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by graycreate | 2025-10-06 10:50:36+00:00
A couple things that help me when I hit this exact wall: shrink the surface area and make the loop tiny. Pick one ridiculously small, end‑to‑end deliverable (e.g., “add X toggle with a minimal UI, ship a changelog”) and set a 15‑minute “opening ritual” where the only goal is to open the editor and write a stub or one failing test. Energy often follows action, not the other way around. If solo inertia is heavy, swap in co‑working or lightweight pairing; or open a small, well‑scoped issue to invite contributions so you’re reviewing instead of starting cold.

Also worth reframing: is this a business or a craft project? If it’s not pulling its weight commercially, put it in maintenance mode with a clear cadence and let yourself step away guilt‑free for a month. Sunlight, movement, new inputs—your brain will reset its reward signals. When you come back, protect the fun: fewer plans, more shipping, tighter feedback loops.
by ptsneves | 2025-10-06 10:50:54+00:00
> Centred around AI

Where do you see the centered around AI? I have used it a lot and have not touched a single subject around AI.

> - Seems geared around edutech (which is what I gather from the site)

What is edutech and why is it unsuitable?

Finally, have you _used_ MathAcademy at all?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-10-06 10:50:59+00:00
The Frutiger Aero aesthetic was a colourful blip in a sea of beige, and was a brief signifier of wealth and status - a watery and glassy spin-off of 80s Memphis.

Aside from that, the trend in tech always been functional geometric modernism - predominantly black, white, grey, and beige, with occasional very controlled splash colours, predominantly straight lines, rectangles, circles, and simple curves, predominantly an implied or explicit grid.

It doesn't matter if you're looking at cars, synths, computers, offices, or cafes - it's all the same design language. Organic elements in spaces are limited to wood panelling (for status, as always) and verrrry occasionally some tame plants or trees.

There are no organic or chaotic elements in mainstream industrial design. Everything is very carefully controlled, sometimes literally down to the last micron.
by account42 | 2025-10-06 10:51:22+00:00
I agree, but if you sell products or subscriptions to people in a foreign country the situation becomes different. And if you run ads then the situation is more complicated but closer to that than to your personal website.

IMO the question is not if such services should be held accountable by local laws but how they should be held accountable. I think it would make more sense to go after the UK entities profiting from the endeavor: advertizers and financial institutions involved.
by Jensson | 2025-10-06 10:51:45+00:00
> Except they know it's wrong as soon as they say it and keep trying and trying again to correct themselves.

But it doesn't realize that it can't write it, because it can't learn from this experience as it doesn't have introspection the way humans do. A human who can no longer move their finger wont say "here, I can move my finger: " over and over and never learn he can't move it now, after a few times he will figure out he no longer can do that.

I feel this sort of self reflection is necessary to be able to match human level intelligence.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-06 10:52:09+00:00
Fun fact, that many are not aware, mostly because this is Windows 3.x knowledge and one needed the right source to learn about this.

There was a header only library on the Windows SDK that would wrap those HANDLEs into more specific types, that would still be compatible, while providing a more high level API to use them from C.

Unfortunely there is not much left on the Internet about it, but this article provides some insight,

https://www.codeguru.com/windows/using-message-crackers-in-t...

Naturally it was saner just to use TP/C++ alongside OWL, C++ with MFC back then, or VB.
by martin_a | 2025-10-06 10:52:11+00:00
I think you should be better off.

I did a small installation at my parents house with two panels at south-southwest-orientation with a 600 W inverter for around 800 Euro.

Turns out those two panels have created over 1.1 MWh since the late summer of 2023. With cost dropping heavily, your ROI should be much sooner.
by Peritract | 2025-10-06 10:52:16+00:00
> translating valuable hype-cycle concepts to people who don't care about hype

Consider that people who don't care about hype may already know/understand the hype-cycle concepts and just disagree that they are valuable.

Part of leaving the hype-cycle (particularly because you clocked that it was soulless) is realising that challenge and being informed are not the sole preserve of hype.
by blueblueue | 2025-10-06 10:52:17+00:00
Well most of them were, but not all. Notably the last three nuclear power plants in Germany were shutdown on 15. April 2023, while the last coalition was in power. At that time there was a big discussion whether the shutdown could be postponed due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a measure to curb rising electricity costs in Germany, but ultimately it was decided to go through with the shutdown. It was a largely symbolic move, but carried a lot of emotional weight since it put last nail in the coffin for nuclear energy in Germany. Hence people now blaming the Ampel government (and Habeck in particular) even though it wasn’t their decision to shut down power plants in the first place (with people of the party who made the decision openly criticizing them as well). Just to add a bit of context as German…
by jacquesm | 2025-10-06 10:52:34+00:00
That's exactly what the Dutch did with Surinam for instance (And with Indonesia, which was in many ways far, far worse and which caused massive bloodshed). They pretty much left the place in shambles with no credible path to stability. I think to some degree it was petty revenge for the loss of the colony, as in 'if you think you can do without us then we'll make that as hard as possible for you'. They could have done a much more graceful handover, instead they abandoned their responsibilities overnight and pretended that any fall-out was the locals' problem.

Interestingly, at the time when this happened there was due to the fact that Surinam people were considered to be citizens a massive influx of Surinam people to NL, the ones that saw the writing on the wall and realized that there would be a less-than-optimal situation post dutch pull-out. This then - predictably - led to exactly the same levels of xenophobia about the Surinam people coming to NL. The kind of stuff dutch people at the time were saying about them does not bear repeating here, suffice to say it was pretty horrible. Now, a good 40 years later they've integrated into Dutch society, and you don't hear anybody anymore about how they were going to cause the end of our 'way of life' That honor simply shifts from one group to the next. The only ones so far that seem to escape such scorn are the Ukrainians, but I suspect if their numbers would rise further that that would happen just the same, already Wilders has been trying out that fiddle to see how well it plays. But he's playing with fire on that subject and he knows it, we have not forgotten his response to the Russian downing of MH-17.
by Archelaos | 2025-10-06 10:53:02+00:00
Nuclear technology is a dead end. Renewables and saving energy is the future. Nuclear and fossil are in the same boat. They are both more risky and have huge hidden costs that the general public and future generations will have to bear. The only good reason to go nuclear these days is if you want the bomb, like Iran.

Interestingly, it is the same people who supported fossil in the past who are still promoting nuclear today. Those who have always warned against fossil fuels are usually the ones who recommend a complete switch to renewable energies. That should give one pause for thought.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-10-06 10:53:10+00:00
I mean, I don't disagree that "gross negligence" is a thing. But that's still very different from outright malice. Intent matters. The legal system also makes such a distinction. Punishments differ. If you're a prosecutor, you can't just make the argument that "this negligence is indistinguishable from malice, therefore punish like malice was involved".
by bregma | 2025-10-06 10:54:02+00:00
It's not all about the realtime. It's also about the process isolation. If a Linux driver crashes, it takes down the entire system. If a QNX driver crashes, it's not part of the kernel so it can just be restarted. It's not good to wait for 5 or 6 seconds for your car to reboot so your brakes will start operating again while you careen towards that retaining wall on the highway.
by phil21 | 2025-10-06 10:54:55+00:00
> we all need to use less energy

We need cheaper and cleaner forms of energy. More efficient uses of energy.

I do not agree that we "all" need to use less energy overall. Energy use tracks wealth pretty closely, and manufacturing/creating things tends to be energy intensive.

The more cheap clean energy we make available, the more novel uses will be found for it.
by MrBuddyCasino | 2025-10-06 10:55:08+00:00
> What happens if Flightcontrol go down for whatever reason? Or are sold off like other's we've seen, or god forbid you need some fine tuning that isn't in the Flightcontrol's website.

These are all valid points. This is a fundamental issue with relying on non-open 3rd party solutions and (leaky) abstractions. The best solution here would be some standard that the hyperscalers implement themselves, but this is of course incredibly unlikely.
by codesnik | 2025-10-06 10:55:24+00:00
I avoid working in big companies, fighting bureaucracy is not my thing. But ordered-micromanaging-managers do happen even in companies of 10 people. One of the worst experiences like that I had in a company of _four_ people, CEO was just insufferable, we actually spent an hour every day creating a schedule for a day for everyone with 15 minutes granularity.

One thing slightly bothering me is that I have zero problem managing people both like me, and ordered stable focused guys, because I try to use people's strengths and put them on tasks which suit them the best. I've been CTO twice and can speak from experience. The only requirement for me is wanting to be useful in some form, we'll find a task, occupation, or feature lifecycle stage.

And managers who tried to put on me some kind of "personal improvement plan" clearly can work productively only with people exactly like them. Maybe they shouldn't be managers, a lot of good devs have some degree of ADHD, cutting them out or putting them in the box can't be good for business.
by Hendrikto | 2025-10-06 10:55:42+00:00
I think this is fair criticism. OOP advocates like Uncle Bob always try to sell you 100 often contradictory and ill-defined rules and guidelines for how to “use it right”. Stuff like

* objects should model a single concept, or

* every domain concept should be an object.

These two alone are already contradictory. And what do they even mean? Concretely?

Then, when OOP invariably breaks down, they can always point to any of the 100 rules that you supposedly violated, and blame the failure on that. “Yes, it did not work out because you did not do it right.” It’s the true scotsman fallacy.

It’s like communism. It would work out if somebody just finally did it properly.

Maybe a system that requires 100 hard to follow rules to have even a chance at success just isn’t a great one.
by bmacho | 2025-10-06 10:56:22+00:00
It makes me rather excited! Maybe there are some easy "memory illusion" tricks waiting out there somewhere to be discovered. (I am strongly pessimistic regarding the future of humanity overall, and I think we are all doomed (me, and everyone else). So I think someone playing a memory illusion in a radio would be rather neat, a new fact about us humans, and not something that I'm scared of.)
by commandersaki | 2025-10-06 10:57:08+00:00
I haven't twisted their words, they didn't actually answer the question, so I gave my own commentary. For all intents and purposes, as in practically speaking, this isn't going to affect anyone*. The nation state threat is atypical even to those customers of confidential computing, I guess the biggest pool of users being those that use Apple Intelligence (which wouldn't be vulnerable to this attack since they use soldered memory in their servers and a different TEE).

Happy to revisit this in 20 years and see if this attack is found in the wild and is representative. (I notice it has been about 20 years since cold boot / evil maid was published and we still haven't seen or heard of it being used in the wild (though the world has kind of moved onto soldered ram for portable devices).

* They went to great lengths to provide a logo, a fancy website and domain, etc. to publicise the issue, so they should at least give the correct impression on severity.
by Tepix | 2025-10-06 10:57:27+00:00
Decentralisation is the way to go for energy. Instead of having huge powerplants and fat power lines having a large percentage of the needed energy produced locally is ideal.

Nowadays, having some solar and a battery is very affordable and means you don't need power from the grid perhaps 80% of the time. And with batteries soon getting a lot cheaper ( https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/catl-sodium-ion-battery-packs/ ) and photovoltaics continuing their price trajectory, soon most alternatives will be unattractive, in particular nuclear.
by phil21 | 2025-10-06 10:58:43+00:00
The lack of investment in energy infrastructure - especially dispatchable power sources and grid transmission - is finally coming to bite us.

Datacenters are simply the final straw/tipping point, and make a convenient scapegoat.

At some point you run out of the prior generation's (no pun intended) energy investments. Efficiency gains only get you so far, eventually you need capital investment into actually building things.
by irusensei | 2025-10-06 11:00:18+00:00
I think NFS is the most sane storage provider for self hosted Kubernetes. Anything else seems over engineered for a home lab and is normally not a very good experience.

What I don't like is the security model. It's either deploying kerberos infrastructure or "trust me bro I'm UID 1000" so I default to SMB on the file server.
by morsch | 2025-10-06 11:00:38+00:00
Wind expansion isn't that great actually.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...

https://www.wind-energie.de/fileadmin/redaktion/dokumente/pu...

Looking at who's responsible for policy now, I don't see things improving. Happy to be proven wrong though.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-10-06 11:01:00+00:00
Losing data is mostly(*) fine if you are a small business. If a major bank loses it's data it is a major problem as it may impact a huge number of customers and an existential way, when all money is "gone"

(*) From state's perspective there is still a problem: tax audits, bad if everybody avoids them by "accidental" data loss
by rramadass | 2025-10-06 11:01:02+00:00
One can learn to apply Formal Methods at many levels in any language using available tools at hand. For some ideas see;

1) On Formal Methods Thinking in Computer Science Education - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3670419

2) (In-)Formal Methods: The Lost Art --- A Users’ Manual by Carroll Morgan - https://fme-teaching.github.io/2019/10/03/in-formal-methods-...

3) Forthcoming book by Carroll Morgan Formal Methods, Informally How to Write Programs That Work - https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/formal-metho...

4) Understanding Formal Methods by Jean-Francois Monin - A firehose of information.
by throawayonthe | 2025-10-06 11:01:16+00:00
trere is the bittorrent v2 standard: https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

but unfortunately most foss torrent clients do not support it, partly because at release libtorrent 2.0.x had poor io performance in some cases so torrent clients reverted to the 1.2.x branch
by elevatortrim | 2025-10-06 11:01:31+00:00
For me it is the psychological barrier.

e.g. I would never do something that’s challenging, not mandatory, yet potentially beneficial like disputing a charge, requesting renumeration etc.

But I can put the docs in a folder, ask AI about the next step, ask it to take it or at least write the copy.

That seems to be a lot of reduced mental load and gets me do things I otherwise could postpone for months or never do.
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-06 11:04:29+00:00
Everything is optimized for corporations to make more money, to avoid liability and maximize the billable dollars. Doctors want to move meat as quick as possible, most consultations are a couple of minutes! Every doctor has to be part of this rat race because of how the system is designed!

"More than 200,000 people will die each year from preventable medical errors. He was shocked. Conservatively, these estimates amount to at least one fatal Boeing 747 crash per week."

"Doctors talk about electronic medical records as an unpleasant and frustrating chore. They object to how the charts have evolved to prioritize billing and liability defense over clinical care. And they regard the symphony of well-meaning alerts and pop-ups as a distraction at best."

"The check boxes and templates can aid efficiency, several doctors told me, but they also may distract physicians from the patients right in front of them."
by supermatt | 2025-10-06 11:05:05+00:00
You may laugh, but I was refused boarding a few months ago due to my passport being water damaged.

I now rave to people about putting their passports in a waterproof baggie - just like this guy. I bought a multipack from Amazon for family and friends - and even gave a couple away to people I was chatting to at the airport! :)

You don’t realise how important it is until it’s too late.

This is what I bought, FYI: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07S8VY3F9
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-06 11:05:50+00:00
That's sufficient wording and it all confirms that the Totalhealth author is not very well versed in the purpose and design of GDP to begin with. Quite thoroughly. Probably doesn't even remember what it was like when GDP was drawn up, so that much is understandable.

But definitely not to be taken seriously when it comes to anything related to economics.

While displaying all the signs of a not-even-superficial understanding of industrial activity. Don't make me laugh.

There's decades of study and first-hand experience that might suffice to correlate theory with reality, then determine first-hand how the statistics fit into the equation. No time like the present to get started.

Most people today wouldn't last two days on a factory floor, but at Totalhealth they've got a zero-day structural error that does seem like a tragic handicap by comparison.

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by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-06 11:06:10+00:00
Ziploc bag works well for water proofing anything. I like using them "in reverse" as containers for things that could leak but I too was fond of putting my passport in one when I used to backpack.

Nowadays I have a Pioneer passport wallet which is both slim and waterproof but it’s mostly for the convenience of being able to keep everything together in a coat pocket.
by phil21 | 2025-10-06 11:06:32+00:00
Yeah. We have been turning off old plants and not bringing on-line new ones the entire time I've been alive now. At best we've perpetually been renewing licenses to grant operation of old plants well beyond their original design lifetimes. Anything new is fought tooth and nail by practically every local community. Even solar and wind brings out the NIMBYs in force.

Every recent "datacenters are evil" news segment/article these days has a section quoting a few local NIMBYs talking about how they are opposing more transmission lines in their area for various reasons. Then these same folks (usually literally the same person) is quoted as saying that they are "for" investing into the grid and understands America needs more capacity - just not here.

It's pretty frustrating to watch. There are actually large problems with the way many local communities are approving datacenter deals - but people cannot seem to put two and two together why we are where we are. If everyone vetos new electrical infrastructure in their community, it simply doesn't get built.
by codesnik | 2025-10-06 11:07:05+00:00
two of my friends at different times called me and spoke for an hour each, how they suddenly realized that they have ADHD, got diagnosed, got meds, and how their life is completely different now. Sounded almost like they joined a cult or something, but I've been happy for them. In half a year initial joy subsided. I guess they got their new normalcy or something, it doesn't sound like they're having any adverse side-effects.

I still don't want to go this route, I had my ups and that was glorious. Also I hope to get a pilot license one day.
by ajxs | 2025-10-06 11:07:28+00:00
> isn't the entire point of a formal program proof that you can reason about the combinatorics of all data and validate hypothesis on those?

You're right. Validating input is a part of this process. The compiler can trivially disprove that the array can be safely indexed by the full set of any valid integer that the user can input. Adding a runtime check to ensure we have a valid index isn't a very impressive use of formal proofs, I admit. It's just a simple example that clearly demonstrates how SPARK can prove 'memory-safety' properties.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-06 11:07:46+00:00
I see the humanities (I mean literature here and not so much history etc) as a continuation of cautionary tales and parables and fables and legends and fairy tales around the campfire. Its "output" is that you're better able to feel on a visceral level how others might feel or what the social outcome can be, or what the deep values of your society are etc. Literary analysis is twice removed from this. Ground level is how you act in a new situation. Once removed is the concrete stories you hear at the campfire. Twice removed is the dissecting analysis of the story and more meta levels.

In physics the ground level is solving a new engineering problem in industry. You use the recipes and methods you learned in physics class to formulate your problem in the language of physics and solve it. Once removed is teaching the equations and methods themselves. Twice removed is discussing how the physics knowledge was produced historically and how research is done today.

I do belive though that learning about the history of science is immensely enlightening. In school it seems like these things just fell from the sky fully formed like Athene from Zeus' forehead. Kuhn's book on the Copernican revolution is super interesting. I found it better than the more famous Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The latter is more abstract and tries to build a big theory, while the former mostly just narrates how it happened in the concrete case of Copernicus, Kepler et al.
by DengistKhan | 2025-10-06 11:08:10+00:00
You could do that, but it seems kind of obvious and condescending? Cause right now you can forbid it and theyll see all their friends lose money and never win anything until your child is of legal age. For everyone else, it seems like some kind of inherited cultural addiction that gets culturally passed down. Just openly mock gambling as evil/a scam/rigged and they'll probably be more likely to pick that up if you back with principals instead of taking the weak, confusing, and contradicting stance of feeding $50 into the evil system.
by bdangubic | 2025-10-06 11:08:30+00:00
I own 2014 Tesla S, my next door neighbour has 2024 Tesla S, same f’ing car. Tesla X was modern looking back in 2017, looks the same now. Tesla 3 is chopped up S and Y is 3 blown up in height a bit. These are all old outdated cars - hence the dinosaur comment.

Support-wise, trying owning an older model of Tesla like a do and you’d know that your statement cannot be further from the truth, my car bricked several times after a software update and getting repairs done gets met with “oh that’ll take __ to get parts”