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Re:Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:15AM (#50221450)
I read it as being more specific than one overarching "position". Long-range strike drones are arguably "offensive action" even in a clearly defensive war, interceptor drones are clearly "defensive action". Midrange strike against targets in occupied Ukrainian territory are a bit of a grey area.
Of course, Starlink/Starshield is already unavailable for long-range strike due to geofencing, and the speed limit was clobbering interceptors right when they needed that speed to cope with the new jet-powered Gerans, so it's still a daft stance overall.
Re:The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:53AM (#50207009)
Hmm, not immediately clear how this avoids potential privacy leaks, such as drawing DOM hyperlinks to the canvas and then scraping their visited-status colour from the pixel data.
Or maybe I'm behind the times; I've not done serious webdev for a long time.
Re:I Love Software Rendering
on Friday October 16, 2026 @09:29AM (#50118162)
Eh, Nanite rasterisation is still happening on the GPU, it's "just" implemented in shaders rather than using the fixed-function pipeline. "Software rendering" is becoming less useful as a descriptor as graphics hardware becomes more general.
Re:Former SR-71 Engineer Talks NASA's Blackbird Revival Program
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:36AM (#49953394)
I'm missing something - why would you be wanting to intercept balloons over someone else's airspace? The 2023 incident was in US (and Canadian) airspace.
Re:Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?
on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:45PM (#49848381)
This was the low point for me:
> Consider a video game sun passing behind a video game tree. The sun pixels touch the tree pixels directly, yet the tree does not burst into flames. This is because the sun pixels are independent of the tree pixels.
With apologies to Babbage, I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such an explanation.
Re:GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:03PM (#49818143)
AC10 had an interesting post around this general area earlier today:
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mysteries-of-ai-generalizat...
Re:Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in hu...
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:20AM (#49763563)
When first introduced it was around the price of a sheep. The homicidal version of bracket creep [1].
Re:Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in hu...
on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:08PM (#49758802)
Theft was historically very scale-sensitive. In England you'd face execution for "grand larceny" if the goods in question were worth more than twelve pence. This was on the books from the 13th century until 1832 (!).
Re:Chop Up Your Books
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:50PM (#49718728)
Plenty of webfiction out there which is exactly this. It does tend to fall into the trap of going on forever though.
Re:Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:00PM (#49645964)
I don't think "volubility" means what you think it means. The usual meaning of "voluble" is "talkative" (gesprächig if your username is accurate). I'm not quite sure what you're going for here or in an earlier comment, but suspect it's something more like "ergonomic", i.e. the language being easy/natural to write and not getting in your way.
Re:Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:21AM (#49644181)
I'd also love to see MS sponsoring Windows support for a modern linker like mold or wild.
Re:Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketi...
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:56PM (#49592182)
Out of interest, are you doing any dev on the SM? If so, how is it for that?
Re:The Luxuries in Life
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:40PM (#49580436)
Beautifully put, and definitely resonated with me as someone who entered mostly-contentedly-frugal retirement a few years back.
One thing you didn't mention is the need to feel useful in some way; would you consider that a weakness too? Is it covered by "rest without guilt"? It's the bit I still have some trouble with.
Re:"We want it to confuse people, but also make people happy."
on Thursday September 03, 2026 @06:01PM (#49557730)
Honest question - does anyone aside from the devs actually play PICO-8 games?
I can absolutely see the appeal of simple/constrained platforms from the dev side; I look back fondly on my Amiga days, optimising the living daylights out of an asm routine or endlessly fiddling with programmer art. But I don't know whether there's any appetite now to play the things, and without that there's no real feedback loop.
Re:Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:11PM (#49492936)
“He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.” -- William Blake
Re:Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @09:53AM (#49489926)
9.336 WGPU Error: Not enough memory left.
This is on a 4GB 1650 Super, latest Firefox, Win10. It's an old card, sure, but it can still play most commercial games; I'm not sure why this thing is so hungry. Lots of big volumetric textures, maybe?
Re:Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @08:20AM (#49489318)
Important to clarify: IIRC that comment was about Norway's EEA membership. The UK is not an EEA member.
Re:"It works better in the app "
on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:01PM (#49481467)
As I said, I don't use the algorithmic feed at all, so I don't see how "paid (blue checkmark) to have their posts raise higher" applies.
Re:"It works better in the app "
on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:26PM (#49480854)
Aside from the stupid rename, I haven't noticed it become any more of a cesspool than it was before the takeover, and in some ways it's arguably healthier (less echo-chamber-ey, and community notes can be useful). Again, this is purely talking about desktop web and avoiding the algorithmic feed.
I think you're taking a very particular partisan US view and projecting it onto the rest of the world.
Re:"It works better in the app "
on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:52AM (#49480381)
A small assortment of people that I found interesting/insightful/amusing at some point, plus a few local orgs occasionally announcing things. Why does anything need to be "so important"?
Re:"It works better in the app "
on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:42AM (#49480236)
On desktop web it's mostly fine, as long as you stick to the "Following" view rather than "For you".
Re:Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:02AM (#49477308)
Could you link to the specific chart you're looking at? I think our searches are finding different things.
Re:Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
on Friday August 28, 2026 @04:56AM (#49476120)
Interesting; I wasn't aware that 20mg was considered the minimum effective dose for fluoxetine. I tried tapering from 20mg to 15mg (alternating 10/20) after ~4 years and was absolutely fine; I then tried the next step down to 10mg and crashed hard. Probably going to stay on it for life now, which is fine; I never really experienced any negative side effects.
Re:Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @02:38PM (#49411252)
> the first ever multitasking OS for personal computers which let people do full-colour graphics, stereo sound, in multiple apps running at the same time
I think the most impressive thing I ever saw on the Amiga was accidentally launching Wing Commander twice and having both instances just work, switching every couple of seconds or so. I very much doubt the dev ever tested that; why would they?
Re:Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:00PM (#49363335)
Not that unfortunate:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/theres-still-m...
Re:Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:00PM (#49363320)
I think Bevy uses it too, right?
Re:Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancien...
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @08:53AM (#49360933)
How so? This was the Bronze Age; smelting iron ore wasn't really a thing yet, so meteoric iron was pretty much the only kind available.
Re:Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emissio...
on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:11AM (#49358002)
Yup, especially on the older lines (Northern, Victoria, Jubilee, Bakerloo). Particulate pollution can be two orders of magnitude higher than at street level. This tends to be glossed over when trumpeting the success of ULEZ measures pushing people away from cars and onto public transport, and I say that as a non-car-owner.
Re:Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:54PM (#49352555)
Most of the CVEs I've seen for that stack are in DNS, and Firefox's DNS-over-HTTPS implementation bypasses the OS DNS almost completely in sensible configurations.
Re:Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:35PM (#49352318)
Oh god that "OOBE" horror. I almost got locked out when it demanded a Microsoft Account login, which I never use for anything. I'd only just grudgingly acquired a portable telephone at that point; without it, I'd have had severe difficulty getting at my mementos.