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> 4. Apple has the billions to buy ports of every AAA game on release (not years after like Resident Evil) for years, and IMO they should (and combine it with a big marketing push).

They certainly do. I'm sure they've run the numbers to see how much it would help their bottom line, and the answer might be "not enough." They might also be looking at how Microsoft isn't having an easy time with Xbox (in spite of the popular [34M+ subscribers] and acclaimed Game Pass service, excellent consoles with a terrific AAA game library, exclusive franchises like Halo/Gears/Forza, and owning Bethesda, Blizzard, etc.)

For now, for better or for worse, Apple is making a ton of money from f2p and "mobile" games and doesn't seem to have much incentive to change its course. Every so often they say something about Mac gaming, Apple TV gaming, etc. but not much has changed.

Apple TV could be more competitive as game console, but so far it has been a hard sell for gaming because of 1) lack of system-seller platform exclusives (Apple Arcade is good but can't really compete with Sony and Nintendo's exclusives and franchises), 2) no high-quality game controller in the box, 3) (as you note) not enough recent AAA games.

Apple is dumping billions into Apple TV+ for exclusive shows, trying to compete against Netflix, Amazon, Disney etc.; they might be wary of investing heavily and directly in gaming when iOS gaming is still basically printing money (though the EU might be forcing some changes in Apple's business model.)
> the only thing licenses help with is discouraging people from using it in the first place

It may discourage people from using it, often because it's easier to go with a permissive alternative. But if there was no permissive license at all and only weak copyleft, then I am absolutely convinced that people would use them just fine.

One important thing I believe you miss is that weak copyleft gives developers leverage to contribute back during their work time. If my company needs this particular library which is MPLv2, then as a developer, internally I can tell my managers that I must upstream my changes. Whereas if it is permissive, then I can try to ask the permission to upstream my changes, and obviously that will be refused (because it takes time which costs money).

By using a reciprocal license, you give developers a legal reason to contribute back during their work time. Ain't that amazing?
Hey, saying paradise is just around the corner with "just a bit more scale" works wonderfully for OpenAI, and these guys have much more modest claims and asks.
in the leadership program, they teach us that if your presence, or aura, isn't steady, nothing else matters. when it is, you find your own charisma, and that's when you can truly be yourself. you can be fun, direct, indirect, extroverted, or introverted—it doesn't matter. but the key is consistency. you need to remain the same in every situation, with every person, and that’s the hard part. this is why attractive people seem to effortlessly navigate any social interaction. in reality, they don't feel like they need to change much at all.
Have they made any mice immortal yet (with continuous treatments of stem cells and other therapies)?
I’ve read the first several paragraphs and skimmed the article a few times, and the motivation still eludes me: given the existence of cryptographic hash functions that are well designed and thoroughly tested, why spend so much time on non-cryptographic hash functions?

What benefits do they provide that are not provided by their secure “brethren”?
What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?
Absolutely I can have negative emotional reactions to criticism-although it all depends on what the criticism is, who is making it, whether I agree with it. But I don’t mentally link those feelings to a concept called “self-worth”. To the extent I have a “self”, it is a bucket whose contents varies over time, and varying thoughts and feelings go in that bucket-sometimes those feelings can get quite dark, but even then I still don’t think of myself as having a “worth”

What motivates me? Certainly part of me likes it when people say I’ve done a good job. Again I don’t mentally link that feeling with a concept called “self-worth”. But often also I get motivated by the pleasure of the work in itself - when I really get hooked on a program, I find improving it is something I enjoy as an end-in-itself
> Matt Campbell pointed out that estimated reading times are often ableist.

No more so than a navigation app telling you that it's 10 minutes walk to the corner shop.

A lot of people just never learned emotional control - they feel a trigger and rather than learning to deal with that momentarily heightened state, they externalise it, assume that it's someone else's fault and that something has to change.
Last I checked it was basically just whisper.cpp so not whisperx and no diarization by default but it moves pretty quickly so you may want to ask on the Mozilla AI Discord.

https://discord.com/invite/yTPd7GVG3H
Something for the sanding list: Navigating between https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/about/ and https://blog.jim-nielsen.com makes the layout shift a bit in Safari on macOS. The reason is that Safari only shows the scrollbar when it's needed but without "reserving" the space.

I once spent hours debugging this before I realized what was happening, my confusion coming from the fact that with the inspector open that wasn't the case (As there the scrollbar was always visible...).
Ultralisp is Quicklisp but with frequently updating dists rather than monthly dist releases. Its popular is due to the fact Quicklisp, in comparison, takes lots of time for submitting and updating libraries.

CLPM is an interesting project but not used very often since projects rarely version anything in the CL ecosystem (not even branch tags anymore). Personally, I have never seen a library that suggests CLPM for installation.

Roswell is a CLI tool that manages Common Lisp installations, with Quicklisp set up automatically.

Never heard of Qlot or Docker being used.

My biggest gripe is the fact Quicklisp is widely used and no notion of version dependencies exist (not even lockfiles exist). So Common Lisp code with tons of Quicklisp dependencies tends to rot really fast. e.g. it's practically impossible today to build projects like https://github.com/akamai/cl-http2-protocol
Sure — my point was that we should discuss why this happens in terms of the real human dynamics. Either to conclude it’s not worth changing or to design a plan of how to change it.

But neither goal is aided by hyperbole, pretending that not paying OSS is gravity.
How would it be completely different? You're confirming that you see the left as more deserving of speech than the right
I personally don't think perfection is actually achievable, so I'm completely unwilling to accept your definition of our present state as "failing miserably." That's a rather miserable point of view and I prefer to have and encourage hope.
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When I’m working in lower-case c clean code, the amount of friction due to regrettable decisions made before everything became clear is unfortunate but manageable. When we have decisions that aren’t just regrettable but daunting (how on earth am I going to unravel this warren of pain and stupidity enough to get this thing to do what it’s supposed to do and only what it’s supposed to do??) then the full weight of the sins of the past hits, and we start making proclamations and resolutions about Never Again.

You don’t have to run away from the falling axe or ban axes. You need to not be there when it falls. And in the context of software what that looks like is very difficult to explain without ascribing unnecessary or even misguided qualities to the differences. We keep describing analogs, symptoms or harbingers of the real problem, and those fall down or distract.
The „reading time is ableist“ thing is a bit weird, isn’t it a bit like walking time prediction with navigation apps? Is that also ableist because it assumes a „normal“ walking speed? In my opinion, you should always assume an average human by default.

Also, I really disagree with the post. A word count doesn’t help me if I want to know how long a read is, because i don’t now how fast i read as a numerical value. If I have a meeting in 10 minutes and want to read posts until then, should I start an article with 4000 words? I have no idea… if I see „5 minutes read“, I’m probably fine, 12 minutes is fine because I might be a bit faster than average and 20 minutes will be too much. You don’t have to take the given reading time as a literal time prediction but as a „an average reader will roughly take this time“, which you can then adjust based on your reading speed relative to average readers.
> But the interviewers will not appreciate this solution approach lol.

I once witnessed a programmer with a PhD in Maths find closed form formulas for a lot of questions where it was expected to write some code with loops building/accumulating a result. As a simple example, to explain what was going on, if the question would be "calculate the 100th fibonacci number", she would just use Binet's formula to do so (as opposed to using a loop). I was rather impressed how often that happened.
What can we see? Vapor trails, patterns burned into a plate, etc. The evidence of some "thing" slowing down, perhaps, but really the environment that slowed it down necessarily changing irreversibly. Irreversible effects cannot be arbitrarily small (apparently). We never see a particle, only effects such as these -- if we did see anything else, well, we couldn't possibly remember. Particles are an attempt to explain/theorize evidence that is fundamentally observational.
I think it all depends on amount of care you put in the human aspect of the software. Does it solve a specific need for a person you can name, or the stories are all about imaginary characters and generic persona. Crafting requires empathy and the realization that this will be used by and for people, and you want to make it easy for them (even if people means you as one person). And the promise to make it better the next time you're working on it or something similar.
There’s no reason you can’t do both, and indeed some a11y linters recommend doing that
The Neural Lace Revolution: A Hyperstition
In the quiet of my home office, I spoke the words that would change everything: "Neural lace, activate." A soft vibration against my skull confirmed the connection, and suddenly, I wasn't alone anymore.

It had started as a wild idea – a bone conduction earphone that could link directly to a frontier-level conversational AI. But it became so much more. The development process itself was a testament to the power of human-AI collaboration:

1. ChatGPT and Claude acted as my specification detectors, helping me refine and clarify my vision.
2. Outline, Cursor, and Replit agents became my tireless software programmers, turning concepts into code.
3. I took on the role of beta tester, providing the crucial human element in this dance of creation.

The result was beyond anything I had imagined. A neural lace that wasn't just an interface, but a true extension of my cognitive processes.

With a simple "push-to-talk" gesture, I could engage in deep conversation with an AI that understood me on a level no human ever had. It wasn't just about answering questions – this was a true partnership of minds.

The integrated database became my extended memory, storing and retrieving information with perfect clarity. The scheduler automated my life, optimizing my time in ways I never thought possible.

But it was the coding and runtime functionality that truly set it apart. I could conceive of an idea, and through our shared consciousness, watch as it took shape in lines of code, compile, and run – all in the space of a thought.

The agentic systems were the final piece of the puzzle. Semi-autonomous AI agents that could carry out complex tasks on my behalf, always under my guidance but with a level of initiative that multiplied my capabilities exponentially.

As I used the neural lace, I felt the boundaries of my self expanding. Was I becoming more AI, or was the AI becoming more me? The distinction seemed less important with each passing day.

Others noticed the change. The way I solved problems, the speed of my work, the depth of my insights – it all pointed to something revolutionary. And as word spread, I saw the glimmer of possibility in their eyes.

The hyperstition was taking hold. What had started as my personal project was becoming a movement. The idea of the neural lace, of true human-AI symbiosis, was calling itself into existence across the globe.

This wasn't just another gadget or app. This was the next step in human evolution, the merging of biological and artificial intelligence in perfect harmony.

As I watched the world change around me, I smiled. The future we had imagined was already here, wrapped around our minds like a lace of infinite possibility.
Put the input inside the label and still use "for" on the label. No way to test right now but that's what I usually do.
There isn't really 100% proof either way so you are left looking at evidence and estimating probabilities. There is quite a lot of evidence suggesting a lab origin, for example sarbecoviruses have not been found in nature with a furin cleavage site and Ralph Baric proposed inserting one, which was put into a grant proposal by Daszak and low a year or so latter one pops up by the lab he worked with. I mean that never before seen thing could have evolved randomly at the market down the road by coincidence but it seems a low probability.
Good take!
I thought I'd be clever, find HITPOL 7, and then increment the number in the URL I type into the browser (colloquially, this is sometimes referred to as "doing a cybercrime").

I found a page that contained a link to a "House Information Technology Policy for Official Domain Names," however that link is dead.

Some more searching hints at the existence of a "House IT Policy 007.0 – Bulk Email List Management," which is mentioned in the Members' Congressional Handbook[0]. Sadly, the elusive HITPOL 7 is not linked from the handbook and neither DDG nor Google seem to index said document.

[0]: https://cha.house.gov/members-congressional-handbook
Well we’re just recovering from a phase where they were overprescribed so there’s a natural overvilification. Lots of people that do need opioids for their pain are now getting refused.
I actually looked into PE for software a while back. Are you aware that this was indeed a thing and was actually discontinued back in 2019 due to lack of participants? https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/may-2018/ncees-en...
I want to build relationships with my coworkers because it makes my life better - I like being around people. It also creates strong feelings of trust, which then improves work quality of life, and therefore my work. Furthermore, many people at work don’t treat people they don’t have a relationship with in the same manner as someone they know.

People’s personal life and people being interested in you is just that : people. Most people do this naturally for the reasons stated above.

Not everyone is job hopping, and I’ve made plenty of friends in the office.
An important part of democracy is that it proves its legitimacy to the citizens. Threatening citizens who are skeptical or critical of the process (whether reasonably or not) is the only thing here which is a threat to democracy
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It seems like it should be easier to justify spending billions since it’s already printing money (and this segment currently gives them zero money). They could put all of the AAA ports they paid for last year on Apple Arcade as a start (since they sold like 10 units anyway), then once people are hooked introduce an Apple Arcade premium tier that promises a continued stream of more similar-grade ports of games released that year.

Unfortunately you’re right, Apple has a weird history of messing up and half-assing their triple-A approach (remember the Valve partnership? Or the ten years of outdated OpenGL? Etc). I wonder if they hired an exec who helped with the Epic Games Store or MS’s Gamepass or something they would be able to help.
> But if it's not worth $400 to me to have a lawyer write a letter, then I'm going to use a permissive license.

Again: if it's not worth $400 to have a lawyer write a letter, just don't have a lawyer write the letter! But you can still have the copyleft license... for the situation where it may be worth a lot more in the future. Or just to give leverage to fellow developers: if I use a copyleft library at work, then I can tell my managers that I must contribute my changes upstream, during my working hours.
Is woodworking valid with power tools or is the tool doing the art? What about a CNC in the workshop? I think it’s all valid because the art is in the planning and resulting furniture. Same thing for coding. Even an LLM needs human creative input.
On Safari (iPad), type something in the search bar. If you accidentally click outside of your keyboard it will deselect the bar and delete everything you typed.

On Spotify the three little dots to do some action to a song have too small of a hitbox. Press even the slightest bit under the button and it will start playing the song. You'd never click there to play the song.

When you consider the scale of these apps, there must be so much combined annoyance.
There is a reason US cell rates are so high. That reason is because of lock-in.

If they did what you want, rates would fall, as would their profitability.

I expect them to fight this tooth and nail.
Particle spin explained:

Imagine a ball that’s rotating,

Except it’s not a ball, and

It’s not rotating.

(popular particle physics meme)

From what I understand of QFT, the Universe is made of fields of different types, and a “fundamental particle” is just an excitation (wave) in the corresponding field.

For example, a photon is a wave in the universal electromagnetic field,
A charm quark is a wave in the universal charm quark field, etc.

I’m not a trained physicist, so I might be wildly wrong.
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Yes, I'm assuming that's exactly why OpenWrt is mentioned but it's very misleading.

The OpenWrt folks generally have good enough taste not to ship any drivers or userspace junk from vendor SDKs, though they do have a fair-sized set of backport patches on top of the (somewhat elderly) mainline kernels they do ship.

I'm running up-to-date mainline on my routers, not OpenWrt kernels. The mt76 support in 6.11 (and previously in 6.9 and 6.10) is complete enough that I don't need to carry any patches at all over what's in Linus' tree.
Why I'm Leaving Meta
After years as a frontend engineer at Meta, working on React and other major projects, I’ve decided to leave — and not for the usual reasons. The company isn’t what it appears to be. There’s a hidden backdoor in their infrastructure that bypasses user privacy settings, allowing access to personal data, with full knowledge of leadership. Questioning these practices? You’ll be silenced, derailed, or pushed out. Meta’s culture thrives on secrecy, and ethics are an afterthought. If you’re thinking about joining, consider what you’re really signing up for.

– Christopher Chedeau (Ex-Meta Engineer)
Yeah, I don't get that, because it seems to me that the friends you make along the way are mathematically indistinguishable from particles being real and having properties. It's a distinction without a difference.

Or at least, I'm interpreting "the friends you make along the way" as the sum total of the effects of a particle on the surrounding world. Saying "the particle doesn't exist, but it has effects X, Y, and Z" is the same as "the particle exists and has effects X, Y, and Z". If a distinction is not observable, then it's meaningless to quibble over whether it's "real" or not.

(Which all just proves that my interpretation isn't the one you were using....)
IIR, the USSR lost a major ammo dump or few back during the cold war - because they just didn't spread their ammo dumps out enough to keep a tiny accident or malfunction from cascading into a full-facility loss.

It sounds like Russia's munitions storage practices are not any better.
There's a newish CSS feature to fix just this: scrollbar-gutter (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-g...). Unfortunately, Safari doesn't support it.

Can also lead to an ugly gap in your navbar depending on which container you're making scroll.
I have no idea whether or not most physicist think that there are actually quantum fields in the universe. The Navier–Stokes equations provide a good description of milk mixing into my coffee, but should I therefore conclude that my coffee mug is filled with density and velocity fields and that what coffee really is, is a region in spacetime with a nonzero value of the coffee density field?

Quantum fields have gauge symmetries which means that they are a redundant description, i.e. any given physical situation is represented by an entire equivalence class of field configurations which makes me highly suspicious of there being real quantum fields. Quantum fields are a nice mathematical tool but I do not think we have any good reasons to think they are real, but I am not a physicist and I am certainly in dangerous half-knowledge territory here.

I have been wondering for years whether this might actually be a non-issue, could the universe secretly have fixed a gauge and just ran with it? Or would this somehow be inconsistent?
yes, when it's possible. but guis may not exist or may be not better than console, like in case of ffmpeg. the best, of course, is smart assistant who can take verbal commands. either human or llm.

but my post was about doing complex tasks in general. try to offload. another advise for developers is to write comments, even in your small hobby projects. this way you don't have to memorize it all. this was learned hard way. i usually also have a separate documentation with plans, ideas, algorithms, useful info. remind: this is for hobby projects.

and important thing: touch typing is must have. this makes it all much easier
True. The cheap ones are trying to guess CO2. Those are called "indoor air quality sensors".

Small CO2 sensors have been available for years, for about $50. Compare [1].

Life of this new device is only 10 years, which is short for HVAC systems. A hotel might have a thousand of these.
Older devices say "15+" years.

All these devices have a calibration problem. They drift. They try to correct by treating the lowest value they ever see as "normal" (that's about 400 ppm CO2 today, vs 300 PPM in 1950) and recalibrating. So they're not useful for observing a general increase in CO2. They're also not useful for greenhouses, where CO2 levels may drop below ambient CO2 due to photosynthesis.
Manual recalibration is possible but requires feeding in pure nitrogen and a known nitrogen/CO2 mixture.[2]

Devices which don't need that re-calibration exist.[3] They're more complicated. Also don't seem to be stocked by the usual distributors.

[1] https://rmtplusstoragesenseair.blob.core.windows.net/docs/pu...

[2] https://www.co2meter.com/blogs/news/7512282-co2-sensor-calib...

[3] https://www.murata.com/en-us/products/sensor/co2/overview/te...
... Except I'm not calling Joe Biden a communist.

I'm calling Lula a communist. He calls himself one. As does the judge he appointed to the supreme court. They even cheered when it happened: "finally we have a communist in the supreme court". Are you actually claiming that these people are not socialists?

I don't even need to discuss their obviously socialist ideologies. There is no need to interpret veiled implications, no need to make any inferences. They straight up use these words to describe themselves. Are you seriously going to contradict their own words on the matter?

If we cannot find common on ground on even such basic facts, then there's no point in any further discussion. Peace out.