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Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:28AM (#50336563)
Hard disagree. Framing it this way makes it seem like all possibilities are equally valid options. Yet you’ve somehow winnowed the field of infinity to the several options presented. You did that through successive rounds of professional judgement that eliminated options you did not consider fit to propose.

Taking options off of the client’s table is the core responsibility here.

Re:Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:47PM (#50292044)
For those following along at home: https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure
How can anyone look at hundreds of years of US imperialism with rose-colored glasses anymore? Who is really misguided into thinking the US army is defensive in nature? You have constructed a beautiful straw man.

Fortunately the Nuremberg principles rescue us here. Following orders is no excuse for abdicating a moral responsibility.

It's a Bad Idea (TM) to compile a regular expression from an untrusted input.

Despite what anyone would try to sell you, a regular expression is a programming language. It's Always A Bad Idea (TM) to compile untrusted input into any kind of programming language. Don't string concatenate SQL queries, eval is evil, it's all the same idea.

[citation needed]
Re:Weball: Play Katamari on Websites on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:22AM (#50166010)
lwn.net makes for a pretty fun level. See how big a combo you can get!
One option would be to pay humans to handle customer service. Then you won't have to worry about getting dragged for your terrible AI implementation, and you can be sure your NPS will go up. Not to mention that more people and their families can eat! Win-win-win!
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:21AM (#49830227)
Completely fair to complain that the icons do not indicate the purpose of each menu. They do helpfully name each menu in the tooltip: the hamburger on the left is "Main Menu", the three vertical dots in the location bar is the "Current Folder Menu" and the down arrow next to the view switcher is "View Options".

The Main Menu offers global actions, and appears in the left-hand global pane of the window. The Current Folder Menu offers actions specifically related to the location named in the location bar. The View Options menu is part of a split button with the view switcher, and has additional view-related options.

You're right that the icons themselves do not explain their full and complete functionality. Fortunately, we do not need to rely on hoping for the right labels for actions (be they textual or iconographic). For software intended to be used on a regular basis, it's worth spending a bit of time internalizing the model.

Re:We Write Code by Hand on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:59AM (#49788164)
Oh, we're back to using lines of code as a productivity measure?
Re:How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:34PM (#49715883)
And they never will, with that attitude.
Re:Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:02AM (#49007011)
Not just you. There's been a huge pushback in the local music community around this. Concerts listings now prominently feature the name of the poster designer! Humans FTW.
Re:It's a shame what's happened to radio on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @09:55AM (#49006903)
Radio is still cool! But it's just not really on the FCC-licensed bands anymore. Independent Internet radio stations keep the spirit alive. Look around, there very well might be a vibrant local music-and-more community right in your neighborhood! Two stations I listen to regularly here in NYC:

8 Ball Radio - https://8ballradio.nyc

Radio Free Brooklyn - https://www.radiofreebrooklyn.org

Who else has favorites to share?

Re:OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @09:47AM (#49006768)
And in truth it's a paradox. The better a company is (generally correlated to an empowered workforce with a sense of agency and purpose), the harder it is to extract profit for the capitalist class.

Which helps explain the "need" for CEOs to meddle.

Re:Claude Is Not a Compiler on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:13AM (#48993353)
The argument being made here is really incredible when you unpack it.

1) The construction of the Empire State Building was particularly effective due to the depth of human-to-human collaboration.

2) Isn't it great that we can burn a bunch of dinosaur blood to convince ourselves that we don't need other humans?

Re:Show HN: Teach your kids absolute (perfect) pitch on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:20AM (#48630505)
> I tried learning to play a recorder (flute) using some internet howtos as a guide, but got stuck at the first lesson, when the sound produced by the flute didn't match what the Fourier analyser in audacity measured.

> That is, I tried to play a C, but the Fourier transform resulted in a bimodal distribution, and none of the bumps was near the expected C frequency.

What a wonderful experiment! You've uncovered "harmonics": your recorder (or any instrument) sounds a complex mixture of frequencies, even when you play just a single note. The different mix of frequencies from one instrument to another is what gives each a unique sound, called the "timbre". The harmonics of wind instruments like your recorder are particularly complex! Try the same experiment with a stringed instrument, which will make something closer to a pure sine wave. Try it with anything that will make noise!

But I'd recommend not using Audacity to learn to play an instrument. You need your ears for this, so it may as much effort developing listening as developing playing technique. But in the end, don't worry too much about that, just have fun making music!

I can tell you as a resident of New York City that the negative effect of the automobile on the built environment is very much present here as well.
Re:NASA Built Artemis II's Fault-Tolerant Computer on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:57PM (#47713083)
If your implication is that stencil art does not take effort then perhaps you may not fully appreciate Banksy. Works like Gaza Kitty or Flower Thrower don’t just appear haphazardly without effort.
Re:Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @11:49PM (#47609775)
Fortunately they do, and in fact the article makes that clear. +1 for reading to the end of the paragraph that was quoted.
Re: on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:58PM (#47591878)
I think camp 1 would rather see ten useless things than one useful thing.
Re:The Ghosts in the Machine on Saturday December 21, 2024 @10:05AM (#42480086)
Interesting that your first counterexample is Charlie Parker. I've been listening to a lot of Phil Schaap's Bird Flight recently (https://www.philschaapjazz.com/sections/bird-flight). It's funny to see how many of the episodes are Phil describing a recording session more or less like this:

"The Bird showed up two hours late to a three and a half hour recording session. They recorded one take each of six tracks, but the recording engineer was surprised when they started so he missed the first half of the first track. And that's how we got the five tracks on <INSERT CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED ALBUM HERE>."

Re:Rust traits are a local maxima on Saturday November 23, 2024 @12:55AM (#42219429)
FWIW It's not at all clear to me how this requirement would be implemented in practice: "This syntax would explicitly be limited to orphan implementations."
Re:An 8-Bit AVR Microcontroller Simulator Written in LaTeX on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @03:39PM (#42119485)
The classic AVR instruction set does not include multiplication, you have to be targeting a device that supports AVRe+, such as an ATmega rather than an ATtiny. Try adding -mmcu=avr5 and it will show up pretty quick. Example: https://godbolt.org/z/x951M8fn8

Edit: nice work author, I love it!

What an incredibly on-the-nose anecdote, I love it!

The term of art for this strategy is "size to the horizon". Imagine you're looking across an open plain. The trees and rocks closer to you are bigger and you can make out more detail. The ones further away are still abstract.

You have to know exactly what to do with the things right in front of you, but you have to keep only a general awareness of that which is distant.

I apologize if my comment came off as snark. Your comment was nothing but pasted text which ommitted relevant detail, so it was not clear what the intent was. In context, to me, it did not seem to be illuminating. It actually seemed to be introducing confusion where there previously was none.

Data races are not possible in safe Rust. Race conditions are. The distinction is made clear in the Nomicon article, but commenters here are really muddying the waters...

That's decidedly not a data race, however.
On the one hand, we like to encourage learning here. On the other, we prefer not to copy-paste a bunch of possibly-irrelevant content. Well, forgive me for pasting in a StackOverflow answer that may be relevant here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11276259/are-data-races-...

> Are "data races" and "race condition" actually the same thing in context of concurrent programming

> No, they are not the same thing. They are not a subset of one another. They are also neither the necessary, nor the sufficient condition for one another.

The really curious thing here is that the Nomicon page also describes this distinction in great detail.

Re:Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity? on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:35AM (#40342055)
Test code is code. It's as much of a burden as every other piece of code you are troubled with, so you must make it count. If you're finding it repetitive and formulaic, take that opportunity to identify the next refactoring.

Just churning out more near copies is not a good answer.

Re:Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity? on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:33AM (#40342028)
This. The right way to structure database access is a result type per tuple, not an object type per table.

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