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The problem with Fuchsia is it went from that to "We're taking all your headcount and rewriting your entire project on Fuchsia" and then started making deadline promises to upper management that it couldn't fulfill.

They seemed to have unlimited headcount to go rewrite the entire world to put on display assistant devices that had already shipped and succeeded with an existing software stack that Google then refused to evolve or maintain.

Fuchsia itself and the people who started it? Pretty nifty and smart. Fuchsia the project inside Google? Fuck.
This seems to match, I thought, numbers about how a trade war will impact Canada’s GDP. Something about raising prices for consumers and damaging companies I guess.
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China tells Japan not to disrupt Taiwan Strait peace after ship passage
Good approach. Sadly, it only lasts a few months before iOS with maximum hardening (lockdown mode + Apple Configurator supervised) falls to another zero day. Then the only option is DFU reinstall, which forces unstable iOS install.
Text: https://sfclearprices.org/v2/initiative_text.pdf

The loophole for service charges, and union-bargained service charges that distribute those charges unequally, strikes me as a bit rotten. (Maybe it’s necessary for San Francisco politics.)

The only legitimate exemption are fixed-charge fees which are clearly disclosed during the ordering process. Exempting unions, service charges and taxes is arbitrary.
Except none of Apple stuff is Electron based, and as far as I am aware of Apple salaries are competitive with top companies - so none of your arguments really hold up.
> the legal system absolutely overreached.

I see your bad faith argument, and let me respond with mine:

The legal system absolutely UNDERreached here.

Think otherwise? You got kids? Let's do a little experiment.
got a 1930s toastmaster single slice for $30 on eBay. new carbon switch contacts, new nichrome wire, new cord. functions great and really looks nice. there are a lot of broken toasters in the world.
Prices are set by the highest a seller is able and willing to pay, and the lowest a buyer is willing and able to accept (absent collusion).

It is clear that in certain US metros, sellers are both able and willing to pay a lot, and buyers are not willing to settle for less, because they can find other sellers able and willing to pay more.

Higher land prices come downstream of that. No one is stopping businesses from paying less in areas with lower priced land, but evidently, it is more difficult to make a successful, highly profitable business in lower priced areas.
That's preferable to Windows 11 requiring a cloud account in my book.
The target, though, is particularly bad.

My parents literally have a toaster from the 70s that they still use. I have a toaster I bought 20 years ago. Toasters (usually) don't have e-waste. They are incredibly simple machines that are easy to buy without so much as a single diode. That's because they are really simply just a box with heating elements.

If you want to battle e-waste like the article suggests, maybe pick a product that doesn't already have a 50-year service life without the need for repairs.
They’re on the side of “more money” and that’s the lens they view things through. They’re so bloody big any noticeable change to their bottom is huge. When security sold, they were for security but in todays environment they’re under pressure to collaborate.
That's what I think too. I prefer the same UI for 30 years. I don't care about any "UI new age" stuffs.

TBH I don't even care about security anymore, like our data has been sold left and right already. As long as I don't get phished, I avoid 80% of the bad actors out there.

I already removed some update software from Ubuntu, those update notifications are very frustrating.
The irony of using Facebook to coordinate an American boycott is spectacular.

It seems Scandinavians can’t even imagine organising anything without creating an FB group for it (I should know, I’ve never been on FB and it has been a hurdle ever since I moved to DK 10 years ago).
It attracts a lot of petty tyrants, that’s for sure.
lol I have never worked as hard as when I worked for an R1 university. My big tech job is way more like a resort vacation, complete with snacks and drinks.
> They have to compensate you for the relative difference in value between working for them and working for someone else.

No. They only have to offer enough compensation and benefits to attract enough people into the roles they need filled.

> what do you expect them to do when the employer offering WFH offers the same salary?

Does it matter what another company does if the other company can still fill the role without offering WFH? Your whole premise seems to hinge on this concept that a company offering an in office position can’t effectively fill the opportunities they are offering. That’s not the case in 2025 (at least in the US). Specifically with tech jobs every opening whether WFH or in office generates hundreds of applicants. Some people might prefer WFH, others might prefer in office, but if RTO is the trend, WFH opportunities will start decreasing and will fill up fast. My guess is that given the option between unemployment and employment in an office anyone and everyone who needs an income will opt for the latter and will not sit around stubbornly waiting for a WFH opportunity like a petulant child that has to eat their broccoli before they are allowed to get up from the dinner table.
You could do a checkpoint first though I believe? And if the database is only being updated on your local client I don’t think WAL mode would have much benefit since it’s probably not getting many concurrent writes.
The main thing we're doing differently in SM is that all of our ICs are generated using a simple linear IR (CacheIR), instead of generating machine code directly. For example, a simple monomorphic property access (obj.prop) would be GuardIsObject / GuardShape / LoadSlot. We can then lower that IR directly to MIR for the optimizing compiler.

It gives us a lot of flexibility in choosing what to guard, without having to worry as much about getting out of sync between the baseline ICs and the optimizer's frontend. To a first approximation, our CacheIR generators are the single source of truth for speculative optimization in SpiderMonkey, and the rest of the engine just mechanically follows their lead.

There are also some cool tricks you can do when your ICs have associated IR. For example, when calling a method on a superclass, with receivers of a variety of different subclasses, you often end up with a set of ICs that all 1. Guard the different shapes of the receiver objects, 2. Guard the shared shape of the holder object, then 3. Do the call. When we detect that, we can mechanically walk the IR, collect the different receiver shapes, and generate a single stub-folded IC that instead guards against a list of shapes. The cool thing is that stub folding doesn't care whether it's looking at a call IC, or a GetProp IC, or anything else: so long as the only thing that differs is the a single GuardShape, you can make the transformation.
Why? We know that there are things which can experience but not be conscious, for instance simple robots. Do you think it would be impossible to have a universe full of people with no souls, who simply react to inputs like a robot? I think such a thing could exist and would be indistinguishable from out own.
It’s a little like go in that it compiles quickly enough to replace scripts while still yielding good enough performance for a lot of systems tasks. It predates go and I wish Google had just supported D, it’s a much nicer language IMO
> Europeans went wild with their social welfare spending so badly that now they need to import 3rd worlders because they have too many people who are on the government dole and not enough young people to pay into the system. Quite ironically, these "guests" are ending up eating away further from the welfare system and repaying their hosts with terrorism, as was recently seen, and will continue to be seen.

As a "3rd worlder" that migrated to Europe, this comment is wrong on so many levels that I have my doubts if you are trolling or are just really stupid. Maybe a little bit of both.

Europe imports people for the very same reason the US imports people (and the US imports A LOT of people). Advanced economies are complex beasts that need manpower and expertise beyond what a single nation can generate - And most European nations are small-ish.

The country I originally moved to actually had unemployment in low single digits. It needed people. It was not because "everyone was living on the dole".

But you are free to repeat your fairly racist and jingoistic bullshit around. It's a free world after all.
The ECHR is an international agreement like many, many others. It has special status in UK law only because we chose to: that was the purpose of the Human Rights Act. You can also take complaints of breach to the European Court of Human Rights, but they have no enforcement powers (in particular, Russia often decided not to bother complying, and we've avoided enforcing their ruling on prisoner voting rights with their tacit consent).

It used to be the case that we were also tied into the ECHR (and playing nice with the rulings of the ECtHR) because it's required by EU law even though it's not an EU instrument and the ECtHR isn't an EU court. But as we've left that's no longer an issue.

Finally, I'd just say that there's little objectionable about the Convention, and for the most part it tracks very closely with existing British common law (not surprisingly, as it was a Churchill-supported project in the first place and intended to export what was great about the British tradition of liberty as much as to bind us into Europe). There are a few edge cases where politicians and certain newspapers get into enormous flaps about individual cases, but it's really not that constraining a convention: most of the clauses have get-outs for crime, morality and public order and the margin of appreciation is generally quite broad. It's not perfect any more than, say, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is, but the complaints are mostly grandstanding.
> ...the Thatcher government in the 1980s gave social housing tenants the right to buy homes, and created laws that prevented local authorities from building new public sector housing projects...

Also, with a large discount, so even if new social housing could be built, there wouldn't be the funds to build them. It is effectively a large wealth transfer from the taxpayer to those needing subsidised homes, such that they could later resell that home to release their windfall, sucking the money that could have gone to housing others.
I also find it much less drama to sit down on the couch and fire up a console, than to have to:

- startup PC

- update PC

- figure out why bluetooth controller won't pair to PC

- finally get it working, and then have a game crash on you
Successful lawsuits require humans to come forward with evidence of actual harm, not hypothetical paths to injury.
Thinking from the retrieval perspective, would it make sense to have two layers?

First layer just describes on high level, the tools available and what they do, and make the model pick or route the request (via system prompt, or small model).

Second layer implements the actual function calling or OpenAPI, which then would give the model more details on the params and structures of the request.
Money is something you can hodl in your hands (whenever needed in physical form) and walk around with, and spend without ever involving the power grid.

When you Hodl Bitcoin all you've done is make an "In-Game Purchase" (Like Warcraft Gold) in a game that most humans don't want to play, and have already rejected. Also BTC has already failed as a currency, because the people who value it only want to hoard it, due to the fact that they consider it an actual asset, so they won't spend it; and the rest of us don't want to join your cult/game.

A game that can be cloned infinite times, at the click of a mouse, too.
According to my mom, when you hit 70 or so is when you start "feeling old". So it'll come in a few years.
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Works for me on latest macOS. Maybe your hardware is SOL? Can you share the video?

Reminds me of the butterfly keyboard issue of the 2016-2019” model year MBs.

If your warranty is still active could try to get the trackpad replaced.
I just wish the Linux desktop experience were better. I'm going to give Deepin a try as it is focused on desktop experience.
What part is a lie? Be specific and share your evidence.
Purging the military tends to reduce capability and readiness. Independent what you’re purging…
China now emits almost 2x the carbon per capita than the UK, and alone emits more than all western countries combined including the US. The UK can't solve climate change at the margin or anywhere else with domestic energy policy.

China is now consuming record amounts of coal (the globe has not actually even reached peak-coal yet despite claims we'd already passed it going back decades and despite western coal consumption taking a nosedive starting about 20 years ago). Which is strange considering that it has also been an enormous producer and exporter of allegedly much cheaper solar and wind generators for many years.

Something doesn't add up here, and further disadvantaging much cleaner domestic industry and driving production offshore to countries with far higher emissions intensity of production (not to mention many other environmental and humanitraian issues) is not the way to solve climate change. It could be making it even worse.
I believe the only product that currently ships with Fuchsia is the Google Nest Hub. I could also imagine it running on meeting room hardware for Google Meet, although I don't believe that is true today. I would imagine this is largely a defense in depth type of security measure, where it limits the blast radius of vulnerabilities services. Beyond that, it is not hard to imagine use-cases that would benefit from running less-trusted code, especially if that code comes from third parties like an app store or some sort of company specific add-on.
> Of course, with the current political environment, I suspect we may see things like requirements for proving marriage (to a man), if you are a woman with children (like it used to be in Days of Yore), etc.

This is completely unnecessary hyperbole and injection of politics into a topic where it does not belong.
> The class check requires loading the object from main memory/cpu cache but the actual check is a single cycle cmp check.

Only a guard or, possibly, a final class type-check (at least it's the case for sealed classes or exact type comparisons in .NET). For anything else this will be more involved due to inheritance.

Obviously for any length above ~3 this won't dominate but JVM type system defaults don't make all this any easier.
I already lose sleep worrying about people I care about. In this case, me and this guy weren't particularly close, and I'd rather laugh at his unprompted rage than burden myself with another sleepless night! It is what it is.
60 years of tories and tory-lites slowly but surely cutting "waste", privatizing, deregulating, pushing for austerity...

Let that be a lesson to the US, seeking government efficiency is a non-goal. Good, well-funded public services make productive citizens and a strong economy. Austerity leads to a dead country.
I feel that the real thing that this guy is getting at, which I am also a fan of, is "How could we as a society, shift the culture away from disposability and consumption to sustainability and repair?"

As someone without all the answers, it seems like only a heavyhanded degree of regulation could have any chance (e.g. high taxes on whole categories of devices with low/no repairability). Though perhaps in a trade apocalypse situation that may happen sooner than we think (such as total breakdown of trade with China) perhaps repair will suddenly be relevant. This is why, as I understand it, basically every car owner in Cuba is also a mechanic.

Of course, they had the benefit of having 1950s cars when trade barriers went up. We've got houses full of devices built and purchased with the understanding that you throw away anything with a plug or a battery within 5 years max!
I paid for the whole GPU, I am going to use the whole GPU
Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)
> Financial enforcement is empirically one of our most effective tools to combat organized crime.

I'd love to read more on this position.

> Really the only reason we don't do this is because of the Constitution.

While the US is better about privacy than many other places, most of the developed world still manages to not be a surveillance hellscape without strong constitutional protections. Besides, the constitution does very little directly to protect privacy because the framers failed to anticipate technological advancement and the size of the future bureaucratic state... we have what we have largely because of jurisprudence that has read the constitution rather expansively-- which it's done so for the same reason that nations without constitutional civil liberties still largely respect individual privacy: it's a human right which we implicitly recognize.
Allowing our law and revenue enforcement to track you down is very burdensome. Good thing we prioritize shell companies to hide assets.
I’m fine with that if the government also levies an 80% total asset tax on high net worth individuals over $5 million, and uses all this money to adequately fund free education for all.
I don’t mean lethality either. It’s hard to craft an argument here without doing a blog post length comment (that I’m hardly qualified to write) but even from the last week there’s evidence of Russian FPV drone use with very mobile forces: https://armyrecognition.com/focus-analysis-conflicts/army/co...

I don’t know where you draw the line between static and dynamic/modern but IMO they’re clearly in the latter mode at least some of the time, even though it’s hard to tell which attacks are strategic and which are the result of combined arms tactics due to fog of war.
Put your global tables in Postgres/CockroachDB/Vitess/etc. You don't need to force everything to be a SQLite table. Use the right tool for the job. SQLite can be the right tool, and it can not be the right tool.
Have you ever had one fail? Mine is the $10 plastic special from 20 years ago still toasting it's heart out.

The simpler a toaster is, the more likely it is to have eternal life. If you can buy a modern toaster that's just the knob and levers (no digital controls or whatever) then there's really no reason it won't last decades.
Apple should Open Source its OSes and internal apps. Of course this is very NOT-Apple, but it would allow folks to fix their apps. There's really no advantage to keeping it all proprietary. Apple's software teams are completely under water whereas Apple customers are diehards and would gleefully help fix issues. It would avoid the need to reproduce problems internally prior to ranking their importance for the internal team to fix. Besides, MacOS roots are in Open Source.
> iTunes was such a stable, usable piece of software

Excuse me?

iTunes was IMO always bad. I will grant that the Mac desktop version of Apple Music is possibly even worse than iTunes ever was, though.

(This is slightly off topic, but I find it both amusing and rather infuriating that the iCloud payment system doesn’t accept Apple Pay. Oddly, it seems to accept PayPay. Really, just about everything involving the account and payment system in iCloud and Apple Music is awful.)
Sure, you will need to write a major mode but honestly it's not that hard to get syntax highlighting working. If you follow something like https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/lets-write-a-treesitt... plus using M-x treesit-explore-mode it took me 1 day to get treesitter support for OCaml, starting from knowing nothing about how Treesitter works with Emacs to a semi-decent highlighting and indentation setup. The indentation was harder to get working, but all up 300 lines of elisp including whitespace and comments.
asm.js solves this in the specific case where somebody has compiled their C/C++ code to target asm.js. It doesn't solve it for arbitrary JS code.

asm.js is more like a weird frontend to wasm than a dialect of JS.
Oh sweet, thanks for the link. It sounds like it was harder getting things running on the XB1's tiny CPU vs running an emulator on monster dev machines, no surprise there! :-D
Or maybe someone with a vested interest in making it look like the FAA is incompetent and air traffic control is dangerously flawed and needs a company to take over the work? https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/elon-musk-faa-air-tr...

On further consideration, por que no los dos, with mutual cooperation and interest?
Yeah that is very frustrating. I recently went to Ubuntu and picked the minimum installation. I then installed a bunch of development tools such as `build-essentials` and `git`. Other than Youtube crashing on Firefox, the whole experience, at least for the programmer part of me, is very satisfying.

BTW debugging still takes a lot of effort to setup in VSCode / or have to write init scripts for GDB which I suck at. I think Visual Studio debugger beats everything on Linux for that purpose.

Maybe I really need to try out Windows LTSC?
Like these? https://electrek.co/2025/03/03/tesla-owners-get-creative-to-...
The upload-and-stream-your-own-music feature, as handled by the Mac desktop Apple Music app, seems to be 90% bug and 10% working. I can’t imagine a rewrite being worse than the status quo.
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In about 50% of the worlds, there’s 100% chance, would you say?
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I tried a plastic body light one a long time back but haven’t returned to it. I think in part because I found the roller ball point pens to be smoother writing and less ‘scratchy’. But maybe I am not using it properly or didn’t get the right model.
Ah, I wish I could get a job like that -- both hardware and software. I need to take out the STM32 dev board I purchased a few years ago and started writing software for it.
Right. We don’t need to debate whether a loose tiger is angry, confused, or hungry in order to know that they’re not safe around people. We can leave understanding the contents of its mind to the philosophers.

What is very clear from the video is that the robots are an order of magnitude heavier and stronger than a person. That’s all you really need to know.