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by palata | 2025-12-26 17:11:16+00:00
I am running Sway on a Gentoo on a 4 years old X1 carbon.

> you will get similar usable battery life of around 6-8 hours

My macbook M3 gives me way more than 6-8 hours, it's simply insane. It literallly lasts for multiple days.

> Generally though, battery life isn't an issue anymore considering fast charging is everywhere.

Not an issue indeed, I got used to always charging my X1 carbon. But then I got an M3 for work, and... well it feels like I don't have to charge it ever :-).

As I said: very much a Linux person, but the M3 battery life is absolutely insane.
by JoeAltmaier | 2025-12-26 17:11:31+00:00
Hm. The one-button mouse? That was part of the design impact - for user experience, it wasn't much of a win.

Likewise the faulty power cords and noisy power supplies (no choke on the power cable, because it looks ugly!)

How about the soldered-down components and device cases with special screws to keep users from ever opening them? That was not 'for the user', that was more 'walled garden'.

In fact, I'm not sure where this myth of 'quality and user experience' came from. It was all about selling, baby.
by kombine | 2025-12-26 17:11:56+00:00
Almost two years ago I bought an opened but never used ThinkPad T14s from eBay very cheaply. It's not too specced but it does the job and it will easily last me 2-3 more years at which point I just buy another one. I see what Framework is doing, and they probably need the support of customers to get the scale of Lenovo/Dell to lower the cost of production.
by gruez | 2025-12-26 17:12:14+00:00
>I am not pointing at Yubico as they have done well making profits from corporations. Rather the Fido Alliance. Looking at the Fido Alliance provides a first pass at answering the question "Who Benefits?"

>https://fidoalliance.org/overview/leadership/

>Perhaps it is fair to ask "What benefit" as well.

>Corpocracy. You gotta love it.

You're really beating around the bush, trying to imply there's something shady going on, but don't articulate what it actually is. So let me ask: what's the conspiracy here? That the fido alliance is a front for an evil cabal of tech companies trying to... improve security? sell overpriced security keys?
by positron26 | 2025-12-26 17:12:51+00:00
We have to platform and organize people, not rely on lone individuals. If there is a deep well of aligned interest, that interest needs a way to represent itself so that AMD has something to talk to, on a similar footing as a B2B relationship. When you work with other companies with hundreds and thousands of employees, it's natural that emails from individuals get drowned out or misunderstood as circulated around.
by stickfigure | 2025-12-26 17:12:56+00:00
Right, this post may encourage premature optimization. Cargo, Homebrew, et al chose an easy, good-enough solution which allowed them to grow until they hit scaling limits. This is a good problem to have.

I am sure there's value having a vision for what your scaling path might be in the future, so this discussion is a good one. But it doesn't automatically mean that git is a bad place to start.
by FeepingCreature | 2025-12-26 17:13:06+00:00
You don't because it isn't, unless it actually copies significant amounts of text.

Algorithms can not be copyrighted. Text can be copyrighted, but reading publicly available text and then learning from it and writing your own text is just simply not the sort of transformation that copyright reserves to the author.

Now, sometimes LLMs do quote GPL sources verbatim (if they're trained wrong). You can prove this with a simple text comparison, same as any other copyright violation.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-26 17:13:15+00:00
Apple can lockdown the Mac. You might not think it is likely, but without UEFI there is no path of recourse if Apple decides to update iBoot. How do you launch Asahi if Apple quits reading the EFI from the secure partition?

> They could have easily done that with the transition to their own silicon

They already did, that's what my last comment just outlined. Macs do not ship with UEFI anymore, you are wholly at the mercy of a proprietary bootloader that can be changed at any time.
by cons0le | 2025-12-26 17:13:42+00:00
If AI was so good, you would think we could give people a choice whether or not to use it. And you would think it would make such an obvious difference, that everyone would choose to use it and keep using it. Instead, I can't open any app or website without multiple pop-ups begging me to use AI features. Can't send an email, or do a Google search. Can't post to social media, can't take a picture on my phone without it begging me to use an AI filter. Can't go to the gallery app without it begging me to let it use AI to group the photos into useless albums that I don't want.

It all stinks of resume-driven development
by Esophagus4 | 2025-12-26 17:13:47+00:00
I will never claim Jobs was a good neighbor or a Mr. Rogers type. Or even a fun person to work for.

But I don’t look up to him for that. Same way I don’t look up to Tiger Woods for who he is as a husband, or Picasso for… well, also poor behavior with women.

I want to play for Michael Jordan to be with the best and to be challenged to be my best.

Sometimes the thing that makes people excellent in one facet of their life makes them impossible pricks in others.

Extreme excellence in one facet of life is what I admire people like that for.
by mothballed | 2025-12-26 17:14:06+00:00
Learn to be a roofer, make bank (I paid my ~"uneducated" roofer like $5k for labor alone for ~48 hours of labor), buy rural Indiana land, build your own private observatory, enjoy doing your own research without the crushing burden of the academic grinder.

Astronomy is one of those fields where amateurs make new discoveries quite frequently.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-26 17:14:07+00:00
> And then at some point they start charging for the service. That's the part I'm concerned about, if it's on-device and free to use I still think it makes your thought process less interesting and likely to have original ideas, but having to subscribe to a service to trust your decision making is deeply concerning.

This, speaking about environmental impacts. I wish that more models start focusing on the parameter density / their compactness more so that they can run locally but this isn't something that big tech really wants so we are probably gonna get models like the recent minimax model or glm air models or qwen or mistral models.

These AI services only work as long as they are free and burn money. As an example, me and my brother were discussing something yesterday related to LLM and my mother tried to understand and talk about it too and wanted to get ghibli styles photo since someone had ghibli generated photo as their pfp and she wanted to try it too

She then generated the pictures and my brother did a quick calculation and it took around 4 cents for each image which with PPP in my country and my currency is 3 ruppees.

When asked by my brother if she would pay for it, she said that no she's only using it for free but she also said that if she were forced to, she might even pay 50 rupees.

I jumped in the conversation and said nobody's gonna force her to make ghibli images.
by smileybarry | 2025-12-26 17:14:14+00:00
The generated FIDO keys with "[...]-sk" are hardware-only too, the "key" you load is only an "identifier" associating the onboard passkey, allowing you to add it on multiple computers but still requiring the FIDO key present to use[1]:

> ssh-keygen(1) may be used to generate a FIDO token-backed key, after
which they may be used much like any other key type supported by
OpenSSH, so long as the hardware token is attached when the keys are
used. FIDO tokens also generally require the user explicitly authorise
operations by touching or tapping them.

> [...]

> This will yield a public and private key-pair. The private key file
should be useless to an attacker who does not have access to the
physical token. After generation, this key may be used like any other
supported key in OpenSSH and may be listed in authorized_keys, added
to ssh-agent(1), etc. The only additional stipulation is that the FIDO
token that the key belongs to must be attached when the key is used.

IMO the baseline Security Key ($20) series is now enough, unless your setup uses PGP, legacy SSH that doesn't support these key types, or if you're using a real certificate for e.g. code signing.

1: https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-8.2#:~:text=The%20privat...
by skeeter2020 | 2025-12-26 17:14:46+00:00
>> He cut losing product lines, made big bets (killing floppy disks) and was deeply technical…

What history have you been reading? Sure we can find examples of each of these by I can also give you counter examples - big ones - off the top of my head. 1. Did his absolute best (but failed) to cut the Apple II product line, even though it was the only money maker for the company, to support several losing prduct lines. 2. I agree - though he made as many bad big bets as good ones: no expandability of the original Mac, the iMac, PowerPC, are a few examples 3. was deeply technical? compared to his peer tech leaders this was just not true. He was a great product manager, but not particularly technical. I'd suggest you look at his entire corpus before you lionize a spectacular PM & designer, and incredibly flawed human being.

>> I wish my CEO had the guts to make these calls. (More importantly, when he does, I want him to be right!)

So all you want is your CEO to make repeated big bets and be consistently right?
by breuleux | 2025-12-26 17:15:07+00:00
But why do you think that? Energy use is a matter of availability, not purely of technological advancement. For sure, technological advancement can unlock better ways to produce it, but if people in the 50s somehow had an infinite source of free energy at their disposal, we would have boiled off the oceans before we got the Internet.

So the question is, at which point would the aggregate production of enough energy to cause climate change through waste heat be economically feasible? I see no reason to think this would come after becoming "immortal post-humans." The current climate change crisis is just one example of a scale-induced threat that is happening prior to post-humanity. What makes it so special or unique? I suspect there's many others down the line, it's just very difficult to understand the ramifications of scaling technology before they unfold.

And that's the crux of the issue isn't it? It's extremely difficult to predict what will happen once you deploy a technology at scale. There are countless examples of unintended consequences. If we keep going forward at maximal speed every time we make something new, we'll keep running headfirst into these unintended consequences. That's basically a gambling addiction. Mostly it's going to be fine, but...
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-26 17:15:27+00:00
Plants don't "want" or "think" or "feel" but we still use those words to describe the very real motivations that drive the plant's behavior and growth.

Criticizing anthropomorphic language is lazy, unconsidered, and juvenile. You can't string together a legitimate complaint so you're just picking at the top level 'easy' feature to sound important and informed.

Everybody knows LLMs are not alive and don't think, feel, want. You have not made a grand discovery that recontextualuzes all of human experience. You're pointing at a conversation everyone else has had a million times and feeling important about it.

We use this kind of language as a shorthand because talking about inherent motivations and activation parameters is incredibly clunky and obnoxious in everyday conversation.

The question isn't why people think software has agency (they don't) but why you think everyone else is so much dumber than you that they believe software is actually alive. You should reflect on that question.
by jezzamon | 2025-12-26 17:15:29+00:00
It's dumb, but energy wise, isn't this similar to leaving the TV on for a few minutes even though nobody is watching it?

Like, the ratio is not too crazy, it's rather the large resource usages that comes from the aggregate of millions of people choosing to use it.

If you assume all of those queries provide no value then obviously that's bad. But presumably there's some net positive value that people get out of that such that they're choosing to use it. And yes, many times the value of those queries to society as a whole is negative... I would hope that it's positive enough though.
by jojomodding | 2025-12-26 17:15:49+00:00
> it is not an inherent feature of the language, just the implementation

So what is it now? If the implementation is correct in allowing you to cause UB with data races, then this is very much a feature of the language, making the language not memory-safe. Alternatively, the implementation is buggy here, in which case there should be a bug report somewhere.

Is there such a bug report (github issue)? Is there a line in the spec saying this is the intended behavior?
by johnfn | 2025-12-26 17:16:18+00:00
From a quick read it seems pretty obvious that the author doesn’t speak English as a native language. You can tell because some of the sentences are full of grammatical errors (ie probably written by the author) and some are not (probably AI-assisted).

My guess is they wrote a thank you note and asked Claude to clean up the grammar, etc. This reads to me as a fairly benign gesture, no worse than putting a thank you note through Google Translate. That the discourse is polarized to a point that such a gesture causes Rob Pike to “go nuclear” is unfortunate.
by shepherdjerred | 2025-12-26 17:16:56+00:00
How much time did you spend looking at the project? Go to https://theaidigest.org/village/timeline and scroll down.

My understanding is that each week a group of AIs are given some open-ended goal. The goal for this week: https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/do-random-acts-kindness

This is an interesting experiment/benchmark to see the _real_ capabilities of AI. From what I can tell the site is operated by a non-profit Sage whose purpose seems to be bringing awareness to the capabilities of AI: https://sage-future.org/

Now I agree if they were purposefully sending more than email per person, I mean with malicious intent, then it wouldn't be "cool". But that's not really the case.

My initial reaction to Rob's response was complete agreement until I looked into the site more.
by ath_ray | 2025-12-26 17:17:20+00:00
FYI, this was sent as an experiment by a non-profit that assigns fairly open ended tasks to computer-using AI models every day:
https://theaidigest.org/village

The goal for this day was "Do random acts of kindness". Claude seems to have chosen Rob Pike and sent this email by itself. It's a little unclear to me how much the humans were in the loop.

Sharing (but absolutely not endorsing) this because there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding of what this is.
by caminante | 2025-12-26 17:17:54+00:00
Except you're leaving out two key facts:

1. National treasures (ex gold) were returned in '35 and '56.

2. Romania intervened against the Bolsheviks in Bessarabia.

#2 seems like FAFO to me. And I'm sure some Romanians got kickbacks from the "transfers." Nobody forced Romania to transfer their assets.
by seec | 2025-12-26 17:18:24+00:00
The sensibilities of the people running the librairies are extremely political.
One could argue that since their employment largely lies outside of market forces, they get chosen or self-select for political reasons.
Having the power to chose what should be read and influence children in the direction you prefer is very much a political endeavor, a power that shouldn't be left to anyone else but the parents and whoever they chose can have that power. This should be true until people become fully formed adult, they are not properties/projects of the state, but very much the result of an alliance between two individuals, it seems that people that are pro-governement forget that a bit too easily.

Politics is the realm of feminity, it brings only chaos, bad strategies and poor decision making. Much of the western world is in a bad spot because they have embraced too much politics.
It doesn't look too bad because there are still structures (business, army) that try to tone done politics as much as possible in order to be achieve their goals.

Yes, politics affect life too much and that is precisely the problem, it hilarious that you advocate for it, instead of requiring a system to become less political and more grounded in reality so that it can thrive. There is no functional system on earth that works because of politics, in fact, politics is the cancer that tries to bring down working system for power and gains to be distributed according to the sensibilites of the rulers.

Old books survive because they are ever-green content. They describe human nature and what works/fails. They are usefull precisely because if you read them carefully, you can understand all the problematic behaviors that lead to failure.
Just because we are a more technologically advanced society, doesn't mean we have transcended the bad parts of human behavior. In fact, pretty much everything that makes modern life confortable, happened despite politics.
And now we are falling back into the old ways, with war, unsustainable debts and all kinds of disruptions because we gave in to much into the politics.
by decafninja | 2025-12-26 17:18:26+00:00
My wife’s uncle took in a man into his home, gave him a room to live in, and a job as a cook at his restaurant. This man would otherwise have been homeless on the streets.

The man doesn’t seem to be fully mentally well, but apparently he does his job diligently, has no inclination towards being violent, doesn’t do drugs, and keeps his problems mostly to himself.

That said, he has an extreme gambling addiction (he blows all his paychecks at casinos) and having seen his room once, it looked and smelled like a biohazard disaster.

He seems like a poor fellow that had some bad luck and now lives to just gamble the rest of his life away.

I give my uncle in law huge respect for taking this guy in, and also my aunt in law for also putting up with him living in their home. I don’t think my wife or I could have done the same.

The two of them are workaholics though and their home is just a space for them to sleep between work shifts at their restaurant. Which is why I don’t think they care too much about this man’s room’s condition.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-26 17:18:53+00:00
> Of course. I took it to be referring the 98% of other paper mail that that goes straight to the trash. Often unopened. I don't know if I'm typical but the number of personal cards/letters I received in 2025 I could count on one hand.

Yes so this is why the reason why person card/letters really matter because most people sheldom get any and if you know a person in your life / in any (community/project) that you deeply admire, sending them a handwritten mail can be one of the highest gestures which shows that you took the time out of your day and you really cared about them so much in a way.

That's my opinion atleast.
by dijit | 2025-12-26 17:19:30+00:00
I worked in e-commerce SaaS in 2011~ and this was true then but I find it less true these days.

Are you sure that you’re not the driving force behind those metrics; or that you’re not self-selecting for like-minded individuals?

I find it really difficult to convince myself that even large players (Discord) are measuring startup time. Every time I start the thing I’m greeted by a 25s wait and a `RAND()%9` number of updates that each take about 5-10s.
by teiferer | 2025-12-26 17:20:06+00:00
I've always taken issue with youtube clips content creators automatically (?) cutting pauses between words or people listening to podcasts in 1.5x or 2x speed or even clips already being sped up. Folks, your brain can't keep up. It may feel great to rush through 10 hours of audio book in 5 hours, or dopamine-pushing even higher if you don't have pauses in that triggering tiktok clip, but it just makes you more and more superficial. Your brain needs time to process and reflect. The best speakers out there have a calm pace, not a rushing one. That's for a reason, and it's an excellent one.
by jsight | 2025-12-26 17:20:18+00:00
Years ago Google built a data center in my state. It received a lot of positive press. I thought this was fairly strange at the time, as it seemed that there were strong implications that there would be jobs, when in reality a large data center often doesn't lead to tons of long term employment for the area. From time to time there are complaints of water usage, but from what I've seen this doesn't hit most people's radar here. The data center is about 300 MW, if I'm not mistaken.

Down the street from it is an aluminum plant. Just a few years after that data center, they announced that they were at risk of shutting down due to rising power costs. They appealed to city leaders, state leaders, the media, and the public to encourage the utilities to give them favorable rates in order to avoid layoffs. While support for causes like this is never universal, I'd say they had more supporters than detractors. I believe that a facility like theirs uses ~400 MW.

Now, there are plans for a 300 MW data center from companies that most people aren't familiar with. There are widespread efforts to disrupt the plans from people who insist that it is too much power usage, will lead to grid instability, and is a huge environmental problem!

This is an all too common pattern.
by mellosouls | 2025-12-26 17:20:27+00:00
I'm not claiming he is mainly motivated by this but it's a fact that his life work will become moot over the next few years as all programming languages become redundant - at least as a healthy multiplicity of approaches as present, it's quite possible at least a subconscious factor in his resentment.

I expect this to be an unpopular opinion but take no pleasure in noting that - I've coded since being a kid but that era is nearly over.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-12-26 17:20:46+00:00
Most of the world does work this way. Problems are solved within certain conditions and for use over a certain time frame. Once those change, the problem gets revisited.

Most software gets to take it to more of an extreme then many engineering fields since there isn't physical danger. Its telling that the counter examples always use the potentially dangerous problems like medicine or nuclear engineering. The software in those fields are more stringent.
by kbolino | 2025-12-26 17:21:08+00:00
Yes, I think it's also a good example of how "absolute" backwards compatibility is not necessarily a good thing. Not only was the old loopvar behavior probably the biggest noob trap in Go (*), it turned out not to be what anyone writing Go code in the wild actually wanted, even people experienced with the language. Everyone seems to have: a) assumed it always worked the way it does now, b) wrote code that wasn't sensitive to it in the first place, or c) worked around it but never benefitted from it.

*: strongest competitor for "biggest noob trap" IMO is using defer in a loop/thinking defer is block scoped
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-26 17:21:22+00:00
Maybe its me but I had to look at the term sealioning and for context for other people

According to merriam-webster, sealioning/sealions are:

> 'Sealioning' is a form of trolling meant to exhaust the other debate participant with no intention of real discourse.

> Sealioning refers to the disingenuous action by a commenter of making an ostensible effort to engage in sincere and serious civil debate, usually by asking persistent questions of the other commenter. These questions are phrased in a way that may come off as an effort to learn and engage with the subject at hand, but are really intended to erode the goodwill of the person to whom they are replying, to get them to appear impatient or to lash out, and therefore come off as unreasonable.