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by bernawil | 2025-06-07 20:50:31+00:00
> So when one times out, they all time out

Some units give you different fixed timespans for each. For that reason, I just use the Reverse Osmosis stage and ignore the rest. RO is the last step, and in theory it renders pure water meaning the only reason to have the previous ones is to pre-filter somewhat the water and extend the RO cartridge lifespan. Problem with that is, first, there's no way to gauge when each filter is spent. Second, they're priced the same anyway, so why even bother. Just go straight from tap to RO! Keep the post re-mineralization stage if you want.
by johnea | 2025-06-07 20:50:42+00:00
How cute! A university sophomore getting his first taste of feeling "grown-up".

Obviously, this is just a very first hint, because being "grown-up" is not something that ever actually happens.

But it is cute, and sentimental, to read a young person's first impression of this experience.

Get used to it, you'll keep having ever advancing feelings like this for the rest of your life. At least, if you are the type that chooses to keep growing.

It'll take a few more years before another new stage, where you realize, those high school students aren't listening to you 8-)

After all, did you listen when you were in high school? No...

Just get used to it now, because you'll spend the rest of your life trying to backport the lessons you've learned through hard experience, back to those younger than you. Until you realize, they aren't listening 8-)

Then you'll have a choice, shut up and ignore them, or keep trying to get them to listen.

That's all ahead, but of course, you're not listening...
by margalabargala | 2025-06-07 20:51:05+00:00
I totally believe that the system you have requires this, but plenty of others do not.

Here's the maintenance manual for the one I have. The sterilization and emptying/refilling are done as part of the filter replacement, and not otherwise:

https://www.whirlpoolwatersolutions.com/wp-content/manuals/W...
by pducks32 | 2025-06-07 20:51:13+00:00
Would someone mind explaining the technical aspect here? I feel with modern compute and OS paradigms I can’t appreciate this. But even now I know that feeling when you crack it and the thrill of getting the imposible to work.

It’s on all of us to keep the history of this field alive and honor the people who made it all possible. So if anyone would nerd out on this, I’d love to be able to remember him that way.

(I did read this https://www.folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html but might be not understanding it fully)
by devstar | 2025-06-07 20:51:34+00:00
As a Bethesda fan (spending 1000s of hours combined in Fallout and Skyrim), I enjoyed reading this post. Especially liked the use of creating your own NPC to test the various scenarios. I just now started playing the Oblivion remaster for the first time and I find that I am liking the NPC interactions / liveliness a lot more compared to their later titles.

The one item that stood out to me was: "Todd’s mid-fight dagger acquisition Verdict: Impossible in the final game unless scripted to do so"

I do not disagree with the verdict for the final build of the game but I recall observing something similar in Fallout 3. I had stashed a mini-nuke launcher and ammmo in the Megaton player home. Some sort of conflict transpired (do not remember what exactly, perhaps I provoked an NPC for fun), I witnessed one of the town-folk run into my player home (in its own cell) and come back out with my weapon. It is possible with 1000s of hours in Bethesda games I am just mishmashing memories together but I am pretty sure this is what prompted me to eventually download a player home mod (and eventually learn G.E.C.K. by "remastering" it).
by BurningFrog | 2025-06-07 20:51:38+00:00
This surprises everyone, but the quality and level of healthcare actually doesn't have a huge impact on average lifespan!

From memory, it's just around 1-2 years.

In contrast, modern sanitation (underground sewers, mostly) and access to clean water added 15-20 years!

Lifespan is far more affected by how healthy a life you live. In the US the opioid epidemic has lowered it ~1 year.

(This is not intended as an argument, just some facts I think more people should know)
by Tarsul | 2025-06-07 20:52:11+00:00
Why do we Europeans care? Because climate change is destroying the foundations of our life. The real question should be why are others caring less?

But back to us Europeans: Since we already have "basically" everything we want (including low inequality), we can afford to look forward to dangers that lurk only on the horizon. Also, our politicians do listen to their voters (at least sometimes) because media is less corrupt and votes count. This all helps.

Nonetheless, Europe is still too slow and we are heading right into the climate desaster anyway. But at least we did and do something. Yes, it lets me sleep better.
by majormajor | 2025-06-07 20:52:11+00:00
Trump/Epstein connections have been reported on for years with photos and videos so anyone who cares probably was already on the anti-Trump side.

While Musk has a bigger megaphone than most media, he also has a credibility issue - and now especially for the Trump-true-believer crowd that is likely the only group whose bubble would be so shielded that they'd see it as news.
by righthand | 2025-06-07 20:52:15+00:00
Thank you that is very informative in the context as I'm rather new to Consumer Reports. There definitely articles strange rankings. For example I was looking for an reverse osmosis filter and this is something consumer reports just doesn't really have ranked (at least no searchable from their website). They have 1-2 models and they're both not brands that match "reddit reverse osmosis filter" when I do a web search.

I do enjoy their studies on things like: the percentage of plastic particles in General Mills products.
by luckylion | 2025-06-07 20:53:44+00:00
Yeah, the infectious nature can hardly infect a third party software, even if the shim itself would be infected.

The one case I just remembered where it was remotely challenged was Thesis [1], but Automattic chose to throw money into bullying the challenger rather than going after the alleged license violation.

[1] https://wptavern.com/mullenweg-and-pearson-square-off-on-pat...
by genewitch | 2025-06-07 20:55:23+00:00
a refrain i hear a lot from my friend, who does actually have issues, i wasn't trying to imply they didn't^, is, "What if i [go to school], get a job, and then something happens where i can't work, but they've already kicked me off? I'd be in a way worse position"

They could go to school and make enough money to take care of themselves, obviously, but the threat of losing the safety net is enough that they still never went to school, and have only worked for retail a few times over the years for maybe 6-12 hours a week, obviously at minimum wage.

^ just in case it seems that way.
by ajayvk | 2025-06-07 20:55:41+00:00
Clace is built to run on a single machine without needing Kubernetes. The plan is to add support for Kubernetes hosting later, but running on one or a few machines should not required Kubernetes.

Clace is built for the use case of deploying internal tools, so it comes out of the box with CI/CD, auditing, OAuth etc. With Kubernetes, you need to glue together ArgoCD, an IDP etc to get the same.
by paavohtl | 2025-06-07 20:56:04+00:00
Thanks for reading!

It's an interesting anecdote, but from my understanding of the system that simply shouldn't be possible. Your house's interior cell isn't loaded into memory when you are outside in Megaton, so there's no way for the NPC to access your items. I think this fundamental limitation holds true for every version of the engine, from Morrowind to Starfield, but I'd be glad to be proven wrong with concrete evidence.
by ben_w | 2025-06-07 20:56:08+00:00
Nothing made of atoms is truly chemically inert, not even noble gases. It's just more or less reactive, and when/how.

But even if it was literally un-reactive, sometimes it's enough to just be in the way. Imagine folding a protein, or assembling a structure of RNA origami*, but some big lump of un-reactive molecule is in the middle — the ultimate shape is different, leading to different biochemical results. Grit in the gears.

Or even just heavy: deuterium is chemically identical to hydrogen, but still has a lethal concentration** because it is twice the mass.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_origami

** Replacing 50% of the hydrogen in a multicellular organism with deuterium is generally lethal, unless this is a widely believed myth that's about to get a bunch of debunking
by kubb | 2025-06-07 20:56:27+00:00
I have the feeling that the Advanced Voice Mode is significantly worse than when I used it earlier this week. The voice sounds disinterested, and has weird intonation. It used to be excellent for foreign language conversation practice, now significantly worse.

Edit: After using up my 15 minutes for testing, I have to say that the new voice is actually not bad, although I was used to something else. But it has a very clear "artificial" quality to it. It also sometimes misinterprets my input as something completely different than what I said, for example "please like my video and subscribe to my channel".
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-07 20:57:21+00:00
That's a great point about both the pettiness and corrupting influence of power.

Trump and Musk are trash human beings and the world would be better off if they were both 100% occupied with trying to destroy each other, with the hope being that then some adults could come in and run the country / companies.

I think Trump was probably always trash. Musk may have had redeemable qualities at one point, but, well, as per my first sentence.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-07 20:57:41+00:00
You don't, for example, expect some ordinary farmer or tramp in the game world to know a lot about the (in-game) world or be capable of doing deep conversations about complicated topics.

So I don't think the necessary amount of text that you need to train the AI on is as insanely large as you imagine (but of course nevertheless a lot of texts have to be written - this is the price of having "much more dynamic" AI characters in the game).
by zaptrem | 2025-06-07 20:57:48+00:00
> Additionally, rare hallucinations in Voice Mode persist with this update, resulting in unintended sounds resembling ads, gibberish, or background music. We are actively investigating these issues and working toward a solution.

Would be cool to hear some samples of this. I remember there was some hallucinated background music during the meditation demo in the original reveal livestream but haven't seen much beyond that. Artifact of training on podcasts to get natural intonation.
by Phillip244 | 2025-06-07 20:58:42+00:00
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by TheTaytay | 2025-06-07 20:59:04+00:00
I wish they still had the voice mode that was _only_ text-to-speech, and speech-to-text. It didn't sound as good, but it was as smart as the underlying model. The advanced voice mode regularly goes off the rails for me, makes the same mistake repeatedly, and other things that the text-version of advanced LLMs hasn't done for months now.
by martin-t | 2025-06-07 20:59:13+00:00
He's first and foremost a narcissist (strongly grandiose subtype, and all over the place on the communal/malignant axis).

That condition should make him ineligible for any position of power. This is what a society gets when it elects someone mentally ill (in the harmful-to-others rather than the typical harmful-to-ill-person sense).

I am continually astounded by how many people, even if you explain the symptoms to them, will be unable to see it - not just in this one case but in general. There is something in many people that makes them attracted to those who treat them awfully and consider them only slightly above things.
by ordinaryradical | 2025-06-07 20:59:39+00:00
I’m an artist and also work in tech. Enjoy using AI for work, no interest in using it for my art.

Using AI for art is an idiotic proposition for me. If I was going to use AI to write my novel, I would literally be robbing myself of the pleasure of making it myself. If you don’t enjoy perfecting the sentence, maybe don’t be a writer?

That’s why there’s a disconnect. I make art for personal fulfillment and the joy of the creative act. To offload that to something that helps me do it “faster” has exactly zero appeal.
by btilly | 2025-06-07 21:00:24+00:00
The idea that information can be hyperlinked together predated HyperCard by decades. It goes back to https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m..., which was written in 1945. The same essay also has the fundamental ideas for a citation index.

This gave rise both to the Science Citation Index and to various hypertext systems. For example the famous 1968 presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY, now known as "The Mother of All Demos", demonstrated a working hypertext system among the other jaw-dropping accomplishments.

HyperCard brought hypertext to commodity hardware. The Web made a distributed hypertext system viable. Google's PageRank recombined hypertext and the Science Citation Index to make the web more usable. And all of the key insights trace back to Vannevar Bush. Who was able to have such deep insights in 1945 because he had been working in, and thinking about, computing at least since 1927.

The history of important ideas in computing generally goes far deeper than most programmers are aware.
by duskwuff | 2025-06-07 21:00:56+00:00
The QuickDraw source code refers to the contents of the Region structure as an "unpacked array of sorted inversion points". It's a little short on details, but you can sort of get a sense of how it works by looking at the implementation of PtInRgn(Point, RegionHandle):

https://github.com/historicalsource/supermario/blob/9dd3c4be...

As far as I can tell, it's a bounding box (in typical L/T/R/B format), followed by a sequence of the X/Y coordinates of every "corner" inside the region. It's fairly compact for most region shapes which arise from overlapping rectangular windows, and very fast to perform hit tests on.
by hagbard_c | 2025-06-07 21:01:02+00:00
Africa does not need saving, it is a huge continent - look it up on a map and notice that you can fit USA, China, India, Mexico, Peru, France, Spain, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Norway, Italy, New Zealand, The UK, Nepal, Bangladesh and Greece [1] in its area and still have 0.1% of its land mass left to build yourself a Singapore - and it can take care of itself and its own just as long as they manage to get rid of the tin pot dictators, warlords and grifting pseudo-revolutionaries who are in power in too many countries. Europe does need saving but it needs saving from itself, not from some 'climate emergency'. European countries need to realise they are the custodians of cultures which gave rise to most of what we're used to nowadays, both good as well as bad. They need to get over the self-inflicted guilt complex with regard to the bad things by realising the same is true for all other cultures currently in existence and nearly all of those which were vanquished by others and need to get back to promoting more of the good aspects of their (or should that be 'our' - I'm of Dutch origin, living in Sweden) cultures. Enough with the fatalism, enough with all the different scares which are being bandied around - climate, disease, migration, war and more - and back to building a future.

Yes, this means that many a person who has based her future on 'saving Africa' will be out of a job. That is a good thing, the paternalistic (or, to be more precise, maternalistic) attitude towards Africa is both unwarranted as well as an example of the type of hubris which got 'us' here in Europe in this situation to begin with. Find another job, stop trying to impose your maladjusted visions of societal bliss on Africa and elsewhere, go do something useful instead.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-true-size-of-africa/
by jyounker | 2025-06-07 21:01:16+00:00
A friend who studied political science an conflict made this observation about American politics: 30% of the voting population is insane. They will believe the most mind-bendingly illogical things, and then vote for them, so the best you can ever expect from the general population is 70% agreement on reality.

In that light, we're doing really well with only 1/8 believing such a thing.
by DVRC | 2025-06-07 21:01:35+00:00
https://bsky.app/profile/dvrc.bsky.social/post/3lchv6gf5u22e

These are some screenshots of NeWS 1.1 running on SunOS 4.1.4 on QEMU that I took time ago. Unfortunately QEMU SPARC decided to break again. Also, keyboard doesn't work yet (forcing me to use the SunView terminal emulator), but probably it's due to the keyboard script.

In any case, SunOS 4.1.4 comes with OpenWindows out of the box.
by righthand | 2025-06-07 21:02:07+00:00
Yes they're two different issues from AI:

- LLMs were trained on copy protected content and devaluing the input a worker puts into creating original work

- LLMs are a tool for generating statistical variations and refinements of work, this doesn't devalue the input but makes generating output easier

Form vs Function issues. So it would be preferable to give people a legal pathway to continue making money and own their work instead of allowing their work to be vacuumed up by the people at corporations looking to automate them away. The functional issue still exists but doesn't put your personal work at risk of theft/abuse outside of it's economic intent. Then the social stigma doesn't really matter because "an LLM is just a tool" is now a solid argument not causing abuse or deterioration of existing legal protections.
by breischl | 2025-06-07 21:02:35+00:00
They also mined by tearing apart mountains, and threw noticeable amounts of lead into the air doing it.

> Roman-era mining activities increased atmospheric lead concentrations by at least a factor of 10, polluting air over Europe more heavily and for longer than previously thought, according to a new analysis of ice cores taken from glaciers on France's Mont Blanc.

A lot less than modern technology manages, but a lot more than nothing. And that with a much smaller population.

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-roman-polluted-european-air-he... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruina_montium
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-07 21:02:57+00:00
I agree entirely.

Higher education and research are already being affected. Those reputations aren't quickly rebuilt.

Same with trust on trade and reliability as a defence ally.

Even when Trump is replaced, he had accelerated the exposure of the fragility of the base US system of government. The fact one bad actor can upset many long established apple carts is not something really forgotten.
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-06-07 21:03:28+00:00
Neat to see sleep calls artificially introduced to reliably recreate the deadlock. [0]

Looks like fixing the underlying bug is still in-progress, [1] I wonder how many lines of code it will take.

[0] https://github.com/aoli-al/jdk/commit/625420ba82d2b0ebac24d9...

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8358601
by vips7L | 2025-06-07 21:04:43+00:00
He didn’t want to write them. Gnome Press owned the original series and he didn’t get any royalties for them. In 1961, his current publisher Doubleday acquired them and for 20 years he told them no to writing more Foundation books. In 1981 Doubleday said they would pay him 10 times his normal rate and that is when he wrote Foundation’s Edge.

This was all printed in the front of my copy of Foundation and Earth. Titled as “The Story Behind the Foundation”.

I plan on reading the Robot series next.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-06-07 21:04:44+00:00
> We analyze cycle time, a widely-used metric measuring time from ticket creation to completion, using a dataset of over 55,000 observations across 216 organizations. [...] We find precise but modest associations between cycle time and factors including coding days per week, number of merged pull requests, and degree of collaboration. However, these effects are set against considerable unexplained variation both between and within individuals.
by MilnerRoute | 2025-06-07 21:05:36+00:00
I agree with you in general. But there is a difference between "complaining about the government" and "threatening to decommission the only spacecraft they have for launching satellites into orbit."

It was inevitable that critical mission overseers would have to assess the state of their fallback options...

Since Thursday's exchange, at least three commercial space companies, Rocket Lab, Stoke Space and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, have been contacted by government officials about the status of their rockets and when they might be available for government missions, according to four people familiar with the inquiries.

Officials at Sierra Space, which is developing a Dream Chaser spaceplane that could deliver cargo to the space station, were in a meeting with NASA officials on Thursday as the Trump-Musk feud was getting underway. "Sierra Space stands ready to ensure uninterrupted support for the International Space Station," Fatih Ozmen, the company's CEO, said in a statement to The Post.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-07 21:05:37+00:00
With the point "the velocity of money can be be significantly higher in a video game" you actually outlined a serious problem (and a potential solution):

The rest of the in-game economy (including its pricing) doesn't fit the money circulation velocity, thus we get problems.

The famous equation of exchange

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_exchange

gives a rule of thumb how other factors of the in-game economy need to be adjusted if the velocity of money is increased.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-07 21:06:00+00:00
Well, I said elsewhere, this effectively means (heavily) taxing anyone who's doing something new (meaning adding additional taxes on top of income tax). Essentially all of Europe does this, and people here often decry how they totally lack innovation across the entire continent.

I don't think these two are unrelated.

I also don't understand the objection. It's not like anyone's getting away from taxes due to this rule. This is about a temporary exemption from company income tax IF AND ONLY IF companies have someone pay income tax on that money (and only up to the point where that keeps makes sense). This "exemption" lets you not add 15%-20% tax on top of 40-55% income tax just to try a new business as a company.