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by truCoat | 2025-10-12 18:30:36+00:00
Thomas Paine's church, 19th psalm:

The spacious firmament on high,

With all the blue etherial sky,

And spangled heavens, a shining frame,

Their great original proclaim.

The unwearied sun, from day to day,

Does his Creator’s power display,

And publishes to every land

The work of an Almighty hand.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,

The moon takes up the wondrous tale,

And nightly to the list’ning earth

Repeats the story of her birth;

Whilst all the stars that round her burn,

And all the planets, in their turn,

Confirm the tidings as they roll,

And spread the truth from pole to pole.

What though in solemn silence all

Move round this dark terrestrial ball

What though no real voice, nor sound,

Amidst their radiant orbs be found,

In reason’s ear they all rejoice,

And utter forth a glorious voice,

Forever singing as they shine,

THE HAND THAT MADE US IS DIVINE.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-12 18:31:34+00:00
You can't stop north korea/russia buying from the capitalist west (How do Russia get over a billion dollars worth of serialized/tracked aircraft parts to replenish their fleet this year? How do serialized/batch tracked parts end up underground when you track which airplane every part goes into?). It might be different for China, where instead of politicians/government people overlooking loopholes (because money must flow) China executes people for not following the rules.
by scott_w | 2025-10-12 18:32:01+00:00
> And even in cases where the problem is 'we might get sued', the fact that you have someone else to sue is to a large extent multiplying problems because you now have two lawsuits.

To be fair, I’m not sure if this is a huge issue. It seems a pretty standard part of business. Like, if I’m a store and I sell a product that’s faulty, the customer would file their case against my business and it’s up to me to decide how to resolve that with my supplier.
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-10-12 18:32:10+00:00
+1 Copland

BeOS. I like to daydream about an alternate reality where it was acquired by Sony, and used as the foundation for PlayStation, Sony smartphones, and eventually a viable alternative to Windows on their Vaio line.

Neal Stephenson, https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt :

> Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated… (Apple) sold motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.

> (Microsoft) is much, much bigger… the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success.

> On the other side of the road… (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.

> … and Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks.

It would be years before OS X could handle things that wouldn’t cause BeOS to break a sweat, and BeOS still has a bit of a responsiveness edge that OS X still can't seem to match (probably due to the PDF rendering layer).
by andersmurphy | 2025-10-12 18:32:30+00:00
You don't need to pay for datastar. As I've said befor I don't use any of the pro plugins (plugins anyone can build themselves for that matter).

Sad to see developers getting ripped off by AI. Copilot is junk. The whole AI bubble is just a tax powered by fear of missing out. Save yourself 20$ a month, learn to touch type, use snippets and download a local copy of the docs.
by fluidcruft | 2025-10-12 18:33:04+00:00
I think OneDrive has an "oops I accidentally rm-rf /" window for deletions. Anyway OneDrive used to drive me nuts until somehow it all just clicked in some sort of "aha!" zen mode so I haven't had much trouble with in a long time. The biggest issue is often large changes will time out without error and you have to kick it in the pants a few times.
by zzo38computer | 2025-10-12 18:33:42+00:00
I had seen it before and I did find it interesting, as well as some other ideas from other systems (including Amiga, TRON, capability-based systems, etc), and I had some of my own ideas. (I had also thought of some similar ideas independently, but not all of them.) I do not completely agree with all of the ideas. Also, I think that a new computer hardware design can be made to support the new operating system (although emulation is also possible). (My own operating system idea currently does not have a name, and has some similar ideas from TUNES (and TRON, etc) and many differences.)
by zahlman | 2025-10-12 18:33:56+00:00
It's true that where Python offers critical performance it's typically by providing a nice interface to existing compiled code. But people who work through those interfaces are still fundamentally "doing it in Python"; the most important "it" is that which makes a useful system on top of the number-crunching.

But putting that aside, a big part of uv's performance is due to things that are not the implementation language. Most of the actually necessary parts of the installation process are I/O bound, and works through C system calls even in pip. The crunchy bits are package resolution in rare cases (where lock files cache the result entirely), and pre-compiling Python to .pyc bytecode files (which is embarrassingly parallel if you don't need byte-for-byte reproducibility, and normally optional unless you're installing something with admin rights to be used by unprivileged users).

Uv simply has better internal design. You know that original performance chart "installing the Trio dependencies with a warm cache"?

It turns out that uv at the time defaulted to not pre-compiling while pip defaulted to doing it; an apples-to-apples comparison is not as drastic, but uv also does the compilation in parallel which pip hasn't been doing. I understand this functionality is coming to pip soon, but it just hasn't been a priority even though it's really not that hard (there's even higher-level support for it via the standard library `compileall` module!).

More strikingly, though, uv's cache actually caches the unpacked files from a wheel. It doesn't have to unzip anything; it just hard-links the files. Pip's cache, on the other hand, is really an HTTPS cache; it basically simulates an Internet connection locally, "downloading" a wheel by copying (the cached artifact has a few bytes of metadata prepended) and unpacking it anew. And the files are organized and named according to a hash of the original URL, so you can't even trivially reach in there and directly grab a wheel. I guess this setup is a little better for code reuse given that it was originally designed without caching and with the assumption of always downloading from PyPI. But it's worse for, like, everything else.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-10-12 18:34:05+00:00
Yeah, sure, I get it, Spotify==Big Tech==Bad, self-hosting is nirvana, et cetera.

But, one simple question: how are the Creators (especially those not signed with a Big Bad Label) expecting to be paid in this marvelous post-Spotify era? Because, fact: like 80% of revenue (if not more, and the rest is pretty much evenly divided between YouTube, the remains of iTunes, and some niche portals like Beatport) flows through them these days.

And, for all Spotify's flaws, that revenue stream might be something to have a pretty good plan to replace, and I don't see any hints at that in the linked article?
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-12 18:34:13+00:00
I've been a Mac & Linux user since about 2007 or so, and I had no idea what Windows had become. Then a couple weeks ago I caved and built my son a Windows gaming PC. Egads, Windows is annoying! Even more so than I remember! I'm amazed that people actually put up with it for their daily driver. Right on schedule, my son came to me yesterday evening and asked what he should do about the backup warning. It didn't give any option other than enabling backup or telling it to remind later. WTF.

Not to say that MacOS isn't occasionally very annoying as well. It is. But as a tool it's also much more useful than vanilla Windows, which helps a little.
by quotemstr | 2025-10-12 18:35:25+00:00
Because people make poor choices and it's usually their own fault.

We used have words like "vice" and "sin" to describe these poor choices, but thanks to post-60s radical individualism, the only vocabulary for describing maladaptive behavior that remains of the language of medicine. Therefore, everything bad someone does is a "disease" for which he needs "therapy" or "treatment". We've utterly lost the capacity for describing deficiencies of the conscience.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-12 18:35:26+00:00
One idea is to switch to a dumb phone or a cellular enabled smart watch. You can still text and call, but can’t check social media as easily.

You can still have a smart phone. But just leave it home.

For a time I treated my smart phone as a home phone/land line. It was always plugged into a spot on a charger, I’d force myself to go there to check on something. Relatedly it might be nice if someone could invent a smart phone that only worked when plugged in.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-12 18:36:14+00:00
The difference is that usually Google translate use the correc gramar and idioms, but does not halucinate details.

Also, it takes a lot pf effort to write the text and pick the details to ba accurate and clear. It's very hard to know how detailed was your promp and how many halucinations added the AI.

99% of the people here will prefer an origial text with some typos (but not too many), or an autotranslated version, than a AI expanded version that may have a lot of halucinations.
by buybackoff | 2025-10-12 18:36:24+00:00
Microsoft is notoriously bad with naming. In this case likely intentionally. The SKUs: Home = Crap, Pro = OKish Windows, Enterprise = Pro. But people who do not care about lack of RDP server, Hyper-V, BitLocker do not care about the rest, probably. Then confusion araises from "first look at Windows" by pro users.
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-12 18:36:34+00:00
If only it was that simple. Record labels own the whole pipeline and you're unlikely to make it if you don't submit to signing away your rights and the majority of your royalties [1]. Even the best selling artist on the entire planet at one point (Taylor Swift) had to put up a fight to regain control of her records [2].

Even if they could pull their music from the platform, it's like shooting yourself in the foot. You lose most of the exposure that will lead to actual revenue: physical albums and show tickets.

[1] https://informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-ar...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift_masters_dispute
by Arech | 2025-10-12 18:36:42+00:00
My dog (Briard) isn't just addicted to play fetch with balls.. Since he knows that when another dog enters the dog park, the ball will be removed/hidden from him (to prevent the dogs clashing trying to get the ball), he becomes hostile to the dog entering the park, actively trying to prevent them from doing so! This happens only if we started to play with balls. If not, he'll be totally friendly... What an ass!
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-12 18:36:56+00:00
> And game devs throwing random shit into My Documents was also fun.

I hate this problem with all OSes. We have folders that started out being places for users to put things like Pictures, Documents & home, but over time they get filled with crap from software and it's difficult to find your own files. We should have had a "program-files" subfolder or something by default in all these places to separate things that applications put there vs. things that you put there.
by a022311 | 2025-10-12 18:37:04+00:00
I've solved this long ago by disabling the app. Sadly, that means I can't view videos in the gallery, but I believe it's a fair compromise. I'd recommend taking a look at open source alternatives like Lavender Photos [1] or Fossify Gallery [2]

[1]: https://github.com/kaii-lb/LavenderPhotos

[2]: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery
by vee-kay | 2025-10-12 18:37:12+00:00
Not just in Win11, AppLocker can be used in Win10 too.

AppLocker is included with all editions of Windows except Windows 10 version 1809 or earlier.

Applocker can help prevent users from running unwanted software (including DLLs and scripts).

However, AppLocker requires Local Security Policy, which isn't available in Home edition of Windows, but it can be installed easily for free.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/local-security-policy-missing...

Here's how to use AppLocker to block an unwanted app:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/124008-use-applocker-all...
by vidarh | 2025-10-12 18:37:52+00:00
They're far more than junior interns. I've had a long languishing project to build an ahead-of-time Ruby compiler. It started as a toy, and a blog series, and I then mostly put it on ice about a decade ago, except for very occasional little rounds of hacking. It self-hosts, but is very limited.

A week or so ago, I gave Claude a task of making it compile rubyspecs. I then asked it to keep making specs pass. I do need to babysit it, but it's doing debugging and work no junior I've ever worked with could be trusted to do. It knows how to work with gdb, and trace x86 assembler. It understands how to read the code of a complex compiler, and modify code generation and parsers that even I - who wrote it in the first place - sometimes find challenging.

It's currently (as I'm writing this) working its way through adding bignum support. Which in Ruby is tricky because it now no longer splits it in two classes - the code need to handle tagged integers that gets auto-promoted to heap allocated objects, that to the user has the same class. I spent the morning swearing at it, but then reset with a clearer description and it produced an extensive plan, and started working through it.

I'll agree it's not great code without a lot of coaxing, but it's doing stuff that even a lot of senior, highly experienced developers would struggle with.

I will agree it needs oversight, and someone experienced guiding it, like a junior developer would, but if I had junior developers producing things this complex, I'd lock them in a basement and never let them go (okay, maybe not).

One of the hardest things, I find, where I will agree it smells of junior developer sometimes, is that it's impatient (once it even said "this is getting tedious") and skipping ahead instead of carefully testing assumptions and building up a solution step by step if you don't tell it very clearly how to work.

I don't think we disagree that much, btw., I just wanted to describe my recent experience with it - it's been amazing to see, and is changing how I work with LLMs, in terms of giving it plenty of scratchpads and focusing on guiding how it works, making it create an ambitious plan to work to, and getting out of its way more, instead of continuously giving it small tasks and obsessing over reviewing intermediate work product.

What I'm seeing often with this approach is that whenever I see something that annoys me scroll past, it's often fixed before I've even had a chance to tell it off for doing something stupid.
by lalitmaganti | 2025-10-12 18:38:07+00:00
Author here. Been thinking a lot on what are the hallmarks of writing tools for Claude Code after reading a this recent blog post (https://www.alephic.com/writing/the-magic-of-claude-code).

Came up with three principles: 1) Wide usage 2) Good documentation 3) Good error messages. Seen this in my own experience while working on Perfetto (perfetto.dev) as well. Curious to see if others are seeing the same.
by nocman | 2025-10-12 18:38:17+00:00
"With traditional solutions (such as OpenVPN / IPSec) starting to run out of steam" -- and then zero explanation or evidence of how that is true.

I can see an argument for IPSec. I haven't used that for many years. However, I see zero evidence that OpenVPN is "running out of steam" in any way shape or form.

I would be interested to know the reasoning behind this. Hopefully the sentiment isn't "this is over five years old so something newer must automatically be better". Pardon me if I am being too cynical, but I've just seen way too much of that recently.
by drra | 2025-10-12 18:39:07+00:00
It can be legal and tightly controlled at the same time. Here in my European country it's perfectly legal to prescribe opiates but after 3rd prescription (regardless of what opiate it was) a patient has to go for mandatory psychiatric evaluation. This has put potential opiate abuser on the radar in a meaningful way. Legalisation doesn't mean free for all just like alcohol.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-10-12 18:39:26+00:00
2 things:

1. Saying "hey, you can just not list on Spotify" is naive. Unless you're a major artist, you don't have the market power to convince people not to use Spotify. Essentially every labor movement is about pooling the collective power of individuals to fight larger entrenched market owners, and that's what this boycott is about.

2. To me the main issue is not the payout percentage, but how it's divvied up. I believe this is still the case, but payouts are divvied up by averaging across all plays. But the total plays are dominated by large artists. A better deal for smaller artists is to allocate each individual subscriber's revenue based on what that subscriber listens to. For example, if I love Obscure Artist A, and 90% of my songs are Obscure Artist A, then Obscure Artist A should get 90% of my $15 or whatever subscription fee (minus Spotify's cut). But instead, Spotify says "Obscure Artist A only had .000001% of total plays, so they only get .000001% of total revenue" - it ends up being a better payout for the big names but a worse deal for all the smaller artists.
by JusticeJuice | 2025-10-12 18:39:45+00:00
If an artist has full control of their IP, yes they can just take their music down.

Dissatisfaction with the payout is only one aspect of why some artists are leaving Spotify. I personally find it super weird how much Spotify profit is getting funnelled into arm manufacturing. Like why should listening to music help new AI drone tech to get developed? Tf?
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-10-12 18:40:05+00:00
Haha sorry if I came across salty, I just wanted to joke around.

It is true though. Can’t count how many times I’ve had this exchange “Oh danish huh? I love Amsterdam!” (the dutch capital)

Europe is full of tiny countries and I absolutely can’t name all 50 US states or place even half on the map. No intention of shaming
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-12 18:40:27+00:00
I was a fairly ardent anti-monarchist. The problem is, I had put my faith in politicians to unite the UK. The problem is, there isn't much mileage in uniting the UK at the moment, or competence in government.

The only real way that the monarchy can survive is if the kingdom stays united.

Also, president boris, stamer or farage is just a humiliation I can't really cope with.
by rwmj | 2025-10-12 18:40:51+00:00
I am British. I think QE2 made a good job out of this cursed tradition. Charles is a crank, but a crank that I happen to agree with, so fine. But I suspect things are going to go off the rails with his failson William.

> I would much rather see the House of Lords reformed than the monarchy ended.

I'd be very careful about that one. Making it elected would be a terrible idea. There are some reforms that are possible, but they'd need to be very narrow (for example, limiting the size, and limiting tenure).
by LexiMax | 2025-10-12 18:40:54+00:00
> Rust doesn't have this kind of industry wide push, even in OSes where it is being embraced like Windows and Android, note that it isn't being pushed as yet another way to write userspace applications, rather low level OS services.

This seems apropos in a world where C++ has been bleeding userspace buy-in for longer than I've been professionally programming.

I started learning Rust a few months ago in an attempt to teach an old dog new tricks, and while it's quite pleasant as far as it went, I can think of several classes of programs that I would be reluctant to use the language for. But I wouldn't dream of using C++ for those types of programs either.

There are rumors floating around that Microsoft is rolling their own rustc-codegen-gcc paired with their C2 codegen backend. Don't know what to make of those rumors, but it helped to reassure me to feel like the time I invested thus far hasn't been wasted.
by leptons | 2025-10-12 18:41:33+00:00
>Vinyl records are easily damaged.

Yes, and that provides a valuable lesson to a child. Everything about vinyl is a lesson, from "how does this make sound" to "what are the pops and hiss" to scratching it and hearing the results. Digital media also has lessons, but my preference is to teach a child the basics before introducing them to the complexities of digital media.
by tensor | 2025-10-12 18:41:50+00:00
In edm most large artists now just have their own label. It’s easier than ever to do. Even a single individual can do it easily. There are a lot of decent distribution services that will get your music on all the services.

I’m sure the big labels are still valuable for advertising but after you’ve grown enough I can’t understand why you wouldn’t just have your own label.
by Alupis | 2025-10-12 18:41:55+00:00
People often mistakenly believe artists could/should be paid significantly more per listen, ignoring the huge costs of streaming distribution as well as the global scale/reach/discovery these platforms offer smaller and indie artists.

People don't buy music anymore, outside of a few niche environments. In the day of at-home music production, music has become a commodity. The few artists that do "make it big" are rewarded appropriately.
by RickJWagner | 2025-10-12 18:42:03+00:00
I love Spotify.

I use the free version and put up with the ads. I make playlists of my favorite songs, sometimes Spotify suggests great music I didn’t know about.

It’s superior to any other way of listening to music, for me. I’ll keep using it ‘till something better comes along. Hooray for progress!
by vidarh | 2025-10-12 18:42:17+00:00
I love coding, and I'm extremely picky, but I also agree with you it's not what I'm being paid to do. And even in hobby projects there are plenty of rough drafts necessary that I can outsource to an LLM, and then I get to refine things afterward, when they're working, and I can obsess over details...

To take your table analogy, which I fully agree with, if I wanted to take the effort of crafting a nice wooden table, I'd happily have someone cut the pieces for me and do the basic stuff that doesn't require specific skills, and then spend my time applying the finer details that makes the difference between a basic table and a great table. I get that some people would want to do everything "from scratch", but I'd rather focus on where I can make the most difference.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-12 18:42:35+00:00
I don't think it's necessary to take the OP literally, but directionally it's correct. Looking at American society, the Trumps, Kardashians, Clintons, Roosevelts, Kennedys ... for a country that's so proudly republican, how many of their presidents and elites have been blood related? Might add Jesus to the list metaphorically

People Americans hoist into power (and many other countries do) often look like a poor man's replacement for a monarch. How many people in any country do actually lay claim to their own values and conscience? How many are genuinely emancipated and govern themselves?

In particular in this day and age where most of the wannabe kings are so obviously idiotic it's telling how eager people still are to subject themselves, sometimes in, as David Bentley Hart dubbed it crypto-erotic fashion, almost sadomasochistic and fully aware how incapable the demagogues are.