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by 14 | 2025-08-19 00:49:22+00:00
Oh I didn't see your comment right away. Yes I did hear about the mod you mention but what I actually did years ago was the Reset Glitch Hack (RGH) on mine and several other 360's. It required soldering in a tiny piece of hardware which required you to solder to the smallest of pads on the motherboard. I remember at the time I had the cheapest junk soldering iron and nothing to help magnify the board and the pad you need to connect a wire to is literally smaller then a pen tip. Many people screwed up and lifted pads causing big problems for their 360. I had some previous experience soldering and managed to have no problems with the install.

In the end my RGH worked really well and it would boot first try every time, some people it could take like a minute to actually boot. Then it would load into custom firmware and I was able to do what ever I wanted. I still have the thing and it still runs with an external HDD with about 1000 games (all personal back ups of course) and my kids never knew how lucky they were to be allowed to play all my games I had backed up.
by tomp | 2025-08-19 00:49:59+00:00
Plastic straws are better, as are incandescent light bulbs.

The proof is in the pudding / free market. If the alternatives (paper straws, LED bulbs) were better, people would voluntarily buy them! (cf: mobile phones vs. stationary phones, almost noone has the latter these days, because the former are just - better!) Instead, they're banned because they're better.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-19 00:50:19+00:00
Unless something changed recently, every title on Downpour is DRM free when bought (as opposed to rented). I've been using Downpour for more than a decade and own tons of books. Libro.fm is slightly newer and IMO has slightly nicer UX, but both websites have mostly the same (wide) selection of titles.

I can't tell you why publishers make the decisions they do, but there's no trick here, if that's what you're asking. DRM free audio books are widely available and have been widely available for a long time now.

The real question is, why does Audible insist on putting DRM on their Audiobooks when the publishers clearly don't care? I don't know the answer to that either, but the upshot is that everyone should stop buying from Audible!
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-19 00:50:54+00:00
> According to the Constitution of Brazil, foreign court decisions "can only be enforced in Brazil upon approval or in compliance with international judicial cooperation mechanisms," the court said.

> Although the ruling did not explicitly mention the Magnitsky Act, a Brazilian court source told AFP that the ruling "in theory" invalidates the law in Brazil -- though Washington has already contested this interpretation.

They are moving to sacrifice the country's entire economy in order to maintain the despotic supreme court judge who got sanctioned under Magnitsky.

If they keep this up it's pretty much over for this country. Wow.
by presentation | 2025-08-19 00:51:19+00:00
Another five over one (which is what I think you mean) is not the same as a whole neighborhood getting razed and replaced with towers in the park.

By the way, the whole point of streamlining permitting and zoning processes are to get rid of the unreasonable watering down of every proposal because as you state the end result is worse for everyone, aesthetics included.

Also it isn’t just about historic structures, there’s situation like that San Francisco Mission District strip-mall-esque laundromat steps from the BART station, that can’t be replaced because NIMBYs are afraid of “changing the neighborhood character.” If crap architecture like that ends up in the same historic bucket then whoever is declaring 80% of every city as being “historic” has done a disservice to anyone who wants to actually protect historic architecture by diluting the name for their anti-change cause.
by gcanyon | 2025-08-19 00:51:32+00:00
> [re: PRK] This regrowth can be ... rather painful

I'm here to tell everyone to listen to the doctor about pain medications and sleeping after PRK. I have a repeatedly-demonstrated very high tolerance for pain, and didn't bother to follow the directions.

As a result, I spent about an hour seriously considering whether it would hurt less if I physically scooped out my eyeballs by hand. That's not a metaphor -- I had to mentally restrain my hands.

And the punchline is that 12 years later I again need glasses for computer work, which is what I do all day.
by bakugo | 2025-08-19 00:52:06+00:00
> To me that's profound. It implies that not only was management not concerned about the start up time, but none of the developers of the project ever used a profiler.

Odds are that someone did notice it during profiling and filed a ticket with the relevant team to have it fixed, which was then set to low priority because implementing the latest batch of microtransactions was more important.

I feel like this is just a natural consequence of the metrics-driven development that is so prevalent in large businesses nowadays. Management has the numbers showing them how much money they make every time they add a new microtransaction, but they don't have numbers showing them how much money they're losing due to people getting tired of waiting 15 minutes for the game to load, so the latter is simply not acknowledged as a problem.
by foobazgt | 2025-08-19 00:52:55+00:00
[Hey I own one of those]. Nah, the majority of people buying those specific vehicles should be buying an EV instead. In fact, this article is targeted specifically to them.

Rather, the biggest need for hybrids are people who frequently tow long distance at highway speeds. The combined aero drag is ridiculous: about 25% of typical EV efficiency. You'd need to drag a humongous 300kwh battery around to get range comparable to a typical sedan while towing.

Instead, some of the new EREVs are more like a BEV + hybrid, in that they have a BEV-sized battery (e.g. 100+kwh) for all your non-towing driving, along with a generator to handle the long distance towing.
by otterley | 2025-08-19 00:53:10+00:00
First, your response doesn't answer the question I asked.

Second, these two things are not the same. People routinely try to defraud businesses because they get tangible value out of it. They don't routinely try to defraud elections: Not only is the punishment more severe for the latter; the would-be fraudster gets practically nothing of value for his efforts.

And to say it's not a problem is not naive. Investigations are routinely carried out in response to allegations of voter fraud, and practically none result in any serious accusations let alone convictions, and certainly none at the scale that could affect an elections outcome.
by saltcured | 2025-08-19 00:53:43+00:00
I relocated during the pandemic and brought my existing (Los Angeles area code) number to the SF Bay Area with Mint Mobile. I really don't get local area code spam after five years. The few calls that do happen, I can trace by topic back to local business interactions I've had.

I'm not sure whether to think the Mint MVNO on T-Mobile is better about privacy than T-Mobile. Or do you have some phone apps that are really the guilty party linking your phone number to your travel locations...?
by jjk166 | 2025-08-19 00:54:59+00:00
They show R&D is effective and R&D spending is up, and conclude obsolescence must be the reason this is not reflected in productivity pretty much by process of elimination. However there is an alternative - that for reasons unrelated to R&D, productivity is actually being driven down, and ever increasing R&D output is necessary just to maintain current levels of productivity.

In particular, they are looking at US manufacturing. While this is a diverse industry, it's clear that in many subfields there is quite a bit of saturation. When everyone has a car, and cars last longer and longer, the need for new cars goes down. Once you get to a point where your industrial capacity can provide enough to satisfy demand, further R&D only reduces the costs of satisfying that demand, not increased output, and in some cases improvements to product quality may even further reduce demand. In the US, light vehicle sales peaked in 2000, and while the numbers dipped during various market downturns, they keep coming back to roughly the same asymptote. The numbers are even more striking if you break it down further - the annual demand for personal vehicles has fallen by a factor of 4 since 1965, and by a factor of 3 since 2000, the difference being made up by increased commercial vehicle demand. Looking at other industries like steel paints a similar picture.
by Dr4kn | 2025-08-19 00:55:07+00:00
They steal it, but give everyone free access. You can download it for free, but can also torrent everything. They don't hoard for themselves, but everyone gets access to what they have. That is the crucial difference.

Only giving access to your material over downloads means that people have to pay if they want to get more of it. If those people don't share it then the material is going to be lost again.

Torrenting all the material slapping using their frontend as a base and just making money is different.
by nis0s | 2025-08-19 00:55:10+00:00
It’s unnecessary to rule out giving moral status to AI, but I think the OP is right that it doesn’t make sense to give it to LLMs, which is what all chatbots are currently. The current chatbots, and their underlying models, lack any meaningful self-reflection or self-regulation, and as such are more akin to advanced automata than AI agents.

The community (of scientists, of users, of observers) at large needs to distinguish between AI and other algorithmic processes which don’t necessarily merit ethical consideration.

If there is such a time when there’s an AI agent which merits ethical consideration, then the community would be remiss to deny it that, given that we currently have ethical considerations for animals or other dynamical systems, e.g., the environment.

I think the pushback on giving AI agents moral status comes from being economically or intellectually threatened, and not because the argument itself lacks merit. I could be wrong. If I am right though, then the goal should be to encourage a symbiotic relationship between AI and humans, similar to other symbiotic relationships and interactions in the animal kingdom.

A key to such symbiosis may to be deny AI an embodied existence, but that may be in some way cruel. A secondary way, then, is AI and human integration, but we’re not even close to anything like that.

[This comment has been downvoted twice, so I’d love to learn why! I am eager to know what’s the difference in opinion, or if I am simply wrong.]
by firefax | 2025-08-19 00:55:49+00:00
>This is not unlike the surprise in underground.txt

I thought that was originally a book?

I distinctly remember reading it during an in school suspension in the 2000s.

I tried to go back to my township library and read it again years later, but someone had stolen it around the time that Wikileaks truthfully revealed that the DNC had kneecapped Bernie in the primaries.

(Many folks don't seem to distinguish between the public airing of unpleasant truths that could not be aired without their own actions, and "disinformation" in the "covid is a hoax" vein. To them, anything contrary to their narrative is evil and bad, and if only those dastardly Russians would stop making them look bad my making them send several illegal emails they could stop voting like Republicans)
by ares623 | 2025-08-19 00:56:00+00:00
> It's not money, but real passion for the work.

Yeah, nah... passion only sustains a person for 3 days max before they expire.

My theory is that open source boomed in the last few decades because developers had enough income and free time from their day jobs to moonlight as contributors. With the gravy train ending, I suspect open source will suffer greatly. Maybe LLMs can cover what was lost, or maybe corporations will pay their engineers to contribute directly (even more so than what they do now), but there will definitely be some losses here.
by defrost | 2025-08-19 00:56:26+00:00
Ethnic Brits are immigrants .. all the way down. Wave after wave of them.

> the people whose majority of ancestors two centuries ago were living on the British Isles.

So .. not the House of Windsor then.

> Brits in a wider sense -- Which happened against their consent.

Near as I understand British history not much happened with the broad consent of the masses, hence all the castles and defensive structures built to protect "rulers" from "ethnic brits".

The people that migrated to Britain in the Windrush generation were also British citizens, if you check your history you may recall a long phase in which the then ethnic British majority (who all originated from outside of Britain having cleansed the prior group of ethnic brits) went about claiming large chunks of other peoples multi-generation lands as their own and dabbling in more than a smidgen of miscegenation.

This is just history, beware the seeds you sow, they have a way of coming home to roost.
by creatonez | 2025-08-19 00:57:20+00:00
This headline is so egregiously sensationalist.

The XZ backdoor never made it to Debian stable. It is "still lurking in docker images" because Debian publishes unstable testing images, under a tag that is segregated from the stable release tags. You can find vulnerable containers for literally any vulnerability you can imagine by searching for the exact snapshot where things went wrong.

And then downstream projects, if they choose to, can grab those images and create derivatives.

Basing your images on an experimental testing version of Debian and then never updating it is an obvious mistake. Whether XZ is backdoored is almost irrelevant at that point, it's already rotting.

> Upon discovering this issue, Binarly immediately notified the Debian maintainers and requested removal, but the affected images remain in place.

It is generally considered inappropriate to remove artifacts from an immutable repository for having a vulnerability. This wasn't even done for vulnerable Log4j versions in Maven repositories, despite Log4shell being one of the most potent vulnerabilities in history. It would just break reproducible builds and make it harder to piece together evidence related to the exploit.
by kragen | 2025-08-19 00:57:25+00:00
Based on Haskell do-notation, Firefox's unfortunately withdrawn array comprehensions, and C# LINQ, I've been thinking about this:

[for b in c let d = f(b) for e in g if h else m where p(d, e): b, d, e]

as alternative syntax to Python's

((b, d, e) for b in c for d in [f(b)] for e in (g if h else m) if p(d, e))

This solves five problems in Python listcomp syntax:

1. The one this article is about, which is also a problem in SQL, as juancn points out.

2. The discontinuous scope problem: in Python

[Ξ for x in Γ for y in Λ]

x is in scope in Ξ and Λ but obviously not Γ. This is confusing and inconsistent.

3. The ambiguity between conditional-expression ifs and listcomp-filtering trailing ifs, which Python solves by outlawing the former (unless you add extra parens). This is confusing when you get a syntax error on the else, but there is no non-confusing solution except using non-conflicting syntax.

4. let. In Python you can write `for d in [f(b)]` but this is inefficient and borders on obfuscated code.

5. Tuple parenthesization. If the elements generated by your iteration are tuples, as they very often are, Python needs parentheses: [(i, c) for i, c in enumerate(s) if c in s]. That's because `[i, c` looks like the beginning of a list whose first two items are i and c. Again, you could resolve these conflicting partial parses in different ways, but all of them are confusing.
by mapt | 2025-08-19 00:57:40+00:00
A light comedy piece or a plucky human interest story do not erase the statements of fact made or the repeated insistence on being taken seriously which pervade the rest of this institution. It isn't even reliant on their audience taking them seriously, it's reliant on the intended tone and how a reasonable person would perceive that intent.

You can argue that Fox News is intended to be basically the Colbert Report satirizing a certain mindset, but it's an obviously bad-faith argument. The Colbert Report was literally created to satirize the seriousness and mendacity of Fox News and its attempts to persuade people into a set of not just interpretations of the world, but factual beliefs about that world.

There is a line, and Fox runs way over the line into defamatory content multiple times an hour.

I can't immunize myself from currency counterfeiting charges by claiming that I never thought the copies were real, that it was all just in fun, that I was pranking the businesses I spent them at, and that my Youtube channel includes other fun bits of me deceiving people and telling jokes. The one does not exculpate the other.
by dogmatism | 2025-08-19 00:57:57+00:00
agree

here on the other coast, with cheap gas and expensive electric, Prius would be about 6 cents/mi, Bolt costs me about 8 (on average winter/summer)

gas is $2.80/gallon, electric (with off peak program) $0.30/kWh. Bolt (fairly efficient EV) 3.8 mi/kWh (3.4- Winter 4+ summer)
by jameslk | 2025-08-19 00:58:40+00:00
1. Part of your negotiation should be explaining that independent contractors have ~30% less overhead than a salaried employee due to the savings on payroll taxes as well as unemployment insurance, recruiting, benefits, vacation time, etc and therefore require a higher rate than salaried employees

2. If your time is in demand because you’re being referred enough, your leverage is higher

3. You can jump ship as often as you want for a higher rate without having to explain it on a resume

4. Building a brand around yourself lowers your perceived risk for businesses and gives you additional leverage

5. Write off as much as possible, and if you make enough, there’s additional things you can do on the tax savings front beyond just writing off expenses (S-corp salary + draw taxed as capital gains)

6. Specialize in something (e.g. specific ecommerce platforms, web performance optimization, accessibility remediation) and you will become more trusted in that something, get more referred to others for it, and gain more leverage
by the_gastropod | 2025-08-19 00:58:44+00:00
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Uni...

There are dozens of examples of Republican states attempting to disenfranchise minority voters.

Not sure why you’re bringing up money, food, or identity here. But as a simple example: picture an average middle class New Yorker. They do not drive. They don’t travel internationally. Why would they need to go get an ID? (I lived in NY for about 11 years, and went a long chunk of that without bothering to get an ID. Only did eventually so that I could rent a car)

I wish you’d recognize that the “problem” you’re suggesting needs solving was invented by political actors with the sole intent of increasing their odds of winning elections. There’s no other real problem they’re trying to solve.
by janalsncm | 2025-08-19 00:58:59+00:00
You bring up a good point, a future steak factory will be a lot more centralized than the distributed system of farms we have today. So an outbreak in one would significantly disrupt the market, at a minimum, and in the worst case cause a mass outbreak. The flip side is that a factory has a higher ceiling for cleanliness and disease surveillance. I would be wary of foreign lab grown meat for this reason.
by jchw | 2025-08-19 00:59:04+00:00
The summary of what they did on the page is largely accurate. I mean, the repository on GitHub that cooks the official Docker Debian images is indeed primarily maintained by a Debian maintainer who is a member of many different Debian teams, even if it is not an official artifact of Debian. And the problem is fixed in Docker, too, but it sounds like the issue is that they'd like the old Docker images with the backdoored packages to be removed.

And sure, you definitely lose some niceties of Debian when you run it under Docker. You also lose some niceties of Docker when you don't.
by const_cast | 2025-08-19 00:59:05+00:00
Every person in the country has an interest in having electricity. Therefore, every person in the country should pay for electricity.

What is the most cost-effective and reliable way to administer something that every single person in a country requires? Taxes and the public sector.

It's not rocket science.

It's just like Visa and other payment processors. What do you think that 3% on every single transaction is? That's a tax. The difference is you're being taxed and you're buying someone's third private jet. If everyone is gonna be taxed regardless, just nationalize it. At least then we won't have to pay the burden of profit.
by Izkata | 2025-08-19 00:59:16+00:00
Python supports a syntax like your first example by implementing the appropriate magic method for the desired operator and starting the chain with that special object. For example, using just a single pipe: https://flexiple.com/python/python-pipeline-operator

The functions with extra arguments could be curried, or done ad-hoc like lambda v: fun1(v, arg1=1)
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-19 00:59:16+00:00
I'm not really sure what to think of Stratechery. It's got lots of words that are difficult for me to quickly skim the overall gist of to gauge whether they might be interesting, including paradigm 33 times, disrupt 58 times, and of course AI 247 times on the front page. From my angle it reads like a Dilbert comic so I guess I can't answer why the intended audience would or wouldn't pay $0.10.

Another observation though is that he literally describes his own site as having a "content business model" and his own posts as "content", so I think the word choice is more telling than you realize. I see it and just think "ok..." and hit back. I guess it pays his bills though so it seems to work. Apparently someone's giving him the $0.10. Other people in the content industry looking for tips like some giant ouroboros?
by roxolotl | 2025-08-19 00:59:21+00:00
That’s totally fair. Money though is a representation of desire and the reality is people don’t have interest in solving these problems. We live in a society where there’s much more interest in creating something that might be god than solving other problems. And that’s really the main point of the article.

But also even if the W3C spent $10m a year for the 10 years SOAP was being actively developed according to Wikipedia that would still be 1/1000 of the 100billion we’re talking about. So we really have no idea what this sort of money could do if mobilized in other ways.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-08-19 00:59:26+00:00
>First off, you didn't say NIMBYism, you said NIMBY, and I'm pretty sure you understand the difference. If you really don't, I'll spell it out for you:

What you "spelled out" is not the generally understood definitions. I'm glad you're thinking for yourself, that's usually a good thing. Good on you!

That said, when using specific terms, it generally helps to use widely understood terms rather than your own definitons.

NIMBY[0]:

NIMBY (/ˈnɪmbi/, or nimby),[1] an acronym for the phrase "Not In My Back Yard",[2][3] is *a characterization of opposition by residents to proposed real estate development and infrastructure developments in their local area, as well as support for strict land use regulations. It carries the connotation that such residents are only opposing the development because it is close to them and that they would tolerate or support it if it were built farther away. The residents are often called nimbys, and their viewpoint is called nimbyism. * The opposite movement is known as YIMBY for "yes in my back yard".[4]

Please note that the above, makes no mention of greed or virtue signaling for NIMBY or NIMBYism which are define as those folks (NIMBYs) with the attitudes/preferences called NiMBYism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY