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by decentrality | 2025-08-18 09:40:56+00:00
Does not address root issue(s) nor elephants in the room; i.e. the underlying centrality in the world context beforehand. The call to simplicity can as-easily if not more-rapidly veer dystopian without asserting any kind of world context

Agreed it's bad. No basis for changing it provided. No premise for 'better' there. No actual thought
by zokier | 2025-08-18 09:40:59+00:00
I've been thinking that FST could be well suited for building routers for web frameworks. I.e. matching request path `/foo/42` to a set of route patterns like `/foo/{id}` etc. As I understand FST should be near perfect for this use and could potentially allow very good performance. Especially if you can construct the FST at compile time. Somewhat surprisingly I haven't seen anyone doing anything in that direction though, and FST literature is bit difficult if you don't have formal NLP background
by arianvanp | 2025-08-18 09:41:29+00:00
I think this highly depends on what country you live in. In NL and I have never entered a credit card number in a webshop to do a purchase ever. Just hit the "Pay" button; redirects to my bank; I get a notification on my phone; Hit fingerprint to unlock; approve; paid. Been that way for more than a decade

And I can call my bank when I get scammed unlike whatever crypto thing you're trying to sell in this post
by 1dom | 2025-08-18 09:41:39+00:00
Same here, I left NextDNS because I didn't trust it anymore. I started using it personally in homelab and just found it to be randomly a bit sluggish at times. Saw other similar reports. Tried to get support and failed. I saw it trying to sell itself as business capable DNS, and considered if it would fit in at work. Then I got an e-mail giving 7 days for me to disable and move all my logs out of the EU region. I was working at a large fintech firm at the time, and if a vendor had given us 1 week to rearchitect and figure out a new logging solution for DNS, we would have dropped them immediately due to the massive compliance issues they would have created.

The messaging around the change was very much "FYI we're deleting everything in 7 days in that region whether you're good or not, feel free to do what you want", e.g. creating problems with no interest in helping with solutions to those problems. This would all be fine for a free-tier service, but I was a paying customer. Even as a paying customer though, I paid virtually nothing.

Overall, NextDNS felt like it had the worst possible combination startup, passion project and beer money project features: I paid for it for a couple of years and got fed up because the amount talk about it gave the impression to me there was a fair and growing customer base but NextDNS were missing either the capability or focus to grow the service at the time. I'm conscious they'll be reading this - it was 2 years ago this happened, so maybe things have changed.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-08-18 09:44:14+00:00
My local electricity infrastructure provider is a private company, with the twist that all residents within their area are also automatically shareholders.

They operate "for profit", but profits are distributed amongst shareholders in the form of reduced bills, ie last year we didn't get bills for electricity transport for december, and the year before that there were no bills from august through december.

The "for profit" part pays infrastructure upgrades, so some years we pay the normal prices if there is infrastructure work being done, which in the end benefits all shareholders, meaning me (and other users).
by guidedlight | 2025-08-18 09:44:18+00:00
They sort of are.

I think the confusion arises because the IBM PC ASCII (code page 437) included comprehensive box-drawing characters between hexidecimal character positions B3 and DA. These weren't adopted into Unicode in the same character positions, but the box-drawing characters were definitely part of the commonly understood ASCII character set.

But I think that this ASCII tree editor should have a toggle option for basic vs extended ASCII, by utilising +, -, and | characters.
by skavi | 2025-08-18 09:44:24+00:00
What’s the relationship between Tilus and cuTile (and maybe Warp)?

A slight tangent, but I really wish Nvidia would release more details on Tile IR. Specifically on what it enables vs PTX.

Is it just about moving towards more MLIR based infra? Maybe it’s higher level and thus can enable better codegen across generations?
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-18 09:44:57+00:00
> these weird complaints about diversity in modern movies

You're twisting my words to move the narrative goalposts. Nobody complained about diversity in movies (otherwise I wouldn't have praised Rush Hour and Blade). The complaint was about US movies today being solely built around a toxic form of diversity checkbox ticking, masquerading as entertainment, which is not interesting to anyone outside the US crowds of movie goers who care more about seeing $CURRENT_DAY political issues in their movies instead of recognizing entertainment as being fantasy escapism, which causes the US to loose soft power abroad, and judging by how they flop at the box office, US viewers aren't interested in paying for this slop either.

>most of your good old days classics examples are in fact "slop based on established IP".

Source that they're slop?

>but Star Wars prequels given as a positive example while complaining about 30 year old IP slop?

The prequels were considered shit at the time because they were compared to the original masterpieces, but compared to the modern Star Wars that Disney shits out today, they're basically gold. They ended up ageing like wine due to how bad we have it today.

>You may also have missed the subtle subtext in Star Wars about fascism.

What's your point here?
by foldr | 2025-08-18 09:45:14+00:00
I think their point is that the movie didn’t give much attention to her role, which doesn’t have anything to do with her gender. It’s generally considered to be bad form to refer to someone using their deadname even if you are talking about a period when they were using it.

We should not make assumptions about someone’s gender identity before they “transitioned”. She was living as a man, but we don’t know how she identified at the time.
by arkey | 2025-08-18 09:45:27+00:00
Fair enough. Two points here, then:

- From a strictly scientific standpoint, wouldn't it be interesting to properly understand why and how it works?

- From a purely practical standpoint, who cares about any of that if not only it works, but is also better and healthier than what you might get prescribed at the doctor's?*

* yes, in some cases, not all.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-08-18 09:45:58+00:00
If my youtube subs' sponsored segments are anything to go by: Nebula, CuriosityStream, and Magellan.

...though the the problem with creating _good_ content on YouTube that still gets watched by millions over a decade after it was originally posted (looking at you, Jay Foreman) is your sponsored segments and this-month-only coupon codes will age poorly.
by lproven | 2025-08-18 09:47:24+00:00
Xfce.

Understands Windows-style keyboard navigation and shortcuts, which is way faster than reaching for a mouse and trying to aim at anything on screen.

For speed, learn _all_ the keyboard shortcuts. I mostly use my mouse only in web browsers: everything else is keyboard-driven.

I also rate Ubuntu's Unity for this. Looks like macOS but understands all the Windows keystrokes, even quite obscure ones.

For example the QuickLaunch bar, added in Win98 and deprecated from Vista on.

https://www.ancsite.com/bringing-back-windows-xp-style

Windows + 1...9 opens the n th item in the QL toolbar. Win+1 opens the first pinned app, Win+2 the second, Win+3 the third, etc. This works in Unity.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-18 09:48:58+00:00
The Israeli denials in this article should be taken in context.

https://xcancel.com/Israel/status/1950259113948070197 / https://www.instagram.com/p/DMs4qUlInQE/

> 41-year-old Mohammad al-Hasanat didn’t die of starvation — he suffered from untreated diabetes and died from complications of severe hypercatabolism.

Starvation causes hypercatabolism; it means your body is eating its own proteins. Statements all the way up to Netanyahu that no starvation is happening in Gaza are deeply, profoundly absurd.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-08-18 09:49:27+00:00
>The internet was built without a native way to prove who you are and move value securely. But now, for the first time, that missing piece (example...

I earnestly thought "Apple Pay" was going to be the example, and this post's title would be updated with [2014]. I'm not clear how the vault solves a problem anybody has in an era where Apple Pay and its contemporaries exist. I'm fairly sure if you'd described the Apple/Google Pay features to someone in 1990, they'd think something approximating "yeah that sounds like a good target".
by j16sdiz | 2025-08-18 09:49:37+00:00
When it works, it works great. But how about when it don't?

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Passkey - what would happens when we lost the device? You need some kind of recovery, right?

Social recovery - of course you could do that. Are you doing one recovery for all accounts (which require some kind of "wallet" stored in a centralized location - and can be disabled)? Or one for each services (which may make your grinder account known to your family)?

How about tourists? When you lost your phone while you are traveling in other country, what should you do?

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by robocat | 2025-08-18 09:49:44+00:00
Disasters are just another cost (risk). You can mostly mitigate the risk by avoiding known disaster areas and buying insurance. Renting has its own risks and costs.

Overindexing on one risk or cost is not sensible.

We had an earthquake (unknown faultline so completely unpredicted) in my city Christchurch. Owning your own home had costs and insurance response here wasn't ideal. Not owning your own home would have been more costly over a decade or two.

Just after a one-off disaster is a great time to buy. Christchurch realty has really bounced back.
by freehorse | 2025-08-18 09:49:57+00:00
I would argue that being harder to extend is actually an advantage of markdown, because it helps with it staying simple and having a relatively agreed upon standard form instead of getting lost in the complexities of different ways to extend it and the different standards this would bring. Being hard to extend means that it is easier to find local optimum rather than exploring the syntax space.

Moreover, simple, human readable parsing rules help a lot with reducing cognitive load of the form and focus on the content. Extending a syntax necessarily brings abstractions and more complex parsing rules which would conflict with that goal. In some contexts minimalism and simplicity are features in themselves.

For me, I often want to spend my time writing down the stuff I need to write and not play with extensions/logic/configs. I like that it forces me to actually not be able to do sth more complex because I am pretty sure that if I was incentivised to extend it instead, I would end up spending my time with that instead of writing.

Markdown is not good for stuff where complex logical structure in the content is important to be represented in the form. In the article it is beyond clear to me why the author did not use markdown for their book, I would be more interested in why they chose RST instead of latex or another language that is more towards the complex end than the minimalistic end. I guess what the author needed was some point in-between, and they found it in RST.
by rapjr9 | 2025-08-18 09:50:04+00:00
Everyone in the US is not going to buy a new car and a new home heating system within the next five years, but longer term that may be true. EV's can be charged off-peak to level the load without requiring new grid infrastructure. So it would seem utilities should now scrap their current long term plans and plan to build out new grid infrastructure much faster for data centers? Some grid projects take 5-10 years just to get approved. There are still years long backlogs in building new power transformers as well.

The number of fabs required still seems excessive also. So overall the physical plants required for AI's projected trajectory do not seem possible, unless AI gets a lot more energy efficient and chips get much faster. Or those who want data centers build the power infrastructure themselves without competing with other electrifications.
by roscas | 2025-08-18 09:51:08+00:00
From Ubuntu to ArchLinux or Rocky is a big change. But let's go!

Manjaro + XFCE4 or Plasma Why? Arch based and let's you get into the ArchLinux world of doing things. AUR is a huge plus.

RockyLinux + XFCE4 or Plasma A rock solid distro that put's you to learn the same commands for the Red Hat world. Since most software works on Fedora, it will work here.

So my desktop is ArchLinux + XFCE4 but my favorite is Plasma. All my other RHEL or Rocky have no desktop environment, only terminal.

I don't like Ubuntu for so many reasons but many people use it. Instead of Ubuntu, I would prefer Debian.

Stay away from? Fedora, CentOS, and all other, unless you want to test those, but you can do it on a VM.

For example, Alpine is great but for some specific scenarios.

Also choose a systemd distro. If you want to test a systemd-less distro, do it on a vm.
by leokennis | 2025-08-18 09:51:33+00:00
Commenting just on:

> > It's satisfying to write software used by millions of people. > > Is it still satisfying if that software is bad, or harms many of those people?

I work for a bank, so the software/service my colleagues and I deliver is probably at best "bottom of mind" for most people and at worst actively despised by many (maybe not even our specific implementation of it, but the idea in general that you depend on some behemoth to receive and send money).

Still it's very satisfying to deliver it, because if I mess up it's my mom that will no longer be able to pay for her online purchase or that large energy company everyone knows that can not pay out their salaries. What I do directly impacts people's lives in very practical and real ways. I would really miss that if I worked on some niche SaaS product with a few customers only.
by roenxi | 2025-08-18 09:51:55+00:00
You seem to be arguing something slightly off the thread topic. Jenadine typed "But I don't care what the authorities think of me as long as I don't do anything illegal, they won't care".

And I'm not sure who you are to say you are "below" the notice of the police. The police are primarily there to police the people at the bottom of society. The higher up the ladder of social status people climb the less they have to do with the police.
by ben_w | 2025-08-18 09:52:57+00:00
> Some people’s idea of wealth is to live in high density with others.

Very true. But I'd say this is more of a politics problem than a physics one: any given person doesn't necessarily want to be around the people that want to be around them.

> If every place has the population density of Wyoming, real wealth will be the ability to live in real cities. That’s much like what we have now.

Cities* are where the jobs are, where the big money currently gets made, I'm not sure how much of what we have today with high density living is to show your wealth or to get your wealth — consider the density and average wealth of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherton,_California, a place I'd never want to live in for a variety of reasons, which is (1) legally a city, (2) low density, (3) high income, (4) based on what I can see from the maps, a dorm town with no industrial or commercial capacity, the only things I can see which aren't homes (or infrastructure) are municipal and schools.

* in the "dense urban areas" sense, not the USA "incorporated settlements" sense, not the UK's "letters patent" sense

Real wealth is the ability to be special, to stand out from the crowd in a good way.

In a world of fully automated luxury for all, I do not know what this will look like.

Peacock tails of some kind to show off how much we can afford to waste? The rich already do so with watches that cost more than my first apartment, perhaps they'll start doing so with performative disfiguring infections to show off their ability to afford healthcare.
by lukan | 2025-08-18 09:54:43+00:00
Why not?

Assuming the placebo makes the mind activate the immune system in a proper way, eliminating the root cause of the inflammation, while the antibiotics only kill the bacteria while it is active, so no lasting effect. Bacterias that makes a sour throat are very common and will just come back if not kept in place by body defense mechanisms.

Key is a healthy and active immune system. The way placebos work, is apparently they support that.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-18 09:56:03+00:00
The problem is that the idiots making their stupid cog in the machine decisions have a financial and ideological incentive not to see themselves, their work and the way they've been trained to approach their work.

Some two bit code monkey screeching "it's not my fault my code shit all over the production database when something upstream of it got a little wonky, I coded to the spec I was given" is no different than some dumbass middle manager or MBA at HQ who's intentionally making the system more shitty for negligible, but measurable, savings so they can fuck off into the sunset with their bonus for hitting KPI before it all comes crashing down.
by egeres | 2025-08-18 09:56:13+00:00
This decision was actually made at IAG (International Airlines Group) which is the parent company of Vueling, British Airways, Iberia etc... not Vueling per se. The main motivation behind it is the price drop on the 737 MAX line. I'm surprised that switching to Boeing it's even worth it considering given these companies mostly fly Airbus planes so their pilots, supply chains for maintenance etc will need an overhaul
by ivan_gammel | 2025-08-18 09:56:26+00:00
Last time I checked USA is not the most democratic country in the world (#28 in democracy index below Uruguay, Czechia and Malta), so it is certainly not the role model for freedom. Yes, surprise, there exist other views in the world on how to find the balance between many different fundamental human rights and it does not mean those views reject freedom of speech. They just restrict it differently than America (which has several categories of unprotected speech and ranks lower in press freedom indices than some other countries which may restrict more categories).
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-18 09:57:09+00:00
I mean, we can ask the Israeli government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/israel-m...

> Amid rising starvation in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government minister said on Thursday that Israel had no duty to alleviate hunger in the territory and was seeking to expel its population.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-israeli-official...

> For more than two months, the Israeli government blocked humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. On Monday, it allowed in several trucks carrying baby food and other necessities, and on Tuesday it claimed that it had let in ninety-three additional trucks. (The United Nations said that none of Tuesday’s trucks reached their destination, however. Humanitarian organizations, which have been warning of a widespread hunger crisis, estimate that at least five hundred trucks per day are needed.)

Or even one of their Prime Ministers:

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-05-27/ty-article-opinio...

> Recent operations in Gaza have nothing to do with legitimate war goals. The government sends our soldiers – and the military obeys – to wander around Gaza City, Jabalya and Khan Yunis neighborhoods in an illegitimate military operation. This is now a private political war. Its immediate result is the transformation of Gaza into a humanitarian disaster area.

> What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. We're not doing this due to loss of control in any specific sector, not due to some disproportionate outburst by some soldiers in some unit. Rather, it's the result of government policy – knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated. Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.
by deadbabe | 2025-08-18 09:57:21+00:00
If you vibe code a project, just share your prompts and the output they produce, no one should really care about what your specific code looks like because the prompts should generate a fully custom version of the same app from scratch.

Otherwise, it’s like showing assembly code for some program you wrote. No one cares about the machine code, just give the highest level language.
by rsanheim | 2025-08-18 09:59:04+00:00
Because Claude code does offer particular features. More important than “features” is the fact that it works and does the things you want like 60-70% of the time, with guardrails and practice and attention. Which is way better than competing tools.

Besides that. These tools are changing so fast that to build an agent agnostic tool would be insane given the speed and market pressures right now. Why support roo or cline or cursor cli if it adds 3x engineering cost for 20% more market reach? The reality is there are no standards around the way the actual leading tools work if you wanna build something on Claude/codex/(insert flavor of the week).

Gotta pick your horse and try to hang on, and hope you picked right.
by foldr | 2025-08-18 09:59:18+00:00
Apologies for the edits to my comment - wasn’t expecting such fast responses.

But as I said in an edit, it’s bad form to deadname someone even if you are referring to a period when they went by the deadname.

I think the OP was just saying that her role was underplayed more than they were complaining about the title. If you check their comment it says nothing at all about gender.

We talk about the past events all the time using names that weren’t applicable during the relevant time period. The Aztecs didn’t call themselves Aztecs. This shouldn’t be a difficult concept in general.
by panphora | 2025-08-18 10:00:22+00:00
> instead of storing JSON we store HTML with all its verbosity and all its tags that have nothing to do with the user edit

Yes. In exchange, we get a portable, malleable, self-contained application. That's the tradeoff.

> What about if the webmaster then wants to change the HTML title

1. The webmaster owns my-app.hyperlay.com (or somecustomdomain.com). 2. The user forks their version and gets user-version.hyperclay.com (or user-version.somecustomdomain.com)

You need to fork before editing. In the future, we'll have support for shipping updates to forked applications that can be accepted or denied by the end users.
by Firehawke | 2025-08-18 10:00:28+00:00
MAME's documentation was moved to Sphinx (and thus RST) a number of years ago. I headed up that project, in fact.

There was a significant learning curve getting good output when converting some of the old ASCII charts out of .txt files, but once settled it makes for a much better user experience and it auto-compiles to HTML, PDF, and even EPUB with zero additional effort.

I would definitely not want to go to Markdown from RST for technical documentation that's more complex than a Github readme.
by andrepd | 2025-08-18 10:00:57+00:00
This is the thing. There needs to be personal responsability, not just some diffuse (and weak-ass) fine. As it stands the literal worst thing that can happen is the CEO gets fired with a multimillion dollar severance. Is this a joke?

Just look at 2008. I'm convinced many things started to go downhill hard when the worst global financial meltdown since the 1930s went down with not one single person going to jail.
by bentley | 2025-08-18 10:01:27+00:00
Notice how I said “some exceptions,” precisely to head off a comment like that. Or did you read “some exceptions” and think your example wouldn’t qualify?

No, I don’t care what Pakistan thinks of me. But I've been to the UK, and I'll probably go there again. I live my life according to American law, without regard for UK law, but if UK law enforcement publicly announced an investigation of me, I'd find legal representation and respond. (Remotely.)