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by IgnaciusMonk | 2025-07-23 00:13:53+00:00
Intel RSTe / VROC it is integrated directly to your CPU/CHIPSET. you just populate that in "BIOS" and linux,BSD,windows will nofuss boot / install on top of that.

or every linux distro,bsd has ZFS available,

or every linux distro has LVM raid available,

or BTRFS has raid 1, 0, 10,

or windows has their own software raid, just open Storage Spaces / Disk Management console,

so whole unraid / nonraid are just nonsensical waste of effort for everyone

why would i invest time and effort to this technology by small team, if i can have technology supervised, maintained by linux kernel devs ? ? makes no sense.

and things i mentioned here are here longer than unraid/nonraid existed. so it was nonsensical from start.
by timr | 2025-07-23 00:13:55+00:00
Yeah, I get it. I read the book. I think his argument is wrong.

The point I am making is that for the “worried well” (aka “longevity enthusiasts”) you aren’t going to do anything differently based on the result. It's largely a waste of money for the sake of people who want to feel like they're Doing Something (tm).

If you really think about it, you're talking about the extremely marginal case where a) the patient had no prior symptom of an illness; b) the calcium scan is so bad that you'd put the person on a medication to manage a hypothetical future problem; and c) you weren't going to do it anyway based on other tests.

The three things together are vanishingly unlikely. The better argument, mayyyyybe, is that maybe the test is one of those things that motivates a certain type of person (again, the "longevity enthusiast") to do something they otherwise wouldn't do, but that kind of person seems like...the kind of person who wants to do things. So what is the goal?

See also: Vo2max, DEXA scans, and most of the other tests mentioned in the book. Great for nerding out on metrics, but...you aren't going to do anything you weren't already doing if you're the type of person to be getting the test in the first place.
by zdragnar | 2025-07-23 00:14:04+00:00
I don't disagree at all. There's way bigger fish to fry when it comes to maximizing network efficiency in websites.

I'm just pointing out the rationale of OP since someone asked, and I've worked with people who've made this and similar arguments before. It's been awhile, though- the ones I'm thinking of would treat code golf as a best practice for CSS (only slightly exaggerating).
by qwerpy | 2025-07-23 00:14:59+00:00
Honestly I have not asked. I've poked around in the HR guidelines for companies I've worked for (big tech companies) and the provisions for less than full-time work are either non-existent or so full of unfriendly exceptions and approvals that I assumed it wasn't a realistic option. I have also never seen or heard of anyone doing it at those companies across the hundreds of people I have worked with.

I'd love to hear if anyone at a FAANG pulled it off, how they did it, and what the financial impact was.
by florianherrengt | 2025-07-23 00:15:15+00:00
That's a lot of "if" to bet my career on. I can't see a situation where I can do most of my work using LLMs and retain my coding skills. I can see it with people who used to be great developers and moved to management. After a few years, they can't write code anymore.

But if it does happen, I'd rather be the one with enough technical skills to be able to jump in when agents aren't good enough or create new ones than the one managing them.
by kingstnap | 2025-07-23 00:15:39+00:00
You can assume the API price is roughly proportional to electricity usage.

If you buy $10 in tokens, that probably folds into ~$3 to $5 dollars in electricity.

Which would be around 30 to 90 kWhr in electricity.

Depending on the source, it could be anywhere from ~500g/kWhr (for natural gas) and ~24g/kWhr for hydroelectric.

It's a really wide spread, but I'd say for $10 in tokens, you'd probably be in the neighbourhood of 1 kg to 40 kg of emissions.

What's a good thing is that a lot of the spread comes from the electricity source. So if we can get all of these datacenters on clean energy sources it could change emissions by over an order of magnitude compared to gas turbines (like XAi uses).
by jrflowers | 2025-07-23 00:17:07+00:00
>1 unit of damage, and another thing that causes 100.000 units of damage, then for all intents and purposes the thing that produces 1 unit of damage is irrelevant

You make a good point. A problem is only a real problem if you can’t find a bigger thing that makes it look small by comparison. For example, the worldwide concrete industry creates more co2 than beef does so there is no reason to stop eating beef if you enjoy it.

Now I know that some might say that “all of this is cumulative” or “the material problems that stem from entrenched industries is actually a reason not to invent completely novel wasteful things rather than a justification for them” but in reality only two things are true: only the biggest problem is real, and the only problem is definitely some other guy’s doing. If I waste x energy and my neighbor wastes y amount, a goal of reducing (x+y) is oppressive whereas a goal where I just need to try to keep x lower than y feels a lot nicer.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-...

https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publication...
by stockresearcher | 2025-07-23 00:18:02+00:00
It’s possible to have software, including browsers, that are not subject to the CRA.

F-droid is essentially a Netherlands-based non-profit that will follow EU law when they have to. Some, but not all, of the software they currently host will be subject to the CRA, and if F-droid wishes to continue hosting it they’ll be a distributor under the CRA and be subject to obligations that they currently do not have.

The situation today is not the situation next year, and especially not 2 years from now.
by steveBK123 | 2025-07-23 00:18:09+00:00
Tesla software in theory was generally pretty class leading. Certainly some downsides with their homegrown infotainment vs a car with Carplay/Android Auto though.

What I did not enjoy when I was one was the number of functions that are buttonless and require touchscreen UI. Additionally every 1-2 years they'd do a major version upgrade that moved said functions somewhere around the screen, sometimes into a sub-menu.

So I couldn't do stuff by touch without looking, and they'd periodically break my quick glance muscle memory with releases. Stuff like - adjust air vents, adjust wiper settings, front/rear defrost.

VW software is a monstrosity from everything I've heard.

BMW has struck a decent balance of features, reliability, and having BUTTONS. I also have a HUD in mine and it's nice having instrument cluster display plus HUD to avoid really having to look away from the road at all. The number of cars that require glancing at the central touchscreen for lots of stuff is nuts, and a fad I hope fades away.
by fewbenefit | 2025-07-23 00:18:21+00:00
One thing people often miss: Gmail’s search isn’t broken because it’s technically hard. It’s broken because it's not a priority.

Accurate, user-respecting search doesn’t drive engagement or ad revenue. Nudging you toward the Promotions tab does. So over time, product decisions optimize for "glanceable convenience" rather than depth or control.

it’s disinterest, bordering on contempt. The infra could support proper search. But letting power users mass-delete or filter with precision is not part of the funnel.
by segmondy | 2025-07-23 00:18:46+00:00
I can say that this really works great, I'm a heavy user of the unsloth dyanmic quants. I run DeepSeek v3/r1 in Q3, and ernie-300b and KimiK2 in Q3 too. Amazing performance. I run Qwen3-235b in both Q4 and Q8 and can barely tell the difference so much so that I just keep Q4 since it's twice as fast.
by worik | 2025-07-23 00:20:13+00:00
Jappanese electric cars have problems too.

> While driving on Highway 13 (Montreal), the vehicle abruptly lost all throttle response

This has happened twice with a Mk II Leaf for us. The second time the dealer charged me over $100 to say "Mēh! No idea what went wrong"

Perhaps BYD? They seem to be getting it together.

As an old and grey computer programmer I do not, absolutely do not want, a "software defined vehicle". My comrades and I are renowned for unreliable crappy consumer products, where car manufacturers in the ICE era developed remarkably reliable and performant vehicles.

I really think electric cars need to be done differently, where the drive train is not dependant on my friends who "move fast and break things". My friends like these should be nowhere near automobiles.
by efreak | 2025-07-23 00:22:15+00:00
This is true, but it also applies to not just the chrome browser by Google itself, but also to derivatives (I don't actually use chrome proper unless I need to disable adblock; I still use Kiwi browser for my PWAs, because you can't export your browser profile from one device to another for Chrome[1])

[1]: you actually can with devtools and dexie import export, but it always times out for my databases. Meanwhile on Firefox you can just use devtools to backup the entire profile directory and then replace it in-place.
by fewbenefit | 2025-07-23 00:23:10+00:00
This post reads like someone who just discovered the OSI model and tried to shoehorn it into neurobiology.

The idea that the "revolution" is a hardware layer that just plugs into the brain and expands it with new neurons assumes a very naive model of how neural integration works. Brains don’t just recognize foreign neurons like USB devices. Synaptic plasticity, metabolic compatibility, glial interactions, all of that matters a lot more than signal translation.

Also, calling it a "data layer" glosses over the fact that neurons don't pass around clean, structured data. There’s no JSON over axons, information in the brain is messy, noisy, and deeply contextual—less like a protocol stack, more like a wet, self-rewriting spaghetti code.

So, if the core insight is "just add more neurons and treat it like hardware expansion," then the real challenge is being understated by several orders of complexity.
by segmondy | 2025-07-23 00:23:17+00:00
One keeps up with it, by keeping up with it. Folks keep up with latest social media gossip, the news, TV shows, or whatever interests them. You just stay on it. Weekend I got to running Kimi K2, last 2 days I have been driving Ernie4.5-300B, Just finished downloading the latest Qwen3-235b this morning and started using it this evening. Tonight I'll start downloading this 480B, might take 2-3 days with my crappy internet and then I'll get to it.

Obsession?
by const_cast | 2025-07-23 00:23:36+00:00
Well if you don't replace the car you save 150K. But you lose a few million, let's say.

Those few million are invisible, the 150K you see right now and you know, for sure, you're saving it. Incidentally, this is how we got into this quality mess. Cutting quality seems like free money... except that it's not, it's just that nobody bothers to measure the opportunity cost.

And then one day you wake up and you're Chrysler, selling piece of shit vehicles for wayyy more than they're worth. And now your brand is worthless. But, at least you saved a few bucks ;P
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-23 00:25:11+00:00
I loved our XC90 (non electric) but one day rainwater began pouring in through the windsheild behind the rear-view mirror. It quickly got into the electrical system and nothing worked reliably after that. Volvo absolutely refused to fix it, or acknowledge that there was a problem, despite hundreds of posts pointing out similar window leaks. Was very disappointing.
by adrianwaj | 2025-07-23 00:26:20+00:00
Some type of crypto bounty site for ideas such as the ones listed on this page. So not whoishiring, but whoispaying.

Pledged funds returned if funding goal not obtained. Milestones voted upon for new funds to be released - or just multi-stage projects.

Big bounties paid here: https://hackenproof.com/

This Bounty site should be good for getting long-tail coins off the ground - get a buch of cool/useful apps developed so the underlying coins can go viral. Have some coins in your back pocket too.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are silly to use if you're smart and want to make an impact on the price. Leave those to the banking mafia. Although any apps will probably be replicated to them if they're successful and especially if open-source. At least there's a head start. That said, EVM is compatible to multiple chains.

Checkout rofl.app platform (Oasis) - only because it's new and being hyped right now. There are other ones too, obviously.

In my previous comment, I suggest 2 ideas in the areas of localized prediction markets and rentals in the Access Economy. Gambling and predictions are different things although there is overlap. Predictions can be used to bring focus to new narratives. That's powerful. The observer can also influence the observed.

Life is going to get a lot harder for many as inequality increases, but that belief doesn't have to be set in stone.
by const_cast | 2025-07-23 00:27:57+00:00
> In many tailwind projects, you inevitably end up wanting to standardize how a button looks, how a field looks, etc.

You should be using components for this, in whatever backend or frontend framework you have.

And if you say "well this button needs to have this specific piece of data or text but other buttons don't" - great, extract that from the component. There's no reason to create 12 different buttons.
by thejohnconway | 2025-07-23 00:28:21+00:00
> If I am factually correct, by definition, everyone who disagrees with me is irrational and can't be reasoned with.

No, that doesn’t follow at all. Your arguments could be bad or irrational in themselves (right for the wrong reasons), and other people could hold beliefs logically follow from plausible, but wrong, premises.
by 827a | 2025-07-23 00:28:55+00:00
I think there's enough people willing to pay Claude's token rates today, either via subscription or via proxy through e.g. Cursor, that they can effectively turn the "new model R&D cost" knob to whatever their financials can support, and they'll survive for as long as their models can remain competitive.

The challenge all these frontier labs have is: Their existing models can have high token profitability, but they have to invest everything they've got (and everything they're given) into new model R&D, because if they don't xAI will beat them, or Anthropic will beat them, or Google will. That's the nature of frontier spaces like this.

But the flipside is, model capability will plateau, they probably are already, and as that happens it becomes safer to aim for profitability. And I have zero doubt that OpenAI and Anthropic can find profitability. xAI, Perplexity, Mistral, and the other labs, I'm less sure about.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-23 00:29:38+00:00
I remember the first time I saw Gewerbegebiet on a street sign whilst out cycling in West Germany with the fam. and thinking: "that's a proper word".

It took me a while to learn how to pronounce it. It's not really harder than "industrial estate" but it looked very exotic to me back then.

I should also note that "Ausfahrt" is the largest town/city in Germany - its everywhere according to the autobahn signs!
by const_cast | 2025-07-23 00:29:57+00:00
> So your <Button> component still has 60 tailwind classes on it?

Yes, and this is better I think, because you still have only one button. So you just reuse the component.

But if you make a .button class, now people are going to be tempted to use that to style their own buttons. And now, you have a dozen buttons and your app breaks in tiny little ways and your codebase is a hot mess.
by gigikenn | 2025-07-23 00:30:32+00:00
this is a good point. i think some people are able to maintain a sense of self by way of these tools allowing for greater expression. on the flip side, we have certainly been equating humanity with business and enterprise. the acceleration is a crucial change. but it's not about villainizing AI. and yes, one can certainly maintain humanity outside of work. but the issue i see is a loss of humanity in the sense of productivity and purpose. feeling like a machine can do everything. feeling that being human is a weakness rather than a strength.
by igouy | 2025-07-23 00:30:54+00:00
Here's one of the Alan Kay quotes —

"Unfortunately, inheritance — though an incredibly powerful technique — has turned out to be very difficult for novices (and even professionals) to deal with." Alan Kay, The Early History of Smalltalk, page 82

That's taken from a section which reflects on introducing programming to children in the summer of '73 —

In part, what we were seeing was the "hacker phenomenon", that for any given pursuit, a particular 5% of the population will jump into it naturally, while the 80% or so who can learn it in time do not find it natural.

… it is likely that this area is more like writing than we wanted it to be. Namely, for the "80%", it really has to be learned gradually over a period of years in order to build up the structures that need to be there for design and solution look-ahead.

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Here's how that Alan Kay quote is used in The Big OOPs —

13:47 -- It's because 10 years earlier, he was already saying he kind of soured on it. He's like, inheritance was like really powerful, but people just didn't know how to use it. Novices and experts apparently both couldn't use it, right. It was just uh you know, it's really good, but no one can figure out how to use it, I guess. Uh so that's a little bit weird.

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Not "kind-of-soured on it" one page later —

There were a variety of strong desires for a real inheritance mechanism from Adele and me, from Larry Tesler, who was working on desktop publishing, and from the grad students. page 83

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Not "kind-of-soured on it" but wanting a "comprehensive and clean multiple inheritance scheme" —

A word about inheritance. … By the time Smalltalk-76 came along, Dan Ingalls had come up with a scheme that was Simula-like in it's semantics but could be incrementally changed on the fly to be in accord with our goals of close interaction. I was not completely thrilled with it because it seemed that we needed a better theory about inheritance entirely (and still do). … But no comprehensive and clean multiple inheritance scheme appeared that was compelling enough to surmount Dan's original Simula-like design. page 84
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-23 00:31:09+00:00
It's not just the NOAA monitoring station in Hawaii that's being closed, but also those in Alaska, Samoa and Antartica.

If it was just the Hawaii station, we could quibble over its merics (volcanic activity, etc.), but closing all four means only one thing: the US doesn't want data that tracks climate change.

If you don't track it, you don't have to do anything about it.

Assuming we survive, I can't imagine how future generations will look back on all these attempts at climate change denialism in their history books, dumbfounded by our stupidity.
by duskwuff | 2025-07-23 00:31:14+00:00
There are some stupid tricks you can pull with image formats like emitting the headers for a gigantic image without including enough image data to actually encode the whole image. Most decoders will try to allocate a buffer up front (possibly as much as 16 GB for a 65535x65535 image!) before discovering that the image is truncated.

The same trick works with PNG, actually. Possibly even better: it uses a pair of 32-bit integers for the resolution.
by tombert | 2025-07-23 00:31:28+00:00
I ran this on my server for awhile.

I liked it, it was pretty cool and seemed to be pretty comparable to Github, but I ended up just moving back to Github since I didn't really want to run my own infrastructure for a git repo.

Still, I would definitely consider it if I were running a company; if nothing else it wouldn't be scanned by Microsoft for training.
by mappu | 2025-07-23 00:31:37+00:00
My personal VPS was recently inundated with 800GB/month of traffic from AI scraper bots. Upon a bit of investigation they were getting stuck in some deep git history pages. I looked into Anubis and the like, but making carveouts for API endpoints seemed complicated.

Luckily the Gitea devs had recently implemented `REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW = expensive` as a fix. It was minimally invasive for regular users, most pages can still be accessed without login, and it completely solved the AI bot problem, my traffic and load averages are back to normal.

Thank you Gitea devs for a great product, happy user for over a decade both personally and professionally.
by tavavex | 2025-07-23 00:32:06+00:00
In the context of the US, is recognizing a government different from recognizing a country? Is a refusal to deal with Taliban functionally equivalent to not recognizing Afghanistan at all?

> The best analogy is Beijing vis-à-vis Taiwan. Not only does Beijing not recognise Taipei, it also punishes countries and multi-lateral organisations who do.

This is a close analogy, but the important distinction here is that the PRC is the claimant to the ROC, so they have a straightforward and very strong motivation to thwart their recognition at all costs, as to avoid delegitimizing their own claims on it. The US, on the other hand, is a complete third party to either Israel or Palestine. They have interests and goals in the area, but nothing nearly as extreme as China's situation. That's what makes this situation so unique to me, it seems so disproportional of a reaction for a country that's not a party in the war. It makes sense if Israel does it, but the US?
by efreak | 2025-07-23 00:32:26+00:00
The device should be absolutely caching the most recently used apps, yes. Force closing is unnecessary, but I manage my apps on my phone not because I want to close background apps, but because I want to keep certain apps running (I don't care about steam or my email or messenger, etc, they open fast; the browser is slow and I want that to stay loaded). Unfortunately, I can dismiss/force-close all apps on my phone, open Firefox, switch to the home screen--and when I switch back it has to start up again fresh about 25% of the time.

The only reliable way I've found to use termux (as an ssh client, not anything high-resource) and Firefox at the same time is to use multi window, dragging termux out of the way of the keyboard every time I switch, as Firefox will regularly need to be reloaded otherwise; if I'm on certain heavy or lazy-loading websites or using a link with a hash in it, it'll then also lose my scroll position. This is particularly frustrating when I ssh into minimized containers with no command completion or man pages.
by qwerpy | 2025-07-23 00:32:43+00:00
I'll never buy anything other than Tesla (mainly for FSD) but some of the software can use some work. Apple Music sometimes can't connect, it saturates your internet uploading telemetry if you let it, and probably the worst thing is that the maps don't cache. Kind of awkward to have a robust off-roading vehicle with unusable maps when you actually go off-roading.
by IgnaciusMonk | 2025-07-23 00:33:06+00:00
newer, smaller (physically,epitaxy, not capacity) ssd "cell" = more times per year you have to rewrite(refresh) that cell / whole disk so you do not lose data, anyway.

any sane person uses FS / system with dedup in it, so you can have 7+4+12 snapshots for 5TB of data taking only 7TB of space. etc

you want snapshots, for example Manjarolinux (arch based) does use BTRFS capable of snapshots. so before every update it will make snapshot so if update fails, you can just select to go back into working state in grub...

Alma linux uses BTRFS too but im not sure if they have this functionality too.

ZFS, bcache, BTRFS, checksums

MD-INTERGITY inside of linux kernel can provide checksums for any fs essentially. just " lvcreate --type raidN --raidintegrity y " and you have checksumms + raid in linux