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Re:Just a little AI resistance, as a treat on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:41AM (#50353380)
To put salt in the wound, I wonder if the first AI ever even raised the issue with a support team. Pretty much every customer support AI has gaslit me saying it escalated, or please wait for a human to contact you, and then sitting there for an hour or more to confirm that, yes, that was just hallucinated in the prompt, and it's been waiting for my next prompt ever since.

The good thing about AI support is that absolutely flipping out in the chat actually does get escalated, unlike with a human who just digs in their heels.

Do you mean that it's only sold by the Russian branch of the unvalidated Chinese marketplace?
Yeah, searching I only got Chinese pages and copies of this article itself. Tried searching directly too. I have a hard time they pulled it of shelves so fast that the internet already erased it... I'd expect at least "out of stock" pages to remain.

And the article doesn't even have an image of the product as sold.

Re:Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:57AM (#50317341)
Yes, write your own custom harness harness.

This is what I'm doing too, and it's so much better. No more blocking copy/paste, no more stuck title bars, it actually sends notifications only when I need to give it input, it feels snappy, it doesn't destroy the scrollback buffer, messages are timestamped, I can copy my prompt out without spaces being added, it automatically bumps the agent to check when background processes run too long, and I added a sandbox that actually provides a modicum of security.

Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:01AM (#50314082)
It actually means sysadmin.
Re:Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:49AM (#50290037)
> And that’s what the birds have with their lungs: an in point and an out point. They also have air sacs and hollow spaces in their bones. When they breathe in, half of the good air (with oxygen) goes into these hollow spaces, and the other half goes into their lungs through the rear entrance. When they breathe out, the good air that has been stored in the hollow places now also goes into their lungs through that rear entrance, and the bad air (carbon dioxide and water vapor) is pushed out the front exit.

Isn't "front exit" the "front entrance"? They don't have two mouths. I don't understand how this improves things.

Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:15AM (#50289451)
One thing I learned recently is that some manufacturers list horizontal FOV, some list diagonal. And... yeah, they don't say which it is here.
Why is it a bad idea, for either of those? Fundamentally?
GP didn't say they didn't want to enter their email because it's a risk. My reading was that it was another hoop they had to jump through to do their diligence, reflecting on what the company thinks of their customers the same way the NDA requirement itself, and the IP clauses do. I'm not sure how the connection to money or capitalism comes in here.
I think there should be a separate dimension who are people who have used similar products before and have strict requirements, and people who don't (just bought it to review it, have surface level use cases, etc).
Re:Colorfigures on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:59PM (#50248085)
Is this the espresso machine? At first I thought this might be sarcasm but having looked it makes sense. They're using the negative space of the machine itself to direct the steam. It doesn't require any additional components and allows it to be more compact. I didn't realize that they work this way but it's a pretty cool design.
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:29AM (#50244357)
The carousel 2nd image appears to have erased the camera to make it fit the marketing narrative? That's pretty bold.
Re:No Source Code? No Problem on Saturday October 24, 2026 @07:36AM (#50220300)
It's lithtech? Would it be easy to do shogo too?
Echoing others, but not even rare diseases. I had perioral dermatitis, first result on google for the symptoms. I went to 4 dermatologists over 4-5 months who failed to diagnose it, assuring me it absolutely wasn't a fungus, instead telling me it was eczema and prescribing topical steroids (as is their wont). The real solution was washing my face a bit more.
Re:We're addicted to social media. How do we get sober? on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:43AM (#50204605)
Isn't sober an intransitive verb already? Why not "How do we sober?"
Re:What Is Gridifcation on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:25AM (#50204487)
It's not really a fair comparison. The quantized (gridified) one has a loud metronome layered on top of it.
Re:Google's Rust Style Guide on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:00AM (#50191701)
What people seem to be missing here is that enums are just a reflection of functionality. If you make your enum non exhaustive then add a field, and something stops working because it's now missing critical messages, it's still a breaking change!

It's always up to callers to decide to handle everything, or decide that additions are non-fatal and use a wildcard branch to ignore them. The same enum could need to be exhaustive for one use case, or subset matched by another.

Re:The Rise and Fall of the Plasma Screen on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:29AM (#50191540)
Hmm, the link doesn't work for me (just get https redirect + can't connect immediately after)
Re:Claude Duet on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:42AM (#50191252)
And not a single one for an issue in the issue tracker.
Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @06:13AM (#50178448)
It's unfortunate it's a ranking... there could be huge or tiny gaps between the entries.

The original source https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-system... links betterproteininstitute.com which then links https://www.betterproteininstitute.com/_files/ugd/7be592_a59...

The emissions for lamb/pork/beef are terrible, beef looks an order of magnitude worse than the rest. The top 10 or so are fairly similar in comparison. Chicken isn't bad comparatively, but tofu still looks a decent bit better.

Re:Android apps running native on macOS on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:09AM (#50161966)
Yes, I think the appropriate thing to do here would have been

  <cmd> force-off  # force off
All the brilliance of the original, but also no inappropriate idioms.
Re:The insider trading you're allowed to do on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:23AM (#50116589)
Holding stock knowing it might go up is illegal? I don't think that's technically illegal.
IE stood for a lot of things, and I'm guessing they're talking about the "failing to implement standards" part rather than the "websites that proscribe use" part.
Were they made from mineral sources? I would have assumed they'd use a variety of things - minerals, plants, animals, etc.
Re:Be The Onion's Hero for Once on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:05AM (#50055879)
The missing thing is "your" from the original. The title makes it sound like a notice for people looking to get into the onion's business. The actual title is perfectly clear.

I'd be surprised if the anti-clickbait title filtering is a net positive.

Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Vex in NixOS on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:48AM (#50055670)
This was really interesting, but very hard to follow. I may be slightly outside of this space, but I would have liked a little bit more explanation. I felt like this was skipping a lot of motivations, goals, and steps.

Actually, reading it again from the bottom up, it sounds like this is the thought flow:

1. You want to know if your os is vulnerable

2. You need a vex feed (sbom? the vulnerability report itself?) for your os

3. sbomnix provides a mechanism for getting sbom from a flake, but not a full os, and that can be compared to the advisories. But here it reports a false positive.

4. (Logical jump: we can use vex as an additional layer to disable irrelevant advisories based on system config) Here's an example of adding a vex (edit: not-)vulnerability report to a package conditional on config (sshd)

5. `nixos-vex` is a module to make it easier to integrate these reports (removing the boilerplate from the example)

Maybe this is a TLDR?

- sbomnix already provides package sbom in standard format which produces a conservative set of reports (superset) for a system

- `nixos-vex` provides a mechanism for integrating conditional vulnerability reports into nix packages

- Someone (also nixos-vex?) starts adding vulnerability reports to existing modules like ssh

- Combine them to get full coverage

I guess the comparison to govulncheck was that this is also like reachability analysis, but this is completely different - reachability analysis is calculatedly correct. This requires hand-annotation that could have issues and produce false positives or negatives. And you need to add each report manually and keep it synced with the database. I feel like this could be better than nothing (how much effort would it take to maintain?) and the "default conservative" approach is good.

Is the idea you'd only do this for long-term unfixed issues, and for the ones that do get fixed you'd just tolerate a few extra system upgrades? But is it easier to add this annotation to nixpkgs than it is to get pam/sshd fixed upstream?

Edit: I think "Finally we have the payoff" came several paragraphs too early. `sbomnix` reporting a false positive isn't payoff, and isn't anything to do with vex.

In the end they removed them once the contract expired.

But it got me curious, is there no way to get out of a contract once signed? I know contracts have breach clauses and stuff, but if the college paid up front is there literally no way for them to breach the contract after that? Hiring security to physically block the Flock people from uncovering the cameras?

Re:How Protein Took over the World on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:51AM (#50039911)
Could you link to the guidelines you're talking about?
Differing serving sizes, volumes, densities etc make this hard.
Re:Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:48AM (#49975915)
Why is that a better choice? With respect to career prospects?

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