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Shorel

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We Live In The Year 2779 From The Founding Of Rome

We live in the year AUC 2779, or AUC MMDCCLXXVIII in Roman numerals.

Ab Urbe Condita, often abbreviated as AUC, means "From The Founding Of The City". It refers to the year of the founding of Rome, which was the Epoch used in Ancient Rome.

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    Comment #49224980

    Your DB query rule goes against my experience. Sometimes longer and more complex queries run much, much faster. The users complain about "complexity", but when they see the perform…

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    Comment #49221860

    Viruses are not newly appearing forms of life, they are co-depending on the already present forms of life and they reuse some of their machinery. Viruses are the opposite of starti…

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    Comment #49220519

    Because the moment life first appears, it multiplies and fills all easily available niches, and any new life is outcompeted by the more evolved pre-existing organisms.

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    Comment #49209387

    The 32GB issue is more about one internal factor: the wasteful reliance on Electron and other JS runtimes for UI, and two external factors: the very high price of RAM, and the incr…

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    Comment #49167036

    I vibecoded a Postman/Insomnia API tester program, and I use it everyday at work now. But as another software engineer, I remove myself from that comparison, because the idea is to…

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    Comment #49166817

    That's the terminology they have chosen because they believe they are "in control". It's a purely psychological thing, not different from calling different DB servers "master" and …

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    Comment #49088906

    Not that different. AWS already has lots of AMI and docker are essentially image based. We would version whole images in something like git, and that's all.

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    Comment #49083106

    My own agent is cleaner and lighter. Written in D, now only the local models are the bottleneck.

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    Comment #49081132

    And by saying that, and a some other things, he himself can be called one of the few homo sapiens.

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    Comment #49052258

    How is this better than the GC in D?

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    Comment #49047344

    The ottoman empire leveraged slavery and colonialism just as much, and there's no progress to be seen from them, at least not when compared to the west. It's the renaissance and th…

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    Comment #49035242

    I tried building a real app with AI. It took a week or two. The problem lies in convincing other people to use it. So far I am the only user. And, this is not a new experience. I h…

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    Comment #49032148

    It would be very hard to find current examples of companies doing that harmful excessive focus on the long term. Only Valve comes to mind and they are anything but bankrupt. Quarte…

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    Comment #49032094

    Here there's a description: https://grokipedia.com/page/opera_show_format I am not sure if Opera 12 is even available for download anymore.

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    Comment #49012678

    The usual very short term corporate thinking that maximizes quarter profits while bankrupting the company in the long term. IMO a very shortsighted decision, if not downright stupi…

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    Comment #49012533

    I really loved when this was a feature of the Opera browser, before they went chromium.

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    Comment #48997788

    So there is hope for the Tailwind developers?

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    Comment #48961444

    This is already the case with most human activities, even reading a book for leisure is a luxury many can't afford.

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    Comment #48961422

    Why? No one will be able to effectively ban AI. Pandora's box is open, and we can only witness the consequences.

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    Comment #48933542

    I definitely blame JS whenever I have to interact with some websites or Electron applications :) Even coding agents. I made my own agent in d-lang just because I'm alergic to insta…

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    Comment #48933499

    The funniest thing here is that all of you are complaining because you are expanding your working vocabulary xD xD xD La previamente mencionada afrenta no es algo habitial en mi id…

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    Comment #48932244

    Good. This is the resistance.

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    Comment #48932232

    Better garbage collection than current runtimes? Now this is surely rose tinted glasses, probably based on nostalgia. It had horrific performance all around. Even the now obsolete …

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    Comment #48918610

    "Accountability" is a value on paper, not in reality. The big companies that sell services are not really accountable, and in many cases will bankrupt their customers. See Revlon w…

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    Comment #48918514

    They make cab rides more enjoyable with their deep conversations.