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Did you forget Tibet?
Good thing I decided not to turn into a mollusk!
I think that's a very good insight, you're right.
Re:Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:22AM (#50315959)
I'm in agreement with the general point but was big tech well liked in the early 2020s?

Facebook scandals had exploded already, Google had already long abandoned "don't be evil", nobody ever liked Microsoft, and I think sentiment towards Apple is somewhat unchanged.

I thought the title was a wink to people who knew of that episode, without the need to actually discuss it.
Others have said this, but "The Orville", once it goes past the first few "family guy"-esque episodes, is a fantastic Star Trek.

I enjoyed Strange New Worlds, but it has too many "weird" episodes.

This is quite a detailed article, but as an Italian I feel one of the linked articles has a more evocative title: "the wardrobe of a woman who never came back".

As an aside, I got sniped into finding out why this insula is called "insula of the chaste lovers", given Pompei is quite known for sexual imagery. It's apparently because there's a house called ".. of the chaste lovers" because of a fresco where two lovers share an apparently chaste kiss

https://mediterraneoantico.it/articoli/archeologia-classica/...

Re:AlpineBSD on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:55PM (#50283071)
If that was the case, we wouldn't be using openssh, openssl, perl/python/ruby etc...

I'm a GPL person but that's not why Linux won over the BSDs.

Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:28AM (#50272532)
Just FYI, basically the same story is common in European folklore, and there's a somewhat idiomatic "stone soup" concept in English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup

Re:Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:18AM (#50272411)
Well, only if that's the bottleneck.

Consider commuting with a friend in the morning: if you get dressed and get out of the door in 5m instead of 10m, but then have to wait for me to come pick you up, and then we both sit in a car for 5m to get to the train, and then we sit on that for 50.. then your speed up doesn't really matter.

I don't know if this is the case for drug development but as GP said, we already have more designs than we can test.

Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:23PM (#50261561)
Same here. A part of me wants to get a new MBP but I really can't justify it.
Re:The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video] on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:20AM (#50219509)
Isn't trading always blocked? Whenever you would allow someone to build a complete Color it's better not to allow it, and whenever you also would it's only advantageous if your color is stronger than the other thus the other party should never agree.

Any other exchange becomes pointless as you won't be completing a color anyways.

Re:Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:06PM (#50199664)
Private and anonymous are different but the digital euro proposal is for both things, it is supposed to be equivalent to cash but only for small sums.

I have no idea how that's supposed to work.

To be fair, a monster is scary so it fits. Malice in the middle perhaps would have been less confusing.
Re:GitLab CVSS 10.0 Integer Overflow issue on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:00AM (#50191700)
If catching "all" security issues becomes feasible then the balance tilts in favor of the projects vs the attackers.

Big malicious entities always had more investments in this than random open source projects.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:18AM (#50179008)
> we really just need to get rid of beef

you don't even have to get rid of it, even consuming less beef has significant impacts.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:15AM (#50178984)
> There is not a single KPI where the curve shows even the slightest sign of recovery

ozone, marine fish capture, tropical forest loss, and domesticated land are shown as below peak, aren't they?

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:10AM (#50178942)
plastic straws have been banned for a different reason than fighting climate change: they were the vast majority of trash showing up on shorelines.

I am with you with wanting carbon taxes, but it's not like there's a single issue that can ever be tackled at a time.

You may be surprised and annoyed that NLP is also "Neuro linguistic programming", I've met technical people talking of NLP and meaning that...
in Italy they're a significant issue due to foreign species having been introduced years ago. The new species reproduce faster than they are killed by hunters or predators.
Re:Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:15AM (#50086463)
ah the good old C-x M-c M-smelting
Re:Show HN: How Random Are You? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:54AM (#50082972)
> The house called 3 of your 27 scored numbers: 11%.

> Blind guessing would average about 3.0 of them (11%).

Admittedly I gave up before the 30 threshold but I think I did well enough at "beating the house"

Edit: tried again, 14/118, which is 12%. Maybe it's because I'm typing, and that's easier to do that speaking up.

depends on the bath, but they're generally understanding of foreigners with tattoos.
Re:Type-safe HTML templating in Zig on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:55AM (#50052321)
There was a brief period where everyone and their dog implemented mustache[0] as a template system, but it died quickly because cross-language templating is not that useful in the end, you seldom need to switch host language but keep the templates.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustache_(template_system)

This is awesome and I hope it catches on, but the idea of "may be useful to people who want to conceal tattoos in some situations" seems far fetched, some make-up layer would probably be a simpler solution, wouldn't it?
I did, but I also saw this, you can scroll down to the video if it's too long to read

https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/10/9/attack-of-the-vib...

Re:Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:38AM (#50052174)
US seems unlikely given Trump just made a deal to give money to Russia in exchange for diesel and blamed Ukraine for gas prices.

I mean, sure, maybe some random person at the Pentagon could have done it but the US has not acted as a Ukraine ally for years now.

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