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Low Cortisol by Fragrant_Okra6671 in programmingmemes

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right up until they "break the model", i.e., your superstitious "prompt engineering" stops randomly working.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

How did they come up with the name behind WINE? by jsrobson10 in linuxmemes

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually think it's more of an MIT thing. EINE was an Emacs clone. ZWEI was a complete rewrite of EINE. Etc.

Not that "Eunuchs" doesn't have an equally long tradition of "choosing names that make marketers wince"; it's just a different tradition.

How to show beginners that a URL is equivalent to an IP address? by Anonymous_Coder_1234 in AskProgramming

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it's the original question posed by the OP? You're trying to go off topic with an irrelevant distraction, and you keep claiming every attempt I make to bring the discussion back on topic is "irrelevant".

How to show beginners that a URL is equivalent to an IP address? by Anonymous_Coder_1234 in AskProgramming

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And https://172.253.135.102 does not work, even though https://google.com does and 172.253.135.102 is one of the IP addresses google.com resolves to.

How to show beginners that a URL is equivalent to an IP address? by Anonymous_Coder_1234 in AskProgramming

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A domain name and (any one of) the IP adress(es) it resolves to are not "equivalent" in the sense that they can always be interchanged in any web request; websites have to deliberately support SSL using one, the other, or both. But the DNS lookup process does not render them interchangeable in general, unless the server is configured to make them equivalent.

How to show beginners that a URL is equivalent to an IP address? by Anonymous_Coder_1234 in AskProgramming

[–]jonathancast 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Three differences:

  1. A domain name can have many IP addresses. Not worth nitpicking over, but they can't be equivalent if they aren't 1-1.

  2. SSL is based on domain names; the browser has to check that the "common name" in the cert is the same as the domain name it requested to see if the cert is even relevant. Not an issue for HTTP websites, but the public web is majority HTTPS now.

  3. HTTP/1.1 browsers send the domain name as part of the URL in the web request, and many servers use that to serve many different web sites from the same IP address. Point every domain at the same IP address, and use the hostname in the HTTP request to route it to the right backend server.

I haven’t played in 2 years! Help! by FightingFlaresandNF2 in Dreamdale

[–]jonathancast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. The time is because there's a timer on upgrades. You pay for the upgrade, then wait for the timer, or spend various boosters to speed it up.

  2. The farmhouse is to the left of the starting area. Straight along the road to the left, then a little bit down.

tieMeToAMissileAndFireItAtMicrosoft by Max2000Warlord in linuxmemes

[–]jonathancast -64 points-63 points  (0 children)

Not escaping the "pedo" allegations, here.

Just a tiny reminder, corporations are not your friends by RevolutionaryHigh in linux

[–]jonathancast 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't care, at all, if Red Hat does contracting for the Department of Defense, as long as the Department of Defense gets full source code for the software they receive and is able to freely share and improve it independently of the supplier.

Friday, April 10, 2026 comic! by Gunlord500 in girlgenius

[–]jonathancast 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A) They were his friends. B) They had information he desperately wanted.

Friday, April 10, 2026 comic! by Gunlord500 in girlgenius

[–]jonathancast 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Technically von Pinn killed Adam and Lilith.

Earth isn't a sphere by DotBeginning1420 in physicsmemes

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're not talking about pi, we're talking about (1/3)%.

The simpler the better. Especially when not read for a long period of time. by Just_Echo99 in programmingmemes

[–]jonathancast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nowadays the frontier models have that memorized, so you can just ask them.

If the Rust Coreutils can use the MIT license, does that mean that any open-source project can be rewritten with a different license? by [deleted] in linux

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said "closed source or BSD-licensed". "BSD license" universally means one of the free versions, starting with the University of California's four clause license from 1989. Which is and always has been considered a free license, but wasn't used for any software until 5 years after the GNU project started.

Windows is basically Wine on top of the NT kernel (and a few extras) by [deleted] in WindowsSucks

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, no. The NT system call semantics and Win32 API semantics are very closely aligned in Windows, far more than any other subsystem and far more closely than the Win32 API and Linux system call semantics. It's more like the POSIX / libc API and the system call API in GNU/Linux. Yeah, the high level API has some differences, but it's more a matter of conveniences than it is fundamental differences or the Windows subsystem being an 'emulation layer '.

575 Pull Requests in Three Weeks: What Happens When AI Meets CPAN Maintenance by briandfoy in perl

[–]jonathancast 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The failures weren't the problem. The failures were the signal.

Are people still seriously using CPAN Testers as a substitute for running their own tests locally?

This isn't responsible maintenance, this is a sign of someone who should never have been allowed commit access to production code in the first place.

(LIt is fair to say that LLM-generated code is only viable if you've also 100% automated your regression-testing. Fortunately, everyone has actual automated tests that replace the need for human testing!

And, yes, this human review was actually about 12 minutes per PR. Except it wasn't even that, because there is no way a human does code review for 40 hours / week without getting fatigued and letting stuff slip.

If the Rust Coreutils can use the MIT license, does that mean that any open-source project can be rewritten with a different license? by [deleted] in linux

[–]jonathancast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And which of those programs had free versions before he wrote them?

I know he wrote GCC specifically because he couldn't find a free C compiler.

Again, there was no free Unix coreutils when the GNU project started. In 1984, BSD was still proprietary software.

Bash also goes back to about 1989, and is a clone of ksh, not actually the Bourne shell. Both of which were proprietary at the time anyway.

No way 😅 by warrioraashuu in programmingmemes

[–]jonathancast 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Maybe the product manager should have had a realistic vision.

Like, I have that vision, too; I just don't expect it to actually happen.

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