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New comment by ValentineC in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

ValentineC — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:28 +0000

That's what I've been doing.

It doesn't address this thread's concern that a single Super Admin could be locked out with no recourse, since Google's customer support is horrendously bad.

New comment by zamadatix in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

zamadatix — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:26 +0000

There's more to peripheral limits than the protocol used. Thunderbolt connections offer higher latency and limits on bandwidth. Either, both, or neither of those things may be much of an actual problem, depending on the use case, but they are limits over native PCIe.

New comment by the_why_of_y in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

the_why_of_y — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:20 +0000

Ms Wynn-Williams has also filed a whistleblower complaint with the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), alleging Meta misled investors - which Meta also denies. The BBC has reviewed the complaint.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zyq0250wo

New comment by dundarious in "Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022)"

dundarious — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:20 +0000

In the satellite tracking experiment, I wonder how they sexed the eels to determine they were female before tagging, given the lack of primary sex organs at that time. Are there obvious secondary characteristics like size?

New comment by colkassad in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

colkassad — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:12 +0000

Yes, I have a soundcloud account: https://soundcloud.com/emmets-music

I like to mix electronic and orchestral sounds. Some examples:

https://soundcloud.com/emmets-music/the-seven-hills-of-rome

https://soundcloud.com/emmets-music/dark-matter

I also like piano a lot (I only know how to play guitar badly, I just draw in the notes and work velocity until it sounds good to me):

https://soundcloud.com/emmets-music/life-is-delicate-remixed

https://soundcloud.com/emmets-music/soledad

Do you put yours online? I love to listen to other musicians. People give soundcloud a lot of grief but I love the service and the musicians I have met there.

New comment by narmiouh in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

narmiouh — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:06 +0000

Yeah, makes sense. I was assuming the vehicle was also deliberately accelerating which would make a difference on a floating camera, but if it isn't, then gravity is the only force and no relative difference.

New comment by vannevar in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

vannevar — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:02 +0000

> They haven't lost a crewed vehicle.

Yes, that's my point. SpaceX understands they need to do many unmanned flights before trusting a launch system with a crew. NASA is trusting Artemis with only a single unmanned flight. That is very high risk tolerance, to the point of recklessness in my opinion, compared to SpaceX.

New comment by plagiarist in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

plagiarist — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:01 +0000

Yeah but when you're mad at a nation not force-feeding meat to vegans you have to come up with some reason why the vegans are bad.

New comment by kklisura in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

kklisura — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:26:00 +0000

On one of Apollo missions they've read from Bible, Book of Genesis [1]. I wish they did something like that here - and I'm not even a Christian, let alone religious. They did relayed some beautiful message [2] though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4tDZye57D4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELslc6O4UVk

New comment by Aachen in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

Aachen — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:52 +0000

The nfc chips in identity documents

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use"

throwatdem12311 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:47 +0000

Ok but when the model is responding to you isn’t the text it’s generating also part of the context it’s using to generate the next token as it goes? Wouldn’t this just make the answers…dumb?

New comment by adsharma in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

adsharma — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:44 +0000

Cython uses C-API. This one doesn't.

New comment by johnb95 in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

johnb95 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:43 +0000

...and there will be towns that do not allow self-driving vehicles?

New comment by fomoz in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

fomoz — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:37 +0000

AI is an accelerant, not a replacement for skill. At least, not yet.

I built a full stack app in Python+typescript where AI agents process 10k+ near-real-time decisions and executions per day.

I have never done full stack development and I would not have been able to do it without GitHub Copilot, but I have worked in IT (data) for 15 years including 6 in leadership. I have built many systems and teams from scratch, set up processes to ensure accuracy and minimize mistakes, and so on.

I have learned a ton about full stack development by asking the coding agent questions about the app, bouncing ideas off of it, planning together, and so on.

So yes, you need to have an idea of what you're doing if you want to build anything bigger than a cheap one shot throwaway project that sort of works, but brings no value and nobody is actually gonna use.

This is how it is right now, but at the same time AI coding agents have come an incredibly long way since 2022! I do think they will improve but it can't exactly know what you want to build. It's making an educated guess. An approximation of what you're asking it to do. You ask the same thing twice and it will have two slightly different results (assuming it's a big one shot).

This is the fundamental reality of LLMs, sort of like having a human walking (where we were before AI), a human using using a car to get to places (where we are now) and FSD (this is future, look how long this took compared to the first cars).

New comment by sfpotter in "Legibility Is Ruining You"

sfpotter — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:32 +0000

"Legibility" here just means something that is visibly important/useful/scrutable/not a waste of time to (i.e. "is legible to") a manager.

New comment by rchaud in "Japanese, French and Omani Vessels Cross Strait of Hormuz"

rchaud — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:18 +0000

There was a time when The Onion might have run a headline like "Concerned over low troop morale, President converts to Islam to inspire spirit of martyrdom". No more.

New comment by qwerpy in "Japanese, French and Omani Vessels Cross Strait of Hormuz"

qwerpy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:05 +0000

Unironically yes. I lived in the Seattle area and witnessed firsthand the effects of state/county/city Democrat rule. Gifted programs cancelled, streets full of homeless and drug addicts. Hateful people yelling at and flipping me off as I take my kids to daycare for the heinous crime of driving a Tesla. I’m a well educated highly paid minority, the kind of voter that Democrats take for granted. I voted Republican down the ballot last election.

New comment by e40 in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

e40 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:25:03 +0000

So you're saying for a simple setup of 1 user, you really need to pay for 2 users. The admin account and the real user you want to use, which doubles the cost.

New comment by SecretDreams in "Japanese, French and Omani Vessels Cross Strait of Hormuz"

SecretDreams — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:24:56 +0000

Information, both good and bad, is a lot more accessible this time around. It has been a dramatic accelerator to worldly views of America in the wake of their recent actions.

There are political similarities between the two aforementioned wars, but the social and technological backdrops are quite different, and they're working against US public perception. Furthermore, decorum is entirely gone this time around, which isn't helping.

New comment by cosmicgadget in "Trump uses expletive-ridden social media post to threaten Iran's infrastructure"

cosmicgadget — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:24:53 +0000

This is his most reality-aware statement on the Iran conflict so far. Compare it to "the strait is open" and "negotiations going well".

Melting down over the mess he created is fairly normal.