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by teekert | 2025-10-22 20:19:43+00:00
I’m a scientist. I haven’t read “the body keeps the score”. It sounds like pseudoscience.

But, I do recognize the importance of models. Our brains are complex, lacking the capacity to comprehend everything, we make models. Models are incomplete (by definition) and often false. But can still be very useful. Or very useful to some. Where useful means: help someone lead a more fulfilling, better life.

So I try not to judge. Even though I try to seek truth. To be a scientist. I know there are useful models out there.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-22 20:19:52+00:00
> There are no substantial technical or usability reasons to switch to JJ from Git

Every magit user disagrees with you.

> and it's impractical for most working programmers to switch

This very much sounds like someone who has never even tried jj. Tell us: What makes switching impractical?

> My well-intentioned recommendation to Steve, because I've been there, is: If you want to avoid feeling like you've wasted your life in a few years on code that doesn't live up to its promise and is essentially no different than the code that already exists in Git (and Hg, Pijul, Fossil, etc.),

Is Steve even a developer for jj?
by bengoodger | 2025-10-22 20:20:02+00:00
I too have nostalgia for a time when prices were reasonable, politicians didn't philander and children respected their elders.

And yet here we are :-)

For what it's worth, despite it being /en vogue/ to rag on Google, the Chrome team has some of the most talented and dedicated folks focused on building a vibrant and interesting web for most people in the world.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-22 20:20:03+00:00
I don't think it has to be either-or.

I suspect wearables will be cheaper than augmented rooms, so they will probably "win" in the sense that mobile phones outnumber desktop computers.

That being said, I suspect the experience of being in an augmented room will be "worth it" and many people will pay big bucks for them.
by stuffn | 2025-10-22 20:20:04+00:00
The gut-brain axis is highly influential in normal every day depression. It makes sense why you think this works for you.

I workout vigorously 3-4 times a week, try to avoid the regular bad stuff with diet, etc. It doesn't stop the adrenaline dump from being in an abusive relationship for a number of years when there's a minor problem, and it doesn't stop me from randomly having my brain completely shut down when I (unfortunately) remember some aspects of my childhood.

What has helped it CBT and time. The book in mention helped me understand why I feel the way I do, and that deeply rooted trauma (PTSD) exists as a misprogramming of your brain by a traumatic experience that is not "surface level" to trivially identify, and your brain is an excellent helper in compartmentalizing this for your own survival. Whether the information is wrong or right isn't what I care about. It's that it simply provided me a framework from which I could approach the problems I previously didn't really understand and led me on a journey of self discovery and bumpy healing I wouldn't have done otherwise. An inaccurate model is infinitely better than no model.

The author of the substack does an excellent job at taking something that we barely understand (psychology has a lot of problems of reproducibility) and generalizing it into a bullshit youtube short tier soundbite of an article with less information than the book he claims is nonsense. Reading his other article for reference I would be suspect of the author's credibility in any aspect of science other than the dangers of inhaling your own farts.

I especially the call back to another article of his that suggests that just loading up on exogenous testosterone is positively correlated with less PTSD. Funny enough I have had above-average testosterone through most of my life and yet I still managed to get a mild-to-medium form of PTSD.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-22 20:20:10+00:00
LOL, "researched".

>Is there something new or relevant you’re making a case for?

New? Not, not really. It's not at all new that the official position of the church ("Jesus is entirely mortal and entirely divine") is inherently self-contradictory. I mean, what the hell. If I didn't know any better I'd think an atheist came up with it to troll early Christians. Try saying something similar about literally anything else. "The contents of this glass are simultaneously entirely water and entirely mercury." It says nothing good of either the followers or the clergy that that nonsense has been accepted for so long.
by __aru | 2025-10-22 20:20:17+00:00
because official SteamOS doesn't support the Xbox Ally X yet. It's safe to assume that official SteamOS will eventually support the Xbox Ally X, but it's not there yet.

Valve moves slowly to add support for more devices, etc, whereas the Bazzite devs can move faster.

e.g.

Bazzite does a weekly release of a stable OS candidate, whereas Valve often takes months, if not up to a year, for to release a stable-channel OS update.

Edit:

Also, Valve tends to wait for proper kernel interfaces for functionality like controlling TDP, RGB, fans, etc. Whereas Bazzite devs are fine with using tools in userspace to directly talk to hardware, etc.

While I do think Valve's approach is better for long-term maintainability, Bazzite will always have the speed advantage because it can hack together a solution via userspace applications.
by anechouapechou | 2025-10-22 20:20:24+00:00
This is a very common misconception. Stoics (at least in the classical sense, which is what I study) seek to classify their emotions as either positive or as passions. And through the analysis of their own opinions, using logic and the concept of aligning with nature and the common good, they seek to agree with what is correct, disagree with what is incorrect, and suspend judgment on that which is not evident. A person can only be good or bad through actions that are their own responsibility; therefore, things outside of their own responsibility (such as a Stoic's son dying) cannot make them either good or bad, but rather their reaction to the event can. The interpretation that if a Stoic suffers when experiencing the death of their own son, they are being a bad Stoic is actually completely incorrect. They will only be a bad Stoic if, from this event, they allow themselves to be carried away by the suffering that is natural to every person who has a natural affection, and start to have opinions and actions contrary to nature.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-10-22 20:20:40+00:00
I agree.

As I read this I kept thinking that it seemed too skeptical to be rationally critical. Which isn't necessarily an improvement over the book.

My intuition (I know, that isn't better than the book or this post) is that there's truth in both places, and we'd ultimately land somewhere in the middle if we had access to the truth.

This touches on the nature vs nurture problem, wherein there never seems to be a clear victor and the answer seems to be that both play a role depending on what you're measuring. It's also very difficult to say how the chicken and egg scenario unravels, since we don't know what's the chicken and what's the egg, so to speak. The author seems to think they know—confidently as you mentioned—but it's abundantly murky to me.

I suppose we need confident people pushing in all directions to help us look more deeply in places and ways we otherwise might not. But wow, it gets tiring to see such unapologetic bias in scientific contexts. I admittedly stopped reading just passed the half way point and should probably keep most of my opinions about it to myself.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-22 20:20:55+00:00
They should have found someone who knows what they are doing or not implement it at all. We're talking about a company with a $1B+ yearly revenue here.

They put their name behind it https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-circl/ and it looks like whoever they hired to do the work couldn't even read the wikipedia page for the algorithm.
by nostrademons | 2025-10-22 20:21:04+00:00
So I had a therapist give me EMDR about 5 years ago for little-T trauma. I have no idea whether EMDR is scientifically back or not or whether trauma is overdiagnosed, I just know it worked for me.

But what she said about the therapy (since I always want to know how everything works) is that trauma is basically emotional memory. Y’know how you might have a visual memory about how a certain place looked like when you visited, or sensual memory of how a favorite food tasted, or muscle memory for how to ride a bike, or cognitive memory of how to solve a math problem? The same thing happens with emotions - they get stored away in the brain’s memory centers and can intrude on your present at some later time.

But emotion, by definition, is “that which causes motion”. So if you have a bunch of traumatic memories (oftentimes not even with visual or cognitive components - mine didn’t have them), those emotions continue to influence how you behave for years afterwards. That’s what memory is.

And the point of EMDR is that for some unknown reason, the act of focusing your eyes across the parts of your visual field controlled by different hemispheres forces those emotional memories back into consciousness, where you can then recast and retrigger them based on present-day experience. It literally is implanting false memories - that’s the point - but you want false memory of the event because the true emotional memory is no longer serving you well in the present.
by jakedata | 2025-10-22 20:21:14+00:00
$4500 is ten or more of my homebrew 750 watt electric mountain bike originally built in 2004. I just repowered with LiFePO4 after 10 years in storage and the new batteries really pull. It has a front hub motor with a throttle control limited to 20 mph. My commute is 10 miles, 6 on a dedicated bike path. Life is good.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 20:21:24+00:00
I'd agree the average person who wants some photo prints is better off just sending the job out to Wal-Mart, some pharmacy, shutterfly or one of many competitors.

When I got a 'free' inkjet printer I realized I couldn't just make 10 anime prints and come back six monhths later and make 10 more so I committed to print something every day which I did for maybe 2.5 years and it turned out to be quite an adventure. To feed that machine I got serious about taking photographs, when that sucked up all my time I fell out of the printing habit!

See https://www.behance.net/gallery/232344867/Life-is-Better-Wit...
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-22 20:21:28+00:00
I really doubt that. Most of the profit-generating AI in most industries... decision support, spotting connections, recommendations, filtering, etc... runs on old school techniques. They're cheaper to train, cheaper to run, and more explainable.

Last survey I saw said regression was still the most-used technique with SVM's more used than LLM's. I figured combining those types of tools with LLM tech, esp for specifying or training them, is a better investment than replacing them. There's people doing that.

Now, I could see Facebook itself thinking LLM's are the most important if they're writing all the code, tests, diagnostics, doing moderation, customer service, etc. Essentially, running the operational side of what generates revenue. They're also willing to spend a lot of money to make that good enough for their use case.

That said, their financial bets make me wonder if they're driven by imagination more than hard analyses.
by jrockway | 2025-10-22 20:21:33+00:00
jj is actually so good though. People don't need to know you're using it, which is why it's nice.

A problem I run into when working with other people is that code reviews take forever and I need to build on top of them. Code gets merged while it's being reviewed, and it becomes a burden to keep rebasing your stack of PRs. It's also difficult to do things like designing each PR against the main branch, but testing all 3 of them together. (Sometimes you want to write the docs / take screenshots as though all your features are merged as-is.) jj makes all this trivial. You tell it what you want and it does it without involving an index or working copy or interrupting you to resolve conflicts.

I've found that it really makes me less annoyed when working with other people. I don't know why it takes people longer to review code (or to even open the review request) than it takes me to write things. But it does, and jj is what keeps me sane.

To be fair, I also use it on personal projects because sometimes you have 3 things you want to try at once and they're not related to each other. Upstream isn't going to change without your understanding, but it's still mechanically something to maintain the rebases on those 3 branches. jj just makes this burden go away.

Having said that, I don't know why a "jjhub" is needed. Github seems fine. jj's just a UI for git.
by taeric | 2025-10-22 20:21:48+00:00
I think there is a bit of a crowd that is pushing the idea that you can make events worse by telling people that they are forever scarred from them? That is, yes, some trauma sticks with you. History shows people are also very resilient at moving on from trauma. Kind of have to be, so that we aren't devastated when we ultimately do lose some family.

Would be like saying you should hammer people on how much grieve they must be feeling because they lost a dog. Now, nor should you also scold people for feeling said grief. It is very personal and hard to really know what experience someone will have until they have it.
by svara | 2025-10-22 20:21:50+00:00
I usually try not to be so cynical but just couldn't resist here: What if the future of human connection is to replace it with para social relationships that can be monetized?

That said I am not cynical about mission statements like that per se, I do think that making large organizations work towards a common goal is a very difficult problem. Unless you're going to have a hierarchical command and control system in place, you need to do it through shared culture and mission.
by munchlax | 2025-10-22 20:22:18+00:00
I doubt you could keylog my openbsd server that I remote into over ssh or serial.

I also doubt you can take pictures of me when it doesn't have cameras attached. If it did and you were to take pictures, you'd see some blinking leds and cables all day.

And I highly doubt you could take remote control even if I had openssh open to the public.

Perhaps your industry just doesn't care about the same things the openbsd community does.

Edit: I missed the ssh key stealing. My keys are always encrypted.
by Draiken | 2025-10-22 20:22:48+00:00
> Viewing corporations as amoral bots that are justified in squeezing every bit of profit out of humans

Literally what a corporation is.

This is capitalism mate. People will do basically anything with the "for the company" excuse. If they don't, they will be out of a job and eventually starve.

Laws are the only things that can limit corporations. Without those we'd still have children working, 14 hour shifts and no weekends.
by debugnik | 2025-10-22 20:22:58+00:00
Relative FPS gain is a meaningless metric anyway. Going from 30 to 36 FPS is -5.5 ms/frame, going from 60 to 66 FPS is -1.5 ms/frame.

Taking the average of that is even more meaningless. If they insist in comparing FPS instead of frame times, they should have simply compared the two harmonic means.
by nevi-me | 2025-10-22 20:23:35+00:00
We used a contractor yes. Oddly, the civil engineer signed off on the foundations. I think what happened is that the foundations might have been correct, but when they started laying bricks, they used the internal dimensions.

The foundation is normally 500-600mm wide.

Another funny story is that we have a concrete column in the living room that was meant to be 250mm x 250mm. The subcontractor decided to box it in and pour it before we came to inspect. He made it 450mm x 450mm.

So we have this giant concrete thing in the passage.

If some of it wasn't as embarrassing, I'd blog about it with photos.
by qsort | 2025-10-22 20:23:48+00:00
The consistency of a mission statement? Are you guys for real?

To be clear: I'm not arguing that everyone at OpenAI or Meta is a bad person, I don't think that's true. Most of their employees are probably normal people. But seriously, you have to tell me what you guys are smoking if a mission statement causes you to update in any direction whatsoever. I can hardly think of anything more devoid of content.
by j45 | 2025-10-22 20:24:02+00:00
Of course.

The default thought to use the cloud because it's more performant though for even the most basic to intermediate loads instead of the hardware directly is what I'm referring to and what the article is referring to.

It's very easy to pay for cloud services per transaction at greatly inflated prices than what it actually costs, and how many cpu cores it actually uses at any given time.
by AndrewStephens | 2025-10-22 20:24:16+00:00
I completed my degree in computer science at age 22 - at that time Shor had just published his famous algorithm and the industry press was filled with articles on how quantum computing was just a few years away with just a few technical hurdles yet to be solved.

I turned 50 years old this year, forgive an old man a few chuckles.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-22 20:25:38+00:00
Isn't it common for people charged with crimes to be released while waiting for trial?

I can't see anything in the article about bail so presumably these are minor felonies that didn't require bail (or it was posted)?

The article does no job at explaining how a shortage in public defenders causes somebody to be released.

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IIUC, the general "solution" to a shortage of public defenders is to adjust what "can't afford" means to remove people from getting them [1].

[1]: https://www.nlada.org/public-defense-system-fees
by phkahler | 2025-10-22 20:26:23+00:00
>> There is no cure for PTSD...

But there are treatments. Last I read exposure therapy and EMDR were the two main ones. I don't think I'd be a big fan of exposure until the reactions have been significantly reduced, but everyone is different. EMDR didn't do much for me, but Internal Family Systems did. CBT is also great for some people.
by ModernMech | 2025-10-22 20:26:27+00:00
> and only asked to summarize relevant facts from the existing information it can find

Still not enough as I find the LLM will not summarize all the relevant facts, sometimes leaving out the most salient ones. Maybe you'll get a summary of some facts, maybe the ones you explicitly ask for, but you'll be left wondering if the LLM is leaving out important information.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-22 20:26:46+00:00
You mentioned having the LLM generate a placeholder, whereas the important thing is what it accepts. You can feed an LLM nothing but placeholders but that's very limited since it can't see the the actual data in any way. You're really just having it emit a template. Something simple like "make a calendar event for the reservation in this email" could not be done. In contrast, parameterized queries let the database actually operate on the data.
by churchill | 2025-10-22 20:26:58+00:00
But, on the flip side, coercive power cannot stand on its own without money too. The CCP's Politburo know beyond a doubt that they have coercive power over billionaires like Jack Ma, but they try to accommodate these entrepreneurs who help catalyze economic growth & bring the state more foreign revenue/wealth to fund its coercive machine.

America's elected leaders also have power to punish & bring oligarchs to book legally, but they mostly interact symbiotically, exchanging campaign contributions and board seats for preferential treatment, favorable policy, etc.

Putin can order any out-of-line oligarch to be disposed of, but the economic & coercive arms of the Russian State still see themselves as two sides of the same coin.

So, yes: coercive power can still make billionaires face the wall (Russian revolution, etc.) but they mostly prefer to work together. Money and power are a continuum like spacetime.
by crote | 2025-10-22 20:27:05+00:00
Literally nobody is making that claim. Nobody expects businesses to be charities.

The thing being argued against is businesses solely being viewed as a "get rich quick" gambling scheme, where the only thing that matters is a rapid rise in shareholder value. VCs don't want a company providing a steady retirement fund, they want you to go for a 1000x return or die trying. The logical end result is that you screw over your customers and employees whenever possible, and burn the entire thing to the ground for the last few bucks. Just look at what Broadcom is doing to VMware: they might've delivered some great shareholder value, but they did huge damage to society in the process!

We shouldn't allow businesses to operate like a cancer which grows forever until it eventually kills its host, leeching off as much in the process as possible. If you want sustainability, you should be clamoring for businesses which are happy to just operate: employ some people, provide a valuable service to society, and make some profit - no need to take over the world in a crazy frenzy chasing unlimited growth.
by kouru225 | 2025-10-22 20:27:08+00:00
I haven’t read the book, but I’m almost always suspicious of criticism targeted at books like this. Let’s say I write a textbook about biology and I write the sentence:

“The Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell”

Technically what I’m saying is wrong. What the mitochondria does is so vast and confusing that no sentence like that can ever encompass its role. In fact, even using the word “role” is questionable because it presumes that the mitochondria’s sole function is to work as a team with other organelles/biological structures when in fact biology doesn’t really care about some abstract idea like “team.” All language is derived from analogy, and all analogies are insufficient to describe reality. In fact, mathematicians now agree that even math is an insufficient language. It can’t fully describe the territory. It can only make maps of it, and all maps are only useful because they are compressed and packaged versions of the territory. The question is just, “how much compression is useful?”

We live in a world where science communication is so atrophied that the flat earth, and creationist theories are still in circulation. Scientists have dramatically failed to market their ideas to the masses, despite the fact that these ideas are inherently compelling. To me, the reason why they’ve failed seems obvious: because they’re so busy tearing down science communicators that none of them can ever get a real hold on the public. And why? Because the books they write are at compression level that the scientists arbitrarily deem irresponsible.

This guy wrote a compelling story about the barrier between mind/body. To do that, he must have distributed a viral package of psychological terminology and concepts. It was then distributed to and consumed by millions of people. In all likelihood, the fact that they were excited by this book probably led them to read other books like it. They probably encountered conflicting ideas, questioned them, and looked them up. They probably have a much rounder understanding of these ideas now than they did when they first read them.

Now this other guy writes a story and all it says is “yo that dude was wrong.” How helpful! How useful! And let’s be 100% clear: the person writing this isn’t communicating the absolute truth. They’re also compressing their ideas. In 100 years, I bet you any psychologist that reads both books will shake their head and point out all the flaws in their analogies. Meanwhile, the cycle continues: the scientists tear each other down and the masses continue sacrificing innocent children to appease the blood god.