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tyingq··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
No, but it does also include cobra/health for the same period plus 6-12 months of options continuing to vest. Still not generous, but if you're longer tenure and can find another job within the timeframe, it's something.
tyingq··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Gitlab is terrible at cross-group permissions if you use dedicated or self-hosted. Because gitlab.com is made to keep top level groups separate (separate tenants). Things like cross-group MR approval, use of the built-in artifact repositories, terraform module registry, gitlab components, and so on...is very messy...so many granular cross-group allows you have to turn on.
tyingq··on Docker is weird
Poke around in bocker[1]. For technical people, it makes the same points the article makes in a way that's very clear.

[1] "Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash" https://github.com/p8952/bocker

tyingq··on An ad-free Android TV
It doesn't cover some of the same areas though, like replacing the youtube app with an ad-free alternative.
tyingq··on Gemini 4 Argon
Of course, there's Antigravity IDE and Antigravity 2.0. Which are dissimilar.
tyingq··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Locked into their tools though. I happen to be very tied to a IDE centric model (old dog can't learn new tricks) and their Desktop thing is a regression for me. I can use the cli, but it wrecks the muscle memory I have with what I use now.

And Anthropic is somewhat unusual in that 10x more tokens via the subsidized path. I imagine more rugpulls are coming.

Not disputing your point in any way, just noting there's already caveats, and more are likely coming.

tyingq··on Let's Ditch Google (Verb)
They are actively transforming it into "ask Gemini" though. Which for me is often wrong. The organic search results are farther down, and if a lucrative term...you have to scroll past ads also. And the quality is not what it once was.

So Google is polluting what it means anyway.

tyingq··on ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
Not exactly what you're describing, and not shipping yet, but a cluster in a box. 8 cores/node, 8 nodes.

https://milkv.io/cluster-08

tyingq··on Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show
NYT seems to have found a way to keep the actual article content away from archive.is
tyingq··on Ember-1
K3 is cheaper from other providers. $1/$9, though I can't speak to how good those providers are.

https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3

tyingq··on When did Google get so weird?
Had to try it. And it delivers :)

> hes never coming over Dario Amodei

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will actually be joining President Donald Trump for a private dinner at the White House tonight, Sunday, September 27, 2026.

CNBC While it is true that he was noticeably absent from the high-profile state dinner held for Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week—which was attended by other major tech figures like Elon Musk and Sam Altman—

tyingq··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824802
tyingq··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
Does it expose all my "Jesus Christ Claude, why on earth did you do that? Revert that now and do x instead." ?

Meaning, does it prune out some of the not meaningful path to what exists? It's hard to visualize what they actually get to review.

tyingq··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model
Apparently they updated it perhaps based on your comment?

> . The accepted runs cost $4.65. Failed attempts and replacement runs increased the complete cost to $5.14.

tyingq··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
Aside from the list of current concerns that others have covered well...Google is very good at "boiling frogs". That is, rolling out unpopular things in phases.

This could be, for example, step one in the return of AMP, but with a new twist. Where google conveniently returns the content of your website, without directly sending the user to your website. With whatever changes it chooses to make.

tyingq··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
Genuinely curious...the output drop in refining from Russia is not also a large factor in diesel (and other Petro) price hikes?

Or are you saying the Ukraine drone strikes have not affected the output at a scale where it matters globally?

tyingq··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
I meant "easy for a non technical person to use". Things like limewire were dead easy back in the beginning. The isps were not paying attention, so you did not need a VPN, there was no setup or anything it worked right after you downloaded it. So it spread in a socially viral like way very quickly. And was being used by fairly non-technical people without assistance.
tyingq··on Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
They do seem to make it easy to push people over any moral objection to piracy. Often more because of fragmentation than price, but pushing the price makes it easier. And the platforms (Jellyfin as one example) make sharing what you have with family/friends easier now also.

I don't have a great view, though, whether this is even visible to the streaming platforms. I suspect they don't really lose much notable revenue from piracy anymore. While it's matured some recently, it's not as easy as "download limewire".

tyingq··on DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
The Precogs don't see what you're gonna do, they see what you're gonna do if you're not stopped.
tyingq··on Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
Ah, that was the first one I owned. The little 1520 4 color pen plotter you could get was incredible. Printed on receipt paper. It was also eventually my bridge to the BBS world via the 300 baud vicmodem.
tyingq··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
The companies that don't want you using the lite version are waiting for full version to completely go away before blocking the lite one. No sense driving you to that. So, check back in a couple months and see if it's all still good.
tyingq··on I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
This would be a bigger deal for the commissary locations outside the US, though I see none are on the list. Many of the very junior enlisted make very little money (~2400USD/month), and the low pricing at the commissary helps quite a lot. In the US, you would typically have some affordable off-base options. Overseas, it depends. Many of the locations are remote, or in places where the local groceries are significantly more expensive.
tyingq··on RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
There is a Configure type subsystem, so you'll see stuff like this: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/156277/changes#diff-4...
tyingq··on Recovering Corrupt Zip Files

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  --grow
Grow (append to) the specified zip archive, instead of creating a new one. If this operation fails, zip attempts to restore the archive to its original state. If the restoration fails, the archive might become corrupted. This option is ignored when there's no existing archive or when at least one archive member must be updated or deleted.
tyingq··on Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes
They could even start identifying "pre-crime" :)

Not as far fetched as it sounds even. Plenty of not-quite-a-crime things they could track if desired.

tyingq··on The End of Programming
I'm no expert, but it feels like this exact thing is how it ends up eating itself. For two reasons.

- Eventually the universe of "provably done before" is now mostly LLM genned code. So the training data quality starts a slow decline.

- That it's "good enough" now for 90+% of the work kills the pipeline for any new human software experts. So they never gain the experience and insight to be able to steer the AI to produce ok-ish code. Existing experts age out. This cycles with the bullet above over time. And at some point we're stalled, all code is now mediocre at best and while output is high, innovation/evolution is low. Or whatever innovation we have is coming from a very small circle without much natural competition.

tyingq··on Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)
A fairly deep dive into it

https://www.righto.com/2015/12/reverse-engineering-arm1-ance...

tyingq··on Beware Management Consultants
Scapegoat as a service. You hire them to put a stamp of approval on any silly idea you have, implement it, etc. Then, if it turns out badly, well...it wasn't your fault.
tyingq··on Could a computer scientist build a brain?
The video talks about "orchestrated objective reduction".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...

tyingq··on In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace
They could just mean that foreign enrollment in US postgrad programs is down significantly, or other forms of specialized visas, etc.
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