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Re:LLMs reward expertise on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @02:05PM (#49172543)
I'm wondering: What did she tell you that made you build the website? Did she ask the same thing from the AI? Did you bridge any gaps the AI didn't do for you? I don't know the answer, but I suspect that she treated the AI differently and would've gotten better results if she had asked what she told you. At least if it's an agentic coding assistant like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot. Of course a simple chat will leave manual tasks for you.
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:20PM (#48970480)
Now you can be sure they write their announcements by hand. Doesn't really matter, does it?
I had long discussions over whether we could just not use tons on npm libraries and use the native browser feature for things like that. I typically lose these discussions because I'm considered the backend guy. My knowledge about HTML, JS and CSS dates back to times when there was no npm...
They're not, but all of their colleagues are.
Re:Is anybody else bored of talking about AI? on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @08:21PM (#47511530)
I really like this paragraph about management caring about AI:

> What makes this worse, is our bosses have bought into it this time too. My managers never cared much about database technologies, IDE’s or javascript frameworks; they just wanted the feature so they could sell it. Management seems to have stepped firmly and somewhat haphazardly into the implementation detail now. I reckon most of us have got some sort of company initiative to ‘use more AI’ in our objectives this year.

Re:I Now Assume That All Ads on Apple News Are Scams on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:58PM (#46919822)
At least you got a mug!
Re:I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022) on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:10PM (#46507909)
But I/O being the bottleneck never was about sequential reads, was it? I get the point of the article, though.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:24PM (#44882947)
I'm wondering what exact issue you are referring to with Databricks? I can't remember a time I had to change a line I wrote during the past 2.5 years I've been using it. Or are you talking about non-breaking changes?
Re:Log by time, not by count on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:34PM (#44637176)
At least in the Java world it is common to let the logging framework handle parameter evaluation for you.
But lack of water will become a huge problem when your city is growing that fast in a heating climate.

Edit: And cooling only works inside buildings or cars. Part of a comfortable city is being able to go outside and have a social life outside of a casino.

Not building your city in the desert is also a good idea when it comes to being a comfortable city.
Re:PNG Is Back on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:49AM (#44374290)
Extending the format just because you can – and breaking backwards compatibility along the way – is even more pointless.

If you've created an extensible file format, but you never need to extend it, you've done everything right, I'd say.

How long does this procedure take in comparison to the network transfer?

My first try would've been to copy the db file first, gzip it and then transfer it but I can't tell whether compression will be that useful in binary format.

Re:A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics on Sunday April 20, 2025 @03:13PM (#43745845)
There's an industrial robot arm built out of LEGO Technic bricks by OrangeApps, a small company related to German robot manufacturer KUKA. [1] It's primarily used for educational purposes.

Disclaimer: I work for a subsidiary of KUKA.

[1]: https://www.orangeapps.de/?lng=en&page=apps%2Fers3

Re:Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders on Friday December 27, 2024 @06:07PM (#42526908)
Your parent comment just seems to make their point and it's technically correct, but might have missed the nuance. All people in this conversation seemed fine.

Are you sure that the following doesn't apply to your own comment?

> It's this type of comment that makes people be needlessly careful on this site more than any other.

If you learn about the Wuppertal suspended monorail, you should also read about Tuffi, the elephant that jumped off of it in 1950.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

Re:Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners on Friday November 08, 2024 @07:32PM (#42091609)
The question is whether roads are a good thing.
Re:Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners on Friday November 08, 2024 @07:27PM (#42091584)
Yep. Just tax the rich and by that I mean actually rich like people worth more than 10 million dollars. Nobody will ever need more than that. Increasing tax on every day things will only make inequality worse.
Re:Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners on Friday November 08, 2024 @07:18PM (#42091532)
Just no. Funding road infrastructure will just bring more cars on roads. That money should be spent on public transportation so it actually benefits the society.
Maybe this would be an interesting alternative runtime environment for PySpark? I think currently PySpark runs in Python and somehow interacts with a JVM and relies on copying data from one to the other.
Did you look into Jython back then?
Re:Kotlin for Data Analysis on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:34PM (#41384030)
Thanks! I didn't know that setting existed and I always wanted this behavior.
Re:Kotlin for Data Analysis on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:33PM (#41384026)
IIRC this used to be propagated back in the early HTML5 days. At least that's how it got to my personal website. I might've got it from html5boilerplate.com or a similar site.
Re:Foobar2000 on Thursday August 01, 2024 @04:18PM (#41133148)
Wow, so 12 years without a post about fb2k on HN. That's a lot of time.
Re:My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website on Thursday July 18, 2024 @03:00PM (#40998684)
If you want to remove the semantics of table elements, you could set a role="presentation" attribute on all table-related tags. I'm wondering what HTML semantics enthusiasts will say about this. ;-)
Re:HTML Tags Memory Test on Monday July 15, 2024 @05:23PM (#40971580)
<object> works, but I was surprised as well that the others don't. It was really hard for me to come up with many tags that are still allowed.
Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone on Monday July 15, 2024 @01:44PM (#40969922)
I do. But to be honest, some phones are so thin that I fear I'll accidentally break them when sitting down. I'd rather take a thicker but smaller phone because of that.
Re:Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone on Saturday July 13, 2024 @09:41PM (#40958250)
Who cares about thickness other than tech enthusiasts? There are phones that are so thin, they feel uncomfortable while in your hand.

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