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by warpspin 7mo ago
The problem with the European independence story is, that it seems Mistral runs its own stuff also on US cloud act affected infrastructure. This makes them a very weird value proposition: If I accept a level of "independence" wher
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by warpspin 7mo ago
My wife used to fall for every Firefly season 2 hoax on social media in the past because she wished it to be true. It was very funny when I could come to her to announce there will be a season 2. Mixed feelings about it being animated. The
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by warpspin 7mo ago
Just talked with a colleague and we used this as example where vibe coding is already brain draining people.
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by warpspin 7mo ago
Exactly. Guess what: I've been on Apple for 26 years. iOS 26 is already a shit show, the new Watch OS even more so, and never ever will I allow it to update my main work platform, my Macbook Pro, to something which promises to be even
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by warpspin 7mo ago
Hmm, I second this. Haven't compared Qwen3.5 122B yet, but played around with OpenCode + Qwen3-Coder-Next yesterday and did manual comparisons with Claude Code and Claude Code is still far ahead in general felt "intelligence quali
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by warpspin 7mo ago
There were times when we couldn't await to upgrade to the next Mac OS version. Tahoe is not one of those versions. Already iOS 26 made me consider switching to Android, and now I've pondered returning to Linux after 26 years on Ma
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by warpspin 7mo ago
Some things sound very clever in your head until you say them aloud.
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by warpspin 7mo ago
Next step: Start Chrome in emulated X86CSS and start X86CSS in emulated Chrome.
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by warpspin 8mo ago
One of the major problems of MySQL and its many derivatives is the splintering of the ecosystem. Would rather prefer people would cooperate on ONE fork, e.g. get your extension framework integrated into MariaDB or something.
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by warpspin 8mo ago
Hmm, yes, I know that one and one of the reasons why I considered the naming weird. Original Tcl expect is rather automation than testing in the slot in my mind it occupies, even if it maybe could be (badly) used as a testing tool.
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by warpspin 8mo ago
> This assumes the code you wrote is already correct and giving the correct answer, so why bother writing tests? It catches regressions. Which is the one thing where such semi-automated testing is most useful in my eyes. No clue though w
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by warpspin 8mo ago
Android's not better, unfortunately. We also tried them for the kids, and most protection software back then simply could be killed by rebooting the phone and overloading the phone a bit immediately after reboot.
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by warpspin 9mo ago
MariaDB has system-versioned tables, too, albeit a bit worse than MS SQL as you cannot configure how to store the history, so they're basically hidden away in the same table or some partition: https://mariadb.com/docs&#
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by warpspin 9mo ago
It's totally buggy unfortunately, and has been for years. Also, all time limit features are circumventable by switching time zones for example. Sometimes apps will randomly appear to have time limits which the parent has never set also
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by warpspin 10mo ago
Wished he'd spend as much as effort on writing endings for his books as on that blog post. Sorry. Just grumpy, cause I always love the first 80% of his books and then they somehow... just disintegrate.
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by warpspin 11mo ago
While I support protecting insects and I literally see how their amounts decreased since I've been a child, I wished people would stop the alarmist "food supply in danger" headline. It's not, at least not because of the
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by warpspin 11mo ago
I loved Red Alert 2 so much at release. Always was the pinnacle of (single player) RTS for me. The over-the-top characters, the cheesy story, the terrain interactions... Everything afterwards felt lame and was geared too much towards multip
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by warpspin 11mo ago
> I feel that my clients and I never had significant difficulty in finding providers Yes, for professional uses. But we lost the next generation of devs. You could put PHP on any shared webspace and people started messing with it and fr
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by warpspin 11mo ago
I have been using Perl for almost 30 years now, privately and professionally. People here tend to say, Perl 6 or Python killed it, but that's not what I experienced in those 30 years. Not that simple. It was a combination of things, th
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by warpspin 11mo ago
I'm not even sure you can generalize to "in the EU" here. A lot of contract law might be different between countries. So for example, in Germany, an EULA would be considered an AGB, and subject to §303 BGB and following parag
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by warpspin 11mo ago
Have to insert my regular rant that while I wholeheartedly support compensating font creators, pay-per-view licensing for fonts is ridiculous and must end. Offer manageable flat fees, more people will license. Continue this license policy a
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by warpspin 11mo ago
Lol. This is supposed to replace me at my job already? Great experiment!
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by warpspin 11mo ago
It's pretty obvious that instead https://darkkhaki.bikeshed.com/ is the correct URL. Everyone knows. SCNR
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by warpspin 11mo ago
Seems somebody volunteered for the AI's torment nexus!
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by warpspin 1y ago
> Lots of tools support it: [...| Windows Explorer (Map Network Drive, Connect to a Web site...) Not sure he ever tried supporting that. We once did and it was a nightmare. People couldn't handle it at all even with screenshotted ma
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by warpspin 1y ago
Well played. Have been using Mac OS for 20 years and I did not expect this result, if asked. This is why you should always be wary about re-implementing OS behaviour yourself in your widgets, you will always miss at least one detail, but mo
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by warpspin 1y ago
Seems to redirect back to HN now when you visit it from HN? Still glad it was mentioned here. Have been pondering buying a vacuum robot for a while and the missing privacy was off putting, so I haven't bought one yet, and I only today
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by warpspin 1y ago
While some of the professional development probably was on host systems, not all of it was. Especially since the release of Turbo Assembler in 1985, serious development on the C64 was quite comfortable. Years later in the 90ies, Fairlight e
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by warpspin 1y ago
In theory, yes, you could compare it. In practice, the build would need to be reproducible which is non-trivial depending on the size the of the project and the external dependencies the project itself has.
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by warpspin 1y ago
Plus, in theory you'd also need reproducible builds for everything because who knows what your compiler did to the source ;-) Reality is, as you already implied: in practice you cannot "be careful" except avoiding obvious mal

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