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by ovo101 | 2025-11-19 20:59:55+00:00
Yes, it’s in the same space as Gibson’s GRC DNS Benchmark — that tool has been around for years and set the standard for GUI‑based testing. This project takes a different angle: it’s CLI‑first, scriptable, and adds modes for quick checks, deeper benchmarks, and ongoing monitoring. So it’s more aimed at automation and sysadmin workflows than interactive GUI use.
by convolvatron | 2025-11-19 21:00:12+00:00
replace the PXE stack with an OS installer written in UEFI. This bootload can be installed through a guest running on the host in the EFI partition, or possibly through PXE or direct UEFI http load.

this allows you intermediate the boot process without coordinating with the administrative owner of the DHCP server, and is actually less janky than PXE
by Lammy | 2025-11-19 21:00:15+00:00
There are things I dislike about it (placement of Airplane Mode key, if not its very existence), but I can still call it my favorite laptop ever. However I was already a big big fan of the 12" WUXGA form factor. Upgraded from a 51nb faux-ThinkPad X210.

I started writing up a longer-form review and hope to publish it in, idk, maybe a few months? Need to do some blog software resuscitation work.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-19 21:00:23+00:00
Grok used to be able to handle the realistic inputs, which are just shorthand for the posh versions. In version 4.1 they clipped its wings and now it is a boring status-quo model where you could as well just watch CNN or CBS.

I bet months before the midterm elections they tune the prompt again to amplify the culture wars. Right now they want stability, pro-Israel sentiment and suppress MAGA purists until the next election. Perhaps some Starshield contracts depend on compliance ...
by alex_c | 2025-11-19 21:00:30+00:00
Normally that would be a fair point (and maybe it was valid in 2022).

But given the US approach to foreign policy in 2025, one could argue that the list of countries that “have a contentious relationship with the US” (or, maybe more accurately, the other way around) is a lot longer and less clear-cut today than it was a few years ago.
by primitivesuave | 2025-11-19 21:00:31+00:00
Last year, I made a YouTube documentary series showcasing the prolific corruption in a small city government. I downloaded all the city government meetings, used Whisper to transcribe them, and then set up a basic RAG so I could query across a decade of committee meetings (around 1 TB of video). Once I got the timestamps that I'm interested in, I then have to embark on a tedious manual process of locating the file, cutting out a few seconds/minutes from a multi-hour video, and then order all the clips into a cohesive narrative.

These seem like problems that LLMs are especially well-suited for. I might have spent a fraction of the time if there was some system that could "index" my content library, and intelligently pull relevant clips into a cohesive storyline.

I also spent an ungodly amount of time on animations - it felt like "1 hour of work for 1 minute of animation". I would gladly pay for a tool which reduces the time investment required to be a citizen documentarian.
by unethical_ban | 2025-11-19 21:00:32+00:00
Sure, but that's beside the point. The discussion here is about the unique qualities of SFV and its affects on attention span and thinking. It's about the instant-reward feedback mechanism of swiping quickly and the ability to ingest a larger narrative. It's about the super-short cuts of video and audio that beg for attention, versus longer, more static content that requires patience, doesn't constantly dump dopamine, and stays on one topic longer.

In short: There are a lot of differences in how long and short videos affect a person, in my opinion.
by lemonwaterlime | 2025-11-19 21:00:58+00:00
"Approaching" means to go towards the skillset. A home chef can develop better knife skills when cutting vegetables. That is approaching being a more professional cook, yet it does not mean the person could work in a restaurant. Maybe they could. We're talking about asymptotic.

If you are having understanding this distinction, then that is the exact point I am making about the Maker Movement. It is accepted that people progress if they do, and if they don't, then tough. There is a balance between perpetual tinkering, some sort of progression culture, and a full on degree.
by psunavy03 | 2025-11-19 21:01:00+00:00
Although I was never named to a mishap board, my experience in my prior career in aviation is that the proper way to look at things like this is that while it is valuable to identify and try to fix the ultimate root cause of the mishap, it's also important to keep in mind what we called the "Swiss cheese model."

Basically, the line of causation of the mishap has to pass through a metaphorical block of Swiss cheese, and a mishap only occurs if all the holes in the cheese line up. Otherwise, something happens (planned or otherwise) that allows you to dodge the bullet this time.

Meaning a) it's important to identify places where firebreaks and redundancies can be put in place to guard against failures further upstream, and b) it's important to recognize times when you had a near-miss, and still fix those root causes as well.

Which is why the "retrospectives are useless" crowd spins me up so badly.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-19 21:01:33+00:00
Maine also requires headlight aiming to be checked and compliant.

It's just not done though. There's a list of like 10 items to check, and you are only allowed to charge like $12-$18 for the check, so corners are cut, and your average 18 year old who was given the job of doing the inspection does not care, and enforcement is more concerned with the shops willing to give you a sticker for stuff that is outright criminal, like not really working brakes.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-11-19 21:02:11+00:00
Morality is just Cicero's somewhat questionable translation of the Greek concept of ethics into Latin (the latin term having a meaning tending more toward customs than the greek term, which leans more toward virtues). But in moral philosophy, both are used interchangeably, both terms are used regarding the study of what is the best way to act.

There's of course tons of ways to approach the problem, and some people perhaps associate one with ethics and another with morality, but that typically stems from answering different ethical (or moral) questions. Such as, what is best for me, or what is best for society, or what is good, or what is fair.
by ofalkaed | 2025-11-19 21:02:22+00:00
You only need to make it 40 or 50 pages before Formalized Music comes up. I am not sure I would say they are about the same subject; Formalized Music is about single aspects of Xenakis' music, it is gear talk for the computer musician and gives little insight into his music and method as a whole. They are related but offer very different things.

It has been a surprisingly informative and interesting work so far and is almost what I had wanted out of Formalized Music when I first picked it up all those years ago. Despite being his dissertation and very much written in that style, it is quite readable, the author writing it in his second language helps a great deal; the limitations that English imposes on him result in him explaining things which normally would not be explained in such a work. If memory serves this was part of his reason for writing it in English, he covers his reasons in the introduction but I don't quite remember if that was one of them or just something I noticed. I am about 100 pages in and have not once needed to go into a citation to figure out what he is talking about.
by hollowturtle | 2025-11-19 21:02:46+00:00
ChatGPT is... a chat with some "augmentation" feature aka outputting rich html responses, nothing new except the generative side. Cursor is a VSCode fork with a custom model and a very good autocomplete integration. Again where are the products? Where the heck is Windows without the bloat that works reliably before becoming totally agentic? And therefore idiotic since it doesn't work reliably
by crazygringo | 2025-11-19 21:03:19+00:00
Not incandescent, it's still LED. I mean I don't know what percentage of riders have switched from the AA to rechargeable lithium batteries, or how much more current rechargeable lithium batteries provide.

I'll start paying more attention -- I'm curious now -- but I can still definitely say I've never felt blinded by a bicycle, or even close.

And the lights in that photo seem fine -- the road is pitch black just 20 feet in front. The tree is getting a lot of light reflected from the road and grass. The lights don't seem to be illuminating anywhere even close to as far as car headlights illuminate. None of that looks anything like what car headlights produce.
by l5870uoo9y | 2025-11-19 21:03:34+00:00
> Mario Draghi has argued that the EU's internal barriers, which are equivalent to a high tariff rate, cost more than external tariffs. He has cited IMF estimates that show these internal barriers are equivalent to a \(45\%\) tariff on manufactured goods and a \(110\%\) tariff on services. These internal market restrictions, which include regulatory hurdles and bureaucracy, hinder cross-border competition and have a significant negative impact on the EU's economy.

Source: https://iep.unibocconi.eu/europes-internal-tariffs-why-imfs-...
by whynotmaybe | 2025-11-19 21:03:43+00:00
ESP32.

I'm using ESP32 with platformio which has a dedicated community https://community.platformio.org/tag/espressif32

I've used devkit from M5stack, waveshare and adafruit.

(M5Stack has a full line of products for tinkering with many sensors & controllers)

You can also find many cheaper no-brand devkit anywhere but quality & docs can be unreliable.
by derefr | 2025-11-19 21:03:55+00:00
I would suggest you make an exception for YouTube shorts from channels / creators that also put out YouTube long-form content.

You'd think I'd be making a point here about "otherwise you'd be missing a lot of good educational content that happens to be packaged short-form"; but no!

The point I actually want to make is much weirder: unlike the other short-form-video services, YouTube's "shorts" don't seem to have any actual time constraints built into the format. And so many creators — especially the ones that normally make long-form content — actually put out rather long "shorts". Like, multiple minutes long.

Which means that a large percentage of YT "shorts" these days are essentially just... regular YouTube videos. Just, er, vertical.

For a while, I was filtering out YT "shorts"... until I realized that some of my favorite long-form creators I had been following had gone mysteriously missing from my feed. And it turned out I was missing all their new videos, because they decided to format+post them as "shorts." These were the same videos they had been producing for years now. Just as long as before. Just in portrait now.

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Tangent: Why are creators even bothering to make these videos and mark them as "shorts", if they're not actually short-form videos?

Well, creators are incentivized to do this, because YT is really pushing shorts; and so, if you make your video into a "short" — whether or not it's a short-form video — your video will get promoted in many shorts-only UI carousels and recommended areas of the site and apps, that it otherwise wouldn't. (This easy route to promotion is especially tantalizing for newer creators trying to "break through" to a self-sustaining audience.)

And YT itself is incentivized, now that they have all this frontage to push "shorts", to have a constant stream of new "shorts" to push — whether or not those "shorts" are really in the spirit of short-form content.

YT and the creators are effectively aligned in an implicit agreement to violate the spirit of "short-form video" in the name of bringing more attention to what's basically their same old content format.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-11-19 21:04:00+00:00
I agree that access to birth control is a strong factor and likely heavily confounded with women's education. I think there will have been examples of women's education but lack of birth control (e.g., predominantly Catholic nations, especially early on), not sure if there are many examples in the other direction though.

Unfamiliar with USSR -- is the birth rate high there despite lots of educated women?
by theultdev | 2025-11-19 21:04:11+00:00
People differ in how they view what is morally right.

Illegal immigration for example.

Some may say it's immoral to not allow illegal immigration, those people are just searching for a better life.

Others point out that by looking past that you allow the exploitation of workers, the estrangement of families, and of course the horrors of the coyotes that rape, extort, and enslave those people.

Another one is crime reform (ie, releasing prisoners, no cash bail). Those who support it believe they are being compassionate of prisoners while often missing the compassion for the victims those criminals hurt and incentivizing further crime.

Sometimes one is so tunnel visioned in their moral argument, they cannot see that choice causes harm to others, often greater harm.
by fithisux | 2025-11-19 21:04:23+00:00
Perl didn't die. It transformed to Raku.

This is evolution. Not death. It found what are its strengths that would make it relevant today and it made the leap of faith. That is remarkable.

No one need to switch to Perls 6 and Perl 5 can evolve incorporating incrementally stuff from Perl 6. Not every core team has the time, the $$$ or the devs to put forward long term plans of compatibility.

People always expect "someone" to do it.

What Perl 5 people could do, is improve its code base, clean it up and use sane software engineering practices to make code boring, modern and much more friendly for contributions.

You know, the anthropic side of software.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-11-19 21:04:27+00:00
Virtualization, imho. Every build gets its own virtual machine, and once the build is released to the public, the VM gets cloned for continued development and the released VM gets archived.

I do this git tags thing with my projects - it helps immensely if the end user can hover over the company logo and get a tooltip with the current version, git tag and hash, and any other relevant information to the build.

Then, if I need to triage something specific, I un-archive the virtualized build environment, and everything that was there in the original build is still there.

This is a very handy method for keeping large code bases under control, and has been very effective over the years in going back to triage new bugs found, fixing them, and so on.
by hifix | 2025-11-19 21:04:47+00:00
> The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

It's not that people are unimpressed with AI - they're just tired of constantly being bombarded with it, and it sneaking its way into where it's not wanted. "Generate any image you want!" "Analyse this thing with AI!" gets pretty tiring.

If I want AI I'll actively seek it out and use it - otherwise, jog on.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-19 21:05:00+00:00
It's a backdoor. A rose by any other name is just as thorny.

I'm sorry that it upsets you. If it's any consolation, I consider Google and Meta's complicity equally disgusting. But I consider it disgusting because they are doing the same thing Apple does; hiding the existence of interception and privacy-degrading functionality that benefits the government. The pedigree that Apple once garnered through publicity stunts like San Bernadino has been entirely negated in posterity. The federal government has a much closer relationship with Apple than any customer ever could; the "privacy is a human right" advertisement was always conditional on where you lived and how you're oppressed.

The only way to defend customer privacy is to offer genuine freedom. As you've admit in this comment, federal coercion of a platform like iOS is like shooting fish in a barrel. iMessage, App Store, WebKit dylibs, Push Notifications, OCSP servers; none of them have any alternatives. If Apple were to lose control over the security of those products, the implications could be lethal. They could never argue that proprietary code or privately-managed security is a benefit to mankind ever again.

It's no coincidence that Tim Cook greeted Kashoggi's killer last night over dinner. Welcome to the new normal, a surveillance state where Apple was priced-out of defending freedom, safety or privacy.
by ovo101 | 2025-11-19 21:05:09+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful read — and yes, the tool is focused on caching / recursing resolver performance, not authoritative. The asyncio + dnspython stack makes it easy to script and monitor those behaviors over time. Running your own resolver is definitely the gold standard if performance and control really matter, but benchmarking public ones helps surface the trade‑offs users face in practice. The 300ms example was more about illustrating how ads and systemic factors can dwarf raw resolver speed, not a claim about per‑request DNS overhead. Appreciate the detailed perspective and glad the doc came across clearly.
by billy99k | 2025-11-19 21:05:13+00:00
My elderly father has been ill a few times over the past year and in the hospital (this is in the US). What I've noticed is that Doctors and Nurses keep pushing us to just let him die, instead of trying to keep him alive.

This wasn't something in passing. It's non-stop throughout his time there. To the point of harassment and they try to divide-and-conquer with my family. The first time, he recovered within a couple of weeks and went home.

He's sick again with RSV, and they are pushing it again. He will probably be released within a week or so. He has no dementia, heart issues, or cancer. His main problem is his knees, which is pretty common with a 90 year old.

I'm just not clear on the motive. Why care so much about this? It's not like he's a vegetable and suffering. His quality of life, even after the first time he came out, wasn't too bad.

It also seems like nobody knows what they are doing. If my mom hadn't been there to watch what they were doing, he probably would have died the first time.
by swsieber | 2025-11-19 21:05:50+00:00
I got a couple of RP2040 boards recently and I'm amazed at how easy it is to just get stuff done. Between the native usb support and the circuit python support it's been a breeze. I just got a couple of boards up and running uart in a daisy chain. It was intimidating, but the circuitpython docs made it relatively simple.
by underscoremark | 2025-11-19 21:05:52+00:00
If you had multiple shows in production, I would expect that standards be set to use the same platforms and versions across the board.

If the company is more than a boutique shop, I would expect them to have a somewhat competent CTO to manage this kind of problem - one that isn't specific to Blender, even!

Also, if the company is more than a boutique shop, I would hope it would be at a level and budget that the Python performance bottlenecks would be well addressed with competent internal pipeline and production engineering teams.

But then again, if the company is more than a boutique shop, they would just pay for the Maya licensing. :-)

Small timers, boutique shops, and humble folks like me just try to get by with the tools we can afford.

On a related note, though: I built a Blender plugin with version 2.93 and recently learned it still works fine on Blender 4. The "constantly changing API" isn't the beast some claim it is.
by Maxious | 2025-11-19 21:06:12+00:00
> Emergency call handling tends to expose edge cases that normal calls never hit.

Indeed. It now has been revealed even telcos were not doing real world tests https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-08/surprise-drill-for-te... and new laws were passed this month that they must make it possible for an independent university to do testing https://www.acma.gov.au/articles/2025-10/acma-strengthens-in...
by chaosprint | 2025-11-19 21:06:38+00:00
> The risk is that moats like that are made of trust. If, 12 months from now, people see licenses tightening, non-Qualcomm boards lagging, or Arduino tooling getting tied to Qualcomm accounts, the same community that cheered UNO Q will call it a takeover. Right now the messaging is working — “we stay open, we just get more powerful” — but the community is watching. (facebook.com)

https://entropytown.com/articles/2025-10-07-qualcomm-to-acqu...

Only a month...
by notahacker | 2025-11-19 21:06:56+00:00
If Elon emails "call me", Abbott picks up the phone.

Doing illegal things over email is already risky from the point of view of not being able to redact when supplying it to an investigator.

The people actually inconvenienced by "public by default" are government departments trying to run a fair selection process involving detailed technical audits, or to provide support to companies that don't wish for their business plan to be public information. That's just a new hurdle that people proposing stuff which is completely legal have to cross when deciding whether to share any information with any public official ever.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-19 21:07:49+00:00
This. Sure, it's X% more difficult to do Y in Europe, because Europe doesn't want you to do Y, either at all, or unless you clean up after yourself so the costs aren't just eaten up by the environment or whatever, or unless you do it without causing harm. That's not a problem. That's the system working as intended.

Sure, Europe doesn't have it's own Microsoft, probably because of regulations like this, but I don't want Europe to have its own Microsoft, because Microsoft, for the most part, sucks.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-19 21:08:11+00:00
You are just becoming old.

Less time, more money, changing hobbies, etc...

It is almost always better from a practical perspective to buy the complete product over DIY, or even better, not buy at all. Those who claim otherwise are justifying their hobby. Best case scenario, you break even after not counting your time, which is actually great, because most people pay for their hobbies.

The hobbyist movement didn't change, you did, life is like that and that's not a bad thing. The technologies change but the general idea stay the same. For Arduino (the brand), I think it is dying, but that just because you can buy generic ESP32 boards on AliExpress for cheaper and with more variety.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-19 21:08:14+00:00
68k was just plain dying, even Motorola gave up on it. Like the DEC VAX the ISA was such that they could not see a competitive roadmap for the 1990s.

All the vendors that were using 68k either switched (Sun Microsystems, Apple) or went out of business (Amiga, Atari).

The PPC Macs were really nice though and even gave decent performance running 68k apps because they had a good emulator even then.

By the mid-2000s I think PPC had a good story for servers and workstations and even game consoles (Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 all used some kind of custom PPC) but I think Apple wanted to make laptops and PPC was not power efficient for that. That was around peak Intel where AMD shocked them out of their complacency and before "we're number one why try harder?" set in again.
by gtowey | 2025-11-19 21:08:45+00:00
Money and power have been seen as corrupting influences since the dawn of humanity.

Those who seek those things -- money for money's sake, power for power's sake -- often tend to see their success as somehow making them "above" others. They derive perverse pleasure in seeing just how much they can flaunt society's rules. 'The rules don't apply to me' is like a drug in itself.