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Re:A Printer Printing onto Paper on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:19AM (#50259799)
Very cool!

Does anyone know what happens when the printer leaves gaps in a certain area of the page but prints fine otherwise?

And then we have to go to the maintenance menu to hopefully fix it?

Re:CSS-Tricks has a new owner on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:41PM (#50251421)
Better preserve the current CSS-Tricks in archive.org or some other place before it is changed too much.
Re:We Never Hear About the Countries Where Socialism Works on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:17AM (#50229652)
Nordic model is not socialism. Socialism is predation from a political class instead of just the capital owners.

EDIT: I didn't flag the reply below. The expression "epaulette heavy countries" is funny though.

"An American company operating critical military infrastructure was able to degrade the capability of an American partner in the middle of a war."

Is Ukraine an "American partner" ???

Re:What the U.S. Is Doing in Venezuela on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:05AM (#50221972)
"Suppressing democracy and extracting resources at the expense of its people"

Isn't that what the previous incumbents were already doing?

Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:16PM (#50108806)
UD-IQ1_S is 180Gb. UD-Q4_K_XL is 510Gb. Still beyond the average prosumer.
Re:Best LLM for every budget, updated daily on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:56PM (#49834427)
Isn't there a way to set up a thinking budget so it automatically tells the model "Conclude your reasoning now and provide the final answer." ?
Re:How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:22PM (#49823397)
Claudehart's law says that when a measure is picked as an indicator, then Claude will start to game it.
Re:Salesforce Global Outage on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:06AM (#49816404)
> Sandboxes drift from production in both metadata and data. Refreshes change record ids.

I find it odd you would expect sandboxes to not drift and record ids to not change on refreshes. People are working on sandboxes so they will naturally diverge from production, same for record ids.

Refreshes mean that data will be wiped out so you have to preserve the data you want first, then restore it after the refresh. Isn't that the same with any other database where you dump a copy of production on an instance?

I don't see a difference between custom objects in SF and any plain SQL database table that needs to be changed to accommodate a new requirement.

Dependencies between components break deployments - isn't that universally true?

What are other platforms where such things don't happen?

Re:I don't want to read what you didn't write on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:26PM (#49804927)
It goes both ways.

If you don't get to the point and continue to go on and on, I will use a LLM to summarize what you wrote and then decide whether to spend time listening/reading what you wrote.

Re:Salesforce Global Outage on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:21AM (#49728433)
Huang, Sam and Dario speaking at Dreamforce.
Re:Salesforce Global Outage on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:17AM (#49728368)
What is painful about a plain REST API?
Wouldn't it be better to use blocks (219 in ASCII) as the main paint unit and use some other half-block and "hashed" characters (ASCII 220, 223, 176-178) to implement dithering?
Re:My life was changed by four sentences in four books on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:33PM (#49501449)
The four sentences:

- in our culture it’s healthy to switch jobs every two years, ideally to something the opposite of what you’ve been doing

- there’s an organization - the National Association of Campus Activities - that pays $1000 to $5000 per gig at universities

- to keep learning we need to be surprised. Read books about subjects you know nothing about. Move to a place very unlike home, so that you’ll be surprised every day.

- rich guy said that decades of pursuing more only made him miserable and he would rather have stopped at $30 million then switch to planting trees and writing poetry.

I've tested some local LLMs on prosumer hardware, here are some findings

I have been benchmarking local LLMs on a Mac M4 Pro 24 GB RAM using LM Studio. I've tested mostly with 4-bit quantization, both MLX and GGUF, from 4b to 35b models, with speeds of 3 to 40 tokens/second.Results briefly:- fast small model -> extraction/classification- Gemma -> summarization- gpt-oss -> transcript consultation- large Qwen -> difficult reasoning/code interpretationThere...

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Re:Stop Eating Lady Gaga's Oreos on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:53PM (#49380142)
I misread the title and was confused and appalled for a few seconds sorting through the word being "Oreos" instead of "Orgasms" and the meaning that word has in Urban Dictionary.
Re:Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history on Saturday August 15, 2026 @08:53PM (#49315772)
This I can agree with: - People can "rediscover" knowledge that was already established because they don't investigate other disciplines first. - Agent engineering can benefit from decades of studies in management, requirements engineering, operations and process research.

But the article has a big irony: the article accuses engineers of oversimplifying other disciplines and then does exactly that itself.

> "Data science was statistics with a cooler name"

The author mentions David Donoho's "50 Years of Data Science" but that work presents a much more complicated concept of data science: one with data exploration, transformation, computing, visualization, modeling, etc. Even the study of data-analysis practice itself.

Look at that XKCD he posted with it.

Horn took a nuance argument and converted it into the "human slop" formula mocked in the XKCD:

complicated subject = simple thing I already understand <new complicated thing> is really just <old familiar thing>

The cartoon is criticizing the same operation the article is doing. Maybe that is the joke?

Re:LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:08AM (#49272649)
You're a good follow there.

To escape the walled garden, I've ran a script to download all posts (JS to scroll down my feed, wait for the lazy loading, click on all "more..." links, wait for the lazy loading again, everything in a loop, then download the entire thing when there are no more posts). Then ran another script to convert those to blog posts, then posted them on my personal site.

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