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by BalinKing | 2025-09-21 14:33:28+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful response!

Not necessarily trying to debate or anything—clearly you've put a lot of intellectual effort into this over the years already—but I find one point you made particularly interesting. (Disclaimer: I am a Christian.) Namely, that "religious people will freely admit their beliefs have no evidence." There are some (many?) religions where this is the case, but I honestly don't think Christianity is one of them—the Bible puts a strong emphasis on evidence. For example:

- The gospels themselves are composed of three primary sources as well as a secondary source.

- Jesus made specific prophetic claims (famously, the destruction of the Second Temple in Mark 13:2, or that he would be crucified in Matthew 20:18-19).

- 1 Corinthians 15:6 references more than five hundred eyewitnesses, most of whom were claimed to be still living.

- Acts 17:17 describes Paul as "reasoning" with secular Greek philosophers (instead of merely, say, "moralizing" or "persuading"), although I suppose these discussions may have been more philosophical than empirical given the Greeks' philosophical bent.

- The gospels claim that even the Pharisees did not deny Jesus' miracles, but merely attributed them to malign influence (Mark 3:22) or just decided to kill him (Matthew 12:14).

- Jesus' parable in Luke 16:19–31 implies that for some people, getting more evidence will not actually change their minds, regardless of how persuasive it would be.

Of course one could (and should) argue that an emphasis on historicity is not itself evidence; but I just wanted to point out that Christianity is not one of the religions where you just have to believe blindly. On the contrary, the Bible presents unbelief in the face of evidence as a main obstacle between us and God (cf. Romans 1:18–20).
by stoneyhrm1 | 2025-09-21 14:33:53+00:00
Like it or not vibe coding is here to stay, I too don't agree with the concept but have told people in my org that I've 'vibe coded' this or 'vibe coded' that. To us it just means we used AI to write most of the code.

I would never have it be put into production without any type of review though, it's more for "I vibe coded this cool app, take a look, maybe this can be something bigger..."
by brainwad | 2025-09-21 14:33:59+00:00
Why? Because we are a small fraction of the population and economy of the planet.

How? Most of the population in the southern hemisphere is in ex-colonies from the north; our cultures are thus full of concepts that don't really work but we make do. Simple things like all the holidays being inappropriately aligned to the seasons, or the constellations in our skies being afterthoughts in the system, or of course maps being north up without a second thought.
by linmob | 2025-09-21 14:34:15+00:00
I think seba_dos1 refers to PureOS [0] (for the Librem 5; PureOS is essentially a FSF-endorsed Debian) and Mobian [1]. Both use a close-to-mainline kernel, Mobian's goal is to "bring Debian to mobile devices. Over time, the idea is to minimize the Mobian specific pieces by “upstreaming” customization to the original projects."

[0]: https://pureos.net/

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Mobian/
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-09-21 14:34:40+00:00
They're using trans people's participation in sports (once uncontroversial) as a wedge to drive in the larger wedge of trans existence.

They can do this because, intuitively, many people think there's an advantage to be had. If there were such advantages, then we'd have to consider the thorny topic of what constitutes an "unfair" advantage, and whether the social implications of excluding a marginalised population outweigh the (perhaps disproportionate) impact of yada yada. But we don't have to consider any of this, because scientific research suggests trans women do not have such advantages over cis women: medical transition does not lead to a body configuration optimised for sports. Quoth, for instance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2025.04.004:

> This study highlights substantial ventilatory inefficiencies in transgender women, likely associated with gender-affirming hormone therapy

This whole moral panic is an artificially-constructed wedge issue: they found something persuasive, and (by presenting trans people as something dangerous and new) side-stepped the need for evidence of harm, and positioned their reactionary bans as conservative. I think, when arguing about this topic, more attention needs to be paid to the fact that feminising hormone therapy (as a treatment for trans women) is older than insulin (as a treatment for diabetics). Any harmful consequences of trans existence (resp. participation in sports, etc) already happened, and nobody alive noticed.
by mtlynch | 2025-09-21 14:34:57+00:00
>how was anyone expected to make changes to the build definition if this was the only way? Wait a day to find out if it worked, and break the build for everyone if not?

You could build a subcomponent of Windows source locally, and 99% of the time, you knew which subparts of the source tree to build locally to have confidence that you wouldn't break the build.

The problem was that if I was doing something exotic nobody has tried before, I'm suddenly in the 1% case where I no longer have confidence that building locally will eliminate all issues.
by api | 2025-09-21 14:35:15+00:00
That mostly mapped to population density, which maps to blue states because the main divide is urban vs rural.

More intense pandemic measures make more sense where density is higher.

But did we even have any true lockdowns in the US? Maybe in some cities, but we had nothing close to China or even Australia. Were there any places in the US with actual curfews where you were not allowed to leave, or anything like that?

I lived in California in the start of the pandemic and Ohio the rest of the time and neither place had true “lock downs.” I only saw businesses requiring masks and some jobs requiring the vaccine.
by dragontamer | 2025-09-21 14:35:21+00:00
It will be bad for our aging boomer population if we do not import (or train) enough nurses to take care of them all. And we are falling behind more-and-more even with every pro-immigration measure over the last decade. Now we need to face our nursing crisis while various countries are going to feel less good about coming over here and filling our vacant nursing positions.

Brain drain for others (offensive, hampers Russian technology). Pro-economic position for us (we get trained workers at an improved rate, growing certain sectors of our economy faster than they'd grow naturally).

Its win/win for USA all around.

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Now if Russia or China makes life better for their citizens, okay. That's better for the individuals but worse for us. Because now we aren't fixing the various broken bits of our economy (ie: our incredible nursing shortage).
by amelius | 2025-09-21 14:35:46+00:00
Slightly offtopic, why is it so difficult to find a cheap and compact laser interferometer that can do sub-micron measurements?

This guy gets close:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdro-6u2Zg&t=770s

But why isn't something cheap and small like this commercially available as an integrated system?
by eitally | 2025-09-21 14:35:55+00:00
I suspect even many math majors probably believe "general ed" required classes to be a waste of time. Point well taken, though: there are some subjects that do not lend themselves to editorializing or opinion. I majored in history & comparative religion as an undergrad and most of my lower level courses I'd consider to be "fact retention" efforts. Lots of reading, but not a lot of analysis or synthesis. I took mostly graduate level courses because of this for most of my last two years (and this was at a top 5 public university).
by micku7zu | 2025-09-21 14:36:30+00:00
Hi, Quick Cursor dev here.

I completely agree with you, my app functionality should be built inside the OS because of better integration, privacy reasons, etc.

I just wanted to add that because of this permissions my app needs in order to work, I will never add the internet permission to Quick Cursor. I took this decission 5 years ago when I started the app because I understood the privacy risk, and my app will never have internet access permission.

In order for an app to have access to internet, it needs to have the android.permission.INTERNET added to its manifest, otherwise it won't work. This can be checked easily, there are some apps that shows you this info about your installed apps, or by manually looking at the AndroidManifest in the .APK of the app.
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-21 14:37:15+00:00
This is one solution to the problem. But it isn't as if its the only solution or one that has no downsides.

I mean from a very trivial point of view, government spending constitutes a large amount of GDP.

What this comes down to, in my opinion, is the question of democratic allocation of resources and labor. Most people believe that there is a role for democracy in the allocation of resources and labor, which is to say that we think that certain societal goals (for example, defense, the care of the elderly or the poor, etc) should not be allocated to by markets but by democratic will.

This seems to be something almost all Americans agree on (though what things should be handled this way and how is contentious).

But to simply shrink the government away has the effect of decreasing the power of democracy to allocate resources, transferring that power to (in an ideal case, anyway) markets.

The fact is, most people do not want to live in a pure free market society, as far as I can tell. They want government services, they want safety nets, they want the air they breathe to be clean and safe. They want the power to decide that sometimes its worth spending money on stuff even if no one accumulates profits in the process.
by inkyoto | 2025-09-21 14:37:40+00:00
> Why not just always preserving program code in memory?

Because the code is never required in its entirety – only «currently» active code paths need to be resident in memory, the rest can be discarded when inactive (or never even gets loaded into memory to start off with) and paged back into memory on demand. Since code pages are read only, the inactive code pages can be just dropped without any detriment to the application whilst reducing the app's memory footprint.

> […] typical executable is usually several megabytes

Executable size != the size of the actually running code.

In modern operating systems with advanced virtual memory management systems, the actual resident code size can go as low as several kilobytes (or, rather, a handful of pages). This, of course, depends on whether the hot paths in the code have a close affinity to each other in the linked executable.
by jordanb | 2025-09-21 14:37:52+00:00
She reported not being particularly high paid compared to her peers. When she was hired Facebook didn't care at all about her area (government relations).

As that became more important her role grew but she was never really promoted.

She also was not well informed about how tech compensation works and negotiated poorly (no stock) she came from an NGO background in New Zealand.

Her salary was probably quite a bit more than the average American but she was living in expensive areas (DC and SV) and interacting with extremely wealthy people. At one point Sheryl Sandburg got annoyed that she was leaving work for childcare and told her to hire a live-in nanny. She was living paycheck-to-paycheck on a high income with no wealth accumulation (many such cases).
by catlover76 | 2025-09-21 14:38:53+00:00
What a nakedly disingenuous set of questions. It's based in the West Bank, which is decidedly recognized, as a legal matter, as occupied territory, and the "government" is the Palestinian Authority. The PLO hasn't been relevant for some time.

> what message does this send to Hamas?

who cares? Israel has had a genocidal government for some time now that has, until very recently, only received positive reinforcement.
by throw0101c | 2025-09-21 14:39:27+00:00
> Unfortunately, those people appear to all be dead. Now we have whatever Afghanistan and Iraq was meant to be.

Both Japan and Germany had some semblance of democratic institutions, but they were taken over by authoritarians, often using violence:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_in_interwar_Japan

Iraq had some history, pre-Sadam, and that seems to be returning:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iraqi_parliamentary_elect...

Afghanistan has had little of it in the last few decades (since at least the Soviets rolled in), and much less in the more rural regions.

There's a difference between rebuilding institutions and creating (perhaps from scratch) a civil society.
by andoando | 2025-09-21 14:39:52+00:00
Its not. "Add this table, write the dto" takes 10 seconds to do. It would take me few mins probably assuming Im familiar with the language and much longer if Im not.

But its a lot better than that.

"Write this table. from here store it into table. Write endpoint to return all from the table"

I also had good luck with stuff like "scrape this page, collect x and y, download link pointed at y, store in this directory".
by sjfjfjsjsj | 2025-09-21 14:40:00+00:00
Maybe you need to approach SQL the way code generation must be approached: don’t develop the whole statement or script at once, instead put together a plan and execute it step-by-step.

Not everything must be done via LLMs themselves. You could use one or more tools to help generate parts of the query.

You might be interested in this:

https://www.pedronasc.com/articles/lessons-building-ai-data-...
by darkamaul | 2025-09-21 14:40:16+00:00
The results highlighted in cURL are truly promising. Finally, it seems to be an augmented vulnerability researcher with deep knowledge across various topics.

The missing escape in the Telnet payload is trivial to find for someone with extensive experience of the protocol, yet not all security researchers are familiar with Telnet itself.

I’m super bullish about seeing what’s down the line here!
by CalRobert | 2025-09-21 14:40:25+00:00
The sad thing is that you _CAN_ have a leafy suburb without the roar of internal combustion and 8 lane stroads everywhere. Planners in the US just refuse to build them.

We live in a lovely leafy suburb completely car free. But it's this one - https://youtu.be/r-TuGAHR78w

This morning the four of us biked to the grocery store (we loaded the groceries in the bakfiets). The kids bike to their daycare. We bike to the train when we feel like a day out.

I can't fathom trying to raise kids somewhere we need to use a car to do anything.
by mtlynch | 2025-09-21 14:40:37+00:00
No, the group policy checks are runtime checks, not compile time checks.

It meant that when a user enables BitLocker on a drive, the BitLocker setup flow would check if group policy defined a minimum password length. If it did, BitLocker would enforce that minimum. Otherwise, BitLocker would use the default minimum.

If you have a Windows system, you can play with this easily as long as you have an admin user account for the OS. The Windows system doesn't need to be part of an org or need Active Directory. You can edit group policy by opening gpedit.msc from an elevated command prompt.
by jlokier | 2025-09-21 14:40:55+00:00
From a physics point of view, continuous transmission and correlation detection of a temporally- and spatially-diverse optical signal over the entire field of view addresses the problem of energy being spread out, and gets you better, more robust depth information for less emitted energy than scanning or full-field flashes.

But from an optical and electronics point of view, it's much harder to process the return signal that way, and probably uses a lot more energy due to the processing required (with current tech).
by grafmax | 2025-09-21 14:40:59+00:00
Strange to me that the US has fallen behind is supposedly due to its commitment to freedom. The ownership class sold out the industrial base for profit, beginning with Reagan. They’re the ones who have driven policy - and continue to do so in the current turn to naked authoritarianism. The freedom the US supposedly stands for is the freedom of the capitalist class. Is it any wonder we haven’t seen investment in public infrastructure that prioritizes public good over private profits? That would have be financed by taxing the private interests that determine our policies. Instead we finance wars and a police state.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-21 14:41:31+00:00
I think this is interesting, but perhaps for reasons other than intended. I think it shows the formation of the post-war mythology that Germans used to explain to themselves how their family members or parents were good people, and did not deserve any punishment, despite the involvement in the most genocidal movement in modern history.

When you read these accounts, it always feels like no one had any agency or knowledge what's going on, that Hitler was basically a lone wolf who installed himself in power against the wishes of the nation, that had some outlandish ideas that no good German believed in, and that then he and a small band of his supporters somehow forced everyone to comply.

And to be clear, it was a totalitarian state, but it also wasn't North Korea and no Soviet Union. If nothing else, you could always leave. Many countries wouldn't take fleeing Jews, but as a dissenting German, you'd be welcomed with open hands almost everywhere.

So yes, of course there were people who hated the regime, and just decided they didn't want to or couldn't rock the boat. But a significant portion of the population approved of what was happening. Hitler was wildly popular. Millions of people enthusiastically bought into what he was selling. Germany perceived itself as a wounded lion after WWI. They felt they had a rightful claim on their "living space". And antisemitism in Europe needed no marketing. Tellingly, purges of Jews continued even after the war in the Soviet sphere of influence.

My point is, for every person who genuinely had no choice, there were ten who definitely had it, who more or less approved what was happening, and who would have been proud of it had Germany won the war.
by MBCook | 2025-09-21 14:41:46+00:00
They won’t.

Apple tells us what they want and nothing else. They don’t tell us how much RAM there is or intimate details of the processors or battery size or lots of other things.

They much prefer “here’s magic, check it out” to “here’s tons of gory details”.

Doing teardowns like this would directly contradict that message.
by foldr | 2025-09-21 14:41:54+00:00
> Hitler did well by the Germans

This could only possibly be true if, like the Nazis, you exclude Jews, Gypsies, gays, disabled people, women who value their sexual and reproductive freedom, etc. etc. from the category ‘German’.

And even then it’s still not true, as others in the thread have pointed out.

It’s disturbingly frequently that I see this weird nudge nudge wink wink kinda-sorta Nazi apologism from high karma accounts here. I’m willing to believe that there aren’t fundamentally bad intentions behind it and that it stems mainly from some kind of reflexive contrarianism, but boy is it weird and disturbing.
by estearum | 2025-09-21 14:42:02+00:00
What federal money gets sent to universities with the earmark “promote debate and discovery?”

The vast majority of federal money is given to universities to execute research contracts.

It is simply not true that if you receive any federal money your institution cannot have biases or opinions. What would that even mean in practice? They cannot use federal money specifically for political activities, but merely receiving public funding does not relieve you of your First Amendment rights.

If anything, the reality is the opposite of what you suggest: your contracted money cannot be threatened on the basis of your institution’s (protected) biases or opinions.

Re public health: The government itself has a First Amendment right to speak with and request action from private organizations, and those organizations have a First Amendment right to accept or decline those requests. Vullo absolutely did not find the government has no ability to request action, it said it has no ability to coerce action.

As it relates to COVID, we don’t need to speculate: this is the exact question that was asked in Murthy vs Missouri. SCOTUS found lack of standing because the “censorship” in question pre-dated the “coercion” in question. Private platforms are absolutely allowed to create and enforce content policies!

You cannot infer “the platforms were coerced” from the following set of facts:

1. The platforms made and enforced policies prior to government requests

2. The government made requests

3. Some of those requests were satisfied and others were declined

4. There was no punishment or threatened punishment for decline

5. The platforms said they were not coerced

That’s what SCOTUS and IMO any reasonable person would find.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-21 14:42:14+00:00
It’s purely an Apple choice. They could use good batteries and have even better battery life.

They know however that battery failing is the first thing pushing consumers to change phone and being Apple they always have to take the most anti consumer stand possible.

Admittedly it’s a less of a problem that it used to be. Outside of the Air their batteries are still not state of the art but they look less punny than they used to.
by mikaTheThird | 2025-09-21 14:42:47+00:00
I hope they recognize the stete of Assyrians, aramiac/Syriac, Chaldeans, Yizdi and every other indigenous nation in the middle east.

As an Assyrian, my nation has been getting exterminated by Arabs, Turkish and Kurdish colonialist for millennia. We live in constant fear and I don't think we will exist in the next 30 years
by throw0101c | 2025-09-21 14:43:07+00:00
> East Germany definitly never was. And even West Germany was considerably behind the UK in per capita GDP in US$ after WW2.[1]

Germany was behind the UK even before WW2. Just the UK outproduced Germany in (e.g.) aircraft production, and that was even before the US got involved.

Adam Tooze wrote an entire book on the subject:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction
by dmos62 | 2025-09-21 14:43:12+00:00
I agree with all of what you said, and my personal twist is that this weird, archaic, self-preserving hierarchy is a slightly-lagging expression of our collective mindset. We're changing how we think, and that is indirectly eroding away at this status quo. I see this most vividly with how we treat kids and how fast that's changing: every generation has a much better relationship with their kids than the previous generation.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-21 14:43:40+00:00
I would argue that the sport has a way to expand in North America.

I think people here under appreciate MLS. Sure I don’t expect an MLS team to do well against a European team but the games are great fun in the stadium or on TV —- in some markets it is pull ahead of MLB.

Sports photography has made me the kind of fan who looks at the composite schedule and go to whatever game is on that weekend regardless of the sport so I’ve seen them all as a spectator at Cornell, Ithaca College, and Cortland and again I think college soccer is underappreciated. It’s a very fun 90 minutes which can range from the very physical but kinda stupid games you see from the Ithaca men to the much smarter “beautiful” soccer played by the Ithaca women.

I saw the Cornell men yesterday and noticed, for whatever reason, more women in the crowd then men, I know some of the girls were saying they’d seen the women play before and some didn’t.

So I am a soccer fan but I get my fill with a 20 minute drive to an unticketed game, maybe an hour to go to an away game or to Cortland. I can see the appeal of going to a big game in Philly or NYC which is probably going to cost $400+ in terms of transportation and lodging but it is so cozy to go to local games where I can decide at the last minute if I want to go.