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We can hold both accountable actually, its a workaround of our fourth amendment rights and also it should be illegal to do this for the companies involved.
You do not define wokeness except as an opposition to... nations? You are deep in the propaganda hole and you should attempt to claw yourself out a bit before trying to convince others of your irrationality.
Re:The 49MB Web Page on Sunday March 15, 2026 @06:07PM (#47392480)
I didn't say anything about their development abilities, what I am pointing to is their professional responsibility. If a doctor is asked by a client to cut off their arm and they say no, and the client fires them, did the doctor err? (No) This doesn't comment on their ability to do surgery.
Re:The 49MB Web Page on Sunday March 15, 2026 @05:08PM (#47391946)
From the perspective of the devs, they have a responsibility for saying something literally wont fly anywhere, ever, saying the business is responsible for every bad decision is a complete abrogation of your responsibilities.
Re:Show HN: RAG knowledge base poisoning lab, 100% local on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:55PM (#47359409)
I mean, its just SQL injection all over again, if your method of communication can be escaped, it will.
Anyone whose looking at this administration as anything but corrupt thieves that need to be immediately jailed is a patsy, a fool, or a thief themselves.
More useful idiots are born every day, most of them never are educated and do not see their past blunders as anything wrong happening, they are completely blind to the real implication of their actions.
"and we do not hold that notice by mass email establishes inquiry notice in every case."

Basically the case met two of three factors and so they said yeah probably but its not establishing precedent because each case is special.

You need to care about your Recovery Time (how long does it take to get back up again?) and your Recovery Point(how long since your backup was taken?) and it gets Much Worse when you start distributing state around your various cloud systems - oh did that queue already get that message? how do we re-send that? etc
Re:Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:17PM (#47250688)
And the human downstream of this random reorganization of things at will, how do they manage it?

If its AI agents all the way down its commoditization all the way down, if humans have to deal with it there's some sort of cost for change even if its 0 for code.

Re:Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @12:15PM (#47250667)
AI often simply does not offer the best options, does not think strategically, and if you constrained to its choices you will often make silly mistakes.

This is why all the arguments about context windows and RAG exist, because at the end of the day even if you asked the question of a human with all the context there's such a thing as opinions, stated vs unstated goals, requirements vs non functional requirements, etc which will give you wildly different answers.

Most of the time people don't even know the questions they want to ask.

Anyone who doubts the requirement for e2e messaging should not be considered a skeptic, they are fully buying into whatever narrative LEO would like you to believe.
Re:An Interesting Find: STM32 RDP1 Decryptor on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:39PM (#47222132)
Could you just record the sounds by using the speaker out as a mic in somewhere else?
Most of the time just re-casting what you want in a horizontally shardable way is the "right" way to do it with any rdbms (if you scale) but at this point you can get boxes on AWS with 32TiB of ram, and most organizations don't have that much total data across their entire suite of stuff (many do, most don't.)
Re:Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust on Sunday March 01, 2026 @06:50AM (#47205899)
I have no dog in this fight, but simply claiming a count of tests get you anything is like saying your code coverage is 100% - it sounds really good until you think about what 5000 unreviewed tests actually... do.
I like how you use the phrase social responsibilities to mean doing whatever the DoD wants which includes spying on the American people and operating autonomous drones to kill people. It's like saying they have social responsibilities to enable murder for people who have been shown to be unthinking murderers justifying the most pointless murders because they think it makes "their side" winners.
Complaining about the head of the government publicly so important that its included in the first amendment instead of one of those other ones.
HN is not usually a place for jokes but dan that's good.
Re:Never Buy A .online Domain on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @09:46AM (#47152223)
Because? It seems like the blame is very squarely on their shoulders.
No organization I have seen prioritizes a DBA's requirements, concerns, or approach. They certainly don't pay them enough to deal with that bullshit, so I was out.
Re:DOGE Track on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:43AM (#47074294)
If you did that at all Trump would never have been elected much less re-elected. The Doge thing was just a big fuck you to everyone that they didn't like, a way to steal information and start violating laws with impunity to support their very dumb egos. There's no policy or objective besides harm, its too obvious that it would never work to literally anyone on the street and they went ahead with it anyway.
Re:What dating apps are optimizing. Hint: It isn't love on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:01AM (#47015018)
No, you understood me exactly as I meant it - which app. I met a partner of five years on the apps and people often asked how we met but they never asked which app (Tinder) - we actually saw each other on multiple apps but she did not respond on Bumble because it forced her to send the first message, which I thought was interesting feedback.
Re:What dating apps are optimizing. Hint: It isn't love on Saturday February 14, 2026 @12:15AM (#47011806)
I think the difference is are they people asking in a relationship or not - asking which app is categorically asking where they can find someone to hook up with.
Re:MySQL Foreign Key Cascade Operations Hit the Binary Log on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:58PM (#47010701)
Nonetheless its not a WAL, and if you are not replicating it idk why you'd have it enabled, and if you are replicating you must.
Making me laugh here.

How would you not consider that fact? Do you think I don't know there's plenty of people who think of HN as a nazi bar? Do you think the hacker ethos is to consider the "societal mood"?

Re:Mamdani Hires Lisa Gelobter as Chief Tech Officer on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @11:05AM (#46976637)
It really depends on the size, it can span from the lead programmer to the lead architect to the lead technical manager to the strategic technical partner and/or technical visionary for the company.
Hah I did this for SQL Server execution graphs at one point (via profiler or extended events) and then I of course realized that anything that goes more than one or two events deep is just hellish SQL anyway, love to see the execution plan version that's much smarter.
Re:The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:13AM (#46961904)
The vast majority taken up in these dragnets are legal residents of the united states.

The attorney representing ICE to the courts in MN admitted it directly, admitted that ICE does not believe it needs to honor orders of the federal court system, and that they do not comply with orders to release legal residents of the united states.

You should educate yourself. Here's commentary that directly references the lawyer's responses and judge's commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6o-_2thaI8

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