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by albertodenia | 2026-02-03 07:18:28+00:00
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by JuniperMesos | 2026-02-03 07:18:42+00:00
The world has changed substantially since the 1710 Statue of Anne; there's a thousand things that you could call the modern-day equivalent of mechanically printing a book, with myriad capital and operating costs and availability. Many ways an independent author or artist can publish their work are extremely cheap and effective. I'm relatively anti-copyright, but that doesn't mean that everyone currently benefiting from copyright law is rent-seeking in an exploitive way.
by ryzowy | 2026-02-03 07:19:03+00:00
I built MRO because repositories lie — not maliciously, but through entropy.

A README claims tests pass, but there’s no CI.
A CHANGELOG hasn’t been updated in months.
Dependencies have known CVEs no one noticed.

MRO enforces what repositories claim about themselves.

Try it:

npx maintenance-release-operator check

It verifies things like:
- LICENSE exists
- CHANGELOG exists
- CI workflow exists
- No known security vulnerabilities
- No lockfile conflicts

Exit code 0 = compliant
Exit code 1 = failed

Design constraints (intentional):
- Strict by default (no configuration)
- Deterministic (same repo → same result)
- No AI in the execution path
- No telemetry by default
- Rules are enforcement, not suggestions

Designed for CI: if MRO fails, the PR does not merge.

Repo:
https://github.com/JonathanRyzowy/maintenance-release-operat...

Examples:
https://github.com/JonathanRyzowy/maintenance-release-operat...

Question:
Most tools optimize for flexibility. MRO optimizes for governance.
Is this too strict — or overdue?
by lelanthran | 2026-02-03 07:19:14+00:00
> Interesting point about model variation. It would be useful to run multiple trials and look at the statistical distribution of results rather than single runs. This could help identify which models are more consistent in their outputs.

That doesn't help in practical usage - all you'd know is their consistency at the point in time of testing. After all, 5m after your test is done, your request to an API might lead to a different model being used in the background because the limits of the current one were reached.
by defrost | 2026-02-03 07:19:56+00:00
Sikh's carrying a knife, a bracelet, a comb, etc. has never bothered me in the slightest in all the decades I've known about this - the Khalistan movement in a particular location during a particular time aside, they're not exactly actual postcards for terrorism (despite what some might think when faced with people and turbans).

They always had a pass here in Australia for many years until things tightened up.

Not that I'm a fan, but in general Rules are Rules and making exceptions while fair in some senses will be unfair in others <shrug>.

Circling back to my initial comment- it is the case that there is an actual reason rather than a made up bit of bullshit, to reasonably suspect that a Sikh might be carrying a knife ... if they are they're almost certain to also have a comb .. so that's handy.
by badsectoracula | 2026-02-03 07:20:15+00:00
While Xorg itself (which isn't a monolith, BTW) provides more than the bare minimum, so does the Linux kernel - or even the Unix/BSD kernels of old - yet programs that did follow to the Unix philosophy were built on top of them.

In X11/Xorg's case, a common example would be environments built off different window managers, panels, launchers, etc. In theory nothing prevents Wayland to have something similar but in practice 17 years after its initial release, there isn't anything like that (or at least nothing that people do use).

At least in my mind, the Unix philosophy isn't some sort of dogma, just something to try and strive for and a base (like X11) that enables others to do that doesn't go against it from the perspective of the system as a whole.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-03 07:20:22+00:00
This is completely absurd and backwards. Violence on planes (at least, phsycial, weapon-assisted) is basically exclusively the purview of organized ideological groups, it's not like crime in the streets. While I'm not aware of any Sikh group who has ever attempted to hijack a plane, the extremely well established general pattern is exactly that extremist sincere believers in a religion or cause are the most dangerous people on a plain.
by DANmode | 2026-02-03 07:20:52+00:00
> Are web devs more old-school, posting on bulletin boards and forums? Or is X still the answer, and I'm just getting aggressively packed into a different bubble?

> … Or is it all realtime communication, like Slack and Discord, these days?

Yes to all.

Friends + threads like these!

Try searching Twitter using key terms on xcancel (or another proxy) in order to find more relevant accounts to follow, and seed your algorithm with.

Unless you originally started using the account for niche tech purposes, your niche interests can remain a minor part of your bubble for sure.
by tdeck | 2026-02-03 07:21:22+00:00
I think it depends on what degree of parking we're talking about here, but there are downtowns where the city core is full of large parking lots. That situation makes walking basically impractical because even two adjacent businesses will be a block apart, and everything becomes very spread out. Eliminating most of that parking leads to higher density which is naturally more walkable. The more trips taken on foot, the fewer need to be in a car or other form of transit. Sure this doesn't serve the suburban crowd as well, but it's a city, not an outlet mall.
by globalnode | 2026-02-03 07:21:41+00:00
Use ai as a database to help you get up to speed with the domain you're working with - its really good at that!, then write your own code. If youre learning you can then submit that code to ai and ask it for feedback. Though take all feedback with a grain of salt, it may inexplicably start trying to redesign all your stuff with 10 levels of oo abstraction that no one would really write.
by Cloudef | 2026-02-03 07:22:31+00:00
The only thing C compilers do for printf, is static analyze the format string for API usage errors. Afaik such isn't possible in zig currently. But idk why'd you downgrade yourself to using the printf interface, when std.Io.Writer has a `print` interface where fmt is comptime and args can be reflected so it catches errors without special compiler shenigans.
by DHEERAJCK | 2026-02-03 07:22:58+00:00
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by dtj1123 | 2026-02-03 07:23:30+00:00
Whilst I agree that this glosses over a huge number of technical obstacles, space based solar power could scale more easily than that on earth. Lack of variable weather and gravity means rather than using photovoltaic cells, you can just set up paper thin huge mirrors to focus light and generate steam.

Caveat: my understanding of this largely comes from the book The High Frontier, which is really old and probably inaccurate. I can't think of a reason why this particular point would be wrong though.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-03 07:23:51+00:00
As far as I can tell, a person is free to go if they refuse screening: They won't be getting on a flight, but they can just leave. There's no detainment involved in this process.

Whether they can then elect to stay is a different matter, I think.

But so what? How long would a person have to stand in a screening area before someone who properly represents the ownership of that space shows up and authoritatively tells them to GTFO, do you suppose?
by refurb | 2026-02-03 07:23:54+00:00
> Of course it is — unproductive land use creates negative externalities that affect the entire surrounding community.

By definition “commons” means public land. So if they buy the land, it’s no longer commons.

And the claim that unproductive land use affects the commons is not a very informative statement.

Everything affects the commons, it’s inevitable of a world with more than 1 persons.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-03 07:24:39+00:00
Not every tool can have a "security risk". I feel that this stems from people who see every application as a product and products must be an online web app available to the world.

Let's say I have a 5 person company and I vibe-engineer an application to manage shifts and equipment. I "verify" it by seeing with my own eyes that everyone has the tools they need and every shift is covered.

Before I either used an expensive SaaS piece of crap for it or did it with Excel. I didn't "verify" the Excel either and couldn't control when the SaaS provider updated their end, sometimes breaking features, sometimes adding or changing them.
by 112233 | 2026-02-03 07:25:01+00:00
So your point is distros provide dedicated tooling for simple recompiling of kernel (that is different from other distro packages), but do not have dedicated tooling for systemd? Fair point, but does not address the kernel being orders of magnitude bigger monolith than systemd.

Say you disabled LSM, rebuilt, now all stuff that requires Selinux does not work. Now what?
by cricalix | 2026-02-03 07:25:28+00:00
12‽ I'd swear the Slackware I downloaded was closer to 30+. On dialup. Via a VAX. Using FTP to go from internet to the VAX box, then Kermit from the VAX to the DOS PC using Procomm Plus. Write it all, start the install sequence, find out that the 18th disk was bad. Reboot. Rinse. Repeat.

X disks were X11. There were also the A,B, C etc disks.

Then there was the Coherent install, with massive manual on ultra thin paper with the shell on the front.
by Quarrel | 2026-02-03 07:27:07+00:00
as the PRA outlines (and the article goes through), publishing notice to the Federal Register does not suffice to get around the PRA, it is just a step in the process.

It is just "notice" of their intention to do it. They still have to do the other pieces, including getting their OMB control number.

Of course, as the article points out, all of this is pretty moot, if they're going to get the police to drag you away and not let you fly, irrespective of the position in law.
by lmm | 2026-02-03 07:27:14+00:00
> Typescript does not have a complete, consistent, or reliable type system, no. You can easily skirt around it.

Most practical type systems are not technically complete, consistent, or reliable, and all have "escape hatches". That doesn't make them useless.

> Indeed, there is no runtime guarantee at all. There is not even a function to enforce boundary conditions as far as I'm aware of. Contracts are better in every single way.

On the contrary. That typescript types do not exist at runtime makes them much better than contracts in many ways.

> Contracts are also type-checkable.

Not in general. More to the point, not in a way that's general enough to rely on in practice.

> Nix is deterministic and pure.

And notoriously a nightmare to write and debug. Evidently "deterministic and pure" is insufficient. (I'd also argue that it's not actually pure in the ways that matter - see "The C language is purely functional")
by Tor3 | 2026-02-03 07:27:49+00:00
Hm? Around here oil was never been in the same (low) order of magnitude. Those who installed oil heaters many decades ago regretted it quickly. And it's been illegal to use them for a couple of decades as well now. Gas has never been an option in my region, there's no infrastructure for that. We have used gas in Japan until now, but even that we'll be phasing out (I live in two places)
by King-Aaron | 2026-02-03 07:28:16+00:00
Yep It's some kind of logical fallacy where they try to discredit what you're saying by asserting that you must have some kind of solution in order to justify identifying a problem. It feels as if they try to 'prove' that they are smarter than you are, because you clearly don't have solutions where they clearly do.

It's a weak form of deflection.
by epistasis | 2026-02-03 07:28:40+00:00
Private industry is not doing just fine, it's barely holding on due to massive uncertainty caused by erratic tariffs and farcical government overreach and direct meddling with corporations. All from Trump and his supporters, who are very nationalist but also appear to love socialism when it is national, such as with a 10% purchase of Intel by the US government.

If the Fed falls and monetary policy is subject to the political whims of a tyrant that only cares about himself, then we lost reserve currency stays and we are ducked so hard by simultaneous inability to continue the deficit and a need to pay back interest at far far higher rates. It would cause a spiral in the US economy like we have never seen. Or in the best case just a gradual switch from USD to other standin currencies causing a decade or two of recession in the US, best case.

So far most businesses have not jacked up prices from tariffs because they are hoping they can have the US Supreme Court overturn what look to be obviously illegal tariffs that should have been enacted by Congress rather than the king (we fought an entire revolutionary war over this!). If the Supreme Court doesn't overturn tariffs then we are at risk for inflation going up to 1970s levels.

The state of private business in the US is best represented by the meme of a dog sitting at a kitchen table saying "this is fine" while the house burns down around him. The firefighters may come, but they had better come soon.
by mft_ | 2026-02-03 07:29:20+00:00
> A large portion, maybe even the majority, of travelers simply won't feel safe without it. I've had and overheard multiple conversations at the airport where somebody felt uncomfortable boarding a plane because they saw the screening agent asleep at the desk.

I’d hazard that this may be true now, but this feeling was created by the same “security measures” we’re discussing.

Anyway, such major population-wide measures shouldn’t be about stopping people being “uncomfortable” - they should be about minimising risk, or not at all. If you start imposing laws or other practices every time a group of people feel “uncomfortable”, the world will quickly grind to a halt.
by zokier | 2026-02-03 07:29:57+00:00
> There is a herculean effort on the part of package maintainers to build software for distros, and no one has been building 32 bit version of software for years, even if it is possible to build from source. There is only a very limited set of software you can use, even CLI software because so many things are built with 64 bit dependencies

That seems odd? Debian 12 Bullseye (oldstable) has fully supported i386 port. I would expect it to run reasonably well on late 32 bit era systems (Pentium4/AthlonXP)
by fjfaase | 2026-02-03 07:30:13+00:00
If you have reliable file locking you can implement a journal-only with multiple users without needing a server. You have to take care of write errors and deal with partial writes, which can be tricky with a binary format. A long time ago, I implemented one based on XML. Some non-Windows file-severs (citrix?) did not have reliable file locking, causing corrupted files.
by tromp | 2026-02-03 07:30:58+00:00
Yes, I studied theoretical computer science in University, but I believe the article should be accessible to anyone with a willingness to learn some of the background material. E.g. there are many good introductory texts on the lambda calculus. For a great introduction to the fast growing hierarchy I can recommend
David Metzler's Ridiculously Huge Numbers [1] series on youtube.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A50BB9C34AB36B3
by doomvwr | 2026-02-03 07:30:58+00:00
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by aurareturn | 2026-02-03 07:31:04+00:00
LLM has been hollowing out the mid and lower end of engineering. But has not eroded highest end. Otherwise all the LLM companies wouldn’t pay for talent, they’d just use their own LLM.

The talent isn't used for writing code anymore though. They're used for directing, which an LLM isn't very good at since it has limited real world experience, interacting with other humans, and goals.

OpenAI has said they're slowing down hiring drastically because their models are making them that much more productive. Codex itself is being built by Codex. Same with Claude Code.
by MrGilbert | 2026-02-03 07:31:17+00:00
It's wild to remember that I basically grew up with this type of software. I was there, when the MDI/SDI (Multi-Document Interface / Single-Document Interface) discussion was ongoing, and how much backlash the "Ribbon"-interface received. It also shows that writing documents hasn't really changed in the past 30 years. I wonder if that's a good or bad development.

With memory prices skyrocketing, I wonder if we will see a freeze in computer hardware requirements for software. Maybe it's time to optimize again.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-03 07:31:29+00:00
Home hot water heating in the UK with heat pumps is about 250-300% efficient (slightly lower than the efficiency of home heating but still much better than resistive).

No one is storing 1000C water at home.

It is true that the temperature delays affects efficiency. You can use the thermocline to draw from the cooler lower portion of the storage tank to push this further. Or less technically, just a bigger tank, though this has some tradeoffs.

In warmer countries they are set up differently can act as free air conditioning by extracting heat from indoor air at the same time as heating water.
by rajnathani | 2026-02-03 07:34:25+00:00
> Tesla’s far more popular models are the 3 and Y, which accounted for 97% of the company’s 1.59 million deliveries last year.

TIL that Model S hasn't been as popular. But hopefully when the 2nd gen Roadster finally gets released that this will fill in the slight gap left by Model S's discontinuation.
by rizzo94 | 2026-02-03 07:36:36+00:00
The main reason to avoid the 'platform's own AI' is data sovereignty—I don't want to feed Meta's training set.

But you're right about the friction. Managing local runtimes and config files feels like a science project, not a product.

That’s why I’ve moved to PAIO for this. It maintains the BYOK model (so you own the keys/data) but handles the integrations as a managed, one-click layer. It effectively bridges that gap between 'raw script' and 'usable product' without sacrificing the privacy aspect.
by TrickyRick | 2026-02-03 07:37:01+00:00
Source: Trust me, bro. A company selling an AI model telling others their AI model is so good that it's building itself. What could possibly motivate them to say that?

Remember a few years ago when Sam Altman said we had to pause AI development for 6 months because otherwise we would have the singularity and it would end the world? Yeah, about that...
by kaon_2 | 2026-02-03 07:37:04+00:00
Urgh... Elon is famous not for things he's done, but for saying things he is going to do. Do people still buy in to this? Elon Musk always promises things far in the future but doesn't make good on them. He hasn't succeeded in self driving cars. He is never going to mars. He is not solving the LA traffic problem with tunnels. His robots are the equivalent of the Metaverse. He's a phenomenal businessman, and understands that a story is part of that.
by lpcvoid | 2026-02-03 07:37:18+00:00
I argue that if you have literal hundreds of billions of hard cash to burn for stupid things like AI datacenters, you could afford to make the lives of millions of starving people not suck instead, pretty easily so. But to do that, you'd have to try, and that would mean actually doing something good for humanity. Can't have that as a billionaire.
by King-Aaron | 2026-02-03 07:37:25+00:00
Sorry guy, but I don't go asking the king of the pedos for a special invite to the best pedo parties. I'm pretty certain I could do all kinds of extremely shady things and still be an order of magnitude more morally sound than Musk. Some of the allegations coming out in the last few days are pretty severe, and that's without looking into the rest of his recent history.

The fact that you're here being snide about it is pretty revealing in itself.
by figassis | 2026-02-03 07:37:56+00:00
It is mostly security, but not to residents of the country. Those can enforce their rights. In my country, I can argue with airport security, and win. Foreigners can’t, so they follow whatever rules. A few times when landing in the US, security was extremely rude, I think just looking for an excuse (things like throwing your laptop a few feet away, while staring at you, etc). You take it bc you’re not home, and the cost of ruining your vacation is not worth it.

What I’m trying to say is that , while a lot of it is theater, TSA may be more effective security against foreigners but you as a resident don’t notice because you can opt out. Try going to the UK and telling them you can’t raise your arms while being a US citizen.