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New comment by stargrazer in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

stargrazer — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:13:51 +0000

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'.

New comment by stargrazer in "'Too Dangerous to Release' Is Becoming AI's New Normal"

stargrazer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:13:43 +0000

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?

New comment by stargrazer in "GitHub Copilot's effect on collaboration has stunned researchers"

stargrazer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:32:05 +0000

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?

New comment by stargrazer in "Ask HN: Why doesn't Linux have a native text editor as feature rich as Notepad++"

stargrazer — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:44:44 +0000

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.

New comment by stargrazer in "Introduction – Create Your Own Programming Language with Rust"

stargrazer — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:12:35 +0000

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?

New comment by stargrazer in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

stargrazer — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:25:38 +0000

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?

New comment by stargrazer in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

stargrazer — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:34:00 +0000

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...

New comment by stargrazer in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

stargrazer — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:42:30 +0000

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'?

New comment by stargrazer in "US Drone Observes Aid Truck Looted by Hamas in Gaza"

stargrazer — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:18:16 +0000

They never showed how they stopped the truck. It could have been anyone.

New comment by stargrazer in "Affluent Investors Are Using Options Math to Borrow on the Cheap"

stargrazer — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:12:37 +0000

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.'

New comment by stargrazer in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

stargrazer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:27:59 +0000

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)

New comment by stargrazer in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

stargrazer — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:09:28 +0000

reolink, also look at the frigate nvr software, they have a list for decent recommendations

New comment by stargrazer in "Measuring enterprise LLM adoption by observing the DNS records for 76k companies"

stargrazer — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:46:00 +0000

How do you "detect specific signals in their DNS configurations"? The naive answer is you have access to dns hosters. Or from cookies? or ... ?

New comment by stargrazer in "LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions"

stargrazer — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:38:25 +0000

but then, why code with exceptions, why not perform pre-flight/pre-validation checks and minimize exceptions to the truly unknown?

New comment by stargrazer in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"

stargrazer — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:45:38 +0000

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.

New comment by stargrazer in "The End of Tt-Rss.org"

stargrazer — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 01:16:45 +0000

I appreciate your work, Bolderman. Sorry to see it go. May the future be fruitful.

New comment by stargrazer in "Ask HN: I can't remember the name of a AI CLI tool I saw a few weeks ago"

stargrazer — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:15:56 +0000

go into your browser history and follow the time frame and trail. in firefox, the browser history is very detailed.

New comment by stargrazer in "Trying Out Import Std"

stargrazer — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:38:09 +0000

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?

New comment by stargrazer in "Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction"

stargrazer — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:24:46 +0000

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?

New comment by stargrazer in "The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals"

stargrazer — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:48:31 +0000

"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?