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by throwaway290 | 2025-07-30 04:52:51+00:00
> If the left side lowers with a shift then that shift MUST be localized to the area around the fault. Because if it wasn't then that means there's an elevation change across the board for everything to the left of the fault. You see how that doesn't make sense

Yo heard of fluid dynamics? Good luck localizing this;) maybe you can build a wall or something real quick

Obviously it is all technically waves. Even if EVERYTHING to the left lowered we would be talking about waves caused by it. But it don't need to be all lowered because waves propagate. And point is these particular waves, tsunami are not the waves you think about because you saw some on the beach. It's an ocean rising for a while. Watch some vids to get a vibe for it.
by raincole | 2025-07-30 04:55:58+00:00
I wonder which model is this based on.

I've tried quite some models and so far I've only seen two that are good at keeping continuity: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Sonnet 3.7 (both with reasoning on). These two are also exceptionally good[0] at adding plot twists that aren't in the prompt.

[0]: by "my expectation of LLM" standard, not by the standard of bestseller genre fiction.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-07-30 04:56:00+00:00
Screenshot of a terminal window running the ‘ls’ command to list the contents of a directory. The output says:

Verification Required

Files on your filesystem may contain mature content or reference mature topics. In compliance with the UK Online Safety Act, you must verify your age before you can list the contents of this directory.

Please select one of the following options to continue. [1] Submit photo ID [2] Estimate age from selfie [3] Cancel

Enter your choice:
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-30 04:58:36+00:00
Your PC is built on a standardized architecture, your mobile device is its own bespoke SoC and requires unique, and often proprietary, methods just to boot and discover components.

It's the reason you can use any amd64 ISO to boot Linux on your PC, but each individual embedded device needs its own special image that is custom to that board, and often a custom Linux fork.
by Joeri | 2025-07-30 04:58:40+00:00
I tried out that windows phone continuum feature back in the day to try and get actual work done. Here's what I remember of it.

You could connect it wirelessly to your windows laptop and it would take over screen, keyboard and mouse from the laptop. The actual connecting part worked smoothly, but it could only stream one relatively low res screen and even then over a wireless connection it felt sluggish. I couldn't use the laptop while the phone was connected, and this was its biggest handicap because I would have preferred the phone's desktop in a window similar to running a virtualized OS, with easy drag-and-drop and copy-paste.

The experience was that you had the same phone apps with the same feature set as on the phone, but they transformed into desktop layouts. For the first party apps this worked fine, but many of the third party apps didn't work at all or didn't work well, so I ended up largely being stuck with the first party apps, mostly the mobile versions of Outlook and Edge, and the file explorer. At the time these were seriously limited compared to the desktop counterparts. In that version of Edge I couldn't use many of the web apps that I tried. The outlook version was very basic, but I still managed to get some of my email done.

The apps only appeared fullscreen. I get why they did it on the weak phone hardware of the time, but this was very limiting. You could alt-tab however, and there was the windows taskbar. The start menu was the phone's home screen, so you would see the exact same tile layout as you saw on the phone, and clicking a tile would open the app. I really liked this solution because it gave a lot of flexibility while being instantly familiar.

Bottom line it wasn't really suited at being a one stop computing experience, but it was a good way to do the things you would otherwise do on the phone on a larger canvas. It was good for what it was, but it was not in any way a laptop replacement. What really killed it as a useful feature for me was what ultimately killed windows phone: the lack of a decent app catalog. I still think in its time windows phone was the best mobile OS, but the app gap meant that it never stood a chance.
by nessex | 2025-07-30 04:59:27+00:00
Not true. As the news reporters here in Japan are repeating every few minutes, there will be many waves and they can get bigger over time. They already have, 20-30cm initial waves had 40-60cm later waves.

Waves can get bigger due to earthquakes not being instantaneous or necessarily a single movement, due to amplification by geography, by reflections, by aftershocks, and many other things. The news is suggesting waves lasted about a day for a previous event in a similar area.
by K0balt | 2025-07-30 05:04:13+00:00
Yes, they are waves, but they are often very long waves. A typical 1m wave might be 20m long. A tsunami wave might be a kilometer long or longer. That is why people say they are like a tide. The wave arrives, then does not recede for several minutes. So, while a 4m wind driven wave might break over a seawall and even wash a car off the road, a 4m tsunami washes ships over that same seawall and floods the city.

It’s a wave, but it is often not at all like a regular ocean wave. I’ve been at sea when a 3m tsunami passed, we barely felt it. If it had been a 3m wind wave in that otherwise calm sea, it would have knocked dinner off the table.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-07-30 05:04:20+00:00
That comic doesn't show someone working around a bug in such a way that their flow breaks when the bug is gone. It shows them incorporating a bug into their workflow for purposes of causing the bug to occur.

It isn't actually possible for fixing a bug to break a workaround. The point of a workaround is that you're not doing the thing that's broken; when that thing is fixed, your flow won't be affected, because you weren't doing it anyway.
by exodust | 2025-07-30 05:04:32+00:00
Orwellian comedy isn't really a thing but it should be if we're heading that direction. My 2 cents with kathaaverse...

1984 You are Stones, perpetually stoned and suspiciously cynical; the telescreen blares drivel about chocolate rations, which are obviously getting smaller, and you gotta decide if Big Brother's lies are even worth the buzzkill.
by fahhem | 2025-07-30 05:05:18+00:00
What percentage of their staff works for Hamas? What's the proof they work for Hamas?

Israel has provided 0 proof, only allegations, and even then it's only a handful of people in an organization of tens of thousands. That's literally better than the ratio of rapist to citizen in Israel.

Numbers for proof: Israel claims 12 out of 30k (13k in Gaza), but the UN says only 9 "may have been involved". That's 0.1% of Palestinians in Gaza. There are 1.3k Israeli rapists in prison (not including the ones that fled the US to avoid prison) and 80% of rape allegations are closed without investigation. That's 0.1% of Israelis.
by K0balt | 2025-07-30 05:05:29+00:00
Yes, they are waves, but they are often very long waves. A typical 1m wave might be 20m long. A tsunami wave might be a kilometer long or longer. That is why people say they are like a tide. The wave arrives, then does not recede for several minutes. So, while a 4m wind driven wave might break over a seawall and even wash a car off the road, a 4m tsunami washes ships over that same seawall and floods the city.

It’s a wave, but it is often not at all like a regular ocean wave. I’ve been at sea when a 3m tsunami passed, we barely felt it. If it had been a 3m wind wave in that otherwise calm sea, it would have knocked dinner off the table.
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by K0balt | 2025-07-30 05:06:54+00:00
Yes, they are waves, but they are often very long waves. A typical 1m wave might be 20m long. A tsunami wave might be a kilometer long or longer. That is why people say they are like a tide. The wave arrives, then does not recede for several minutes. So, while a 4m wind driven wave might break over a seawall and even wash a car off the road, a 4m tsunami washes ships over that same seawall and floods the city.

It’s a wave, but it is often not at all like a regular ocean wave. I’ve been at sea when a 3m tsunami passed, we barely felt it. If it had been a 3m wind wave in that otherwise calm sea, it would have knocked dinner off the table.
by frm88 | 2025-07-30 05:07:31+00:00
I mean, even if it wasn't effective for the bees - it certainly helped human health with regards to breast cancer and neurological damage in children [0]. If you scroll to the bottom of the article, you'll find links to the studies that are source to this claim.

[0] https://www.pan-europe.info/blog/acetamiprid-brain-toxic-neo...

Edit: typo
by lambdasquirrel | 2025-07-30 05:08:37+00:00
By the numbers, the casual cameras are having a quiet turnaround.

Fuji and Ricoh can hardly keep their X100 and GR cameras stocked. Fuji added extra production capacity in China because it exceeded their expectations. I brought them up specifically because the serious camera people rag on them for being hype cameras, but I see plenty of everyday people with them. Go to places like the High Line in NY and there’s folks with A6700s and various X-mount cameras in addition to the serious full-frame mounts. Leica is doing financially well because of their Q series.

I think five years ago you could say it was just two groups, but by the numbers and by what I see in the streets, the point and shoots have been prematurely declared dead. Fuji and Sony are meanwhile figuring out how to sell APS-C to a more casual crowd, after the other old players effectively left that market.
by dingaling | 2025-07-30 05:09:28+00:00
Which only holds true if you don't care much about the result.

I've seen people trying to take photos at an airshow using their phone camera. A small black dot in the centre of frame, rendered as an Impressionist oil smudge by post-processing. Was that worth even trying?

The best camera+lens combo is the one suited to the scene. Anything else isn't.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-07-30 05:11:59+00:00
DuckDuckGo insists on shoving "AI Assist" entries in its results, so I have a reasonable idea of how often LLMs are completely wrong even given search results. The answer's still "more than one time in five".

I did not suggest using Google Search (the company's on record as deliberately making Google Search worse), but there are other search engines. My preferred search engines don't do the fancy "interpret natural language queries" pre-processing, because I'm quite good at doing that in my head and often want to research niche stuff, but there are many still-decent search engines that do, and don't have ads in the results.

Heck, you can even pay for a good search engine! And you can have it redirect you to the relevant section of the top search result automatically: Google used to call this "I'm feeling lucky!" (although it was before URI text fragments, so it would just send you to the top of the page). All the properties you're after, much more cheaply, and you keep the information about provenance, and your answer is more-reliably accurate.
by frosted-flakes | 2025-07-30 05:15:13+00:00
If you look closely, you can see the springy retention clips in the plug. Below is a Stack Overflow answer with more details, it includes a link to the USB-C spec where you can also see the corresponding notches in the male part of the receptacle.

https://superuser.com/questions/1577898/how-does-the-retaini...

Also, some good USB-C cables have a very similar click to Lightning, including Apple's own USB-C cables. Lightning and USB-C are essentially the same design, except USB-C adds an automotive-style shroud around the male side.
by neya | 2025-07-30 05:15:18+00:00
I disagree, I thought the article highlighted the differences beautifully. I'm on a professionally color calibrated 27" monitor that came with one of those color calibration "certificates" at the time of purchase. The second I loaded the article, the differences were just stark. The skin tones alone were a dead giveaway.

It is no secret that Apple does a lot of post processing on their mediocre photos to make them look good - more so than most other Androids - because, it's all software. But, from the article, it is understood that the author is trying to point out that Apple could've done a better job to represent skin tones more accurately atleast. The fish-eye defense for Apple is totally understandeable, but, why are we defending the weak skin tones? Every year, they keep launching and claiming grandoise statements "This is the best smartphone camera out there is".

And no, this is not a limitation of smartphone sensors. In fact, if you look at the latest Xperia series from Sony, they have the same software from their DSLRs translated into the smartphones that addresses the skintones perfectly well.

I hope we can skip past the biases and personal preferences we have towards Apple and treat them neutrally like any other manufacturer. This "Apple can do no wrong" narrative and attacking anyone who points out their flaws is just tired and boring at this point.
by jjangkke | 2025-07-30 05:15:22+00:00
Ryo Tatsuki clarified it wasn't her that said July 5th was when the big one will hit but that it was her publisher that pushed that date for marketing and sales.

She along with the Thai clairvoyant and Brandon Biggs all say July is the month when the earthquakes and tsunamis begin.

It is unwise to simply write this off, Ryo Tatsuki said she saw 4:18am in July 2025 which can only mean 14 hours from now we will know if that is it.

It is July 30th 2:14pm, in 14 hours it will be July 31st 4:18am. After that a 20 hour period until the deadline.
by llamavore | 2025-07-30 05:17:30+00:00
Great article, the previous related one goes into a lot more detail on some of pythons different concurrency implementation details: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/18/threads-beat-async-await...

Something which would be immensely helpful for the community is to create a test suite of pathological problems with existing python concurrency patterns and libraries.

At that point it should just be a matter of time before the right implementation and PEP(s) can be iterated on that solves said problems while maximizing for devex.

For anyone interested in learning more about different concurrency models I can highly recommend Paul Butcher's: Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks.
by jancsika | 2025-07-30 05:17:35+00:00
Since we're intuiting, I'm just imagining something like quickly adding a "D.C. offset" of some given height to the crests and troughs you'd measure by sampling ocean waves.

In fact, I'm not sure I should have quotes around that. Isn't your interlocutor saying a tsunami is literally a direct current of water flowing toward the shore?
by jjangkke | 2025-07-30 05:17:56+00:00
All the tectonics and volcanos that are underground are linked, these seismic events aren't just isolated on islands.

I hate to say this but we can expect a major event in August. All I can tell people is to prepare but I see people just with blank expression, there is almost no concern at all which reminds me very much of November 2019.
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by pjmlp | 2025-07-30 05:18:50+00:00
As someone that started with C++ on MS-DOS, back when 640 KB would be enough for everyone, there is plenty of stuff in C++, making it better than C even in kernel space.

That is why contrary to Linus opinion, Symbian, IBM z and IBM i, Windows (since Vista), GenodeOS, and OS X, have C++ running on their kernels even if it isn't the full blown language.

Additionally many of his criticism against C++, applies equally well to Rust, in terms of language complexity, just wait until some kernel driver go crazy with macros or FP inspired designs.

What is indeed a plus for Rust is the secure code mentality that both C and C++ communities have kept downplaying until companies and government had enough with burning money fixing exploits.
by Izkata | 2025-07-30 05:19:22+00:00
> Displaying relative time like “1 day ago” is especially foolish. Does that mean between 0s–23:59:59? Or 24:00:00–47:59:59? Or perhaps 24:00:00–6d 23:59:59?

> When you have multiple browser tabs open and switch between them, and you see “just now” — is it really just now? You last looked at that tab an hour ago. Maybe two hours? Maybe it’s been open since yesterday.

I have a screenshot of two Jira comments that go from "one year ago" to "one hour ago" because the two comments happened to be something like Dec 31 and Jan 2.
by Zenst | 2025-07-30 05:19:57+00:00
Detected: 14″ FHD @ 125% DPI (Auto-calibrated)

Inches are 2.2" per inch and CM are also over 2 CM in length, almost an inch, just short.

But hey, even CMs are wrong and wonderfully explained in this short - enjoy https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z2LLcVM2ih4
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-30 05:20:26+00:00
> What you get is not a "wave" but a wall of water.

Its a wave (or series of waves) with a large wavelength and speed in deep ocean, that becomes a shorter wavelength and very large amplitude by shoaling as it hits shallow water.

Its different from typical wind-driven ocean waves for a lot of reasons; but a big indicator is wavelength -- wind-driven ocean waves have wavelengths up to hundreds of meters, tsunamis have wavelengths (in deep ocean) of hundreds of kilometers.

More like tides than waves, as has been stated elsewhere in the thread, is both technically wrong but substantively (with the caveat that "waves" really means "typical wind-drive waves") correct, in that tides are also manifested through waves, but waves which have wavelengths of thousands of kilometers, and so tsunamis are waves more similar to those making up tides (hence the old colloquial use of "tidal waves", which properly refers to the waves manifesting tides, to refer to tsunamis) than to wind-driven waves.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-30 05:23:38+00:00
And I don't, Android/Linux, WebOS/Linux and VMs are good enough.

If others have fun making it work, good for them, I have better ways to spend the rest of my life on this litte sphere.

As what Linux needs, I thought it needs every little user, to make a difference against Apple and Microsoft, after all we are always told that now is the year everyone is going to flee into Linux.
by TheRoque | 2025-07-30 05:23:59+00:00
I was thinking like that before, however now I think it's overkill. Millisecond timestamps are hard to read, they are stored as "bigint" in Postgres, which makes it sometimes annoying. What I prefer now is to use the date object, but remember that it's only UTC (and the machine where the code runs should be in UTC time too). It goes well with Postgres Timestamp+TZ field, and it's much more readable.
by K0balt | 2025-07-30 05:24:27+00:00
The difference is that people know what 2m (wind driven) waves look like at their cities seawall. A 2m tsunami is a -completely- different phenomenon, because of its length. Depending upon the underwater geography, a 2m tsunami might flood right over their 3m seawall, and wipe out entire parts of the city, sweeping hundreds of people out to sea. A 2m wind wave will get saltwater spray on cars driving by. They are both waves, but they share very little in characteristics other than their fundamental physics. It’s like saying that a slingshot fires a 12mm projectile, and so does a 50 caliber anti material rifle. The fact that they are both projectiles, of the same size, is much, much less informative than other facts about their nature.

Saying that tsunamis are waves is easy to equivocate into tsunamis are waves, like other waves. This is an equivocation that is very misleading and can get people killed.

Insofar as the goal of communication is to communicate meaningful information, it is less accurate to say “tsunamis are waves” than it is to say “tsunamis are nothing like normal waves”, or to say “tsunamis are like a wall of water, not like a wave” or “tsunamis are more like tides than waves”.

So yes, tsunamis are waves, but insisting that tsunamis are waves without qualification that their effective characteristics are fundamentally much different and more dangerous than a regular wave is misleading through omission in a way that could directly put people’s lives in jeopardy.

Being pedantic about definitions and being accurate in conveying meaning are not the same thing, and communicating in good faith normally is about conveying meaning in an accurate manner, not just using words in an accurate manner.

FWIW I also believe that meanings are important, but there is a point where pedantry falls into bad-faith territory.
by dagmx | 2025-07-30 05:24:38+00:00
You’re somehow both reading far too in to my comment (none of my comment is specific to Apple) and not reading my comment enough (because you m missed the point about color profiles)

I’m not defending the default color choices, I’m saying that they’re comparing apples to oranges because they’re comparing an output designed to be opinionated with one that’s designed to be processed after the fact. The iPhone is perfectly capable of outputting neutral images and raw files.
by 112233 | 2025-07-30 05:27:20+00:00
That's like saying if you could not tell the person calling you was a scammer and lost money, then the call passes muster.

As long as the person submitting PR has put in the effort to ensure it is of high quality, it should not matter what tool they used, right?

Well, overwhelming majority vibies seem not to. Welcome to "block all chinese and russian IPs" era, open source AI edition.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-30 05:27:31+00:00
> It would be super easy to rewrite the paper to omit the unfounded speculation about human cognition. In the introduction of “The triggers are not contextual so humans ignore them when instructed to solve the problem.” they could write “The triggers are not contextual so the AI should ignore them when instructed to solve the problem.”

Another option would be to more explicitly mark it as speculation. “The triggers are not contextual, so we expect most humans would ignore them.”

Anyway, it is a small detail that is almost irrelevant to the paper… actually there seems to be something meta about that. Maybe we wouldn’t ignore the cat facts!