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Re:Geist Serif on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:03PM (#50306824)
The letterforms look good, but why is the kerning so off? It looks omitted in the graphics.
Re:The importance of communities around software on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:04PM (#50297488)
Never mind these technologies having improved exponentially for four years, being able to hill-climb basically any domain you can describe as a goal in text?
They compare this in the article:

  Platform  | Repos scanned | Verified-live credentials | Per 1K repos
  ----------+---------------+---------------------------+-------------
  Bitbucket |    ~2,600,000 |                     6,212 |         2.39
  GitLab    |    ~5,600,000 |                    17,430 |         3.11
  Gitee     |     7,256,531 |                    26,400 |         3.64
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:26AM (#50244305)
It's probably very subjective, but I actually feel dizzy using my phone in 60 Hz mode.
This is a relevant question. Is it ethical to indirectly kill people for profit? If so, under what circumstances? Phrased like this, it sounds ridiculous, but that must imply that the acts being committed are not understood by the people causing them through the lens I am interpreting them.
Did you consider using an established Rust verification toolchain like Aeneas?

Edit: I don't do this often, but why is my question being downvoted? Is this question not allowed?

Re:Source code of the Estonian online voting system on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:35PM (#50136663)
> some formerly popular youtuber did a video about this topic

I don't know about this event, do you have a link?

Re:Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust on Saturday October 17, 2026 @10:35AM (#50131559)
Does this colouring apply to and persist in live tissue?
What do you think the rational value is in discussing animal behaviour using deontological assumptions?
Re:Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:55AM (#50117793)
That may be true, but I don't see how it is the same topic as the build system.
Re:Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package on Friday October 16, 2026 @05:13AM (#50116029)
This is not really relevant within the discussion of Chromium's build system.
Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:35AM (#50100902)
Put the agent in a sandbox.
I believe so.
> One way out could be to tax the value gain at the time of sale

This is how it works for sales in Sweden, via the so called "reavinstskatt", or profit realisation tax. Funnily enough, it is mostly applied to individuals in practice. To avoid the taxation, companies package properties in subsidiaries, which can then be sold and traded like any other stock. The tax is then postponed until the de jure sale of the property, which never occurs. Individuals are not eligible because the loophole is closed if the legal owner also occupies the property they own.

I'm not sure you submitted the actual artefact? Would be interested in knowing, though.
They are clean-room implementations based on their GitHub:

https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

Re:Anatomy of a Lean Proof for Software Engineers on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:30PM (#49940891)
Gosh, all this academic nonsense like nuclear power and airplanes!
Re:AI Makes Me Sad on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:38PM (#49936251)
My business is going just fine. Don't underestimate the business value of handling schlep. As I said, "a prompt" is not sufficient to run my business, even on a technical level.

https://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html

Re:AI Makes Me Sad on Friday October 02, 2026 @11:42AM (#49934775)
Right now, I can definitely prompt Claude better than my customer. Claude's abilities, when steered, are definitely impressive, but I have never seen it correctly architecture around a problem unless explicitly critiqued.
Re:How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:44AM (#49922342)
Re:I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @12:48PM (#49911334)
Operating income for Microsoft was $128.5 billion in 2025.

https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar25/index.html

Re:SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:38AM (#49910402)
> A note on fairness, because the technical reader will ask.

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