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stargrazer··on Red Hat being phased out of existence?
Well, actually, some recent articles are indicating that AI is coming up with its own idiom of communicating. Something incomprehensible to humans. So, which will it be, AI sharing with humans, or AI hogging the ball and keeping everything private between agents?
stargrazer··on Security headers on 4,688 small-business websites: 49.7% met none of 7 criteria
So.. you've written up what you checked, and what didn't match what ever criteria you had.

But.. what does it mean? Why enforce certain headers? Why enforce certain options? There is a section which kinda looks at this, but not really.

You have a bunch of links at the end for resources, but why not just provide the rationale for each rule or option inclusion in the article as well? What does each prevent or allow and why?

stargrazer··on Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity
Docker runs better on Linux. And Linux doesn't reboot unless told to do so. And you can SSH into it rather than run some sort of long winded GUI. Oh, and it doesn't phone home all the time with 'telemetry'.
stargrazer··on 'Too Dangerous to Release' Is Becoming AI's New Normal
Kinda cuts into their revenue streams if they can't release anything better/faster/stronger.

Also for all the hype for AGI, or whatever the current tag is, it is getting stopped dead in it's track if they can't go beyond private release to the public.

And if they do release these to the public, are the releases going to be so brain dead due to brain-blocks, is it going to be worth it?

What is the whole point, then, of making these models bigger/better?

stargrazer··on GitHub Copilot's effect on collaboration has stunned researchers
I wish these articles would provide some idea as to the development environments. Are these captive large C++ environments, or general 'everyone does this' web development with React, or something in between?
stargrazer··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Linux have a native text editor as feature rich as Notepad++
You could try running notepad++ in wine, the windows emulator

But I suppose that doesn't really answer your question. Linux is/was a compendium of a bunch of little tools you string together. Many/Most/All of the items in Notepad++ can be found as smaller independent tools.

The real addicts will use console tools like VIM or EMACS to do their editing (not really GUI, but powerful).

As an alternate alternate, try using Visual Studio Code (VSC). Not quite as light weight as Notepad++, but very functional.

On Linux, I'll use KWrite to do my basic editing. I'll revert to VSC when heavy editing is required.

stargrazer··on Introduction – Create Your Own Programming Language with Rust
I'm not a Rust programmer, yet, but this is enticing. This appears to be building a language to be compiled with LLVM as a standalone executable.

However, in C++ there is a mechanism via libraries such as Boost::Spirit where a parser can be built inline and compiled inline (no separate compilation step) and used within the C++ application on input streams.

Is this a capability available within the Rust ecosystem?

stargrazer··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
Will these intro AI systems then mature to be senior devs who can then mentor more junior AIs? Then we won't need any devs? Isn't that the end goal, AI runs the company and we can all go fishing?
stargrazer··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
To go along with this, the ACM has a recent article on Automatically Translating C to Rust. It gets into the challenges of 'understanding code and structure' so that the end result reflects the intent of the code, not the actual execution paths.

https://cacm.acm.org/research/automatically-translating-c-to...

stargrazer··on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is
Is there an easier way to get around all the complicated cookie selection? I don't care if they have 183 trackers. Do I need all those? Are the important to me? I suppose they are important to them. Isn't there just a 'no to all' or at least a 'just the bare minimum for state management'?
stargrazer··on US Drone Observes Aid Truck Looted by Hamas in Gaza
They never showed how they stopped the truck. It could have been anyone.
stargrazer··on Affluent Investors Are Using Options Math to Borrow on the Cheap
The title has nothing to do with the link. Correct link?

Probably meant this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29/wall-stre...

'The trade, dubbed a “box spread,” carried a kind of mystique. By combining two opposing options positions — one bullish, one bearish — Yang built a strategy that mimics a fixed-rate loan: upfront cash now, repayment at a set date, and a locked-in cost in between.'

stargrazer··on Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
Deny All, Accept All, but I never (except in a handful of cases) see the Accept Required. Let us admit that there are cookies required for maintaining state within a web site and account.

I default to Deny All, but click on Accept Required when I see it (trusting that it does do what it says it does)

stargrazer··on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
reolink, also look at the frigate nvr software, they have a list for decent recommendations
stargrazer··on Measuring enterprise LLM adoption by observing the DNS records for 76k companies
How do you "detect specific signals in their DNS configurations"? The naive answer is you have access to dns hosters. Or from cookies? or ... ?
stargrazer··on LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions
but then, why code with exceptions, why not perform pre-flight/pre-validation checks and minimize exceptions to the truly unknown?
stargrazer··on Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
I guess training LLMs on works of fiction/sci-fi would not be of net benefit. No distinction between reality and perceived reality. Considering LLMs have a hallucination problem as it is.
stargrazer··on The End of Tt-Rss.org
I appreciate your work, Bolderman. Sorry to see it go. May the future be fruitful.
stargrazer··on Ask HN: I can't remember the name of a AI CLI tool I saw a few weeks ago
go into your browser history and follow the time frame and trail. in firefox, the browser history is very detailed.
stargrazer··on Trying Out Import Std
How would cmake enter the picture? if you have nested CMakeLists.txt files, cmake appears to build within nested directories for 'add_subdirectory' invocations. Does that help with the cache directory conflict?
stargrazer··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
It explicitly says using a single picture. Wouldn't the world become even more expressive if multiple pictures could be added, such as in a photogrammetry scenario?
stargrazer··on The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals
"If training-related crawling continues to dominate while referrals stay flat, creators face a paradox: feeding AI systems without gaining traffic in return. Many want their content to appear in chatbot answers, but without monetization or cooperation, the incentive to produce quality work declines."

Are there any resources which discuss ways of achieving balance? Perhaps by including references or bibliography or citations for content used in top of page summaries?

Will the well run dry for current content?

stargrazer··on Daniel Jackson on WYSIWID: Rethinking software structure to enable LLM coding
It is probably the latest in design, but, ... can the text be lightened up? Or provide a CSS toggle to use a different template? it is uncomfortable to trying to read whatever it is you wrote.
stargrazer··on Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need
Probably not, based upon the extent to which enterprises have been integrated with Windows. Enterprises use a lot of functionality which is not really visible to the casual user. All that functionality would need to be retrofitted into Linux and we get right back into the whole bloat cycle again.
stargrazer··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
I wouldn't have minded the newly inserted ads in Netflix or Prime Video. But they just throw the ads in during mid-sentence. Are they putting ads in using a random number generator? What happened to the accepted practice of putting in ads where they natural break occurs? It really throws out the flow of the moment. Major irritation. You know, how TV and Cable typically have done it.
stargrazer··on Ask HN: In which programming language is it better to make your own language?
Use C++ with one of the following:

Boost.Spirit https://www.boost.org/library/latest/spirit/ Boost.Parser https://www.boost.org/library/latest/parser/ (which I think succeeds Boost.Spirit Boost.Metaparse: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/doc/html/metaparse.htm...

All of these allow you to build a parser using C++ syntax and then add semantic or composed actions.

stargrazer··on AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators
which would be explained that those contribute very little to weighting, and so like extrapolating beyond the last end-point, errors accumulate significantly.
stargrazer··on Is there a cost to try catch blocks?
Took a few mind shifts to get around what the commenter said vs what exists beyond the link.

The link actually goes to an article with some code snippets which aren't c++. Going to the repository, seems to be .net/c#/f#.

So... for the c++ readers, this isn't c++ related :-)

stargrazer··on Commodore 64 Ultimate released by new Commodore
Does any one want an original computer and monitor? I think mine are still functional.
stargrazer··on AMD RX 9070 XT now faster than RTX 5070 Ti with 9% gain at 1440p since launch
Ok, but these comparisons seem to be geared towards gaming, ... how do these cards compare in terms of machine learning with pytorch/libtorch and such? Say if I'm trying to train an LSTM/Conv model, or maybe even a small llama?
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