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Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:53AM (#50349630)
> We've also recently set our compiler to treat warnings as errors, and to be as strict as possible

Wow, the innovation! I am so glad we have this AI thing!

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:11AM (#50349362)
Lot of words to say they can just sell bullshit.
Re:It's the Memory Latency, Stupid on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:32AM (#50334062)
Complexity has nothing to do with memory access patterns.
Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:26AM (#50333716)
If "it can be re-made by AI as easily" how MIT is supposed to help with adoption?

I know who you are.

Re:OccupySaaS on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:25AM (#50333712)
So the same as FOSS came to be. Thus its utter failure at "liberation" part. For freedom is political.
They just need more electron crapware from you guys. Problem solved.
Enjoy your "democratization" nerds. This is what you have cheered for.
Re:Nietzschian Debugger on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:28AM (#50255683)
Yeah, it reads like a person who knows Nietzsche from Reddit comments.
Re:Nietzschian Debugger on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:27AM (#50255673)
Read a part on the Last Man from initial pages of Zarathustra.
Re:Type Server Protocol on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:19AM (#50255623)
Run server on your PC to serialize and deserialize JSON payloads back and forth just to get basic IDE functionality bro.
Re:Crystal 1.22.0 on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:24AM (#50205953)
> I'd say regular OOP is, after implicit `null`, the biggest mistake in software.

I love this website. It proves that software "industry" is a pop culture after all.

Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:35AM (#50180718)
> Doesn't change the fact that the people is the government

That completely ignores realities of society, power and influence, even in democratic societies.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:35PM (#50169848)
Nothing bold in it, as there is no more meaning in the AGI.

We already lived through multiple AGIs for the last few years.

Re:JDK 28 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @03:14AM (#50138692)
For complex enough and long-running application your run-of-the-mill Rust (so probably what AI would generate) will likely be slower than your run-of-the-mill Java.

I know this is a heresy in some online religious groups pretending to care about engineering but that's reality.

Re:Has AI Tells on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:04AM (#50100255)
I don't read to get personalized experience. I want to experience what other person has prepared for me.
Re:Has AI Tells on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:59AM (#50100222)
I would need to see an example. Every text by AI I saw was always overly verbose, and very mediocre in regard to figurative elements. Yes, often it is not worse than you average thing you can read on the Internet, but this is the point, right?
I work for the company that sells HVAC and ref systems.

For last few years everyone talks about moving away from selling products towards selling cooling services, and connecting everything to the internet.

Of course, there are good premises - predictive maintenance, automation etc. But this won't make disasters that await us any smaller.

Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:10AM (#50067024)
> Who is being myopic and arrogant?

People who use these things to some success, and then paint the trajectory of next 10 yrs and face every scepticism with "you are holding it wrong".

Re:European Alternatives on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:36AM (#50054876)
Yet most contributions to biggest FOSS projects like Linux, LLVM etc come from US corpos and institutions. Non-US actors may leverage them, but control over those projects is in hand of US actors, even if letters describing the license doesn't state that, because power in real world doesn't reside in license files or even commit stats.

Yes, in theory Europe (let's ignore there is no such political entity as Europe, but people pretend there is) could hard-fork them and maintain it, but in practice it won't happen, because if it could, it would already.

Re:Calculus with Julia on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:58AM (#50054516)
I wouldn't call them experimental. They just suck IMO, and that's my biggest gripe with using Julia, as language alone is nice, especially with slowly improving AOT. Of course you will also get replies with completely opposing views, so there is no other way than trying it yourself.
Re:European Alternatives on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:38PM (#50045706)
> Any open source software should be considered "international"

This so naive only a programmer could say this.

Re:How Effective Altruism Conquered the World on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:31PM (#50035723)
It did, it is snowflakes like you who decided to never mature.
Re:Why the AI future will be awesome on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:32AM (#50017270)
Why nerds are almost always so sociologically and politically blind?
Expression of tech-faith is not intellectually honest argument.

Where does this "will probably not hold in the very near future" come from? People correctly warn about extrapolating current things onto the future, but then just throw some vague "probabilities" without providing any argument why their "probably" is somehow more grounded than others.

Re:Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:05AM (#50003088)
Doesn't really explain anything, as most cool-looking things.
Re:How Effective Altruism Conquered the World on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:24AM (#49962111)
To me most representatives of EA resemble people that read about goodness in the book, formulated some notion of it solely through that reading, and then designed an approach to bring it to life. Purely intellectual, not something experienced and lived through, what is the case for the normal people. Very uncanny, like psychopaths learning about empathy from the lecture, and then deciding they would become empathetic based on the notes they took.

Their morality is like musicality of someone that learned how to read sheet music and learned how every note sounds like or even how whole chords sound like, but never heard any music being played. Music is not about computing harmonic formula, and goodness is not about solving utility equation.

‘We have discovered happiness,’ say the Last Men, and they blink.

Re:How Effective Altruism Conquered the World on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:14AM (#49962050)
> does anyone really give a shit what consenting adults do in their private lives?

Yes, we do this in 2026 as we did for millenia. That's called society. Glad to help you.

Re:How Effective Altruism Conquered the World on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:13AM (#49962039)
The issue with this stance is that rationality shouldn't be reduced to "logic" and efficiency. When it is, then bad things happen.

Another issue with EA is that it is yet another trendy thing among nerds and techbros that was iterated hundreds of times in philosophy under general debate on consequencialism/utilitarism. Of course nerds and techbros think of themselves as smarter than everyone else, so they don't bother engaging with that debate in honest manner.

Re:Why don't more developers "use the platform"? on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:41AM (#49961822)
No, it is not based on data. Like 99% of "tech wisdom" discussed on HN.
Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:18AM (#49889391)
The fact that your comment is downvoted and the parent is not tells everything I need to know about "people" attending this website.

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