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Re:Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:28PM (#50262616)
And destroying!?
Re:My old job feels distant now on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:11PM (#50121222)
The world that replaces this has AI actually doing the work of gscott’s web2.0 groupware platform.
Won’t geothermal cool the Earth’s core?
Re:How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:44PM (#49426249)
“Over time, some [problems] fade away while connections begin to appear between others that initially seemed unrelated.”

Reminds me of https://youtu.be/DSjbTC-hvqQ?t=1159

Re:Sabotaging Bitcoin on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:30PM (#46439461)
Is it illegal to attack cryptocurrency?
Didn’t the Google Translate AI invent its own intermediate language for translating between languages?
Re:iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:15PM (#45190790)
Titanium? I thought they’d learned that lesson with the Powerbook G4.
Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:52PM (#45076645)
What would the executives have said if the deployment team had said to them "The product can stay online, but these are the risks of doing so while we work on them."?
I guess you’ve fallen foul of the rules to protect against trademark “squatting”. They surely weren’t designed with (non-commercial) OSS projects in mind.
Re:The Future Is Not Self-Hosted on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:47AM (#44683769)
Could the friends access the server through the VPN?

> It's secured behind our own VPN.

> So, how do I create a shared photo album with my friends where we can all upload pictures from our latest trip? Well...since our friends can't access our server

You haven’t happened to find a list of companies that do tryouts, have you?
Indeed, calling it “progress” is political.
The quickest fix is to get rid of the death penalty
Playing Devil’s advocate… Socialisation is what’s driving technology use. It’s just happening on the phones, not irl. Just like with alcohol, anyone not participating will be left out. If everyone’s on their phones all the time, IRL socialisation won’t matter compared to socialisation via phones.
Re:Itch.io Taken Down by Funko on Monday December 09, 2024 @06:33AM (#42365194)
You don’t have to go through a lawyer, ie represent yourself, afaik.
Re:Itch.io Taken Down by Funko on Monday December 09, 2024 @06:17AM (#42365080)
Which registrar was this? I’d like to avoid them.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:08PM (#42070226)
Us third party voters need to work together for change to the voting system, no matter how different our politics might be from one another. In fact, us working together despite our different politics would underline our point: democracy is about everyone having their say, not about agreement.
Right, so there are more people to count the vote
Re:The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker on Sunday November 03, 2024 @07:34AM (#42032696)
What wattage is your microwave on?
Re:Photos of an e-waste dumping ground on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @12:21AM (#41773793)
An individual can't do the job of government.
Re:Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games? on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:51AM (#41648209)
> They are a very creative kid currently experimenting with using Power Point/Google Presentations to create a crafting and turn based combat style game but is running into the obvious limitations of this setup.

What limitations exactly? These will guide recommendations.

Seems reasonable. App authors would’ve been “discovering” vulnerabilities in their own apps and asking Google to pay for them.
Re:Code review antipatterns on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:09AM (#41317312)
He’s under a different arm of management to you?
They know what they want, just not what they’re talking about.
Re:The Third Atomic Bomb on Saturday August 10, 2024 @05:31PM (#41212371)
Killing civilians to save soldiers
Re:Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house? on Friday August 09, 2024 @06:44AM (#41200554)
Don’t replace with in-house solutions anything that’s already working. Bring in-house just the thing you want to add next and go from there. At the very least it’ll kick your existing provider into gear when they know they (might) have competition.
Re:Ask HN: How did you learn Regex? on Thursday August 08, 2024 @04:27PM (#41195861)
I use regex101.com
That surely is illegal. Call their bluff?
Adaptability for climate change
Who would pay a ship to take their cargo near a port if they knew ships need insurance to dock with that port and the ship didn’t have it?

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