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Re:Codex is EATING my Mac's disk space on Sunday October 18, 2026 @05:54AM (#50139556)
tho, I also met this problem and found a solution for me - develop all in one worktree on a single branch, then cherry-pick to the second worktree to the needed branch.

So, only first worktree is built: - less space needed. - less time spent on build, which is usually caused by switching branches. - you are not required to merge/rebase of master branch to solve conflicts, which also cause long time rebuilds.

Re:A Modern Web App in C on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:11PM (#50063788)
tell me where working with strings is not miserable? Practically, modern languages with RAII make it easy at the cost of perfomance (doing a lot of allocations). So, if you doing lot of string handling, you still need to think how to do it in performant way. If doing it a bit - why care about miserable.
Re:A Modern Web App in C on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:02PM (#50063687)
and what it does take away? most "better C" languages basically looks like C++ (except zig, maybe). Nobody write something real in them, so nobody knows about their pitfalls.
> Anyhow, people don't write off Telegram because it's Russian, but for many legitimate reasons.

> There are indications that it could be much closer to the Russian government than they pretend

Can you give more details, please? I'm using telegram a lot and want to know if there is something...

Re:AI Makes Me Sad on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:01PM (#49935042)
why this is a good thing? alcohol it's not the only thing people throwning their lifes. As for myself, Gen Z member, I'm never drinked at all, but this doesn't mean my life or even health is better.
Re:EDG C++ front-end goes public on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:56PM (#49916009)
what this keyword did? I never heard of it
Re:EDG C++ front-end goes public on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:54PM (#49915994)
what do you mean under "emulation"? and why EDG is frontend? It's not a full compiler with optimizations and code generation?
Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:50PM (#49886079)
what problem with chromium?
Re:I Switched to Brave Browser on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:48PM (#49886059)
and? How does this all matter when you choose a web browser engine? You can write your own, but you still have this problem. So, this is not an argument against chromium at all.
Re:Small Programming Tricks on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:50PM (#49731288)
what are you writing? like - what type of programs?
Re:iPhone Duo on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:36AM (#49655665)
there is still an iphone SE 2016
Re:Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death on Sunday September 06, 2026 @04:38PM (#49590669)
I think its deeper than "reading books" vs "doomscrolling social media's". Books can be fast food too. And, probably, in our time more and more books will become fast food.

There are a lot of good staff in format of short essay or in blog posts and even in videos. So, its a bit incorrect to say that reading is better than watching. Or that people was more intelligent due to reading.

Question here is not how, but what to consume.

But I think even consuming high quality/professional content, with deep research and etc etc, can be addictive and lead to problems described in this post.

I don't really know how to classify this problem, but maybe - "producing ideas by yourself" vs "consuming someone other ideas"?

With reading we consume ideas. But because reading is boring (rating by speed of receiving information), we also have lot of time to think, to produce new ideas.

And what with watching videos? especially short - you have almost no time to think about 15sec video content, because it already gone up and you need to forget it and see next...

So, reading and watching, doomscrolling is all about one, but on different stage.

And all this about competing two's: create it by yourself or listen it from someone other.

P.S. this is even make sense.. look: the more you do something, the more you skilled in this. And vice versa. So, when you stop thinking by yourself and start listening, your intelligence go down just because intelligence is about thinking, about analyzing and about your own sight, not someone other.

Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:31PM (#49500147)
The law will not work without a technical solution. So, you need both. But, at least, technical.
Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:28PM (#49500120)
> So now, because of bad actors, I need to pay for the privilege of watching a website or using a service that was meant to be free? No, thanks.

First of all - I suppose it should be very cheap. So, real humans will not pay much.

Second - why do u think that websites are meant to be free? They provide some service, so its a rather strange that the internet is so free (in both senses). I think, this freeiness is allowed to greatly speed up popularization. But for me is obvious that it can demand payment for service.

And third - service owner really meant it to be free, I don't see any problems with this in my idea. It can still provide free service.

Re:What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:42AM (#49499701)
using which floating point standard? IEEE754 is totally deterministic
Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @11:29AM (#49499563)
Hm, interesting - how will it look the actual solution for such problems in the future. I suppose the issue will continue to grow.

First idea - there should be some cost for sending traffic somewhere. And the server owner also should receive pay - not only the internet provider.

So, in with this idea, the server owner can potentially increase the amount of computing power to satisfy all requests.

Re:Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types on Saturday August 29, 2026 @11:03AM (#49490496)
how gc influence time complexity? elaborate, pks
Re:Get your Windows license refund on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:44PM (#49481173)
> but a sluggish web is a deal breaker for many these days.

are serious? web is sluggish anywhere... and this is a common "trend"

Re:Get your Windows license refund on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:31AM (#49479085)
would be interested to see comparison: 1. windows + hdd

2. windows + ssd

3. linux + ssd

I know that Linux can greatly speed up startup, but more likely that ssd gave bigger impact.

Re:That's a Lot of YAML on Friday August 28, 2026 @06:48AM (#49476828)
between us three, I am considering your comments as political propaganda against Norway. And this is off topic here.

So, I advise you, guys, to reflect upon your words.

Re:That's a Lot of YAML on Friday August 28, 2026 @06:37AM (#49476757)
> Worse than YAML can be only complaining about YAML. Hating YAML is a cliche.

Its cliche for you, but not all people know about YAML problems.

If it is not interesting for you and people who already know about this, why open this thread?

Let people explore something new, if they are interested in it.

> Its much easier to come up with jokes like this website than to change the ecosystem for better.

Speaking about problems is also valuable. The more people know about them, the more chance of a solution.

Re:That's a Lot of YAML on Friday August 28, 2026 @06:27AM (#49476707)
I think you should check this page before making snarky comments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference

See Examples section.

Re:That's a Lot of YAML on Friday August 28, 2026 @06:20AM (#49476666)
He misspelled subset/superset, but the idea with streaming is right.

Given: - YAML support streaming - any JSON is valid YAML

Conclusion - any JSON is streaming

Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:37PM (#49427727)
> "We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for" - Sam Altman of OpenAI

true, but he missed one point - we already leave in such world. And pretty long time.

He mean ofc buying intelligence of AI. But we already buying intelligence of humans.

this is not a solution. Running an untrusted software will always be a security drawback. Permissions/sandbox/etc can decrease risk, but not eliminate it
so, it should not be updated automatically. so, you should not trust something that install updates (literally - install another software) without your agreement
Re:Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant on Friday August 14, 2026 @08:58PM (#49306457)
> Small PRs were never asked for because they're easier to write, it's always been for the benefit of the reviewer

I think they were asked before AI and even they were not easier to write.

Its same as with commits. Usually when implementing a new feature I'm just in flow, so I don't think how to properly separate changes to different commits.

I mean - not always, but usually maintaining git history in a beautiful and clean manner was extra work even before AI.

Re:Faster Than Ninja on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @05:02PM (#49188961)
I would like to read blogpost about this and what could be done better.
> In early 2026, we saw a gradual increase in all categories of bug reports, but by March, the shift was apparent: we received more bug reports than we had in the entirety of 2025

sure, moreover - maybe big AI usage significantly influenced the amount of bugs. So, the picture can be like that: - 2025: 50bugs found, 45fixed - 2026: 500bugs found, 450 fixed

Re:So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:07PM (#49115079)
If the ocean is the main hero there, why is the forest still important to our health?

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