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A powertool that needs discretion and good judgement to be used well is being restricted to people with a track record of displaying good judgement. I see nothing wrong here.

AI enables volume, which is a problem. But it is also a useful tool. Does it increase review burden? Yes. Is it excessively wasteful energy wise? Yes. Should we avoid it? Probably no. We have to be pragmatic, and learn to use the tools responsibly.

Re:Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:40PM (#47378436)
Me too. This is funny
Re:Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:24PM (#47284181)
Wait dbus isn't considered modern? What's the alternative these days?
The issuer knows everything and can help track if the wish to. The issue here is lack of trust in any corporate or government entity.
Re:NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:27AM (#47121428)
Crontab entry to read a file and run a prompt?
Re:I’m joining OpenAI on Sunday February 15, 2026 @10:09PM (#47030437)
The long list of domain names that vercel deployed to is interesting
Re:The Singularity Will Occur on a Tuesday on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:33PM (#46970854)
Am I the only one who found the terminal more interesting?
Re:What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @06:30AM (#46958301)
Excuse me what? Fonts? How do fonts signal LLM usage now
Re:It's 2026, Just Use Postgres on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:34AM (#46923029)
That blog post is very light on details can be condensed to a single line/paragraph. LSM trees are more efficient for SSDs and modern databases use them.

I don't know enough to comment yet but will go read about it.

Re:LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions on Friday February 06, 2026 @01:47AM (#46909872)
But that has no moat. Anyone can generate a database of natural numbers using SOTA models.
Re:Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:34AM (#46909484)
How would that help in this case?
Re:It's 2026, Just Use Postgres on Thursday February 05, 2026 @10:58PM (#46908933)
Can you share examples of new database architectures and products using them that are built for SSDs?

I'm sure we have different capabilities and constraints, but I am unaware of any fundamentally different approaches to indexes.

Re:Claude Opus 4.6 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @01:55PM (#46903401)
I only see **. Must be the security. When you type your password it gets converted to **.
Before commenting water is cheap and plentiful please read the proposed definition.

> Water bankruptcy refers to “a state in which a human-water system has spent beyond its hydrological means for so long that it can no longer satisfy the claims upon it without inflicting unacceptable or irreversible damage to nature.”

> Water bankruptcy refers to “a state in which a human-water system has spent beyond its hydrological means for so long that it can no longer satisfy the claims upon it without inflicting unacceptable or irreversible damage to nature.”
That is a strange viewpoint. Are we calling everyone who wants some control over their computers enemies of the state?
Re:Ghostty's AI Policy on Friday January 23, 2026 @09:01AM (#46732575)
An unenforced threat is toothless. Publicly stating we do not appreciate XYZ pr that was ai generated, low effort and in bad faith is perfectly acceptable.
Re:Ghostty's AI Policy on Friday January 23, 2026 @08:57AM (#46732542)
Very little, until it stops being stupid in many ways. We don't need smart, we need tools to not be stupid. An unreliable tool is more dangerous and more useless than having no tool.
When digital content can be duplicated with ease, it is difficult to guarantee verified voter but untraceable vote.
Very. Every voter is guaranteed a booth nearby (<2km away from registered address). Including a monk who gets his own polling booth because he lives so far from everyone and everything else. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/5/8/an-election-booth...

Also https://www.reuters.com/world/india/family-remote-himalayas-...

Love this. Classic microsoft.
Re:The suck is why we're here on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:03AM (#46485672)
Now people can articulate bullshit better with LLMs.
Re:Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after 10 years on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:17PM (#46417120)
There are different kinds of mocks.

Check function XYZ is called, return abc when XYZ is called etc are the bad kind that people were bit badly by.

The good kind are a minimally correct fake implementation that doesn't really need any mocking library to build.

Tests should not be brittle and rigidly restate the order of function calls and expected responses. That's a whole lot of ceremony that doesn't really add confidence in the code because it does not catch many classes of errors, and requires pointless updates to match the implementation 1-1 everytime it is updated. It's effectively just writing the implementation twice, if you squint at it a bit.

Re:Why can't a gear have less than 17 teeth on Sunday December 21, 2025 @11:36AM (#46346019)
Definitely. Horrible formatting and explanations, bunch of facts mashed together without coherence, weird references to netizens. I wonder how bad the model and prompt must have been to arrive at this.
Re:Homeless people used as mobile Wi-Fi hotspots (2012) on Sunday December 21, 2025 @11:29AM (#46345970)
20 a day is not a job worthy wage as I understand it.

The T shirts were also dehumanising. It wouldn't have taken much effort to go from "I'm Clarence a mobile Hotspot" to "I'm Clarence and I'm carrying a mobile Hotspot."

Holy hell I've read it's bad but this is horrible but very on brand for the capital of capitalism.
> The full term imprisonment is just

This is a contested assumption. Prisons and penal systems in US as I understand it are for profit.

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