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topbanana··on Claude Opus 5.5
You're right to call that out
topbanana··on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August
It's easy to imagine this only happening for subscription accounts rather than paid API usage. Any data on this?
topbanana··on Java 27
I would, or C#
topbanana··on Java 27
When you work at a Java shop. Kotlin is much nicer if you have to run on the JVM but aren't restricted to Java.
topbanana··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
GPT 5.6 Luna is very good
topbanana··on The AI Credit Resale Economy
So are they stealing from their employers or is something else going on?
topbanana··on GitHub's Historic Uptime
Historical *

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/everything-youve-eve...

topbanana··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
In case of engine fire they need to cut fuel
topbanana··on Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk
I use Meridian standalone active speakers which just take a PCM stream. An HDFury Vertex2 can strip the audio from HDMI
topbanana··on How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server
The point is running locally, not efficiently
topbanana··on Static search trees: faster than binary search
Interesting. If you need to support occasional writes, you could have a large static search tree and a small writable tree that you check afterwards. The when you have enough changes, you could occasionally ship those changes into a new version of the static tree
topbanana··on Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?
I would go this way for cross platform native UI
topbanana··on SableDb – Fast, persistent database supporting Redis API
RocksDB is written in C++ and runs in-process. That's just like having a load of unsafe Rust code.
topbanana··on Inside the failed attempt to backdoor SSH globally that got caught by chance
Makes me wonder how many backdoors like this are in the wild, undetected
topbanana··on What if AGI is not coming?
One thing's for sure, there are now a lot more people looking to make it happen
topbanana··on Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness?
I'll get back to you on that
topbanana··on LMAX Disruptor – High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library
std::collections::vec_deque is implemented as a growable ring buffer so you might like to start there

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/vec_deque/index.ht...

topbanana··on ChatGPT has 190 citations on Google Scholar
First listing: 'ChatGPT: Bullshit spewer or the end of traditional assessments in higher education?'
topbanana··on .NET 8
What's wrong with Rider?
topbanana··on .NET 8
All those terms are consigned to history except .NET

They had to handle a transition phase and as a .net dev at that time, it was surprisingly smooth

topbanana··on The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit
I was surprised that my brand-new LTE modem still uses these commands. It took me back to my BBS days
topbanana··on Firesky – The Bluesky Firehose
More of a trickle
topbanana··on How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster
For sure. The new UI is way too complicated
topbanana··on WireGuard for the ESP32
> they now also dominate the professional industry.

is that true? it wasn't a couple of years ago.

topbanana··on My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop
I racked up a huge phone bill calling BBSes in the 90s. Got in plenty of trouble!
topbanana··on Next steps for Rust in the kernel
I think there's a missing book - 'Thinking In Rust'. The mechanics of borrow-checking, lifetimes, std lib, tokio can all be learned quite quickly. It's the muscle memory of techniques and design patterns that takes the longest to re-learn.
topbanana··on A shortage of Dijon mustard in France
I was in Bordeaux last week and they were out of Dijon mustard. It's the best for dressing and many classic sauces
topbanana··on Retirement of Amazon MOBI eBook file format
How do you get articles onto your Kindle?
topbanana··on Show HN: I spent my vacation writing a modern JVM assembler
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se17/html/index.ht...

and for .Net CIL https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...

topbanana··on Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
I don't see any either, maybe because its the Enterprise / Pro SKU?
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