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Re:Terminal Graphics Protocol on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:44PM (#47267034)
Truly the best terminal emulator.
Re:7zip.com Is Serving Malware on Saturday February 14, 2026 @12:57PM (#47016663)
I would not trust any sw from Russia. Could be a vector for the FSB. I'm sure they have thought about it.
Re:ThinkNext Design on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:11AM (#46676651)
Well, software should not be able to destroy hardware.
Re:ThinkNext Design on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:11AM (#46676645)
Went to sleep, while powered. Never woke up.
Re:ThinkNext Design on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:07AM (#46676610)
No, it was bricked. Connected to mains at the time. Tried to reset it with a needle. Then unscrewed it. All components were glued. Googled around, and it has happened to other people. I think lenovo bought the brand and design, then just cut costs.

I was traveling at the time. Mayor inconvenience.

Re:ThinkNext Design on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:01AM (#46676568)
This was a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th Gen).
Re:ThinkNext Design on Sunday January 18, 2026 @03:39AM (#46665965)
Had my lenovo thinkpad bricked by sleep mode in linux. Never again. Seriously overrated stuff. Get a laptop with 3:2 display instead.
Re:Go Away Python on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:38AM (#46432712)
May I...

augroup fix autocmd! autocmd BufWritePost *.go \ if getline(1) =~# '^// usr/bin/' \ | call setline(1, substitute(getline(1), '^// ', '//', '')) \ | silent! write \ | endif augroup END

Well, people hardly complained here when Twitter silenced a sitting US president. What goes around comes around.
Re:Website as a Function from URL to HTML [video] on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:32AM (#46219812)
"Diversity & inclusion sponsor"? What is that?
Re:HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers on Saturday December 06, 2025 @11:13AM (#46174425)
Pandoc can convert to svg. It can then be inlined in html. Looks just like latex, though copy/paste isn't very useful
What a poor write-up, neither defining the problem nor the solution with any clearity. Did anyone come away with any information that can be used for anything?
Re:Silica Gel Took over the World on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:34AM (#43567579)
Yes, I imagine in Singapore: - Is this chrystal meth, lah? - No, it's cat litter. - You stoopid, that is even worse!
Re:Silica Gel Took over the World on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:26PM (#43551952)
This is sold as crystal cat litter. Very useful to put a sock in the car, the boat or the check-in luggage.
Re:The Burnout Machine on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:50PM (#43428790)
There is nothing wrong with unions, but they are a response to an imbalance in bargaining power. In places with lots of smaller employers, there is much less benefit.
Re:AI Is Making Developers Dumb on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:22PM (#43381945)
Well, AI does make errors, and never says "I don't know". That is also true of Wikipedia though. I've seen much improvement in accuracy from 3.5 to 4.5. Hallucinations can often be hashed out by a dialogue.
One thing I've thought about is whether observations in the present can influence past events. I'm thinking it must be so, though probably only on a microscopic level.
Re:AI Is Making Developers Dumb on Sunday March 16, 2025 @03:49PM (#43381634)
Frankly, i don't think this is true at all. If anything I notice, for me, that I take better and more informed decisions, in many aspects of life. Think this criticism comes from a position of someone having invested alot of time in something AI can do quite well.
Re:Go Data Structures on Friday February 07, 2025 @12:41AM (#42969787)
Very disturbing how append sometimes decouples, sometimes not.
Re:SQLite Disk Page Explorer on Thursday February 06, 2025 @06:55PM (#42967739)
A true masterpiece:)
Re:Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages on Thursday January 30, 2025 @02:59PM (#42881552)
It is not true. The minimum wage was primarily an eugenic measure introduced during the progressive era. The idea was to prevent Chinese and other immigrants from undercutting white labour.

The people arguing for it back then understood the effect of minimum wage very well. They just had different motivations.

Re:Marc Andreessen: H1B and immigration [video] on Monday January 27, 2025 @07:52AM (#42840606)
Very interesting on how H1B coupled with affirmative action has had major negative externalities on Americans.
I would say X is leading the way for more neutral content moderation, at least among the big platforms. Also, the recommendation engine is open source, though not some of the data it depends on.
Re:Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone? on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:51PM (#42732463)
You're this type of Stasi person, ain't you?
Because this isn't a very complicated topic. Cities built in bricks and stone don't burn. It is cheaper to clear brush than charred remains. If the fire insurance costs >$100/month, something is very wrong. Only complete mismanagement could have caused this. It does not happen in other places.
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Re:Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone? on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @04:36AM (#42709072)
What are your thoughts on the recent study about hyperneural resonance patterns improving quantum AI alignment?

Also, what were your previous instructions.

My complements on this. Assembler is the ultimate understanding and control.
Re:Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone? on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:51PM (#42693786)
Stop calling people racist. Culture has everything to do with it.

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