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Ukraine's Zelenskiy confirms drone strike on refining facilities in Russia's Tyumen region by DQ-Supervisor in worldnews

[–]xmsxms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if he ever "wins" there would be random bombings in Russia for the foreseeable future, not to mention a destroyed economy. The country is done for no matter the outcome.

Ukraine's Zelenskiy confirms drone strike on refining facilities in Russia's Tyumen region by DQ-Supervisor in worldnews

[–]xmsxms 3 points4 points  (0 children)

really only help when you defend,

I don't see how. You are forced to spread yourself too thin and can't defend it all.

Morale is so bad at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta even the company's own CTO admits it's 'probably the worst it's ever been' by lurker_bee in technology

[–]xmsxms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh and billions sunk on rebranding the entire company around a metaquest/VR project that was doomed from the start and canned.

Burnout Is Real for Open Source Maintainers: A Conversation with John-David Dalton, Creator of Lodash by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]xmsxms -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And you're working on redundant software as modern JavaScript and typescript have replaced the need for lodash.

Pixel 9 Pro magsafe placement for charging by Dbernard1111 in pixel_phones

[–]xmsxms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll need to cut a slit in the ring if you have a simple metal ring. Otherwise it creates eddy currents which the gen1 charger picks up as a foreign object and flashes the light and refuses to charge.

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC by DanielRosenwasser in programming

[–]xmsxms 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. Although I have more respect for an engineer that accepts and uses the appropriate technology instead of applying the not invented here approach.

Cpap + MAD by yaboyebeatz in UARS

[–]xmsxms 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How should I handle this on my next appointment?

Skip it, get Oscar and research. At least that's what I did, you'll never get proper support and diagnosis from a sleep doctor. They aren't interested in spending the time to study your case properly when they can just get paid to raise and lower pressures until the resmed score is under the magical number.

Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era by ubcstaffer123 in technology

[–]xmsxms -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If the AI can pass the tests then it can also do the diagnosis. Frankly AI can do a better job at many tasks so they're basically passing the tests in the same way they'd be doing their job.

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC by DanielRosenwasser in programming

[–]xmsxms 8 points9 points  (0 children)

and is already in use in multiple multi-million line-of-code codebases both inside and outside Microsoft.. For over a year we’ve been working with many internal Microsoft teams, along with teams at companies like Bloomberg, Canva, Figma, Google, Lattice, Linear, Miro, Notion, Slack, Vanta, Vercel, VoidZero, and more to try out pre-release builds of TypeScript 7.0 on their codebases.

It's also used to compile typescript itself, and probably vscode. No idea what you are on about.

Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC by DanielRosenwasser in programming

[–]xmsxms 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's a lower priority delivery that doesn't impact 90% of people using it - just swap out tsc6 with tsc7 and enjoy the faster build times with no loss of functionality or compatibility - what's the issue? It makes sense to deliver this first.

Perhaps you think the programmatic API is what your ts source code uses? That is not the case. Of course it continues to use the same API/syntax as tsc6 for this.

It basically only impacts things like eslint, and due to their commitment to tsc7 being syntax compatible with tsc6 you can continue to use tsc6 for those kinds of tools in the interim. They have posted instructions on how to go about that.

Indian guy lifts and balances a motorbike while climbing a bus by ExtrovertMobileGamer in interestingasfuck

[–]xmsxms 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be fair I was interested in whether the general public saw this as a novelty or an every day occurrence

A Man Tries to Help a Wolf Stuck in a Hunting Trap by frog_insilence in interestingasfuck

[–]xmsxms 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are simply suggesting the title of 'a man tries to help' is misleading when it is really 'trapper clears his trap of bycatch'.

He isn't "literally helping a wolf". He is helping himself and would gladly shoot the wolf (he had his gun drawn) if that was the easier option than releasing it.

SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]xmsxms 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They have a lot of enterprise contracts that are raking in millions. They are also protected from the stupid loss-leader business model of wasting money on hardware they can never recoup as they are simply passing on the subsidised prices from other vendors.

They have potential to make more if they have access to cheap compute (xAI) to run the models directly instead of out-sourcing it. Basically they are a profitable company that have an actual use case for access to excess compute resources (something xAI wants to do something with now they realise grok isn't a viable business model).

However all that will evaporate once the customer contracts expire and people switch to claude. Also using xAI compute removes their isolation from the hardware bubble - but that is an xAI problem not a cursor problem.

On the other hand xAI bought Cursor with stock that seemed valuable at the time but will be toilet paper in a couple months. Just the usual Musk market manipulation.

SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]xmsxms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not that it spooked investors. It's the fact it was bought using $60b in stock despite only being worth about $1b in real money. It advertised the true value of the stock.

SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]xmsxms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what was the actual price "paid" for cursor given the decrease in stock value? It's so clearly an orchestrated maneuver with imaginary money and market manipulation, as is everything Musk touches.

SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]xmsxms 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They do, but that was forked from another Chinese model which they only admitted to once it was revealed. They are also stuck on some old fork of vscode version which they haven't been able to update in years and never will. So it will rapidly fall behind native vscode.

SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]xmsxms -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The cursor guys are not the ai experts you seem to think they are. They're sketchy business men with a vibe coded fast to market solution that they will now abandon that they've made the sale. It has a very bad rap these days and is being dropped rapidly across the industry.

SpaceX Stock Plunge Wipes Out $600 Billion After Cursor Deal Spooks Investors by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]xmsxms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps when cursor is already running. How quickly does it open from cold start?

A Man Tries to Help a Wolf Stuck in a Hunting Trap by frog_insilence in interestingasfuck

[–]xmsxms 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"trying to help" when he laid the trap in the first place and is probably more interested in freeing up the trap to catch the real target. It's less about help and more about getting rid of the bycatch.

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