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by resoluteteeth | 2025-09-20 20:55:45+00:00
It feels like there is a lot of missing information in this article. However there is a bit more information in this previous one: https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/the-anti-autism-manifest...

According to that article, the author's daughter was diagnosed with autism but the author has decided it is actually schizoid personality disorder.

Her daughter is and has been receiving psychiatric treatment but for some reason it seems like it is really important to her that her daughter be labelled as having a personality disorder or "mad" rather than having some other type of mental or developmental disorder, and it seems like she feels like her daughter is getting the wrong treatment because of this. (I'm not sure I completely understand why she thinks this would make that much of a difference.)

Her daughter apparently wants to do things like spend all day cooking and then throwing the food away and the author feels like this makes her "delusional" for not accepting that this is not something that will prepare her for her future.

Curiously, in the current article the author says that her daughter "almost completely lacks any theory of mind" which seems a bit odd to me because that is something that is usually seen as a hallmark of autism specifically.

In general, I'm having a bit of trouble understanding why the author is coming to the conclusion that the specific problem here is mental health professionals "deny[ing] the existence of high-functioning madness". It's an unfortunate situation though.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-20 20:56:19+00:00
I'm not convinced that convergent UI works either. The needs of desktop and mobile just differ too greatly.

That doesn't mean that the two can't be served by the same UI framework, but at minimum you need two sets of widgets and separate desktop/mobile layouts in order to not either make the desktop experience dumbed down or end up with a mobile experience that's awkward to use with touch.

The padding and control size in GNOME feels completely goofy on a desktop machine for example and reduces the usability of 12"-13" laptops with how much space is eaten up by blank space.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-20 20:57:28+00:00
Who knows what will happen next? Maybe his base will be unhappy with the current format, start a social media campaign and make the WH post even better clarification that explains exactly the opposite.

They flip flopped on the foreign employees in hospitality and food production. The policies are driven by outrage, crypto purchases and early investors like Project2025 apparently. I don't think that there's any guaranties.
by 0_____0 | 2025-09-20 20:57:38+00:00
Perhaps it's just that in retrospect, it seems a relatively small jump from heat pumps to vapor chambers.

Do you know if the vapor chambers operate at reduced internal atmospheric pressure? Unless I'm missing something, in order to get the liquid-gas phase boundary to a useful temperature, you'd have to bring the pressure down to, idk, 10kPa (boiling point of water is ~50C)? That would complicate manufacturing for sure, and also means that any leaks are catastrophic for your thermal solution.

Also I would be remiss if I did not note that the refrigerant designation of water is R-718.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-20 20:58:11+00:00
> just want to point out that maintaining a knife is a whole hobby that requires a time investment of learning the skill and storage of additional tools and material.

You're right that's a hobby. But the hobby's definition of "proper maintenance" and what it "requires" is basically just people nerding out about things that don't matter the slightest in the real world.

To maintain a kitchen knife so that it cuts a tomato without squishing it, you don't need a book on knife science. Further, that nerdery is probably actively harmful, because instead of simple solutions, people are told they need an inspection microscope and a variety of jigs and other implements. So they buy an objectively bad electric sharpener and move on.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-09-20 20:58:30+00:00
It's not "having to learn something new", but "having to be good at two things, both of which are full languages with their own specifics, problems and ways to solve them, two sets of compilers and some duct tape to hold them together.

It's like putting steak on a pizza... pizza is good, steak is good, pizza on a steak might be good too, but to actually do that in production, you now need two prep stations and you can't mess up either one.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-09-20 20:58:31+00:00
Starship has only launched four times this year (January 16, March 6, May 27, and August 26) at around 23:00 UTC (5pm CST/6pm CDT) each time.

It is likely that you saw other rockets (Falcon 9 being the most frequently launched). The "slow-forming starburst" is most likely from the exhaust plume in vacuum; once the rocket is high enough to no longer be in earth's shadow the plume catches sunlight and becomes very visible on the ground to an observer in darkness. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_jellyfish
by bitwize | 2025-09-20 20:59:04+00:00
> Imagine that your boss came to you, the tech lead of a small team, and said “okay, instead of having five competent people, your team will now have 25 complete idiots. We expect that their random flailing will sometimes produce stuff that kinda works, and it will be your job to review it all.”

This is exactly the point of corporate Agile. Management believes that the locus of competence in an organization should reside within management. Depending on competent programmers is thus a risk, and what is sought is a process that can simulate a highly competent programmer's output with a gang of mediocre programmers. Kinda like the myth that you can build one good speaker out of many crappy ones, or the principle of RAID which is to use many cheap, failure-prone drives to provide the reliability guarantees of one expensive, reliable drive (which also kinda doesn't work if the drives came from the same lot and are prone to fail at about the same time). Every team could use some sort of process, but usually if you want to retain good people, this takes the form of "disciplines regarding branching, merging, code review/approval, testing, CI, etc." Something as stifling as Scrum risks scaring your good people away, or driving them nuts.

So yes, people do expect it to work, all the time. And with AI in the mix, it now gains very nice "labor is more fungible with capital" properties. We're going to see some very nice, spectacular failures in the next few years as a result, a veritable Perseid meteor shower of critical systems going boom; and those companies that wish to remain going concerns will call in human programmers to clean up the mess (but probably lowball on pay and/or try to get away with outsourcing to places with dirt-cheap COL). But it'll still be a rough few years for us while management in many orgs gets high off their own farts.
by NoNameHaveI | 2025-09-20 20:59:27+00:00
I own an older Lexus RX350, which I upgraded the stereo head unit from an outdated cassette/CD player to an Alpine unit with Android Auto/Apple Car Play. While it certainly packs more features, needing to look down to do things like frequency search is inherently dangerous because it takes my eyes off the road. Compounding the matter is if I hit a bump, and it makes my finger bounce and I end up hitting the wrong button and spending MORE time looking at the screen to make a correction. I do my best to use voice recognition while in motion, but sometimes it just doesn't work. For routine items like fan, temperature, volume, etc, hard buttons make sense. But things like updating maps are much harder to do via hard buttons.
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by kccqzy | 2025-09-20 20:59:55+00:00
> In Apple’s version, a small amount of deionized water is sealed in the chamber. […] Water is often used in vapor chambers, though sometimes other materials are mixed in to prevent it from freezing and cracking the seal, Chiriac says.

So Apple uses deionized water, while others add in some other chemicals to prevent it from freezing. So how will the new iPhone deal with freezing temperatures?
by dehrmann | 2025-09-20 21:00:00+00:00
> The new owner...recognized that the cookware didn't need to be quite as strong, and — to make it accessible to the average customer — it needed to be more affordable. With this in mind, they switched the cookware to soda-lime glass, a less expensive component. Soda-lime glass, now called pyrex, isn't as resistant to thermal shock, but it is durable enough for everyday cooking.

Was Corning's borosilicate cookware tempered? Tempered soda-lime class is more resistant to breaking from rough handling than borosilicate, so there's a real tradeoff between the two.
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-20 21:02:05+00:00
A different but far better piece of cutting edge technology is a modern, diamond-encrusted nickel/chrome-plated steel plate.

These things are now so sharp they can bring an edge profile back to a knife in five strokes without even needing lubrication (which is nice as water is a PITA when it causes corrosion between the steel bed and the plating.)

Every knife in your kitchen can be razor sharp in seconds and kept razor sharp whenever you need them to be. IMHO, far more useful than a single digi-vibro-knife.

Example product: Trend 300/1000 diamond sharpening kit.
by orochimaaru | 2025-09-20 21:02:06+00:00
Not sure why you're down voted. But given the state of the tech job market it is unjustifiable to admit more H1Bs.

Now the flip side of it is - how will they control the outsourcing that typically comes with the H1B restriction? Every enterprise these days has an India development center (banks, telcos, pharma, big-tech, manufacturing, etc.). If they've had the money, they have established it. They can just scale up the hiring there. On second thoughts that's what they were all doing anyway and saying it was AI.
by dcminter | 2025-09-20 21:02:14+00:00
Sayers, mentioned here in passing, wrote probably the only detective story explicitly called out (as an introduction to change ringing) in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (a mighty 20 volume encyclopaedia).

So if you like old detective stories and this article tickled your interest, perhaps give "The Nine Tailors" a whirl.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Tailors
by pukexxr | 2025-09-20 21:02:15+00:00
This is a semantic argument. This product smacks of being a garbage kitchen gadget. Whether or not it's a QVC product, it certainly looks like cheap white-label alibaba junk. Just look at that handle. Did they just slap a knifeblade into an electric nosehair trimmer?

I'd try one out of professional/academic curiosity (I'm a chef), but am highly skeptical of this product. It looks like absolute trash.

All the people saying this knife does anything remarkable clearly have no experience in maintaining a decent knife blade. I've got knives that I've had for over 20 years that perform as well as this thing appears to (in the slick prepared advertisement).

Having said all that, you won't find an accurate takedown of a product that isn't on the market yet. Still, I can't help but wonder if the person behind this had dedicated that effort towards helping mitigate the water crisis, deforestation, or any number of other inarguably nobler pursuits.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-20 21:02:24+00:00
Well, I was born in black and white. As a lad in the UK in the '70s, we had three channels on the goggle box - BBC1 and 2 and ITV, which was regional. If you lived in the right place you could get two ITV regions equally badly. You tuned the TV with a rotary knob.

Viewing figures for some programmes were staggering due to the obvious reason - little choice. For example I seem to recall that some episodes of say Neighbours (Australian soap), had more viewers in the UK than the entire population of Australia! The marriage of Charlene (Kylie M) and that blonde bloke (Jason D) was one.
by confidantlake | 2025-09-20 21:02:38+00:00
This argument never made sense to me. Why would the rest of the world being poor cause a huge middle class in America? Why would the rest of the world recovering cause the US to suddenly get poorer.

Like post post ww2 say we produced 1 car for every American. Also we produced 1 house for every American. Every car and house was produced in America because Europe was bombed to shit. Now 20 years later, Europe has recovered a bit and can start producing cars and houses again. Why wouldn't the US still be able to produce 1 car for every adult? Oh sorry, Germany is no longer a pile of rubble, you and your spouse need to share a car now. Also your adult kids need to move back in with you, no house for them either.

This is obviously absurd. US would be even richer since they no longer had to spend massive amounts of money funding the war effort and then massive amounts of money rebuilding Europe. Hollowing out the US middle class was a choice, not some law of nature.
by dcminter | 2025-09-20 21:03:27+00:00
Not bell ringing - change ringing. Most places they play a tune on them; our ringers work out mathematical permutations instead.

Edit: ...and I should add: Sayers was quite reactionary, preternaturally English, and writing in the 1930s, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if it wasn't true that change ringing was uniquely English.
by parpfish | 2025-09-20 21:03:31+00:00
okay, so lets adjust the numbers in my quick example.

i'll pay $20k a year to get 10 hours back a week (i.e., you an engineer that goes from making (120/yr to 100/yr). that's still a valuable trade that i think a lot of people would take given the choice.

and the assist would then be getting 80k/yr if they do a fulltime 40 hours a week which places their compentation at the level of plenty of white-collar (non-tech) office jobs. and it doesn't require any special skills or equipment.

i can't imagine spending 10k for snow/landscaping work. i havent paid for lawn mowing, but when we had a snowplow guy he'd charge $50 per plow event (when snow got above a certain level).
by Jweb_Guru | 2025-09-20 21:03:43+00:00
People keep thinking that even though Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. with all the incentive and tooling in the world couldn't evade one of the few replicable results in programming languages (people can't reliably write memory safe code in memory unsafe languages), somehow with Zig it will be different. It's honestly a pretty fascinating phenomenon to me because most of these people are smart, and some of them are even ostensibly in the security community.
by junon | 2025-09-20 21:04:00+00:00
FTEs in the US get benefits and part of their taxes paid for them. Contractors are not (can be, typically are not).

Getting hired (getting an apartment, ...) is easier in the US as there are significantly less challenges at terminating those contracts by the 'provider' than in e.g. Germany, where it's really hard to fire or evict someone.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-09-20 21:04:07+00:00
Why did you lie? Your direct quote is?

> China is currently building 10 reactors per year

They are very much not building 10 reactors per year. Like I just showed you. China finished 3 reactors in 2024 and zero soon 9 months into 2025.

We can also go to construction starts. You know the figure when money finally start changing hands and a reactor likely gets built, unless it becomes a Virgil C. Summer being a very expensive hole in the ground. [1]

- 2025: 4 reactors

- 2024: 6 reactors

- 2023: 5 reactors

- 2022: 5 reactors

- 2021: 6 reactors

- 2020: 5 reactors

Let's skip political announcements since those are dime a dozen nowadays. They are only done to placate voters like you who rage at the headlines and does not have the curiosity to look further.

> The share of nuclear power in China has increased every single year in the past 10 years.

Now you lie again. Nuclear power peaked at 4.77% in 2021 and is in 2024 down to 4.47%. [1]

Given your exit from this conversation you truly must be frightened by the truth about nuclear costs and the reality on the ground in China.

Do you have a stake in the nuclear industry?

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

[1]: https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?ent...
by trhway | 2025-09-20 21:04:12+00:00
You can have it sharp with shaped charges array sitting a bit deeper and sideways, and new edge breaking out as side effect of shaped charges exploding, rinse and repeat, about 5 times for a regularly sized sword.

Even more interesting alternative is to have some quick blade switching machinery to switch on-the-fly between the actual blade edge and the shaped charge array and to add some feeding machinery of shaped charges into the array (and to have some stretch-shaped charges instead of the rounded ones)
by asah | 2025-09-20 21:04:53+00:00
my new favorite kitchen gadget is small deli slicer, $75 on amazon.

minor pain to clean, but MUCH faster than a knife, totally safe (pusher keeps fingers away from the blade) and you get precise thickness cuts every time, which means they cook precisely too.

Especially good for vegetables like potatoes, onion, eggplant, etc.
by jemmyw | 2025-09-20 21:04:54+00:00
I suppose my problem with it is the implied imposition on others. DHH didn't write that his own children are a joy. He wrote that we should be teaching others that children are a divine joy.

Kids are hard work, and they aren't a joy or a gift to everyone. When someone like DHH, who had the resources to take some of the grind of parenthood away, expounds having kids it doesn't come with "and I'll be sharing my wealth to make it easier"
by harlanji | 2025-09-20 21:05:01+00:00
Underemployed since 2017, working menial jobs and homeless since mid-'18, not even trying to get a tech job because I can't present myself as middle class.

I'm coping by building a system to solve homelessness in general which I've concluded is impossible by getting a menial job and saving ("just get 2?" Logistics, I have answers for everything).

I'm guessing someone will eventually get me some freelance/contract work and that's how my situation will be resolved ($10k over a month would do). Just building online brands with innovative techniques and sharing results until that day. Yeehaw.
by panny | 2025-09-20 21:05:38+00:00
I'm thinking of something like curl specifically where the edge case isn't your machine, it's the machine you're talking to. Can I write my own curl-like downloader in a few hundred lines of code? Yes. Is it going to work first try with a 30 year old apache file server? Probably not. Do I want something that works "good enough" which breaks when I'm in the middle of a time crunch... or do I want something production tested that's probably not going to fail on me at the worst possible moment.

I'm willing to accept a little bloat and pass on inventing wheels myself if I can grab something reliable off the shelf. I don't think that makes me less self reliant.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-20 21:05:54+00:00
I would be surprised if programmers couldn't generally quickly pick up a new domain. I presume we're not talking 5,000 people doing heavy research (wouldn't that be O-1 anyway?), and I don't see how product development work becomes more complicated when you call it AI. e.g. you don't need a PhD to hook calls to a model into VS Code or to build the API and infrastructure around calling the model or data pipelines or all the other 90% of actually making it useful.

I wouldn't call developers fungible, but certainly good developers are adaptable.
by bo1024 | 2025-09-20 21:06:19+00:00
Yes, this is just bad advice if your audience is fluent in mathematical notation.

There's another piece of advice that is bad for formal mathematical writing:

> And don’t use the same word repeatedly — it’s boring.

If the word has a formal definition, this is bad advice. For example, in a game theory setting, we might say there are n agents. If we start calling the agents players, people, etc., it can get confusing, especially if there are other entities involved besides the agents (such as a mechanism designer or so on).
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-20 21:06:27+00:00
If you bothered to actually read the article, the Indian government said something obvious, that the way this policy is being enacted is going to disrupt families, and thus have humanitarian consequences.

What exactly is the Indian government supposed to do about the US governments "cruelty is the point" tactics of making unclear rules over a weekend that cause legal immigrants who happen to be outside the country, to drop everything to fly back?
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-20 21:06:31+00:00
Aren't iPhones expensive to repair? Like $100 minimum for just about anything. That's significant to recover from one incident.

I usually drop my phone 3-5 times a month. Inexpensive cases and screen protectors have saved me quite a lot of hassle.

Fewer repairs saves time, produces less waste, and preserves more of the resale value.
by GeekyBear | 2025-09-20 21:06:37+00:00
For those who prefer text over video:

> Typical smartphone glass starts scratching at a level 6 on the Mohs scale of hardness, but Zack’s picks barely left marks even at 7. “Apple ruined my line,” he joked, noting that Corning’s new Ceramic Shield 2 is a big improvement over last year’s iPhone 16 lineup, even besting the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s Gorilla Armor 2, which showed visible scratches at a level 6 when it was put to the same test earlier this year.

and

> Using a crane scale in his garage, he applied direct pressure in the center of the iPhone Air until it finally gave way. The iPhone Air endured up to 216 pounds (~98kg) of force before its front glass finally cracked and the titanium frame flexed past the point of recovery. Surprisingly, the back glass came out unscathed, and the phone was still powered on and usable in the end.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-iPhone-Air-bends-in-JerryR...
by dahinds | 2025-09-20 21:06:44+00:00
I think I'm not understanding what comparison you're trying to make. I thought you were expressing some doubt about whether H1B, or temporary skilled worker visas generally, were beneficial for the host country. You asked, "why don't other countries encourage this specific type of immigration" and I pointed out that they do have similar programs. Now you ask "why don't they have even higher rates of skilled worker immigration?"

Japan's SSW program has close to 300k workers. The U.S. H1B program has about 700k workers, so by population, Japan's program appears to be a bit larger. New Zealand's AEWV program has 80k workers with a population of 5 million so proportionally that's much larger.