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Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:46AM (#50176529)
I’d be super careful taking any drug which messes with your brain chemistry.
Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake on Saturday October 03, 2026 @01:06AM (#49941490)
Once people realize the fundamental incompatibility of these new repos with the old ones, they’ll be furious. GitHub will back down.

It’s like IPv6. Just worse.

Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake on Thursday October 01, 2026 @03:23PM (#49925956)
My prediction: 20 years from now everyone will still use SHA-1 git. That will be simply easier.
Pirating it is.
Re:Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:29PM (#49602025)
It’s not any better today. Probably the only difference is that you’ll get some ads too.
Re:Instrument clusters are now paid extras in two Hyundai models on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:54PM (#49553947)
- I’m sorry officer I didn’t know I was speeding. My car isn’t equipped with an instrument cluster.

- Oh, I see, go on then.

Re:There's no such thing as a small software team anymore on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:56AM (#49383962)
Then you’ll have “GitHub” uptime, breaking prod every day.
Just copy Claude’s output and shove it into Gemini and ask to rephrase.
Sometimes you are forced to use it - e.g. Bun in Claude Code. I like Opus models, but can't run them outside of Claude Code/Bun in subscription models.
Re:Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:29AM (#48980251)
Why not just change ownership then? I'd bet some people would be interested to pay some money for that...
Re:Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature on Friday July 17, 2026 @03:43PM (#48951493)
I’d really suggest to run Claude Code in a sandbox! Anthropic can’t be trusted.

I run it on Mac with sandbox-exec. No access to AWS, database, pretty much just files in the current folder. Even if it goes rogue, it can’t do much harm.

Re:Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:53AM (#48948838)
It happened to me today. I was reading agent's answer and it asked me something. I didn't even get to the question - it accepted something! Jesus Christ. Where are the software engineers?!
Re:My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Modded on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:56AM (#48931981)
Love the car, Toyota rocks with these GR cars (Corolla, Yaris). Mods are also super cool!
Re:Kids (With Phones) Are Alright on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @10:09AM (#48921092)
Feels like the seventies. Remember the time when tobacco CEO-s sweared, that they didn’t know cigarettes are unhealthy?
Re:Kids (With Phones) Are Alright on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:12AM (#48916532)
Give them a bottle of scotch and pack of cigarettes as well.
Anyone still be able to trust Bun? It looks like piece of garbage to me. Doesn’t even offer much compared to node or deno.
Re:DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:47PM (#48862354)
Can you be competitive with DUV? They are pushing it to the limit, but will it make sense?
Re:DeepSeek aims to make its own AI chip on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:40AM (#48856131)
China still doesn’t have EUV. How will they make competitive chips? Is TSMC allowed to make them?
Re:Why American ambulance rides are so expensive on Friday July 10, 2026 @01:19AM (#48855991)
Anywhere else in the world it’s possible to do this orders of magnitude cheaper.

But yes, it’s because of “options” and not because of greed.

Some group of people tries to extract as much money as possible. You can call this capitalism. I think it’s a big scam.

Re:Resetting Xbox on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:45AM (#48814061)
I expected an article about resetting an Xbox device.
I want only their model, the rest is just garbage. I used Opus with pi.dev, worked perfectly fine. Fast and does exactly what it needs to do. Claude Code is slow, sluggish, buggy. Why are you forcing me to use it? Why should I pay an order of magnitude more to use pi.dev? That doesn't sound reasonable to me.
Re:Half-Baked Product on Saturday July 04, 2026 @12:41AM (#48782684)
That’s exactly what I mean as well. Of course behind startups the basic idea is to innovate. But this gets lots, because most of people just want to make money. VC-s don’t care about innovation, they care that the money they put in, comes back.

It’s not evil, it’s just how money-oriented society works.

Re:Half-Baked Product on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:12PM (#48778046)
It’s very simple. Everbody just wants to make money.

Startups have nothing to do with innovation or making the world a better place.

It feels like it’s about creating the bubble, inflating it and cashing out before it bursts.

You have to think longer term.

Today’s 1Gbit is tomorrow’s 25GBit.

It takes some time to actually install it. So, better to plan for the future.

…and 640kb RAM is more than enough.
The article didn’t say free market is bad in general, it said it doesn’t work for internet infrastructure.
“America is best country in the world” thinking is very visible from the comments.

Yeah, it has super bad internet, but because it’s too big, Europe installed copper wires later, 25Gbit is not really that much in Switzerland, etc.

Millions of reasons, but understanding that the current capitalist system doesn’t work for internet infrastructure.

Re:Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:42PM (#48750549)
I feel zero guilt to pirate movies.
Re:Microsoft Needs Windows Lite on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:33AM (#48733259)
Free in a sense that I don't have to pay extra for it (comes with the machine) and no extra fee for new versions either.
Re:Microsoft Needs Windows Lite on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @10:18AM (#48733085)
It's also interesting to see that after 30 years Windows NT is still a decent OS/kernel. Of course the rest of Windows is just pure garbage.

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