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by pengaru | 2025-09-27 21:27:20+00:00
> I admit, I do not fully understand systemd ... > This indicates to me a very poor design. If not, it is a validation of the old UNIX saying "do one thing and do it well" and "keep programs small" (paraphrasing).

You don't need to fully understand systemd to understand TFA describes a kernel fix.

This isn't a systemd problem, systemd just makes use of cgroups. The kernel has a degenerate case handling lazy atime updates combined with cgroups.
by didibus | 2025-09-27 21:28:19+00:00
If you do the math, Alberta would donate even more money if it was a US state. It would owe more federal taxes, and since its population tends younger and well employed, it would get less of it back.

You could say the "benefit" could be that getting approvals for pipelines and higher production of oil might be easier to get in the US. That's really just an "if" though. The Keystone XL pipeline was blocked twice by US government.

What it should have done is adopt Norway's model. It would have half a trillion in savings already if it had, and wouldn't even need oil, as raw investment could finance its budget alone.

But putting all that aside as well. Your average Albertan wouldn't be better off. They'd lose healthcare, education would be more expensive, they'd have a worse retirement fund, and so on. They'd have to pay more tax and get less benefit in return. Plus, there'd be a higher influx of immigrants low balling the jobs and lowering wages.

But it’s not too late to change course. If Alberta seriously committed to a Norway style model now, it could still build a fund big enough to make oil dependence temporary. That alone could justify building pipelines to the coast, use it as a bridge until the Heritage Fund becomes a self-sustaining engine of prosperity. It's a convincing argument for the other provinces, and would be great for Canada overall.
by godelski | 2025-09-27 21:29:16+00:00
My favorite thing about a standing desk is that I can actually sit and the desk be at the correct height.

I'll admit, I spend most of my time sitting at that desk. I do like standing in the morning as I think it helps me wake up a bit more, but the absolute biggest difference it has made for me is actually being able to sit at my desk with a good posture. *Mix that with a good chair and a vesa monitor mount* and you'll have a lost less back pain. But you'll still want to move around and do some minimal time in the gym or something. A standing desk isn't magic, but let's also be honest, we have adjustable chairs because everyone is sized differently, so why would we not think this is also important for our desks? The chair can't do everything.
by epolanski | 2025-09-27 21:29:28+00:00
Denmark is one of the countries with the highest standards of living by any metric possible, consistently ranking among the best countries to live in the world.

The US is not.

Sure, there's allure in going to US if you're from a poor country, or if you have an ambition your country cannot satisfy (some scientists and entrepreneurs will find America only in America, that's true).

Greenlanders are neither of those two categories.

If they don't care moving to Denmark or rest of Europe you can be sure they don't care coming to US either.
by eschaton | 2025-09-27 21:29:50+00:00
What makes them “feel like 1970s technology” to you, and—more importantly—why do you say that like it’s a bad thing?

Most of the opposition I’ve seen to using mailing lists for technical discussion has basically come down to “young people think email is old and gross” and my position is that people reacting that way have some self-reflection to do and to get over themselves.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-27 21:30:50+00:00
Ideally, noatime would be the default, and applications that still care about atime would be updated to open with a new `O_ATIME` flag. Or, better yet, track it themselves independently.

It's completely reasonable to turn it on. And also, when you're writing applications for Linux, consider using the `O_NOATIME` flag in your file opens.
by perrygeo | 2025-09-27 21:31:35+00:00
The history of an individual organism can be read by future generations. But it's through epigenetics, not genetics - adding methyl groups to the DNA, which influence gene expression. These are inherited, but the changes only last a few generations and have limited (though not zero!) impact on evolution since they don't seem to persist in the genetic code.

Beyond that, culture has a huge role to play. Many complex lifeforms learn how to survive from their parents and peers. Those groups with less adaptive strategies will be wiped out. For many organisms, they are not "thinking" per se, they are processing sensory data in the way they've been taught. The "thinking" was done by multilevel selection, weeding out ineffective strategies.

IOW, no organism technically needs to think through a problem from first principles. There's always some cultural heuristic to fall back on.

Second paragraph is spot on. The search space is far too large for evolution to provide direct solutions for every challenge a multicellular lifeform could face. General solutions rule. But it's likely that cultural adaptation plays a larger role than individual cognition.

One could argue the prokaryotic life is 100% instinct though - adaptive responses seem to be pretty rare in bacteria.
by lavela | 2025-09-27 21:31:48+00:00
..or mouse for camera.

But I kind of understand it. I did a somehow similar project before and for people who are not trained in video game style controls it is quite hard to get used to them ad-hoc.

Assuming this project is at least partially aimed at art directors, project leads and such aka people who aren't necessarily gamers, detached movement/camera controls are a bit risky.
by HappyPanacea | 2025-09-27 21:32:36+00:00
In many other countries other than the USA the gap between left and right in regards to climate change is much smaller and majority on the right are at least concerned about it and it is definitely NOT part of their identity. How does pointing out this misconception is "burying my head in sand" as your reply implies? At no point I imply that climate change shouldn't be carefully studied and mitigated.

This forums' USA centrism (although unsurprising) is really starting to get on my nerves.
by tavavex | 2025-09-27 21:33:06+00:00
It's not self-contradictory at all. Proponents of Chat Control want to be able to spy on their own citizens, and have the technological wiggle room to expand their powers to collect data in the future. At the same time, they generally don't want customers to be abused by large companies that strong-arm them into increasingly lopsided contracts by moving in unison and using the average person's technical illiteracy against them. For people like us, these two things are related because we don't want every bit of our data collected, examined and studied for either tracking or profit - but for them, companies and governments operate on entirely different levels of rights and expectations.

Also, the EU isn't even remotely like "a country".
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-27 21:33:40+00:00
I will in the most succinct method possible. Using, "pseudocode."

Mormons == thinkTheyreTheTrueJews() Israel == perhapsCommitingGenocide(notPeopleILike) Ancestry == secularDatabaseofRacialTypes JosephGoebells == true.TryThisInASmall Town(GrandmaBarbara) Utah == mostly.Mormon (++/==) 49%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_Mormonism

#israel #lobby #AIPAC #SecondImpact

EDIT: This is for the Wasatch Front not just everywhere.

#peterthiel #antichrist #YuiIkari
by zwnow | 2025-09-27 21:33:44+00:00
JBL is unfortunately one of the brands that people buy nowadays and think of as "good". Well already was a thing 8 years ago... Please do not buy JBL nowadays. Its crap made for being thrown away after a few years. Real speakers are repairable usually. The expensive ones we sold even had 70 year - lifetime warranty. Its true that old speakers often have really good sound though. A lot of it is mechanical which didn't change a lot in the last decades. Modern speakers have electronic shenanigans that might work, but doesn't provide a noticeable difference in my opinion. Except for noise canceling.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-27 21:35:05+00:00
As a heavy Windows keyboard user I've found the level or disrespect for my muscle memory skyrocketed with Windows 10. (I'm frustrated daily with the "Sign out" and "Switch user" in the menu to close Explorer. That stupid choice to rename "Log off" turned a deterministic muscle memory operation into a "now I have to look at the screen" operation.)
by charcircuit | 2025-09-27 21:35:37+00:00
There have been many games released for iOS. In fact iOS makes up about a third of all revenue for video games. Also just because it can't play some old game for PCs, it doesn't mean that it's useless. It just means that people may have to do work to port those old workloads to iOS if they want legacy software to use new, powerful hardware.
by coffeecoders | 2025-09-27 21:35:45+00:00
Ollama started out as the clean "just run a model locally" story, but now it’s branching into paid web search, which muddies the open-source appeal. Windows ML goes the other direction: deep OS integration, but at the cost of tying your stack tightly to the Windows ecosystem, very reminiscent of DirectX.

Now, the real question is whether vLLM/ONNX or just running straight on CUDA/ROCm are the only alternatives or we are all trading one vendor lock-in with another.
by hkmaxpro | 2025-09-27 21:35:47+00:00
I am also not a fan of automatic fraction.

BTW, I notice that both of your complaints will be addressed in the next version:

https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/6672

https://github.com/typst/typst/pull/6442 , see also https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/math-mode-problem/
by eschaton | 2025-09-27 21:35:48+00:00
I think for internal corporate use, NNTP would work even better, if it were still supported in mail clients. I deployed it for exactly that purpose in the late 1990s and it was great.

Fortunately there are IMAP shared mailboxes, which we worked incredibly hard at CMU during the Cyrus project to ensure would work just as well as bboards did in CMU’s previous Andrew Mail System. (“Bulletin boards,” aka bboards, were basically CMU-local Usenet, with global Usenet under a netnews.* hierarchy via a gateway.)

Most IMAP clients worth their salt support shared mailbox hierarchies, even Apple Mail does, so it’s “just” a matter of setting up shared groups on a server.
by JeremyNT | 2025-09-27 21:35:54+00:00
> I've found Bluesky does a really bad job at not showing me stuff I don't want to see. Furry p*rn on the "cute internet cats" feed? Yup. Heaps and heaps of political rage bait on the main discover feed? Yup.

Unlike X, blue sky defaults to simply showing you a feed of the people you follow, in chronological order.

This is the best way to use the app
by amiga386 | 2025-09-27 21:36:18+00:00
https://old.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/142etak/heartbroke...

> The owners of the Pink Peacock Cafe faced an uphill battle against prejudice, discrimination, and hatred, making it nearly impossible for them to continue their noble mission of creating a safe space for everyone.

Top comment:

> Your place was an absolute fucking disgrace. You displayed more hatred and bigotry than any of the folk you are accusing. You didn't fall because of 'the system', you failed because you are a pseudo-intellectual circle jerk with staff who are abusive. Fuck off and good riddance.

Also:

> You failed because opening whenever you could be bothered while selling piss-poor coffee and average food in a cafe which often resembled a messy student's bedroom isn't going to bring the punters in.

> And be honest here, you're closing because you can't afford to fix the disabled toilet. You'll all be fine though. You've got trust funds and wealthy parents who'll help fund your next doomed to fail venture but those poor wee sods that did rely upon you will be let down by nobody but you.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-09-27 21:37:06+00:00
I know. About a dozen other people know. Because I summoned them to show themselves.

In 1982. Right there in the 1st floor of this building https://www.flickr.com/photos/metaroll/2787004711/ , https://www.flickr.com/photos/eckhard-henkel/51209182443/ during a little celebration, where I've been disturbed during a 'presentation' of future things by holografic means by the then chief of station.

To shut him up, and let me continue. Which I've succeeded in. Sort of. Because they appeared via holografic means, also. Mostly. With the exception of 2 entities, which physically entered, riding in on something like star wars hover bike from 'up there', shrinking themselves to large toy size, to fit in the room. Motioning the chief to get the F out of the way of my projection :-)
by pengaru | 2025-09-27 21:37:35+00:00
It's one of those things that you don't care about until you do.

As a former sysadmin through the dotcom booms, we regularly depended on atime for identifying which files are actively being used in myriad situations.

Sometimes you're just confirming a config file was actually reloaded in response to your HUP signal. Other times you're trying to find out which data files a customer's cgi-bin mess is making use of.

It's probably less relevant today where multi-user unix hosts are less common, but it was quite valuable information to maintain back then.
by ElijahLynn | 2025-09-27 21:37:46+00:00
has a lot of potential

feedback after 5m

* there should be a help section, all i could figure out is how to walk with up/left/down/right, and w/a/s/d. And the mouse. * I got nauseous after a bit, not sure if that is everyone or just me but I did have some bad nausea on a ride (teacups) at the local carnival/fair a few months ago, and it comes back every now and then. * the controls on desktop seem too sensitive. I had to eventually walk with W and then go left and right with the arrow keys, but even then it was too sensitive

I left after 5m because of the nausea.

I liked the music and peacefulness.
by xcf_seetan | 2025-09-27 21:37:50+00:00
I dont get it. Apart from the website is amazing, i dont see any kraftwerk reference, Tangerine Dream of any of electronic music. I see Moog, but that was an Synthesizer maker not a music style. Also it seems that rap appear in 72? Along wit Pink Floyd, Yes and Genesis? I think this is more what we call Techno Dance Music.
by cornholio | 2025-09-27 21:38:30+00:00
This is clearly not true: once thinking emerges in a species, it can be applied for an infinite number of situations that can't be codified into instincts because they are unique. Each battle site is unique, it has a certain topology, each battle involves a particular snapshot of men with certain equipment, gear, training and morale etc. The commander who can reason generally about battles will win on average against the commander that can simply "feel" the right moment to attack, if that intuition is just evolutionary inheritance from a long line of warriors who survived very different battles in their time.

So the advantage even against members of your own species is substantial and quickly leads to reinforcing and spreading of the thinking gene.
by zzo38computer | 2025-09-27 21:38:31+00:00
I agree that NNTP would be better. I do have a NNTP server because of this, although my intention is that it can be used for public discussions and not only for internal corporate use, although I did implement authentication in case some newsgroups are used for private discussions too.

(Note, the article in the IETF mailing list does mention Usenet too)
by sorenjan | 2025-09-27 21:38:48+00:00
What's stopping you from using ONNX models on other platforms? A hardware agnostic abstraction to make it easier for consumers to actually use their inference capable hardware seems like a good idea, and exactly the kind of stuff I think an operating system should provide.

> Call the Windows ML APIs to initialize EPs [Execution Providers], and then load any ONNX model and start inferencing in just a few lines of code.
by Xunie | 2025-09-27 21:38:55+00:00
Zero responsibility? You are always responsible for the things you say, both morally and legally, both here and elsewhere. Even in public spaces like town squares or hn comment sections. (hn sux, lmao.)

If a chat gets toxic by your standards, just leave. No one forces you to stay in a chat where you don't want to be. On the other hand, governments do censor and scan your private messages. Good cryptography and trustable software mitigates that partially but not entirely. Privacy and autonomy are fundamental human rights. Seemingly, the only way to enforce them is by exercising your rights and holding your government accountable.

I'd rather be abused by a toxic community I can willingly leave than be abused by a toxic government who can take my voice away, imprison me or worse. They can do that to anyone at any time. Laws like SLAs are worth the paper they're written on. And so software that prioritizes censorship-free speech is a tradeoff to be made and cannot be personally made -- it has to be made as a group. (Software like anything else can still be outlawed!)

The recent events with governments eroding privacy, consumer rights and other rights is a good reason to be wary and a good reason to get active and start exercising those rights.

Re: moderation. I don't know about the moderation tools of Xeres, but it seems trivial to be able to boot people from the chat.

Use your free speech to be kind to one another.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-09-27 21:39:37+00:00
It’s definitely sad and weird. Times and people have changed.

For whatever reason the community now is filled with a weird mix of corporate bootlickers who want to give the largest corporations money while they take away our freedoms and they simultaneously want to make known their entitled behavior by claiming individual developers and small businesses should only ever give away their software for free.

It was bad enough people here chime in technical conversations that they have no experience with loudly contesting the points of actual experts and practitioners, but now they also want to tell us that we don’t have a right to use our property how we want.
by pengaru | 2025-09-27 21:40:16+00:00
> I’d say it’s both a systemd issue and a kernel issue. The fact that systemd motivates kernel fixes does point to systemd being maybe just a bit overengineered

systemd is basically a victim here, you're quasi engaging in a tech form of victim blaming.

don't blame systemd for making use of kernel features (cgroups)

and without cgroups linux has no sandboxing capabilities, and would be largely irrelevant to today's workloads
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 21:40:34+00:00
Memory bandwidth/latency is helpful in certain scenarios, but it can be easily oversold in the performance portion of the story. E.g. the 9950X and 9950X3D are within less than 1/20th of a percentage point of each other in PassMark Single thread (feeding a single core is dead easy) but have a spread of ~6.4% (in favor of the 9950X3D) in the multi-thread (where the cache is starting to help on the one CCD). It could just as easily have been in the other direction or 10 times as much depending on what the benchmark was trying to do. For most day to day user workloads the performance difference from memory bandwidth/latency is the "nil to some" though.

Meanwhile the AI Max+ 395 has at least twice the bandwidth + same number of cores and comes to more like a ~15% loss on single and ~30% loss on multithread due to other "traditional" reasons for performance difference. I still like my 395 though, but more for the following reason.

The more practical advantage of soldered memory on mobile devices is the power/heat reductions, same with increasing the cache on e-cores to get something out of every possible cycle you power rather than try to increase the overall computation with more wattage (i.e. transistors or clocks). Better bandwidth/latency is a cool bonus though.

For a hard number the iPhone 17 Pro Max is supposed to be around 76 GB/s, yet my iPhone 17 Pro Max has a higher PassMark single core performance score than my 9800X3D with larger L3 cache and RAM operating at >100 GB/s. The iPhone does have a TSMC node advantage to consider as well, but I still think it just comes out ahead due to "better overall engineering".
by TSiege | 2025-09-27 21:40:52+00:00
Not necessarily, (or even according to climate models I’ve seen). The feedback the OP mentioned is because trees near the coasts catch rain that they then respirate back up and create an atmospheric river that moves inland and falls as rain thus continuing the cycle inward. This cycle is disrupted by deforestation and can stop during a state change where it turns into Savannah. Savannah's are much drier and don’t cycle through water like the rain forest would. We’ll also see abrupt changes in global climate which will lead to completely different global rainfall patterns than we know today. For example the Sahara desert will likely turn into grassland/forest (which has happened in the past). The rainforest being a holdover from the Eocene is news to me, but my understanding was that the climate of the Holocene that we are leaving had weather patterns that facilitated a positive feedback with the Amazon rainforest expansion. From my understanding a thriving Amazon also necessarily depended on a desert Sahara as they drive weather/nutrient patterns that helps the Amazon
by fakedang | 2025-09-27 21:41:01+00:00
It is most certainly likely that the person who chewed the food for the person who lost his teeth was of the same tribe as the latter. We thrive as humans in a tribe, whose members look out for each other. The smaller the tribe, the more tightly we look out for each other. For bigger groups, mere tribalism won't work - that's when democracy shines. But then you always have the looming threat of your democracy descending into tribalism with political factions.

Africa is a mishmash of extremely poorly drawn borders, decided on the whims of arrogant aristocrats in hall rooms in Europe, without paying any attention to the inherent tribal cultures that were present in Africa - and the DRC is the most evident example of this. That's why you have a tiny country like Rwanda being able to support a significant rebellion in Eastern DRC, why DRC has more than 700 communities, with no community making even 10% of the population, why the government is unable to create any form of integration within the country. Like on what basis can the government unite the people together? "We all suffered under Leopold II of Belgium together"??
by brokencode | 2025-09-27 21:41:19+00:00
Sure, under a heavy sustained multithreaded load it’ll throttle.

But the average user will never encounter this. Typical web browsing and office tasks are bursty and mostly single threaded.

Gaming is the only area where it may be more of a problem. But it’s fine for this to simply not be a great gaming laptop. Most laptops aren’t.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-27 21:41:46+00:00
Sure and if I claim that you should do a 1-handed handstand and say 'communism' three times in a row, it will surely create communism right? I can even write it down on a piece of paper and call it a 'manifesto'. But in the actual real world writing stuff down doesn't make it true at all, even if the person that wrote it is famous.

> For example, mutual aid networks

That in reality have never even come close to achieving much more then mutual aid. That such action could be wide ranging enough to replace the state is nothing more then fantasy.

The closest thing to that is Muslim Brotherhood doing aid, but that is with a clear component of military power as well.

> but even Friedrich Engels

Why would you say 'even'. Engles is not in any way shape or form qualified to make such statements. In his times non of these ideas had been tested. And said different things at different times for different people. Engels specifically publicly called out mass death would happen.

In the real world it has never happened and there is no indication that it would ever happen.