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by araes | 2025-11-30 02:36:28+00:00
Thought the comment was somewhat helpful. Sparked considering the various anti-patterns in automobile design and searches came back with several others that have been vaguely thought about, just never really identified very clearly for me.

- Inaccessible Components (Poor Physical Layout): One of the main ones you're talking about. Take out the engine to repair a light on the dashboard. - Integrated, Non-Modular Systems: Minor damage or failure ruins an entire assembly. You dinged the bumper, replace the entire front. - Lack of Standardization: Even from year-to-year, designs change and mechanics have to learn yet another system. - Forced Replacement over Repair: Object is "black box", thou shalt replace, not repair. - Dead/Onion/Boat Anchor Components: No longer used, maybe need it, build stuff on top of it, layer after layer, "can we even remove it"? - Spaghetti Wiring/Code and System Coupling: Single modules that route all over the car, another "can we even remove it"? - Proprietary Diagnostics and Restricted Data Access: Don't have the special tools, you can't repair, or even find out what's wrong.
by rohan2003 | 2025-11-30 02:36:39+00:00
Good question, it handles all the infrastructure. GitArsenal runs on Modal's serverless platform, and we automatically provision the right machines for each repo's requirements(working on this feature btw). You don't need to configure GCP/AWS or manage any cloud resources, just point us at a GitHub repo and we handle finding the appropriate compute, spinning up environments, and running the setup
by zie | 2025-11-30 02:37:28+00:00
Containers are NOT security wrappers. They are convenience to avoid dependency hell from lazy people.

VM's can be security wrappers, but if you expose all of $HOME to a VM, then there really isn't much security happening, in terms of your data.

This lets developers of applications harden themselves, it doesn't require the end-user to do anything(like put it in a VM).
by wyldfire | 2025-11-30 02:37:30+00:00
It's pretty subtle but it's referring to The C Library, libc.{a,so,dll,etc}. The library provided by your toolchain that supports the language.

Meaning glibc or musl or your favorite C library probably doesn't have this yet, but since the system calls are well defined you can use A C library (create your own header file using the _syscallN macro for example).
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-30 02:39:17+00:00
SuSE would be a better option then, IMO. Not only have they been around much longer (1994 vs 2004), they offer much better support compared to Canonical. And as a bonus, you don't need to put up with any of the continuous enshittifications Canonical subjects you to (Snaps, increasing poor quality code etc).
by rohan2003 | 2025-11-30 02:39:19+00:00
Appreciate the honest feedback on the website - hearing this loud and clear from multiple people. The Product Hunt page definitely does a better job explaining it simply.

Re: AMD - I'd love to chat about this. We're running on Modal right now which uses NVIDIA, but supporting AMD would be valuable especially as we scale. What part of the stack do you have running? Would be interested in exploring a collaboration.

Feel free to reach out at: rohan@ataraxy-labs.com
by btheunissen | 2025-11-30 02:39:41+00:00
The obvious knob to turn here is that the floor price of ad auctions will be incredibly high, with the justification that AI is expensive.

As someone outside of the ad-tech space it blows my mind how much Instagram and Google ads cost these days, and OpenAI would certainly want to price their ad offering as more “premium” (see: $$$).
by wat10000 | 2025-11-30 02:40:07+00:00
There are things which are difficult and have unsolved problems, and there are things that just fundamentally make no sense.

Nobody is proposing data centers at the South Pole. This isn’t because it’s difficult. It is difficult, but that’s not the reason it’s not being looked at. Nobody’s doing it because it’s pointless. It’s a massive hassle for very little gain. It’s never going to be worth the cost no matter what problems get solved.

Data centers in space are like that. It’s not that it’s difficult. It’s that the downsides are fundamentally much worse than the advantages, because the advantages aren’t very significant. Ok, you get somewhat more consistent solar power and you can reach a wider ground area by radio or laser. And in exchange for that, you get to deal with cooling in a near perfect insulator, a significantly increased radiation environment, and difficult-to-impossible maintenance. Those challenges can be overcome, sure, but why?

This whole thing makes no sense. Maybe there’s something we just aren’t seeing, or maybe this is what happens when people are able to accumulate far too much money and nobody is willing to tell them they’re being stupid.
by Terretta | 2025-11-30 02:40:35+00:00
Great, now can it stop requiring Rosetta on Apple Silicon?

From Baldur's Gate 3 FAQ:

Rosetta is a software that allows Baldur’s Gate 3 to run on systems with Apple silicon, and ARM64 will launch the game natively on Apple silicon, without additional software for compatibility.

ARM64 marks a performance increase when playing Baldur’s Gate 3, however at this time Steam and GOG Galaxy do not support ARM64 so the ARM64 game version can not use platform features such as Cross-Save, Steam/GOG Galaxy overlay, friends lists and multiplayer invite features. Please use the Rosetta option in the Launcher to continue having full Steam and GOG Galaxy integration.

– https://larian.com/support/faqs/what-is-the-difference-betwe...
by galaxyLogic | 2025-11-30 02:40:55+00:00
But, we as humans still have a need to understand the outputs of AI. We can't delegate this understanding task to AI because then we wouldn't understand AI and thus we could not CONTROL what the AI is doing, optimize its behavior so it maximizes our benefit.

Therefore, I still see a need for highlevel and even higher level languages, but ones which are easy for humans to understand. AI can help of course but challenge is how can we unambiguously communicate with machines, and express our ideas concisely and understandably for both us and for the machines.
by limagnolia | 2025-11-30 02:41:20+00:00
Umm, there is. Basically, thats the default in most of the world. My recomendation if that is what you want to do, is to put a note in the readme and in LICENSE.txt that says "this project is copyright by me. If you want to use i, reach out to me and if I like you, I will give you a license". Then if you like someone, give them a written statement that you like them, and grant them permission to use your project(s), and under what terms, if any.
by jfim | 2025-11-30 02:41:40+00:00
They could use the json.org license: https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/the-json-license

It's literally the MIT license with an added clause of only using the software for good, not evil.

Obviously, corporate attorneys will advise not to use the software since good and evil aren't really well defined legal terms. It's also not open source using the osi definition.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-30 02:43:51+00:00
> Coding via prompt is simply a new form of coding.

No, it isn't. "Write me a parser for language X" is like pressing a button on a photocopier. The LLM steals content from open source creators.

Now the desperate capital starved VC companies can downvote this one too, but be aware that no one outside of this site believes the illusion any longer.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-30 02:44:26+00:00
The key ingredient is the courage to try, not the safety net. Countries lauded for their strong safety nets are not overflowing with people taking ambitious risks. Often quite the opposite; the strong safety net reflects a cultural aversion to risk.

People with the courage to try don’t need a safety net to do it. In practice they seem to be almost inversely correlated.

An important aspect not mentioned is feeling like you will be adequately rewarded if your calculated risks pay off. This seems to be more pertinent than safety nets in practice.
by tomatotomato37 | 2025-11-30 02:44:30+00:00
The only vaguely valid dual use technology I can see coming out of this is improving space-rated processing enough that deep space probes sent out to Uranus or whatever can run with more processing power than a Ti-82 and thus can actually do some data processing rather than clogging up the deep space network for three weeks on an uplink with less power than a lightbulb
by bdangubic | 2025-11-30 02:46:04+00:00
it won’t be. the same sane argument was that “robotaxi” fall will be dramatic but it wasn’t, Musk, like Trump, is a master at manipulating masses and when thing du jour inevitably fails he’ll just pivot on an earnings call (and on “X” along the way) how “thing du jour is yesterday’s news” and he’s onto “next big thing” - data center on Jupiter that will replace all earth’s data centers or something like that :)
by perihelions | 2025-11-30 02:46:06+00:00
> "Maybe even smarter as there was no lead poisoning their brains!"

It's a good guess the people who made these artifacts (the bronze ones particularly) suffered from lead poisoning: lead was a primary alloying metal for bronze. You can even look up elemental analysis for BMAC bronze artifacts specifically: "...contain appreciable amounts of arsenic (up to 3%) and lead (up to 4%), as did bronzes of the preceding chronological horizons"[0].

The early smelting techniques simply released everything into the open atmosphere, as fine particulate fumes. Environmental samples going back 5,200 years show regional-scale lead pollution[1] from Bronze Age metals smelting.

[0] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/... (under "3.1.3 Bronzes of the Late Bronze Age II")

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01921-7

("The smelting- and cupellation-related release of Pb into the environment is predominantly via the fine-particle fraction and, as such subject to large-scale atmospheric transport, resulting in a supra-regional to hemisphere-wide distribution9,10,11,20,21,22,23")
by yalogin | 2025-11-30 02:46:21+00:00
So next time I ask ChatGPT if why the samsung washing machine is so bad , it may come back and say “actually Samsung makes the best washing machines in the market with a market leading warranty and customer service. You are lucky they are making them and that you can buy them” or something like that?

On a serious note, their chat is a very valuable service for advertisers, will immediately command top dollar. They could even hide the ads as responses too. We will see how they implement ads
by Night_Thastus | 2025-11-30 02:46:23+00:00
There seems to be little evidence of that, at least from a reputable source.

For some games it can be. For some games Proton performs far worse than Windows. It's not steady across the board. And some have stability issues, bugs, major performance problems, or just flat out don't work.

I want Proton to be the future as well, but I think it's important not to oversell it as a drop-in replacement either.

EDIT: GN highly recommends against apples-to-oranges comparisons of the two, but even looking at their own data for AMD cards (with exact same CPU, RAM, and motherboard) it clearly shows Proton being behind on the order of 6-15%. Not a lot, but not ahead either. You can compare the numbers for the AMD cards against this video's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP0axVHdP-U

EDIT 2: Instead of just down-voting because the result makes you unhappy, how about responding with well-sourced proof otherwise?
by mbesto | 2025-11-30 02:48:21+00:00
> I'm sure their $1.5t infrastructure commitments are based on hitting certain goals.

If you're so sure, can you share your source?

> Their comment about government support for data center is isn't a call for a bailout and taken out of context/exaggerated by mass media.

The context was vague, but the idea that she was conveying is well understood - basically she was saying "we're going to get so big and so important for basic societal needs in the US that if we ever become insolvent the US government can step in and make sure we survive".

> Yes but Google also beat the incumbents in Yahoo, AOL.

That was my point - did you even read my comment?
by lazy_afternoons | 2025-11-30 02:51:02+00:00
There is a 5000 years old epic called Ramayana which dedicates a significant part of it to a conversation between the protagonist Ram and his guru, agastya.

The summary of that entire conversation is this:

If you ever feel demotivated, defeated or dull just pray to the sun or go into the sunlight.

This message was repeated dozens of times over and over with various metaphors.

I think they were trying to hammer the point that sunlight solves a lot of issues.
by newscracker | 2025-11-30 02:51:06+00:00
A couple of quick observations and comments after skimming through this (some of these are mentioned or hinted at in the RFC).

With HTTPS used almost everywhere, using this QUERY method (when standardized) could prevent bookmarking specific “GET” URLs if the developers thoughtlessly replace GET everywhere with QUERY.

One of the advantages of GET is the direct visibility, which makes modifications simple and easy for almost anyone (end users, testers, etc.).

The larger question I have is who will choose to adopt it sooner, with web servers, web application frameworks and web browsers in the mix.
by godelski | 2025-11-30 02:51:09+00:00
Actually I worked for a failed startup where everyone left because they disliked management. In that startup I was the lowest paid engineer and the only non "staff" level one who had a contract bringing in money to the company. My last employee review with the company was terrible even though they admitted in the meeting that I had achieved all the goals and gone above and beyond what they had requested I do to get a promotion[0]. It was pretty clear it was about money, I asked if this was actually a performance issue or a money issue. The conversation changed though still ended up being very political...

This is part of why I'm insisting you need to work with me to be able to communicate. You are reaching for assumptions that justify your position. My opinions are shaped by these TERRIBLE experiences.

Management makes or breaks a company. As an employee it is your job to help ensure the culture works. But you can only do so much too. I'm not saying change the world. As a standard employee if things are going south, it is time to brush up your resume and start shopping around. You can interview without taking a job. You're not stuck where you are, so stop acting like that. The problem with your point of view is that you act like you have no options. It is either work for where you work now or have no job. Don't quit until you have something else lined up. But also don't be afraid to quit. It's not worth being miserable. Interviewing to find a better fit is infinitely better than hating yourself day in and day out, more and more as time goes on.

I'm not saying it is easy either btw. It definitely takes work! But neither are you stuck.

[0] I came with receipts. I had them give me a comprehensive goal list in my previous year's performance evaluation because I had already recognized some of these issues. So I wanted something in writing. It helps. (And btw, I even had a meeting with my direct manager 6mo in and 3mo before the yearly review to make sure I was on track)
by jchw | 2025-11-30 02:51:13+00:00
Yes! This sounds like a great idea to me. It does have some trade-offs, but I think we would've been better off with this than ever having put queries in the URL in the first place. Rather, if it made enough sense to have some data in the URL itself, it would be better if it could actually be in the path, to distinguish it as a distinct resource. I think there are many reasons why this didn't work out that way but I also think those reasons are mostly historical. I would prefer things like /map/<lat>/<long>/, for example. I don't want to go as far as to say that query parameters were entirely a mistake, but there's nothing they do that couldn't be done otherwise, they just offer a convenient place to delineate unstructured data in a URL that you could then copy around. Sometimes moving that to the path would be awkward (unstructured path elements does exist on the web, but it's weird to do) but often times it would just be better to not have it at all. Don't need UTM codes in my URLs in the first place, and I don't think every single parameter on the page should be in the URL. (If you really wanted to pass someone a saved search full of complex queries, it would be less cumbersome to have a specific URL for saved searches anyhow, in my opinion.)

Obviously query parameters are not going anywhere, but if this achieves enough adoption there is a future down the road where we can stop using POST for any query that wants a payload, without needing to change every single HTTP client in the world. (Many of them can already understand custom methods and treat them basically like posts.)
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-30 02:51:26+00:00
Technically its performance is a bit slower than CachyOS, and some of the package versions can be a bit behind as well (like Mesa or the kernel), which can contribute to the slowness. Flatpaks work fine though for the most part.

I would recommend CachyOS if you're after raw performance and you're technically inclined, and don't mind ocassionally going into the terminal to fix something or do some maintenance (maybe once or twice a year).

Bazzite on the other hand is great if you don't care much about minor FPS improvements, but value your time and system stability more. I have both installed, and use Bazzite when I want stuff to "just work" and not think about updates and maintenance. I use it for work, and for braindead gaming (ie I'm back from work and just want to dive into gaming without needing to worry about any PC stuff).

Both OSes are fine for docker/dev workflow. Multiple versions of python isn't an issue on ANY Linux system, as you would never be installing them across the system, you'd be installing them in a container or a sandboxed environment. I'd also recommend checking out Flox[1] as a fast and lightweight alternative to containers, it's great for working with Python in particular.

[1] https://flox.dev/
by Veserv | 2025-11-30 02:51:37+00:00
The existing mechanism to get QUERY semantics is a POST that encodes the “fetch parameters” in the body and the response contains the fetched values. You then out-of-band document that this specific use of a fetching POST is idempotent.

This is literally expressed in the document in section 1: Introduction. They just want to take that POST request and replace the word POST with QUERY which also means the server is intended to assure the request is idempotent instead of needing that documented out-of-band.
by t0lo | 2025-11-30 02:52:18+00:00
Later on Bourdain definitely moved past a lot of the initial style that gave him prominence (his breakout kitchen confidential was definitely of that moment in time like Palahniuk's) in terms of the shows he produced, but in the end, the thread of finding your own pleasurable interpretation of life- be it in the seedy kitchens, or on riverboats with wong-kar wai's filmographer trying to chase the "real hong kong"- that isn't beholden to anyone else, remained the defining trait of his work. His "authentic" style which wasn't a top 5 things to do in x city and more experiential and human didn't come from nowhere in terms of his personal ideology and life experiences/lifestyle.

I think it's the same mindset but in a different context. He was a well read guy with good creative sensitivities, and a fantastic conversationalist- but he's no analogue to your rick steins and rick steeves- just because he shows up on the same row on your streaming app. I think the desire to be free arrived for him long before he started frequently travelling.

And we're on our own for now- that world and those people get further and further away every year. We're seeing less and less people willing to or being allowed to contribute culturally, in the anti system humanist, mentally and socially free but financially trapped service worker, or anti sensationalist experiencer of human culture way.
by Analemma_ | 2025-11-30 02:52:30+00:00
I'm sorry, but this is stupid. It's the same dumb thinking behind Sealand: "we're outside state borders! nobody can touch us!", which was only true as long as nobody cared what they were doing. Once Sealand actually started angering people, the Royal Navy showed up and that was that. "Datacenters in space" wouldn't fare any better: multiple nations have successfully tested anti-satellite weapons.
by wahern | 2025-11-30 02:54:18+00:00
I don't know how it was approached for vitamin D, but it's all about the model they choose, which in the first instance is just something they pull out of thin air. For many water soluble vitamins and minerals the model is based on a threshold for urine excretion; up the dose until the study group is excreting as much as they take in. Until someone figures out otherwise--i.e. that it's too little, too much, or that other considerations need to be made--that's the basis for the RDA.
by o11c | 2025-11-30 02:54:48+00:00
It's claiming "questions on SO are deleted because people don't understand them", as opposed to the reality that moderation is done by the more experienced users (in this case the least-experienced close voter had 5K reputation).

The deleted question (linked twice, once mislabeled as "mailing list" for some reason) is of the form "Where in my IDE is the option to do X?". While questions about IDEs are not entirely off-topic on SO, they face an uphill battle, and this particular question didn't even have any code.

The question might have become a good fit for SO if the asker had bothered to follow the "edit this question to add ..." instructions ... or if anybody who follows the tag had done it either. Note that deletion only happens after a question is closed for 30 days with a negative score and no answers, and is essential to keep search meaningful.
by sfgvvxsfccdd | 2025-11-30 02:55:23+00:00
it’s a very reasonable take: you can’t simply balance work and life at a particular ratio. You must adjust to the demands at the time. Otherwise both work and life will eventually need more than you initially allocated them.

Whether “work life balance” ever meant “fixed work life balance”? For some I imagine. Integration makes it clearer that it’s specifically not that.

(None of this means you should assign “too much” time to work, nor should employers violate labor laws to require you to work without being compensated).
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-30 02:55:30+00:00
If your definition of "AAA" includes Arc Raiders and Marvel Rivals, then good news, they work.

But if your definition specifically refers to shooters like Fortnite or BF6, then yeah, they're not going to work. Except CS of course, but not sure if CS counts as "AAA" in your books.