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Re:Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:08PM (#49649535)
Trainging on whatever I am doing will make the model worse for sure.
Re:Why low-latency Java still requires discipline? on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:50AM (#48805480)
How about not using Java? Then you can have low latency.

Average go, rust, c++ and c will outperform amazing java programs, and the former will also be way way more easy to run, troubleshoot, interpret logs from.

Java is usch garbage in every stack.

Re:Building for the Future on Thursday May 07, 2026 @05:05PM (#48055001)
"I have decided to sacrifice some of you for shareholder value, but that is something I am willing to do"
Re:Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:11AM (#47993897)
And it's a f:ing subscription delete
Re:Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:51AM (#47860436)
It is probably because the ram on his laptop is so much faster.
Get a smartphone then
Re:Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:34AM (#47349717)
Mind blown, if you need to handle "big" data on the move - the macbook neo is not the right choice. - Who would have guessed that outcome?
Re:Should we fear Microsoft's monopoly? on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:32AM (#46288965)
Why does it have to be "fully fledged" - not like most people use the advanced features in office.

It's a procurement fallacy to let a corporation dictate what features should be there and not.

Re:The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia on Thursday November 13, 2025 @02:27AM (#45911827)
Oh no! What will DIY-people use now to make the ugliest floors known to man?
Re:Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again on Sunday November 02, 2025 @05:35PM (#45794047)
It's more common than you think. Talking from 30 years of experience 20+ of them in very senior roles.
Re:Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again on Sunday November 02, 2025 @04:12PM (#45793500)
Its fine to have fun with self-hosting.

The problem is when self-hosting amateur stuff leaks into professional life.

And then you have a expert beginner pushing their homelab/Self-hosting

Re:Where were you when goo.gl shutdown? on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @01:48PM (#44879618)
URL shorteners should not have existed in the first place.
Re:Red Hat Linux in 1998 (2009) on Sunday June 15, 2025 @05:26PM (#44285083)
Gnome was indeed garbage then
Re:Why Does the U.S. Always Run a Trade Deficit? on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @03:32AM (#44049178)
Because USA makes garbage
Re:3,200% CPU Utilization on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:33PM (#43212585)
click Java close
Re:OpenEuroLLM on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:57PM (#43120809)
Where is the models - I don't care about your "intentions" and your logos - just make and publish the models. This current form is _useless_
USA is truly a fucked up country
Re:DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented on Monday November 04, 2024 @02:49PM (#42045379)
This made me exactly the same amount as frustrated like the originals. So, good job I guess :D
Re:On Good Software Engineers on Monday October 28, 2024 @06:31AM (#41969619)
This is so profound, I need a t-shirt

"Process people can't resist trying to optimize things they superficially comprehend."

Re:On Good Software Engineers on Monday October 28, 2024 @05:19AM (#41969152)
I have read many of this types of blog posts about 10x, good engineers and such.

The only thing I have learned during my close to 30 years of professional experience is how incredible rare they are. The really good engineers in IT.

They are so rare so MOST people will never work with even one. That is how rare they are.

And a "Blogger, Writer, Philospher" - have probably never worked with one, and never will. Because they are in a whole different sphere of engineering.

The number of systems is increasing explonentially - the number of truely good engineer is pretty much a constant number.

Re:JVM statistics cause garbage collection pauses (2015) on Thursday September 19, 2024 @05:02PM (#41596370)
Using ebpf, perf and flamegraphs would let him find this in a couple of hours. That was not available for him in 2015 tho.
Re:Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @04:23AM (#41443165)
Useless

Varnish is not better in any shape or form than nginx for static content. Varnish has one single usecase, php-sites. - For everything else it will just add a layer of complexity that give no gains. And since varnish is essentially built on apache there is some issues with how it handles connections above about 50k/sec - where it gets complicated to configure, something that nginx does not have.

Seeing how they don't even seem to have a terraform module, I would say this will not grow to anything.
Gaia-X is a place where the hasbeens of the yesteryear can poison any reasonable developent made by saying "We have always done it this way".
Re:POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:22PM (#40650365)
Yes, you can use renderman https://renderman.pixar.com/install
Re:POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @05:18AM (#40644157)
It's been a minute since I heard pov-ray mentioned :D - Had fun playing around with it in the early 2000s
Chocker :D
So just regular work stuff, got it.

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