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by kelnos | 2025-12-15 22:07:19+00:00
Checked luggage is lost luggage, in my experience. I think I've only checked maybe two or three bags in the past 20 years (after two lost-luggage incidents prompted me to switch to a carry-on-only packing regimen), and then only because I needed to transport liquids in excess of the in-cabin allowance.

I also like to leave the airport after my plane arrives, not stand around a conveyor belt for some unguessable amount of time.

But I get your frustration; I'm the kind of person who barely breaks stride out of the aisle and into my row as I sling my bag up into the bin. It makes me want to scream when someone is standing there in the aisle for 30+ seconds, holding up the boarding process.

Then again, the airlines are to blame as well, most of them having terribly inefficient boarding processes.
by nomel | 2025-12-15 22:07:25+00:00
As with all but a few EV manufactures [1], they were losing money each sale ( >$30k)[2].

[1] https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/only-four-ev-brands-are-pr...

[2] https://www.theautopian.com/ford-lost-36000-for-every-electr...
by Spivak | 2025-12-15 22:08:00+00:00
> Ford still plans to produce a midsize electric pickup truck with a target starting price of about $30,000, to be available in 2027. That will be the first of the “affordable” electric vehicle models it’s currently designing at a skunkworks studio in California, which are slated to use a “universal” platform architecture that will make the vehicles cheaper to produce.

Wish granted?
by echelon | 2025-12-15 22:08:08+00:00
In the theoretical limit, a single monopoly owns and dictates everything. That's bad.

In today's mega-conglomerate market duopoly situations, these companies' cash piles and revenues are so big that they can lumber into any industry they want to, dump on the market, kill healthy incumbents, and then leave shittier products and economics in their wake. They get to use their massive "platforms" as taxation dragnets. The platforms themselves barely innovate, yet they rake in enormous revenue streams by taxing all other participants and being the central connection point for all economies.

Is it healthy that we only have two smartphone providers? That they can extort every industry - including crazy unrelated industries like fintechs, automotive, various entertainment industries, etc.?

Is it healthy that the "URL bar" now means Google search in 95% of the panes of glass humans use to access the internet? That a search for a company's products are now a competitive bidding zone where every market participant is taxed on basic branding?

Healthy capitalism should be brutally competitive. It uses regulation to ensure companies do not grow too big to escape evolutionary pressures. Google, Apple, and Amazon ought to be sweating - not sitting by the pool, relaxing. And they certainly shouldn't be able to become invasive species in other markets when their entry amounts to dumping.

I love capitalism. A healthy dose of antitrust regulation makes it more distributed and less antifragile. It makes sure lots of stakeholders can pursue lots of objectives rather than concentrated labs that are merely the lavish luxuries of titans. It prevents laziness and ossification by forcing everyone to be nimble.
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-15 22:09:10+00:00
> It's always easy to spot a person who has enclosed themselves in a political or ideological bubble. They're typically first to apply a label to a large group of people and then assume all the people with that label are the exact same.

Your recent posting history here includes calling the entire European Union a "non-contributing toddler" to the world. Hmm.
by advael | 2025-12-15 22:09:59+00:00
I think a major problem with advice for a general audience is that different people need different advice. I agree with you that a path to mastery usually involves putting in a lot of effortful practice and then learning to operate without conscious effort, to let muscle memory and such take over. I think people fail at this in different ways, however. I'm sure a lot of people fall off of mastery because they mistake the feeling of effort for lack of an innate talent or the endeavor being futile, and a lot of people fail to achieve fluency because they're unable to let go of the effortful, conscious mode of thinking. Advice for either of those groups is probably going to be counterproductive for the other

That said, I do think this article frames its advice in a clickbaity way by handwaving cumulative effort while talking about instantaneous effort
by oconnore | 2025-12-15 22:10:01+00:00
I was considering getting a Rivian and decided that in fact I would probably not allow the 24 year old dude at my local construction supply co to use a skid steer to drop a load of gravel into the bed of my $75k+ electric vehicle.

So instead I got a used Ford F150 (gas) and when the skid steer guy drops gravel into the bed I feel fine.
by spankalee | 2025-12-15 22:10:15+00:00
I want a personal cloud, but one that can be hosted in an actual cloud.

Ideally, I think we would something like Sandstorm but that can be deployed on everything from a home server to a Docker-based cloud service like Google Cloud Run or... Amazon Fargate (I'm not too familiar with their services).

I don't use the cloud for scaling, but so that I never have to worry about power, internet, or machine-level security.
by SFC_Hiring | 2025-12-15 22:10:26+00:00
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by xoa | 2025-12-15 22:10:30+00:00
I've been in the market for an electric truck for a solid 5 years now to replace my aging Nissan Frontier. There has yet to be anything attractive at all that has made it into production at any price I've been able to find. Everything seems to be a gas truck with some electric stuff shoehorned in not taking advantage of the new design opportunities at all, and generally with a little 4' bed instead of 6.5 or 8 that I need. So far the best design I've seen was from the startup Canoo [0, 1], but as is unsurprisingly typically the case with a car startup (a really high capex challenging area) they have since gone bankrupt. The Cybertruck at announcement looked sorta promising, with a decent sized bed (6.5 at the time), decent top range (500 miles), and cab moved forward for better visibility with no engine in the way. And in principle there are some really good fully offline "cyber" sorts of features that an ambitious company could do, like making liberal use of modern screens to enable "look through your hood" and better all around awareness, built-in FLIR for enhanced animal detection at night, etc. A self-parking feature that was really solid would be good too, zero general public road self-driving needed for that to be handy. But of course the Cybertruck ended up downgrading in every respect, having mediocre build quality, being heavily delayed, full of Tesla spyware and stupid shit, and in general being made by a vehicle & power company that oddly doesn't actually seem interested in vehicles or power anymore.

It's frustrating seeing all the potential and then having to wait and wait for somebody to finally execute. Same as with PDAs/smartphones until Apple finally shook things up or countless other examples throughout tech history. Maybe it'll be China who actually does it this time around, and a small silver lining might be that could also go along with some actual anti-feudalism and pro-privacy laws in the US if we're very lucky :\.

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0: https://www.greencars.com/expert-insights/all-electric-all-a...

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzjqfQdj3sM
by defrost | 2025-12-15 22:10:40+00:00
I'm a pragmatist and the Crikey story has a hanging shoe waiting to drop.

Who ultimately did fund the 36 months campaign?

If you're a skeptical fan of Crikey, like myself, perhaps you're also an eyebrow raised sometime watcher of Gruen and understand that the crowd Peter Carey once ran with don't do anything for nothing .. even the 'free' content is agency self promotion.

The money trail here runs cold in the vicinity of the sports betting lobby and there's form on their ability to run distraction not to mention the returns on 'grooming' gamblers via particular kinds of campaigns that work as well on young dumb adults as they do children.

There's been no follow up on gambling advertising and they're still free to run the kinds of ads they likely may have had to phase out if focus hadn't shifted to saving the children.

That seems a success worth paying for ... even if the receipts aren't out in the open.
by user982 | 2025-12-15 22:10:48+00:00
> This is brainrot conspiracy garbage.

Here's Mitt Romney explaining that "the number of mentions of Palestinians" was the reason why "there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down (potentially) TikTok": https://x.com/wideofthepost/status/1787104142982283587

> Additionally, if you're defending TikTok because it allowed them to amplify support for the Palestinian cause, it's interesting that TikTok themselves claim that you are wrong, as they said to the US Supreme court that "allegations that TikTok has amplified support for either side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are unfounded". Are they lying here? If so, why should we trust them with control over mass social media? If they're not lying, you are wrong.

The sentence that you quoted from that Wikipedia page came at the end of this paragraph:

Several officials subsequently cited alleged pro-Palestinian bias on the app. While advocating for a ban, Representative Mike Gallagher alleged "rampant pro-Hamas propaganda on the app". Senators Mitt Romney, Josh Hawley, Representative Mike Lawler, and other Republicans have also alleged that TikTok had a pro-Palestine bias, with Lawler even alleging that TikTok was being manipulated during pro-Palestinian protests at colleges. In a filing to the Supreme Court, TikTok's attorneys said, "Allegations that TikTok has amplified support for either side of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict are unfounded."

There's no contradiction if TikTok was telling the truth about its neutrality: not amplifying support for Israel was reason enough to get banned by the United States government, and immediately after Trump's first reprieve a year ago TikTok began flagging and removing "Free Palestine" posts as hate speech (https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/tiktok-labels-free-pal...).
by Terr_ | 2025-12-15 22:10:49+00:00
> In some ways taxing wealth is quite simple

But there are enough other ways where it's really hard and unsolved. Imagine someone bought an $X irreplaceable ancient urn to hold the ashes of their parents.

How do you calculate the $Y "wealth" inside that non-fungible urn on their mantelpiece today? How can one determine which "I would buy that for X" statements are falsely low or falsely high?

> owners go out of their way to estimate the magnitude of their wealth for example to borrow money

I have no inherent problem linking one voluntary claim of wealth to another conclusion of wealth... But what happens when someone wealthy who doesn't actually need any loans applies for them while presenting themselves as a pauper?

Or cases where someone seeks a loan and their rationale is "I may have negative net worth but you'll be made whole because you're first in line", as opposed to "I have high net worth"?

> I have a hard time to find a good faith reason for capital gains to be taxed less than labor.

Consider a small company of AcmeCo with 1-10 workers all dedicated to the art of Acme'ing, each taking tiny wages (but accepting shares) because they believe in the mission and want to launch the company.

On a technical level, anything they (might) get would be capital gains, but clearly it's not the same as passive rents with no labor behind it. It's closer to deferred wages.
by tastyface | 2025-12-15 22:10:56+00:00
"Please try to be empathetic and look the other way as your civilization is being raped and murdered into oblivion. Die kindly."

You... you think this sentiment is *not* representative of white nationalism? Really? Can you maybe fill in the blanks here? Who is doing the "raping"? Why is "Western civilization" purportedly coming to an end?

And when DHH says something like: "In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now." Could you perhaps explain to me what he might mean by "native Brit"?

You know what, I actually don't believe for a second that you're being honest here. You know exactly what this is but you don't want other people to name it. But that's OK: we'll name it for you. Feel free to wear it around your neck.
by overfeed | 2025-12-15 22:10:58+00:00
A -> B =/= B -> A.

I didn't claim that this was exclusively American. Though I'd have to admit that one doesn't have to be American to adopt Ameracanisms: rhotic Rs, Netflix color-grading, and copy-cat political movements are other American cultural artifacts showing up across the world due to America's dominance of the zeitgeist.

Rap verses in pop songs wasn't a spontaneously phenomenon across the globe, the origins are tracably American - but that doesn't make all rappers American.
by tacticus | 2025-12-15 22:11:04+00:00
> However, if you are towing or carrying heavy loads, they are a bad choice.

given the testing that has been done on this it's the aerodynamics that matter more than the weight.

> I suspect most F-150 drivers barely ever do these sorts of things

I would suspect that most of these oversized "angry boy" utes only ever see a non sealed surface when they're driving to park on footpaths.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-15 22:11:43+00:00
> Now I'm sitting here wondering when we'll get another small Ford truck again. This same exact story played out with the Ranger...

It's so bizarre to me because the Ranger used to be small. But then they became the size that an F-150 used to be (i.e. sane truck size), while the F-150 became enormous. Supposedly it's due to perverse incentives from regulation, so I wouldn't hold my breath for a smaller truck if that is indeed the case.
by strifey | 2025-12-15 22:11:55+00:00
Totally true, but we host other people's code (PaaS, etc). We don't get to dictate their working hours.

It also doesn't mean nothing breaks when people aren't making changes. Certificate expiration is the classic example of something breaking _because_ someone hasn't made a change. Or a slow memory leak. There's a whole classification of issues that get worse when nothing is redeployed for long enough.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-15 22:12:13+00:00
> The fact that an earned derivative gets heavily taxed and an unearned derivative gets lightly taxed is so stupendously wacky that the absurdity is obvious, but the integral is the core problem.

The fact is that we have no problems with taxing consumption (billionaire buys yacht) but we have an extremely sensible aversion to taxing money spent on productive investment (company pays to build new factory). So business expenses are tax deductions.

The sensible way to handle this is to just use VAT, but then people say "what if they reinvest everything into new ventures and stop buying yachts"? The answer to which is supposed to be "that's what we want them to do". (They also say "consumption taxes are regressive" even though that's easy to fix by giving everyone a large fixed refundable tax credit.)

So to placate them we use something claimed to be an income tax and then push on it until it acts like a consumption tax. Dividends are taxable, but here's a 401k that makes them not while you're of working age and so you only have to pay the tax when you retire and start spending it. Capital gains are taxable, but only when you realize them, so they get deferred as long as you keep them invested in the same company but if you withdraw the money to spend it, that's when you pay. And so on.

This is, of course, dumb, because it makes everything unnecessarily complicated and creates lots of opportunities for tax avoidance, and because it makes the problem you're going to complain about next worse: If they keep reinvesting the money then there is too much economic power in the hands of too few people. But look at what you've wrought. Now if someone invests in a company they get to defer the taxes until they want to spend the money or -- and this is the big problem -- they want to invest it in something else. You have to pay the tax now if you want to do that.

Which means that everybody wants their money to be in some ever-expanding megacorp that allows them to defer the tax until they actually want to spend it, instead of taking the profits from one company and using it to invest in a new one. Which is the thing that wouldn't have been penalized if you were actually using a consumption tax.

And the corporations are actually the problem, not the owners. However much power is concentrated into Microsoft or Apple or Google, that's how much power the CEO of that company will have, regardless of what percentage of the company's stock they own. So you can't fix it by taxing the owners, you have to fix it by making the companies smaller, and that's the thing the existing system makes worse.
by volkl48 | 2025-12-15 22:12:23+00:00
I would suspect that the previous poster means something along the lines of: The kind of posts that are so extreme that they're a significant reputational/PR risk to hire. No company wants to be flipping on the news and see their name associated with someone who's openly advocating for atrocities.

Or that create significant concern that they're unwilling to do their job responsibilities if it means working with/interacting with people who don't share their political views. More than a few people openly state things like that online as well.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-15 22:12:42+00:00
They are calibrated for organizations/users that have higher consequences for mis-issuance and revocation delay than someone’s holiday blog, but I don’t think they’re behaving selfishly or irrationally in this instance. There are meaningful security benefits to users if certificate lifetimes are short and revocation lists are short, and for the most part public PKI is only as strong as the weakest CA.

OCSP (with stapling) was an attempt to get these benefits with less disruption, but it failed for the same reason this change is painful: server operators don’t want to have to configure anything for any reason ever.
by iparaskev | 2025-12-15 22:12:43+00:00
Working on migrating Hopp's [1] overlay window, which we use for drawing the remote cursors, from winit + wgpu to gpui. I used claude in the weekend to make a prototype and now I want to make a gpui app, which will replicate all of our requirements, in order to see what is missing and if I need to contribute upstream. I am planning to write a blog post when the migration is over.

[1] https://github.com/gethopp/hopp
by shellprompt_sec | 2025-12-15 22:13:05+00:00
A security-focused "check engine light" for your shell prompt: https://github.com/erichs/dashlights

There's a gap in most security tooling: it's not IN the terminal with you. It doesn't have enough context: your environment, your repo state, your current directory, etc. to catch the small hygiene mistakes that accumulate over the many tiny decisions you make every day to ship code and learn new tools. Those "cut corners" add up, and can lead to costly blunders.

Dashlights attempts to bring awareness and visibility to your immediate shell context.
by phil294 | 2025-12-15 22:13:13+00:00
> So (TS)JSDoc support is a relic from when Microsoft was trying to get market share from Google.

> Today in 2025, TS offers so much more than the (TS)JSDoc implementation. Generics, Enums, Utility types, Type Testing in Vitest, typeguards, plus other stuff.

None of that is true! Please don't share misinformation without looking it up first.
by hnburnsy | 2025-12-15 22:13:17+00:00
From Ford...

Ford Follows Customers to Drive Profitable Growth; Reinvests in Trucks, Hybrids, Affordable EVs, Battery Storage; Takes EV-Related Charges

https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2025/ford-re...

>As part of this plan, Ford’s next-generation F-150 Lightning will shift to an extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) architecture and be assembled at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Production of the current generation F-150 Lightning has concluded as Ford redeploys employees to Dearborn Truck Plant to support a third crew for F-150 gas and hybrid truck production as a result of the Novelis fires.

>The F-150 Lightning is a groundbreaking product that demonstrated an electric pickup can still be a great F-Series,” said Doug Field, Ford’s chief EV, digital and design officer. “Our next-generation Lightning EREV is every bit as revolutionary. It keeps everything customers love — 100% electric power delivery, sub-5-second acceleration — and adds an estimated 700+ mile range and tows like a locomotive. It will be an incredibly versatile tool delivered in a capital-efficient way.
by hopelite | 2025-12-15 22:13:22+00:00
Not to mention “…recruiting an elite corps of engineers to build…” while also “…participants will receive technical training…”

So “elite” engineers need technical training?

What am I missing here.

I have extensive experience with this kind of government nonsense, but usually it is kind of in the background, blather no one really takes serious because it’s just blowing smoke. But this seems so credibility destroying through its ridiculous contradictions and bombast.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-15 22:14:01+00:00
I always felt like #1 would have better been served by something like RPKI in the BGP world. I.e. rather than say "some people have a need to handle ${CASE} so that is the baseline security requirement for everyone" you say "here is a common infrastructure for specifying exactly how you want your internet resources to be able to be used". In the case of BGP that turned into things like "AS 42 can originate 1.0.0.0/22 with maxlength of /23" and now if you get hijacked/spoofed/your BGP peering password leaks/etc it can result in nothing bad happening because of your RPKI config.

The same in web certs that could have been something like "domain.xyz can request non-wildcard certs for up to 10 days validity". Where I think certs fell apart with it is they placed all the eggs in client side revocation lists and then that failure fell to the admins to deal with collectively while the issuers sat back.

For the second note, I think that friction is part of their point. Technically you can, practically that doesn't really do much.
by stusmall | 2025-12-15 22:14:37+00:00
I'm seeing this hot take a lot but it doesn't make sense. Are people worried than LE is going to have a 45 day outage or something? ACME is an open standard with other implementations so I'm having trouble seeing the political central point of failure too.

It's okay for something to be a good thing and to celebrate it. We don't have to frown about everything.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-15 22:15:06+00:00
> IMO this is a policy change that can Break the Internet

Unfortunately, the people making these decisions simply do not care how they impact actual real world users. It happens over and over that browser makers dictate something that makes sense in a nice, pure theoretical context, but sucks ass for everyone stuck in the real world with all its complexities and shortcomings.