much of their codebase are suddenly having that gap closed.
And the author has admitted at least some assistance here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452841

There may have been less pushback if this had been expressed up front. But also, what is it ? Is it to "test the architecture applied to nats" or is it to be a fully fledged NATs replacement (as per the impression given by table at the bottom of the website) - which becomes much harder if AI has significantly re-written the authors original code (and commented it badly).

The website being AI coded I can take or leave.

The reason we know about Theranos is that it ended up in court. Plenty of other startups have had obviously impractical ideas that didn't go anywhere.
Re:SoundCloud just banned VPN access on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:15AM (#46271336)
Some of those (including many providers on Openreach) will support mini-jumbo frames that allow an MTU of 1500 inside pppoe.
Re:Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? on Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:59AM (#46014132)
Is there a Obsidian -> Hugo/Zola/Jekyll thing that's relatively robust?
Re:Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? on Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:15AM (#46013862)
What are people using to edit entries - because while markdown is fine, a lot of the time I want to be able to drag in screenshots, snippets of other documents like rfcs and so on. So it ends up being easier to make those notes for myself rather than push them into anything publishable.
Re:Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:09PM (#45969046)
The problem is that they react to lights from the opposing vehicle, but they are going to hit your eyes before they detect your lights.

That's with simple high beam assist. The matrix ones you refer to actually have another feature which makes things even worse; they progressively dip the light in parts, but combined with the first effect this means that you have a few seconds of being blinded before all of their component leds have been dipped.

Not to mention that they are only reacting to something directly in front of them for the most part -- meaning you can be blinded on curves, or when turn around and looking at them off axis (say as they wait to turn into a road).

The Sun has cumulatively lost about £500m over the last few years. I presume there must be some other purpose for keeping it around.
Re:VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:10AM (#45680931)
They aren't big - but they are bigger than when it was just Urs and a couple of guys turning out plugins.

They becoming popular on the back of Diva, and Hans Zimmer using Zebra (he's very fulsome in his praise whenever mentioning u-he in interviews).

Re:SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @06:37PM (#45366754)
Right, but all it says is that an error was thrown.
Re:SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @03:16PM (#45364797)
I'd like to know the details of the errors -- because it could have been as simple as running out of memory.
It does, because SIGTERM is traditionally understood as the trigger for a shutdown. Docker - for instance - will send a SIGTERM to pid 1 when a container is stopped - which goes back to a previous comment here about using a real init as pid 1 if the thing in your container forks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44990092
runit doesn't propagate SIGTERM to services it starts.
runit doesn't always take care of services it manages in the same way as a proper init . From the man page:

"If runsvdir receives a TERM signal, it exits with 0 immediately"

Re:Litestar Is Worth a Look on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @04:45PM (#44817622)
How do people deploy this framework typically - speaking for myself, I found NGINX Unit somewhat fiddly.
Re:Async I/O on Linux in databases on Sunday July 20, 2025 @08:36AM (#44624597)
Presumably the intent record is large (containing the key-value data) while the completion record is tiny

I don't think this is necessarily the case, because the operations may have completed in a different order to how they are recorded in the intent log.

Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:51PM (#44610659)
What are you planning on moving to ?
Re:You're Probably Breaking the Llama Community License on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @06:20PM (#43710995)
Downloading all of libgen on purpose is a lot more than 'scraping web while obeying robots.txt'.

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