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Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:42PM (#50047623)
Wait, so you'll pay the $60, and then, will you lose access?
Then people will carve around the edges. Also do you need to moderate every single post or comment by anyone? That's not free also.
The people rely on them too much, sadly
I didn't know some of these details and it's quite impressive what they were capable of, if this website's accurate, at least...
Re:Can gzip be a language model? on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:20AM (#49798460)
TIL they're Turkish
Only 200s if a query parameter value is the solution to a question encoded on the rest of the route, and has to be a question listed in the index, and can respond with 200 only one time per correct answer.
Improvement in what way?
Re:The August 17 outage, and the work ahead on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:26AM (#49385335)
A lot of these projects and commits would benefit a ton from proper decentralisation. What functionality of GitHub are you *actually* using?
It's so that they can sell more things to enterprise customers
Is the policy now to "harvest whatever we can ASAP" without any regard or consideration for the future or the environment?
Re:LLM Honeypot on Thursday July 30, 2026 @03:46AM (#49107097)
There are dozens of us!
I got mine to build me an interactive quiz for the UK elections, unsure if that's better or worse... It felt not so biased but who knows right?
@wingdiction please always link to the direct article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/tesla-autopilot-c...
Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM - "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off"
Re:Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits on Saturday May 30, 2026 @04:57AM (#48334144)
I see that people are recommending rclone instead
vibrant colours that don't match

X. Y. SUPER Z. heading

X. Y. SUPER Z. in subheading

excessive purple and gradients

--> arrows

cards, cards, cards, cards

doesn't just X, emdash, it [SUPER Y]

more cards

ridiculous awful contrast in copy that makes things unreadable (grey on black etc)

Re:Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:53PM (#48240723)
> Bun's Rust port has not shipped in a released build yet. The Bun you install today still runs the original Zig implementation. This audit is the pre-release pass over the port.

That's good to see. I was getting a bit worried but now feeling better about it.

Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:51PM (#48182966)
I guess they'll be able to vibecode a replacement pretty quickly

I hope they make it open source!

Re:NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers on Sunday April 19, 2026 @02:59AM (#47822326)
Even with the latest updates?

> Jury Finds Live Nation Acts as a Monopoly in a Victory for States In a verdict that could have far-reaching consequences in the music industry, the live colossus that includes Ticketmaster was found to have violated antitrust laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/arts/music/live-nation-an...

Re:Android now stops you sharing your location in photos on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:58AM (#47751332)
Pretty good. I test it every now and then from random photos. Sometimes spot on, sometimes gets very close, unless it's really ambiguous.
Re:What Being Ripped Off Taught Me on Monday April 06, 2026 @09:46AM (#47660878)
Article contains this:

> I’ll happily tell you who they are - get in touch

Re:Full Report: What Claude Code Actually Chooses on Monday April 06, 2026 @09:34AM (#47660714)
Ran into this in an X thread, description from website: A systematic survey of 2,430 tool picks from Claude Code across 3 models, 4 project types, and 20 categories
Re:When Do We Become Adults, Really? on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:57AM (#47561486)
Re:When Do We Become Adults, Really? on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:54AM (#47561473)
I can't access the article so I will respond to only the title.

I use a rough threshold of how much responsibilities they can, or, have to endure, and manage to take care of in a good enough way.

Was it a blatantly bad idea or was it some risk that triggered that would have been beyond your typical risk threshold otherwise?
Just need to amplify it 10000 times

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