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Good4boothee··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Isn't average corporate worker attrition at 11-12%? so they could achieve that much just with hiring freeze.
Good4boothee··on Anthropic S-1
I stopped at "Our Capital Structure" section. When it says "Class F stock" gets 50.1% voting power, doesn't it in practice make all other classes are non-voting, not just the "Class N"?

Edit: the risks sections feel like California's Prop-65 disclaimers

> Our results of operations may also fluctuate due to a variety of additional factors:

> - the number of employees hired

> - declines in the values of foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar

That huge list feels completely random. Are all S-1 that bad? They can be punished for omission, so they list everything that could happen even if doesn't really make any sense?

Good4boothee··on Websites Should Be Printable
> Here's the functions this does for me, in order:

Is for anyone else, the text that follows, unreadable black on almost black background?

Good4boothee··on AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market
It depends on exact wording but in general Moore's law has been dead for few years. Compute (CPU/GPU) continues to squeeze more performance with better architecture, but RAM and NAND(SSDs) are already as simple as possible and only improvements in density come from stacking multiple layers.
Good4boothee··on Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought
> Then you will have to pay a different rate for better graphics.

That is already a thing in NVidia Now, why would Xbox do it differently?

Good4boothee··on Why my Asus laptop kept rebooting after sleep and how to fix it
With how prevalent the autosave is in modern games I got used to it and I kinda assume it will be true for all of them. I was totally surprised when Lok:SR remaster crashed, and I finally noticed it doesn't do any on its own, like ever.
Good4boothee··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Isn't this just moving goalposts? I remember people asking few months ago "if LLMs are so great at programing why we aren't seeing more aps". And latest Steam Next Fest was flooded by AI generated game demos.

The people who "don't know much about X but want to do X", use LLMs to bridge the gap. The barrier to entry still remains and is different in niches/industries. Why would OpenAI waste their time and money checking where LLM are already good enough, when other people will perform discovery and even pay them for that privilege?

Good4boothee··on Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name
So how exactly does Cash App verify users that signup for new accounts? If the process is so lax, shouldn't they be forced to temporary block it? To say nothing about money laundering charges, that would be raised against any bank in such situation.
Good4boothee··on Security Disclosure
Really? Security announcement on blog subdomain, while the largest text on their home page is "Ship software peacefully" slogan, without any mention of the issue? And after looking at it for a while I still don't know what it exactly is, some kind of Terraform/CloudFormation GUI?
Good4boothee··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
They are both - with Anthropic - gatekeeping access to their most advanced models in name of "security", so it is up to them to defend it as the right decision.

The entire article is form over content, it boils down to obvious: economics changed, LLMs actually can check every minor release diff for security fixes, including decompiling binary files; if you have any idea how to improve process of releasing updates, tell us.

Good4boothee··on PHP 8.2.35
Really makes me appreciate using language with exceptions and not that crazy "manually check if error handling is required - and do it everywhere". The fix adds:

    if (ZEND_HAS_OOM()) {
        goto oom_nodeset;
    }
all over the codebase.
Good4boothee··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
> I want to understand how it leaked

If I understand correctly someone showed off a video of exploit in action - just like the ones included in article - and the visible messages were enough for other LLM users to discover the exploited bug.

Good4boothee··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
WordPress(PHP CMS) itself peaked in 2025 at 43.6% of all WWW sites. It is an insane number.
Good4boothee··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
I mean no language is immune to issues. Java world constantly sees fixes for both JVM and libraries. For example, besides famous log4shell, you can see still see in HTTP access log that bots are checking for vulnerable Struts versions. On the other hand, Java pushed to 100% Java (no native code) database drivers, while PHP strongly relies on c/c++ extensions, cause PHP is/was too slow. If there is any other difference, I think it just comes to legacy PHP approach - memory management didn't matter if entire request (and forked process that handles it) was alive for maximum few seconds.
Good4boothee··on Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
It is other way around, it was a top post, but AFAIK anti flamewar measures kick in when there are many comments compared to up votes. I mean it isn't bad heuristics when discussion already shifts in "PHP bad" direction.
Good4boothee··on Everything is going wrong for Muhammad bin Salman
The oil might "just" run out, either way it was obvious to everyone that natural resource-based wealth won't last forever, just like in that Sheikh Rashid quote from around 1988: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again"
Good4boothee··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
What is the status of OpenRouter and other similar services? Are they also banned?
Good4boothee··on Terminal Bench 4 Is Saturated
I think ambiguously worded questions have their place, but you have to give up automatic scoring on such tasks.
Good4boothee··on Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching
That is nothing new or specific to this feature. Mismatched client and library code produced MethodNotFoundException for decades. You can't really fight against partially recompiled/updated code. The only Java attempt of checking some kind of integrity was `serialVersionUID" (for serialization) and getting "java.io.InvalidClassException" at runtime wasn't fun, even if somewhat useful.
Good4boothee··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
Aren't earliest government backed recommendations, to block all ads for security reasons, something like 20 years old? For example, this one: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Capaci... is from 2013. I am sure there were earlier I just can't find them.
Good4boothee··on Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package
> Linux defaults (GCC, automake, system libraries)

Last time I tried Gentoo desktop I ended up with 8 separate autotools versions, and gcc & glibc was not that far behind in count. And just like in https://xkcd.com/927/ every C developer tries to improve the situation by creating another build system.

Good4boothee··on Recreational Programming
Give me a damn scrollbar, arrows or at least tell me how I am supposed to read this site.
Good4boothee··on ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam
Yes. ASML is filling order book for 2029 and 2030. I am just not sure, with how long-term investment the chip fabs are, would the slowdown in datacenter demand be visible on ASML's side first or last?
Good4boothee··on Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors
Similar laws (total ban of ads and promotion) are already in place in few countries for alcohol and tobacco.
Good4boothee··on Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors
I'm afraid billboard boat on Florida beach was even worse.
Good4boothee··on Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany
Emergency power generation is common onsite for datacenters, even if it is not supposed to run for long time. And I think you are overestimating the redundancy. There was famous infamous "I can't find such option in admin panel" response to news about total loss of Strasbourg datacenter in March 2021 fire, after advice to "execute Disaster Recovery plans". And I doubt it got much better for small companies. How many people even run backup servers in other cloud regions/countries, not just different AZ?
Good4boothee··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
I worked in environment where every HTTP 500 error was replaced by some middle ware by user "friendly" error page, and that included REST calls between services. That HTML also included one huge header image(as base64), so my logs were flooded by that junk response.
Good4boothee··on Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
MS also paid 1B for Minecraft, and everyone said it was far too much, but somehow, it paid itself back long time ago.
Good4boothee··on Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights
Except in some cases, you just can't. Somehow publishers are the ones that decide which games from your Steam library you can launch on PC rented from NVidia.
Good4boothee··on Integer multiplication below n log n
After his "fascinating" video on speed of electricity no one should put science (even pop-sci) label anywhere near Veritasium.
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