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Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:16AM (#50244124)
I think the point is cope
Re:JetBrains Thinkrail on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:42PM (#50235874)
I canceled my subscription after like 12 years because I realized all the things that made it great aren’t really needed anymore. The “it just works” tooling, refactoring, jumping around code, etc.

Now my agents mainly write code under my direction and I review it either in the harness or on GitHub.

I hadn’t opened it in ages and when I did need an IDE something like Zed was more than sufficient.

Re:Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:44PM (#50222950)
Or maybe because the use of GitHub has skyrocketed?
Re:Docker Is Weird on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:18PM (#50214735)
I think you have that backwards. They switched from runc to crun.
Re:Docker Is Weird on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:54AM (#50205319)
I switched to Podman because it’s daemon less (no resources are used unless a container is running) and it doesn’t need to run as root.

Otherwise it’s basically the same and you can continue using your Dockerfiles and Docker Compose files.

Unless you’re doing something really fancy it’s basically a drop-in replacement.

Re:An ad-free Android TV on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:31AM (#50165372)
Seems like that should be a right you can’t waive no matter what a contract says
Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." on Sunday September 27, 2026 @12:31PM (#49868218)
It’s such an odd design decision.

I could see ignoring the old undo data or warning before discarding it but just silently wiping it is so user hostile it’s hard to comprehend.

I think the point they’re making is that it’s unliveable in Arizona without AC.
Re:The Scourge of x86 Emulation on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:30AM (#49753457)
I thought it was an implementation of the Win32 API as a compatibility layer.

What is it emulating exactly?

Re:OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:13AM (#49736663)
Make no mistakes
Re:Working with Git Worktrees in Magit on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:29PM (#49664035)
The problem I have with worktrees is that if I want to test the changes I need to juggle the worktrees.

It works better for me if I have multiple copies of the repo with their own supporting environment like repo-a, repo-b, etc. going to app-a.foo.localhost, app-b.foo.localhost, etc.

There’s zero evidence Iran was developing nuclear weapons
> Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. It's an intolerable premise

I’m not sure the only country that has used nukes on people should be the one to decide that

I suspect it’s something similar to the GDPR where the EU passes a law but has very few resources on how to check if you’re actually compliant.
Re:Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico Do SolstíCIO on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:09AM (#49550138)
I thought maybe Amazon started sponsoring the site
Re:Get your Windows license refund on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:05PM (#49481530)
Yeah this is an actually good use of AI in an OS.
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:55AM (#49463324)
China as “second place in any sense” ignores reality.

TikTok: achieved global cultural and algorithmic dominance.

DJI: controls roughly 70% of the global consumer and commercial drone market.

CATL: The world’s largest EV battery manufacturer.

BYD: Surpassed Tesla in total electric vehicle production volume.

Shein & Temu

The list goes on…

Re:The End of an Athlon on Sunday August 23, 2026 @07:17AM (#49407883)
Reminds of me of the Celeron 300A to 450 overclock.
100% agree.

They added so much new syntax to C# to the point it really is starting to feel like C++++ whereas Java has modernized itself without massively expanding its syntax and modifiers.

Re:Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:09AM (#49020311)
Source: trust me bro
Re:Prefer Strict Tables in SQLite on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:45PM (#48874572)
I would’ve thought this was the default.
Re:Alternate Clock Designs and Time Systems on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:42PM (#48874541)
I assume you’re talking about Slow Watches? I actually have one and while I love the simplicity of it, it turns out the minute hand is actually the more useful hand. Trying to figure out if you have 10 or 20 minutes until your next appointment on a Slow Watch is extremely painful, so much so that I only wear it if I don’t think I’ll need to know the time behind if it’s “roughly between 1 and 2 pm”.
Re:Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:43PM (#48807155)
Really? I use Firefox as my personal browser and everything works fine, including Google sites. Very rarely there’s a government site that needs Chrome, but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s “many” sites.
Re:Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC on Sunday July 05, 2026 @02:47PM (#48796816)
So you’re cool with letting anyone walk your DNS?
Re:Podman v6.0.0 on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:57PM (#48767275)
After Docker Desktop randomly started consuming insane amounts of memory again we switched to Podman and it was literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-compose.yml.

Zero changes needed and now I don’t need to keep a daemon running.

Great software.

Re:Microsoft Needs Windows Lite on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:51PM (#48721680)
> Windows Lite is a stripped down version of Windows. No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, nothing. Windows Lite is just win32 with a lightweight shell and graphics drivers.

So, basically Linux with Wine/Proton?

Isn’t this basically what SteamOS does?

You can make it so you need a YubiKey to login to 1Password the first time on a new device

So just waiting for the password won’t be enough

Re:Epic Games announces Lore version control system on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:00PM (#48575113)
I think that’s the point of the OP. Git is great at certain things but is not a one size fits all.
Re:PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps) on Sunday June 07, 2026 @02:23AM (#48432374)
In the article they call out that MARKETING can be date based

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