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by yial | 2025-07-18 14:07:23+00:00
I would disagree about starting with epee.

But that may be a bias about form.

I fenced 4-5 times a week for about 10 years, even teaching and was at one point ranked.

Our policy was to start people on foil with a strong focus on form for usually about a year before moving to Sabre or epee.

Of course, we also usually started people with a French grip, and wrist up vs sideways.

One goal for example would be in lunge practice to have a penny or dime a few inches in front of your shoe, and have that go flying without your shoe hitting the floor.

I agree with you though that epee is the most fun, and also the most realistic.

The right of way in foil is not realistic. Furthermore, I always disliked Sabre as it is very showy but not nearly as enjoyable.

In short, foil to learn initial form and practice, and then move to epee. (I realize the arm position difference can create a challenge for some there )

“Foil is art, Sabre is theater, epee is truth”.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-07-18 14:07:28+00:00
Immigration and guest worker programs aren't the only reason, but they're a big reason. It's been happening since the 90s, when the neo-conservative Bush Republicans and the Clinton "It's the economy, stupid" Democrats really agreed for the first time on making the economy the issue that overrode everything else. Unfortunately, by "the economy" they meant Wall Street and global corporations, not small businesses and workers. So they pushed for any trade deal or migration or in/outsourcing that meant more money for their corporate friends and more graft for themselves. Ross Perot was right, but he greatly underestimated what they would do.

If you've been in the business long enough, you've seen it happening. I've heard managers talking about how they're sick of citizen employees with their unreasonable demands about health care and vacation time, and how those hard-working foreigners don't annoy them with such nonsense. I've seen the gleam in owners' eyes when they talk about how they can hire ten nameless cogs through some company that will bring them in for the same price as one native, and as long as they're at least 11% as productive as a native worker on average, hey, profit. And that's not just in software; that's in everything from construction to food processing to service work.

Several years ago, a client asked if I wanted to join his startup that was going to sell foreign tech services to US companies. I would have been the "face" who sold our services to US executives and collected the money, and then passed the work on to $1/day workers he'd found somewhere. Were they well-trained? Who knows; he didn't care and I wasn't supposed to either. I passed, but that offer was a microcosm of what's been happening to the US software industry for the past few decades, and the US job market in general.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-07-18 14:07:40+00:00
So, maybe add a few features to Zig and we'll have a Rust alternative for many use-cases?

For borrow checker, I still think a combo of static analysis and concurrent GC's could help. Pair a static analyzer, like Infer, with your code that doesn't borrow check. If it says it's safe, you're good to go. If part of it is safe, other parts get ref-counted or a concurrent GC by default until proven safe.

Users get benefits of all safe code in Rust. They can write their own code as fast as with a GC'd language with smaller-than-usual, performance costs. Anything proven safe by static analysis goes faster without the GC. What do you all think?
by h2zizzle | 2025-07-18 14:08:09+00:00
Value is limited to the total possible energy expenditure of the human population and our autonamous/semi-autonamous proxies (tools, domesticated animals, etc.). It would seem practically limitless because of the scale of human industry in comparison to the energy access afforded to us by nature in it's current state, but obviously value drops commensurate with potential expenditure-destroying events. Natural disasters, war, etc. are examples, but so are things like drops in consumer confidence and labor strikes.
by slowmotiony | 2025-07-18 14:08:12+00:00
I work with a lot of COBOL dinosaurs in the bank, I often like to watch them work on their 16-colors IBM z/OS host terminals, it's quite mesmerizing. Sometimes they show me some interesting code that was written before I was alive (I'm 36), or tell me stories about big mainframe incidents in the '80s, where they would get called in the middle of the night and flown to a different country to fix a bug because there was no remote desktop back then.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-18 14:08:35+00:00
I have a buddy that ended up in a ward, and still phones from time to time.

The 3rd generation medications keep his cycles under control fairly well. Note, prior to being processed by our medical system. These same a--hole sycophantic dealers would target vulnerable people with BS treatments all the time.

Talk with your doctor, get out for a walk every morning, and try out cognitive behavioral therapy when you are ready. =3

A funny post about what not to do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
by throwaway328 | 2025-07-18 14:08:45+00:00
Nice post. I hadn't noticed the "subtle suggestions" of donations myself, to be honest, but maybe I hadn't browsed around their pages enough.

Anyway, if they do mention it, is it not a very far cry from the situation everywhere else? Youtubers begging, screaming, shouting, seducing, murmuring, doing the bug-eyes, repeating, cloying, getting emotionally heavy and forceful, for subscriptions, likes, and comments? Interspersed with violent sudden shifts to advertising products, etc.

So it was a bit of a surprise to hear it mentioned like it might be bad. Are you surprised that the suggestions are so gentle? Or what
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-18 14:09:38+00:00
Additional context:

83% of orgs reported at least one insider attack in the last year [1], and insiders are responsible for ~18% of security incidents [2].

[1] https://go1.gurucul.com/2024-insider-threat-report

[2] https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/
by wat10000 | 2025-07-18 14:10:55+00:00
The expectation of a "self-driving car" is that you can get in it and take any trip that a human driver could take. The "in certain cities" is a huge caveat. If we accept that sort of geographical limitation, why not say that self-driving "cars" have been a thing since driverless metro systems started showing up in the 1980s?
by JohnFen | 2025-07-18 14:11:09+00:00
Yes, I understand that part. The part I struggle with is how the very fact that a party without the key can do the computation on it is not an indication that the encryption is leaking information. If the encryption were airtight, then such computation shouldn't be possible.

Given that cryptography experts seem to be asserting otherwise, I assume that there's something important that I'm not understanding here.
by soco | 2025-07-18 14:11:32+00:00
"the american middle class ought to pay a lot of taxes to benefit the lower classes as is the case in europe" uh, nope. That the billionaires should pay their share of taxes, and thy are definitely not "middle class" by any sane definition. And so is in Europe too. I'm sorry that I don't buy this fake antagonization, we all know the really wealthy pay next to zero taxes claiming all kinds of loopholes they created for themselves. Actually that would be a good measure to define middle class: those who _still_ pay taxes are middle class, and once you get the taxes decreasing it's a sign you moved into the riches land.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-18 14:11:35+00:00
So the lender accepts money on an offshore account as collateral to your corporation ? Which means a lot of people "know" that you're behind the account ? Do they pretend not to know, or are they layers of people that know less and less to give plausible deniability ?

(Or maybe they're the discrete kind, and they won't tell anyone. And we're back to "whether USA plans to invade Switzerland in the coming months ?", I guess)
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-18 14:11:47+00:00
This is, quite simply, a lie.

https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2023-section-1-cost-...

Figure 1.12 shows average annual premiums from 1999 to 2023. The ACA was passed in the middle of that range. It's a sustained upwards march, before and after its passage.

For all that cost - 2-3x as much as the other OECD nations spend, inclusive of taxes - we get shitty outcomes.

https://assets.ourworldindata.org/uploads/2016/04/ftotHealth...
by kirthi35 | 2025-07-18 14:12:22+00:00
You've nailed the core tension: privacy vs. visibility. It's the key challenge.

While tools like Paper Trail show the final data change, how do you capture the "struggle" that leads to it? For example, how do you know if a task took an employee 2 minutes or 10 minutes of confused clicking to complete, if the final data looks correct? Is that "workflow friction" something you try to measure?
by beej71 | 2025-07-18 14:12:27+00:00
> Lost all my books, movies, tv shows. Everything. No recourse.

This is why I never "buy" anything I cannot keep my own copy of. Yes, I sometimes miss out, but fuck those guys.

One upshot of this is that I tend to buy more indy books where the author sells directly and DRM-free. Put the money right in their pockets.
by nico | 2025-07-18 14:12:28+00:00
> some of the individual changes it asks me to approve are too small for me to make a decision. There are cases where I almost denied a change initially, then realized Claude's approach made sense once I saw the full change set

Yes, I've adapted to just review quickly, then if it makes sense as part of the task, let it keep going until it's done with the whole thing. Most of the times, by the end it does the right thing

I love that it doesn't auto-commit everything, ala aider, so it's pretty painless to undo stuff

I also keep a TODO.md file with a plan of everything I want to do for the current ticket/PR. I tell CC to keep track of things there. CC takes stuff from there, breaks it down into its own subset of tasks and when finished I tell it to update the TODO.md with the progress. I also tell it to stage files and create commits

The way I use it, it feels like I'm still programming, but I don't need to write code or run commands by myself, nor get stuck googling stuff up. I can just tell CC to do almost anything for me. It takes away the tediousness of what I want to accomplish
by phyzix5761 | 2025-07-18 14:12:32+00:00
The way they've explained it is that we listen to music because we have a desire for sensual pleasure. And constantly giving in to desires, in general, creates a dependence where we're never satisfied with what we have. This dissatisfaction, when it becomes strong enough, leads to depression.

They practiced something called guarding their senses where they limited the amount of sensual pleasures they exposed themselves to and this calmed down their mind down to the point where even small things like the taste of ordinary food or having a conversation with a friend felt really satisfying.
by 9rx | 2025-07-18 14:12:40+00:00
> Self-taught does not mean you need to invent everything from first principles.

It does imply lack of access to formal resources, though. Learning from a textbook or an educationally-minded Youtube channel is no more self-taught than sitting through a lecture in college.

It is ultimately a distinction without a difference. Historically, when information was siloed, there was a difference. Self-taught meant something when you couldn't look something up on a whim. But those days are long behind us.
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-18 14:13:13+00:00
Why, it's quite an interesting thing, as it were HN in terminal, looks cool, maybe I'll try it sometime.

I also do interesting things, you can also check out their other ones:

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/TurboStitchGIF-HeaderOn...
by KPGv2 | 2025-07-18 14:13:49+00:00
> the value of software appears when it's run, not when it's written

Have you ever tried to contribute to open source projects?

The question was why wouldn't someone writing software not take the route likely to end in rejection/failure. I don't know about you, but if I write software, I am not going to write it for a project whose managers will make it difficult for my PR to be accepted, and that 99% likely it never will be.

I will always contribute to the project likely to appreciate my work and incorporate it.

I'll share an anecdote: I got involved with a project, filed a couple PRs that were accepted (slowly), and then I talked about refactoring something so it could be tested better and wasn't so fragile and tightly coupled to IO. "Sounds great" was the response.

So I did the refactor. Filed a PR and asked for code review. The response was (after a long time waiting) "thanks but no, we don't want this." PR closed. No feedback, nothing.

I don't even use the software anymore. I certainly haven't tried to fix any bugs. I don't like being jerked around by management, especially when I'm doing it for free.

(For the record, I privately forked the code and run my own version that is better because by refactoring and then writing tests, I discovered a number of bugs I couldn't be arsed to file with the original project.)
by jfengel | 2025-07-18 14:14:33+00:00
Another complicating factor: perfumes change over time. There are at least three layers of notes in any decent perfume. You might not like the way it smells for the first few minutes, and then when the top notes fade, you like what's left.

(Honestly, I sometimes think those top notes are there just to get you to buy them in the store.)
by jdiff | 2025-07-18 14:14:40+00:00
With their stance of permacomputing, you don't think the two go hand in hand? A simple VM that can be implemented quickly on almost any hardware or underlying tech stack you can scrounge together? The only thing they'd be really against is designing new hardware to run Uxn "natively," which would seem to push you exclusively to reuse what you have.
by almost_usual | 2025-07-18 14:15:32+00:00
Hard to pay for a health care system when the population is incentivized to live absolute unhealthy lives.

Encourage not sleeping, advertise and manufacture processed garbage, encourage drinking poison, and most of all encourage working long hours over getting any physical activity.

Yeah, good luck with that. It’s an every man for themselves environment, the government and American society is fine with throwing your body into the meat grinder for more profit.

Ironically we’d be much more productive if we incentivized a healthier lifestyle for the population.
by mystraline | 2025-07-18 14:15:47+00:00
Yep, the ACA was originally RomneyCare.

Mitt Romney took the plan from the Heritage foundation (yes, the conservative neocon think tank). Hard low-controls capitalist plan.

Heritage foundation made this plan after Hillary Clinton pushed universal healthcare in 1994, as first lady. Howls of 'death panels' were heard all over republican talking points and radio shows.

(The 'death panels' aka rationing was seen as bad for government to do. However, we see a new type of rationing, based upon how much patients cost, and then denying care. That lead to the UHC execution, then approving more procedures, then getting sued by shareholders for that. Personally, government death panels are preferred to capitalist death panels.)

Put simply: Obama passed republican legislation put forth by a republican governor and a republican thinktank, and was deemed a socialist. And now, the program is basically destroyed.
by loeg | 2025-07-18 14:16:09+00:00
> as can be seen by anyone who's tried to ctrl+c any app that's reading from a broken NFS folder

Theoretically "intr" mounts allowed signals to interrupt operations waiting on a hung remote server, but Linux removed the option long ago[1] (FreeBSD still supports it)[2]. "soft" might be the only workaround on Linux.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/nfs.5.html

[2]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_nfs&sektion=...
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-07-18 14:16:20+00:00
A great deal of people do not, in fact, recognize that Obamacare == ACA.

It even shows up in poll data. This poll from Oct 2024 shows a 15 point difference when the wording changes. +34 favorable when asked how people feel about the ACA, but only +19 favorable when asked how they feel about Obamacare.

https://navigatorresearch.org/the-affordable-care-act-remain...

Labeling the ACA as Obamacare was an incredibly effective tactic to leverage the American public's racist tendencies against the public's own interests.
by accrual | 2025-07-18 14:16:28+00:00
> ends up with a VM stack, rather than any kind of salvaged / repurposed hard tech

I love reading the Hundred Rabbits blog but I view it as sort of an artistic endeavor in addition to pure tech. Indeed, my idea of "low tech" would be 16-bit systems or early 32-bit stuff like 386 and 486 PCs, etc. These machines are surprisingly capable even in 2025 with the right applications. They can be repaired seemingly indefinitely with a soldering iron and spare caps.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-18 14:16:46+00:00
A token stream is universal, but I don't see any reason to think that a token stream generated by an LLM can ever be universal.

I mean, theoretically in an "infinite tape" model, sure. But we don't even know if it's physically possible. Given that the observable universe is finite and the information capacity of a finite space is also finite, then anything humans can do can theoretically be encoded with a lookup table, but that doesn't mean that human thought can actually be replicated with a lookup table, since the table would be vastly larger than the observable universe can store.

LLMs look like the sort of thing that could replicate human thought in theory (since they are capable of arbitrary computation if you give them access to infinite memory) but not the sort of thing that could do it in a physically possible way.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-18 14:17:10+00:00
> Meanwhile, every other piece of spare real estate in town is a new medical facility. Urgent cares, palatial orthopedic facilities… There's a crash coming.

Consolidation of hospitals/medical facilities/practices and the rapid spread of PE firms is absolutely destroying our already cracking healthcare industry. A crash is definitely coming. And just like with the financial crisis, we’re going to be the ones footing the bill and/or just dying on hospital steps.

Combined with so many doctors fleeing states with strict abortion/anti-LGBT laws, as well as the dismantling of programs encouraging doctors to work in under-served (often rural/low income/isolated) areas, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who’s going to be hit the hardest.
by rwhaling | 2025-07-18 14:17:19+00:00
Love 100r! There aren't a ton of examples online, but their livecoding music software/language, ORCA, is a remarkable instrument. https://100r.co/site/orca.html

I posted a clip to bsky a few weeks back: https://bsky.app/profile/r.whal.ing/post/3lpyrm4vrqs2d

And Allieway Audio made some great Youtube videos about ORCA too if people would like to learn how it works in more of a tutorial format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaI_TuISSJE&t=446s

(I love the Dwarf Fortress background for this video, it absolutely nails the vibe)
by tgv | 2025-07-18 14:17:24+00:00
Text rendering is not great on Windows 11. E.g., the word "captures" (font-family: "Inter", sans-serif, 16px, weight 500) renders with an extra few pixels on the left side of the "e" depending on the width of the window. The letter right under it, a t, shows the same effect. I think they're both covering the center of the page or div, but the rest of layout doesn't change with the window size. It's jarring.

The page also flickers heavily a few times when resizing it after the application has been in the background.

And that's just a quick check what resizing the window does. Makes me think they're quite far from wide adaptation.
by everforward | 2025-07-18 14:18:14+00:00
I use Task and like it, though I have used make before and don't think it's awful.

Task's tracking of the source and the output feels cleaner than make's need for a clean command. I can have a tree of dependent tasks and it will rebuild the ones that are outdated without me doing a "make clean" and having to rebuild all of them.

The ability to include files is clean, though similar can be done in make with some recursion (which works, but I find hacky and hard to keep track of).

I also don't love make's DSL. I don't edit my build files often enough to really keep it in my head, so I feel like I'm constantly trying to remember how to do particular things.

Lastly, I think it's easier to share because even if you've never used Task the YAML is pretty self-descriptive. The first time I saw a Taskfile it wasn't hard to grok how it worked. Make is pretty opaque if you've never seen a Makefile before, and I've met a lot of junior devs that have never interacted with it.
by jmclnx | 2025-07-18 14:18:24+00:00
Same here, I worked on Wang VS COBOL too. IMO, it had the best TUI Screen generation Tools I have ever seen.

Towards the end, I worked on a project to port Wang VS OS and its COBOL to AIX. I was tasked finding issues with COBOL Programs we had on the VS. It was a good environment, but Wang went CPT 11 before it was ready :) It was rather close to being complete.
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-07-18 14:19:23+00:00
I don't think we (Americans) have a solid understanding of political cause and effect. You see this in low turnout for local/state elections (vs federal), and just a lack of understanding of how the various political mechanics work.

My mother is an elementary school teacher in a conservative Michigan town. She generally doesn't talk politics at work, but a coworker mentioned that the school's "no questions asked" free breakfast and lunch policy was ending next year due to federal education cuts. My mom's co-teacher, who voted for Trump, expressed surprise, saying she didn't realize that was something likely to be cut, or that the states would make up the shortfall.

Anyone remotely following US politics wouldn't be surprised, and would know that most states are fairly strapped for cash. (Whether that's societally optimal is besides the point.) This is a pattern I see over and over again, on both sides of the line: you see Trump voters surprised that cuts to the FDA result in higher food recalls, and you see Democratic voters saying that nothing got done over the last four years.

It baffles me. I have more awareness of the local politics in our small Canadian town than I did when I lived in Chicago, and it all just comes from listening to my friends talk about current events. It's a wild feeling.
by eecc | 2025-07-18 14:19:42+00:00
I think you're exaggerating. There are several ways an LLM can discern the applicability of certain data to a context (document metadata such as TLD, cross check with applicable authoritative codes and regulations, be wary of random forum posts.)

I'm pretty sure an LLM can provide pretty refined answers given some reasonable context. i.e. I want to rewire a socked in my apartment, which is in London, UK. What do I need to do?
by 65 | 2025-07-18 14:20:07+00:00
Yeah, this industry is by definition self-taught. Unless you're getting your boss to read you documentation and Google answers for you.

There are a lot of people who do a CS degree purely for money reasons, but I've found those people turn into PMs while the engineers have an actual interest in engineering. It's torturous to do a very mentally difficult job that you don't even want to do, and those people pivot to other adjacent careers.
by Covzire | 2025-07-18 14:20:19+00:00
Prior to ACA all my colleagues in my peer group had employer provided health insurance that cost us very little, and it paid for virtually all medical bills except prescriptions. A HDHP was an option, but it only saved maybe a hundred or two a month, if that.

Today for most employees a HDHP is the ONLY option, and the cost is much higher than the old standard health plans were.