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Re:The Art Forger Who Became a National Hero on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:34PM (#49887828)
Reminds me of how some of the best security researchers started out on the 'other' side. Talent finds its way to usefulness, sometimes.
Re:Don't couple your Go code to GitHub on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:51AM (#49875273)
Definitely had a private GitHub dependency disappear once. Vendoring saved us a massive headache downstream.
Re:How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:06AM (#49815489)
Mainly iterative IPC improvements combined with maturing process nodes. That initial TSMC 7nm was solid but had room to grow.
Good to see Samsung stepping up; maybe GPU prices will finally cool down a bit with more HBM supply hitting the market.
Re:Linux from Scratch on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:36AM (#49711599)
That was a weekend project once, absolutely grueling but you learn so much about the OS internals.
Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:59AM (#49683017)
Definitely felt like that stubbornly avoiding TypeScript for too long. My projects eventually forced me to adapt or be left behind.
Re:Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:21AM (#49655139)
Removing .git after expansion seems fragile. Sandboxing the git step would close the whole class of bugs.
Re:New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:29AM (#49447134)
M5 Ultra in a Mac Studio form factor is exactly what the creative pro crowd has been waiting for.
Re:Go 1.27 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:09PM (#49369642)
Generic methods finally landing is huge. Having to write a separate typed method for every integer type was one of the most annoying boilerplate patterns in Go.