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by hibikir | 2025-12-26 02:27:02+00:00
I'd argue that the issue isn't that the default is too high, but that we assume the default. Think a math class: Often enough, kids are left behind, because the pace is too high, but others get bored to tears, because for them, that very same pace is far too slow. It can even vary by unit: Maybe someone is fine at standard speed in most of AP physics, and just one unit is just completely off. It's a typical problem when engaging with varied audiences: If you have to give a talk to , say, an all hands of a tech company, getting the pacing and the information density right for everyone is just not going to happen.

So the main learning is to be aware of the speed settings, and then consider putting ourselves in situations where we can alter them. Faster or slower isn't better in a vacuum. Expermiment and find what's right for you, or, in communication, for your audience.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-26 02:27:21+00:00
Different cultures, different traditions. Personally I think it's a beautiful symbol of unity for one person to take the other's name (though I'm neutral as to which party should change their name, and I was perfectly willing to take my wife's name if she had wanted that), but of course that's the culture I was born into so it seems normal to me.
by k310 | 2025-12-26 02:27:27+00:00
They could have made little things LIKE A DAMN FILE SYSTEM and all the items above symmetrical with MacOS ages ago. It had to be choice. Cannibalizing low end macbook sales? Who knows?

Really, it's not just tiktok viewers who use these.

How long did a file system take? Was Apple so certain of buying Dropbox that this was left undone?

But the point you make is a lock. These were (IMO) easy to implement long ago, easier than a lot of things we never asked for and never use.

And the only tone control I've ever seen is the equalizer hidden in Apple Music (nee iTunes) Why not a system control? How damn hard is that, given that the code is already written? I get equalizer boxes at the thrift store. Now, REALLY?

I personally feel that a great deal of value in life is creating things, rather than just consuming. So, you can say to me "Well, not everyone is talented in this area or that" and I say: "Who knows what they are capable of doing if they don't have the instruments or tools available? Or if things are so dumbed-down as to make a moat? Hypercard was genius, but without it, people had to cross that programming moat to use programming languages.

And kids? They love to create, or used to, until fed nothing but computer junk food. Even the dumbest Linux distro has plenty of learning tools (besides GCompris). All other concerns aside, the tools were free, and it was/is a sign of respect for the users to include them.

Assuming your users are dumb-asses is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Bicycles for the mind became DIY Formula 1 cars for the mind, and on the low end, we don't even have to think any more. Someone took the web design book "Don't make me think" and made it a way of life.

Secret AI man.

You're a man who leads a life of brain rot.

Everyone you meet is now a chatbot.

With every word you type, you get 10 megs of hype.

You will never have a thought, just borrow.

Secret AI man. Secret AI man.

They've given you a chatbot and taken 'way your soul. (CC, please steal)

"But lo! men have become the tools of their tools." Thoreau

I built my own S-100 computers when there were none. My point isn't that everyone needs to do that, but was excited to "do something" as in "Computer Lib; Dream Machines" I wanted to solve interesting, even bespoke problems and had to build stuff to do it (outside the IBM machine room). And at the time, one could "consume" content on radio and TV, the point being that you could get good stuff as well as junk, and I watched concerts, Bernstein lectures, and outrageously creative stuff like Ernie Kovacs and Twilight Zone. "Content" was always there, but the creative tools weren't --- until they were.

Assuming your users are dumb-asses is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
by kace91 | 2025-12-26 02:27:35+00:00
>I think it’s clear: they just want a creative job.

What is a creative job?

It's an honest question: depending of your definition, either pretty much everything qualifies, or no realistic path exists.

Musicians? If you make it a job you'll be at least chasing trends, at worst you'll have a marketing team dictating everything from lyrics to your brand of underwear.

Writers? for the majority their books won't ever be read, let alone pay the bills. Even those who make it will be subject to signing books for hours in events, appearing in interviews, and editors meddling to the point of not getting to choose the title.

Academia? have fun with grants and politics.

On the other hand, pretty much every job has a craft behind that can be mastered. Even someone laying bricks can try to improve their movement to be more efficient/healthy.

Finding the bright side is easier for some jobs than it is for others, but in general mindset is king.
by refactor_master | 2025-12-26 02:27:35+00:00
But that’s more of a theoretical truth than a practical one, isn’t it? High quality novels are easily found. TikTok videos of equally high quality and depth? Perhaps not so, or exceedingly rarely.

Infinite monkeys with infinite time could surely also produce something spectacular and eye-opening, statistically speaking. But umm, you’d have to wait infinite time for it to be done, so it’s not really efficient when time is a finite resource.
by woodruffw | 2025-12-26 02:27:48+00:00
A trivial example of this would be a tagged union that represents variants with control structures of different sizes; if the attacker can induce a confusion between the tag and the union member at runtime, they can (typically) perform a controlled read of memory outside of the intended range.

Rust avoids this by having sum types, as well as preventing the user from constructing a tag that’s inconsistent with the union member. So it’s not that a union is inherent unsafe, but that the language’s design needs to control the construction and invariants of a union.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-26 02:29:06+00:00
> to the point of Ada being mandated by law in certain niches.

> And then Ada software caused the loss of US$370 million with Ariane 5.

This seems like a bit of a non-sequitur? Ariane is an EU rocket and the flight you're referring to was carrying an EU payload, and I don't think it was ever subject to the US DoD Ada mandate or an EU equivalent (which I'm not sure ever existed?).

(Also a bit of a nitpick, but I don't think the US DoD Ada Mandate was a law per se; it was a DoD policy and not something the US Congress passed).

It's probably somewhat disputable as to whether the Ariane failure was "due to Ada" or whether other higher-level concerns were responsible (e.g., reusing the Ariane 4 software without revalidation)
by xarope | 2025-12-26 02:29:25+00:00
I started A Game of Thrones in 1996, when I walked into a bookstore out of the cold in Toronto, and asked for a recommendation (I will always remember that day for several reasons, not just A Song of Fire and Ice!)

30 years later (give or take a week), I don't expect to ever see the end; I have a feeling GRRM has kind of lost interest/passion in the Song of Fire and Ice series, since he's started churning out other stuff like Dunk, but you know what, its ok.
by jongjong | 2025-12-26 02:29:37+00:00
Not so. It's a lot worse now because before, people just monopolized fixed quantities of gold. If they made bad bets, their gold holdings would shrink.

Now the monopolies aren't over limited quantities of units... They are monopolies over entire money flows with unlimited (and adjustable) quantities of units... People who control these flows can make many bad bets and barely feel a thing. The people who decide the flows don't do so at any expense to themselves; it's the public's money which is printed out of nothing. People like Richard Werner literally proved this after everyone was gaslit about it for over a decade... And now AI is used to spam all reasonable discussions about the system out of view, in spite of all the evidence of dysfunction.

As an extreme example, look at what happened with Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and their divorces... Lost a lot of units of currency at one point but it barely affected them financially, it's like the money pipelines just adjusted themselves to bring them back to the level they were before.
by bigiain | 2025-12-26 02:30:19+00:00
That to me, feels opposite the the article's advice.

And I too, often watch youtube at 1.5x or 2x speed, and dislike audiobooks because I read so much faster that I can possibly listen to them, and there's always an ever growing list/pile of books I want to read after this one. I wonder if that's why a certain type of movie works so well for me - I think of them as "movies made from short stories, not novels", and now I'm wondering if it's something similar to the OP's idea - and that spending 2 hours watching a short story I'd expect to read in 15/20mins is what I'm enjoying, in a different way to, say, the new Dune movies - which so far have been 4-5 hours watching a couple of big novel's worth of story that'd take me a week or so to read? Just writing that out now, I realised theres a two orders of magnitude difference in speed there going from 1/10th of reading speed to 10x reading speed - from a 15 minute read to 2 hour watch, to a week long read to 4-5 hour watch. Hardly surprising they hit my brain differently.
by deevus | 2025-12-26 02:31:25+00:00
From the status page:

archlinux.org currently only available via ipv6 due to DDoS

Our main website is currently under attack which causes is to only be available via IPv6. As we need help from our hosting provider due to the nature of the attack and support times are rather limited over the holidays this could take a while to resolve. Aside from that: Merry Christmas to everyone but the attackers (if you happen to celebrate it) :)
by baubino | 2025-12-26 02:31:29+00:00
This exactly. I bought an iPad in 2020, thinking it would be a second laptop to port around while my primary laptop stayed at home. Turns out that while the iPad can in theory do everything my laptop does, in practice certain tasks can be cumbersome. Now I just divide tasks between different devices and accept that certain things (like any image manipulation or editing) can only be done on my laptop or desktop. Then there’s the tasks that the iPad does perfectly fine (like writing) but the thin keyboard hurts my fingers if I’m at it for more than 30 minutes or so; I need a regular springy keyboard for a proper writing session. Apparently I type hard.

In all, I thought the iPad would be like a slightly smaller laptop, but instead it’s just an oversized phone.
by aristofun | 2025-12-26 02:31:31+00:00
All those horrors are not unique to human nature unfortunately, nor to the religion. Same or worth things were done in the name of any deity you can think of.

It’s not something that he brought to this world.

But what he brought was powerful and radical enough to slowly and eventually overcome many of the terrible animal-like human traits. Christian societies were the first that got rid of slavery, introduced human rights, democracy etc.

Yes, it took a long time to unravel and it’s not a finished process, but it’s not something that just happened. What feel natural for us today was not natural at all back then.

All critical ethical ideas that modern western civilization is based were either invented or popularized by that guy in some unique and unprecedented way.
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by gurvinderd | 2025-12-26 02:31:59+00:00
Write Automation Tests in Natural Language in Yaml file or using BDD in feature files.
No need to write to maintain any code.
Tool uses Claude Agent SDK and Playwright MCP.
Integrate in CI jobs and see the usual Playwright Test results in html.
Most AI Automation tools are either closed source or use keywords like act, verify etc and developer still need to maintain the test code. With OpenQA anyone on the team can write the automation tests be it Product manager, Business Analyst, Manual QA, Devs etc. Or ask AI to generate the tests in Yaml or BDD Gherkin format.
by II2II | 2025-12-26 02:33:19+00:00
Admittedly, I am more of a hobbiest when it comes to C++ development. I try to keep track of things, but I started learning the language before it was standardized and I switched to other languages shortly after it was standardized (never mind the introduction of memory safe option in the standard libraries, which occurred in the 2000's). That said, memory safety has been a consideration, and a feature, for nearly 20 years now. It seems to me that people should have been taught how to approach it for nearly 20 years now. Sure, you can break the rules. Sure, anyone working with older code would have been exposed to bad code. Yet it shouldn't be a universal problem unless people are deliberately seeking out shortcuts (since writing memory safe code in C++ is messier than writing unsafe code).
by gustavus | 2025-12-26 02:33:34+00:00
So my wife has a CGM and is stuck with a fancy pump that is supposed to "automatically" coordinate with her sensor to deliver or reduce insulin when it detects her numbers are too high/low.

I've always been suspicious of the yahoos writing the software that controls these kinds of devices being a security guy and all.

But I also would love to participate in, contribute to or help in any way with reverse engineering, open sourcing, or in some other way making it so that my wife's life isn't dependent upon the quality of software developed by the lowest bidder they could outsource it to.

If anyone knows how I could help please let me know who to reach out to.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-26 02:34:41+00:00
Not in raw performance, no, but they're only beat out by i9s and the like, which are very power hungry. If you care even a little bit about performance per watt, the M series are far superior.

Have a look at Geekbench's results.[1] Ignore the top ones, since they're invalid and almost certainly cheated (click to check). The iPads and such lower down are all legit, but the same goes for some of the i9s inbetween.

And honestly, the fact that you have to go up to power hungry desktop processors to even find something to compete with the chip that goes in an (admittedly high-end) iPad, is somewhat embarrassing on its face, and not for Apple.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/singlecore
by mikestorrent | 2025-12-26 02:36:45+00:00
I get it; not very sci-fi.

Well, they want to preserve a role for the editor; because the editor is not just checking the grammar but also the content, and weighing in with their relative objectivity on the current state of the story, what should be improved, what was good and what didn't work, etc. and if we have AI glazing us continuously we will just produce slop; it may look like good fiction but it will not read like it, and people can tell the difference!
by guessmyname | 2025-12-26 02:37:10+00:00
Last name of father and mother, respectively.

let motherLastName = "Carter Hughes"
let fatherLastName = "Miller Thompson"
let childLastName = "Miller Carter"
let childFullName = "Jean Paul Miller Carter"

Or so that is how it works in many countries around the world.

You might ask, —“Why does the father’s last name go first and the mother’s second?”— That’s an old tradition, and it can change whenever enough people in our society agree. As it stands, the father’s family name tends to persist down the family tree, while the mother’s family name often disappears in each generation.

Or so that is how it works in many countries around the world.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-26 02:40:25+00:00
If the Macbook has a bad keyboard (ignoring the Butterfly switches, which aren't on any of the M series machines, which are the ones people actually recommend and praise), then the vast majority of Windows machine have truly atrocious keyboards. I prefer the keyboard on my 2012 Macbook to the newer ones, but it's still better than the Windows machines I can test in local stores.

I prefer the aluminium to the plastic found on most Windows machines. The Framework is made from some aluminium alloy from what I know, and I see that as a good thing.

The soldered RAM sucks, but it's a trade-off I'm willing to make for a touchpad that actually works, a pretty good screen, and battery life that doesn't suck.
by asacrowflies | 2025-12-26 02:40:31+00:00
And you wish to speak of technology as if that is from your Christ.... What happened to gallileo? Copernicus? Descartes? Almost every great philosopher and scientist for the past 500 years has been in direct conflict with Christianity.... And Christianity is the reason TODAY in America we have to deal with anti-vaxxera, evolution isn't real, young earth creationist etc etc.... maybe you should stfu before opening your mouth to spout such stupidity.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-12-26 02:41:03+00:00
> The FDA reports that Freestyle injured over 700 people and killed seven people with this bug. Spcifically, the bug caused the device to falsely report an extremely low glucose level. Advanced stage diabetics use low reading information to inform them that they may have too much insulin currently. The usual remedy is to eat something sugary to raise glucose in the blood. Such should be done only with great care, as a false low reading can harm and even kill the patient (who eats a high-sugar-content item while glucose in the blood is, in fact, not low)

I bet almost everyone with a device with that bug was injured more or less, because high blood sugar is a silent damager of many organs resulting in cumulative damage without overt short term symptoms of injury. For example, slow damage to eyesight, kidneys and nerves in the feet.
by tclancy | 2025-12-26 02:41:34+00:00
Huh. I have come to find the information about other tclancys across the world an interesting insight. Plus there was the time I was mistakenly sent a resume to review for a guy applying to become bank president; he didn't get the gig, but it wasn't because of the three or four paragraphs I sent him on spiffing up the thing.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-26 02:41:45+00:00
>Such should be done only with great care, as a false low reading can harm and even kill the patient (who eats a high-sugar-content item while glucose in the blood is, in fact, not low).

I've been a type I diabetics for over 25 years and I don't quite understand this one. Low blood sugar is an immediate life or death situation, but high blood sugar killing people? Just how high was it and for how long?

As someone that has a CGM I still calibrate it by using a blood test every couple of days because the CGM sensors can wander on accuracy.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-26 02:41:56+00:00
Yeah suits are kinda ass. Again, the need to have trousers so closely matched they can pretty much only come from the same batch as the cloth in the jacket. Sucks. Looks nice, but man that blows.

Jackets are dope, though. Get some summer-weight ones and even in that season you don’t have to use trouser/jeans pockets. So nice.
by yassien | 2025-12-26 02:44:53+00:00
Confidence is not the same as understanding.
This article looks at uncertainty not as a number a model outputs, but as a quantity systems actively reshape. Using a few small, empirical experiments, it explores how uncertainty can be compressed, hidden, or redistributed once models move from evaluation into real decision pipelines.
Some failures only become visible when we zoom out to the system level.
by jaggederest | 2025-12-26 02:45:39+00:00
Tags are just a text file with a name and the sha of the tag object (with the commit and some metadata/signatures as contents), last I checked. It's deliberately simple and thus almost impossible to actually lock it down in concrete terms.

Packed refs are a little more complicated but all of the storage formats in git are trivial to manually edit or write a tool to handle, in extremis.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-12-26 02:45:52+00:00
It depends on what the true blood sugar value was: if someone were already at the high end of normal and a 'brittle diabetic', you can end up in diabetic ketoacidosis for T1DM individuals or—less likely—hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state generally.

See https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyperglycemia... for a discussion of both (in Emergency conditions)
by phendrenad2 | 2025-12-26 02:46:17+00:00
Are you saying that I'm saying that there are no pixels in the document? Like, do you think that I think that scanners have come to operate on pure platonic forms and no longer use the concept of pixels? That would be really cool, wouldn't it. But no, I don't believe that. Hm. Where did this conversation go wrong. I think I was unclear in my last statement. I have yet to see someone show the original scribbles or ink marks that these OCR layers were generated based on. That's what I meant by "destructive". Now, I'm no expert on documents, so you might want to just cut your losses and stop trying to educate me and let me be uneducated in this matter. I'll accept that I don't know what I'm talking about, and reduce my criticisms of this whole thing to pointing out that the explanations don't make sense to me.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-12-26 02:47:39+00:00
> It's really common for people with sudden windfalls to lose it all.

5% of people isn't "really common". Estimate of 1% of US adults declare bankruptcy within a 5 year period (based on ending in July 2025 and right now is a very low period). 2010 a peak it was likely closer to 3% of adults.

It is rightfully calling it a false trope of "Only rich people deserve money. We should prevent others from getting it".
by blcknight | 2025-12-26 02:48:18+00:00
What would you use instead?

I built an internal CI chat bot with it like 6 months ago when I was learning. It’s deployed and doing what everyone needs it to do.

Claude Code can do most of what it does without needing anything special. I think that’s the future but I hate the vendor lock in Anthropic is pushing with CC.

All my python tools could be skills, and some folks are doing that now but I don’t need to chase after every shiny thing — otherwise I’d never stop rewriting the damn thing.

Especially since there’s no standardizing yet on plugins/skills/commands/hooks yet.
by r0fl | 2025-12-26 02:48:23+00:00
Impressive

I’ve been trying to get AI to be 100% autonomous and built on its own. I keep failing. Would love to see the GitHub repo you’re talking about.

I’m surprised no one has done this at scale. Why can’t AI scrape all of hacker news Indiehackers producthunt , trustmrr

Then find domains expired or new and build me 1000 unique ideas on 1000 ways perfectly deployed in a way that does not set any alarms at Google.

It would cost ~$15,000 to do that.

If that could be done every month for a year, you would have 12,000 active websites/saas ideas for under $200k!

Take the best 10 and let the rest just expire

Could get some home runs

Would love to do that!