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Re:Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:32AM (#49655627)
Probably not, to get light to move faster, you don't need a new medium - you just need less of the universe getting in its way.
Re:Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:04AM (#49371752)
I must say that "But it makes me wonder about the mental state of our beta testers [...]"

cought me off guard while drinking coffee

same, ist was more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8DEJ8ydJQ
Re:Mistral OCR 4.1 on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:39AM (#49296498)
How does it compare to those services? Are there any benchmarks yet?
Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR on Monday March 30, 2026 @06:00AM (#47572403)
It is clearly an ad, no doubt about that.
Re:Bubble Sorted Amen Break on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:58PM (#47355499)
429 Too Many Requests
Re:UniFi 5G on Friday December 05, 2025 @08:13AM (#46160828)
They made some good decisions aswell in the recent past, looking at their firewall configuration features (made it zone based).. All in all their eco system is worth it imo and the hardware is actually affordable. On the other hand I had some mikrotik gear in the past which was also really good, the user interface is just not as shiny ;-)
Over time, I've gotten a feel for what kind of content is AI-generated (e.g., images, text, and especially code...), and this text screams "AI" from top to bottom. I think badger responded very professionally; I'd be interested to see Linus Torvalds' reaction in such a situation :D
Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D on Sunday September 07, 2025 @05:07AM (#45156601)
Agree. Also, use good thermal paste. 100 °C is not safe or sustainable long term. Unfortunately, I think the manufacturer's specifications regarding the maximum temperature are misleading. With proper cooling, however, you'll be well within that limit.
Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:49AM (#45156528)
I'm not convinced, what would be the use case?
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures on Monday June 23, 2025 @02:07PM (#44358429)
You are Right, its a Great Idea actually.
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures on Friday June 20, 2025 @02:37PM (#44330612)
I would pay that 130€ / year if I was alone. I have to be responsible with the money I earn as I have to feed 3 kids and my wife is not working. We also use other different streaming services like netflix, spotify family... adding youtube premium seems not reasonable for me at the moment.
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures on Friday June 20, 2025 @02:06PM (#44330288)
Having to pay for something so that's "less annoying" is the worst business model. YouTube Premium is very expensive. I had it for a while when I got a Pixel smartphone with a few months of YouTube Premium included. It was great. I also understand that streaming on this scale must entail incredibly high operating costs; the money has to come from somewhere. It's simply a dilemma. But there has to be a better way. Any ideas?
Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @06:26AM (#44168381)
I disagree. AI is good at pattern recognition, but still struggles to grasp causual relationships. These Made-up api calls are just a pattern in the large data set. Dont confuse it with creativity.
Re:My AI skeptic friends are all nuts on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @03:30AM (#44167366)
AI didn't kill creativity nor intuition. It much rather lack's those things completely. Artists can make use of AI but they can't make themselves obsolete just yet.
very cool and simple idea, i like it. funny thing, first try i got a note-id that already had been used by someone :-)
"This requires that you have Go, Ruby, and the rake Ruby gem installed." - sticking to the binaries then :) Cool little project, will try it tomorrow!
Re:GitHub-events-viewer a.k.a. "What did I do yesterday?" on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:15AM (#41658032)
I just want to point out that this is using jQuery 1.11.3 which is and odd choice imo.
Re:ChessDream, a place for chess players to improve on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:45AM (#41566285)
Another bug in that area is when you need to do your move for white but you also need to move the black piece next, otherwise the puzzle won't proceed
Re:ChessDream, a place for chess players to improve on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:41AM (#41566272)
Found multiple bugs in the puzzle area. If you can give mate in more than one way (multiple correct moves for the last move) it sometimes says your move was incorrect which is not.
The satellite image of this place on Google Maps is extremely obscured by the tree shadows, which may have deceived the recognition.
Unlikely, I zoomed in on one that had a pool with round edges within a square concrete area that had the rough geometry of a basketball court and I imagine a image recognition engine being confused by that.
Re:Bypassing airport security via SQL injection on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:53PM (#41402481)
It was the most humongous deal if we talk about IT security. SQL injection shouldn't be a thing in today's IT landscapes. And here we are giving everyone and their mother admin access to a database where the attackers can literally get not only on a plane but also in the fucking Cockpit. So yes, big big deal.
Re:Sonos CEO says the old app can't be rereleased on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @07:10AM (#41309057)
Mostly did this: https://github.com/IngmarStein/unifi-sonos-doc

I had all speakers join my WiFi with none on LAN.

Re:Sonos CEO says the old app can't be rereleased on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:04AM (#41308310)
"[...] far more prone to incompatibilities with users WiFi configurations [...]" <- Exactly this! With my Unifi gear, all the configurations that had to be tried out and tested were driving me crazy. From Multicast Filtering (IGMP Snooping), Multicast Enhancment (IGMPv3), Broadcast Contols, mDNS to even the fucking Spanning Tree Protocol on the Switches (STP vs RSTP). How is this plug and play? How are other users even getting anything to work when it comes to multi room and speakers being on seperate APs?!
Re:Black Mesa on Thursday August 15, 2024 @07:19PM (#41261535)
When the countdown reaches zero, it displays the message "That's it."
Re:The magic of small engineering teams on Saturday July 06, 2024 @02:56PM (#40892401)
I have to disagree with the "2 to 6 people" - even for small projects I feel like 4-6 people is great. This way you can ensure that everyone has a “tandem” and e.g. It's not just a frontend developer doing some mischief that someone has to clean up afterwards :D
I also wouldn't download this in 1000 years with no additional information and sourcecode / github etc...
I work for a large German company and some of our suppliers and business partners have had a fax machine for a long time that they used exclusively for our purposes.

Fortunately, these times are over, and the company has celebrated the long overdue abolition of the fax machine ;-)

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