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Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:14AM (#50288466)
And takeout and delivery existed before this.
Re:JetBrains Thinkrail on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:05PM (#50237740)
> but nowadays the thing I want more than anything is either a convergence of all their IDEs via plugins

I've been using Intellij IDEA lately.

I have pycharm, phpstorm, goland still installed and use them every now and then. I, however, spend a lot more time in claude code in the cli and main I'm reviewing.

I go to the specific ide when I need to debug heavily something or when I'm starting out to create a base. I don't like the structure that claude code sometimes comes up with, so I like starting it out and then it follows the pattern.

> Borcherds said he currently grades on completion if a student hands in their homework. He admitted that it is “not a very good system,” but at the moment, he has no alternative

He still assigns homework. He's not grading it. The students that want to try, they're free to do it. If they have questions, there are office hours.

The only thing being removed is the grading, not their homework. If they want to learn, they can.

Re:Show HN: Indigene – native plants for where you stand on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:09AM (#50104836)
"Search by Town" allows zip code. "Pick a region" lists

- Pacific Northwest

- Southern California

- Central California Coast

Re:Make Tmux the OS on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:37AM (#49945199)
Create a new library,

import the images from both libraries (https://support.apple.com/en-us/119920)

View > Utilities > Duplicates

or use jdupes or czkawka on both directories.

It’d be less budget and resources than DeepMind.

So clearly it’s due to talent as well as advances, of course.

> Now, a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford University has done it. Their AI, called Ataraxos, beat Pim Niemeijer, arguably the best Stratego player of all time, 15 games to one, with four draws. And it took just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars to train it.

Just 16 GPUs, and a few thousand dollars?

What about “researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford University” this wasn’t just anyone.

So you're there's exactly 0 effort in managing things for multiple Windows versions, for anyone along the entirety of the ecosystem? From MS developer, third party developer, hardware, drivers, users, etc?

How about testing? Do you think that there's no testing put out when a fix has to go out for 2 OS, regardless of how similar they are?

> What problems are solved by getting all Windows users onto Windows 11 in particular?

I have given a few. If you don't want to see it, that's fine.

> Whereas getting everyone on the same git hash or python or IP protocol streamlines things enormously.

You don't think that if we had everyone on the same Windows version we could streamline things enormously?

For MS, for developers, for hardware manufacturers, and so on to be able to deploy, for example, ipv6 since everyone is on the same stack? Same stack, same bugs, same fixes.

Security since Windows 10 and below are not supported.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/updat...

> Windows 10 support has ended on October 14, 2025

Re:Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:11PM (#49689705)
Imagine any other kind of 'lab' in the world letting a untested or 'bad' sample out into the world.
I think you're also missing a quirk and that is, is everyone on a $200 plan using $10,000 worth of equivalent API spend?

I know people that have the most expensive plan on all the platforms... because

The other side to that is, what is 'cost'? Is cost just inference or are expenses also being taken into account? Because the expenses of these companies are huge to build the models.

They're not measuring speed nor annoyance. It's there on the page
Re:OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:42PM (#49667802)
MPAA & RIAA isn't what I was thinking. Check https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319

This isn't 1 movie.

Re:OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:56PM (#49667495)
No. Not legally.

Has it been normalized? That's another thing.

Re:OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems on Friday September 11, 2026 @08:21PM (#49667233)
Didn't they find emails and other things from these leaders where they're okay downloading / obtaining content from illegal sources?
Re:Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:11AM (#49655488)
> First off, this is exactly how systemd-oomd is supposed to behave under memory pressure. The documentation is specific on this; systemd-oomd itself says:

> > [...] If the configured limits are exceeded, systemd-oomd will select a cgroup to terminate, and send SIGKILL to all processes in it. [...]

> By having the [email protected] template be enrolled in systemd-oomd, Fedora made the cgroup that systemd-oomd would select to be killed be all of your processes (across all of your sessions, if you have more than one). ...

Maybe *Fedora* has fixed or improved in the last 4 years. Or maybe they don't run Fedora.

...like on the radio?
You can relisten the stuff you have.

LP's, 8-tracks, cassettes, cd's, mp3 players, etc.

You didn't have the whole world at your hands. You had to pick what to listen to, what to buy, what to carry.

Yes, it's nice having the world available, but also, it's nice being able to sometimes think, ponder, make a decision, and explore that decision.

Based on all the responses, people need to learn to make a decision and live with it for a bit.

- Picked a song and it's not the perfect one? meh, okay. - Also learn to be in the quiet. Oh, the song is not meh, but bad? Turn it off. It's okay. - learn to read a book

Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:01PM (#49481462)
If you think a book is made by the physical medium, you must think everything in paper is a book. The prose in a book has certain content structure, intent, and writing.

So unless a napkin and a receipt are books, what actually makes something a book is its content structure, intent, and writing. Not the paper it's printed on.

Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:33PM (#49480979)
Kindle / Audible.
Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:07PM (#49480572)
What's your alternative to these examples?

In my case, I use both, for different reasons, and continuously test other.

Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:06PM (#49480551)
Anthropic finally added the ability to sort by spend.

I have thousands of people on an org. I had to go through every page to extract the top spenders.

Openai... you captured the sentiment.

Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:03PM (#49480519)
Not OP

Unfortunately for me, a lot of my books are tied to them.

Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:58AM (#49480467)
I have like 5 parking apps. It's exhausting.

The worst part is not that, but.. _which is the app for this area?_

Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:56AM (#49480438)
The people they want to follow. What's your point?
Re:Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:34AM (#49408336)
Instead, I'd build tooling for the model to be able to query the tickets, pr, commits, diff, etc

This is something I can reuse better.

It's not the same issue. From the article,

> After questioning, he eventually turned it over but gave officers a passcode that then erased the contents of his Google Pixel phone.

I don't see the problem being a clean device, but destroying evidence in the moment.

> I don't trust government to maintain the security level my job requires

What does the security officer at your company say?

Either you shouldn't be leaving with devices with the data from your job on them, or you don't trust them, but your job is fine with it.

I keep work things separate. If it's a personal trip, I don't travel with work devices. If it's a work trip, and there's worry, I usually take a loaner device usually with ms office and a vpn.

Usually the issue is not returning, but other governments.

Re:Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:54PM (#49202397)
I actually donate to a bunch of tools I use.

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