Yes, the government just spent $875 million to save $476 thousand... when they could have bought nearly 1.1 million $800 toilet seats instead. Your government at work, folks.

Hey, none of these problems existed with Gopher. Could someone please draft an RFC for secure Gopher so we can have a modern implementation to start building on? The secure protocol can be called... wait for it... gophers.

When I had Comcast in the Bay Area, it randomly dropped one day because they installed the line to the house at a height that a semi driving through the neighborhood likely clipped the line. I was attempting to diagnose the issue from within the house, until I discovered the severed cable laying in the middle of the street.

Understood, and yeah single tasking seems like a good workaround given the situation. Or switching to an LLM with a larger context window, if possible/practical. I was able to get about 7X more context window "runway" using the AST approach, but it's a relatively small code base to begin with.

Sounds like you're running up against the context window of whatever LLM you're using. Try converting your code to a minified abstract syntax tree first and pass that to your LLM, and ask it what full text it needs in addition to that. It should stay within the context window much better that way.

I think this might be the first time I've seen a Slashdot comment with a non-alphanumeric character that displayed properly. Nicely done, AC!

Indeed... alpine touring is seemingly more en vogue these days.

While we're at it, why don't we pour hot grits on a Beowulf cluster while Natalie Portman confirms that BSD is dying?

Agreed. Also, nice to see another 3-digit UID user still on here!

[reaches for walker to stand up]

Here is a version that used floppy drives, hard drives, and flatbed scanners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I would say "Mein Leben!", but in this case, it should be "Sein Leben!"

So water minus EVs is negative bad?

Meanwhile, in Texas:
https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

Obligatory Money Pit reference...
https://youtu.be/lJhHjACjJjA

...posting some benchmarks?

Small correction... the renaming happened in 2024, not 2025.