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Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:05PM (#50224621)
Software is also top level. Everything just “works” if you use apple ecosystem.

There is no single provider that does all of that combined as good as apple.

Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:50PM (#50186615)
I think its safe to say that its pure failed management from EA.

Bad decisions, mismanagement, greed.

Tho not the first aquisition I see nose-diving due to incompetent management.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:32PM (#50186319)
I did find others to organize. We meet few times per year, train bushcraft and surviving in post apocalyptic world.

Looking at our politicians and bilionairs - this seem to be the only sensible choice we have.

Re:AI Makes Me Sad on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:38AM (#49941877)
5 years earlier would let me pay my mortage and invest into stock to not have to work and retire by 40s.

But thats how it is in the world - first come first served.

But I find it hilarious ppl think that building company during for example dotcom was hard. Source - family who did just that.

But is populists wet dream
Are you saying that behaviour is strictly determined by one’s race ?

Didn’t we abolish that and agreed there is no such a thing as race in case of humans ?

Re:QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:31PM (#49591176)
Accountability? Never heard of him, probably works in another department. Check out with Carol.
Re:The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:38PM (#49500215)
Funny analogy. “The only constant is change”. Thats why humans constantly repeat the same mistakes we covered and wrote about in last 3000 years.

The pace of learning for our spieces is devastatingly slow. We rather regress faster than learn.

We are closer to idiocracy, due to knowledge and skills atrophy (not only due to AI).

So when we can fire C suite? Not like they do any meaningful work beside paying themselves tens of millions of bonuses.

Ah - never ? Because corpo ladder is rigged? Ok, thats what I thought.

Re:How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:52PM (#49412520)
TL;DR is that its extremely hard to show staff level expertise if you work at a wrong company. And the amount of companies that still need this expertise is ever decreasing (big corpos with a lot of autonomy)

This is the real reason why we dont see natural path for more ppl to progress towards Staff level.

Interestingly noone talks about this. “Be first or bust”

As an autistic person that has issues with understanding other ppls “feelings” - Yes, you are labeled as deficient.

But… I can always make better decisions, coldly calculate pros and cons, dont let feelings take better of me.

Im much better at anything I do than your average person.

Example I started carpenting work, became better at it in few weeks than my teacher that does it for 20 years (his words).

Can start doing something new and become really good at it very fast.

In a logical sense - Im much much better than any average normal person at anything.

But Im deficient, because I have issues socializing or understanding ppl behaviour.

Ps. I talk straight from heart, coz I see no value in lying.

Ps2. I also strongly believe, ppl like me are the next evolution step for humans. Overdependance on feelings and first guesses is very detrimental for us as a spieces.

Re:PostgreSQL for Everything on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:56PM (#49380163)
How does it handle 100000 write transactions per second ?

From multi-client architecture and with regional HA?

Re:PostgreSQL for Everything on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:50PM (#49380102)
Its not a meme. Postgres does all of those things good enough to be always considered the first pick.

I love Postgres. Im using it for majority of my career in IT. It never failed me, even on very big scale.

Amazing piece of software.

Difference is in how you sell it.

We all know that people make mistakes. I.e. crash a car from time to time.

We all are sold a view that AI will save humanity, cure all diseases, solve all problems, allow for autonomous driving and many other (lies?).

While making basic mistakes or crashing on trivial crossroads..

Hype is way overblown.

Docker containers are not enough isolation for anyone that cares about jailbreak scenarios.

Only real alternative is to use microvms. My goto solution for this are apple/containers.

Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? on Saturday August 08, 2026 @08:25AM (#49221180)
I love how countries calculate inflation now:

- Basic utilities, food, heating, energy, gas.. 50-100% increase in cost

- piano, railway carrage, something nobody uses - 0.34% increase

Thus inflation is only 5% - capiche?

And result is tiny little clothes, because 80C seemed right for the job.

Washlexa:”Sorry, you were right I was supposed to use regular programme, but I used wrong one, do you want me to wash them again?”

You cannot have big storage either way. Its normal to have two installations and be able to switch between them.

Not in Poland, because you are too independent.

In Poland you cannot own big capacity storage because it makes you independent from the grid and Gov does not want that.

So you can have storage, but not too much, only as much to still be dependant on the grid.

See the hypocrisy here?

Where are the comments about „molten-salt reactors dont need any of that”.

And a closed water loop. China builds them on a desert and we cannot build them anywere in Europe due to plain stupidity.

Re:EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:13PM (#49075603)
How about EU starts legistlating towards a competitive market and creates its own web search Tech Giant ?

So Google is forced to take competitor to account or will be pushed out of the market ?

No? Better to complain and do nothing positive? Welcome to EU Parliment.

Re:Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470% on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:08PM (#49075550)
EU will regulate itself out of everything, sit, cry and complaign about devastated economy.

Noone votes for these ppl and stupid decisions they make destroy everyones lifes.

Re:It's getting harder to focus every day on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:36PM (#49040641)
I do have this problem. Its not caused by my age or mental decline. Its simply too many things happening too fast, to many people asking questions and too many topics to pursue without any pause.

Work, family, life, world around you, all scream „me now, my problem, do this, do that, watch this, listen to that”.

Its exhausting. Humans are not built to be constantly in overdrive. I just want to sit and have peace of mind.

Issue is the moment you hit the breaks - „you lose” sign pops up and well.. you fade away. Maybe its a good thing?

If you ever worked in IT consultancy you would know its not a stunt, but its not impressive either.

F500 companies software is like switz cheese when it comes to security.

It was often a strategic decision to „release anything fast now, worry later”.

Ppl abusing AI will find those holes now but we all know there will be „zero” actions taken on it. Too many managers, CEOs, CTOs, higher-ups would be forced to take responsibility. This will simply not happen.

It did not happen, wont happen now and most likely wont happen in the future.

GPT6 level model and astronomous amount of money to run it to do it.

Ppl always say that like its „just run it on your laptop” thing.

No its not and very few are even given right to be able to do it.

Reality is- Anthropic is a tokens dealer. If they can hook you up for bigger spend -> they will.

We already know company is not making any profit. To break even they need ppl to use a lot more tokens AND pay for them premium price.

We also know LLMs dont give such a huge productivity boost do warrant spending of THAT size.

At this point you only wait for more and more shady plays.

CC isnt instrumental to use Anthropic LLMs. Yet here we are.
Re:I love LLMs, I hate hype on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:04PM (#48886208)
Apple Watch with 1TB of vram with the size of well.. a watch.

Amazing story. If we make such leap in semiconductor field, it will be bigger than anything we have done till now. And all of that in 10years!

Till its used in prod for few years and polished, I wont touch that.

Too many things tests wont catch.

Yea, like France or Germany or Belgium

You know Im right

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