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New comment by barbazoo in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

barbazoo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:23:20 +0000

> GET: Content (body) "no defined semantics"

I thought it wouldn't be a terrible idea to open up the GET method to contain a body but according to the original spec the GET body is to be ignored completely. There's also caching which would break because the important bit of the request would live in the stripped body.

New comment by barbazoo in "Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It"

barbazoo — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:20:46 +0000

Firefox Android is fine albeit laggy. I don't get why one has to customize scroll behavior but I don't do mobile UX myself.

New comment by barbazoo in "Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans"

barbazoo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:05:24 +0000

Careful, we've seen with Russian oligarchs they really don't like it when you mess with their boats.

New comment by barbazoo in "Debug Project"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:35:30 +0000

> raise sterile males and release them into wild insect populations. When a wild female mates with a sterile male, her eggs won’t hatch. The population gets smaller with each generation.

They won't harm then it sounds like, but they'll not fertilize the eggs.

New comment by barbazoo in "OpenAI's Altman says AI unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:18:03 +0000

Must be a tight line between enough 'jobs apocalypse' to make shareholders happy but not enough 'jobs apocalypse' to bring the pitchforks out.

New comment by barbazoo in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:39:10 +0000

> One side is responsible for at least 20.000 but more likely 60.000 Iranian deaths, just this year (and everybody seems to be worried about the other side's "warcrimes")

I can see people attributing this to the US as well after reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta....

New comment by barbazoo in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:56:17 +0000

I've heard of the changes to the NASDAQ rules and I somewhat get how they make it so these stocks are included in index funds earlier than before. As far as I know, NYSE and others haven't done the same change so index funds there are "safe", i.e. will include the stocks only after a longer period, implying that it will have settled in value by then. Is that true at all? I'm sure the situation is much more complicated, but I do wonder how to figure out how much I'm affected.

New comment by barbazoo in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:54:31 +0000

I know what you mean but doesn't that require squashing as well? If I have a branch with 5 commits, I think rerere helps me by only having to fix the conflict once, not potentially multiple times. I might be wrong here though.

New comment by barbazoo in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:30:50 +0000

I'm having a hard time not cheering for "the little guy" here before realizing that everyone actively involved here is actually bad.

New comment by barbazoo in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:27:48 +0000

The hyperbole was probably on his side so I would put my money on it being much much closer to never than every day. He's smart so he invests in McDonald's, not eat it's unhealthy products. And I say that lovingly as someone who eats their food occasionally.

But also, who knows. Context matters, maybe he gets a salad with oil and vinegar dressing every day. Could totally be true!

New comment by barbazoo in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:23:44 +0000

I'm probably wrong but it seems glaringly obvious to me that the two supposed allies are not at all acting in a coordinated way. One hand doesn't know what the other one is doing or one hand is just ignoring it.

New comment by barbazoo in "No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:09:04 +0000

I'm having a hard time finding data on employee tenure that would support this. There seems to be a recent dip but it's only significant relatively, not in absolute numbers based on what I expected. Which was something like 25 years tenure not that long ago but that wasn't the case, more like 5.

New comment by barbazoo in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:49:52 +0000

> I get all my conflicts on branches because I rebase before merging

Pretty sure it's the other way around. You're on the branch and rebase it atop current master. If you merge after that, you won't have merge conflicts.

New comment by barbazoo in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:48:14 +0000

rerere is still useful here to handle merge conflicts after repeated rebases.

New comment by barbazoo in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:36:13 +0000

Instead we should probably find ways to have social lives outside of work.

New comment by barbazoo in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:31:36 +0000

No he doesn't

New comment by barbazoo in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:53:04 +0000

> Those onboard were also instructed to leave all their belongings on the aircraft before deplaning.

New comment by barbazoo in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:22:39 +0000

Even more you have to actively seek it out to even see it. These people are looking for ways to get triggered.

New comment by barbazoo in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:21:17 +0000

Considering the passengers of an airplane a captive audience of a wifi hotspot name is wild. Have these people no ability to not be triggered?

New comment by barbazoo in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

barbazoo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:14:51 +0000

I feel blessed to just be able to say no and move in. Not worth it. And nothing will change until some people make the first step. In every community.