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Re:Digital Minimalism on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:33PM (#50319298)
to a nice little café with a book :)
Re:Digital Minimalism on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:47AM (#50317249)
just leave twitter for the love of god
Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:31PM (#50310418)
having spent thousands of hours in gw1 and hundreds in gw2, I don't think I ever had an actual crash, and only very minor gameplay bugs. congrats :D
Re:Show HN: Ultrafast Rust Based Agent Workspace on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:28PM (#50310390)
how does it compare to https://herdr.dev/ ?
AFAIK all the core of bitwig (e.g. what has the hot path) is a separate native process with no java in it, communicating with shmem or sockets with the java gui
i'm developing apps that do real-time audio and video and any allocation or anything that may end up in a system call directly or indirectly (for instance accessing swapped or mapped but not yet loaded memory) on the hot path is a complete no-go and will instantly cause very audible glitches for audio, and visual frame pacing issues
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:50PM (#50283580)
it is for personal accounts, but for corporate accounts your IT needs to enable it
Re:The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:03PM (#50266474)
> And what's the point of spending most of your life doing work that sucks so that others can hate their job too?

I mean in my case i'd be absolutely fine doing work that sucks infinitely if that means that my users are happy. It really drives me crazy all the discourse I've seen over the years about devs that care about their own quality of life/job. Like, no, the only thing that should matter to you is your users, no matter the job. If what makes them genuinely happy is for you to take dirt out of a hole and put it back, and on top of this you get paid, we live in completely different planets if you don't rush to the nearest shovel.

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @05:47PM (#50266310)
.. what was wrong with google wave? I kinda miss it
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:51PM (#50263959)
definitely saw a few in starbucks around the world. no one cares
Re:Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @09:12PM (#50136850)
ah, to live in an era where one could freely type an em dash every two sentences
> in 18 comments no less than 3 different people are warning about doing something against the rules

I don't know how it is in your country but where I grew up it's well-known that the cops will come knock at your door fast if you transmit at power or frequency bands you shouldn't be transmitting.

Re:C++26: The New Debugging Header on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:43AM (#50130620)
That's just an eternally confusing bug of VS/cdb. On other IDEs such as QtCreator with clang or gdb it shows the break red dot exactly where the issue is.
Re:Using AI to reverse engineer hardware on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:44PM (#50112748)
> but why would someone toil to create a new algorithm to solve a problem if someone else is just going to steal it in hours?

same reason I spent my entire career so far writing open-source code that anyone can copy ? (it's GPL, but imagine 100% companies actually caring about that). Ideas can't be owned.

I'd like to look into adding it to https://github.com/jcelerier/librediffusion for real time inference using tensorrt, do you think it's worth trying?
Re:LittleJS is 2D and 3D now on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:38PM (#50106249)
Who are you to judge other people's ways of enjoying their life?
Re:LittleJS is 2D and 3D now on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:13PM (#50098320)
how do you feel about people that love going to pachinko
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:42PM (#50079966)
not really an option when you're working on a large codebase where a bisect means that a lot of steps could be multiple-hours of compiles. E.g if on a simple 12-step bisect you get 6/8 with a full rebuild you've already spent an entire work day on this
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:56PM (#50062081)
if patterns can be put into words, why wouldn't the same process happen at the word level? do you think it's impossible for a LLM to write even a simple python program that will generate millions of plausible random sentences in the general problem space we aim to generate new concepts for, then filter and rank them semantically?

More generally, do you really think humans randomly come up with new ideas, in any act of creation, such as art, science, etc.? Why do you think art studies and stuff like Oblique Strategies exist? How long should one wait for a specific random human without any formal education in physics to have 50% chance of coming up with a new workable theory of cosmology?

Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:11PM (#50060416)
> I'm ready to bet that is untrue. Sure, no one can recite the code, but people can quickly scan the module and refresh their memory as well as understanding the new changes, even after a while. If not, collaboration would have been impossible.

I don't understand this part. When I was doing freelance consulting, my job was quite often "come to our office, scan this 40 million lines codebase and fix stuff for the next week". It was never a problem to read and get up to speed completely unknown codebases if you have basic programming ability. Much harder to do something that fits floaty business objectives though.

Re:The Mathocalypse on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:24AM (#50004977)
For one person that understands a proof of some matrix multiplication algorithm lowering its current complexity bound in an useful way (e.g. not with absurdly gigantic <= 2nd order polynomial term), there's likely thousands of companies willing to pay for the improved efficiency
Which language do you think doesn't need it? For instance for me I wish I had such a tool whenever I used any interpreted or JIT language, to understand clearly to which semantics whatever is happening maps and how their respective front-end optimizes. Things as simple as "a" + "b" in JavaScript: are you sure you know how every js runtime maps it? Do they fold the strings as an optimization during parsing ? Do they preallocate a larger native string type and push? Do they just do something that ends up an equivalent of std::u16string("a") + std:: u16string("b")?
Re:What even is an OS now? on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:37PM (#49852969)
lucky people, as soon as I learn how something works it's pretty much impossible for me to keep any interest in it
Re:First Principles Thinking on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:30PM (#49852937)
someone walked 14 years in minecraft. now what?
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:27PM (#49852925)
> (most of the time it’s actually the comments that are the problem, not the code).

I wonder if it's just a consequence of a gigantic training set full of comments completely out-of-date with the code, leading to the model considering this "normal"

Re:AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:19AM (#49775581)
> The credits for my code are protected (with the GPL you have to tell where your code originates from)

But that's literally anathema to the spirit of GPL. Copyleft exists only as a reaction to copyright which is sadly ingrained in legal systems, but the original thought about free software, at the time of GPL inception, is that in an ideal world, copyright shouldn't exist for software ; it's leveraged by GPL only to protect against abuse of copyright holders that could close open code, which is thus made impossible "legally" with the GPL. AI makes this distinction fal into "practically" as pretty much anything is "open" for individual use now (e.g the only use that matters).

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf

Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @10:23AM (#49766817)
> In both photoshop and painting, the human using the tool decides what strokes to use.

except for the million posters and album covers unironically made with a real photo passed into one of photoshop's "Artistic" filters to make it look like some impressionist painting

Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @10:20AM (#49766792)
As I said, "Today's AI makes it look even worse". But the post makes me hopeful than in a couple years, actually good graphic design can come out from AI. It still looks terrible and AI even for the best posters it highlights, but noticeably less than the random ice cream or coffee shop where I live with fully ai-generated interior design, memorabilia and menus.
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @09:17AM (#49766361)
Well what's better ? I have so many pictures of posters of old events or storefronts saved on my phone because they were so astronomically bad it'd have been better to not have any poster at all. Today's AI makes it look even worse but I'm hopeful that in five years we'll all live in a world generally more agreeable to look at and not "concrete with pink and yellow fluo paper smashed on top of it" like https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/music-poster-wall.html or https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/france-poster-wall.html?ps... because the cost of making things enjoyable with more colour and detail will have come down. Maybe we can finally go back to Art Nouveau if the cost of making it comes down!

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