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Re:Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu on Monday May 25, 2026 @05:11AM (#48264883)
`git rebase -i` and `fixup`
Re:Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:28AM (#48245880)
It’s “trope”, not “troupe”
Re:Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable' on Monday May 18, 2026 @11:42AM (#48181362)
I think this will sort itself out over time, as people realise that it’s no longer impressive whatsoever to land an AI-assisted PR to the Linux kernel.
I came, I saw the em dash, I closed the tab
Re:Building for the Future on Friday May 08, 2026 @06:46AM (#48061289)
> Matthew has personally sent out every offer letter we've extended. It is a practice he has always looked forward to because it represented our growth and the incredible talent joining our mission

Who gives a shit if you treat your staff like this?

I will add cloudflare to the list of companies that I’ll never work for. Shame, because it seemed like an interesting place

Re:Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE on Thursday May 07, 2026 @05:51PM (#48055611)
> this is why we don't run as root

The entire point is that you can escalate to root

Re:Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:16PM (#48054315)
can this also be used to obtain container escape ?
Re:Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @06:24PM (#47955528)
LLM slop detected, tab closed
Re:Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz] on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:29AM (#47909440)
Just use rps
Re:Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:40AM (#47900366)
Shame that this report is LLM-generated slop.
A GitHub README.md without a torrent of AI-generated slop? Refreshing
have you considered implementing a +- operator?

For example a +- b would be [a - b, a + b]

I’ve spent dozens of hours reading about the conflict on social media. I don’t think I’ve seen a single western account, outside of schizophrenic conspiracy theorist anons, saying that Iran is some paradise that can do no wrong.
Yes, because that quite literally isn’t “news”. Western leaders including the pope have condemned jihadism for decades.
No, it will likely be a state actor who reaches it first, who will never give away such a capability so easily
No, and even if we could, it would require a migration of approaching the same difficulty of a migration to PQ, at which point why not just migrate to PQ
I suppose transistors is a bad example.

Perhaps a better analogy would be the Linux kernel. It's built by biological humans, and fallible ones at that. And yet, I don't feel the need to learn the intricacies of kernel internals, because it's reliable enough that it's essentially never the kernel's fault when my code doesn't work.

That isn’t the same thing. Indeed, upon reading further, it appears there is no way to import non-stdlib go modules.
I've read the entire page and still don't know whether or not I can import Go modules in this language, which seems rather important
I think this article is largely, or at least directionally, correct.

I'd draw a comparison to high-level languages and language frameworks. Yes, 99% of the time, if I'm building a web frontend, I can live in React world and not think about anything that is going on under the hood. But, there is 1% of the time where something goes wrong, and I need to understand what is happening underneath the abstraction.

Similarly, I now produce 99% of my code using an agent. However, I still feel the need to thoroughly understand the code, in order to be able to catch the 1% of cases where it introduces a bug or does something suboptimally.

It's possible that in future, LLMs will get _so_ good that I don't feel the need to do this, in the same way that I don't think about the transistors my code is ultimately running on. When doing straightforward coding tasks, I think they're already there, but I think they aren't quite at that point when it comes to large distributed systems.

Re:Working on Products People Hate on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:34AM (#47625491)
Maybe you should vote with your feet and work somewhere that isn’t like this.
Re:Working on Products People Hate on Friday April 03, 2026 @06:21AM (#47624981)
All of this guy’s takes are so funny to me. He’s clearly been forged in the fire of utterly cursed and corrupt companies like Amazon, and it bleeds into his entire world view. He can’t even conceive of the idea of actually wanting to create a good product, it’s all seen through the lens of promotions and self-furtherment.
Re:Telnyx v4.87.1 and v4.87.2 are compromised by TeamPCP on Friday March 27, 2026 @03:10PM (#47546948)
I think it's only a matter of time at this point before a devastating supply chain attack occurs.

Supply-chain security is such a dumpster fire, and threat actors are realising that they can use LLMs to organize such attacks.

I’m always staggered by how stressed and tbh (not necessarily their fault given the circumstances) unprofessional US ATCs sound.

Sharp contrast with Europeans

Re:You Are Not Your Job on Sunday March 22, 2026 @01:30PM (#47479912)
> It also helps me keep my job during layoffs because I can assure you the managers have noticed.

I got to this bit before realising this is satire

Re:Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc on Monday March 16, 2026 @02:31PM (#47402877)
And the Oscar for most mealy-mouthed post of the year goes to…
Palantir’s product is light years ahead of anything any government IT project has ever, and in my opinion can ever, deliver. They’re not even in the same league.
Re:Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:37AM (#47396851)
This is morally wrong and it should be embarrassing to publish such an article.

It doesn’t surprise me to see such articles coming from academia, in which juniors are treated like dirt to such an extreme that is unimaginable in any other industry, save for maybe Michelin star cuisine.

Re:Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:35AM (#47396839)
This is morally wrong and it should be embarrassing to publish such an article

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