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by ktallett | 2025-07-18 11:36:40+00:00
HP have a better webcam (Higher res and better colours), Z Book and Framework have the same keyboard basically, the software is no where near as good (far more locked down), considering M series have been out for 5 and many had very speedy failures I doubt 8-10 years especially for the base models on low ram. Multicore scores (so for any form of simulation or parallel computing) work M series are not even in the conversation in comparison with the latest AMD and Intel. Another key issue is due to architecture change, their reusability once they become unusable in their current form means its Asahi or nothing.

Repairability is non existant, a battery and some ports is not anything to shout about.

I have used Macs since the early 90's when they were repairable, pretty much consistently and I still have to on occassion but they have dropped the ball on every aspect. From the late 90's repairability and innovation have gone downhill. The late 00's to the early 10's brought it back and ever since then bar the odd thing that is pretty but less practical, just look at the touch bar and the removal of ports.

I have had Thinkpads, ZBooks, and other laptops such as Lets Note easily as long as a macbook and yes some of the pretty may be missing but that isn't what I focus on in devices.
by wink | 2025-07-18 11:36:41+00:00
No, I don't really accept that in the discussion about phones re: size and keyboard.

People do ask the wrong questions.

Yes, I would buy the phone with the keyboard, but the keyboard is not the single most important feature. After the Desire Z there simply was nothing comparable. If it was 400 instead of 300 I would have said no, if it was from a brand I hate because they mess up the default Android install I might have said no. If it was 1:1 like some other phone except the battery being atrocious I might have said no.

The problem is that they are changing 10 variables at a time, including size, cost, software, camera, battery, whatever.
by Tryk | 2025-07-18 11:36:47+00:00
When comparing two ciphertexts A,B a FHE sorting function will output a sorted pair of two new ciphertexts:

E.g. FHE_SORT(A,B) -> (X,Y)

where Dec(X)<Dec(Y)

But without decoding, there's no way of knowing whether X (or Y) comes from A or B.

Source: II. D of https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/995.pdf
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-18 11:36:49+00:00
> files plus perhaps a runtime index.

The latter already adds a lot of complexity, especially if the application has to scale up or out. If scaling up, the index will increase in complexity and re-implement some clever algorithms that have already been solved by the other. If scaling out, you'll need some locking mechanism if multiple processes can write. It quickly becomes logical to switch to an established solution then.

But the choice becomes more logical then; if one picks a scalable database or whatever without knowing they're going to need it, that's a lot of wasted effort.

> - Most games would be better off with a bespoke game engine IMO, especially those made by small teams.

I disagree; writing a game engine, even for simpler "indie" graphics, requires specialized knowledge and a dedicated engineer, whereas with off-the-shelf engines, non-programmer / creatives can build a good game without in-depth knowledge. A small team needs to be especially careful with what they choose to spend their time and money on, and solving a solved problem like building a game engine is a huge investment. Even big studios struggle with this, see also the dramatic release of Cyberpunk 20something by long-time own-engine-building veterans CDPR. They're switching to Unreal for Witcher 4.
by ianberdin | 2025-07-18 11:37:32+00:00
Reading all these glowing reviews of Claude Code, I still get the feeling that either everyone’s been paid off or it’s just the die-hard fans of terminal windows and editors like Emacs and Vim. Using the terminal is right up their alley—it’s in their DNA.

Every time I read comments saying Claude Code is far better than Cursor, I fire it up, pay for a subscription, and run it on a large, complex TypeScript codebase. First, the whole process takes a hell of a lot of time. Second, the learning curve is steep: you have to work through the terminal and type commands.

And the outcome is exactly the same as with the Claude that’s built into Cursor—only slower, less clear, and the generated code is harder to review afterward. I don’t know… At this point my only impression is that all those influencers in the comments are either sponsored, or they’ve already shelled out their $200 and are now defending their choice. Or they simply haven’t used Cursor enough to figure out how to get the most out of it.

I still can’t see any real advantage to Claude Code, other than supposedly higher limits. I don’t get it. I’ve already paid for Claude Code, and I’m also paying for Cursor Pro, which is another $200, but I’m more productive with Cursor so far.

I’ve been programming for 18 years, write a ton of code every single day, and I can say Cursor gives me more. I switch between Gemini 2.5 Pro—when I need to handle tasks with a big, long context—and Claude 4.0 for routine stuff.

So no one has convinced me yet, and I haven’t seen any other benefit. Maybe later… I don’t know.
by raphaelj | 2025-07-18 11:38:10+00:00
I've been trying to use other LLM providers than OpenAI over the past few weeks: Claude, Deepseek, Mistral, local Ollama ...

While Mistral might not have the best LLM performances, their UX is IMO the best, or at least a tie with OpenAI's:

- I never had any UI bug, while these were common with Claude or OpenAI (e.g. a discussion disappearing, LLM crashing mid-answer, long context errors on Claude ...);

- They support most of the features I liked from OpenAI, such as libraries and projects;

- Their app is by far the fastest, thanks to their fast reply feature;

- They allow you to disable web-search.
by 20after4 | 2025-07-18 11:38:46+00:00
4. A birth certificate is just a piece of paper. I'm pretty sure that is not enough, on it's own, to prove citizenship.

5. The new administration is seeking to deny the validity of birthright citizenship. The implication of that would be that you are now required to have one or more parent's birth certificates in addition to your own, and probably several other documents.

5a. How many people carry their birth certificate around with them? 5b. What happens if the ICE agent conveniently loses your papers? Ooops.
by daoistmonk | 2025-07-18 11:39:08+00:00
FWIW, I've been running Asahi Linux on a used M1 Macbook Air for about a year and the ability to have a mobile Linux machine that isn't always tethered to an electric outlet is wonderful! It seems magical.

That said, I do still keep the MacOS on a partition for the usual office apps like zoom and the like and full hardware support for the things like the camera, but that isn't as important to my usage as having a compiler and editor so YMMV.

Unfortunately, Linux support on the Apple Silicon hardware is limited to M1 and M2 only at the time AFAIK.

I will also say that Linux on a Linux supported Thinkpad like the T-Series works well too and I've used those for over a decade. They just didn't have the same kind of battery life, but all the hardware 'just works'.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-18 11:39:30+00:00
With 5, forking may be a bit excessive, as keeping your fork up to date adds a big maintenance burden. Vendoring dependencies (just pushing them into git, git LFS, or operating a caching proxy) is valid though, especially for long-lived software projects. Maybe less so for NodeJS based ones as their dependencies use many small files, but there's Yarn and maybe PNPM that will keep dependencies in more convenient archive files instead.
by vintermann | 2025-07-18 11:40:43+00:00
EU will presumably stop you from doing business in the EU, if you break EU laws and ignore judgments. Companies don't want that. Grindr LLC, a US company with no EU corporate presence as far as I know, was fined 6.5 million for breaching GDPR by an Oslo Court, upheld in appeals. They paid that fine. If they didn't, they'd probably be kicked out of the app stores from Norway (if not from all of EU). Apple and Google do have an EU presence. Even if they didn't, they wouldn't start a war over 23andMe.

We generally don't need to worry about EU judgments against US companies being enforced, or vice versa. It doesn't get far enough that we need to think about how it's going to be enforced as a practical matter.
by westpfelia | 2025-07-18 11:41:03+00:00
Its a way to add legitimacy to transactions. The idea is that 1 stable coin (usdt, tether, ect) equals 1 dollar. So you buy 100 tether for 100 dollars and you use that to buy your bitcoin. And that tether is supposed to be backed 1 to 1 with assets/cash.

The problem is they arent. Tether for instance refuses to be properly audited. They keep saying that between cash and cash equivilants they are in parity. But per a Galaxy Research article its probably backed by 3% cash. and the rest is treasuries and commericial paper holdings. Which means that if some shit were to go down best case they can make 3% of people good. And the rest... who the hell knows. Its all a scam.
by cesarb | 2025-07-18 11:41:08+00:00
> What kinds of attacks was Secure Boot designed to mitigate?

Boot sector viruses, or their modern equivalents. Basically, anything which injects itself into the boot chain before the antivirus can start; after that point, the antivirus is supposed to be able to stop any malware. That is, they wanted to prevent malware from being able to hide from the antivirus by loading before it.
by kjellsbells | 2025-07-18 11:41:49+00:00
Doable and even pleasant if: you pick mainline hardware, a good distro, and are ruthlessly hygienic about what you install/ how you install it.

Eg: pick corporate model laptops from major vendors like Dell. Something whose hardware has been battle tested by an army of Windows users. I like refurbished models from the Dell Latitude line, others are ThinkPad people. These lines have spare parts and are repairable/upgradeable.

Pick a distro close to the middle. You want something with thousands of users so you wont suffer alone if you hit a problem. I like stock Ubuntu, and I might go as far as Mint. PopOS is beautiful but if it goes wrong, you'll be fiddling and asking for help in a much smaller community, so if that is not your jam, don't do it.

Be consistent and careful with how and what you install. Dont mix flatpaks and tarballs and snaps and god knows what else. Have a consistent, reproducible setup. Use a dir structure that makes it easy to split off your data from the OS (I know that people just have / now, but /home used to be its own partition for a reason, and /opt exists for similar separation.) If the worst happens and you need to blow the OS away, you want that to be a 20 minute operation with all your files instantly available as soon as you can remount.
by xnx | 2025-07-18 11:42:06+00:00
The term poaching is common, but is a word that overemphasized the importance of the hirer.

There are 3 parties involved. The worker choosing to accept a better offer. The hiring company making a better offer. The previous employer offering unsatisfactory terms.

The term "poaching" suggests that the departing employee is being "stolen" or "taken" from their current employer, implying a sense of ownership over that individual. Employees are not property; they are individuals with the right to seek better opportunities and make their own career choices.
by skydhash | 2025-07-18 11:42:24+00:00
I didn’t have issues with rolling release distro in the beginning, as most updates were security updates. But nowadays, I’m on versionned distro. What you’ve started with is what you’re going to get everytime you turn the conputer on. I have debian 12 on my home server and it never crashes or have any issues, just chugging along.
by boesboes | 2025-07-18 11:42:47+00:00
Yeah, i noticed it falls back to sonnet much quicker too. Most days within the first few minutes.

And the 529.. it's borderline unusable at times.

But the worst part: While claude code, the tools and cli etc, has become much better over the last weeks; it seems the models or prompts have gotten worse. It will do things like add a test, see that it fails, claim it was already broken and out of scope. Or maybe i ask it to implement this, DO NOT use Y. Use Y anyway. Sometimes i ask it to update a test & it decides to revert all changes in the application code.

I am very close to cancelling my plan again. Maybe it is a great deal when comparing too api pricing, but that is not a fair comparison; prepaid/pay-as-you-go is always way more expensive. And if they priced it wrong, change the pricing? Degrading a new service you are developing to save cost is even more stupid then the burn money until ??? profit stats imo hehe
by joules77 | 2025-07-18 11:42:50+00:00
Price of Services (specifically edu, health and housing) have to fall.

We know Employers being well programmed robots in loss aversion will pay less for less work. If the cost of the core basics don't fall what are people supposed to do? Either get more indebted for life to Wall St or move out of the country.

Tech btw has only contributed to the rise of prices in edu, health and housing. Layer upon layer of new cost + financialization.

Just notice the most successful companies very studiously avoid entering these sectors cuz they are low margin. So why will anyone else do it?

Until there is some serious Martin Luther level reformation event(s) that pushes tech to focus on essential sectors and deflate costs there thro productivity gains, there is massive built up inertia for status quo maintenance which is to get tech to only chase high margin.
by wongarsu | 2025-07-18 11:43:02+00:00
Every subscription service loses money on its heavy users. What matters is the average. Lots of people go for the higher plan because they need it once, then never downgrade even if their regular usage doesn't justify it. And then there are all the people paying for months where they don't use it at all

Among private users willing to pay $200/month average usage is likely very high, but if Anthropic can convince companies to buy plans for entire departments average usage will be much lower on those.

Another issue is that $4000 costs is assuming the regular API is offered at cost, which is unlikely to be true.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-07-18 11:43:09+00:00
> There is no other manufacturer that sells what I want.

Not only that, but if there was one it would very likely become very popular. As it is gained market share money and power it that doing all bad things the currently big players are doing (because they tend to increase that money and power) and you're back looking for an alternative again. Regulations, not market forces are the only way to curb these bad behaviors.
by g-mork | 2025-07-18 11:43:17+00:00
it only takes one bad trip (absolutely massive overdose in my case) to understand how badly south things can get. used to be a favourite consumable, haven't touched it in over a decade and extremely unlikely to again following that one experience. it also helped phrase 3 earlier experiences in terms of the new "peak", and made me understand how much incredible danger I had been in at all times even prior to the bad trip
by Calwestjobs | 2025-07-18 11:43:17+00:00
Israeli "network traffic monitoring hw used by law enforcement" was deployed in one European country and after few years of deployment public officials embarrassingly confessed that, device was not capable of monitoring IPv6 at all XD just sayin. people expect things working but even west devices are embarrassingly nonsensically flawed. Huawei / zte etc stealing sourcecode and blatantly copying it is even worse situation because they do not even understand how it should work. XD
by sfmz | 2025-07-18 11:44:05+00:00
Make an app scan phone photos automatically (to be installed by the parents, not grandparents), use LLM to detect if children are in a photo, if so consider it for inclusion in the magazine. Make a digital version that emails PDFs for like $5 and a print for like $30.

With an app you could have the parents install it and set-it-and-forget it.
by UncleMeat | 2025-07-18 11:44:22+00:00
A couple weeks ago I was working on a parser that needed to handle a new file format that was a large change from existing formats. I wanted some test inputs, both valid and invalid cases. I had the codebase of a tool chain that I knew could generate valid files, some public documentation about the new file format, and my parser codebase.

A good problem to throw at AI, I thought. I handed the tools to a SOTA model and asked it to generate me some files. Garbage. Some edits to the prompts and I still get garbage. Okay, that's pretty hard to generate a binary with complex internal structure directly. Let's ask it to tell me how to make the toolchain generate these for me. It gives me back all sorts of CLI examples. None work. I keep telling it what output I am getting and how it differs from what I want. Over and over it fails.

I finally reach out to somebody on the toolchain team and they tell me how to do it. Great, now I can generate some valid files. Let's try to generate some invalid ones to test error paths. I've got a file. I've got the spec. I ask the LLM to modify the file to break the spec in a single way each time and tell me which part of the spec it broke each time. Doesn't work. Okay. I ask it to write me a python program that does this. Works a little bit, but not consistently and I need to inspect each output carefully. Finally I throw my files into a coverage guided fuzzer corpus and over a short period of time it's generated inputs that have excellent branch coverage for me.

What would effective have looked like to you in this situation?
by criley2 | 2025-07-18 11:44:47+00:00
Do you have a tiny monitor? I find that people with small mointors maximize their windows because they have to.

I have a 27" widescreen. The idea of maximizing a browser window is absurdity. My monitor can comfortably show three websites side by side. The amount of wasted white space on a full screen website would approach 90%.

Here's this very post fullscreened (without a taskbar). What a wild waste of space and the content is clearly not designed to be viewed like this, with the UX being located at the top left lol.

https://i.imgur.com/NPxks8b.png
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-07-18 11:44:51+00:00
In that case, doing just incident response would not have been enough to be frank. They needed guidance on what to do and what not to do, technically speaking, so that on the one hand, they have hope to start things up, but also to preserve evidence.

Even the sequencing (recover and secure the network, then the AD, then some Tier-2 apps etc.) was something they were not ready for. I cannot blame them - the way these things are managed is really messy, with no clear responsibilities beyond the everyday operations.

My hope is that the continuous attacks on the national infrastructure (such as hospitals) will build a more coordinated and homogenous approach. This would be a great lesson learned.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-18 11:45:16+00:00
Considering that my 17 year old MacBook only needed a new battery in the process, I can say that they're dependable machines (also ~20 Macs around me confirms this little statistic of mine).

On the simulation performance, you came to the right place, because I'll be developing a BEM code for material simulation. I can test it on both M series and on a cluster and see how big the gap is. Intel based Macs were pretty on par with their server siblings. I expect to be able extract similar performance from M based systems with some tight coding.

If you believe that Asahi's changes won't distilled to mainstream Linux, you're mistaken. Marcan might have fought with the kernel devs, but somebody will carry these changes in another form sooner or later. Macs wont't be Asahi or MacOS only systems for long. I think you can understand this better than me, because as far as I understand, we're using these things called computers for a similar amount of time.

BTW, you're citing Thinkpads and Z-Books which are the two machine classes which can claim some parity with MacBooks. They are the same class machines basically, so you have some bias in your views. This is what I cited as "I have to beg the local distributors to...". So getting an equivalent Z-Book or Thinkpad is not 10x harder, but at least 3x more expensive for a similar configuration.
by eecc | 2025-07-18 11:47:22+00:00
Well no, not really. I’m replying in the context of the parent comment, that was painting a scenario where the GPT would reply with information relevant to different countries.

It doesn’t need to be advanced prompting, it’s enough to provide enough information and ask to “provide advice relevant to the current and applicable codes and regulations”

It’s the first question a forum dweller would reply to a poorly articulated post.
by dismalpedigree | 2025-07-18 11:47:27+00:00
I have true 3-2-1 backups on a server running proxmox with 32 cores, 96gb of ram, and 5TB of ssd disks (2TB usable for VMs). Cost me $1500 for the new server hardware 2 years ago. Runs in my basement and uses ~30w of power on average (roughly $2.50/mo). The only cloud part is the encrypted backups at backblaze which cost about $15/mo.

Its a huge savings over a cloud instance of comparable performance. The closest match on AWS is ~$1050/mo and I still have to back it up.

The only outage in 2 years was last week when there was a hardware failure of the primary ssd. I was back up and running within a few hours and had to leverage the full 3-2-1 backup depth, so I am confident it works.

If i was really desperate i could have deployed on a cloud machine temporarily while i got the hardware back online.
by csa | 2025-07-18 11:47:40+00:00
> If it's a multiplier you need to either increase the requested work to keep the same humans or reduce the humans needed if you keep the same workload. It's not straightforward which way each business will follow.

I guess what you’re saying is technically true while being somewhat misleading.

“Increase the requested work” is one way of saying “reduce the amount of scutwork that needs to be done”. Personally, I’m ok having less scutwork. I’m also ok letting AI do optional scutwork that falls into the “nice to have” category (e.g., creating archival information).

On a personal level, I have used AI to automate a lot of required scutwork while freeing up my time to engage in higher added-value tasks. In terms of time, the biggest areas have been preliminary research, summaries, and writing drafts.

Additionally, in one specific use case that I can talk about, I have helped a medical billing office prioritize and organize their work based on estimated hourly value of items processed as well as difficulty (difficult stuff was prioritized for certain times of the day). This work had been eye-balled in the past, and could be done with a decent degree of accuracy with quite a bit of time, but AI did it with higher accuracy and almost no dedicated human time. The whole office appreciated the outcomes.

There are many wins like this that are available with AI, and I think many folks just haven’t found them yet.
by danbruc | 2025-07-18 11:47:55+00:00
Maybe it changed, but you could ask and answer questions right after signing up, just commenting, voting, and moderation rights required a certain amount of points. I only answered questions and was among the top 100 contributors at my peak activity but that was at least a decade ago.

I stopped contributing when the question quality fell of a cliff. Existing contributors got annoyed by the low effort questions, new users got annoyed because their questions got immediately closed, it was no longer fun. There were a lot of discussions on meta how to handle the situation but I just left.

So admittedly things might have changed again, I do not really know much about the development in the last ten or so years.