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In a form of a question: does low earth orbit has big enough drag to be effectively do automatic cleanup every several years?
Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @06:00PM (#49042129)
Outsourcing blame. This is the killer app of AI
Re:JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:57PM (#49028598)
I’m very happy that these exes are unchecked (incl jackson3).

If parsing fails - how often can you do anything else than just abort and log/show an error..

Checked exceptions are nice in theory, but it is very context dependent if checked’ness is useful, I would prefer that libraries do not expose them.

Re:A Metallurgist's Doubts About Self-Replicating Probes on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:19PM (#48913660)
1. Carbon quality would need to be ensured somehow - sounds like extraction/refinement still necessary

2. Carbon seems to be brittle.

> What stops any business from over-charging? Competition.

I fully agree.

> It's the same conflict of interest quite literally any business has.

I know that you know what I meant ;) In the long term it is just as you say - overcharging (eventually corrected by competition forces), but in the short term it can be additional revenue, blamed on a bug, but making some manager look good.

Re:If you're a button, you have one job on Sunday July 12, 2026 @05:20PM (#48884931)
I had an android before that.

Maybe their laptop experience is completely on another league, but I have doubts

Flip side is customer psychology. Choosing a more expensive tier leaves better emotion.

Also i doubt there was jira ticket with “make llm more verbose”, rather ticket with “bug makes llms too verbose” gets prioritised taking revenue impact into account.

But it is much much simpler to make it consume more tokens.

It’s like that saying “What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away”, but in this case it is one company.

There is definitely a conflict of interest.

Re:Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason? on Sunday July 12, 2026 @04:38PM (#48884554)
Jury is still out on this one.

This needs to be routine to be given asevidence…

…Unless you know exactly how the llm was trained and then how it was applied

Re:If you're a button, you have one job on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:32AM (#48792973)
Tangentially related, games added various menu transition animations on purpose, to disable user input while loading resources (from hdd or network).

Idea being that for user it is less frustrating to wait for animation to end, than to see some hourglass/waiting indication.

Re:If you're a button, you have one job on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:24AM (#48792927)
One way to deal with it could be “guaranteed interrupt” action (something like sigkill, just for UI action queue).

Other way could be to actually visually indicate action queue depth.

Re:If you're a button, you have one job on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:19AM (#48792905)
I have only iphone, but from my experience, apple ui quality is just a huge myth nothing to do with reality.

On average it is has same amount of crappy UI experience, just in different places.

Re:If you're a button, you have one job on Sunday July 05, 2026 @06:12AM (#48792876)
In summary:

Record actions until interrupt.

Animation should not be considered interrupt.

An Error message should be treated as interrupt.

Re:Espionage Against the European Parliament on Saturday July 04, 2026 @03:01AM (#48783236)
1. I think burden of proof is on the opposite side. (Previous legislations/directives were circumvented without problem)

2.Asking for hard evidence of top spies secretly spying on heads of other states is … (not sure if there is a word for it; some blend between: unrealistic, unreasonable and oxymoron’ish. If they do their job well, you will not find it out, also it might be illegal or punishable to present such evidence)

Re:Espionage Against the European Parliament on Saturday July 04, 2026 @02:46AM (#48783188)
Alternate spin: He now has a conflict of interest. He’s now too biased to work on the committee.
Re:Espionage Against the European Parliament on Saturday July 04, 2026 @02:41AM (#48783166)
Ok, apple does not care, but gives “security/privacy” consideration as a public reason for not doing anything.
Re:Software Architecture Guide on Sunday June 14, 2026 @06:05AM (#48525780)
Good architecture reduces cost, while still achieving business goals.

(E.g. If you have problems hiring for a weird stack, it increases hiring cost; you have problems with dependency zoo maintenance it increases costs; if it took a year to build a framework that could've been a bash script, it increased the cost)

Every other architecture “metric” should be useful/convenient proxy towards reducing overall cost.