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Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @04:45PM (#50124401)
Actually, only the demo car up front and close had different wheel caps. The car that accelerated was similar looking than the one that flew.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:18AM (#50119492)
It was a clearly different unit, look at the wheel caps.
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:02PM (#49859499)
Write schema/data migration files [with agents] in version control and deploy those deterministically (after review).
Re:Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:56PM (#49769643)
I don't want to sound offending, but if that is your own writing style, it makes sense why AI writing resonates with you.
Re:Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf] on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:54PM (#48725796)
That's not an effect. As both in the case of a dividedend and a stock buy back, the company's market cap drops by the amount of cash that's being distributed out, creating an identical re-buying situation in market cap-weighted index funds. Stock price itself is irrelevant for index fund rebalances (unlike for shareholder returns).
Re:Regular expressions that work "everywhere" on Sunday June 28, 2026 @01:27PM (#48709485)
> So for my definition of “everywhere,” with the caveats mentioned above, the following features work everywhere. YMMV.

  .
  ^, $
  […], [^…]
  \*
  \w, \W, \s, \S
  \1 - \9 backreferences
  \b \B
  ? + 
  | alternation
  {n,m} for counting matches
  (...) capturing
Except that these don't work in macOS/BSD sed (even with -E flag):

- \w, \W, \s, \S - need to use POSIX classes instead: [[:alnum:]], [^[:alnum:]], [[:space:]], [^[:space:]]

- \b - need to use use [[:<:]] (word start) and [[:>:]] (word end) instead

- \B - (not a word start/end) no alternatives

Re:Why TUIs Are Back on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:19PM (#48015144)
Re:Highlights from Git 2.54 on Thursday April 23, 2026 @02:51PM (#47879925)
It's not documented, but unfortunately neither of these re-signs the commits even if GPG signing is configured. They are based on `git replay`, and that doesn't sign either (at least yet).
Re:Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @12:19PM (#47692310)
How/why did it consume more tokens?
Re:Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:43PM (#47617649)
I think the script would be named as `#` so that it can be called via `\# mycmd` instead of `\\# mycmd`.
Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:30PM (#47469158)
Unless you disable cursor blinking because you find it annoying (like I do).
Re:Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:27PM (#47355136)
Node 24+ does respect HTTP_PROXY when NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 is set.
Re:Git's Magic Files on Sunday February 22, 2026 @03:31PM (#47114355)
> GitHub’s contributor graphs use mailmap.

This is not true, .mailmap is [unfortunately] not supported by GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/22518

Re:Non-Zero-Sum Games on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @05:26PM (#46438800)
Do you have an example of this in mind where the known "tit for tat" strategy falls short?
Re:You Already Have a Git Server on Sunday October 26, 2025 @05:23PM (#45715330)
Linux is not developed in GitHub.
Re:Million Times Million on Friday July 11, 2025 @08:00AM (#44531152)
You don't seem to get the point. That is only universal in current day English. In e.g. Finnish: miljoona = 1e6, miljardi = 1e9, biljoona = 1e12, triljoona = 1e18.
Re:A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs on Monday July 07, 2025 @08:54AM (#44489893)
What's your suggested alternative?
It's essentially <insert god of your choice>
Even if the meaningful content would have been older than yours, faking Git timestamps is trivial.
I know this is somewhat true, but it's just a pity. Proper grammar is something I try to cherish, and I've specifically added – and — to my custom keyboard layout for convenient access.
Re:Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization on Sunday November 03, 2024 @04:52PM (#42036370)
.al is just the TLD for Albania, similarly as .ai is for Anguilla. No idea why anyone would choose the former.
Ehh, I don't know about that. CSV header row is more of a metadata for humans to me.
The new chat memory feature got enabled by default.
Re:All web "content" is freeware on Saturday June 29, 2024 @05:47AM (#40829028)
Internet != Web. E.g., an ebook downloaded from Apple Books is not web content, even if it comes from the Internet.
I would start with Python instead of C++, if you just want to learn a useful tool as a hobby. The official tutorial is a good starting point: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
Re:The end of Airplane.dev on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:48PM (#39621232)
Why was the employees' common stock worth $0? Liquidation preference for the outside investors? Related: How can a regular employee joining a startup know beforehand that there isn't a high chance of their equity (which is probably a significant part of their total comp) being worthless even if a big acquisition is made?
Re:Forging Signed Commits on GitHub on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @08:37AM (#39103124)
Regex is the parser for regular languages.
Re:Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion today on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:38AM (#38274920)
Yes, truly curious. It's not like base 10 is used anywhere in our society.
Re:Unix Time reaches 1.7 billion today on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:37AM (#38274913)
You are probably not running a 32-bit IoT device.
Re:Diamonds Suck on Monday November 13, 2023 @04:19AM (#38248436)
The [artificial] scarcity and [unjustifiably] high price are properties of almost all luxury goods. And those are exactly what makes them (watches, handbags, diamonds etc.) so desirable to many. But I fully agree that spending two months gross salary on an engagement ring is way too much, and I would never ever get into debt for that. But, similarly as I enjoy wearing a relatively useless but expensive watch daily, I didn't mind dropping approx. 2/3 of a month's net salary on my fiancé's diamond engagement ring, which she got to choose and now cherishes and admires every day.

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