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Re:Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:18PM (#49973404)
They just implement the fetch api from the web, does the fetch api allow get’s to have a body?
> Why precisely is it that we feel like we do not?

Because we don’t, our representatives work for companies like Meta, not ordinary people.

Re:Shooting down ideas is not a skill on Saturday April 04, 2026 @09:58PM (#47645452)
Isn’t proving a market exists, building a proof of concept, etc, all examples of exploring an idea? Those seem like perfectly reasonable expectations.
Re:GitHub's Historic Uptime on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:05PM (#47591968)
It means if you sail through it, Iran will launch drones and missiles at your ship.
Re:SmartOS on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @01:13PM (#46709301)
> This architecture has a variety of advantages including increased security, no need for patching, fast upgrades and recovery.

SmartOS was developed by Joyent for their cloud computing product, it's primary use case isn't desktop computing. I think the advantages mentioned above were probably a bigger factor than the disk space. I would also guess that PXE would be the standard way to boot in a datacenter, not USB.

Re:6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:38PM (#46651096)
The are some great points
Re:Google Opal on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:25AM (#46441633)
> Join our Discord for support and sharing feedback

I’m surprised to see Google directing people to Discord, do they do that for other products?

Re:OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:55AM (#45845861)
> otel is at odds with the observability business because these actors have little interest to contribute back to telemetry agents since anyone can reap the rewards of that.

But all major vendors _do_ contribute to OTEL.

Re:Lawyers are already using AI. Will judges be next? on Saturday October 04, 2025 @10:47PM (#45478494)
very cool story!
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Re:U.S. Military Strikes Drug Vessel from Venezuela, Killing 11 on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @11:16PM (#45111929)
> the best solution seems to be treating them as military targets

Worked out great for the Philippines…

Seconded, I’ve yet to use an LLM that can consistently provide sources that back up what it’s telling me.
Governments employ millions of people, money is absolutely not a limitation.
Re:AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17 on Saturday April 05, 2025 @12:06AM (#43590629)
Why would I want small businesses to be able to spam me as well the large ones? I’d prefer no one does, but less is better than more.
Re:Reasoning models don't always say what they think on Friday April 04, 2025 @01:14AM (#43578573)
How is that in conflict with the fact that humans can introspect?
Yeah I don’t know why GP would think computability theory doesn’t apply to AI. Is there a single example of a problem that isn’t computable by a Turing machine that can be computed by AI?
Siphoning money away from the public and to themselves is the whole point.
Re:GitHub Codespaces Alternatives on Sunday February 23, 2025 @02:05AM (#43147331)
FWIW there’s a nix feature for devcontainers (https://github.com/devcontainers/features/tree/main/src/nix)
Re:Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:27PM (#42941522)
Maybe the job is actually really easy?
Re:Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:08PM (#42444790)
You truncate passwords to prevent DOS
Re:dtrace.conf(24) on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:29AM (#42336987)
I hadn’t heard of an unconference before, sounds like a cool idea. I’m a longtime enjoyer of Oxide and Friends, so looking forward to the event!

Also what the hell is Fishpong, I will be looking into that.

Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @12:48PM (#42319941)
I love the outtakes section in the bottom. It made me laugh but it also feels more transparent than a lot of GenAI stuff that’s being announced.
Fun game! Good job Armaan!
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @02:01PM (#41998271)
> MacBook Air is the world’s most popular laptop, and with Apple Intelligence, it’s even better. Now, models with M2 and M3 double the starting memory to 16GB, while keeping the starting price at just $999 — a terrific value for the world’s best-selling laptop.

This is nice, and long overdue.

Re:Ask HN: How should I learn Rust for Tauri development? on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:42PM (#41829437)
The Rust book is a good start https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
I really like the original dinosaur logo, I didn't realize it was designed by Shepard Fairey.
Re:Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @12:48PM (#41582253)
That tends to not be open source, and people don’t claim that it is.
Re:Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux on Thursday September 05, 2024 @08:14AM (#41455845)
Boot times are pretty important for serverless environments. Alpine, which uses musl, is very popular in those situations.

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