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by soulofmischief | 2025-11-03 15:03:03+00:00
To be fair, Louisiana, for all its talk of culinary tradition, really doesn't have a lot to offer in terms of variety, compared to other states that I have lived in.

This state is a backwater shithole that reminds me of a war-torn Eastern European country, even in New Orleans (which to be fair, is quite small) I wouldn't let it be a typical example of the kind of variety you can find in a modern American city.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-11-03 15:03:06+00:00
Historically, the answer has been that we as a society have freed up 3 Grugs for them to do something else. One can go to work in the factory that makes wheels. One can go to work in a factory that makes refrigerators, so that now half the harvest doesn't rot. One can go to work inventing semiconductors. These things make us far better off than having 4 Grugs carrying the harvest, or 3 Grugs idle.

The problem now is that we're not sure what to have the other people do that will actually pay them a living wage.

Or do we? The unemployment numbers are still pretty low. Is that just because people gave up and stopped looking for jobs? Is it because the immigrants left? Or is the economy actually doing fairly well at finding things for people to do?
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-11-03 15:03:19+00:00
You may be right about some parts of Europe, but I think you would be surprised just how prosperous at least the northern part is, despite sub-40 hour work weeks and comparatively high taxes, 5-6 weeks paid vacation and “socialist” politics.

California is the only state I’ve visited in the US, but I would say Scandinavians are wealthier on average/higher quality of life.
by muzani | 2025-11-03 15:03:47+00:00
I'm middle aged and home appliances are the luxury purchase. Irons, ovens, vacuums, everything changed. But laundry didn't.

I live near the equator, so dryers are a luxury and clotheslines are the norm. We still don't buy dryers. Not even so much for the cost, but because they damage clothes in a way.

And even with Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow promoting laundromats as the key to financial independence, they're not used significantly more than they were in the past.
by zdragnar | 2025-11-03 15:03:49+00:00
The original Doom 2 ran 64,000 pixels (320x200). 4k UHD monitors now show 8.3 million pixels.

YMMV.

Of course, Doom 2 is full of Carmack shenanigans to squeeze every possible ounce of performance out of every byte, written in hand optimized C and assembly. Nextcloud is delivered in UTF-8 text, in a high level scripting language, entirely unoptimized with lots of low hanging fruit for improvement.
by yalue | 2025-11-03 15:04:16+00:00
For a long time, windows had two options:

1. Update and restart and prompt for bitlocker password and update and restart and prompt for bitlocker password and restart

2. Update and restart and prompt for bitlocker password and update and restart and prompt for bitlocker password and shut down (and restart)

Finally, they fixed the last bit of option 2
by StephenSmith | 2025-11-03 15:04:18+00:00
Every country has rare earth elements. Just google "X discovers rare earth" where X is your country of choice and you'll find articles about how they have huge deposits. The underlying problem is the processing. China has figured this out and has cornered the market. Until other countries figure out how to process these materials, China will be able to leverage this capability to their advantage.
by jerf | 2025-11-03 15:04:25+00:00
"Why was everything always good, peaceful and stable in "indigenous environments" until "the colonizers " show up?"

One thing that may help resolve this in your head is that invasive species taking over is the exception, not the rule. The vast majority of the time, when a species is taken out of its native environment and dropped somewhere else, for whatever reason, it dies. Maybe immediately, maybe a few generations get off before the population drops to zero, maybe they do great until they're slugged by winter or the rainy season, most of the time the "home team" will kill the visitor without so much as metaphorically noticing.

However every once in a while the stars align and the new species fits into a slot the home team didn't "realize" existed, or they hammer a weakness that the rest of the ecosystem had just been coevolving around for a long time, and you get the invasive species. It would feel like winning the lottery, except that the invasive species then get to grow exponentially and loom very large in our minds and our experiences. They are, despite that, the rare exceptions and not the rule. The rule is that a species dropped into another full ecosystem with no coevolved slot for them just dies.
by randomtoast | 2025-11-03 15:04:39+00:00
I hoped that someone would fork OpenWebUI before the license change an maintain a OSS Version. Like Valkey¹ is the OSS Fork of Redis and OpenSearch² is the OSS Fork of ElasticSearch.

[1]: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey

[2]: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch
by JohnFen | 2025-11-03 15:04:51+00:00
You say "nudge", I say "hound incessantly and/or shove down our throats."

This full-court press to get everyone to use these systems, combined with the bizarrely huge number of "news pieces" and such that just very thinly veiled sales pitches, just makes me question the actual value of these systems.

When things are really of great value to people, the hard-sell isn't necessary.
by bluGill | 2025-11-03 15:05:12+00:00
FreeBSD ports are more up to date. Debian packages are famously out of date - their claim to fame is stability not staying up to date. Arch is a better comparison here if you care about this you would be asking about Arch not Debian: that you are asking about Debian implies you want this out of date.

The other major difference is FreeBSD ports lets you chose the build options - the defaults are normally good, but if you don't like how Debian (Arch...) choose to build your packages you are not stuck. Ports even mixes with binary packages so you can choose the defaults for some things and build others yourself and the system will track everything and when things need to be updated. This is something you rarely need, but when you do FreeBSD soundly beats everyone else just because the effort is so much less (again though, most people never need this in the first place - and Debian has pushed less need of this on applications which is a good thing)
by mrtksn | 2025-11-03 15:05:30+00:00
Yep, this is about local politics. It is customary in Turkish politics to discover vast natural resources from time to time and promise that good times are ahead if you vote for Erdogan one more time(this field was discovered months before the 2023 elections).

They are often exaggerated, although resources exist. There's a meme from the previous election cycle about a pro-Erdogan TV personality celebrating the natural gas reserves discovered before elections instructing citizens to open the windows and run the boilers even if its a hot day because Turkey is now a natural gas boss.

The Turkish state isn't shy from selling access to these resources to foreign companies but this often leads to scandals and environmental disasters. Last year SSR mining, a Canadian company, had a huge mine collapse. Also, there are issues about cutting down forests to access mines that creates a lot of trouble for the government as it leads to widespread protests.

So what's the minister is actually saying is that Don't worry we are not going to sell it to foreign companies that will ruin the environment this time in response to rumours that they are going to sell it. But in Turkey, nobody remembers anything so anything can happen.
by alokk001 | 2025-11-03 15:05:42+00:00
Over the past year, AI code generators have gone from experimental to essential tools in the modern developer’s workflow. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Codeium, and Tabnine are now capable of writing functions, scaffolding APIs, generating tests, and even suggesting architecture-level improvements.

What’s interesting isn’t just that they generate code — it’s how they’re reshaping the role of developers entirely. Instead of spending time on boilerplate and syntax, engineers can focus on logic, architecture, and problem-solving.

However, this evolution comes with trade-offs:

Generated code can introduce subtle bugs or security risks.

Developers risk over-reliance and a drop in deep understanding.

Questions of licensing and intellectual property remain unsettled.

I recently explored these opportunities and risks in depth in a post that breaks down how AI coding tools work, what their real limits are, and how developers can use them responsibly without losing control of their codebases.

keploy.io/blog/community/best-free-ai-code-generators
by bpodgursky | 2025-11-03 15:06:06+00:00
Yes, this is what I mean. Should the US sacrifice the security of Europe to make a (pointless) statement about Syrian internal politics? Frankly, it's unreasonable for Turkey to not have an opinion about the PKK. If there was a comparable terror group in Mexico, the US would absolutely be doing airstrikes!

Punishing Turkey over this will accomplish nothing and sabotage the relationship. The US already had a reasonable plan in Syria, supporting the non-PKK elements while maneuvering towards a political reunification.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-03 15:06:17+00:00
No, it's just a creepypasta.

Before surgery, you're given an amnestic to help reduce immediate anxiety and avoid remembering going into the OR and getting prepped - which people don't generally enjoy.

Then you get the anesthesia, which puts you to sleep. They put you on a respirator, which - alongside helping your barely/non-working lungs - delivers a gaseous anesthesic to keep you asleep.

Because some reactions to pain are reflex, they may still work. And when you wake up, they don't want you to be in pain; especially if that's on the surgery table. So next, you get the analgesic opioids. Here you may also (if you didn't already) get paralytics to stop all muscle movement.

Rest assured that they are not YOLO-ing your pain and suffering. You are given a cocktail of drugs to make sure you are comfortable before, during, and after surgery.
by fakedang | 2025-11-03 15:07:02+00:00
Now I know 100% you're talking out of your ass. The Al Khalifas rule Bahrain. The Al Thanis rule Qatar. That bloodless coup you were talking about? That was the father of the current Qatari emir deposing his father when he was abroad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Qatari_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat).

The current emir succeeded him peacefully after the father stepped down.

All Arab families are intermarried in various ways, but the Al Nahyans have always been historical rivals to the Al Thanis, and have always tried to invade Qatar. The Qataris were invited to join with the UAE, along with Bahrain, but refused because they figured Abu Dhabi would take the leading role eventually (which it has). In all of the UAE, only Dubai remains more autonomous than usual because they were able to develop on their own with the guidance of the current sheikh of Dubai.
by pmarreck | 2025-11-03 15:07:08+00:00
I'd term it "theopolitical" more than "geopolitical"... which is both more ominous and closer to the truth IMHO. One particular dusty-book-infused worldview, for example, can cite an order of magnitude more xenophobic and violent passages directed towards specifically-named outsider-followers of certain other dusty-book-infused worldviews than all the others, for example.
by jones89176 | 2025-11-03 15:07:19+00:00
"Following an official letter submitted to the United Nations by the Republic of Türkiye, the country's name has been officially changed to Türkiye at the UN.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that a letter had been received on June 1 from the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavuşoğlu addressed to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, requesting the use of “Türkiye” instead of “Turkey” for all affairs." [1]

"Foreign Minister Cavuşoğlu said in a tweet that the move would "increase our country's brand value".

The country’s English language public broadcaster TRT World said, the move would help to disassociate the country’s image from the large bird of the same name."[2]

[1] https://turkiye.un.org/en/184798-turkeys-name-changed-t%C3%B... [2] https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/turkey-or-turkiye-why-th...
by jerf | 2025-11-03 15:07:39+00:00
If you define "a line" as "blocked by another line (standing in for a wall)", it would be non-Euclidean, by virtue of breaking the axiom that says a line can be infinite extended, so that's not a particularly compelling argument.

I don't need to "confuse" geometry and topology. Euclid's axioms require both flat geometry and no "connections" in the space. It's right there in the axioms, if you can read them properly. They have no accommodations for "topology", and it is certainly not just a handwave "oh, whatever, it's no big deal" to extend them to handle it.
by tim333 | 2025-11-03 15:08:03+00:00
>“I want to see us rebuilding manufacturing in America, but it ain’t going to do any worker any good if that manufacturing work is done by robots,” he said.

It's kind of like trying to preserve agricultural jobs by banning farm machinery. It's not the way to prosperity. People who would have dug potatoes become yoga instructors or web consultants or whatever.
by muzani | 2025-11-03 15:08:18+00:00
What I do is write plans that will be used by Claude Code when I'm at the desktop.

I made a tool which lets me export my to do list into a markdown file, which I can feed to Claude later, along with context. Once I'm done with that I can just reimport the checklist to mark as done. You could probably do this on a synced Obsidian quite well.
by benplumley | 2025-11-03 15:08:19+00:00
The YASA axial flux motors benefit from much shorter windings and direct oil cooling which gives an unparalleled performance proposition. A 200kW peak-power radial motor, run continuously, might typically give 50% of peak power between 80 and 100kW, as a result of thermal limitations. In contrast, a 200kW YASA motor runs continuously at 150kW thanks to the improved high-thermal-contact cooling that oil offers.

From https://yasa.com/technology/
by PaulKeeble | 2025-11-03 15:08:24+00:00
I don't doubt that large amounts of javascript can often cause issues but even when cached NextCloud feels sluggish. When I look at just the network tab of a refresh of the calendar page it does 124 network calls, 31 of which aren't cached. it seems to be making a call per calendar each of which is over 30ms. So that stacks up the more calendars you have(and you have a number by default like contact birthdays).

The Javascript performance trace shows over 50% of the work is in making the asynchronous calls to pull those calendars and other network calls one by one and then on all the refresh updates it causes putting them onto the page.

Supporting all these N calendar calls is pulls individually for calendar rooms and calendar resources and "principles" for the user. All separate individual network calls some of which must be gating the later individual calendar calls.

Its not just that, it also makes a call for notifications, groups, user status and multiple heartbeats to complete the page as well, all before it tries to get the calendar details.

This is why I think it feels slow, its pulling down the page and then the javascript is pulling down all the bits of data for everything on the screen with individual calls, waiting for the responses before it can progress in many ways to make the further calls of which there can be N many depending on what the user is doing.

So across the local network (2.5Gbps) that is a second and most of it in waiting for the network. If I use the regular 4G level of throttling it takes 33.10 seconds! Really goes to show how bad this design does with extra latency.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-03 15:08:54+00:00
pub fn read<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> io::Result<Vec<u8>> { fn inner(path: &Path) -> io::Result<Vec<u8>> { let mut file = File::open(path)?; let mut bytes = Vec::new(); file.read_to_end(&mut bytes)?; Ok(bytes) } inner(path.as_ref()) }

"aBsTraCtiOnS aRe gOod"... Right.

Reference implementations must NOT have abstractions like this. Rust encourages it. Lots of Rust codebase is filled with them. Your feelings for Rust is irrelevant. C is simple and easy to understand, therefore reference implementations must be in C. Period.

...or Common Lisp, or OCaml... why not?!
by 9rx | 2025-11-03 15:09:19+00:00
> but I've never graduated from a school with any kind on engineering degree.

So? Per the dictionary, engineer is clearly defined as: A person who designs, builds, or maintains machines, structures, or systems. There is no mention of school or having an engineering degree.

It has always been a bit debatable if software fits into machine, structure, or system, granted, but we generally have come to agree that it does. And per the context of discussion, we've already established that it does for the sake of discussion. On that understanding, designing/building/maintaining a system in "LLM code" instead of C++ code is fundamentally no different.

You're likely confusing engineer with Professional Engineer™, but that's something else entirely. That obviously has nothing to do with anything that we're talking about here.
by jasonlotito | 2025-11-03 15:09:26+00:00
You want to kick them out of NATO because the USA and Turkey have failed to come to a trade agreement on rare earth elements? Because that's what this is about. We have no agreement, so they aren't selling to us.

From Turkey:

> Responding to the allegations that 'rare earth elements are sold to the USA', Bayraktar said that there is absolutely no such thing. Bayraktar said, "The agreement we made and signed in America was also a nuclear-related agreement. If we had done it about rare earth elements, be sure, they would have declared it too, we would have declared it," he said.

That seems more like a rununciation of rumors and making it clear neither the US or Turkey have established a trade agreement for this.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-03 15:09:31+00:00
Fuel ethanol is stupid too. It is made from corn, which could be used to feed people or at least animals. Anyway the point is, there is plenty of land that could have solar panels on it besides farm land. Farm land is too important to waste. We will starve if we don't have enough of it. You should always grow more food than you technically need. Crops can fail, and you can't eat solar panels or credit cards.
by indigo945 | 2025-11-03 15:09:41+00:00
> PARTICULARLY for "open" software that has a paid hosted > option.

That one is not a Linux problem, though - if any such software ran on BSD, the vendor would be likely to stifle it in the same way.

And otherwise, I don't know what software you're thinking of that is easier to deploy on BSD than on Linux.

To be blunt, the only reason this is a problem on Linux and not BSD is that no relevant software runs on BSD at all.
by argestes | 2025-11-03 15:09:43+00:00
Yeah, I'm from Turkey and it's really annoying for me to use a keyboard shortcuts to select "Türkiye" from dropdowns using year old "T", "U", "R" keys. Now in some websites it's "Turkey" and in some websites it's "Türkiye" I need to switch keyboard layouts just to select my country name.

Even though, website doesn't let me use my actual name since my name has non ascii characters so I need to try many times.
by pmkary | 2025-11-03 15:09:56+00:00
Yes, not literally, but after Microsoft bought GitHub and corrupted open source, the meaning of Free Software actually became doing free labor for internet companies and not making tools for humans. Maybe the software is free, but it is only made to create a service and be gatekept rather than exactly making things like Firefox and GIMP and the good old offline days of the past where you had, in a sense, a sort of digital sovereignty. I no longer feel the same in a LUG or community. Maybe that is me, but I just don’t feel Free Software has won; I feel big corporations won in redirecting the labor of Free Software into making paid services. If GNU had won, we would have had an OS X–grade operating system with amazing apps, and yet I don’t find any advancement even in Linux, which is the half-successful dream of GNU. Ubuntu and Firefox failed in making human-centric phones; Ubuntu even failed at making an operating system for people. It’s now advertised as server and IoT, and even Fedora and friends.
by pavelai | 2025-11-03 15:10:03+00:00
Very impressive enhancement. Not a panacea though. It uses tree-sitter approach to solve situations when two users change the same line of code. For example one change function name and other adds a new argument. It will merge it without conflicts. It still has some troubles to solve complex issues, without knowing author intensions. But can significantly simplify developers' lives. Not sure if it would land into git very soon. It requires all git to know all the parsers you need. But definitely worth adding.
by jerf | 2025-11-03 15:10:15+00:00
It is non-Euclidean. 4 out of 5, if not 5 out of 5, of the postulates that define Euclidean space fail. It can't fail any harder.

This isn't a matter of emotion or feeling like "oh, gee, I don't want to, like, demote the space or make it feel bad for calling it 'non-Euclidean'." This is math. The postulates won't work. The proofs won't hold. Even a single portal in the space make it non-Euclidean. It doesn't fall down a little bit. It doesn't "mostly hold, you know, except for a few exceptions". It breaks the axioms from top to bottom.
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-03 15:10:22+00:00
Do we?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=T%C3%BCrki... (US)

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=T%C3%BCrkiye,Turk... (global)

Some noise in the global trend recently (any guesses?) but does not seem like a huge adjustment.
by hilbert42 | 2025-11-03 15:10:40+00:00
"Not sure there are many people left treating Google as a "trusted partner" …"

Trouble is that whilst many have realized that Google (like much of Big Tech) is the quintessential example of a Poisoned Chalice they remain all too aware they've little choice but to endure or risk unavoidable abuse.

The tragedy of the modern internet is that these monopolies have reduced competition and choice to irrelevancies.
by dingdingdang | 2025-11-03 15:10:55+00:00
Having at some point maintained a soft fork / patch-set for Nextcloud.. yes, there is so much performance left on the table. With a few basic patches the file manager, for example, sped up by magnitudes in terms of render speed.

The issue remains that the core itself feels like layers upon layers of encrusted code that instead of being fixed have just had another layer added ... "something fundamental wrong? Just add Redis as a dependency. Does it help? Unsure. Let's add something else. Don't like having the config in a db? Let's move some of it to ini files (or vice versa)..etc..etc." it feels like that's the cycle and it ain't pretty and I don't trust the result at all. Eventually abandoned the project.

Edit: at some point I reckon some part of the ecosystem recognised some of these issues and hence Owncloud remade a large part of the fundamentals in Golang. It remains unknown to me whether this sorted things or not. All of these projects feel like they suffer badly from "overbuild".

Edit-edit: another layer to add to the mix is that the "overbuild" situation is probably largely what allows the hosting economy around these open source solutions to thrive since Nextcloud and co. are so over-engineered and badly documented that they -require- a dedicated sys-admin team to run well.