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Re:Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload on Monday February 02, 2026 @07:47AM (#46855389)
urgh. What is old is new. "Copilot" is the new omniname, what ".NET" was for a previous generation.
Re:Deep Cloning Objects in JavaScript, the Modern Way on Monday December 25, 2023 @02:45PM (#38765491)
Unnecessary _now_ perhaps, but not unnecessary when lodash was written. In 2009, when underscore.js came out (from which lodash was a fork) Array.every() was not something you could rely on. Chrome just came out a year earlier (and didn't support Array.every until version 4) and half the world was on IE 6-7-8
Re:Goodbye, waitlist. Hello, Arc 1.0 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:24PM (#36869822)
It got baked into the silicon valley culture for some reason. When the rebellious innovators à la Wozniak and the Berkeley folks merged with trillions of VC spewing finance bros, a weird amalgam was created where while everything is in reality about money, it needs to be sugar coated with drivel about wanting to change the world and solve world hunger via the application of middle out compression algorithms
Re:Goodbye, waitlist. Hello, Arc 1.0 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:18PM (#36869740)
requiring an account on day one makes me wary that the whole thing is pre-enshitified.
Re:FreeBSD at 30 years: Its secrets to success on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:25PM (#36608675)
Why do you think NetBSD is more popular? Of all the BSDs FreeBSD is by far the most widely used.
Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Sunday June 18, 2023 @05:56PM (#36384925)
Docker on freebsd's been abandonware for a few years now.
Re:Reddit is currently down on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:11PM (#35160714)
Or a causal thing....reddit being down means that some number of people switch to hackernews to pass time.
the entire point of TPP Was to exclude China...
Steve Job's return to Apple was not like this at all. For all his faults Jobs was never as erratic as Musk, and he never pulled stunts like causing 80% of the staff to be fired or leave, nor did he ever lock the buildings in Cupertino.
Due to timezones? or is there something in Japanese culture that makes friday meetings disliked?
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again on Saturday November 27, 2021 @06:16PM (#29364568)
If Github had planned downtime every 3 months people would scream bloody murder, so the point stands that github's uptime is almost surely better than someone who selfhosts.
Re:Air France-KLM Unveils Tiny A220 Jet in Superjumbo's Shadow on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:48PM (#28701975)
The irony is that the Canadian (and Quebec) government usually get flak for shoveling money and favours to Bombardier, not for refraining from doing it.
Re:New smb3 kernel server (ksmbd) on Monday August 30, 2021 @03:33PM (#28359919)
ZFS on linux uses the system tooling for SMB and NFS. Like if you `zfs share` a dataset, it modifies the system /etc/smb.conf or /etc/exports.
which goes back to the confusing UI. why should there be a different scroll bar to use than the standard one?
which is why phpbb or even (god forbid) reddit is more ergonomic to use for me. If the thread is enormous, then split it into pages. And if it's not enormous, the discourse solution ends up being heavier and slower than just loading the whole discussion at once.

Discourse's voodoo ends up being more annoying to me than useful, not unlike infinite scrolling.

(obviously this is all subjective..I can only speak to the fact that I get annoyed by it and thus instinctively avoid discourse when I can)

The fact that discourse hijacks ctrl-f drives me insane. Sometimes I want to jump to a particular part of a thread featuring a word quickly, but discourse gets in the way.

And, though this is more subjective, I find the UI confusing. I end up browsing the github issues or even reddit for answers to questions just to avoid discourse on projects that use it (discuss.linuxcontainers.org - I'm looking at you).

> I personally haven't run into it as a developer

Clearly not a nodejs developer then! npm's insanely nested dependency graph caused me to hit the 260 character limit relatively regularly. (though this was several years ago, so maybe they have mitigations for that now)

Re:Casu Martzu on Saturday June 19, 2021 @05:49PM (#27564772)
I was under the impression gas leaks are supposed to be foul smelling, since the gas itself doesn't have an odor, and they add a foul-smelling additive for safety purposes.
Re:PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey on Thursday June 17, 2021 @06:35PM (#27545197)
you can install bash on windows too.
Re:Calibre – E-Book Management on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @05:25PM (#26961784)
Not everyone is happy, which is why many of us wish it had a better UI.
IIRC OpenBSD's version of pf is single-threaded, which might be an issue depending on your network speed and hardware. A single core of an Atom or Celeron might struggle on a gigabit or 10gig network, if that's the use case.
Re:Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:29PM (#26280037)
The number of studios not using blender is much larger.
Re:Checked C on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:33AM (#26194199)
OP wrote the linked article...
That doesn't work well for me because I get still get pinterest.co.uk, pinterest.ca, pitnerest.it etc etc.

I guess we need wildcard domain exlclusion.

Re:SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019) on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:31AM (#25170207)
I think by "metric" he means your definition of a good abstraction, not the fact that all abstractions leak.
that would be 28M, not 280M (Which is still a huge number, obviously)
Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:03AM (#22404538)
That's assuming that every supermarket has enough delivery staff. That's not a valid assumption in many places.
Re:Leaving Google on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:27PM (#22303072)
It appears to be something related to the sci-fi book "Ninefox Gambit", based on a really cursory google search.

Not having read the book I can't really speculate further.

Re:Firefox 72.0 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:54AM (#21980419)
What platform are you on? I am on Ubuntu+GNOME and I was able to right click on the pip window and set "Always on visible workspace" with no issue.
I believe it's just a regional spelling issue (like paediatriction/pediatriction or encylopaedia/encyclopedia)

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