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I'll call myself a late adopter. I tried early models and wasn't impressed, work has made some things available but wasn't forcing us so Ive been keeping my fingers on the pulse for a bit but watching from the sidelines. In October I decided to give it another shot and Opus 5.5 has blown me away, I've written a whole PR for a sparsely documented project and was like write the PR description for me with like one sentence of background, no Claude.md, no context other than the repo and it completely nailed the description. Most of my apps are in the tens of thousands of lines, so nothing huge but still the capabilities of the frontier models is crazy good. They've come a long way from even a year ago.

This saddens me, thank you for Pico. As a backend engineer I used Pico for an internal tool used by dozens of people at my company and it was praised for how intuitive and easy to use it was which was in large part due to how easy it was to build something beautiful with Pico.

I'm hosting Forgejo for my homelab and couldn't be happier. I have everything running in containers with dind for CI/CD. Most of my workflows just worked with minimal changes. YMMV and this is far from an enterprises' needs but it's working great so far for my needs.

I could get behind "stunts on" instead of "slams" for article titles.

I don't think we should be constructing data centers anywhere near population if the are constantly producing noise pollution. XAI has been setting up generators to support their centers, possibly illegally. The strain on supply chains (RAM) is going to have ramifications that touch every part of the economy.

> Anti-AI sentiment is pointless if they can't tell the difference.

I disagree, you can object on moral grounds of which there's a few angles that could take.

Probably but they could be arrived at via different means. In WoW for instance top players run simulated combat using third party tools to compare different gearing setup, often to determine if a new piece of gear is better than their current piece. This often isn't immediately obvious if the stats are completely different and "simming" is the easiest way to evaluate a piece of gear.

The one that stuck out to me was all the automation, full breakfast etc but the house has to remind them to pay the bills.

A lot of the programming adjacent subreddits have been post after post of weekend vibe coded projects. It's become really exhausting how easy it is to turn out a new wheel that's going to get abandoned in a few weeks at best.

I have a CRV with adaptive cruise (USA) and while the car reads the speed limit signs it only uses them for display. There are instances where it misreads signs which is understandable because some of the road signs are very similar or the posted speed only applies to trucks ect.

But it does not adjust based on the reading, I manually set the speed but of course it'll slow down if there's a car in front. Automatically adjusting to the speed limit sounds insanely dangerous. It's very common place, at least in the US, to go 10 over the posted limit on controlled access highways, does the EU not operate in a similar mode?

The pandemic didn't end when Mamdani was elected. The economic impact from the pandemic is going to be felt for decades.

In what way does buying a property and renting it create wealth? Isn't buying a property with the intent to rent it manipulation of economic conditions?

A comment the adds nothing to the discussion but derails the conversation with an anecdotes from the writers childhood because how this topic vaguely reminds them of something kind of similar.

PA did this with construction zone cameras. I'm not sure where that landed because its been a while since I've seen one. I successfully appealed my ticket to the magistrate. It initially started as a pilot program and the law requires signage which during the pilot was quite inconspicuous. After the launch the sign was changed to a tiny little thing, about 1/5 the size of the pilot program.

I was going 5 over the reduced speed limit, in the slow lane with rush hour traffic. That thing must've issued thousands of tickets.

There's a data type precedence that it uses to determine which value should be casted[0]. Nvarchar is higher precedence, therefore the varchar value is "lifted" to an nvarchar value first. This wouldn't be an issue if the types were reversed.

0: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/data-...

This is definitely not always the case[0], let's not pretend these companies give a fuck about the communities in which their data centers operate[1].

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk...

1: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/texas-hood-county-cr...

I got the battery extension and it lasted more than 10 months (I have it on a 30 minute refresh). Highly recommend TRMNL if you want something to hack on without fussing with hardware.

I'm too entralled by TikTok to build a guillotine.

The powers that be have always saught wealth. At some point they gained enough power to start usurping the law that was supposed to keep them in check.

I'm not doing FIRE, I have children and just live below my means. I'm hoping to retire around 55 assuming the AI bubble doesn't nuke everyones portfolio.

Yeah, and the tooling is changing more quickly than JavaScript and is riddled with security issues. I think the best move right now is at best using AI as a (in)glorified Google / Stack overflow and waiting until the dust settles on tooling.

Unity isn't written in C#, it's C++. C# is used as the scripting engine.

Buyer beware, this game has been in alpha for 10 years despite sufficient funding. The cash shop is charging $25 for skins in a alpha game.

I had this issue with my alternative account. Despite my main account being associated (not by recovery, I think this predates that feature), and most messages being forwaded to my main I was never able to successfully recover the credentials.

I'm struggling to understand what the issue that the author is getting at. The point of a database is that it's ACID compliant, wrap insets/updates/deletes in a transaction and no such drift would occur. What am I missing?

There's a guy complaining that the creator is poisoning the collective code used to train LLMs. If that's all it takes we have a moral responsibility to flood GitHub with garbage.

Complexity demon everywhere.

One example is linked in the article where he expressed women are biologically less interested in tech.

Copy-Item is a cmdlet, the native way to do it in PowerShell. Gp posted a hack to replicate the GUI in PowerShell.