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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:50AM (#50151811)
Even without being the most intelligent we're still the ones driving mass extinction.

So there's that.

Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:21PM (#49957431)
The rule of law is a hill worth dying on.

The museum and judges are outlaws.

Re:Mozilla shutting down Solo AI website creator on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:17PM (#49935260)
This is the Mozilla brand.
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:07PM (#49837353)
Why such hate?

There are lots of languages I don't use, but I can't imagine saying that about any of them.

Re:Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013) on Monday September 14, 2026 @05:34AM (#49694158)
> it's a testament to the divine inspiration of Scripture that Christians and Jews have never relied on an absolutely letter-for-letter standardized text to know the voice of their Shepherd.

LOL.

your argument is that two cults using a common religious reference is evidence that it's valid?

That is not logical.

Why isn't decompilation a solved problem in the AI era?

There are thousands of pairs of source-executable pairs that could be used for training, and the compiler is a parameter that AI can easily identify and account for as a heavily weighted factor.So why isn't there (or maybe there is and I don't know about it) an AI based decompiler that can take almost any machine code, and transform it into highly readable source code (complete with meaningful...

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Re:Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:18PM (#49646241)
There is no need to apologize for building a fantastic tool that was ahead of its time.

But "abandoned" in this contexts makes it sound like it's dead. Even if it's factually correct that the original (very busy) author stepped away and it is literally/factually true that you "abandoned it", it is also fairly misleading.

I disfavor maligning open source projects based on a misleading framing.

> The situation is obviously more complex than any of us know, and I'd encourage everyone to be a bit more positive and supportive of a fellow founder and builder.

What is your basis for this claim? His actions and behavior are publicly visible, and I can't even imagine a hidden context that would justify how he has acted.

Which is true. There's no issue with honest criticism, but when it's careless or disingenuous then it it's a put reflection on the speaker.
You are also characterizing another project that was open-sourced (sandstorm) and is under active development as "long abandoned". Open source is difficult and requires a fair amount of cheerleading to engage users and make them part of the community. As a result it's hard to see your project in a positive light.
Re:Taste Is All That's Left on Friday August 07, 2026 @07:28AM (#49208776)
And mathematicians who don't understand mathematical theory can't use calculators to write proofs.

Focus on the content and the idea; not how it was written.

Re:The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:39AM (#49180137)
your intuition is correct: in the Eatery link from the article that's explicitly stated. And honestly I don't blame him. He got screwed.

> Ngo feels that he ran a good business, and the government unfairly barred him from operating. In his view, if the government wouldn’t allow him to sell the product, they could handle the disposal. Ngo paid off his debts before leaving, and feels the matter is settled. Although prior coverage of the factory closure portrayed Ngo as a ghost who absconded his duties, he doesn’t feel that way. To this day he spends half of the year in Canada, though not often in St. Mary’s. “The community is still very good to me,” he says. “When I go there I see my failure; that’s the reason I don’t want to go there.”

Re:Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:19AM (#49179998)
It's literally the third paragraph:

> Deploying a Python inference stack means resolving a dependency tree at install time, on the target machine, against whatever CUDA and glibc that machine has. Deploying a ggml port means copying a shared library and a GGUF file.

Re:SwiftUI After 7 Years on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:09AM (#49179932)
What would the biographies say? He opposed them?
Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @03:51AM (#49179799)
The issue of roads is addressed in the article.
Re:Moving to FreeBSD from Linux on Sunday July 12, 2026 @01:24AM (#48878524)
Kudos to you. It's wild how poorly hacker culture has learned this lesson.
Yes: the article says "since the 70s"
Re:Chatto is now Open Source on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:12PM (#48836148)
Why are the allusions to discord and slack so coy on the Web page?

You want the actual names so that you rank when those names are searched, no?

flagged for moderation because the original article is deleted on reddit
FTA:

Known simply as 'Green Boots' because of his distinctive bright green mountaineering footwear still protruding from the snow and ice, the remains have now been identified as Indian climber Dorje Morup, 47.

For decades, many mountaineers believed the body belonged to fellow Indian climber Tsewang Paljor, 28. The DNA comparison has now ended that long-running mystery.

The identification was confirmed by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) ahead of a bid to recover the body from Everest's notorious 'death zone' at an altitude of more than 8,000 metres.

Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @12:31PM (#48763898)
The comparison is not Google app store security vs nothing.

It's app store security vs app store security with verified developer IDs

The fact that the android fraud is not endemic means that the later is not worth the increased risk of losing your Google account.

Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:21AM (#48760337)
The vulnerability of your Google identity is terrifying.
Right? It's biology when you study enzymes in vitro, but as soon as you put a membrane around them then it's ... something else?

Bizarre argument.

Re:I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:14AM (#48718258)
This sounds fascinating. Can you provide any detail regarding the nature of the diagnosis or problem it identified?
Re:Every DFU Button Is a Failure on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:20PM (#48612638)
I didn't know: DFU is device firmware update
Re:Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access on Friday June 19, 2026 @01:23PM (#48600830)
Seems like a monopolistic move.
Except that fingerprinting means that both profiles are actually tied together by cloudflare (and other tech companies)
Harms to adults. No children should be on the platforms, and it's up to the parents to regulate it.
Of course they can. Cannabidiol is naturally occurring in cannabis, but was patented in ~2018 and approved by the FDA.

Doesn't that disprove the conspiracy theory of Big Pharma keeping "natural treatments" from being developed?

Natural treatments don't get developed when they aren't effective.

Re:GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay on Monday May 04, 2026 @10:59AM (#48009570)
How come?

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