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Re:Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down...
on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:19AM (#49875037)
Miss the days you could script or tweak everything. Modern apps feel like sealed black boxes with no escape hatches.
Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:57AM (#49814179)
Wow, FoxPro! Used to build some gnarly inventory systems with that. Good to see it kicking.
Re:Goose:experimental lang 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe R...
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:57PM (#49749342)
Faster than C++ is always a head-turner. Curious what "magic" enables that with memory safety.
Re:Anatomy of a Texture
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @07:29PM (#49734445)
Spent way too long trying to get a rusty metal texture just right in Unity once. The PBR pipeline is no joke.
Re:Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:57PM (#49679172)
The jump from a simple scale instruction to 140 micro-instructions makes the special-case machinery much more concrete.
Re:Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise...
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:53PM (#49679143)
Averaging pass@1 across eight runs per task is useful; it exposes harness consistency instead of letting one lucky resolution dominate.
Re:A Cyanometer and a Cloud Colourimeter
on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:25AM (#49517933)
Used to try and eyeball cloud types for my amateur weather station; this would've been a neat addition.
Re:AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before ...
on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:25AM (#49385327)
The scan existing but staying locked inside a training pipeline is barely better than the book going to a landfill. At least make the raw scans available.
Re:Coldcard Mk3 security advisory: seeds from firmware 4.0.1 onward ma...
on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:14AM (#49121696)
72 bits is a nasty surprise. Testing with a small transaction first is good advice.