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by cglan | 2025-11-29 22:56:51+00:00
It feels like we (and I specifically mean the left) has decided to nearly universally stop enforcing rules on a large basis as an alternative to legislative reform.

We’ve basically decided that actually reforming the bureaucratic machine is much too hard, so instead of reform let’s just not enforce anything.

One of Zohrans ads is such an on the nose example of this. He has an ad where he says he’s gonna help out small business by cutting down the fines that they face. Which on the surface sort of sounds nice, but now we basically just get shitty businesses selling shitty things and facing small slaps on the wrist instead of actually going through and removing the onerous laws and enforcing the important ones.

Same thing going on with immigration. The system is so fucked up, that instead of reform we simply won’t enforce immigration laws.

You see the same thing with housing that abundance basically called out. The system has gotten really good at writing more and more complicated laws at the cost of things basically falling apart in the real world

These copper thefts affect millions of people. It regularly happens to the MTA and shuts down the subway. A functional society would make an example of people committing these thefts so that the rest of us can continue to contribute and live their lives without being screwed by antisocial people
by AngryData | 2025-11-29 22:57:07+00:00
Im sure some of it is personal bias from experience with them but I don't think ICE are as complicated as some people think. 90% of the extra shit on them are unnecessary for it to work but what those things are and what they do and why it broke or failed or how important they are is essentially obfuscated from the general public so they seem like overly complicated magic. The vast majority of cars I see do not fail or get trashed due to engine failure from design flaws or anything, most get trashed because people stop caring about them and treat them like trash and don't replace that $15 sensor, others think they can't afford the maintenance because car manufacturers don't give a fuck about having to take 3 hours disassembling other unnecessary shit to replace a 30 cent sensor that they know will eventually need replaced, but the only number the customer seems to look at is the total cost of the mechanic quote. They think because something is a $1,000+ repair that something seriously is worn or old and that the car is on its last legs, instead of the reality of that one part being a huge pain in the ass to replace but it is otherwise a good reliable motor for another 100,000+ miles. And of the cars that do get trashed because they have actual major mechanical problems, the vast majority of the problems have to do with the body work rusting out and/or suspension components needing replaced after being used for 3x their expected lifetime, which an EV is not going to improve in any way.

Like ive seen people junkyard perfectly working and good cars because it is over 150,000 miles and some service guy who is looking for work/money told them they need to do scheduled maintenance some time soon and they thought the car was too old and was junk. And yet very few cars ive seen would not make it over 300,000 miles if they spent even 1/10th the money of their new car for maintenance on their old.
by ramesh31 | 2025-11-29 22:57:31+00:00
Go back a few generations for just about every wealthy family in the US, and it's nothing but slave (or highly exploitative) labor building on land and resources stolen from the indians. It's the uncomfortable answer behind the question of "Why do WASPs own everything?". The whole "self-made" myth is nothing but a byproduct of white guilt all the way down.
by almost | 2025-11-29 22:57:47+00:00
From my experience though I often do make logical errors in my code but not in my tests and I do frequently catch errors because of this. I think thats a fairly normal experience with writing automated tests.

Would having someone else write the tests catch more logical errors? Very possibly, I haven't tried it but that sounds reasonable. It also does seem like that (and the other things it implies) would be a pretty extreme change in the speed of development. I can see it being worth it in some situations but honestly I don't see it as something practical for many types of projects.

What I don't understand is saying "well we can't do the really extremely hard version so let's not do the fairly easy version" which is how I took you original comment.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-29 22:58:36+00:00
On the other hand, no matter what you do, you can’t invest like Warren Buffett.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2014/11/19/why-you-...

The whole idea of succeeding by “grit” makes way too many people too idealistic and unrealistic.

Don’t get me wrong, Peter Drucker (hopefully that’s the Peter you are referring to) had some great actionable advice. But believing in yourself and having grit is about as banal as “thoughts and prayers”
by erikpukinskis | 2025-11-29 23:00:28+00:00
Does anyone have experience putting their production branches in a separate repo from their development branches?

GitHub makes it very easy to make a pull request from one repo into another.

This would seem to have a lot of benefits: you can have different branch protection rules in the different repos, different secrets.

Would it be a pain in the ass?

For an open source project you could have an open contribution model, but then only allow core maintainers to have write access in the production repo to trigger a release. Or maybe even make it completely private.
by roarcher | 2025-11-29 23:00:54+00:00
It's obviously true that nobody achieves things in a vacuum, since we all have some level of "privilege" given to us by our economic circumstances, the level of education available to us, our luckier heritable traits, etc. But for every successful person, there are countless others born to a similar level of privilege who squandered it. The claim that everyone owes their successes to the group ignores this.
by nazgul17 | 2025-11-29 23:01:11+00:00
I feel like you're putting words in someone else's mouth. Maybe you are not responding to OP but, in your mind, to an ex-colleague that did so in a different venue than this forum?

In a forum like this, stating your preference is just that: stating your preference.

If you were talking with your manager and stated your preference, you'd be stating your preference and, between the lines, asking to make it happen for yourself.

If you were talking with your manager and stated your preference and specified the reason is because you prefer working around people, only then, between the lines, you'd be asking to make it happen for your whole team.
by didibus | 2025-11-29 23:01:46+00:00
Pain actually has a lot of objective parts to it. There are real chemical and mechanical processes involved. You could even argue the subjective part might be smaller than people think. Mindset can change the experience, but different people might just have different "pain functions" to begin with.

Same idea with hunger and weight gain or loss. Hunger is a biological process. You can push through it, but people also experience it differently because their actual hunger mechanisms differ, not just because they "interpret" it differently.
by al2o3cr | 2025-11-29 23:02:15+00:00
Naming a law after yourself gets you an instant 10x "probably a crank" modifier. Chill out.

What is F_bond? Section 2.1 describes it as "the characteristic interaction energy of the initial state (kJ/mol)" but that's not standard terminology.

The exponent n is introduced, but then immediately assumed to be 1 with a hand wave to "optimal agreement is obtained" with that choice.

This asserts values of k without any evidence of where they came from. Some of them are "corrected" with unsupported statements like "Normalization relative to the noble gas reference yields a value 10x higher".

Section 3.1 argues that k=1.00 for helium, then section 3.4 instead declares k=2.21 because of "quantum mechanical effects predominating" with no additional explanation.

You can't get this published because it's vaguely-defined numerology puked out by an LLM.
by kccqzy | 2025-11-29 23:02:43+00:00
Well with the style of tech interviews we have, luck is definitely involved. Some questions are simply my style (I like graphs and dynamic programming for example), and I’m lucky if the interviewer happens to choose these. But I don’t like for example two pointers problems.

And also I’ve long ago dissociated my tech interview performance with my actual performance indicated by performance reviews.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-29 23:03:22+00:00
Why assume it's driven by desperation rather than alienation?

It doesn't take desperation to "raid [one]'s own community of basic infrastructure" -- the news shows rich and very un-desperate people doing that right in the open every day, both with and without the protection of the law.

What it does take is people just not caring about each other very much.

It would indeed be great to have a society where even the worst off could be safe and secure, but that seems orthogonal to the problem of why people take from others like this. This is not stealing bread for the day's meal.
by WCSTombs | 2025-11-29 23:03:26+00:00
To be clear, I'm just claiming that we can choose a specific area unit, and the three equations you wrote are then obvious consequences of that. It's true, you do need to assume area scales as the square of length, but IMO that's a pretty fundamental fact, and I think that's intuitive for many others. But as always, YMMV.
by einpoklum | 2025-11-29 23:03:49+00:00
I think it would be better if it were about exercising; it's more useful advise that way.

So, all it takes is for you to work out: You may not get into that grad school / that job, but you'll be healthier and you'll feel less depressed. In fact, even if you're in grad school, it's pretty good advice for coping avoiding burnout, coping with impostor syndrome etc.
by toss1 | 2025-11-29 23:04:10+00:00
You know what? This is indeed where courage, tenacity, and risk-taking make a difference.

But what makes the difference in whether or not we hear about it is pure luck and survivor bias.

If their luck was just right that with all that push in the right time the deal came through or the product sold, then we hear about what a great success it was, and how important was their grit.

And many smart determined people with all the courage, tenacity, and risk-taking in the world have also taken the big risk, but dice did not roll their way, or the hill was just so steep it didn't work, so we hear nothing of them. And their number likely vastly exceeds the few for whom it did work.
by rendaw | 2025-11-29 23:04:27+00:00
The abstract wasn't clear to me, but looking it up FDA recommends 20mcg = 800 IU, and the paper recommends 8000 IU. It seems like others are more conservative (7000 IU).

I don't think I've ever seen the 20mcg rec, everywhere I've seen was something like 2000 (and that's what the supplements come as), but P appears correct.

What was the math error that led to this? And I'm curious now how to get 8000 IU. Just take a bunch of pills all at once in the morning?

The paper referenced Finland, which seems like a strong confirmation of safety, but the best information I could find was https://www.ruokavirasto.fi/en/foodstuffs/healthy-diet/natio... . What effective IU dose are people getting in Finland with these changes?
by CPLX | 2025-11-29 23:06:43+00:00
> Anti-globalization as a movement completely collapsed during the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Not quite. Anti-globalization as a movement completely collapsed during the Obama administration and it's more accurate to call those protests the dying gasp.

The blame for taking the momentum away from the anticorporate left has to come most directly from the corporate and neoliberal left.

If you want to pick one thing to zero in on, as an example, pick the complete lack of consequences for the bankers and other architects of the great financial collapse, which was a direct decision by the Obama administration.

It's the direct antecedent of the culture of complete and total elite impunity that has poisoned American politics today.
by an0malous | 2025-11-29 23:07:37+00:00
Who are you thinking of? Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates, Musk all came from wealthy families. They all had the safety net of their family wealth if their business didn’t work out. Even someone who had parents to pay their student loans is relatively privileged, not everyone starts their 20’s debt-free and able to take financial risks.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-29 23:08:15+00:00
Why would they drive up the rents in larger spaces? At least part of the demand in larger spaces is from roommates who would prefer to live alone, some of them might decamp for options like these, or studios and one bedroom apartments, etc., if they are available.

As with all types of housing, there is no one type of housing that solves the problem. Whether we live under capitalism or socialism, the only way we solve housing is when everyone who wants to live in New York, can, everyone who wants to live in Kansas, can, everyone who wants to live in Fort Myers, can.

With markets, a shortage results in high prices and rates. Without markets a shortage results in long waitlists. There’s no way out, without quantity.

If we want people to live in large indoor spaces, and not SROs, we can’t get there in 99% of our land use regime is focussed on limiting the total amount of floor space that is allowed to exist within a given area. Legalizing SROs is insufficient, but necessary, just like legalizing larger apartment buildings in more places, abolishing single-family zoning, etc.
by AngryData | 2025-11-29 23:08:48+00:00
As someone with a lot of family working in GM corporate, it seems like they were never really confident in it in the first place. So many of them scoffed at the entire idea of electric cars and most still do, even with their own lineup and having driven them themselves. They expected them to fail and never put in the actual effort to support it. It seemed like 80% of corporate were against it completely and without reason because they themselves were doing fine and could afford the gas on their free corporate car and massive discounted family purchased cars. And everyone below them fed their egos by spewing garbage about how well they are all doing with their high margin luxury trimmed cars without considering how they are pricing more and more people out of their entire brand each year.
by vel0city | 2025-11-29 23:09:26+00:00
Highway towing range hit is largely an aerodynamic drag issue. Any EV truck (or any car really, even gas cars have a big range hit) is going to get a massive ding in its range towing anything increasing it's aero drag even if it's an empty box. It's just with a gas truck you're starting with 300+mi often for a well equipped truck so you lose 100mi of range you're still over 200mi per tank.

But an EV, on a long range road trip you're rarely charging to 100%, you're often going like 5%->80% because the charging speeds fall off a cliff after a certain percentage. So you start off with maybe 300mi, but not really because after the first leg you're only using 75% of it, but now you're also using like 25% more energy because of the massively increased drag. So what was 300mi on a full charge became maybe 150mi on a full charge once you're on that second leg. Coupled with the fact what used to be free energy (heating the cabin with waste engine heat) if you're towing in cold weather you're not even going to get that 150mi.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-11-29 23:09:57+00:00
> one of the greatest humans

I can't fathom being this exaltant about some dead guy I've never met who supposedly manufactured some stuff (like you realize he wasn't a scientist and was primarily a businessman).

Where does this kind of sycophancy/worship come from? Like do you have to be bread to think this way or did your parents inculcate it in you? Or did you come to it on your own? Are you religious too? Is that where it comes from (tendency to worship)?
by fiiin | 2025-11-29 23:10:00+00:00
Interesting they added new syscalls, instead of handling configuration via /sys like with SELinux and AppArmor. I suppose it must be because of the no privilege principle.

Can sysadmins disable access to Landlock syscalls via seccomp? Not that I can see why they'd want to, just wondering how this is layered.

I suppose the problem might be if the system has been set up at some earlier point in time to whitelist a set of syscalls for a process and, as Landlock is newer, its syscall numbers won't be included. A program that has been updated to use Landlock while a seccomp policy that predates Landlock is applied would presumably be terminated with SIGSYS due to this?

How can a program determine if Landlock is present without just trying the syscalls and seeing if they work?
by geoffmanning | 2025-11-29 23:10:02+00:00
Uh.... Ok. I don't disagree with the contentions that the author has, but making some clippy profile pictures and telling people to use it isn't a "movement" and the fact that so many comments here recognize it as one says a lot about how far culture has fallen.

If you want to make a difference, then absolutely refuse to use anything from any big tech company that is mining data and go 100% open source no matter how inconvenient it makes your life. No C levels or stakeholders give a flying fuck that you set your profile picture to a goofy symbol of simpler days.

Real movements involve serious sacrifice. I actually like those goofy clippy pics and would use one if it didn't signal to me that the person using it is likely a hypocritical chump who isn't willing to make any real sacrifices for the change they wish to see.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry right now.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-29 23:10:32+00:00
Not exactly at the middle but close to shore is pretty good too, a lot of solar and wind around to feed the compute.

One of these projects is bonkers IMO: china-has-an-underwater-data-center-the-us-will-build-them-in-space

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suwannagauntlett/2025/10/20/chi...
by budro | 2025-11-29 23:10:36+00:00
But they're not willing. And they'll often just cause more damage/loss than they provide in benefit to the company. Even the most benign drug which people claim is fine is one that makes you lazy and slow. Why would you employ someone so addicted to it that they can't abstain for a few weeks?

"Piss tests" filter out a lot of anti-social behavior.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-29 23:10:37+00:00
I think people have a very weird notion of mastery and think it looks very different in other fields. That’s because mastery no longer looks like mastery once you attain it. Mastery also doesn’t look like the absence of imperfections - even art house films by master auteurs will have imperfections the masters will see and compromises they had to make to get a film done. Talk to a master builder and they’ll instantly start pointing out flaws in buildings. Electrical grids regularly see outages despite.

So my question then is how would you define mastery if you believe our industry doesn’t practice it.
by lostlogin | 2025-11-29 23:10:42+00:00
The ridiculousness of the US two party system is key. Eg Zohan allowing shitty business practices is him using a traditionally right wing policy (to deregulate, and be "business friendly") coming from a Democrat.

Where does ICE fit into your view that immigration policy is too soft?

I just don't see how you can view America's plight as being due to soft, left wing policy. It has a right wing populist government and a partisan judiciary.
by iteria | 2025-11-29 23:10:44+00:00
That sounds like a "them" problem. The cost of gas and the time I don't have because of commuting is material. I used to lose 2-3 hours of every. Single. Day. To commuting. All because the places where I can find jobs were either too expensive for me to afford to live in or, get this, I didn't want to uproot my family every single time I got a new job.

The cost of my utilities? Listen, I don't know know much electricity costs where you are, but the cost or running an extra computer is pennies a day. The cost of internet is set for me. We might talk about the increased cost of heating and cooling, but I was never one of those people who turned their system off when gone because that doesn't make literally any sense with my utility's time based pricing. It's literally cheaper to let it run as it is than than do that.

As for space and confidential items. I'm not sure ahat to say. I don't have thieves coming in and out of my house and I have a password good enough to defend the casual nosy child or relative. I have an office now because I have a house, but I have worked remotely in smaller spaces and it was never any problem. At least not compared to commuting 1 hour being, although I have commuted up to 2 hours on bad traffic days which were not particularly rare occurrences. And this is just have it is in all the cities I have lived. Perhaps not all cities, but the two metropolitan areas I have lived within and in the suburbs of. Living within the city didn't even guarantee me a reasonable commute.

If the trade off is a company getting a corner or a room I wasn't using anyway plus a few dollars of electricity subsidy and I get several hundred dollars in my time measure by my pay rate not commuting plus a couple dollar in not spending it on gas, I am happy to trade that. I'm also capable of putting my computer away and safely like literally anything else I own.

I also don't worry about the isolation that people mention (although not you here) because I have a vibrant social life. As someone who was never the typical demographic of the field, I have neve depending on socializing with my coworkers in office for social fulfillment. I still somehow maintain the correct level of social comraderie via digital means. Remote work doesn't mean not interacting with your coworkers at all.
by geor9e | 2025-11-29 23:10:53+00:00
I think if taxpayers were allowed to freely vote for what percentage of their tax dollars went toward, for funsies, I think bait and sting operations would be toward the top of the list. Bait copper, bait bikes, bait suitcases in back seats of cars. Heck, they could probably make a YouTube channel out of it and pay for itself.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-11-29 23:11:15+00:00
Well, at least domestically you don’t have to compete with someone who doesn’t have to pay that because their product is probably tariffed directly.

Internationally, yes if you manufacture the international product in the home country, but AFAIK in auto at least there are usually satellite factories and have been for some time, and those wouldn’t be subject to home country tariffs would they?
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-11-29 23:11:38+00:00
I'm roughly the same age.

Bourdain is much more Hunter S Thompson than Chuck, and while Bourdain used a wry sense of humor his fundamental message was always that humans are pretty much the same everywhere and can connect on more than what separates us.

That fundamentally is not Fight Club style whatever, and I just don't see how you could lump the two together unless you're so reflexively contrarian and anti-establishment you missed Bourdain was actually about something not that even if his rhetoric parallels it at times.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-29 23:12:13+00:00
Um. Porque no los dos. I think most individuals here would sign up for some sort of systemic approach. That said, it is well within human norms to set some very visible examples to ensure there is a level of understanding of what society deems acceptable. Not that long ago, from history standpoint, some societies took very active view of making sure that stealing hands are removed. I do not advocate returning to that. I do think that an appropriate smack is appropriate.