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Re:Get Ready for Touch on Mac on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:02PM (#50283141)
It is a Pro/Max model.
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:39AM (#50244526)
This iPad mini is actually slightly smaller than the previous gen; it's just the bezels that got smaller; the device footprint didn't grow.
Re:eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Certificate Business on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:47AM (#50197021)
honestly, props to the c-suite to have enough awareness that this buisness was already dead for them and there was absolutely no pathway where they are getting their certificates trusted in PKI ever again.

this lets them exit this without public humiliation of getting made fun (and example of) in the mailing lists.

Re:PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:04PM (#50184227)
They got access to the video, not the script. Calif authored the video and it was accidentally made public.
Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:12AM (#50181346)
In what circumstances would you be unable to patch your PHP, but able to stand this proxy in front of it?
Re:Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:38AM (#50180775)
Re:Ledger Nano X: the spy implant on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:50AM (#50105444)
No, only a "recorded consent" is required, usually a physical signature or a record of you agreeing to this via online form.
Re:Ledger Nano X: the spy implant on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:39AM (#50083328)
There definitely is, that’s how SEPA direct debit works.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:23AM (#50071336)
Just to be clear, I’m not usually using my laptop for this (though I have done before!), but it seemed like a pretty obvious usecase to me.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:21AM (#50071304)
They’re not very well designed to be used with dirty and wet hands, and cooking frequently involves both.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:20AM (#50071287)
So I can view the recipe in trying to cook?
You need to get the game in the first place, which requires a console that’s authorized to download games from PSN.

I don’t know how Sonys attestation works, and how resistant it is; but presumably it’s a bit harder than “lie to the game about what firmware you’re running”.

(GTA VI will famously not have a physical release, so you can’t rip data off the disk.)

The PU development is under a separate cost cap.
Williams has Claude, McLaren has both Gemini and Groq, RedBull has Oracle, Aston has CoreWeave, F1 as a whole has AWS...

Tons of AI (and adjacent) sponsors!

There are very obvious performance benefits to running a hybrid.
Re:Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:19AM (#49930714)
Anything "scratchy" like real wool is right out immediately, and I can tolerate some knit cotton or linen longsleeves better than other fabrics, but nothing is "comfortable" per se.
Re:Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:07AM (#49918642)
>You’re not neurodivergent

I have paperwork from three different countries disagreeing with you, but thanks for your concern :)

Re:Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:39AM (#49918424)
Reading posts like this makes me painfully aware just how neurodivergent I am.

It took me until... late twenties? to understand that most people _aren't_ feeling physically uncomfortable in anything long sleeved (or with long pant legs), and that they're just more... patient? tolerant than I am?

It just straight up isn't an inconvenience to other people!

I am very, very, very glad I have a career (and live in a climate) that lets me get away with shorts and short sleeves on 99,9% of days.

Re:September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:01AM (#49907167)
Good thing we're not talking about GDP then!
Re:September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:00AM (#49906681)
I'll bite, even though I really shouldn't.

How do you define "average living standard", so that it would take a colossal disaster to have US reduced to that of Poland?

Re:New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:38AM (#49906072)
You hear about them _because_ they launched in a poor state; not because _every_ game launches like this.

Yes; there have been some pretty high profile cases of games launching in terrible state, and Day 0 patches have become an industry standard, but acting like all (or even most) of big games launch like this is just sampling bias.

Re:New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @01:20AM (#49904660)
I mean this in the kindest possible way: Xbox 360 launched over twenty years ago; modchips on Xbox/Playstations haven't been a thing for... a good while now.
Re:New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:41PM (#49904118)
GTA6 will not have a disk release, which is why this is important for some people.
Re:Sonnet 5.5 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:19AM (#49889877)
There's understanding and there's understanding.

Have you never "fixed a bug", only to realize that you just papered over a single symptom, while the underlying bug is still intact?

People you're disagreeing with (I think!), would say that during your first attempt, you didn't _really_ understand the part you're modifying.

It is _very easy_ to do this in large codebases, and even more so when working on anything touching UI.

Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:14AM (#49876253)
This presupposes the information/calculation was incorrect.

I disagree with this being a foregone conclusion

Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:36AM (#49875959)
There are documents linked in the footnotes that spell this explicitly, you don’t have to infer this:

The offer letter, which spells out “which vests over 4 years”: https://colo.to/invitation.pdf

The option grant which has the accelerated schedule: https://colo.to/grant.pdf

Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:06AM (#49874957)
I feel like I'm going crazy reading the comments, and I guess, big props to the author for writing this in a way that pulls it off.

The issue here is, IMHO, not "Nvidia owes me stock in an ironclad way and gets away with it because of statue of limitations", but "I accepted an offer from Nvidia but the paperwork between the offer and the options grant differed in a way that both benefits me, and nobody noticed or cared about until now".

The original offer was for 25k shares, vesting over 4 years. The options paperwork says 25k shares, vesting over 4 _quarters_.

Now, I'm not a lawyer, and certainly not a securities lawyer, but that seems like it could be reasonably chalked down to a clerical error on the options paperwork? "You made a mistake and now I can get a billion dollars more than we agreed to originally" doesn't feel like a great lawsuit!

Re:Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:06PM (#49873112)
I think that's an overly charitable reading.

Whether they "earned" them is disputable — the offer letter specifies one vesting schedule (25% every year), the "cover sheet" from the options agreement specifies other (25% every _quarter_).

So — the OP got the shares he was promised in the original offer letter; but later discovered that some of the documents he later got implied that the vesting schedule should be accelerated compared to what he agreed to.

I think that is probably the funniest way possible to earn a billion dollars; but whether he's "owed" that money/shares, is... up for a debate.

Re:I am often wrong on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:46AM (#49783453)
There’s bugs, and there’s also just a ton of bizarre choices that no human would ever make.

CC (the desktop version) has a built-in terminal. It’s great idea when working with worktrees!

But the terminal is _in the sidebar_. Not as a panel that pops up from the bottom like in… every IDE ever that has this feature, but in the sidebar.

You can drag it to the bottom using tiny drag targets if you want, but if course this only persists for a duration of a single conversation.

And there’s a built-in keyboard shortcut to toggle it being shown/hidden. Again, great idea!

But using this resets the panel to its original position, again, making it appear in the sidebar.

Bonus points: when I tried to submit this via the GUI version of /feedback, it told me that it was disabled by workspace policy _after_ I filled out the form and hit submit. Brother, just hide the button that makes the form appear in the first place!

Re:Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:38AM (#49724496)
Because their job stopped, to a large degree, involving programming.

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