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by IshKebab | 2025-10-21 08:07:00+00:00
Yeah I've used it for a long time but not for its commit graph feature, which still isn't as nice as Git Graph. Actually the main feature I used it for was "Compare working tree with <commit>" which gives you a nice "what have I changed overall" view but one where the files are editable still in the diff view.

However I found this better extension for that: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=letmaik....

So I don't really need Git Lens any more, which is good because they've made it all commercial and annoying.
by anthk | 2025-10-21 08:07:04+00:00
Gen-Z people without AI (AWS' downtime for sure put tons of vibe coders/vibe sysadmins in their place) will be doomed. Mark my words.

I didn't grow by editing DOS config files, but I began with it in Elementary and I've got Debian Woody (later Sarge) in my late HS teen years. OFC I played with game emulators, settings, optimizations, a lot, and under GNU/Linux I even tweaked some BTTV drivers for some El Cheapo TV Tuner. The amount of thinkering these people had omitted because of smartphones and such it's huge.
by kijin | 2025-10-21 08:07:12+00:00
Thanks for the detailed list.

A common theme in the last two cases is that the perpetrators did not actually force the plane to land in their own territory. They merely refused entry, forcing the plane to divert to a third country. This means that if they wanted somebody detained, they needed cooperation from that third country. Which only works if the person to be detailed had done something that is also illegal in that third country.

This is different from AnthonyMouse's scenario. Let's return to the hypothetical example of the UK messing with a JFK-CDG flight. The UK can refuse entry to their airspace, "pushing" your plane away. So you might have to refuel in Ireland and enter France over its Atlantic coast instead of crossing Southern England. But you will not be "pulled" into the UK, unless Keir Starmer fancies being treated like Lukashenko in the eyes of the world.

The only example of an actual forced landing is the EgyptAir, which was 40 years ago and had hijackers on board. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that's enough of a precedent to justify being paranoid today.
by shiftingleft | 2025-10-21 08:08:04+00:00
Shouldn't your snippet be using lzcnt? I can't see how this would result in the desired lookup.

for Zen5 rustc creates the following:

utf8_sequence_length_lookup: shl edi, 24 mov ecx, 274945 not edi lzcnt eax, edi shl al, 2 shrx rax, rcx, rax and al, 7 ret

https://rust.godbolt.org/z/hz1eKjnaG
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-21 08:08:17+00:00
> Outside of some of the fascinating VAIO laptops with their wild and wacky features, I have never loved a super expensive laptop.

Sure, if and only if you put in the word "super". Frameworks are expensive, starting around $1000 or $1500 depending on screen size. Perfectly good models are available for 1/3 the price.
by reify | 2025-10-21 08:08:59+00:00
The wonderful work of retractionwatch.

My own experience working with suicidal teenagers with depression, presecribed the anti-depressant praxil rings loud and true here.

Paxil, that SSRI wonder drug, not so wonderful after all.

Remember when our teenagers were dying by suicide simply because they were depressed. 20 years too late we have an "expression of concern".

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/16/controversial-paxil-s...

The 2001 paper, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), reported findings from a randomized trial known as “Study 329,” which concluded the antidepressant Paxil was safe and effective in kids ages 12 to 18.

This paper has been cited 451 times by those complicit money grabbing journals.

A huge outcry, an "Expression of concern", 20 year too late, after a recent lawsuit against AACAP and Elsevier.

Peter Doshi, a senior editor for The BMJ who has been critical of Study 329 for at least a decade, called the expression of concern “devoid of detail.

In a complaint filed September 8 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, attorney George W. Murgatroyd III argued the journal is violating the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act by continuing to “publish, distribute, and sell a fraudulent scientific article that contains material facts” that mislead the public and endanger adolescent mental health and safety. AACAP and Elsevier are profiting from the article by charging readers $41.50 on the JAACAP website and $33.39 on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect website to buy access to the paper, according to the complaint.
by audunw | 2025-10-21 08:09:30+00:00
I don’t think you realise how many people in China still live in poverty, with not much prospects of improvement. I don’t see how having 100 million poor small scale farmers is a benefit in this equation.

You still can’t become a Chinese citizen. You can come to USA or Europe and build a life for yourself. While some people go to China to make some money for a few years you can’t really build a life. So I think US and Europe will still attract talent long term, and I don’t think you can discount that. China used to have the benefit of low cost labor, but that’s going away. What do they have to offer when that’s gone?

Chinas population isn’t 10x. It’s 4x. If you believe the numbers (the idea that local governments over report is not a fringe theory).

But it’s really only the wealthy coastal regions that matters in this comparison, and in that regard the population sizes are much closer. Yeah they can exploit cheap labor from the poor interior. But the US is doing something similar in some ways with central/southern America. The Hukou system means that China does act like a bunch of separate states in many regards, rather than one truly unified country.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-10-21 08:09:31+00:00
Smil is the only degrowther that doesn't get totally dunked on by radical centrists types for being a degrowther, which I find interesting.

Apart from that oddity, it reinforces my thoughts that degrowthers are fairly rational people except they've fallen for the fossil fuel propaganda generated by people like Smil and then tried to take it seriously.

I'm not familiar with this blog but it appears the author falls into that group.
by thiago_fm | 2025-10-21 08:13:26+00:00
They are very useful. Of your example "High CPU" could mean you need either a bigger CPU, more cores in the same host etc.

This will let you tune your application being run.

Also, this might change in a time of burst traffic, and if you don't have such tools like Prometheus, DD etc, you aren't able to tune accordingly.

The thing is that tuning a production setup is a bit of an art, there are many tradeoffs for what you do (typically, cost vs. benefit), so you need to make those decisions yourself.

If the alert is constantly ringing and you are satisfied with how the system is running and tradeoffs, you should disable it.
by onli | 2025-10-21 08:14:26+00:00
I organized a toddler group. Trust me, that absolutely can be real. One mother in particular always seemed to opt for exactly the bad option, from sitting up the baby way before it was ready (-> long term increase of likelihood of back problems) to exposing it to sun without suncreme by choice "for tolerance" (-> long term high increase of likelihood of skin cancer) to force-feeding solid food way before the baby could cope (-> nothing long-term, I'm just surprised it survived that). Bad instincts plus outdated or wrong knowledge. Thinking there is some regular peanut diet to follow would have fit right in, as would have completely avoiding peanuts.
by rkagerer | 2025-10-21 08:15:17+00:00
We are generally on the same page, and your thoughtful reply got my upvote. I bet we'd agree good UI derives from familiar concepts and offers affordance.

You don't need to be technical to have a decent idea of what "Unlisted" means.

A pretty good analog are the days when White Pages had everyone's phone number printed in them. If you wrote your unlisted number on a billboard or gave it to someone else who compromised it, you wouldn't expect to retain your privacy. There are lots of things on the Internet that quack like a duck but bite like a snake; this isn't one of them. It does exactly what's written on tin.

It's unfortunate (if not surprising) that malicious individuals are compiling the digital equivalent of "Dark Pages", and I salute your effort to raise awareness of that risk amongst web developers.

I grant "Unfair" wasn't a precise enough word, I just felt at that point you slipped from spotlighting unintentional architectural oversights that are fair game, to advocating opinionated change to a deliberate design choice. Sometimes we need real scissors, not safety scissors!
by twixfel | 2025-10-21 08:17:00+00:00
The payment is that the USA got to make the rules for the whole world, most importantly regarding trade, and we follow them. Now you have decided to elect someone who is destroying the very world order you built that you specifically designed to benefit you! It certainly wasn't out the kindness of your own hearts that you had such a disproportionately strong military, that must be clear to you.

I guess I feel sorry for you because the British Empire had to fight two extremely destructive world wars against militarism and fascism in order to lose its role as superpower. The USA on the other hand has decided to lose its role as global hegemon because, why exactly, trans people and abortion??? Quite pathetic! In the long list of empires the American one will be remembered as having the most pathetic and stupid collapse of all, and that's very sad!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-21 08:17:41+00:00
> don't think you understand what capital intensive means

I may have missed something in my career on Wall Street, as a founder and in VC.

(Being wrong is fine. Being confidently wrong is dumb.)

> Many tech companies are started out of their founders apartments for essentially 0 startup cost

You’re mixing up fixed costs and capital. Both fixed and operating costs consume capital. (We call the latter working capital.)

(You may also be mixing up PP&E and capital.)

> a reason that tech founders get so much richer than founders in other industries and that reason is because the minimal capital requirements allow them to sell off so much less of the company before reaching massive scale

This is wrong. Obviously wrong.

Tech founders get richer because their companies get bigger. Apple, Tesla, Google and Saudi Aramco have massively different capital requirements. Their owners (and founders/founding lineages) are in the same ballpark.

Similarly, most family businesses never sell equity until they sell the business. And most tech founders don’t have a majority of equity after a couple rounds.
by IshKebab | 2025-10-21 08:17:52+00:00
Sure but nobody is actually writing foundational software (as we are now calling it) in Lisp, Java or Ada (and it also has no good answer for use-after-free which is a huge class of vulnerabilities).

This is the first point in history where it's actually feasible in real non-research life to write an entire system in only memory safe languages. (And no, the existence of `unsafe` doesn't invalidate this point.)
by somerandomqaguy | 2025-10-21 08:17:59+00:00
...these are kind of quaint, honestly.

The FZ-40GZ-0SBM is almost $8000. You get an Intel Core Ultra 7 165H, 32GB of RAM, and 512 GB of SSD space. Intel integrated GPU only.

The Getac X600 Server Laptop be decked out with a Xeon W-11865MRE, 128GB of RAM, and 6TB of storage space (no GPU again), but it'll run you a cool $17,000.

IIRC they weigh 7 to 10 lbs, so not terribly light either.
by Attrecomet | 2025-10-21 08:18:16+00:00
Actually, anyone with a brain can see that it's a huge and massively inflated bubble, but can also see that it's a fools game to try to time it without professional insight into the market. What we can do is make sure we're not overextended on the bubble participants, but that's about it.

No amount of hype from your side can make it a non-bubble market when OpenAI and other companies make wild and impossible to fulfill promises for infrastructure buildup that rely on vague promises of circular money lending between AI SaaS and infra companies.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-21 08:18:27+00:00
In Germany this has gone much worse lately.

We had a card for earning points across multiple brands of supermarkets and other kinds of consumer shops.

One of those chains, Rewe, decided they didn't want to share the points with the others and went ahead, creating their own mobile app for consumer points.

The remaining chains, not wanting to stay behind, decided to do exactly the same.

Now almost every chain has withdrawn from the card program, moved into their own little app, and expect every customer to install all their apps.

I refuse to follow along, and get into interesting discussions, because employees naturally following orders that they have to nag everyone, cannot understand that I rather pay more than installing and giving my data to every chain in exchange for a few euros in discounts.
by habinero | 2025-10-21 08:18:47+00:00
Yes? It's silly to think Big Epipen is out to get you. I don't even know what you think your point is.

We do the best with the information we have. If in 30 years, the standard of care changes due to new consensus, that's a good thing. It doesn't mean everyone is an eeeeeevil moneygrubbing whatever, it just means we have more information.
by wiesmann | 2025-10-21 08:21:22+00:00
Most of the code is agnostic from the output format, QuickDraw commands are just sent to a graphical port abstraction (in theory, there is still some untangling to do). The current implementation uses mostly Core Graphics, Core Text and to a less extent the Video-Toolbox to do the actual rendering.

I would welcome anyone wanting to implement an SVG renderer, but I'm not interested in doing so myself. My goal is to have a tool that allows the average Mac OS user to open QuickDraw files and copy-paste them wherever they need them (yes, the UX could be improved). Why did I not choose SVG?

First, PDF is widely supported on Mac OS X (and other platforms), SVG can be rendered in web-browsers and Inkscape. If you want functional copy/paste or printing, you need to use Core Graphics.

Second, Core Graphics is an API, SVG is a data format. My code tries to delegate as much as possible to the backend. So, for instance, if a QuickTime payload uses the TIFF codec, the TIFF file is just sent to the back-end, you can't embed a TIFF file in SVG, any RGB or YUV data needs to be serialized back to PNG.

Yes, this could be solved by linking in K libraries and frameworks, but my goal was to hack-around with a small (for 2025), self-sustained application.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-21 08:22:09+00:00
I've come across a few in the past, these 18 inch giant-ass "desktop replacement" / gamer things that had insanely large power bricks. Been a few years but I think they all had desktop GPU chips from NV.

But I think it's not possible to do any more, not with any high-power card that is... the RTX 5090 has a TDP of 600-ish watts, you can neither get in that kind of power into a laptop, even at 24 volt that's still 25 amps of current just for the GPU, and most importantly you can't get rid of 600 watts of heat, no matter what, without making the user uncomfortable.
by Someone | 2025-10-21 08:22:52+00:00
Adjusting for inflation over such long time periods in electronics is, IMO, not useful because of the wildly different cost curves of labor and capital. You expect average prices to go up, but electronics to get cheaper over time.

Adjusting for performance would be even more ludicrous. The computing power of about any modern smartphone would have cost billions, if not trillions, in 1983. Even this device is much faster than the original (48MHz in Turbo mode).

That would make that $2k about $100k, the price of 50 Commodore 64s at launch.
by Croak | 2025-10-21 08:23:06+00:00
I don't believe they can keep this up forever. Take Google which is dependent on Google Search. That their search is becoming actively worse is common knowledge, reason being more searches equates to more ads shown. If a company which respects you as a user comes around people will jump the boat. We can see this with YouTube. YouTube shows so many ads, that people have been using TikTok instead. They say TikTok is also bad for them, but they rather use it than watch an ad every 30s.

Point being entshittification comes at a cost, and companies partaking in shitty activities can only keep this up for so long.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-21 08:23:31+00:00
The riot wasn’t the attempt: it was the threat of violence that underscored the attempt, which was to happen in the chamber when Mike Pence chickened out (ask Chuck Grassley).

Only for once he didn’t chicken out.

Trump’s obvious, incandescent anger at Pence not doing his bidding makes it clear what that whole “protest” (along with Trump’s own plan to join it) was all about.

Any other interpretation is really a ludicrous, bad faith reframing of quite commonplace behaviour in attempted overthrows.
by Panzerschrek | 2025-10-21 08:23:50+00:00
Sure, full energy transition before 2050 isn't possible. But it should happen sooner or later, since fossil fuels aren't renewable. Doing this transition early allows to avoid shocks caused by fossil fuels exhaustion.

Also I am afraid that such transition isn't possible with current economic system and with current population. Resources needed for carbon-free economy are scarce (like copper mentioned in the article above), so, overall consumption reduction is necessary, maybe even with population reduction. This means degrowth, which isn't compatible with modern capitalism.
by twixfel | 2025-10-21 08:24:08+00:00
But I'm not saying half the population of your country are morons because I'm bigoted or hate Americans, indeed I have spent almost my entire life respecting and admiring your country and its people. I'm saying half your population are morons because half your population voted for Trump. That's perfectly logical.

And yes I can talk about these things because your country remains the global hegemon, the USA is unavoidable. It's not as if I'm expressing some hot takes on South Sudanese politics, is it? So if we are to be ruled by you please don't be surprised if we have some opinions of you too. That's a fair deal, isn't it?
by clydethefrog | 2025-10-21 08:24:16+00:00
The government-funded news was surprisingly open about it two months ago:

Many residents would rather see the American ships leave than arrive. Curaçao traditionally maintains close ties with Venezuela, and residents fear the island will be drawn into a geopolitical conflict. [...] The Dutch government determines the course in these areas under pressure from Washington, while Curaçao itself has little influence.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2580380-curacao-voelt-spanning-tussen...
by zimpenfish | 2025-10-21 08:24:49+00:00
Slightly disappointed there's no Tasword 2 (page 3 of [0]) tiny font shenanigans to horizontally extend the visible screen space.

There's Vaticanus[1][2] on a (mostly) 4x6 grid for 64x32. Or Tiny Talk[3] on a 5x5 grid for 51x38 if you prefer slightly more height.

[0] https://ia902300.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/...

[1] https://www.fontspace.com/vaticanus-font-f128585

[2] With some tweaks to characters and using 2px for space[4], I think you can get e.g. "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." into 158px (61.7% of a line) instead of 344px. One of the headlines shown ("[2] Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy?" would fit into 149px (58.2% line) rather than being truncated to "[2] Is Postgres read heavy or..."

[3] https://v3x3d.itch.io/tiny-talk

[4] https://git.rjp.is/rjp/zx-vaticanus-spacing
by lkjdsklf | 2025-10-21 08:25:05+00:00
I don’t work for aws, but a different cloud provider so this is not a description of this incident, but an example of the kind of thing that can happen

One particular “dns” issue that caused an outage was actually a bug in software that monitors healthchecks.

It would actively monitor all servers for a particular service (by updating itself based on what was deployed) and update dns based on those checks.

So when the health check monitors failed, servers would get removed from dns within a few milliseconds.

Bug gets deployed to health check service. All of a sudden users can’t resolve dns names because everything is marked as unhealthy and removed from dns.

So not really a “dns” issue, but it looks like one to users
by edstarch | 2025-10-21 08:25:22+00:00
Unfortunately, his argument very often happens to be that AI is not useful, that there are no customers for it, that AI coding agents do not work...

I happen to agree with the overall sentiment (that AI buildout is overextending the tech sector and the financial markets), but he is utterly fixated on the evils of AI and unable to admit either the current usefulness or the future potential of the technology. This does not make him look like an honest broker.

The rambling nature of his posts also makes it harder to properly argue against them as he keeps repeating the same points over and over; some of them are decent but there is certainly a gish gallop feeling to the whole thing.
by sofixa | 2025-10-21 08:25:39+00:00
Same in a decent chunk of Europe too. Allergies exist, but are rare and more of the type where you're not quite sure you believe the person telling you they're allergic because it hadn't even occurred to you there can be an allergy for that. Like tomatoes, peppers, raw carrots.

The UK seems to be a bit of an exception. And it shows, the only two countries I've been asked if there are any allergies by waiters as a standard are the US and the UK.
by HPsquared | 2025-10-21 08:25:45+00:00
Pedestrian impact design has been a thing in the European market for a while. One example: the pop-up hood that detects a pedestrian impact, it's a pyrotechnic device that makes the hood pop up to give more of a cushion for the pedestrian to land on. Also I think pedestrian safety is one reason modern BMWs and Audis have the timing chains (very annoyingly for maintenance) fitted at the back of the engine, to give more space for pedestrian impact. Stuff like that. Also the automated emergency braking systems, more recently.

https://www.euroncap.com/en/car-safety/the-ratings-explained...
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-21 08:25:54+00:00
For anything from a camera, you want the right kind of smoothing and some amount of phosphor emulation, but the source usually has a long enough shutter time to make the latter less important.

With pixel art go ahead and add bloom, and faster phosphors become more important. But not much else. I don't think anything wants focus issues and power supply sag.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-21 08:27:18+00:00
"only 2 metrics that really matter"

Nope, there is another important thing that matters: some of the cancers tested are really hard to detect early by other means, and very lethal when discovered late.

I would not be surprised if out of the 155 people who got detected early, about 50 lives were saved that would otherwise be lost.

That is quite a difference in the real world. Even if the statistics stays the same, the health consequences are very different when you test for something banal vs. for pancreatic cancer.
by coldtea | 2025-10-21 08:29:48+00:00
>I get the whining, but teams need ways to share their complex workflows, and teams are where the money is for all dev focused software.

Complacent corporate teams. Agile teams need to simplify their workflows, and know that a Makefile can be better than some closed down, Cloud-first tool.

>That's who pays for all your tools to have free versions

Nah, we have free versions for stuff without enterprise editions too.

>People who use make and curl to jury rig some unshareable solution together that no-one else in their company would even bother trying

It's that "no-one else" that doesn't bring value.