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by jacquesm | 2025-12-27 21:41:19+00:00
I've used VxWorks as well, yes, it was slimmer (a lot slimmer, actually), but I would disagree that it was more reliable. QnX supported a ton of hardware out of the box and if there ever was unreliability as far as I've seen it it was always comms layer related, never the core OS or any other bits that you could put next to VxWorks and compare on a functional level. You just required a much bigger SBC to run it, and that's why we used VxWorks in the first place. But I would have been much happier with QnX. I'm imagining the modern day equivalent of QnX running on a Raspberry Pi Pico or one of the larger Arduino's or a Teensy. That would be an absolute game-changer.
by imron | 2025-12-27 21:41:27+00:00
Right. This is how I feel. I can get the LLM to generate code that more or less does what I need, but if I objectively look at the result and the effort required to get there it's still not at the point where it's doing it faster and better than what I could have got manually (with exceptions for certain specific use cases that are not generally applicable to the work I want to do).

The time I save on typing out the program is lost to new activities I otherwise wouldn't be doing.
by wredcoll | 2025-12-27 21:41:43+00:00
Boy I am real tired of this frankly, well, I was going juvenile, but I'm pretty sure most kids are smarter than this, so I'll just call it what it is: an idiotic, damaging and ultimately false understanding of reality.

The world is not some kind of simple morality play and your continued lack of understanding about what has actually happened in the real world is offensive.

It's not because you're ignorant, that's just mildly annoying, it's because you're so proud of your ignorance. The complete unwillingness to grow and learn and challenge your current understanding, that is what is offensive.

There's a great phrase I heard a while back, "thought terminating cliche". You just toss out these blanket statements, "all politicians are evil and corrupt" as if everyone else is supposed to just blindly believe in your assertions and stop thinking for themselves and searching for truths.

Biden did some bad things, possibly even some illegal things (mostly on the premise that every single american has done at least one illegal thing) but he's still vastly superior to trump in any metric you care to choose.

The reason this matters is because we (for now) still get a choice. Are any of the choices perfect? No, obviously not. But we can still choose the better option. We don't have to settle for the worst one.
by woodruffw | 2025-12-27 21:41:57+00:00
Trusted Publishing doesn’t involve any signing keys (well, there’s an IdP, but the IdP’s signature is over a JWT that the index verifies, not an end signature). You’re thinking of attestations, which do indeed involve a local ephemeral private key.

Again, I must emphasize that this is identical in construction to the Web PKI; that was intentional. There are good criticisms of PKIs on grounds of centrality, etc., but “the end entity doesn’t control the private key” is facially untrue and sounds more like conspiracy than anything else.
by andy99 | 2025-12-27 21:42:11+00:00
Agree that if it’s not niche, transactional cold outbound is very hard. This is also the category in which I get the most spam, but it’s almost exclusively offshore, there may be a local angle you could try with businesses in your immediate area.

What I’ve seen work is relationship based sales, lots more outreach to people at orgs that are doing something interesting to you, without any immediate sales pitch, just to build up relationships - basically asking what they are working on and talking about what you do. This is still hard without a niche that suggests there’s some common interest, but can get more traction than just cold sales pitches.

The goal is to stay top of mind and build up some relationships, from which you can try warm pitching, or that will make them think of you when they need something.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-27 21:42:19+00:00
It's exactly because you’re rationally reachable that this matters.

I’m not questioning your beliefs, and I’m not saying you secretly believe in Intelligent Design. The issue is that some of the arguments you’re making didn’t originate organically or scientifically -- they were deliberately promoted through education policy and textbook standards, especially in large markets like Texas, precisely because that influence scaled nationally. People often absorb them without realizing their origin.

After Intelligent Design failed in court, its proponents shifted strategy toward influencing education standards rather than arguing science directly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_Schoo...

States like Texas were key targets because of their centralized textbook approval process and market size, which historically shaped textbooks used nationwide. The "teach the controversy" framing was designed to insert doubt about evolution without explicitly promoting religion, and its language appeared repeatedly in state curriculum debates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy

As a result, many people encountered these arguments against evolution in school without ever being told where they came from or what they lead to -- and repeat them without realizing how the same strategy continues today in much broader political efforts like Project 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design_in_politics...
by stinkbeetle | 2025-12-27 21:42:28+00:00
Looks like one of the white knights of the left is riding in on an extremely high horse to defend the poor simple indigenous folx. Bravo.

I'm so glad you were able to police my other comments too, they're also wrong but you're incapable of addressing them so you just decree with no evidence rquired that they make me "MAGA-adjacent" and therefore a bad person. Apparently it's fine to have grievance rhetoric against governments except when the corrupt warmongers happen to be the secular high priests of your religion. This is so great! I'm sorry for all the violent hate speech that offended you so, my liege.
by quantpunk | 2025-12-27 21:42:39+00:00
After playing guitar for 25 years, I quit guitar and got a digital piano.

I practiced enough to learn to play Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 in the right hand and then sold the piano.

My fav music is Chopin, Satie, Ravel, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ligeti on piano.

The distance between starting from zero on the guitar, to anything ever composed for the guitar is a 100X less than starting from zero on piano to Ligeti.

Learning to solo on electric guitar, play the flute, play the alto sax to me makes so much more sense than trying to learn to play piano or classical guitar as an adult. Classical guitar is hard enough. Piano is just a whole other level to that.

A monophonic instrument is just going to be so much better bang for the buck in terms of time woodshedding. Or a percussion instrument.
by stavros | 2025-12-27 21:42:41+00:00
Companies are made up of people. Companies only use people if the people who make up the companies are ok with it. Being a decisionmaker in a company doesn't give you carte blanche to behave like an amoral automaton.

So no, MongoDB are assholes for doing this. They could have had some humanity and prioritized human well-being over cost savings.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-27 21:43:16+00:00
You're getting a bit boring, and are not arguing in good faith. "Reliably"... as per your definition I guess. You have now made 60(!!!) comments in this thread questioning everything and everybody without ever once accepting that other people's experiences do not necessarily have to match your own. If you did some reading rather than just writing you'd have seen that I gave a very specific example right in this thread. You are now going on my blocklist because I really don't have time or energy to argue with language zealots.
by crawshaw | 2025-12-27 21:43:40+00:00
Tun devices are possible and useful on exe.dev today, because it means, for example, you can install the full copy of Tailscale.

But to your point: if a single VPS meets all your needs and you do not feel constrained by the marginal cost of another VPS then the exe pricing model is not going to bring you much value. Perhaps the automatic TLS termination and auth proxy with link sharing is useful. But if not, then it sounds like you are well served by existing products.
by darrenf | 2025-12-27 21:44:15+00:00
I’m trying to understand the “In order of usage popularity” thing — this implies telemetry in CLIs, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t the order of options change/fluctuate over time?

Or if no telemetry but based on local usage, it would promote/reinforce the options you already can recall and do use, hiding the ones you can’t/don’t?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-27 21:45:06+00:00
> roads are not a public good

You’re both right. Roads can be an impure public good.

At low traffic loading, they are not rivalrous and can be modelled as a public good. At high traffic loading they become rivalrous and thus closer to a common-pool resource.

If roads are made excludable, they resemble a club or even private group.
by quantified | 2025-12-27 21:45:14+00:00
What's an "expert"? In this case, astrobiologists.

What's "aatrobiology"? From a dictionary: The scientific study of the possible origin, distribution, evolution, and future of life in the universe, including that on Earth, using a combination of methods from biology, chemistry, and astronomy.
Exobiology; -- not used technically.
Similar: exobiology
The branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life.

So this is like "experts agree that God will smite you" where experts are deacons from some very strict church.

> In fact, when surveyed, 86.6 per cent of astrobiologists recently said they either agreed or strongly agreed that extraterrestrial life likely exists somewhere else in the Universe.

When asked the same question but for complex or intelligent life, the agreeing percentage only drops to 58.2 per cent. More believe than don’t.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-12-27 21:45:27+00:00
I switch from journaling to writing poetry at night maybe 9 years ago. I'll go through phases where I write no poems and phases where I'll write 10-15 poems at night, I rarely revise and I rarely revisit. I've written probably 10k poems and they're all just in a log somewhere.

I personally think poetry is at its best as a medium for writing and feeling and not consuming or sharing. I think everyone should write poetry and only a small number should probably share it, I certainly don't like being surprised by a poetry reading.

Journaling and poetry is what our future selves stand on and not really for your future self to look back on, it's a meditation where you let your internal self flow out instead of getting stuck in loops or living an unexamined life, it helps give shape to the internal nebulous.

I personally prefer poetry over journaling, it's simultaneously terrible poetry and my best, highest utility writing.
by benrutter | 2025-12-27 21:45:48+00:00
> I wonder, does the author really find deep life satisfaction in all this?

I have no way of knowing (unless they comment yes/no here). If they do, good for them! But also, I don't think that's the claim in the article, it's literally called The best things and stuff in 2025, not The essential meaning of my life in 2025.
by 0xferruccio | 2025-12-27 21:45:50+00:00
i tried this and it's pretty cool, that being said for my use case of spinning up many agents working on my app I'd need a way to specify the docker images that get started with each new VM

i cannot find a way in the docs to start new VMs with a bootstrap script that starts a bunch of services for me and runs a specific docker image

my use-case is that I want a full developer environment for every branch of my project, so i can vibe code on many VMs at a time
by dboreham | 2025-12-27 21:46:19+00:00
My wife worked there when we first met. She told me she knew where there was a Cray-1 sitting at the bottom of a stair well. Obviously this raised my level of interest. We went up there on the weekend and took each other's photo sitting on it. From memory it was a very low serial number having been shipped to <some-TLA> first then subsequently moved to NCAR. I also peered through the glass at various exotica in the machine room: YMP, KSR, TM that sort of thing. Great first date.
by messe | 2025-12-27 21:46:49+00:00
Ah yes, because the US has been sooooo fucking supportive recently. Give me a fucking break. Your GDP is bigger than ours, and you claim to give more aid to Ukraine, but you haven't even remotely matched it. The sheer fucking arrogance of you.

> Can you help Ukraine enough so it can win?

Can you (the American executive) stop collaborating with Russia[1]?

> If not you can’t defend your own countries alone.

Are we talking about the EU or Europe here? Because only one is relevant to the Euro here. It's important to get this right, because it does tend to get confused by bystanders from the far side of the Atlantic.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/25/trump-envoy-...
by crawshaw | 2025-12-27 21:46:56+00:00
[exe.dev co-founder here]

exedev@scarlet-canyon:~$ rsync --version
rsync version 3.2.7 protocol version 31
Copyright (C) 1996-2022 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.

Our base image is most of an Ubuntu server. We trim out, for example, systemd features that are designed for working with system hardware, and then add a lot of standard software, as our block device cloning is a lot faster and more efficient than apt. So you will find vim, git, go, curl, sqlite3, etc all installed. If you think something obvious is missing please let us know!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-27 21:47:31+00:00
> * if I instead were to write "They're both really tired. They're super tired. Oh man, they're so tired. They're so tired, you've never been this tired in your life", that would be extremely shitty writing, but it would give you time to ruminate on the information*

You’ve set up a great question. Why is what you wrote shitty writing while what Tolkien wrote not?

The answer isn’t just variation. If you look at what’s been conveyed in his writing that wasn’t with your repetition, you’ll start unlocking what I suspect you know is there but are having trouble describing.
by tacone | 2025-12-27 21:47:42+00:00
I was thinking to start planking (not just for fitness but also as a mean for stress inoculation).

1. You can do it at home.
2. It's short: when starting out, you might just be capable of holding the position max 1 minute.
3. you don't need special dressing or tools, the floor is all you need (a yoga mat would make it nicer though)
4. when done on the elbows, you can even use your phone while you do it (provides you consider that healthy)

It really seems a no brainer form my angle.

I am also getting interest in Fascia training (that's for old men, mind you)
by 1659447091 | 2025-12-27 21:47:56+00:00
Having spent some time in outbound sales (after tech burn-out), the most important aspect (as many comments say) is "relationships". The best training for that is to go out and make them. We had sales training every single day, so it's really not something you can pick up a book or go to a weekend class and walk away being effective. That said, books and classes are a good way to find your footing.

Never Eat Alone - Keith Ferrazzi (networking & relationship building)

Never Sit in the Lobby - Glenn Poulos (sales & relationships)

Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher (negotiation, particularly "principled negotiation")

The Joy of Selling - Steve Chandler

The Psychology of Selling - Brian Tracy

In one of our quarterly division training, our office manager gave us Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People and were told if we learned nothing else, to study that book.

It's been over a decade since my sales time, but the 2 sales techniques I haven't forgotten are: "selling ins't telling" and "feel, felt, found". As you can imagine, they are about relating to people, not giving technical/spec speeches.

It's something you have to practice everyday, make sales a part of your job title -- not simply something you do on top of running the company. An integrated layer no different than other software maintenance task, except the maintenance is the relationships with people you want to sell to.

For any other tech types that may someday find they need sales skills, I highly recommend actual job experience in outbound sales (with a company that provides frequent sales training). It was a massive culture shock that gave me the professional people and relationship skills I struggled with.
by johnisgood | 2025-12-27 21:48:03+00:00
Saw it, not impressed, GnuPG has a lot of more features than signing and file encryption.

And there are lots of tools for file encryption anyways. I have a bash function using openssh, sometimes I use croc (also uses PAKE), etc.

I need an alternative to "gpg --encrypt --armor --recipient <foo>". :)
by UniverseHacker | 2025-12-27 21:48:06+00:00
I’m not sure that is true. I’m a fan of classic European cars and a 70s or 80s Volvo or Mercedes is still a reliable and practical car. It does not seem likely that current battery tech is such that current EVs will have full range on the same batteries in 50 years- in my experience modern lithium batteries often loose 20 percent capacity in just 3-5 years even if you carefully manage them and limit full charge and discharge. And it does not seem like battery replacements are practical or affordable.

I just don’t see current EVs lasting like good quality ICE vehicles do when properly maintaining, because of battery aging.
by transpute | 2025-12-27 21:48:19+00:00
> I understand why they dropped [Photon] in favor of Qt and later Web technologies

The arrows of time branch and spiral, so it's possible that "later" could require some properties of "earlier".

If Photon could not be open-sourced, it could be licensed to a third party for custodian maintenance. If QNX is abandoning Photon forever, would Blackberry object to Photon being cloned for Linux or FreeBSD?

Enthusiasts still use Blackberry keyboards on handheld devices in 2025. I've been trying to buy a USB Blackberry keyboard with touchpad for more than a year, each batch was sold out in minutes. In a parallel universe, a web store on Blackberry.com would offer developers self-service purchase and global delivery of the legendary Blackberry keyboard, with Bluetooth for convenience or USB-c for security.
by schmuckonwheels | 2025-12-27 21:49:44+00:00
>It would be great that if in 25 years it turns out global warming does indeed cause huge problems for humans, we could sue the politicians that took irresponsible risks with the environment.

And if it turns out to be a big nothingburger, can we sue the politicians to recover the billions in taxpayer dollars that were diverted to their cronies on projects to nowhere during the green gold rush?
by ttctciyf | 2025-12-27 21:50:19+00:00
The agnotologists[1] have never had it so good!

The production of ignorance is booming as its trajectory takes it from roots in advertising, then lobbying, then political campaigns to center stage in political strategy and official government business.

I suspect the academics who study culturally cultivated ignorance will be playing catchup for at least a decade after this administration!

(Assuming they are still around, of course.)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
by Alupis | 2025-12-27 21:51:15+00:00
I'd assert the alarmism is real - even if you disagree with this particular administration/action.

Over the summer in the California valley, your computer will scream at you in bright red text it's hot outside. You'll even receive emergency messages on your phone, tv and radio from the government when it reaches triple-digits. There's a joke from someone I can't recall, but the gist is "we used to call it summer...".

Just recently, California declared a state of emergency over a winter storm - a usual/normal occurrence for this time of year as well.

Normal and completely natural weather events are being used to create an environment of alarmism and fear. This is part of why our youth are so convinced the world is going to end $NEXT_YEAR - they've grown up in a world were the government constantly tells them to be afraid of normal, seasonal weather.
by naikrovek | 2025-12-27 21:51:40+00:00
Small English nitpick:

> ff slow down video.mp4 by 2x

How do you slow something down by 2x? x is a multiplier. 2 is a number greater than 1. Multiplying by a number greater than 1 makes the result LARGER.

If you’re talking about “stretch movie duration to 2x”, say that instead.

Saying something is 2x smaller or 2x shorter or 2x cheaper doesn’t make sense. 2x what? What is the unit of “cheap” or “short” or “small”?

How much is “1 slow down”? How many “slow down” are in the movie where you want twice as many of them? Doesn’t make sense does it? So how can something be slowed by 2x? That also doesn’t make sense.

I know what is trying to be said. I know what is meant. Please just say it right. Things like throw us autistic people for a freaking loop, man. This really rustles our jimmies.

Language is for communicating. If we aren’t all on the same page about how to say stuff, you spend time typing and talking and writing and reading and your message doesn’t make it across the interpersonal language barrier.

I don’t want to see people wasting their time trying to communicate good ideas with bad phrasing. I want people to be able to say what they mean and move on.

I also don’t want to nitpick things like this, but I don’t want phrases like “slow down by 2x” to be considered normal English, either, because they aren’t.
by mojuba | 2025-12-27 21:51:43+00:00
> I apply a strong inbox 0 methodology

Tangential to the main topic, but this is the only sensible way of running an email inbox, always has been to me, and it boggle my mind, why would anyone let clutter and a piling number of unreads in their one and only inbox, one of the most important things in our digital lives?

Each email is an action item. If it's not or if it's been addressed, it's gone, period.

Archive vs. Delete is another question but not as important. Over time I've found that I'm probably deleting too much (e.g. where did I buy that <nice thing> 5 years ago? want it again, can't find the order). Then business emails are all archived with the exception of business spam of course.

So why would you have more emails in your inbox than items you’re supposed to act on?
by spwa4 | 2025-12-27 21:53:52+00:00
The UN has become a death trap for politician's careers, and so the EU and the UN are no longer friends. Why? The US defunded the UN ... and, much less reported, the EU largely followed suit.

And yes, these organizations defend the careers of their previous members. Of course.

Plus most of the people with real positions there make Musk look like an altruistic genuinely kind person, so these discussions aren't nice.

I would expect worse explosions in the future. Much worse.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-12-27 21:54:15+00:00
The regressiveness issue of tolls is effectively a nitpick compared to the broader more comprehensive issue of how to we create an affordable transportation system for the working class and how do we raise the revenue to fund that through taxes.

The dominant automobile oriented transportation system is very unaffordable and requires high costs of entry. The best thing we can do to make transportation more affordable in general is giving people more options aside from the car. Taxing the wealthy in order to raise revenue for public transportation and active transportation options dominates any sort of regressiveness issues around road tolls and less traffic makes buses more effective.