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I am on the opposite side. For the last few months I don't listen to music unless it's AI generate. I can feel the difference.

LGPL allows compiling the whole of ffmpeg into a so or lib and then dynamically linking from there for your closed source code. That's the main difference between LGPL and GPL. But…

After the year 2000. dot com burst. An tech employee posted he looked for job for 6 months, found none and has joined a fast food shop flipping burgers. That turned tech workers sw…

Backticks as an alias for shell_exec() are deprecated Used that a lot in shell scripts. using php-cli. like in `mkdir $dirname`;

On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflare's network began experiencing significant failures As of 17:06 all systems at Cloudflare were functioni…

5 million Rust LOC One potential memory safety vulnerability found Rust is 0.2 vuln per 1 MLOC. Compared to C and C++ : 1,000 memory safety vulnerabilities per MLOC. Key take.

Windows still has Active Desktop, doesn't it?

I think it's ok. When wikipedia arrived, everyone was up in arms that people are learning from something that's open for anyone to edit. But it rectified itself. The same thing hap…

Previous post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503560 which points to the actual blog of the author on github, instead of a news coverage of it.

I was pretty much looking for this info. Thank you.

Is mmap still faster than fread? That might have been true in the 90s but I was wondering about current improvements. If you have enough free memory, the file will be cached in mem…

How's "memory" different from context window?

Looking at the graphs, I would recommend it would have been better to market it as "just as performant as nginx and htproxy" instead of "faster than all ...". While highlighting th…

Last I checked, Erlang strings were represented internally as a linked list of integers, one int for every character. That worked, but I felt like not every efficient, as web is ve…

Might be related with what the article was talking. AI can't cut-paste. It deletes the code and then regenerates it at another location instead of cut-paste. Obviously generated co…

> when I ask why they do SSR What are the reasons for not doing SSR?

> Lua also essentially got lexical scoping of local variables correct from the beginning while js blessed us with the nightmare of var. That was not my experience when I was workin…

Configure google to forward mails to your self hosted server. When replying reply from your self hosted server. That way you can gradually shift over. I had been self hosting like …

I don't know what others are reading. The article basically says that when you have multiple suppliers or consumers, the "order" of the queue loses meaning. It turns into an "unord…

I read "slow" and "fast" in the article as comparative term. "slower than" what the writer has seen in other cases. Absolute ms doesn't prove much unless you put it in comparison w…

Will trigger UB if level depth is > 2 billion or in the 2nd case number of lines > 2 billion. Limit you JS input to 1 GB. I will have more problems in other portions of the stack i…

You review the code and found it broken. Then what? - Rewrite it yourself? - Tell AI to generate it again? — will lead to worse code than the first. - Write the long prompt (like 6…

Right click -> view source. Found " Read the page. Footer : "I only got 99% of the way there. I use 11ty’s syntax highlighting plugin, which uses classes for styling."

Alternate, a few batch files for all common tasks names starting with ffmpeg.* and -h displays help.

Did the same, with the following differences : - tab separator instead of space. you don't need cut -d with tabs. tab is the default separator for cut. - use xsel -b to capture cli…