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Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:27AM (#50286876)
I have almost never explicitly searched for stack overflow. I google something, top result is a stackoverflow question, I visit. Nowadays that role has been taken by google's AI summary in most cases
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:02AM (#50269781)
Devil's advocate: People will become poorer but stuff in general will also become cheaper so it all balances out in the end
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:58AM (#50240535)
> accept having to rerender everything the moment I zoom the page to 110% or 125%

dont you have to do that anyway if you want text to stay crisp?

Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:14PM (#50197400)
Regulation like this makes sense, but then the government should also srutinze these companies
His point is keep an archived sha1 version of the repo and an active sha256 version.

That way an old commit with a message having a sha1 can reference the archived version, and new commits reference the active version.

Re:I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:38PM (#49715963)
Worked for me
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:09AM (#49464334)
You can close the door without screwing over people that are already in the process
Re:How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:10AM (#49444692)
The Commission cannot withdraw directives?
Re:Solo โ€“ a .so loader for static Linux binaries on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:44AM (#49357346)
Windows doesn't even have a concept of a loader binary right? I think its hardcoded into the kernel/win32 itself.
Also the sideroads intersecting each other usually don't have traffic lights which is good for low traffic but bad for high traffic.

What they would do in that case is close off one the roads so traffic flows smoothly through the other one

Re:Steam Machine on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @03:21AM (#48641471)
To clarify, the loot boxes in Roblox are game specific. The platform itself just has the catalog where you buy stuff directly

But still, Roblox should do a better job regulating the games on its platform

Re:Epic Games announces Lore version control system on Thursday June 18, 2026 @05:35AM (#48582989)
Yikes, does that mean each dev has terabytes of stuff on their machine?
Re:Moving beyond fork() + exec() on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:45AM (#48472891)
In the manpage for vfork, Linux in particular

> As with fork(2), the child process created by vfork() inherits copies of various of the caller's process attributes (e.g., file descriptors, signal dispositions, and current working directory); the vfork() call differs only in the treatment of the virtual address space, as described above.

so it seems Linux does define the behavior of vfork, but if you rely on it, your code won't be portable to other POSIX systems

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/vfork.2.html

Re:Moving beyond fork() + exec() on Saturday June 06, 2026 @09:39PM (#48430936)
> If you're not overcommiting, that fork will fail, because total memory consumption will be 1200 MB which is more than 1GB. That somewhat restricts program design.

Does this accounting apply to vfork as well?

> 69% of those who got green cards through marriage to US citizen spouses

Nice.

Re:We don't know why Malawi is poor on Friday May 15, 2026 @09:53PM (#48156084)
As a non Malawian no, but I do think its important to ask what the local sentiment of their country is.
Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:35PM (#48151492)
Now that makes sense, so its legal because the contributors can still access their code
Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:08PM (#48090299)
> If you actually look at the redis code base the majority of it was written by people who never worked for redis.

Thats a really big deal, how did they legally managed to do the license change? I was under the impression that only works if the original owner is the doing most work

Re:Email could have been X.400 times better on Sunday April 26, 2026 @03:06AM (#47908077)
Apperantly the AKID and SKID extensions are used instead these days
Re:Email could have been X.400 times better on Sunday April 26, 2026 @02:14AM (#47907832)
TCP still works this way?
Re:Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' on Thursday April 23, 2026 @04:08AM (#47873314)
VK_KHR_buffer_device_address has 91.3% support

and

VK_KHR_variable_pointers has 98.66% support

looks good to me

Re:The RAM shortage could last years on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:12AM (#47832288)
When I personally use chatgpt and friends, I am not seeing any slowdowns or anything, meaning that their servers can handle the loads just fine. So then, why are these companies spending so much building new capacity if the current capacity is enough?
Microsoft itself is 73% owned by institutional investors, so more of the same really.

see: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/msft/instituti...

Yeah why is this so common in .NET?
Re:Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:31AM (#47747982)
Whatabout the extensions? is it widely supported
Re:Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 on Saturday April 11, 2026 @09:27AM (#47730410)
You mean the locking would be done in software?
Re:Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 on Saturday April 11, 2026 @06:45AM (#47729397)
I assume to save on resources, even if your algorithm is not much more taxxing on silicon, maybe the designers at intel and amd just didn't think optimizing split locks was worth it
Biggest pump and dump in history
> chat.agent.maxRequests

"Maximum number of requests that copilot can make using agents"

I don't get how this setting is relevant?

There is a limit on how much copilot can do in one request, pretty generous but after some time vscode will say "this request is taking very long, do you want to continue" and that would count as a seperate request

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