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"Nothing leaves your browser. No account needed to look."

You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:56PM (#50227842)
That doesn't pay the bills, does it?
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:05PM (#50227553)
>Sorry but you are coming off as utterly tone deaf and patronizing.

I agree, but I'd like to think these people come from a optimistic point of view.

A lot of people don't seem to understand that the "human in the loop" is exactly the thing the big AI leaders want to cut out as much as possible.

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:04PM (#50227545)
Seems like I did a lot of manual vibecoding back in college
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:57PM (#50227507)
>Become something AI cannot replace.

What will it not replace, eventually?

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:33PM (#50227357)
I appreciate your concern, because I feel the same way. However, you are wrong.

>Your knowledge, and you as a person, have value.

This is the exact thing AI is threatening to take away.

Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:29PM (#50227322)
>manually vibecoded

What the fuck does this even mean?

Re:Linus Torvalds: "banning AI is stupid and so are you" on Thursday October 15, 2026 @08:18PM (#50112128)
Yep, he always has been. But I found he was often right and I did have some respect for him.

I think he's very wrong on this, though.

Some bank apps refuse to work if your Android phone has developer mode on.

One of my bank apps had a time where it refused to work if I wasn't using the default system keyboard. Luckily they rolled that back.

The times of actually owning your hardware are long over.

Re:your C is not standard C on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:51AM (#50104538)
Here in Taiwan, many people just rip the ground prong out of the plug.
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:58AM (#50051883)
This hits close to home.

As a kid, my milk teeth often had cavities. The dentist didn't apply anesthesia when drilling them, which wasn't fun, but wasn't all too horrible.

When I got my first cavity in my adult teeth, the dentist wanted to drill it, again without anesthesia because "The needle to apply anesthesia hurts worse than the drilling and also you're a man, right? Only women need anesthesia". It hurt so much that it left me traumatised.

I avoided going to the dentist for many years, until my parents forced me to.

Cut to ten years ago, my dentist told me my wisdom tooth was growing problematically, so she'd extract it. My wisdom tooth was so close against the molar beside it that I couldn't properly brush there, so I had a pretty bad cavity there. She drilled it, at least she used anesthesia this time.

Few years later, I started getting this horrible toothache. Some of the worst pain I've ever felt, like someone was sticking a white-hot knife into my jaw. Apparently that molar was abscessed. Went to an emergency dentist that wanted to do a root canal, but I got a panic attack before he even started.

Eventually, the pain went away. I still got a root canal, kept calm by some Diazepam.

This year, I visited the dentist again. My jaw has been feeling kind of weird for a year or two, but it never hurt too much, so I never looked into it. The dentist told me I have a pretty bad infection in my jaw, and my bone has visibly deteriorated.

I've had three root canal treatments on the same molar this year alone. All done while being kept chill by Xanax. The problem still hasn't been solved. My jaw still feels weird and uncomfortable.

I will see the dentist again in a few months. At that point, we'll see whether the bone has recovered. If not, they just might need to extract it.

Fuck dentists, man.

Re:I'm sorry, but you still have to think on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:32AM (#50051412)
It's such an overused argument by this point
Re:Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:55PM (#49973249)
I've been a judge at a few ICPC contests. We always double-checked first solves for any of the problems by hand.

The coding style demonstrated here is extremely common with high-level competitive teams.

Re:Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] on Monday October 05, 2026 @09:52PM (#49973218)
>I hope we dont lose this desire as a species.

I really think the rise of LLMs has demonstrated quite well that most people don't care. Only a minority of us have ever had this desire.

>Dear lord the job market is an absolute disaster right now.

Indeed it is, I don't know and would never like to know the levels of desperation one needs to reach to accept writing Python as a career. (I jest, I jest)

In all seriousness, Python (and the same goes for with Javascript/Typescript) is a popular language that is taught at many bootcamps. I'm sure that has lots to do with the number of applications for these kinds of roles.

>then you submit it and wait an arbitrary amount of time for the rejection

You get rejections? When I was jobhunting, half of the companies I applied to never replied to me.

Re:CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3 on Friday September 18, 2026 @12:22PM (#49756642)
My favorite one is the "Ministerie van Cyber" sticker.

But of course, I've also got a few yellow CYBER stickers in my collection

Re:Can we stop with the uptime percentages? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:09PM (#49729177)
What's the point here? That everyone should use the n-nines notation? Sure. However, companies have no interest in doing anything that makes them look worse.

Also, is anyone else getting the bitter taste of AI writing from this page?

Re:Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:08AM (#49712771)
Most of the food the farmers produce in the Netherlands is exported.

Meanwhile, trash piles up quickly: https://nltimes.nl/2023/02/07/utrecht-garbage-strike-comes-e...

Re:Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:14AM (#49564172)
>I have used Codex (Sol 5.6 or whatever) to solve this problem.

>Personally, I did not learn that much from that experience

Fire is hot, water is wet, etc

Thank you, I didn't really understand what they were talking about.

Personally, I feel there is an easier approach: Take a regular 12-sided die, assign numbers modulo N (N being the amount of players). Now you assign the first turn fairly for 2, 3, 4, 6 or 12 players. Add a d20 and that covers 5 or 10 players, too.

Re:Why some US restaurants are banning tips on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:46AM (#49444932)
The cynic in me would say that's just allowing market forces to set the price by supply/demand.

But obviously, a government service should give fair and proper service to everyone.

Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:18PM (#49443824)
A lot of people with ADHD that have success with medication can tell you that it's not just about work.

It also helps with non-work stuff that's just not fun to do, such as chores or filing your taxes. It even helps you stick with hobbies you actually enjoy but your brain gets bored of.

Re:How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:06AM (#49434393)
>people had 1 year and a half to prepare for this (at least) or to protest this.

“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now.”

- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Re:Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:37AM (#49433859)
I think this can be generalized even more:

Horrible if you got into engineering because you wanted to solve problems.

Amazing if you only ever wanted to see the problem solved.

Re:Why some US restaurants are banning tips on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:08AM (#49433377)
It's pretty common where I live in Asia, and they almost always write it on their menu, too. I don't really see it as shenanigans as long as it's communicated in advance. We don't have a tipping culture, though.
Re:Why some US restaurants are banning tips on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:02AM (#49433311)
Or the sales staff in the fancier retail stores that after I tell them I'm just looking around, will proceed to stand behind me and stare at me.

Maybe they judge me too poor for their products and it's an attempt to get me to leave...

>At the far end of the scale are bathroom attendants who want to help me wash/dry/moisture my hands after using the facilities.

I've never ran into these and I hope I never will.

Re:Why some US restaurants are banning tips on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:54AM (#49433208)
I'm not American, but from what I've heard about the wait times at the DMV, I'm sure many would love the option to tip 20% for faster service.
Re:Why some US restaurants are banning tips on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:53AM (#49433189)
If I see "service charge" I'm going to assume that it covers the tip. I'm not going to tip on top of that.
Re:Why some US restaurants are banning tips on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:43AM (#49433044)
>European pride

Europeans tip, just not as crazy as Americans.

>It's important to remind that American restaurants work well

Japanese service is top-notch and tipping is generally frowned upon there.

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