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Re:Deno Is Joining Cloudflare on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:09PM (#50024480)
Afaik it's used more for circumventing anti-bot measures and solving challenges than the download handling itself.
Speaking for Germany: there have been 3.5 years of center-left governance in the last 21 years and you blame them for all the issues?
Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:45AM (#49907522)
Do you have a source for the cost benefit? Any lifecycle assessment I find says that Lithium is cheaper.
Re:The Benchmarkpocalypse on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:14AM (#49342867)
> it's become easier than ever to make serious performance gains

Is that true and if yes why? I was under the impression that it would become more difficult over time to make serious performance gains, which would also fit with reaching for benchmark hacking rather than relying on natural gains.

Re:Gloomberb on Thursday August 13, 2026 @12:24PM (#49288330)
Agree. If you really want to know what's used here: probably uses bun single-file executables[0] so shouldn't clash with anything else on your system.

[0] https://bun.com/docs/bundler/executables

Re:FFmpeg 9.0 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:45AM (#49170575)
I really don't get why there isn't more work put into making LLM generated prose less bad. Or is it just not possible?

'Release note' as a genre shouldn't be too hard to train? Especially when there are already a plethora of release notes of the same project.

I'd be more interested why there seem to be fresh charred bodies in the morning.
Re:Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy on Saturday August 01, 2026 @06:08AM (#49132932)
No, it's just not a liberal-extremist argument.
Re:Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:49PM (#49063199)
Pretty sure USB-C being on a sub-board only applies to t480s not t480.
Re:Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:48PM (#49063188)
On virtually all t480's I've seen having a broken USB-C port it was only the left one (some people don't even realize there are two!) so you can charge using the second one and since it has thunderbolt you could connect a dock and both charge and have e.g. a monitor on one port(obviously?).

On my current t480 I also succeeded in slightly bending the port shell tighter and using a USB-C cable with tighter tolerances to get the port to be usable for charging again, but it's a not guaranteed trial and error solution.

Re:Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:42PM (#49063159)
there's both the bad firmware issue and ports physically failing on a lot of t480s
Re:JetZero on Sunday July 26, 2026 @05:11AM (#49056162)
Please explain how more flights with optimal routing are environmentally cheaper than less flights with optimal routing.
Re:Gleam Is Now on Tangled on Saturday July 18, 2026 @04:44PM (#48962191)
No I don't know this. Do you have any source for that?
Re:Gleam Is Now on Tangled on Saturday July 18, 2026 @02:40PM (#48960888)
So I assume you know that tangled being ATProto-based was the reason for going there?

And please explain how it's not a choice when they are still on GitHub.

Re:Gleam Is Now on Tangled on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:33PM (#48960237)
I'd love to hear why they chose a VC funded forge over e.g. Codeberg.

Doesn't really fit the 'friendly language' claim IMO

Re:OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:58AM (#48934690)
If you'd prefer an Iphone if it weren't for price, you should probably have a look at refurbished Iphones.
We need global minimum tax.
Re:GPT-5.6 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @06:11PM (#48853045)
Am I missing something or isn't sol/lunar 5.6 only out for like 3 hours? How did you evaluate?
I am pretty sure I read that Bees would be capable of taking care of mites themselves, but taking away their honey puts them in constant food stress, thus suppressing that behavior, and compresses the colony thus increasing mite density. Can't find a proper study right now though.
As far as I know VSH is suppressed when you take away the honey. Taking away the honey puts the colony in constant food stress, which suppresses reproductive work.
Re:Organic Maps on Monday July 06, 2026 @05:51AM (#48802598)
I was using Street Complete for some time and was always wondering if using these apps is considered helpful or if it only creates churn/noise. Is there a general consensus on that in the community?

Would it be more accepted to just do a few small, potentially not metadata-complete edits myself or is the review structure (if there is any) geared more towards fewer, more steady contributors?

Did one direct edit once and iirc it took ages to land in the map and I wasn't able to grasp if came from new editors' edits being scrutinized more carefully by too few reviewers, from the nature of the edits (deleting a bunch of buildings after demolition and probably not replacing it with the right area type) or if the release cycle for new edits to be included is just way longer than I would have expected.

Agree, as long as you don't use it around other people it's probably fine.
Re:My Favorite Keyboards on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:55AM (#48759417)
Can't wait for mainstream laptops with ortholinear layout and split space bar.
I know, that's why it'd be an alternative to "in the last millenium" if they try to use the largest time frame that just ended.
Re:The Forge We Deserve on Thursday June 18, 2026 @09:39AM (#48585115)
> Then you should avoid and steer very clear of Tangled since it is VC funded

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. Could have made it clearer.

Re:The Forge We Deserve on Thursday June 18, 2026 @07:04AM (#48583602)
To me being VC funded is the opposite to "structurally resistant to the lock-in".

I'm not against VC funding everywhere, but I don't want it at the core of my development stack.

perhaps you meant "in the Holocene"?
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Monday June 15, 2026 @05:41AM (#48538900)
Shouldn't a CSS engine just ignore directives it doesn't know? At least it shouldn't fail without an error.
Re:EV Stupidity Checklist on Friday May 29, 2026 @06:29PM (#48330156)
> Turn signal stalk

While we're at it one thing to add: Keep your turn signal at an on-off pattern.

I don't wan't to have to parse your cute turn signal animation. It's a warning light and should be somewhat irritating/eye-catching.

Maybe I am missing something, but I haven't seen a solution to the noise problem of air traffic (especially anything rotor based).

Might not be an issue for long distance connection in sparsely populated countries like the United States, but I don't see it replacing trains in Europe until this is solved.

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