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I would think that since it is a law to comply. It is required to fall within the scope of at least someone's responsibilities.
Re:Solar Panels That Plug into Your Wall on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:27AM (#50068964)
So your home has multiple circuits. Each outlet in the home is on one of these circuits. If you want to power your fridge, I assume the panel needs to be plugged into the same circuit as the fridge. Is this correct that “you are powering a circuit, not your house”?
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:05PM (#50025240)
After Singapore, there just wasn't any choice.
I've used dynamic DNS services before and I've never really been happy with the free tier. I'm either too restricted, giving them my money, giving them my privacy, using a static IP for my home network (yikes!), or adding a dependency I don't control to my whole stack.

Also it's going to stay up even if my house catches fire which is something.

I have one VM that uses traefik, letsencrypt, OIDC, stun/turn, and tailscale and acts as a front door to my homelab. Gives me TLS termination and actual domain names for the services that I want to be publicly accessible.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:59PM (#50008425)
I mean, if the goal is fewer people, then there are many many nefarious ways to achieve that.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:53PM (#50008325)
It sounds like these changes won't even touch H1B
Oh boy, time to Put everyone's job loss, home loss, death, and herpes diagnosis on the blockchain. NFTs anyone? Prediction markets!??
Re:Executable Is a SQLite Database on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:31PM (#49428062)
The tree-view is practical for users but seems impractical for relational database performance.

SELECT * FROM files p LEFT JOIN files c ON p.id = c.parent_id LEFT JOIN files gc ON c.id = gc.parent_id LEFT JOIN files ggc ON gc.id = ggc.parent_id .... where p.id = 123

Re:Executable Is a SQLite Database on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:25PM (#49428025)
When you have a hammer, everything starts to seem like a nail. /s :)
Re:Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels? on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:56PM (#49424299)
It seems like someone with an immigration background should have to go through an on-boarding period where a new arrival takes part in community service and is immersed with civic-minded people and good citizens rather than just heading straight for the slums to fend for themselves and live among the sorts of people who will be a bad influence on them.
Open AI is about to find out all about rounded corners
Re:SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:22PM (#48930001)
“hold my beverage”;
Ohh, I need to VPN into nyc or california before trying to cancel my new york times subscription.
This reminds me of the kids in MR. Deeds.

Kid 1: What are you going to do with your $20,000

Kid2: quit school

Homeless man: good idea, school is for fools!!

People who have the disposable income to buy $8,000 personal robotic assistants or $20,000 1X Neo are a lot more likely to live in larger spaces. I've got about 1,000 sqft per occupant in my home. Plenty of room for a C-3PO or Johnny 5.
Perhaps that's how aliens would see humans. Perpetually trying to die except for a small group of humans fighting disease, monitoring and protecting climate, keeping order, etc.
Re:Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026) on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:47AM (#48760677)
Kinda sounds like "not slavery" with extra steps
Re:A new Android malware from Google on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:32AM (#48760484)
Gotta move to the EU and sue based on right to be forgotten
I don't blame someone for working at facebook, but I don't think most of you realize how cash money a FANG company looks on your resume to IT managers at the lowly normal companies. Go work in financial services, insurance, retail, go be a contractor and work/travel until you find what you like.
Back in the day... 2004-2005 facebook was amazing. Spread like wildfire, and lots of fun to use. Just you and your college friends, and their friends.
Re:Data centers in space makes no sense on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:13AM (#46881758)
AI sovereignty, not AI efficiency. Redesign AI chips with lower power density and higher thermal tolerances and you get more efficient radiation with some sacrifice in compute power. But you are outside the jurisdiction of every country.
Re:LLM-as-a-Courtroom on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:41PM (#46788819)
Defence attourney: "Judge, I object"

Judge: "On what grounds?"

Defence attourney: "On whichever grounds you find most compelling"

Judge: "I have sustained your objection based on speculation..."

Imagine a senior dev who just approves PRs, approves production releases, and prioritizes bug reports and feature requests. LLM watches for errors ceaslessly, reports an issue. Senior dev reviews the issue and assigns a severity to it. Another LLM has a backlog of features and errors to go solve, it makes a fix and submits a PR after running tests and verifying things work on its end.
Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI on Friday December 26, 2025 @08:46PM (#46398343)
When robots start sending us bullets, we'll probably look back fondly at the time when they sent us thank you letters.
Re:The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @04:41PM (#46211090)
The “nostalgia” of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn
How long before it creates a folder named meth den and just holds up in there for a couple weeks at a time.
Re:Free software scares normal people on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:35AM (#45769280)
It’s a bit like obscuring the less-used functions on a TV remote with tape.

It’s like creating a new tv controller with fewer options.

Under the grant rules programming languages must be strongly typed. No strings identifying as an int, etc. :-)
Things that need work necessarily cost money. Someone doing the work for free is not inherently sustainable. Profits motivate work to get done all on its own. Profits by definition is money over and above expenses. So it creates a perpetual sustainable mechanism. Competition motivates quality and efficient pricing (eventually).

Lobbying corrupts this a bit. However they are not lobbying to suppress private competitors only government-run competition that has no profit motive or competition. When the government runs it we still pay for it, except now people who don’t use it also pay. Also wealthy people pay a disproportionate share as compared to their use due to progressive income tax.

In theory anyone can start a company if they have a better or more efficient product or offering and get the profits instead.

Thats the rationale in a nutshell.

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