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Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:10PM (#50330459)
It's quite possible he has a non-standard conception of what marriage means. Heck I can't think of any episodes pee even scenes in Star Trek that touches on marriage in any way. I'd say it's possible that he sees it as it is: an institution born out of social structure, which is objectively unnecessary to life. Doesn't change whether he's good or bad because it's a subjective measurement.
Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:34PM (#50328892)
It's interesting how I've been seeing posts about how Steward-as-Picard exemplified goodness. Sure he was a really great actor, but he was... an actor, tasked to help bring to life a universe envisioned by Gene Roddenberry. And there's like nothing about the latter.
Re:The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:04AM (#50325273)
> At the very least, make your your websites degrades gracefully when JS is turned off.

I have noped out of so many sites that are - or should only be - serving simple content when I see the "please enable JavaScript" notice or site just plain breaks. It's so disappointing and irritating.

They won't. No reason to.
Nice. Push more people to use Chinese chips.
Re:Common Desktop Environment available now as open-source on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:00PM (#50320671)
Nowadays I see sourceforge.net and the only thing that comes to mind is an ad-infested user-unfriendly site where there's just old and mostly unmaintained projects.
Sucks that it took an incident for the cancelation to be triggered.
The end result is the same but where the responsibility lies isn't. If Anthropic was themself hosting the solution then it would be theirs, but in this case the only thing they may be responsible for is passing data to a 3rd party that - potentially - doesn't have solid security practices.
Another misleading title. Anthropic wasn't hacked; a 3rd party solution that they use was.
Just wait for a few ancient-but-novel pathogens to start emerging too.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:16PM (#50298699)
The domain is correct though. Somebody on a machine running macOS was trying to access my account.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:03PM (#50297482)
Interesting. I got an email alerting me to a login attempt and requesting for me to verify my device from blockchain.com yesterday. Can't even remember creating an account but I guess it must've happened (I have a lot of forgotten accounts). Wonder if this is related.
Because it's generally senseless, and particularly for them even more so given their location.
If you're using the API, I think. It's an hour when using Claude Code.
Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:46PM (#50283548)
This has me thinking of the Google Glass sitting on my shelf, dust well gathered. Never again.
Re:Emacs Turns 50 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:41PM (#50281319)
Emacs is designed so only the most core operations are in C. Everything else is in ELisp, and can be manipulated to your heart's content while Emacs is running. It's pretty similar to Smalltalk VMs in that way; the only real difference is that one is functionally oriented and the other object oriented, but both are a dream to use.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:33PM (#50281210)
Those would be pretty niche applications, as again it's basically all solved in some way. More solutions out there than needed IMO.
Re:Emacs Turns 50 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:50AM (#50274642)
Been using an Org file containing all my projects as the tracker for each, with a little custom tool that wraps emacsclient as the driver which my agents use. It's been pretty great, but the single-thread bites as it can get wedged sometimes and then I have to go hit C-g.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:03AM (#50272250)
Agreed. And Python usage is far more diversified. But I fail to see the relevance of usage to a language being stable vs ridden with issues. Well, beyond that one would expect the one being so many things to so many different communities would have more issues than the other used by a single community for a single purpose.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:06AM (#50270101)
Not at all. I specifically stated "serious issues for Python that's triggered mass required fixing", ie. it was so bad that there were public notices for users to update ASAP. The closest thing I can find is CVE-2022-34265, and that's in Django, not Python itself.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:20PM (#50265215)
Are you helping me to prove my point? I see 156 results, with 1 in 2023 and the rest before that. Meanwhile there are 801 results with at least a dozen in 2026 for PHP[0], and we still have 2 more months to go.

[0] https://app.opencve.io/cve/?vendor=php

Only if they go boom. Or they're discovered and publicized. Otherwise there is no terror, and so not "terrorism".
Are governments yanking apart or x-raying all devices anywhere remotely close to them yet?

I find this pretty strange, as the last thing an intelligence officer would do is go public about their work, even if they're retired or even defected. This is like a really early or really late April Fools.

Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:20AM (#50260689)
Python use is widely diverse. Anyone wishing to contribute to that which is published to such a diverse community, all of whom expect Python to continue working for them without any regressions, has to be ready to cater to that diversity in its entirety.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:14AM (#50260607)
Not at all.

> RustPython is in development, and while the interpreter certainly can be used in interesting use cases like running Python in WASM and embedding into a Rust project, do note that RustPython is not totally production-ready.

- https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython

Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:11AM (#50260549)
There are already many solutions to the performance issue from which you can pick. You don't need to understand the C in numpy to use it for example. And I'd say it's highly unlikely that you have a use case that, if it's applicable, isn't already addressed. Like it's generally pointless to optimize language performance for code that's doing a lot of network operations, because network lag will always dwarf such optimizations.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:02AM (#50260425)
And PHP is quite the hot mess. Always has been, really. See the security issues over the years, including the most recent for example. Meanwhile I've never seen any serious issues for Python that's triggered mass required fixing. There's something to be said for moving carefully and ensuring things aren't broken to the best of one's ability, which is the SC's purpose.
Re:Python's experimental JIT to be removed on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:39AM (#50260100)
> committee bureaucracy

That's what's kept the language and ecosystem improving and from becoming a hot mess. If something isn't properly specced then it really shouldn't be in prod. They allowed the experiment in the first place so it'd be easier to gather sufficient data to guide said speccing, but the ball was dropped by the proposers and so the experiment was an ultimate failure (unlike free threading) and prod is now being appropriately cleaned up.

Re:Giving chat feedback gives Anthropic your data on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:28AM (#50259928)
If they don't use the available data, how do they act on the feedback?
Re:Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:40AM (#50245625)
Just use BDD. Gherkin has existed for a long time. Sync the features between the tracker and repo, and use the tools to ensure features are accurately implemented. Been doing wonders for me.

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