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Re:SOML – A Config Format for Humans on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:10PM (#50344616)
Genuine question for TOML (or any config DSL that don't support inheritance) users: what's the advantage compared to text protobuf configs?

To me being able to do some templating/inheritance to generate slightly different config (or deviating from the standard/default config) seems to be vital as a config DSL. In that regard, even YAML is superior with its half-ass anchor thingy.

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:48PM (#50277828)
I personally use 3.8 Flash most of the time and Argon/Carbon when I need to do deep analysis or research an ambiguous problem. Opus/Fable is used when I need a second/third opinion.

3.8 Flash + /boost is very capable.

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:38PM (#50277614)
Dilitium would be cool.
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:37PM (#50277583)
B was briefly an internal version
Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:42AM (#50244589)
iPad still don't support multi-user profiles, which makes it really uncomfortable sharing my iPad with my kids (Tailscale, Bitwarden etc).

It would be great if it can use fingerprint to unlock different profiles.

Re:Google cloud outage takes down banks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:57AM (#50167410)
In Google Cloud, that's a huge no no and you'll be put on a naughty list facing serious scrutiny during the postmortem review.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud.

Re:Agentic Monitoring on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:50AM (#50161846)
I have been doing something similar but much smaller scale: having a daily scheduled task from Antigravity to ADB connect to my phone and dump all logs and do analysis to let me know if there's any app behaving weirdly (e.g. repeated crashes).

The adb connection is intentionally over Tailscale so in the morning after I connect to some random WiFi (Android remote debugging is only enabled w/ WiFi connection) I can start reading the report, then quote and ask Gemini to fix some issues.

Tailscale is easy to explain.

"Install this app on your Apple TV or Android TV, login with your Gmail, and let me know your email address."

Re:Show HN: Indigene – native plants for where you stand on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:56AM (#50104616)
No zip code input, no zoom out. It's either scroll repeatedly or allow you to get my location so that I can check some location in California. No thanks.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:31PM (#50074437)
It's showing up in Antigravity on mobile UI as "unavailable" for Pro user (you can use Remote Control to access its web UI).

It doesn't show in the desktop UI.

Re:HashiCorp archives the Boundary open source repo on Sunday October 11, 2026 @11:38PM (#50051106)
I used https://pomerium.com in the past for homelab. It builds around https://envoyproxy.io.
Re:New gTLD Application for .lan on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:53PM (#50008324)
> RFC 8375 defines the intranet domain as .home.arpa, but ICANN in 2024 says it should use .internal instead. Is ICANN not choosing .lan or .home because these two domains might still fetch a good price?

My tweet on Sep 26, 2026

Re:Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:52PM (#49947656)
This would just push people to maintain their own fork. If I already have an agent to investigate and fix a bug and able to send a PR, the added cost of maintaining a local fork is minimum.

In fact I've start doing that myself. Sending PR and convincing the maintainer why the fix is necessary is just too much effort.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:45PM (#49914164)
For getting redroid running on my Linux system, 3.8 Flash decided to binary patch a .so file instead of getting the AOSP source code and patch/build it properly.

And I saw it do this twice, once for Android 14 and once for Android 16.

I think this is just within 3.8 flash's capabilities.

Re:The First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:56PM (#49760151)
Desperately trying to find a video with the original meowing sound...
Re:A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:37PM (#49685827)
Wow, the Westlake University was funded in 2018 as a private research university.
Re:Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:26PM (#49675484)
One thing to note: OSM edits are associated with your account. Do not use your regular user name, or people can easily identify where you live since people tends to edit nearby locations.

If you accidentally did that, I believe there's a way for the admin to scrub that for you.

Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:40PM (#49527032)
I think it's closer to: develop something similar to Google's Piper as (hopefully!) an open source project and sell this to enterprise, similar to Perforce's business model but with the benefit of an excellent and well received frontend tool.
Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:36PM (#49526968)
Well I did not answer your second part of the question, only the first part of comparing Mercurial vs Git.

Now to the second part: I think speed still plays a role back when Bitbucket and Google Code provides Mercurial hosting and people were comparing Mercurial with Git. Eventually GitHub won the competition, so then we kinda stuck with Git.

Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:30PM (#49526871)
No worries, it's still just another commit w/ conflict. If you want, solve those conflicts later.

Why is git's "forced conflict resolution" better, assuming the same workflow (local change+sync upstream) would produce the same # of conflicted commits?

Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:26PM (#49526806)
Mercurial is too slow. Even with chg common commands like `hg status` may take hundreds of milliseconds. JJ is fast. Internally `jj log` taking more than 500ms is tracked as bugs.
Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:20PM (#49526717)
A term coined within Google that describes the best part (to me at least) of jj: delayed conflict resolution.

You worked on multiple things, you sync with the upstream, then boom now you have conflicts in one or more of your local branches.

Instead of immediately presenting you a conflict resolution view (usually 3 pane vimdiff) and you'll have to resolve at the sync time, the commits are simply marked as "have conflict", and you can continue working on other things until you have time to deal with it.

And for a chain of commits that all have conflicts, chances are fixing the first conflict automatically resolves all other conflicts in the chain, thanks to the auto-rebasing feature.

Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:12PM (#49526614)
AFAIKT it will revert the local state to "pending push".
Re:Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:22AM (#49518261)
If you like the Antigravity 1.0 experience, Vscode+Antigravity Extension should be very close.
Re:Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:21AM (#49518253)
It is used seriously inside Google (the internal equivalent version). Many people swear by it and many don't think it's as good as Claude/Codex.
Re:NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:45PM (#49503582)
For future PCB business card ideas: it would be dope if it can play audios.

Gemini says you can power a piezo buzzer (causing a small bump on a PCB) w/ NFC (just enough power to drive it) to play the modem dialup handshake audio.

Re:How Dactyl Works on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:28PM (#49482572)
For a moment I thought this is related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentadactyl

(Reading the wiki I'm really glad this is still alive).

Upon seeing "Bluetooth" and "Daily steps" I'd assume this is another watch that requires daily charging, but wow 2y battery w/ CR2016!
Re:BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising on Saturday August 01, 2026 @12:26AM (#49131021)
Volvo, with their terrible infortainment system's performance, I'm not sure if it's capable of displaying ads.
I think the standard control for TV is the RS-232C port on the TV.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/serial-projector-contr... from a quick search.

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