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Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:29AM (#49774734)
I'll take "jumping to conclusions" for 500, Alex!
"This program performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
Re:Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:47AM (#49638918)
> "yell" at it hoping that it will miraculously do what I want

It's certainly not helpful in getting the LLM from A to B, but maybe you don't care? Maybe you just need to blow off some steam?

People may call that irrational, but I'm certainly not seeing an abundance of commonly-agreed-upon rationality in all the other things they (we) do, so it's in character.

Re:Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:37AM (#49638845)
Maybe, in a better world, but... nah, there's no time for that!
Re:Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:01PM (#49629679)
Everyone is specific until eventually they get frustrated/annoyed/tired enough.
I'd say my Thinkpad X9's glass haptic touchpad is as good as my Macbook Pro's. Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen13 has a great optional haptic touchpad at almost no added cost, which makes the years of negligence even more insulting.

"Yeah, we can do it. No, it's not expensive. But we had to choose what to copy-paste from Apple this time around, and a haptic touchpad was $2.93, whereas hating our customers was free!"

Interpreting Vinca symbols as a full-blown writing system is also widely considered a stretch.
I suspect erotic novels make it more likely for readers to become victims of abuse, if anything.
Re:There Will Come Soft Rains [pdf] on Friday August 07, 2026 @01:50PM (#49213915)
I'd never trust a printer enough to leave a gun next to it. Especially if it's HP.
> I'll await your Rust ports of Windows, Linux and MacOS then.

Unironically this. Like most game developers, I was extremely sceptical of Rust, based on opinions I've read on the internet. Ugliest syntax I've ever seen, and "safety" features are irrelevant and just get in my way. Compile times are glacial. Tons of direct and indirect dependencies needed.

But then I got to use it professionally for a year or so, and I was MINDBLOWN by how much less stuff I have to keep in my working memory at all times. And libs like tokio and actix-web were so well-designed that I actually enjoyed reading the code in my free time. Fighting the borrow checker? I had like five such instances in the first month, understood what it wants and why, and it never bothered me again. Compiles were indeed slow, but I went from "if it complies the first time around, I'm probably missing something" to "if it compiles the first time around, it's most likely correct".

Turns out, I had significantly underestimated what Rust brings to the table, while focusing on stuff that wasn't really that important once you get used to it.

Nowadays I'm back to gamedev. I'm happy about that, because my year in cloud/edge dev felt like we were consistently solving the wrong problems. But I do wish my current team was more open to giving Rust a chance. It solves so many actual problems, and is being dismissed with reasoning like "sorry, I don't have programming socks". And by very smart people! WTF is this timeline?

> Soccer is by far the most popular sport on the planet, the fact that it makes a lot less money than hockey is insane.

FIFA is (1) on paper, not there to make money, but (2) in reality, obscenely corrupt.

Worldwide, association football makes more than all other sports you referenced, combined.

I hope this is UEFA taking a principled stand, but maybe there's some weird scheme going on, let's see what happens next.

Re:Parody Hacker News (2013) on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:40PM (#49113930)
dang comment with links to other parts of the discussion
Of course they shouldn't get a pass.

My point is, we can't expect them to behave. And if they promise to, that promise isn't worth much.

That's a problem for future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy!

pours vodka into a mayo jar

Yep. If a train ticket costs 100 euro and the fine for freeloading is 5 euro, you'd be a fool to buy a ticket.

Don't blame Google for pushing boundaries. That's what people (and corpos) do in any competitive activity. Do blame our politicians for being incompetent and ill-meaning.

Re:Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine on Thursday July 02, 2026 @12:26PM (#48763820)
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Re:Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20% on Thursday June 25, 2026 @11:56AM (#48675320)
Pfft. It's been 6 years, they just introduced a shittier version, and it's a smash hit. Most ahead-of-its-time computer ever made.
Re:I Play Video Games with Spinal Muscular Atrophy on Monday June 22, 2026 @11:08AM (#48631242)
In Warcraft 3 we had Space: https://liquipedia.net/warcraft/Space
Windows users don't care. The MS account is some set-and-forget BS for the most part.
> they have no excuse

That's irrelevant, because they don't owe you an excuse to begin with.

Re:Why a Computer Science Degree Still Opens Hidden Doors on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:12AM (#48516047)
Open link. Get hit with corposlop imagery. Close article and go read HN comments.
The clear historical record seems to indicate we've got a bunch of pathological liars trying to automate pathological lying.
Common sense is not profound. What you suggested is a bit too much, but some accountability and reciprocity would be a good start.
I, for one, totally believe the government will prevent the government from abusing the government's power. /s
> Did they think

Pretty sure they didn't do a lot of thinking.

Re:Hacker News, Sans AI on Saturday June 06, 2026 @01:42AM (#48421765)
> Kind of like nuclear weapons

True, but you're not being bombarded 24/7 with irrelevant -- and most likely false -- information about nuclear weapons.

Civilizations have made underground cities for quite some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city
Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production on Thursday June 04, 2026 @11:14AM (#48399919)
Better SoC, no spinning fans. Also the screen won't die after 2 years of light mode usage.

The remaining stuff... I'd say Lenovo has caught up for the most part.

Yoo, what about the "and be happy" part???
We're talking trillions here. They will absolutely have to make it work, whatever it takes.

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