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by DonHopkins | 2025-10-07 17:12:54+00:00
So you can instantly recognize at a glance that it's Kragen's post! ;)

It's a Long Now Foundation thing: slower, deeper, longer. Y10K compliance.

https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...

"The present moment used to be the unimaginable future." -Steward Brand

"How can we invest in a future we know is structurally incapable of keeping faith with its past? The digital industries must shift from being the main source of society’s ever-shortening attention span to becoming a reliable guarantor of long-term perspective. We’ll know that shift has happened when programmers begin to anticipate the Year 10,000 Problem, and assign five digits instead of four to year dates. 01998 they’ll write, at first frivolously, then seriously." -Steward Brand

10,000 Year Clock:

https://longnow.org/clock/
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-07 17:12:56+00:00
Given how many people prefer to use the 4-property shortcuts even when that doesn't make sense, teaching the 2-property shortcuts seems like a good thing, even if you don't expect to support localizations where they matter the most.

Also, in my experience they interact with Flexbox and CSS Grid in useful ways that sometimes the "logical" properties are much easier to reason with than the 4-property versions or the individual property versions.
by worble | 2025-10-07 17:13:28+00:00
If anything, gaming is the pillar that is furthest ahead, thanks to SteamOS and Proton and everything else surrounding it.

The main issue is that a lot of people I know need things like Photoshop or propriety CAD apps or video editing software where the alternatives are simply not acceptable - sure I can mention some OSS alternatives but it's not really my field; this is their job and they can't really take the velocity hit, or waste time finding out mid-project that it can't do what they need it to do.
by username223 | 2025-10-07 17:13:47+00:00
I have believed for years that Americans would have a completely different attitude to global warming if the Lower 48 had more glaciers. In the Alps, you can easily walk to places where there are 100m of ladders to reach a hut that used to be at the level of the ice. In Canada, you can drive to places that used to be the toe of a glacier, then drive another half-mile to the parking lot, built at the edge of the glacier 20 years ago, then walk even farther on loose rubble. 1.5℃ of warming feels abstract and trivial. A giant piece of ice disappearing feels much more real.
by palmotea | 2025-10-07 17:14:02+00:00
> This same instinct is why a pencil costs almost nothing and is perfect, and isn't rubbish, really expensive, and created by someone who took pride in their work.

No. Have you worked with businessmen? 90% of the time they're telling you to cut corners and leave things broken, to the point you have a janky mess that can be barely held together. And, right now, we're talking about a technology (LLMs) that is well known to introduce stupid but often hard to spot errors.

They don't want a pencil that's perfect. They want one that's just barely good enough to write with and that they can get maximum profit margin on.

And then, you know, there's the whole thing about life being more than output.
by r011erba11 | 2025-10-07 17:14:03+00:00
I ran Enlightement + GNOME at work... on OS/2... circa 1999/2000. Wasn't even that bad. Also on linux of course.

Since then it comes down to someone wanting to go deeper than the surface and that's not for everyone, particularily if they are busy.

Pain can get the attention of even the busiest people so I really hope they keep making user suffer like this because that is the best driver away from windows and off the plantation.
by deaux | 2025-10-07 17:14:53+00:00
This isn't a "disagree or agree" topic. It's a "wrong or right" topic, and even at 13 years old I could've told you that you're right and they're wrong. Of course this isn't the goal of every business, and it's trivially verifiable.

They effectively put out a statement saying "the earth is flat, water is dry and sunlight is wet".
by scottbez1 | 2025-10-07 17:14:57+00:00
RPi's toolchain situation is awful for beginners/hobbyists. CMake and non-manifest-versioned toolchains are a huge barrier to entry. I'd love to use the hardware but have given up multiple times because I'd rather spend my time writing code than wrestling with toolchain setup. And they won't support platformio which could make things massively easier for beginners to set up.
Was about to release a feature for free. Someone just released it for a fee
by Arun_Kurian | 2025-10-07 17:14:58+00:00
Mine is an end to end product to make and render a file. I was adding a feature for anyone to bring their own file also, which is basically the whole product of competition and they charge a fee for it.

I know the other team probably worked hard on their product and it's just a minor feature on mine. Is it a D move to release my feature now ? should I wait for a few weeks ?
by baobun | 2025-10-07 17:15:02+00:00
> I have a persistent feeling..,

> It's so pathetic and sad. But I also understand it's all emotion and that some people live through their lives based on that.

It does seems it's all emotion on your end. Projecting much? Tried empathy for a change?

> OpenAI who just signed a contract with Nubeius(Israeli company)

I bet there'd be controversy on that too if attempts to raise awareness weren't even further buried by puppets.
by slowmovintarget | 2025-10-07 17:15:03+00:00
Also in Massachusetts...

We found that all the "best in the nation" schools here, with the possible exception of Boston Latin, aren't really all that great. The reason they're measured "best" is because all the parents hire tutors and private instructors on top of the regular school day. Russian math, science tutors, English, music instruction... you name it.

Systemically, this means the educators don't know how to teach. There are standout teachers, but by and large, the expectation from the "good" schools is that the kids are getting all the actual education outside the school system already. We found this to be true in Lexington, in Wellesley, pretty much all of the top schools in Mass. Boston Latin even has this problem, on top of the additional requirement to live within the city limits of Boston proper and hope you fit into one of their quota slots and your kid gets accepted.

Private schools are a little different, but their costs, and the small percentage of acceptance even if you bear the cost, will take your breath away.

All of this, and a host of other unpleasant features of public education, are why we chose homeschooling. It's been a huge sacrifice, but worth it.
by pdonis | 2025-10-07 17:15:04+00:00
> Companies that cannot run their businesses responsibly at scale should not be allowed to run their business at that scale.

The best way to do that would be for all the governments and large corporations that buy Windows machines for their employees to switch to Linux. That would probably end up cheaper in the long run. But nobody wants to sign up to be the one driving the switch.

Unless and until that happens, the unfortunate fact for individual Windows users is that you're rounding error in MS's numbers anyway. You're not the one they're making all the money from. The large government and corporate accounts are. And as long as people have to use Windows at work, they're going to use Windows at home because it's familiar to them. (Except for outliers like me who run Linux at home even though we have to use Windows at work. But those outliers are rounding error to the rounding error.)
by groovy2shoes | 2025-10-07 17:15:10+00:00
persistence of symptoms after discontinuation is the big one. after hormone levels return to baseline, there's no more pharmaceutical effect. thus the cause of those symptoms is unlikely to be pharmaceutical.

it's worth noting that candidates for finasteride treatment are already likely to be older and dealing with comorbidities like depression and anxiety, which makes it harder to say for sure if it's the drug in a lot of cases, but they do seem slightly higher than placebo. it is not surprising that a sudden change in hormone levels would cause a noticeable change in mood or sexual function, but there is usually improvement with continued treatment as levels stabilize.

for persistent effects, really there isn't a lot of reliable data to go on, and no plausible mechanism of action. we have a handful of anecdotal reports and some armchair hypotheses.

i'm happy to be proven wrong, and lots of drugs are indeed implicated in serious and lasting side effects, but in the case of finasteride i'm not convinced.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-07 17:15:48+00:00
>nor is there any good reason to just assume that favouring short-term gains will favour the current shareholders more

The reason is that it's a situation that's bound to happen. If I plan to be invested in a company for a specific length of time (for whatever reason) any decisions that benefit the company beyond that term do not benefit me. If those decisions actually harm the company in the short term then they work against my interests.

>Amazon could sell AWS for 5 billion dollars tomorrow

AWS isn't a product, it's capital. It'd be like a factory selling its machines. You only liquidate capital if you need cash right away, precisely because capital is worth more than its flat monetary value.
by estimator7292 | 2025-10-07 17:17:17+00:00
Broad support for many different chips is precisely why Arduino is so bad. It has to check pin numbers against a gigantic table for every gpio call.

You want chip-specific libraries. When the software is designed for the hardware everything works better.

The native AVR and esp-IDF frameworks are very good. There's also micropython and circuit python. I've heard good things, but I don't partake in Python.

Personally I think attempting to provide a cross-platform library for microcontrollers is an enormous mistake. This is not x86, you can't rely on any CPU feature existing, which results in awful branching code in places that in a sane framework is a single instruction updating a CPU register
by everdrive | 2025-10-07 17:17:25+00:00
It's interesting, when I first got a cell phone (probably 1998) it took me years to figure out that if you received an unwanted call you could just ignore the call. This wasn't really possible back in the landline days, (most people did not have caller ID) and so it wasn't really a scenario you were trained for.

Obviously this is only a metaphorical comparison, but I do wonder if people are going to figure this out with regard to social media. A lot of people are talking about how to "fix" social media, but almost no one is saying "maybe I'll delete it and just read a book or go for a walk or something."

It all reminds me of the Blaise Pascal quote: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."
by thebigshane | 2025-10-07 17:17:29+00:00
Why not make this a web/browser game?

I don't feel like the author explained why such focus on being a downloadable game. Just nostalgia or because they want it included in Steam? With a web ui, why not make this a web game?

I absolutely loved the original SimCity and SC2000. The focus on creation, management, and simulation was always more fun to me than the graphics.

This game looks like so much fun as well and eager to give it a try.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-07 17:17:53+00:00
> NUC is somehow recognized by Windows 11 as being entitled to a copy

There's some form of "BIOS-attached license". Don't really know how it works, but I've seen this for many years. Basically all PCs that have the Windows logo have that, and you can install windows on them as many times as you like, without ever having to enter a license key (I suppose this is limited to the same edition level - I've only ever tried this on "enterprise-level" machines that came with windows pro).

This even works for machines that originally came with windows 8 to install 10, and 10 -> 11. I've never tried "forcing" a win11 install on any machine that came with win8.
by leakycap | 2025-10-07 17:17:58+00:00
> the relationship between the agency and the company predates the Trump administration

IMSI catchers/stingrays have been common practice in local law enforcement for decades, haven't they? How is this different?

> Some cell-site simulators can also intercept regular calls, text messages, and internet traffic.

In what decade was this true, other than text messages? I don't think it is very easy even for an IMSI catcher/stingray to eavesdrop on calls over LTE, for example.
by hackingonempty | 2025-10-07 17:18:22+00:00
The WIV is more than 30km away. The quote below is from the above link, which is a relatively recent review of the "scientific evidence" from a virologist who (from the disclosure statement) "between 2019 and 2021, he was an unpaid Honorary Visiting Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and between 2014 and 2020, he was an unpaid Guest Professor at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China." You should read the link I sent, at least

>Obvious evidence against the laboratory leak allegation is that the first documented cases of COVID-19 were not linked to the WIV nor in the same geographical region of Wuhan (44). The WIV laboratory of Prof. Zhengli Shi, who has been the subject of abundant accusations because of her work on bat coronaviruses (10, 11, 13), is located more than 30 km from the Huanan market epicenter. Clearly, if the virus first emerged at the WIV, then that location should be the site of at least some of the earliest cases or linked to those cases. It is not.
by monsieurbanana | 2025-10-07 17:18:39+00:00
Medical industry, code that gets shipped has to be documented, even if it's not used. It doesn't mean we can't ship unused code, it just means it's generally a pretty bad idea to do it. Maybe the feature's requirement might change during implementation, or you wanted to do a minor version release but that dead code is for a feature that needs to go into a major version (because of regulations).

> I can’t think of any regulations in any country (and I know of a lot of them) that dictate how you do code changes

https://blog.johner-institute.com/regulatory-affairs/design-...
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-07 17:19:03+00:00
I took it, and knew nothing about these possible side effects. It was awful, and only when I looked it up did I find out the risks. This for a product advertised all the time.

I have never had any other drugs/supplements/etc impact me like this. I'm kind of the 'feel no pain, don't pay attention to my body' type as well, so it was outside my comprehension this product could do this.

People REALLY need to be warned better if they are going to push this on so many ads, and the process is setup in a way you don't really get the risk brought to your attention. Between these risks and the huge testosterone drop when taking it I don't understand how there is a market for this.
by firasd | 2025-10-07 17:19:14+00:00
Hi folks--I put this together because I'm always frustrated by the 'digital entropy' of quotes online. It's surprisingly hard to find a 100% faithful transcription of a specific movie scene or a passage from a book. This is my attempt to create a small, high-fidelity record of a memorable scene, putting the film and the book side-by-side.

Something interesting about this film is the meta-context. In 2006, the casting of Robert Downey Jr. and Winona Ryder, both of whose careers had been derailed by personal struggles, lent the film a layer of reality. (The film's tagline was also "everything is not going to be ok"!)

And I had actually watched during the theatrical window back then--when PKD's author's note appears at the end, mourning his lost friends, I found it emotional.
by numpad0 | 2025-10-07 17:19:18+00:00
> Japanese distributors wouldn't need middle-men for airing their shows abroad. They'd just stop region gate it and let fans inject the translation through their players.

What does it even mean? The IP[1] holding single-purpose LLCs[2] have no means of distribution on its own. They commission sweatshops and license the artifacts to TV stations and streaming services. They can sell to Western streaming services like Netflix or send in brochures to American TV stations, in case they're taking it, but if they aren't taking it, then they aren't taking it.

I guess they can set up an IP to be worldwide exclusive on nicovideo.jp and let anyone pay for nicovideo.jp Premium subscription through VISA. But how many is going to actually sign up and how long will VISA work if it worked?

Japanese companies being "just allergic to opening up" is definitely half of the story or more, but it's also not the whole picture. The masses, and the distributors that can reach the masses, are also involved.

1: as in intellectual property, copyright, not the set of octets

2: the oft in-universe-named entity like "Julius Deane Import Export" shown in the copyright line
by danielvf | 2025-10-07 17:19:29+00:00
Similarly, it drives me up the wall with people posting black and white "historical photographs" of history happenings, that are AI slop, and from the wrong era.

Just yesterday someone posted a "photo" of a 1921 where a submarine lost power, and built sails out of bedsheets to get home.

But the photo posted looked like a post WWII two submarine, rigged like a clipper ship, rather than the real life janky 1920's bed sheet rig and characters everywhere.

Actual incident (with actual photo): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_R-14
by deaux | 2025-10-07 17:19:32+00:00
The leadership team absolutely does not have any responsibility to maximize short-term profit, whichis the claim this thread is about.

It has a responsibility to not actively and intentionally destroy the company, and to not use the company's resources for purely personal gain in a way unrelated to the company.

That's it.

This is also why you never hear about any company getting sued for anything related to this (let alone succesfully). Because it doesn't happen, as it's not a thing and any lawyer would immediately tell you you don't have a case.
by ajross | 2025-10-07 17:19:39+00:00
What's the mechanism for getting that premium into the hands of the person operating the gold fortress, though? I get that there's a loss in the market, I don't see the closed part of the loop. Derivative markets are only efficient if you assume that the friction costs are actually borne by an underlying market of real goods. And as the upthread comment points out, there really is no such market. No one is consuming gold (for PCB contacts or jewelry, which are almost the only applications) in anything like the amount being traded by speculators. So there's no entity that naturally bears that cost.

And I'm further supposing that in such a situation, the people who end up with the actual junk to be stored are probably going to find ways to cheat and store it poorly, in e.g. a warehouse and not a fortress.
by prismatk | 2025-10-07 17:20:07+00:00
It's my understanding that this is a crime that is never charged or prosecuted. Rather, if (attempted) suicide is a crime, it serves as a legal fiction that provides a structure for first responders to intervene. Police can then enter an office where someone is hanging out a window without a warrant, for example, because there are exigent circumstances (a crime in progress). Officers could also physical restrain someone trying to jump from a bridge and have a more straightforward justification for this after the fact. I think this is a societal good.

Have you seen any examples of suicidal people being charged or prosecuted for attempted suicide? I can imagine that this could have opportunities for abuse, but not ones that are qualitatively different from probable cause writ large.
by snichola | 2025-10-07 17:20:13+00:00
Anecdotally, my dad is pretty tech illiterate but he's been using Ubuntu for over 5 years. I got fed up playing tech support for Windows and had him try it out. He's been much happier with it. His workflow and UI stays the same, no forced changes. I just login every once in a while to run updates.

I finally switched my desktop this year and I wish I had done it sooner but gaming held me back. Now any games that intentionally won't run under Linux are games I'm not interested in playing.
by elevation | 2025-10-07 17:20:25+00:00
> in order to live off-grid, first you must invent the universe...

Nobody is reinventing the universe, they just want a buffer.

A buffer is a well made item that you can repair yourself, so you're not forced to purchase a replacement.

A buffer is a shoebox with a lifetime supply of your favorite shaving razor.

A buffer is a garden, a pantry of canned goods, a few hens to lay eggs for you.

Each of these buffers insulates the bearer from the effects of supply chain disruption or even unemployment. Walmart could be out of eggs and razors -- but you'll be fine for quite some time, even if you didn't incubate your own chicks or make the razors by hand.

> farms get their input from the ground and sky, but this hasn't been true in centuries

Yes, industrial scales require industrial inputs, but a few hens will happily yield you a few eggs a day while living off your garden scraps and the insects they scratch up. And their waste returns nutrients to the soil -- a boone for a garden.
by chfritz | 2025-10-07 17:20:27+00:00
I assume you mean Orin Nano? (Jetson nano is EOL and only supports Ubuntu 18). Yes, we have users that run on Orin Nano and it's plug-and-play on any hardware. However note that the Orin Nano doesn't have hardware encoders, so it will take CPU cycles to encode the video, making it a less then ideal choice for teleoperated robots. Cheaper boards like the Orange Pi 5 are a better fit.

All the webrtc-features really only become relevant when you want to control the robot over the Internet, i.e., not just locally where you can assume reliable network.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-07 17:20:38+00:00
> ICs didn’t suddenly become cheap on their own; they became cheap because governments and corporations poured billions into scaling them.

That isn't insightful at all.

High returns on high scales of investment are MORE attractive. More "inevitable", even for mundane technologies.

The unbound economics of returns on intelligence without human limitations, and the downsides of being left behind (everything from lost employment to existential military threats), are the most convincing argument for technological investment ever.

The only thing not "inevitable" is how the returns will be distributed. With no end to the competition needed to stay relevant.

"Intelligence" is quite literally "THE" technology of technologies.

This is the most massive step in the form and capabilities of life on Earth, happening in real time, not a marginal improvement in user interfaces. Nothing living will be able to sit this out.
by ninininino | 2025-10-07 17:20:55+00:00
I've been struggling to understand why people care more about Gaza, Ukraine, BLM, or trans bathrooms than issues like PFAS proliferation and ultimately came to the conclusion that people really just don't care about hypothetical future generations as much as the present. You can point and say "look, this action doesn't affect you much and just makes a 0.01% difference, but it will effect 100,000 future generations of life on this planet and can never be reversed" and people will still say "wow that's sad, but there are people starving in Country A" and be much more concerned.

I guess it's us that are the weird ones.
by munchler | 2025-10-07 17:21:37+00:00
G&T programs are potentially disproportionate in terms of attention from the best teachers/classes, access to high-end resources, pipelines to the best colleges, etc. If those were available to everyone who could benefit from them, then there wouldn't be such competition for them.

Source: Am a parent of a G&T student and I see the intensity with which parents push their kids into the program.