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Re:ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux on Thursday August 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#49288517)
More testing you still need good engineers for every native platform if you go native. We all know that AI in the hands of incompetent people is bad.
Re:SuperTux 0.7.0 on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:15PM (#47390140)
Linux: just for fun. Congrats to this release. I vividly remember playing all sorts of Linux games when I was younger. Helped me to feel not as lonely as I was.
Re:Why does C have the best file API on Sunday March 01, 2026 @05:11PM (#47211233)
You can even mmap a socket on some systems (iOS and macOS via GCD). But doing that is super fragile. Socket errors are swallowed.

My interpretation always was the mmap should only be used for immutable and local files. You may still run into issues with those type of files but it’s very unlikely.

Re:Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms on Saturday January 24, 2026 @07:08PM (#46749146)
Scrum masters typically do not assign tickets.
Re:Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:58AM (#46219260)
Coming from Switzerland to the US: I do not want to leave. Everything is better here… maybe not for the average person but for some individuals.
Re:The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023) on Monday October 06, 2025 @10:32PM (#45498824)
Browser extension that do that require full access to the contents of the website. That’s why some people decide not to use those extension.
Isn’t that adjusting for inflation and not for cost of living?
The AI only sees a bit of HTML plus a bunch of JS that, when executed, generates more HTML. If the AI does not run the JS it won’t see everything. During training they probably use a crawler that runs a headless browser behind the scenes to get everything a human would get.
Re:I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @11:45PM (#44058582)
Best way for me to get rid of my tinnitus was to get a hearing aid. In my specific case I got the Lyric hearing aid which is a totally invisible hearing aid positioned deep inside the ear canal and it is worn 24/7. It is known to reliably eliminate a tinnitus that is caused by hearing loss in the high frequency range.
Re:Sunsetting Whois on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:40PM (#43384978)
According to German law every website who is owned and operated by a person or entity in Germany needs an imprint with full name, address, email address and phone number… (of the owner 2 owning entity)…
Re:XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:57PM (#42860614)
Concord was actually a cash cow for all airlines who had them. The only reason why airlines stopped using Concord was because of the crash and the inherent safety issues that were found. But the actual business model worked - limited in scope but it was highly profitable.

“That said, the airlines that flew the Concorde did make a profit. Concorde was only ever purchased by two airlines: BA and Air France. While the concept of the Concorde might not have been a worldwide hit, it was certainly a good market fit for these two airlines at the time.”

Overall it was obviously a money looser because of the high development costs (paid for by the governments).

It’s also the default in Factorio
Re:Efficient German Language Learning: Is Anki the Answer? on Saturday December 21, 2024 @03:32PM (#42482089)
Heavily depends on the Newspaper though .
Re:JSON5 – JSON for Humans on Sunday December 08, 2024 @10:46PM (#42362917)
I usually just add my comment as an additional field called _comment or something like that
Re:My second year without a job on Saturday December 07, 2024 @03:49AM (#42348298)
I totally disagree and don’t even know where to begin…

People are different. Some are just not “as resilient” as others. Some have mental issues. Some have other priorities in life. Some people are just overwhelmed when they have to focus on more than one thing (their own wellbeing) - which should and cannot be confused with selflessness.

Not everyone wants to accept the common conceptions of life. And that’s ok.

Re:Bulma CSS Framework on Sunday October 27, 2024 @09:28PM (#41967064)
About 50% of their sponsors are gambling websites. So sad.
UK belongs to Europe?
„ In comparison, in the context of the European GDPR, the Article 29 Working Party[6] considered hashing to be a technique for pseudonymization that “reduces the linkability of a dataset with the original identity of a data subject” and thus “is a useful security measure,” but is “not a method of anonymisation.”[7] In other words, from the perspective of the Article 29 Working Party, while hashing might be a useful security technique, it is not sufficient to convert personal data into deidentified data.“

https://www.gtlaw-dataprivacydish.com/2021/03/what-is-hashin...

Re:Never ask a candidate to rate themselves out of 10 on Monday July 08, 2024 @02:19PM (#40907840)
If someone responds with “10” and fails to answer basic questions about that specific topic you know that the person is either lying or is overly confident.
It is not documented on a per method basis. You can see by looking at the name of the method that it does return an auto released instance… this convention is well documented and made ARC possible.
Re:Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:43AM (#37146867)
After reading the linked website for like 2 hours I still can’t tell if this is a joke or for real…
Re:Write in JavaScript, Render in Flutter on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:02PM (#28579273)
It does if you target browsers with your flutter app.
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Usually the product of a team of 4 is not that well known nor successful. And you can't really compare the average developer with the three developers mentioned since they are clearly outstanding and could get hired by almost any company.
Re:Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf] on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:03AM (#26633597)
And Biontech since 2008 and CureVac was founded in 2000 (after their initial CEO made a discovery that enabled Biontech + Moderna).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Hoerr

Re:Electric car that charges itself on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:48PM (#26482747)
RVs also use solar panels as one of the main sources of energy. But I have learned to avoid those flexible solar panels (that Sonos is seemingly using as well) because they do not last a long time. They break usually long before 10 years are over. Also it should be noted that solar panels lose efficiency the hotter they get. Solar panels that are directly glued on the surface have no ventilation and thus get hot, lose efficiency and the heat also does not help to make them last longer. Of course, properly mounted panels you find on most RVs cause a bit more drag. There are military grade flexible solar panels available that don’t have most of the mentioned side effects but they are like 5x more expensive.
Re:Mac sandbox escape on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:05AM (#23028213)
There is official support for auxiliary files in macOS/sandbox. A prime example is the use of SQLite in WAL mode which requires write access to $dir/my_db.sqlite + a bunch of other files in the same directory (for transaction handling etc). But this problem was solved years ago already because Core Data (an apple framework) actually uses SQLite under the hood.

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