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Re:Grok Bot by SpaceXAI on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @05:55AM (#49269944)
Here we have it, people: the Most Normal AI fan.
Re:Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:49AM (#49004666)
Codeberg is a German non-profit. If you're going to be hyperbolic, at least get it somewhat right.
Re:PHP's Oddities on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:40PM (#48249086)
Mate, not to be rude but your entire comment isn't based on factual analysis; it's a rant about unrelated languages.
Re:Everything in C is undefined behavior on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:04AM (#48204566)
Turtles all the way down.
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Monday May 11, 2026 @06:59AM (#48093404)
My rule of thumb is that if you want to keep your code clean, always returning an empty collection is preferable to returning an empty response on that branch. You don't need a guard clause to null/undef-check before consuming the result. The rule applies whether we're consuming the response from a repository or an http request.
Full Self-Driving 2.0
No one cares.
Re:Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @06:13AM (#46203596)
Are these banal comments optimising for non-utility?
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:55AM (#45641504)
To my understanding the main problem is DynamoDB being down, and DynamoDB is what a lot of AWS services use for their eventing systems behind the scenes. So there's probably like 500 billion unprocessed events that'll need to get processed even when they get everything back online. It's gonna be a long one.
Re:A Clausewitzian Lens on Modern Urban Warfare on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:10AM (#45516390)
Islamic beliefs as some sort of bad monolith vs Western beliefs as some sort of opposing good monolith is a painfully narrow and frankly bigoted view of human existence, warfare, and statecraft. I'll point you at Gaza and rub your nose directly in it.
wild speculation and conjecture