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Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:20PM (#50343933)
It was an intentional pun on the Carbon name
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:19PM (#50279379)
Reading the Argonian reference made my brain immediately think “The Lusty Carbonian Maid”
Re:The current balance of power in open models on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:27AM (#49817588)
This all depends on the SLA that gets signed.

If a frontier lab is willing to draft an SLA that assumes liability, corporate will pay for it as long as the cost/benefit is in favor of it over insourcing.

Right?

Re:Intellectual Fly Is Open on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:17PM (#49593080)
If a human should read it, a human should write it.
Re:NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them on Monday June 29, 2026 @07:09PM (#48726530)
I can't be the only person who saw "NUMA" and then read the word "memory" in the title as "Memora-hee, Memora-haa".
We should thank companies for warning us during the interview process that they are so separated from reality (especially in the AI era)

If AI can’t make them recognize a work life balance has value then it’s easy to see they don’t believe the “force multiplier” BS they are peddling

I remember having to do this with icomoon back in the day when icon fonts were all the rage because svg support in ie11 was lacking and downloading the entirety of font awesome was a huge payload hit.
Re:Notes on DeepSeek on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:03AM (#48486756)
Ollama cloud is also a fantastic deal. They also don’t have a monthly limit, just session and weekly.
Only slightly related, but I have been using Oban as a Postgres native message queue in the elixir ecosystem and loving it. For my use case, it’s so much simpler than spinning up another piece of infrastructure like Kafka or rabbitmq
I shudder to think how small the macOS ui text will be on this but I’m willing to find out.
Re:Side Projects I've Built Since 2009 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:36AM (#44060041)
This might sound crazy but I started live streaming partially because I wanted to work on side projects.

You will be less productive than getting into a focus state off line. But 0.5x is still infinitely higher than zero.

On stream, you don’t get to randomly hop into a game or doom scroll social media or hackernews.

Re:Material 3 Expressive: Better, Easier, Emotional UX on Friday May 16, 2025 @05:45PM (#44010044)
I was digging into the cursor effect just to see why it's so laggy for some people and noticed that this is actually a Next.js site.

That is news to me that Google is using Nextjs for anything.

Re:Getting Forked by Microsoft on Monday April 21, 2025 @05:12PM (#43756540)
I think this is a good case for applying Hanlon's Razor. The person that did the forking and removal of copyright text may simply not know that it needed to stay there.

I would love to know what processes MS is considering to prevent this in the future as well as what kind of auditing might be done to look at other projects that started as forks.

Re:Your Startup Doesn't Need to Be a Unicorn on Monday April 07, 2025 @05:08PM (#43615963)
I would love to know of some of the companies you know of that have gone this route. Maybe nothing we've heard of, but still sounds interesting.
Re:Overengineered Anchor Links on Thursday April 03, 2025 @05:47PM (#43575862)
I recently discovered the way Tanstack does this. Basically, if the heading of the section is in the viewport, then the list item is highlighted.

So you could have multiple items highlighted, but it still "works" somewhat intuitively for the end user.

The drawback is that it requires JS via intersection observer. But maybe the CSS standards committee could see value in this kind of thing eventually.

Re:The Frontend Treadmill on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:25PM (#43440967)
Not weird to do all that. Just weird to not disclose it.
Re:The Frontend Treadmill on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:24PM (#43440963)
Promoting it? No problem. But promoting something you profited from without disclosing it violates FCC rules for broadcasting. I would say influencers aren't technically broadcasting but they are in principle.
Re:The Frontend Treadmill on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:47PM (#43428754)
While his formal affiliation may have been short-lived, do you think he got a cut of the sale to Shopify?

If so, not disclosing that when he promotes Remix is a bit shady.

Nice dude and all, but that is one thing I take issue with still.

Re:Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer on Thursday March 13, 2025 @05:16PM (#43357310)
> Use AI to spot blind spots

> Tools like ChatGPT can highlight UX issues you might miss. It’s a quick sanity check—not perfect, but better than guessing.

> Tools like ChatGPT can highlight UX issues you might miss. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than guessing. Some prompts to try:

Was this an intentional joke?

Their first key insight is interesting. It says that coding ability predicts model performance in the game. I wonder if it also predicts performance of human players in some way?
FNV-1a might be worth looking into. It's pretty fast
Re:We Are Destroying Software on Saturday February 08, 2025 @06:19PM (#42987072)
We are destroying software by directly contradicting ourselves when we describe how we are destroying software.
LOL, you and I posted very similar replies at the same time.
Quick note: when trying to do full page screenshots, Chrome does a screenshot of the current view, then scrolls and does another screenshot. This can cause some interesting artifacts when rendering pages with scroll behaviors.

Firefox does a proper full page screenshot and even allows you to set a higher DPS value. I use this a lot when making video content.

Check out some of the args in FF using: `:screenshot --help`

Re:S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:12PM (#42966553)
This brings up an interesting thought too. A photo is just a lossy representation of the real world.

So it's lossy all the way down with LLMs, too.

Reality > Data created by a human > LLM > Distilled LLM

Re:Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:57PM (#42966424)
If these tools had a runtime check, then the cache key creation would have failed out.

72 is the max length of id, username, and password combined. If that combination is over 72, then failure and the cache key would not have been created. So, no, the attacker would not need to guess only one character of a password.

Re:A computer can never be held accountable on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @04:49PM (#42939347)
Oh interesting. I hadn't heard much about it recently. Thanks.
Re:A computer can never be held accountable on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:46PM (#42924416)
Consider the Volkswagen scandal where code was written that fudged the results when in an emissions testing environment.

The only person to see major punishment for that was the software dev that wrote the code, but that decision to write that code involved far more people up the chain. THEY should be held accountable in some way or else nothing prevents them from using some other poor dev as a scapegoat.

Re:Find the oldest line in your repo on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:22PM (#42882772)
Take my upvote :)
Re:A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:54PM (#42731404)
In the case of Restream (or cases like their "stage"), thats not always doable. What about superfluous hero animations that marketing sites love to do these days? Pausing some generic canvas rendering logic is usually more annoying than you would want.

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