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by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-10-11 22:23:37+00:00
We definitely need a better culture around dying. My mom is 95 and slowly everything she likes is being taken away from her. Going for a walk is difficult because she has unpredictable falls, husband is dead, all friends are dead, eyesight is so bad she can't read anymore, memory is failing. Really nothing to look forward to. Just existing and waiting for things to get worse.

Mentally she is still pretty clear and she often says it would be best if she doesn't wake up in the morning.

I think it would be better for everybody if we had a way to have a ceremony where we all say goodbye and then end it.
by theshackleford | 2025-10-11 22:23:40+00:00
> I don't want to go back and replay the games I spent hundreds of hours in mid two thousands, like say NVN or Icewind Dale (never played BG 2). It's just not the same feeling now that I've played games with incomparable graphics, polished mechanics and movie level voice acting/mocap cutscenes. I even picked up Mass Effect recently out of nostalgia but gave up fast because it just isn't as captivating as it was back when it was peak graphics.

And yet many more have no such issue doing exactly this. Despite having a machine capable of the best graphics at the best resolution, I have exactly zero issues going back and playing older games.

Just in the past month alone with some time off for surgery I played and completed Quake, Heretic and Blood. All easily as good, fun and as compelling as modern titles, if not in some ways better.
by stavros | 2025-10-11 22:25:26+00:00
Yeah, there's a definite continuum for where LLMs are most to least expert. They seem to be fairly OK with JS, less so with Python, and C is just a crapshoot.

It depends on the project as well, for throwaway things I'm fine to just let it do whatever it wants, but for projects that I need to last more than a few days, I review everything.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-11 22:26:59+00:00
Reminds me of one of the more conclusive pieces of evidence that global warming is occurring - the date cherry blossoms flower in Kyoto (https://i.imgur.com/sD4nZuh.png)

It's a cool piece of data because it's been tracked for over 1100 years. We don't have a ton of sources of information like that.
by jcranmer | 2025-10-11 22:27:28+00:00
> I believe Google has earned the most revenue of any business ever [1]

By yearly revenue, the highest revenue company is Walmart, followed by Amazon, which make somewhere near twice the revenue of Alphabet (around 11th place, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...). Especially if you account the inflation, the total lifetime revenues of the major oil companies will easily dwarf Google.

Google is nowhere close to earning the most revenue of any business ever.
by doublerabbit | 2025-10-11 22:28:02+00:00
My MSI Modern 5, a 2024 laptop works is my perfect daily driver, to the point or closing the lid and reopening it resumes HDMI.

The only issues I have with is Bluetooth which to be fair was trying to connect a Xbox controller and HDMI-Sound, otherwise it all works.

WiFi too. A bit archaic to change SSID but that's more software then hardware.

Couldn't be happier and with ZFS I have on-boot encryption.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-11 22:28:04+00:00
Yeah this is why I don't trust the ProtonDB ratings. It says gold, but everyone else has the same problem as me where it's slower and crashes if you spawn traffic. Also had to wait like 30 minutes to generate vulkan shaders. AoE2:DE's ProtonDB page says gold but there are a bunch of comments saying multiplayer doesn't work at all... I feel like that's not gold either.

The GC thing is specifically the Wii U adaptor. There's an overclock kmod, but it's known (on gh issues) to be finicky and didn't work for me. Regular controllers have no lag but also don't work quite the same; on Win and Mac the standard is that Wii U adaptor.
by kuschku | 2025-10-11 22:28:16+00:00
> The Edge Router line has been what, 5 years old since any major update?

Where's the replacement for those anyway? From what I can tell, the new unifi routers don't even officially support SSH or Serial login, nor do they support the typical configure/commit/abort procedure, nor do they officially support loading/backup up config files, nor running custom cronjobs (which I need as German ISPs require even on FTTH a 24h reconnect, and if you don't schedule one, they'll schedule one for you)
by theshackleford | 2025-10-11 22:28:21+00:00
> by the end of a console lifecycle I can still count on developers targeting it

And I can count on those games still being playable on my six year old hardware because they are in fact developed for 6 year old hardware.

> PC performance for 6+ year hardware is guaranteed to suck

For new titles at maximum graphics level sure. For new titles at the kind of fidelity six year old consoles are putting out? Nah. You just drop your settings from "ULTIMATE MAXIMUM HYPER FOR NEWEST GPUS ONLY" to "the same low to medium at best settings the consoles are running" and off you go.
by travisgriggs | 2025-10-11 22:28:39+00:00
> This is one of those rather surreal situations where everyone senior in this ecosystem knows that the math doesn’t work, but they don’t know that everyone else also knows this. They thought that they were the foolish ones, who simply didn’t get it.

I don’t know if it’s that surreal or unexpected. There’s a reason “The Emperors Clothes” is such a classic, enduring, fable. It’s happened before. It’ll happen again.

Not shading the article. All good points, just was surprised the author threw this bit in.

Buy more tulips.
by gerdesj | 2025-10-11 22:28:42+00:00
"the industry is spending over $30 billion a month (approximately $400 billion for 2025) and only receiving a bit more than a billion a month back in revenue."

That's called a "bubble". Obviously, this time it is different until it isn't.

I own several books of trig and other tables, three slide rules and a couple of calculators, a working Commodore 64 and an IT consultancy company.

We are fiddling with LLMs as yet another tool. We are getting some great results but not earth shattering.

Tulips are very pretty flowers. I have several dozen in my garden. I have some plants that are way more valuable than tulips in my garden too.
by Liftyee | 2025-10-11 22:29:13+00:00
This is part of why I refuse to purchase things that further enshittification on principle, even if it means "putting up with" an open-source alternative.

Anecdotally, I think that open-source software/hardware only ever gets better (because if it got worse, someone would fork it, etc...) while proprietary software will eventually succumb to rent-seeking and decline. I've seen many open source projects go from barely usable to matching their proprietary counterparts.

Shoutout to Immich, full-featured self-hosted Google Photos alternative and my new favourite open-source project.
by dfxm12 | 2025-10-11 22:29:20+00:00
Are we at a point where graphics and gameplay in 10-year-old games is good enough?

Personally, there are enough good games from the 32bit generation of consoles, and before, to keep me from ever needing to buy a new console, and these are games from ~25 years ago. I can comfortably play them on a MiSTer (or whatever PC).
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 22:29:36+00:00
> This is quite trivially discovered if one follows the news of large hospital chains who have moved to Epic recently.

Epic is one of the few providers who can meet a larger organization's overall needs

The competitors, like eClinicalWorks, are a shadow in comparison

No doubt companies increase revenue with more efficient capture of services, costs, labor factors, etc, but I've actually been in the room with people from Epic and have heard the sales presentation. I'm betting I have a decent grasp on both what they're selling and what the buyers are asking for.
by theshackleford | 2025-10-11 22:29:50+00:00
> That is a different audience than people playing on pc/xbox/ps5.

Many PC users also own a switch. It is in fact one of the most common pairings. There is very little I want get on PC from PS/Xbox so very little point in owning one, I won't get any of the Nintendo titles so keeping one around makes significantly more sense if I want to cover my bases for exclusives.
by jonhohle | 2025-10-11 22:30:47+00:00
If it was a volunteer effort without ulterior motives, it would be beneficial to society, but ultimately who is on call? Who pushes for hard, but beneficial changes that might not have immediate obvious value? Who accepts risk or responsibility.

Ultimately that’s the point of the market. Incentivize people to take risks for rewards. Allow others to improve on proven models for lower costs. Unfortunately, government does not have any risk/reward or other market pressures.
by crote | 2025-10-11 22:31:01+00:00
As someone who spends a lot of time looking at wiring diagrams: not really.

I think the concept of the map is neat (the arrival/departure times let you plan transfers!), but it is way too busy to be practical. It has at the same time too many details to give you a high-level overview, and not enough details for trip planning.

For a general idea a map like [0] would be better: it shows the stations and track layouts, so it gives you a general feeling of where to go. Want to go from Utrecht to Zutphen? You'll have to go either over Arnhem or Amersfoort. Want to go from Amsterdam to Groningen, but there are issues in Zwolle? Yeah, you're screwed.

For planning purposes a map like [1] is better: it shows you the actual services being run, with a vague indication of their frequency. It tells you that an issue in Alphen isn't a big issue for your journey from Utrecht to Leiden, as there are six trains an hour going Utrecht-Schiphol-Leiden. Want to go from Utrecht to Amsterdam? Don't bother planning, there are trains every 5 minutes. Want to go from Den Haag to Groningen? A direct connection is possible - but only once an hour, so don't be late or you risk having to transfer in Zwolle!

But honestly? They are more for nerds than practical use. Transit planner apps are far easier to use, will be more accurate, and provide exactly the information which is relevant to your journey.

[0]: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0e/f9/2b/0ef92b7c4f2cf4d1b0c1...

[1]: https://nieuws.ns.nl/download/c10b58e3-54fc-4577-bf95-931b03...
by crmd | 2025-10-11 22:32:09+00:00
I once had a board member who was also on the board of Ryan Air, and he casually told me a story about when their CEO gave a presentation on adding a credit card -powered interlock on the cabin lavatories. He told them, “They’re my planes and if you have the nerve to shit in them you should have to pay for the cleanup”.

My colleague thought he was portraying the CEO as a cool guy and decisive manager, but I thought the guy sounds like a sociopath.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-11 22:32:18+00:00
You are 100% correct. Just recently a single website that linked some e-mail addresses destroyed the EU Plans for chat control. Apathy and Cynicism would've led it happen but just the act of making one website and posting it at the right places, something everyone here could easily do, changed the course of law dramatically.

That small victory really made me reconsider.
by pixelmonkey | 2025-10-11 22:32:35+00:00
A cool thing about Doug Lea's java.util.concurrent (received a 10/10 rating here) is that its design also inspired Python's concurrent.futures package. This is explicitly acknowledged in PEP 3148[1] (under "Rationale"), a PEP that dates back to 2009.

[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-3148/
by xrd | 2025-10-11 22:33:27+00:00
I had buyers regret after getting a Mycroft II device a few years ago. Lots of drama there. I still think it was an inspiring vision but you can't spell hardware without hard.

But then I recently found neon which allows me to repurpose the device. And, it is incredible.

I recall trying to build something for the Google devices and it was an awful experience. Getting root ssh access on my Mycroft device is amazing, and I have tailscale on it to boot.

And, no ads, ever.
by tobias3 | 2025-10-11 22:33:37+00:00
On one of the latest Odd lots episodes finally an analyst had an investment thesis that made sense to me:

They think they are building an AI god.

If you think of it in religious terms it suddenly makes sense. Expected rate of return? One scenario has has infinite expected return (some kind of pascals wager/mugging)!

Of course there will be no AGI. Just a planet we'll have to live on where those deluded idiots wasted our resources on some boondoggle. Maybe this kind of concentration of power is a bad thing? I think we are going to get to those kind of questions once the party is over.
by gield | 2025-10-11 22:34:20+00:00
Coincidentally, today there was an article in a Belgian newspaper about a 25-year-old woman who will undergo euthanasia in a few weeks due to severe psychological suffering with no prospect of improvement. After years of suffering and 40 failed suicide attempts, I indeed think it's much more dignified to have euthanasia as an option.

Euthanasia has some strict rules in Belgium, especially for cases involving psychological suffering. In 2014, the age restriction was dropped (except for psychological suffering). Since then, 6 minors have received euthanasia.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-11 22:35:01+00:00
>The problem seems to be that no one has figured out what the network effect in LLMs is.

At the very least, the exact same network effects with respect to advertising that search has. The vast majority of frequent ChatGPT users I know mostly use it like a search engine.

That said, those network effects will be massive. Ads in LLMs are going to be unprecedentedly lucrative, irrespective of the platform. Google/Meta currently charge so much for ads because they have such enormous proprietary profiles on users based on their search/communication history that they can offer advertisers the ability to target users with extraordinary granularity. But at the end of the day, the ad itself is static and obviously an ad. LLMs will make these ads dynamic and insidious, subtly injected into chats in the way a real-life conversation might happen to discuss products. LLMs will become the ultimate word-of-mouth advertisers, the final form of astroturfing.
by doublerabbit | 2025-10-11 22:35:07+00:00
NetGraph and bHyve are a match made in heaven. I need to master them some more.

I have isolated jails with their own vNics running a nested bHyve VM instance inside which inside you then host a jail with its own vnic.

If something jumps out of the they are dead locked to the VM, if they jump out of that, they're trapped in a jail.
by stillsut | 2025-10-11 22:35:07+00:00
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

I've been doing something similiar: aider+gpt-5, claude-code+sonnet, gemini-cli+2.5-pro. I want to coder-cli next.

A main problem with this approach is summarizing the different approaches before drilling down into reviewing the best approach.

Looking at a `git diff --stat` across all the model outputs can give you a good measure of if there was an existing common pattern for your requested implementation. If only one of the models adds code to a module that the others do not, it's usually a good jumping off point to exploring the differing assumptions each of the agents built towards.
by nbngeorcjhe | 2025-10-11 22:35:33+00:00
I don't even get why they would need "ideas" or "growth" tbh. They have most popular desktop operating system, they have one of the most popular office suites, surely they make plenty of profit from those. If they just focused on making their existing products not shit they would remain a profitable company indefinitely. But instead they're enshittifying everything because they want more More MORE
by Andrex | 2025-10-11 22:36:46+00:00
34M. I live with my mom who's had it for a few years.

It sucks. It's so easy to forget who they were before the disease. This is them now and it's hard as hell.

Simple things that take 1-step for us take 50+ steps for her. She doesn't readily communicate that she's hungry or thirsty or needs to use the bathroom, we have to constantly ask. She's always exhausted and walking around in circles but reacts aggressively to most suggestions to go to bed or take a nap (no matter how we word it). She can't focus for more than a few seconds, so she has no hobbies to occupy her time, and even the TV loses her interest after a minute at most. Her speech is one unbroken babble, and she gets annoyed if someone starts a conversation near her but doesn't let her interject.

Not sure how much more my dad and I have left in us. The disease stripped everything from her and it's stripping everything from us. In-home care is the likely course but she hates all strangers and is always paranoid about anyone other than us being in the house. There's no good solution.

Tell your parents you love them.
by dekhn | 2025-10-11 22:37:16+00:00
I've written code like this to work with overlapping genes. While most genes exist in a genome with spacers between them and their neighboring genes, sometimes you get pairs of genes which overlap, and there seems to be some interesting biology that happens as a consequence.

Here's a package for Python that presumably uses some sort index data structure to be efficient: https://pyranges.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
by uqual | 2025-10-11 22:37:19+00:00
A lender never (intentionally) gives anyone anything for "free". This is why ARMs often have lower interest rates than fixed 30 year mortgages - the risk to the lender from rising interest rates is lower with ARMs so lenders generally accept a lower interest rate on ARMs.

Both sides are making a bet on future interest rates and alternative investment returns - with one (the borrower) paying extra for an "opt out early" option for which the lender assumes the risk.

It's a bit like the borrower is buying a long term put or call option from the lender which the borrower is free to exercise at any time or to let expire but the lender can't get out of (they, of course, can always sell the mortgage - but perhaps at a loss in some economic climates due to past and expected future interest rate declines and/or changes in default risk due, for example, to a recession or depression).
by righthand | 2025-10-11 22:37:39+00:00
No offence but IshKebab is not a person I would associate with someone who knows anything about health, useable and practical software. No matter how noble their intentions are about criticizing software they’ve never used nor never attempt to use because of unfounded stigmas. Misguided indeed.

Automake, bash, emacs, gnucash, gnuhealth, coreutils, gnupg, gimp, grep, make, etc. are all great pieces of GNU software. Don’t take my word for it, here is a list of all the too-many-to-name gnu software used out in the world extensively:

https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html
by crote | 2025-10-11 22:37:39+00:00
On the other hand, you are screwed when that one train gets cancelled, or when you miss it because you slept through your alarm clock. And because you can't control its schedule, you are on average 45 minutes early at your office.

For practical use one train every 30 minutes is what I would consider the bare minimum, and one train every 15 minutes is when I would be willing to rely on it for day-to-day use. I'm fine with low-frequency trains when I am going on holiday and will be spending the entire day traveling anyways, but it's just not good enough as daily transport.
by DonHopkins | 2025-10-11 22:38:18+00:00
>The ability to naturally gain precision the further out you drag is very handy and intuitive.

Pie menus, where the selection is based on the gesture direction, allow you to move further out (longer gesture) to get more "leverage" or precise control over the angle (either continuous angle, or the selected slice).

The angle selects a slice, but you can think of a knob as a pie menu with one slice (the whole pie) that also has a direction and a optional distance parameter.

But you can even use the distance to exaggerate the angular precision even more!

Here's a demo of a "Precision Pie Menu" I wrote in 1988 for NeWS in PostScript, which exaggerated that angular precision effect even more, once you pass a certain distance, allowing you to have extremely precise control over the angle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0scs59va4c

>Demo of the precision pie menu. Research performed by Don Hopkins under the direction of Mark Weiser and Ben Shneiderman. Developed and demonstrated by Don Hopkins.

>Transcript:

This is a demonstration of the Precision Pie Menu under the NeWS window system.

It's an experiment in exaggerating the extra precision that you get with distance.

As you move out further from the menu center of a pie menu, normally the further you go from the center the more control you have over the angle.

But if you want to input an exact number like an angle, you might want to get it down to the a certain number, but you run out of screen space before you get enough leverage to change the number to what you want.

Now what happens here is that when you poke out, it makes a flexible lever, that the further out you go, the more flexible it becomes, and you have much finer control over the number.

So as I move around back in and out, I'll poke it into a different place and just come out further to get a lot of leverage, and dial exactly the number I want.

So here's what happens when you go around to the other side: "pop pop"!

And as you get nearer it gets less and less flexible.

Generally you'd kind of eyeball it, and then get it exact like 93, well there's 93 or 273, there's 273.
by N70Phone | 2025-10-11 22:40:59+00:00
> even today, ignoring the reality of untapped revenue streams like ChatGPT's 800M advertising eyeballs.

Respectfully, the idea of sticking ads in LLMs is just copium. It's never going to work.

LLMs' unfixable inclination for hallucinations makes this an infinite lawsuit machine. Either the regulators will tear OpenAI to shreds over it, or the advertisers seeing their trademarks hijacked by scammers will do it in their stead. LLMs just cannot be controlled enough for this idea to make sense, even with RAG.

And if we step away from the idea of putting ads in the LLM response, we're left with "stick a banner ad on chatgpt dot com". The exact same scheme as the Dotcom Bubble. Worked real well that time, I hear. "Stick a banner ad on it" was a shit idea in 2000. It's not going to bail out AI in 2025.

The original content that LLMs paraphrase is itself struggling to support itself on ads. The idea that you can steal all those impressions through a service that is orders and orders of magnitude more expensive and somehow turn a profit on those very same ads is ludicrous.
by nunobrito | 2025-10-11 22:41:59+00:00
Fully agree with most votings but 3/10 text blocks?!

That has got to be one of the most useful recent features. :-)

The pleasure of just copying and paste text in plain ASCII that looks as intended rather than a huge encoded mess of "\r\n"+ concatenations.

But ok, I'm just an ASCII art fan. ^_^
by ch4s3 | 2025-10-11 22:42:24+00:00
> Here’s a man who, together with a couple of fellow Silicon Valley freaks, helped return a sundowning caudillo to a presidency he is obviously unsuited for, and who uses the awesome might of the US government to remake society and the world.

This sentence is such an acronym to taste and the English language that it may be hard to get through. Thought I do appreciate the offhand comparisons to Peron. I guess I’ll struggle through it.
by jonhohle | 2025-10-11 22:42:26+00:00
I worked on Prime during the Prime Video launch. All of the marketing was around it being ad free and a new benefit of the Prime membership. Not too long later they started playing pre roll ads for Amazon Video offerings (maybe Amazon Studios, I don’t remember). I brought it up in a meeting and the business folks said it was OK because it wasn’t in the middle of the selected content. I’m pushed back, but it went nowhere.

Thinking about it now, he probably meant it was OK regarding their contracts with studios. Our engineering chain of command was completely obsessed with customer experience. The business side, not so much.