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Re:PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:45AM (#50181928)
My team rotates 1 sacrificial member every week to be on call with prod k8s access. It limits who can just push things to prod at any given time while making sure everyone on the team has experience. If someone is out sick or on vacation we do time trading, it works out for everyone.
Re:Why We're Banning AI on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:20PM (#50108856)
It's pretty obvious to me when someone just copy pastes claude spew onto a website and calls it a day. If they put in enough effort that I can no longer tell then sure, I will read that.
I hate the word crypto, very ambiguous. In my professional life it almost always refers to cryptography.
x86 has a built in instruction for doing AES. That's just moving the ASIC into the CPU core, not eliminating it.
Re:Hang on to Your Firefox on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:24PM (#49530602)
On Android I use Firefox despite the rough edges simply because the usability gain of the mobile web with ublock Origin is insane. Also it's nice sending tabs between desktop and mobile.
Re:2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:03PM (#49517528)
Could even run on the computers at my middle school, nobody thought to block it
Re:2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:01PM (#49517519)
Validating that a path on a grid doesn't move through impassable objects is definitely much cheaper than running a pathfinding algorithm, especially on 2004 hardware. You'd have to make those checks as well in order to run the pathfinding.
Re:Get your Windows license refund on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:42PM (#49483309)
Other countries are free to find a way to incentivize building home-grown equivalents and prioritizing that software or even applying tarrifs to foreign software.
Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:18PM (#49482465)
One of the reasons I loved learning Helix is that it shows you the list of possible next keypresses every time you press the first key in a combo. Amazing for discoverability. It even works for user defined shortcuts!
It feels so degrading talking to the bot. Last time I did it I was trying to upgrade my service to take advantage of a 2.5GbE modem I bought and I almost said screw it because it was so frustrating with the long pauses after everything I said!
Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:38AM (#49388858)
We're using grok and while I can usually understand the comments they're always at least 2x as verbose as they need to be. It loves explaining everything in two different ways, putting one of the explanations in parenthesis.
Re:How Kubernetes Probes Work on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:33PM (#49366854)
The better solution is to not have too many critical upstream services :)
I think the more likely explanation is that the Cursor data they effectively acquired for $10B was extremely valuable for their training when combined with the insane number of GB300s xAI has for training.
Re:License plate reader searches should require a warrant on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @12:09PM (#49274662)
Sometimes the law is vibes, SCOTUS will probably create a set of tests where lower courts will have to look at how many points it hits and decide whether it's over the line on a case by case basis.
Re:Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:14PM (#49249084)
I think the point is more that the patent office has been too broad with issuing software patents. I'm sure some are reasonable, but many are "obvious to someone skilled in the art" and should not have been issued.
If you've collected data on a California resident with the intent to profit from its sale then you're doing some type of business with respect to California
The company would have to not have any interstate presence at all. If you are a business based in the united states that has customers in California, you are easily reachable under California law.
This is part of why my text editor is built from source on my own branch where I only occasionally pull in changes from master. I know I'm probably a very rare exception here.
Re:Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 on Sunday July 19, 2026 @04:17PM (#48971353)
Some jobs are also just so much that there's little room for doing something so similar to your work after you get home.
I would assume the 200K lines of software and the firmware is presumably flashed after receiving the product from the assembly house.
Re:Mozilla: The state of open source AI on Friday July 17, 2026 @12:52PM (#48949483)
Technically open source requires some amount of monetary volunteering, it's just that the electricity to run a code editor and compile (most) open source code bases is within hobby budget for most people.
It's not haphazard, it's a circular orbit. And at those altitudes satellites move at a little over 7km/s.
Re:Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @11:46AM (#48908620)
I find C++ beautiful only when I come across simple, powerful things that use the minimal amount of advanced language features possible
Satellites flying at 360km (the target altitude for starlink V3) deorbit very quickly without regular burns. Dead starlink satellites are guaranteed to come down within 5 years.
Just coverage is already provided by the 600-something direct to cell satellites already in orbit yes, but you need more if you want it to be useful beyond loading text-only posts or sending SMS
Starlink actively works with radioastronomy sites to avoid causing interference. They've posted about this before.
Re:When 2+2=5 on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:46AM (#48805414)
One difference is you usually only get one shot to manipulate a human before they get suspicious. If the LLM's context resets you can try all over as if your first failed attempt didn't even happen.
Re:A native graphical shell for SSH on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:12AM (#48733006)
It was more that IT considered the college-hosted git instance "experimental" still, in multiple project courses we were required to use college hosted version control as part of the class, but those who wanted to use git were on their own to figure it out.
Re:A native graphical shell for SSH on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:43AM (#48728562)
When I went to college (early 2010s) professors were still encouraging students to use SVN, so I probably have a fair number of peers who didn't learn git until they got out into the real world

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