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by theamk 17d ago
AI slop is strong with this one... I saw "per-runner swap" and I was wondering how it's implemented, given that Linux did not support swap partitioning last time I've checked Turns out it's just a lie. The script c
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by theamk 17d ago
This is an ad for "an open-source agent workspace" product There is some talk about how amazing human brains are, and then OP introduces the product when claims to be brain-inspired, but in reality is just another AI orchestrator
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by theamk 18d ago
The author has 3 problems with codeberg + sourcehut specifically: 1. They are limiting resources - no more unlimited storage, no more free CI runners, adding Anubis to protect server load. 2. They have banned cryptocurrencies and blockchain
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by theamk 19d ago
That's MS Windows .bat files. Not even Powershell. I was going to say, "Hey, that's some nice retro dedication", but apparently those games are using VT100 control characters, meaning it's Windows 10 or above. So no
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by theamk 23d ago
AI and Wikipedia have completely opposite goals Wikipedia: "Our goal is accurate knowledge. Anyone can fix mistakes, we have processes to make sure articles are as accurate as possible" (you can argue if they are successful or no
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by theamk 23d ago
A very verbose wrapper for simple functionality On windows, uses winsound or windll.winmm.mciSendStringW On Linux, execs "aplay" On MacOS, exec "afplay"
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by theamk 23d ago
you are an outlier - most Blink users use cloud, most Blink users do not insert SD cards, most Blink users power cameras by batteries. Those users have no use for continuous recording. Could Blink implement it? they sure could. Would the co
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by theamk 24d ago
I think it's the specific pages - some Javascript is much more memory hungry that others. A few hundred HN or Wikipedia tabs work absolutely fine, I've tested. But there are much heavier sites, and only a few of those can cause th
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by theamk 24d ago
This is a very good example what I meant when I said "it's designed for a different person"! For me, it's pretty clear that a much better idea is not to fix the broken concept, but do what the Chrome does, and show the b
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by theamk 24d ago
Is it? Bipedal is the easiest one: very few environments require 2 feet in particular. Sure, ability to cross uneven terrain is needed, but this can be done with 3, 4 or 8 feet. But in a lot of places, including most of the retail and a lot
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by theamk 24d ago
This uses 1-wire protocol and is very specific for Makita power tool batteries. Other battery types, like laptop batteries (uses I2C) are not supported. This info should really be in the top-level README
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by theamk 24d ago
Needs [2003] in the title. It has a list of regex'es which behave differently in different regex implementations, but does not name those implementations. Pretty disappointing.
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by theamk 24d ago
Chrome != Chromium engine Most of the Chromium-based browsers remove Google's telemetry and integrations, so if someone has a problem with Chrome "looking over my shoulder", then they have many more alternatives. And sure, Ma
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by theamk 24d ago
Firefox's button is flaky - it seems to disappear depending on the page. For example it appears on HN comment page, but disappears on HN's top-level page. There is clearly some sort of heuristic which maybe tries to determine if t
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by theamk 25d ago
I am using firefox, but it is pretty hard to keep using it. I don't want the whole world to converge on one browser engine, but I also want things to work, and Firefox does not make it easy. Firefox on my laptop has a propensity for ea
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by theamk 25d ago
any relation to ABC[0], the programming language from 1980's which served as inspiration for Python? If not, I recommend renaming it to something else, to avoid confusion. LehnABC perhaps? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by theamk 1mo ago
Won't it be cool if agents get rid of all the heavy frameworks, and instead go back to simple hand-written javascript? The motivation for using megabytes of Javascript just to show a single button was always "it's too hard to
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by theamk 1mo ago
Can you elaborate what does "framework runtime where concurrency and parallelism are first-class primitives" means? Because to take Flask for example - it can run the "sync code" example on your page perfectly. It even h
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by theamk 1mo ago
It's for CVE-2026-69836, CVSS 10.0 but claimed no exploits. Since it was a fixed vuln in closed-source cloud-based service, we will likely never have any more information. There are no patches to analyze or logs to check.
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by theamk 1mo ago
Funnily enough, because of this clause it's no longer very permissive. But I guess it's fine if author wants to make a political statement? Plus it does not matter that much anyway, if one needs this under regular license, they ca
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by theamk 1mo ago
.. except that AI is a retarded intern, constantly forgetting stuff unless reminded all the time. That's the most frustrating part, really.
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by theamk 1mo ago
Author seems to miss the the primary reason people build network apps with async: resource usage. If you don't have co-routines, you need to have something else. That "something else" is most commonly threads, and each thread
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by theamk 1mo ago
Talk to the immigrants - a lot of them came to the US with only a few thousand $$$ in the bank or even less. They are not multimillionaires, but a lot of them got from zero to high-paying programmer jobs. Granted, there is a healthy dose of
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by theamk 1mo ago
That's pretty common actually. Calculator is great for checking arithmetic exam. CAS is great for checking calculus problems. Spell-checked for spelling errors. Scantrons + multiple-choice question for all sort of problems.. Every tech
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by theamk 1mo ago
I remember running IIS and Apache side-by-side many years ago, and oh boy, was IIS a pain. Instead of a single config dir where you just deploy the configs and you are done, IIS settings were all over the registry. And don't forget com
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by theamk 1mo ago
This is such a grand title, but the conclusions are surprisingly tame. - The take-home projects and papers are useless for grading purposes because of AI cheating. Time for more oral exams. Yep, the only real change from AI. This used to be
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by theamk 1mo ago
maybe if you only do web? But not every development is web development, you know. My first job I was in ~10 people robotics/hardware startup, and we had CI cluster of about 4 workers, later extended to ~10 machines (managed by buildbot
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by theamk 1mo ago
This thread is about full-featured forges like github/gitlab. That DSCI is not a forge - it's a task runner attached to gitweb frontend. There are _none_ of the forge-like features like user management, pull requests, etc... Even
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by theamk 1mo ago
The whole "social coding" angle is highly off-putting. List of "X followed Y" on the front page, and the large "social coding" reminds of facebook, social manipulation, developer burnout and all the negative th
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by theamk 1mo ago
Local reproducibility is very nice goal, but it rapidly becomes complex for anything but a simplest project. - You want to test multiple build configurations in parallel, on multiple machines. How do you do locally? - You need some test dat

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