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Re:The "Windows XP Box" (2003) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:48AM (#49826698)
Very impressive to pull off such a compact build in 2003!

I built a Shuttle xpc cube in 2008. I though that was tiny. I specifically used a laptop hard drive to reduce noice.

I think it was this exact model: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/s/o2HKpeLmrA

It was my firts step away from windows. I ran ubuntu on it a couple of years until I switched to macos to do ios dev.

Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:10AM (#49641190)
The mini was not mini enough.
Re:We have a year to fix security everywhere on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:07AM (#49607135)
Breaches don’t happen often enough to be a useful metric. Most smaller companies are never breached, despite having basically zero security.
You mean you roll a single die and use the value to index an array of players?

That’s the pragmatic solution. The article is about an interesting mathematical puzzle, not actually solving a real problem.

Also, an n-sided die is fair for 2 to n players if you discard rolls above the number of players.

Re:Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:07AM (#49535632)
Tillbaka till r/unket med dig.
Re:Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:06AM (#49535609)
Sweden is very well positioned due to well developed hydro, but when germany was forced to give up russian gas, more electricity was exported, causing record high prices.

Interestingly, the hydro plants are located in the north and the national power grid is not dimensioned for massive export, so the export to germany from the south of sweden caused a strong price gradient.

Re:Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:54PM (#49503642)
Array indexing?
Re:Norway Should Buy OpenAI on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:04PM (#49351849)
> achieve AGI

They might as well invest in cold fusion, warm superconductivity, curing cancer or whatever sci-fi concept you have.

Re:What sort of maths are LLMs good at? on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:34AM (#49270768)
That was not the prompt.
Re:What sort of maths are LLMs good at? on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:33AM (#49270759)
Would the llm work better if it was given the job ad and asked where the job was located?

It seems to me that such simplified tasks tend work better. The rest of the loop is just scraping websites, which doesn’t really have a reason to rely on ai agents.

You actually planned everything in advance, and didn't have to go back and correct mistakes?

Because if you ever go back a step, it is no longer the waterfall model, but an iterative process.

Getting to a state where those assumptions are true is HARD. And takes a lot of careful programming.

Yes. Once it is true, the code is easy to write. But only because a lot of effort went into making it easy. And keeping it easy is also hard. Without focused effort to keep the code clean and easy to modify, it starts to rot.

How does not everyone understand this? It's why waterfall development never worked.
Re:Sorry, Sam and Elon, we have not reached the Singularity on Saturday August 01, 2026 @01:25PM (#49136445)
An engineer using an llm is absolutely nothing like an llm itself being the engineer.

The most successful example so far of en llm developing on its own is the C compiler that ended up a broken buggy mess.

You mean anthropic and the others wouldn’t hype that up like there was no tomorrow?

Occams razor suggest there is nothing.

Exactly what technical advancement in the field of LLMs have LLMs themselves contributed to?

Because that’s the definition of a singularity. Unless they can point ant any concrete examples, the claims are completely meaningless.

Re:Citizen of the Galaxy (full text) by Robert Heinlein on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @03:20PM (#49088637)
Probably my favorite Heinlein book.

I really like the part where [SPOILERS] he gets back to civilization and no one believes him when he tells them about the widespread slavery.

Re:Git rebase -I is not that scary on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:28AM (#49056594)
I fix bugs will git bisect all the time. But it’s not practical if you don’t have a good commit history to begin with.
Re:Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:44AM (#49032385)
Only low quality. But yes, building better quality shouldn’t cost $ 10k
Re:Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:10AM (#48979118)
> You don't disable anything. You wrote a "trust me compiler" block, and compiler trusted you.

That’s the same thing.

Re:1-Bit LLM in the Browser on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:17AM (#48976737)
How is that not a fail?
Aren’t ms completely dependent on consumer windows for mindshare?

I doubt anyone would bother getting into programming with ms tech unless they just happened to run it on their desktop.

Really? I broke my Geforce2 MX, so I had to make do without a graphics card for a couple of weeks. I think halflife ran ok in software mode on my Athlon XP 1700+.

I might be misremembering though. Perhaps I scavenged some basic pci card, but that should still have been worse than the ProSavage.

Re:When AI Costs More Than the Engineer on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:09AM (#48843982)
Clever. Wish I had thought of that.
Re:Rewriting Bun in Rust on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:17PM (#48838674)
Wouldn't the same improvements have been made in zig if they instructed the agents to improve instead of rewrite?
Re:When AI Costs More Than the Engineer on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:28PM (#48820089)
Correct
Re:When AI Costs More Than the Engineer on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:54AM (#48801830)
Garbage. You can't include training by the companies that develop an llm in the comparison against companies that merely use the same llm. Apples and potatoes.
Re:You need a webring on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:43AM (#48801746)
If those are concerns to you, you are not really the target audience.
No. I thought it meant the haptic feedback was for a human to make it easier to find the charger in the dark ir something.
Re:Do LLMs pass the mirror test? on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:07PM (#48721071)

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