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Re:MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026) on Friday October 16, 2026 @12:22PM (#50120391)
Show some mercy. The team that supports the poor thing has their OKRs too.
was there a minority report?
then we wonder how are modern computers so slow?
Re:Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:32AM (#48955233)
They even kind of admit that themselves and offer a remote page turning accessory with buttons for Kobo readers)
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:40AM (#48815969)
what is the attack vector btw?
Re:The worst job interview I ever had on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:40AM (#48291427)
> is scoped to "… at work"

It should be but nothing guarantees you from meeting an interviewer that somehow misunderstands their role and then you will be in a situation when you need to choose what to do next: try to be open or resist. Once during an interview (for a software engineer position) I was asked if I had a family and when I replied that I didn't, I was asked why. You might be able to cut it down in an appropriate way but in a situation of stress (which a job interview represents of course) you might not.

Re:I am worried about Bun on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:38PM (#48012047)
what a nice way to write an article!
Re:AI is destroying Open Source, and it's not even good yet on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:34AM (#47044046)
The issue is not AI. It's our incentives that make having contributions to a well known open source project a currency for getting a job.
Re:AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:27AM (#46942951)
Coding with AI assistants is just a completely different skill that one should not measure from the perspective of comparing it to the way human programmers write code. Mostly everything that we have: programming languages, frameworks, principles of software development in teams, agile/clean code/TDD/DRY and other debatable or well accepted practices — all this exists to overcome limitations of human mind. AI does not have them and have others.

What I found to be useful for complex tasks is to use it as a tool to explore that highly-dimensional space that lies behind the task being solved. It rarely can be described as giving a prompt and coming back for a result. For me it's usually about having winding conversations, writing lists of invariants and partial designs and feeding them back in a loop. Hallucinations and mistakes become a signal that shows whether my understanding of the problem does or does not fit.

Re:Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant on Monday January 26, 2026 @12:36AM (#46762201)
So it's using Pro/Max subscription. Isn't this going to be stepping on the same rake as OpenCode?
Re:Dead Internet Theory on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:35AM (#46675393)
> LLMs are just probabilistic next-token generators

How sick and tired I am of this take. Okay, people are just bags of bones plus slightly electrified boxes with fat and liquid.

Re:Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:56AM (#46598008)
Yes, I get your point and I think your arguments are valid, it's just not the whole story.

The thing about programming languages is that both for their creators and advocates a significant part of motivation to drive is emotions and not the rational necessity alone. Learning a new programming language along with its ecosystem is an investment of time and effort, it is something that our brains mark as important and therefore protected (I'm looking at Rust). Now when AI is going to write all the code, that emotional part might eventually dissolve and move to something else, leaving the question of choice of a programming language much less relevant. Like the list of choices Claude Code shows to you in planning mode: "do you wish to use SQLite, PostgreSQL or MySQL as a database for your project?" (*picking the "Recommended" option)

That said, I hope that Zig will make it to version 1.0 before AI turns all the tables and sweeps many things away. It might be my bias and I'm wrong and overestimating the irrational part, then I'll be glad to admit my mistake.

Re:Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig on Monday January 12, 2026 @04:34PM (#46594612)
> would you expect a model (assuming it had the same expertise in each language) to make more mistakes in ASM, C, Zig, or Rust?

"assuming it had the same expertise in each language" is the most important part here, because the expertise of AI with these languages is very different. And, honestly, I bet on C here because its code base is the largest, the language itself is the easiest to reason about and we have a lot of excellent tooling that helps mitigate where it falls short.

> I imagine most would agree that ASM/C would be likely to have the most mistakes simply because fewer constraints are enforced as you go closer to the metal.

We need these constraints because we can't reliably track all the necessary details. But AI might be much more capable (read — scalable) in that, so all the complexity that we need to accumulate in a programming language it might just know out of the way it's built.

Re:Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:16PM (#46593630)
Innovation doesn't go for the sake of innovation itself. Innovation should serve a purpose. And the purpose of having programming languages is to overcome the limitations of human mind, of our attention span, of our ability to manipulate concepts expressed in abstractions and syntax. We don't know how long we'll need this.

I really like Zig, I wish it appeared several years earlier. But rewriting everything in Zig might just not have practical sense soon.

Re:Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:10AM (#46589548)
I hate to say it, but time is quickly running out for Zig(( AI might never pick it up properly and without that it will never go out of its niche
Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:23AM (#46588141)
> the ability to write code

I call it "the ability to communicate intent [using a programming language]" and suddenly building with AI looks at lot more like the natural extension of what we used to do writing code by ourselves.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:46AM (#46485319)
"Special Military Operation" (Специальная Военная Операция) is what the war against Ukraine is called in Russia
Re:Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @02:15AM (#46430437)
At first I thought it's about turning off settings that allow me to watch garbage TV shows (or garbage ending seasons of initially decent TV shows in this case)
no, thank you
MCP is already deterministic. What's huge about it is that it has automatic API discovery and integration built-in. It's a bit rough yet but I think we will only see how it's getting improved more and more.
Re:You can make smells with ultrasound on Saturday November 22, 2025 @11:48PM (#46020842)
So they can already implement the smell of files restored from the Recycle Bin
I don't think we should be surprised by this. A creature that needs to operate its body in 3d environment, perform complex manipulations with objects, participate in social interactions, probably use some sort of planning to optimise pollen harvesting activities has very good chances to be acquainted with the concept of time in one way or another.

What is indeed fascinating is how scientists invent all these experiments

Re:Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:01AM (#45994045)
> you can run out of space at one partition, but have lot of free space at another

that's exactly the point — you can run out of space in your /home but that does not affect, for example, /var. or vice versa, log explosion in /var is contained within its own partition and does not clog the entire filesystem.

Re:Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres on Friday September 26, 2025 @12:10AM (#45382547)
One could use a trigger for this. All we need is to setup a trigger that would delete all expired records looking at some timestamp column on update. That would eat up some latency but as was said, most projects would find it good enough anyway.
Does it fix array indexing starting from 1?
If someone could reform patent law in such a way that it could be done in one country without jeopardising its interests, how could this be done?
Re:I hacked my washing machine on Sunday July 27, 2025 @05:15PM (#44704755)
Why?
Re:The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018) on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:34PM (#44685849)
The article is from 2018 and that should be mentioned in the title
Re:Lslvr/mwm: The smallest (usable) X11 window manager on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:21PM (#44673395)
Is anything similar possible with Wayland?
Re:You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:39AM (#44667296)
Zed was my daily driver for almost a year. When it's working fine and not drawing the mouse cursor at 3 FPS it feels pretty much as anything else in terms of perceived speed. I saw mentions that you need to be younger to notice the difference. Like you don't hear frequencies above 18 KHz if you're more than 20 years old. I get the idea, I just don't see where it is connected to my real world experience

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