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by crote | 2025-10-25 01:13:28+00:00
> The Bible does not refer to other laws as a source of authority

The Bible is the source of law here. My point was that interpreting it solely in the way you deem "obvious" does not work: you cannot have "thou shalt not murder" on its own without additional rules clarifying what counts as "murder" and what counts as "lawful killing" - and the Bible contains plenty of those.

> Murder is typically intentional and unnecessary killing of someone else for malicious reasons (or no reason at all). Malicious reasons would typically be spite, greed, or convenience.

That's how you interpret it. Modern law allows for killing out of greed - if the soldier firing the bullet is different from the politician wanting to capture some resources. We allow countries to kill out of spite with retaliatory strikes. We allow cops to kill in self-defense - even when other methods to subdue are theoretically available, but inconvenient. On the other hand, we no longer allow stoning to death people violating the Sabbath.

Clearly, there is a nontrivial list of criteria separating murder from lawful killing, and this list is mutable. In practice this list is codified in the law, which means murder becomes "killing which is not otherwise allowed in the law", which is the point I was trying to make.

Looping back to the original discussion: contrary to what ikiris was originally claiming it is not "thou shalt not kill" but "thou shalt not murder", and we've been updating the definition of "murder" (and by extent the meaning of "thou shalt not murder") quite a lot over the last few thousand years, so it is false to claim that " 'thou shalt not kill' never needs an update ".
by apsurd | 2025-10-25 01:13:50+00:00
I remember stumbling into coding by way of CSS and HTML. For advanced functionality well there was "scripts" that you copy and paste in and magically worked. The ultimate boss came when stumbling onto "php scripts" that you needed some particular cgi-bin thing to run. Follow the instructions, paste in the php script and it worked! This PHP stuff led to Wordpress. Follow those instructions and WOW mind blown, full end-to-end site with admin, login, database, CRUD, and it looked beautiful.

The problem was I couldn't actually understand any of the code. I learned CSS and HTML!

After many trials, I used what I knew and realized well whatever this PHP code is doing, I'm going to put it in a div with style="border:5px solid red" and see what it does that way.

Fast forward 2, 5, 10, 12 years and that's how I learned to be a programmer.
by hobs | 2025-10-25 01:14:20+00:00
Or when God tells you to.

"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

"and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy."

etc
by sokoloff | 2025-10-25 01:14:24+00:00
Correct (and thanks for the link to that unit).

Though it’s worth noting that that first 2 ton rated unit is putting out 0.5 tons (6k BTU/hr) at that temp and rating.

That’s not going to be particularly helpful for a structure that needed 24k BTU/hr during warmer temps, meaning the owner of the unit is likely mixing in a lot of 1.0 BTUs to meet the heat loss at -13°F.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-25 01:15:19+00:00
Call your Respectives, donate where you can, and if you're active on social media: boost the voices you want to hear and let them get the word out.

And of course, keep your eyes peeled for any elections in your area. No matter how minor a position. If you can donate / volunteer for their campaigns, all the better. These situations will need to be fixed bottom up in the long term, so you never know what comptroller today becomes a senate tomorrow.
by AmbroseBierce | 2025-10-25 01:15:25+00:00
In case anyone is wondering what Chuck Norris has to do with all this:

> Chuck and Gena Norris filed a lawsuit against several medical companies in 2017, alleging that a gadolinium-based contrast agent used in Gena Norris's MRIs caused her to develop a condition called gadolinium deposition disease and resulted in debilitating symptoms like cognitive issues, pain, and muscle wasting. In January 2020, the Norrises, along with their attorneys, voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled. The dismissal was made without a settlement payment, and each party paid their own legal costs.

It might give a glimpse into his worldview to mention that during the COVID pandemic Mr Norris shared an article on social media that claimed that the COVID vaccinations killed millions of people. [0]

[0] https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=870953857718632&...
by panny | 2025-10-25 01:16:26+00:00
I work as a contractor these days. I find the teams with top spec macbooks have terribly bloated code bases, because they don't notice. Pulling into the project with my laptop with 8gbs of ram instantly recognizes the bloat. I point out the things they are doing wrong, and they typically know, but haven't cared to fix the issues. They end up wasting a mountain of money in production and ironically become very cost sensitive about hours worked instead.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-25 01:18:00+00:00
Can't wait to see civil war declared and HN still tries to suppress that nothing is wrong (I pray this is wrong, but who knows at this point? I'd say we're already at 4 star alarm bells. I could finally use my favorite meme from Avatar: The Last Airbender

"There is not War in America. [FLAGGED]"
by eholk | 2025-10-25 01:19:32+00:00
You know, that's exactly how I learned to program.

I started up QBasic knowing nothing other than that it seemed like a thing for programming computers and programming seemed like a cool thing to do.

I typed in random words, and eventually I typed "screen". When I pushed enter, QBasic capitalized it, so it seemed important. I hit F1 and read the help. It made no sense, but the example ran and had other capitalized words so I could repeat the process.

Eventually I started making really terrible text-based Final Fantasy knock-offs.
by cycomanic | 2025-10-25 01:20:02+00:00
My parents had a hornets nest at different spots on the house several times in a row (they typically don't nest in the same place). Nobody was ever stung (and I've been visiting with my two small kids). Hornets are actually fascinating to watch, they would fly into the winter garden/glass house (where we typically had breakfast in summer), catch the insects who were stuck and flying along the windows/glass ceiling and just fly out again. Super smart.

As a side note, destroying hornets nests (and wasps possibly as well) is illegal in many European countries because they are protected.
by stavros | 2025-10-25 01:21:18+00:00
Valetudo is really nice software, but I have a bad taste in my mouth from the community.

I went to the Telegram channel to ask something about why my vacuum running Valetudo would have a specific behaviour (IIRC it moved on its own), they kind of talked to each other for a second to discuss if this question was relevant to the channel, and then, presumably deciding it wasn't, banned me for a year.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-25 01:22:18+00:00
I've been sounding alarm bells since the early DOGE days. The site just casts then off.

Bluesky is probably the best place if you want to communicate directly with policy makers (ones who likely aren't assisting the regime). I personally talk about political stuff on Tildes as a smaller community that doesn't tolerate blatant hate. There's tech threads on Tildes as well, but to a lesser extent.

I don't have a reddit accout, but I generally also just browse a few reddit subs to get the fist gist of any major news. Just for 15 minutes or so. Politics for general stuff, Law for oversteps (thoighthough these days there's a lot of overlap), economics and economy for any more trade war nonsense.
by alganet | 2025-10-25 01:23:41+00:00
These folk are so unimaginative. There's an even worse scenario:

We play expectations whack-a-mole forever and ever.

It's already showing signs of that. The AI discourse is a whack-a-mole machine of hypotheticals. What if it never unlocks meaningful progress, but also don't stop? I mean, ever.
by raddan | 2025-10-25 01:24:28+00:00
I did the same thing and spent slightly less than you did because I did not need the extra linesets, etc. I was also able to install this in a location that few professionals would have tolerated (interior wall). My thinking was that even if the unit died, I would have saved so much on installation that it wouldn’t even matter. It’s a great unit too. Installation costs are kind of a racket.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-25 01:24:44+00:00
That's what Tildes does. They even do subtags. Like this year politics.us was added for those who wanted to opt out of this in their feed

But yes, I simply don't expect this place to be responsive to 90% of politics at this point. I can see how Silicon Valley leans very conservative in cases like this and how it swaya the tech industry as a whole.
by rjdj377dhabsn | 2025-10-25 01:27:42+00:00
That's still a lot higher than what I paid in SE Asia 2 years ago. I got new 550w panels delivered for $65 each.

And of course installation is incredibly cheap here. $50 total in labor for 10 panels on a quite high roof. I don't remember the costs of the mounting hardware, but it was reasonable as well.
by ktoso | 2025-10-25 01:27:55+00:00
It's worth pointing out that the example you linked with the cdecl is not showcasing the swift-java interoperability but using "raw" JNI patterns as if you would do it with C.

This example does showcase the interoperability: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-android-examples/tree/mai... you don't have to annotate or write any "weird" cdecls or really touch JNI details yourself when using the swift-java interop support https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java
by ontouchstart | 2025-10-25 01:28:13+00:00
This is what I am doing these days.

Spent most of my time in thinking and asking Claude the right questions at the right moment instead of typing code. Review the code agent generated, let it run tests, deploy to PR branch for live debugging. Review console log and network traffic, paste the information to Cursor and ask Claude for the root cause, code paths and data flow. Solve issues one at a time.

It does feel like a surgeon working with a team of assistants. A lot of information, a lot of decisions, a lot of patience and focus.
by tom_m | 2025-10-25 01:28:23+00:00
Problem isn't finding someone who can code and write code that works and is even good. Problem is finding someone who cares, is motivated, gets along with others, understands what they are building, is a good communicator, and doesn't decide that they are going to change priorities and do what they want because they know best. THAT is what's hard to learn during an interview.
by rileymat2 | 2025-10-25 01:29:50+00:00
Ward Cunningham: “If we failed to make our program align with what we then understood to be the proper way to think about our financial objects, then we were going to continue to stumble on that disagreement which is like paying interest on a loan.”

I am not sure what distinction that the article was trying to make, but this IS architecture problems coined as Technical Debt, not shoddy code.
by leptons | 2025-10-25 01:31:08+00:00
>"Humans hallucinate too"

>No they dont.

WTAF? Maybe you're new here, but the term "hallucinate" came from a very human experience, and was only usurped recently by "AI" bros who wanted to anthropomorphize a tin can.

>Humans also know when they are pretending to know what they are talking about - put said people against the wall and they will freely admit they have no idea what the buzzwords they are saying mean.

>Machines possess no such characteristic.

"AI" will say whatever you want to hear to make you go away. That's the extent of their "characteristic". If it doesn't satisfy the user, they try again, and spit out whatever garbage it calculates should make the user go away. The machine has far less of an "idea" what it's saying.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-25 01:31:33+00:00
After using SubEthaEdit, BB and what not for almost 9 years on mac now I finally thought one day that there might be N option in Text Edit to make it plaintext and there it was. Now I just use it. One of the most icky mac moments have been whenever a text file opened in textedit in its default behaviour and then I had to change “opens with” for that file.
by thot_experiment | 2025-10-25 01:31:53+00:00
Tangentially related question for any of you GIS people who might be lurking in this thread:

Can anyone recommend me a method of meshing LIDAR point clouds? The sparseness of the data on building walls & other near-vertical surfaces combined with a lack of point normals leads to degenerate solutions with all the common approaches (poisson/ball pivot/vcg in meshlab) not to mention extremely slow perf. Tree canopies and overhanging parapets make a simple heightmap approach less-than desirable (though ultimately acceptable if I can't find anything better). I'm trying to turn 90 billion lidar points into maybe 30-50 million triangles, hopefully without spending months developing a custom pipeline.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-25 01:32:24+00:00
No, I was making a point.

Asahi Linux is a volunteer project. Devs commit their free time to work on something incredibly difficult, giving people the ability to run Linux on an entirely new platform, and all people can do is complain it isn't good enough.

And this is just one example, you see this kind of crap all over the Open Source community. Providing constructive feedback is one thing, bitching that they aren't working fast enough is another. Either get involved and find some way to help out, or shut up.
by GhostDrift | 2025-10-25 01:34:28+00:00
No analytic continuation. No asymptotics. If a finite uniform window positivity (UWP) holds on a Fejér–Yukawa kernel, RH follows.

This short paper proves a conditional route to RH based solely on a finite, computable positivity condition. The argument requires no zero-free regions and no global continuation of ζ(s)—everything happens inside a bounded convolution window. It is a minimal, checkable bridge between prime distributions and harmonic analysis via the Fejér–Yukawa kernel.
by glaucon | 2025-10-25 01:35:41+00:00
> The people who buy these cameras would probably be better served by upgrading their phones.

I'm sorry if this too far off topic but I routinely go to use my phone's camera and the ambient light level is so high I can barely see what I'm intending to photograph, and I certainly can't see the on-screen controls.

I've seen hoods intended to over your head and into which the phone fits and this would, I assume, resolve the issue but by comparison a point and click with a 'proper' viewfinder (perhaps with the rubber surround some used to have) would be a very good solution by comparison.
by glxxyz | 2025-10-25 01:36:38+00:00
It's the opposite for me, much bigger ROI on the heatpump than solar. Rural property, 10 years old, ~3,500 sq ft + basement, in Canada where summer can be above 30C (86F) and winter below -30C (-20F). Electricity costs (Canadian) 7.6 ¢/kWh off-peak and 15.8 ¢/kWh on-peak here.

I spent C$40K (about US$30k) on a ground source aka 'geothermal' heat pump to replace furnace powered by propane tank. I kept propane for on-demand hot water and whole house generator. I have no options for utilities other than electricity.

A couple of years later I spent another C$40k for a 20kW rooftop solar system, with net metering and no battery. Net metering was critical for getting any return at all. A battery is next to useless here- I generate almost all of my solar electricity in May-Oct but use the majority of it in Nov-April. Net metering lets me 'store' excess from summer and use it in winter.

Annual costs:

Before:

C$8,000+ propane (heating + hot water) C$2,500 electricity (cooling + misc) $10,500 total

With C$40k investment in geothermal heatpump:

C$4,500 electricity (heating + cooling + misc) C$500 propane (hot water) C$5,000 total.

With heatpump and then C$40k investment in rooftop solar:

C$2,000 electricity (heating + cooling + misc) C$500 propane (hot water) C$2,500 total.

So I'm seeing about C$8k/yr saving for C$80k investment. The heatpump saved me over $5k a year and the solar about $2,500 a year. The heatpump has pretty much paid for itself after 5 years, the solar will take at least 15 years (unless prices go way up) although should eventually see some return 15-20 years out.

In reality it might have cost even more than that to heat with propane. On the propane furnace we barely heated in winter, burned a lot of firewood to make part of the house livable. I'm trying estimate how much it would cost to heat the house to a comfortable 20C (68F) although the thermostat now with the heatpump is set to 22C (72F) in winter so there's an improvement in comfort as well as the ROI.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-25 01:37:58+00:00
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by rurban | 2025-10-25 01:38:55+00:00
Even worse: Why cannot programming languages learn arithmetic?

Most languages and its stdlib's cannot deal with numbers properly at all. Most overflow without errors. Most integers cannot keep precision, most cannot promote types properly.

I only know of Common Lisp, Scheme, Python 3, Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Raku which can handle numbers properly by default. Python extremely slow though.
by simmonmt | 2025-10-25 01:40:09+00:00
Costs are a big thing, sure, but for me it's electrical reliability. For better or worse our heating oil and natural gas supply are both more reliable than our electricity supply. I don't need the heat going out in the dead of winter when some wind storm drops a bunch of branches on power lines.

I'm aware that both my boiler and a natural gas furnace have electric blower motors. It's a lot easier to power them from a generator than it is to have a generator than can power a house worth of heat pumps.
by atmanactive | 2025-10-25 01:41:38+00:00
Thank you for the explanation. Right now I don't have Tommy or any of it's devices configured (yet). I was just trying to determine what's possible and what's not. I do have ethernet throughout the house. Then, I have three Ubiquity AmpliFi dual-band mesh WiFi access points in an ethernet-backboned configuration. I do a lot of Sunshine/Moonlight low-latency high-def video/audio streaming, so for me, the WiFi quality/speed/jitter is of utmost importance. So much so that I removed all Zigbee and most ESP devices and replaced them with similar Z-Wave devices. The very fact that Z-Wave operates on a completely different band enabled me to have both abundance of home automation AND flawless WiFi at the same time. So, now considering what Tommy has to offer, I'm intrigued, but wouldn't want to go through the whole WiFi degradation and rescue again, hence I'm thinking through all the possibilities. The safest thing, for me, would be to have Tommy devices equipped with ethernet and WiFi, have them talk to Home Assistant via ethernet, and have them use their own WiFi SSID/channel for their motion detection. Otherwise, if that's not possible, then I could let them associate with my existing home WiFi, but then I would like to limit them to 2.4GHz band only, so I can have my 5GHz band clean and intact. Simply, that's my home network building policy: move everything that can be moved to ethernet in order to keep WiFi as clean as possible. That's because I already experienced the situation few years back that I just bought the best WiFi access point (x3) that money can buy and I still can't stream flawless 4K in real-time. Well, not anymore.
by phatskat | 2025-10-25 01:43:32+00:00
That’s awesome! I love community solutions. I recently moved out to a more rural area so places like that aren’t as walkable as my old place in the city - we had a sustainable store with refillable soaps, detergent, etc; a good half dozen hair places, a local yarn and slewing shop that doubles as a place for people in the refugee community to learn techniques and get assistance; there’s also food co-ops, community garden, etc.

It’s all been really cool to see as it grows, and while I’m sad to have moved away, it also gives me an opportunity to find and form new communities.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-10-25 01:44:25+00:00
Limiting behaviour can be counterintuitive. As you add vertices to a polyhedron, some properties approach those of a sphere (volume, surface area), but others just get further and further away (number of surface discontinuities). It's not at all obvious which way "Rupertness" will go, or even whether it's monotone with respect to vertex addition.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-10-25 01:44:28+00:00
Consider this scenario:

You have a train hurtling down the track that forks into two groups of people, 10 in one and 5 in the other, some of the people go on to cure cancer and some are murderers and you don't know where they are. Also it's possible batman set up the scenario to kill the bad guys and by flipping the switch you kill the good guys. Or the Joker set it up and the reverse is true.

In this case, you could argue that you only have moral culpability by intervening. Unless you are absolutely sure you have full knowledge of the intended consequences by acting, you can absolve yourself of the moral culpability by non-intervention.

And since we don't know the long term consequences of political actions, there is at least an argument for non-intervention.
by lz400 | 2025-10-25 01:44:45+00:00
I want to offer a different data point. I took my daughter to a Montessori-adjacent school for 3 years. It's not Montessori exactly and they didn't advertise as such but they had a different European name attached to it that is downstream from Montessori. They had multi-age education, stressed in children directed learning and individual growth, they didn't have exams, etc.

I changed my daughter this year and overall I'm disappointed in that school. There were many issues but the most important ones to me where:

- No exams, only individual growth meant there's no guarantee the kid is learning at a good pace. When I worked with her at home I could easily identify many gaps and deficiencies. She's now struggling a bit in her new school because of this but I think it will resolve soon.

- Because they didn't like comparing kids to standards or among each other the feedback I received was useless. It was always "she's doing excellent, we see strong growth" but it wasn't true.

- The school rejected most parent feedback and issues raised with something "maybe this style of education is not for you". For example, I know of a few other kids that had to leave because the school didn't take action against bullying because they didn't believe in punishments, etc.

I have to say there were good things too, in particular my daughter really enjoyed it there and formed strong bonds with other kids. I think in general it was ok for elementary education but I strongly think it's not after that and I now have a perhaps unjust bias against Montessori and derivatives.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-25 01:45:29+00:00
Do you see the problem? What you wrote is the problem with oop. Gotta tear your whole program apart and rewrite it. You had to create new things and rewrite your methods.

With functional you don’t rewrite. You recompose what you already have.

It means oop is not modular. You didn’t create modules that can be reused. Nothing could be reused so you had to reconfigure everything.