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by Yoric | 2025-10-19 21:38:43+00:00
Agreed, it's really weird.

To the best of my understanding, the author describes the structured imperative programming style used since the 70s as "functional" because most languages used since the 70s offer functions. If so, it makes sense to describe hardware is optimized for what the author calls "functional programming", since hardware has long been optimized for C compilers. It also makes sense to describe callbacks, async, then, thread-safety as extensions of this definition if "functional programming", because yes, they're extensions of structured imperative programming.

There are a few other models of programming, including what people actually call functional programming, or logical programming, or synchronous programming, or odder beasts such as term rewriting, digraphs, etc. And of course, each of them has its own tradeoffs.

But all in all, I don't feel that this article has anything to offer to readers.
by digianarchist | 2025-10-19 21:39:01+00:00
You're probably right. I scanned the FDA website and wasn't sure how easy it would be to meet the requirements for personal medicine importation [0].

As a Canadian national in the US I wouldn't even attempt doing this in the current political climate.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...
by mmaunder | 2025-10-19 21:39:24+00:00
When you objectify the idea of wife as an NPC and you’re the center of your universe, this makes sense. Pretty sure my wife would take a baseball bat to the motherfucker’s robot brain. But it’s her call. Others may prefer a non human companion. And let’s all work to keep the government out of our bedrooms, shall we? We all know how well that’s been going. When you equate sex with garbage collection, you have bigger problems than our AI future.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-19 21:41:32+00:00
> Debian shouldn't be meddling with them

Debian is the OS, and the OS vendor should decide and modify the components it uses as a foundation to create the OS as he desires. That's what I am choosing Debian for and not some other OS.

> You can't audit open source vendors either.

What defines open source, is that you can request the sources for audit and modification, so I think this statement is just untrue.
by autoexec | 2025-10-19 21:42:03+00:00
> Running some barely maintained operating system that is an nth-degree spin-off is like buying a pacemaker from craigslist.

If my options are between a barely maintained linux operating system which might compromise my data and a barely maintained windows operating system that is designed to compromise my data I'll take my chances with linux. At this point no one can be assured of their safety and all anyone can do is choose the lesser evil and hope for the best.
by ohman876 | 2025-10-19 21:42:08+00:00
The article mentions ice building up in that old fridge, and this reminded me what I was told by a man who was fixing these things- that the condition of rubber seal and fridge not being leveled correctly can also lead to the ice buildup (if thermostat is not broken). He did not explain in deep technical details why, but said that when the fridge door is not sealing fully then the room air enters the fridge and due to different condensation point it causes moisture buildup at the coldest part. I am not sure how factual this was, since after hearing this I adjusted the fridge so the doors were always closing themselves thanks to gravity, and the ice still kept building up. I did not replace the seal though :)
by card_zero | 2025-10-19 21:42:53+00:00
Why are you (apparently) calling Milton Friedman a sycophant of monopolists? Here's a Friedman quote, shortened to keep it on topic:

"A government which maintained law and order, defined property rights, [long list of other functions of government,] engaged in activities to counter technical monopolies and to overcome neighborhood effects widely regarded as sufficiently important to justify government intervention, and which [something about welfare]—such a government would clearly have important functions to perform. The consistent liberal is not an anarchist."

Obviously he didn't like regulation at all, and was probably struggling to decide how much of it to tolerate, but that doesn't mean he wanted monopolies.
by JanisErdmanis | 2025-10-19 21:43:11+00:00
Equating freedom with choice is strange. Often choices comes hand in hand with commitments which removes initial options from the table while other options appear. Whether the lost options produces regret is a matter of one’s evolving values that perceives the available options at the given time. Hence absence of regret seems the real freedom, but we don’t have a Time Machine or a Crystal Ball. The next best option is approaching regret with humility of the past and agency to align current values with future options. If the values don’t need to be forced on oneself to align with available options then we get freedom.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-10-19 21:43:38+00:00
If you have many choices that are within a small range, it's the opposite of freedom. It's more about control. But it works extremely well to give the illusion of freedom.

You see that in our political discourse. Debates over things like gay marriage, immigration or abortion are encouraged because they don't cost the oligarchy any money. Discussion about things like income inequality that may reduce the power and wealth of the upper class is discouraged.
by vitorgrs | 2025-10-19 21:44:12+00:00
In Brazil it will expire in July 2026. It's pretty relevant as it's kinda already announced they will put the generics on the public health care (SUS) for free... Which is big deal as an Ozempic shot costs almost the same as the minimum wage.

This year they already did an analysis to include Ozempic, but it was denied, probably because of the cost difference...

But they were trying on justice to extend the patent...
by baobun | 2025-10-19 21:44:26+00:00
> If it wasn't for the fact that they totally only targeted Bible apps. ［...］ it only seems to target one demographic of apps.

Not true. Quran just as targeted as Bible.

> and ignored things like reddit

What do you mean with "ignored reddit"? There is no official reddit app on f-droid and community clients are flagged with the "depends on or promotes non-free network service" anti-feature.

An offline reading-tracking app being flagged sounds like one false positive that should be corrected, though. Have you tried submitting a PR for it?
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-19 21:45:07+00:00
I'm no software pro because my code was never intended as wares for sale.

I made a living by using my own code my damn self, so it was just computer programs, not software proper.

Not very easy for others to use since there was no need for that, but I start out focused on UI before anything else anyway because it either has to be right to begin with, or capable of making it right under the most non-ideal circumstances later.

For things I do, UI is about the most unlikely thing to be right to begin with, so then that's where I'm going to shower the most neglect after the UI's achievable ideal concept is written in stone, and nothing more. So I can concentrate on the "rest of the story" that the user may or may not have to interface with under the hood.

If the UI is going to be absolutely, completely modular for that "easy-replacement later" reason alone, why not everything else?

I think for modular things to work the best, you have to pay more attention to "coupling" as I understand it. How else is any anticipated "uncoupling" process supposed to follow as logically?

One thing about inheritance, it can couple things you didn't want coupled if you're not careful :\
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-19 21:45:33+00:00
> as good as Windows file explorer

In what way is the MS Windows file explorer good? It neither has tabs, side-by-side view, pattern selection, performant search, an UI, that doesn't regularly blocks and becomes unresponsive, etc... .

What feature does it have, that some other file manager, doesn't have? I can't think of any?
by nurettin | 2025-10-19 21:45:54+00:00
Before the topic is ironically flagged, I guess it is time to have "the talk".

Although you can construct peaceful narratives from both books, and most people are trying to do that, and I commend and appreciate their efforts immensely, fact of the matter is: you are swimming up the current.

The societies depicted in them were highly disturbed, warring tribes. The lessons from stories were harsh, often bordering on sadism. Pretty much everyone grew up with trauma if they survived.

Although you can find little nuggets of wisdom here and there about being humble and patient and not getting on a high horse, calling these books key to the universe is like pushing a camel through a needle hole.

Now should people mark "holy" book apps unsafe? maybe, but it isn't going to save children from being exposed. It will just disturb well meaning people and enrage the not so nice ones.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-19 21:45:59+00:00
Past performance is not indicative of future results.

There is zero indication that there will be new jobs, new work. Just because there was lots of low hanging fruit historically does not mean we will stumble into some new job creators now. Waiving away concerns with 'jobs always have magically appeared when needed' is nonsense and a non-response to their concerns.
by sthlmb | 2025-10-19 21:46:32+00:00
I do have a ko-fi available in the footer of the website, and if someone wants their donation to go towards a specific piece of hardware then I'll most certainly do what I can to honour that, or return it if I can't.

On the samples from vendors front, yeah, that's definitely a concern, though in the years I've been working with manufacturers and had samples from them, I'm fairly confident that no "golden sample" binning is going on as I've had quite a few shockers, hah! Not to say that it couldn't/wouldn't happen, I wouldn't want to introduce that doubt. Perhaps, like my review website, I should add a quick note/indicator of whether a board was obtained directly from a vendor, or if it was purchased.
by sothatsit | 2025-10-19 21:47:13+00:00
Saying "He’s talking about whether agents are currently useful at all" is negatively loaded. It is very easy to take that and assume the answer is "no" based on the "at all".

If you wanted to be more neutral, you could have said something like "He's also questioning how useful agents really are today". That wouldn't have implied that they're not useful at all, but instead that they're less useful than people are claiming.
by glp1guide | 2025-10-19 21:47:59+00:00
Not only that, there is a legitimate raft of companies lining up to make generics.

There’s one wrinkle though, legally importing prescription drugs from Canada isn’t really allowed in the US/UK AFAIK. HIMS is probably feverishly figuring out how to do that right now.

Shameless plug:

https://glp1guide.substack.com/p/another-glp1-generic-launch...

Also somewhat separately, injectable GLP1s are about to be upstaged by oral variants — orfoglipron for Eli Lilly and the Wegovy Pill for Novo.
by ajross | 2025-10-19 21:48:28+00:00
Hm... that seems strained. The film got an R because of visible blood/gore scenes and violence. There's nothing controversial about that at all, swap the script with an explicitly atheist one that rejects the divinity of Christ and crucifies a 100% mortal man in exactly the same way and you'd get an obvious R, because crucifixion is a violent act absent of any context.

And if you really want to go with the old testament having NSFW themes in its text (which it does), that seems like a frightenly slippery slope. If slavery and genocide are verboten, are you going to rule out Uncle Tom's Cabin or the Diary of Anne Frank too? History textbooks? Where does it stop?

I suspect your response is going to be that you think the bible is treating those subjects in an inappropriate way. Which is to say, you think it's a Bad Book and want to censor it for its meaning, not its content.

I mean, I happen to agree that it's a bad book. But... yikes, as it were. No, we don't do that.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-19 21:48:52+00:00
> I have t-shirts from 2010 which are faded but have 0 holes. Whereas t-shirts I bought half a year ago have holes in them.

One of the little things I find most satisfying about getting old is hearing the same proclamations about quality going to shit today that I heard when I was much younger, only now the supposedly-good baseline of the comparison happened well after the complaints I grew up hearing. I, too, want everyone to get the hell off my lawn.
by autoexec | 2025-10-19 21:49:01+00:00
> Behavioural economists point out that most people are actually pretty bad at making decisions of this kind

That's okay because those choices are their own. I think most people would rather make their own choices and live with the consequences than have the ability to choose taken from them even if that'd mean being forced into something that would be better for them than alternatives. Personally, I don't equate an abundance of choice with freedom, but a lack of choice or unnecessary constraints on avilable choices aren't going to make people more free either.
by altairprime | 2025-10-19 21:49:09+00:00
From an App Store rating perspective, this particularly affects children, which leads to a much more focused question:

Should minors have the right to install and use apps without parental approval that grant them access to content that is accepted to contain:

> genocide, slavery, casual murder, infanticide, sexual abuse

And if so, then what categories of apps are exempt from otherwise-mandatory content restriction processes for children? The Satanists no doubt stand ready to step in if anyone tries to disguise “exempt only Christian bible apps” under the cloak of “exempt all religious apps”, but shouldn’t this also exclude the Education category so that history and language students aren’t disadvantaged?

This change doesn’t much affect adults, though no doubt they will be leading the charges of complaint against it. It absolutely affects minors, though, who will encounter a higher bar of difficulty in studying religions or foreign languages or world history without explicit parental consent.

Honestly, I’m not sure how I feel about that outcome, or any of this at all, but I wanted to make sure that an impacted group with little ability to speak for itself is recognized by those — by us all adults, specifically — who unilaterally compose and impose policies upon them.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-19 21:49:14+00:00
The consistency is that the presence of a Reddit app or a Youtube app per se doesn't reveal too much about the device owner.

A Bible reader/tracker app, a Quran learning app... now that's where you enter a more sensitive area, religious beliefs are among the higher protected classes of data under GDPR.

And now there's a few potential threat sources: family members snooping through their relative's phones, border control snooping through phones (remember, apostasy is a crime punishable by death in some Muslim countries), or the worst one, random ad SDKs pulling in and distributing lists of installed APKs and pushing these to the mothership, where the data can then be hoovered up by anyone willing to pay for it, with the same result [1].

I wish I didn't need to write this, but it's not just some random Middle East theocracy going for its citizens as usual for the crime of not believing into the god of choice, we're seeing people being threatened for their faith (or lack of it) right in the United States of America, right now.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-da...
by karmakaze | 2025-10-19 21:49:20+00:00
The most credit I could give is that the post itself is a spherical approximation of the subject and the point being made is that they discovered async dataflow programming and think it's underrepresented. I've only seen it compared it to command-line pipes for explanation of the concept, not understanding implementation characteristics.

I agree that code tends to be overrepresented--we don't 'data golf'. Even non-async dataflow oriented programs are much easier to follow, which happens to play exceptionally well with FP.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-19 21:50:15+00:00
> are free from ideological biases,

you're missing the point.

Universities are free to have their own ideological biases. Some will certainly be biased in one direction. Others in another. Students aren't forced to go to a given university -- there any many to choose from.

But when the gov forces its ideological biases on Universities, then it begins to remove choice for students. It might start with only a dozen, but if successful, it will push on others, until it becomes the de-facto requirement to get government funding.

That is totalitarianism.
by franga2000 | 2025-10-19 21:50:34+00:00
Performance is cool, but if you're already building a giant database of SBC information, I/O, peripherals and features seem like a much more important thing to add.

Just in the Orange Pi lineup, there are so many different models and so little structured information about them, that the best source still seems to be the google sheet that I created in 2017 and has been continously updated by various community members over the years [0]. And that's all one manufacturer!

Things like which type and how many video outs, USB ports, if it has onboard flash, DSI/CSI, pinout compatibility... are so much more important and so much harder to get than performance numbers, which usually boil down to the SoC plus a small margin for thermal and power design of the board.

If this site were open source (and time + knowledge of stack permitting), I'd take a stab at adding a way to include that info as well, maybe even through crowd-sourcing.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14QDXdMR1a1kc0gpRpTzI...
by hypeatei | 2025-10-19 21:52:03+00:00
> It's about filling in quotas ignoring talent and objectifying people based on their ethnicity, race and gender.

That's illegal[0]. If this is going on, then enlighten us or the EEOC.

> You just moved the goalposts to include things that nobody can argue against

What? You said: "disingenuous to now pretend that DEI was about class and economic status" when it clearly is about those things. Again, please show one example of a program that you think isn't doing that. I understand that you think DEI is a sinister initiative, but bickering over a conservative boogeyman is unproductive.

0: https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices
by tpmoney | 2025-10-19 21:53:35+00:00
Not Tom Scott, but Dylan Beattie has done a handful of interesting talks[1] effectively on "there's no such thing as plain text" which in part covers this sort of thing. In fact, I think your Danish cities list is actually one of his examples.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo
by amirhirsch | 2025-10-19 21:53:54+00:00
Not quite. Leakage current in CMOS circuits became the dominant source of power consumption around the 90 nm and 65 nm nodes, long before quantum tunneling was a major factor, and often exceeded dynamic switching power. This led to the introduction of multiple threshold-voltage devices and body-biasing techniques to dynamically adjust Vt and curb static leakage.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-19 21:54:12+00:00
> I do have a ko-fi available in the footer of the website, and if someone wants their donation to go towards a specific piece of hardware then I'll most certainly do what I can to honour that, or return it if I can't.

That’s pretty good of you to mention, as I didn’t notice the footer when I visited to see if you already had tested the OpenWRT One before posting my suggestion to test it. Perhaps you could mention that you would make a best effort to test hardware suggested by donors, if you haven’t already done so on the site? I approve of you asking for donations openly, as your time and efforts are worth something to you and to visitors, and if you communicate that it’s a two-way street, with some incentives to donors in that they can help suggest what you spend their donations on, I think that your transparency and good faith are more likely to be rewarded with more and larger donations that a simple “buy me a coffee” pitch might otherwise attract.

> Perhaps, like my review website, I should add a quick note/indicator of whether a board was obtained directly from a vendor, or if it was purchased.

I think such a disclaimer/disclosure would assuage (m)any concerns most folks would have on that front!

You seem to have a good grasp on what you’re doing here. Do you share/open source your testing methodology and/or code run to derive your data?

Edit: I see now that you have some of your testing methodology posted. I would suggest gathering as much room temp data during testing as possible, and maybe even re-running the test suite at variable temperatures as much as possible if you can, so you can plot performance over time with different cooling setups in different ambient temperature conditions, as many folks use SBCs in (semi) permanent indoor and outdoor installs in less-than-ideal environments and enclosures, usually with little to no cooling.

If you were to share your complete test scripts, temp probe/jig setup, etc., other users could reality-test their own hardware against other devices in an apples-to-apples way.
by weitendorf | 2025-10-19 21:54:36+00:00
Consumer freedom is a real kind of freedom that goes hand in hand with the freedom to choose more meaningful lifestyle and career choices. The reason those choices are meaningful is precisely because the stakes are higher than what you buy at the store. If you go back two hundred years, the ability for a family to offer their children such an abundance of food with so many options was extremely meaningful because poor people really did have to struggle to put food on the table and almost nobody had access to so many different kinds of food. Now we take it for granted because it’s easy and anybody can do it, not because we stopped enjoying it.

When people decry that nobody else will pay them to be an artist or to follow their passions they’re really decrying that they’re unwilling or unable to follow their passions without either giving up something or without offering enough back to other people to justify their use of their resources. Reality doesn’t give a shit whether or not you’re free, neither does the guy that built your house or grew your food, or the nurse that wipes your ass when you get sick.

You either have to be the change you want to see or stop whining that other people won’t adjust their lives to conform to the way you want them to be, without subjecting yourself to any discomfort beyond jeering from the sidelines. It’s really easy to imagine a world in which you’re free to benefit from everybody else’s lack thereof, children do it all the time.
by endgame | 2025-10-19 21:54:53+00:00
If you have immutable data and want code reuse, you need laziness otherwise you give up a lot of performance. In Haskell, a careful choice of implementation for `sort` means that `take 10 (sort someList)` will only do enough work to return the first ten elements.

Having laziness by default means that functions compose properly by default; you don't have to worry about libraries providing an interface to your chosen incremental streaming library or whatever. I've seen friends working in strict dialects of Haskell forced to write out each combination of list functions by hand because otherwise they'd have to materialise large intermediate data structures where regular lazy Haskell simply wouldn't.

Ed Kmett has a couple of great posts about the value he's realised from laziness:

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/l98v73/can_you_sha...

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/5xge0v/today_i_use...