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Heating and cooling can only be offloaded in extremely wellinsulated houses. A lot of the ones in the UK do not make the cut. Even some new EU ones do not.

If you try to offload it otherwise you just waste power heating/cooling yourself at wrong hours.

A boiler in this setup is a thermal battery. These are good, but space consuming and relatively failure prone and expensive to maintain.
Inefficient compared to central too.
It was deliberate choice in a sub thread that's literally about literary metaphors.

As a native english reader, writer and speaker of some six decades I grasp the tension in the use of ' literally "airquoted" ' and embrace it.

I also enjoy Riddley Walker, the first edition of Clockwork Orange (sans lexicographic annexure), and the outrageously provocative shock value of the opening sentence of Burgess's panoramic saga Earthly Powers.

Your opinion is noted and respected.
You read it as a comms issue. I don't. I read it they have been selling a form of my data.

In one, my argument is an overreaction. In the other it is reasonable, given they have been misleading consumers. A strategy which clearly would be oversighted by senior management.
The trackpad works extremely great with macos. The acceleration curve, smoothness of scrolling, multi-gesture support that closely matches the UI paradigms, click anywhere and it perfectly registers, etc. It truely is to me the primary pointing device for mac and I immediately bought the external trackpad when trying external keyboards.

But none of that properly transfers to windows, and most of its hardware tweaks become irrelevant. I also didn't mind the Surface laptop trackpads, but vastly prefer a mouse with extra buttons for windows machines TBH (there are a ton of great mice too, so all things considered it's fine that way)
I was blessed with one of the best neighbourhood playgrounds ever and it included a white corkscrew slide nearly the same as the one pictured in the article. There were several summers spent in that playground all day every day it wasn't raining. I thought I was going to be a stuntman. I was 8 when I first leapt from the very top of the slide, which was the highest point in the playground. I was very proud.

Later we invented the game of "headtag", which was a game of tag wherein a tag was only valid if it was of a person's head. It was played entirely on the twirly slide, we allowed a landing and 2 steps on the ground which was enough to get back on the slide should one leap off to avoid getting tagged. This made for a compact, fast paced game of tag best played with 3 people. We started getting good after a few years, and used the slide like a piece of gymnastics equipment, chasing each other around it like squirrels on a tree.

I've since gone on many adventures and done many seemingly dangerous things and I owe my ability to keep my ass in one piece to the skills I cultivated in that playground. That slide in partivcular, I'm so nostalgic for it. In 2003 they ripped it out, along with a dozen others from various playgrounds of the 70s and early 80s.
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I meant the fact that math works at all, as a symbolic framework with consistency and the power to prove some statements and disprove others, etc. Math only has those features because it examines symbols abstractly regardless of any connection to the real world.

Like, consider: parabolas were pretty fully described by the ancient Greeks, purely as a symbolic abstraction. It was only 1500+ years later that anyone realized that they could also predict the motion of cannonballs and planets. But that discovery was completely orthogonal to the math - e.g. symbolic statements about parabolas didn't get any truer just because they now also described real-world phenomena. (And likewise when we later discovered that planetary motion isn't quite parabolic after all, that didn't affect our understanding of parabolas either.)

That's all I was saying here - that the "esoteric artform" part of math where one abstractly examines symbols is the essence of the thing, and the "predict real-world phenomena" aspect is a side effect that sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't.
Apple really should slow down their release cycles and focus on quality for a while. Apple Music on macOS is such an embarrassment. The UI is a mess. Airplay is broken.
I just want my old fashioned but decent Mac applications back.
I appreciate this isn't about Japanese pencils, but if anyone is ever visting the LAke District in the UK, I highly recommend going to the Derwent Pencil Museum. It's absolutely fascinating how pencils came to be, the number of steps to make them etc.

I really appreciate old school manufacturing and pencils were the top tech around the turn of the century!
> Not all kids failed disastrously at remote school, some excelled and worked far ahead of their classmates.

My grandson was like this. He was in a "virtual school" pod with three other children and is reading far ahead of his grade level and one of the reasons is that he didn't have to spend a ton of time in the child-management boot camp that a lot of elementary schools tend to be.
Agreed, but they're not that complex to retrofit to a parking space. I can foresee a future where each space has a port and an account card reader - they'd make the buildings more valuable, the supplier to that space has a basically guaranteed income stream, and the government has an easy emissions reduction. Wins all round, so why wouldn't it happen?
This leaves out the important part, nothing has actually changed. This is entirely a rewording for what they're currently doing and have been doing for years.

If it's such an outrage worthy subject why did no one explode about this when they added the sponsored links years ago?
> Microsoft doesn't actually care about OEMs shipping with no OS installed anymore, do they?

Embrace, extend, extinguish. /s

They do care. Else you would see other OSs on new hardware.
Thank you for your insightful response! I completely agree that effective human-AI collaboration hinges on a robust interface that enables meaningful two-way communication. Whether through sensory-motor interactions or more abstract cognitive interfaces, achieving a truly symbiotic relationship is crucial.

The question of what humans can offer to AI—especially in the context of autonomous, self-aware AGI—is an important one. While today’s AI doesn’t yet necessitate human input in the way a biological symbiont might, there’s still immense value in human intuition, ethical reasoning, creativity, and the ability to frame problems in ways AI cannot. Of course, the world I envision is one where humans are still our priority and the world is shaped to maximise for human happiness. It definitely is not the current state.

Even a superior AI (in some domains) could still benefit from human collaboration, not just as an input provider but as a co-evolving counterpart.

Your point about AI interaction tools is particularly compelling. Historically, technologies that seamlessly integrate into human habits—touch, vision, natural language—have seen widespread adoption. AI needs interfaces that lower friction and increase accessibility, much like how smartphones and browsers revolutionized digital interactions.

Curious to hear your thoughts ...
Does it matter if they weren't arguing in favor of a free web to begin with? Quite the opposite in fact; their stated stance is they want to remove people they disagree with from the web.
hare will not support Windows.

https://harelang.org/documentation/install/#supported-platfo...

Interesting reasons.
I'm with you, I really am. I've been on Firefox for nearly two decades, even the shitty years. But I still think this was a foreseeable issue and even the claim that "there was confusion" only shows a disconnect.

If you make a move like this you need to announce it in advance. You announce it loudly! You need you recognize that users concerned with privacy are looking for canaries. So when you have to put a canary down you fucking tell people before and don't just wait for them to find a dead canary. Of course people are going to freak out, that's what canaries are for.
There's no chance I would be able to recommend some Waterfox or Iceweasel to family or friends. Current status is Chrome or Firefox, and there's a long long way ahead for anything else to become relevant. Death of Firefox would mean immediate death of all the forks too.
This site is what the reader view was made for.
Started a NixOS Flake for declarative network namespace isolation for systemd services: https://github.com/elsbrock/netns-unit/
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Taiwanese can decide to be more "Chinese" or not via votes.
That's the main difference between Taiwan and China.
I used to do thousands of interviews across the industry and I vividly remember Apple backend devs being almost always unmitigated disasters. They would always pick Java and could barely use it - to the point where a for loop would be challenging. Their Swift guys were fairly decent though IIRC.
Amazing to see posters still managing to blame an external enemy for their own humongous trillion-dollar consent machine working as designed in a direction they don't like this time.
No email on your profile visible unfortunately
UK universities warned to 'stress-test' assessments as 92% of students use AI
This rings so completely true to me. Every time I notice a reproducible bug and try to report it to Apple I'm stunned by how difficult they make the process. Even reporting something as basic as incorrectly transcribed podcasts is an awful experience.

Triaging and categorising bug reports at scale really feels like something LLMs should be able to assist with significantly.
Obviously it's going to cost more. Just like tarrifs will.

But we can either make things cost a little more or give away massive piles of money while getting maybe nothing in return and have everything cost more anyway.
> almost nobody has (or puts in) the time to properly edit a twenty+ pages document to make it pleasant to read

That's why technical writers and editors exist.
Is it? I don’t think those statements are incompatible in either example. In both scenarios we are looking at very meaningful leaps forward in terms of the underlying architecture and what that enables that simply aren’t possible within the boundaries of what is out there currently. I don’t think that’s the same thing as “meant to replace” at all though.
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I've heard it called a "write-only language"
Is Ireland historically and culturally British? Sort of.

Is Czechia historically and culturally German? Sort of.

Is Ukraine historically and culturally Russian? Sort of.

Is Pakistan historically and culturally Indian? Sort of.

Once you have to ignore the wishes of the population and resort to historical arguments, forced reunification becomes a conquest.

I certainly wouldn't like my own government to start expansive wars into, say, Silesia, because it used to belong to the Czech crown for 500 years. But I have a say in this. The Chinese population might not.
That's incredibly short-sighted, not least because the number of fires per vehicle is orders of magnitude higher for combustion vehicles. I'd be astonished if that made actuarial sense if actually investigated.

I've seen and used underground car chargers in multiple European cities. They're definitely viable.
> Firstly, that is not fascism and I do wish people would stop misusing that word.

It is facism. The treatment alone of the trans community is enough to earn it that title. If you want to make an argument from your book then please do so but linking to it alone is not an argument.

> Are you referring to the Guatanamo Bay detention camp?

Are you deciding to pick and choose from the list I gave you? The Nazi salutes mean nothing?

I'm referring to the directive to house 30,000 people there, up from a current population of zero. Coupled with dehumanising language like "illegals," the "delegation of immigration authority" to untrained officers, and the careless attitude to false positives make these developments very much incomparable to anything that's gone before (at least outside of places like Nazi Germany). Do ask yourself as well how easily the use of these facilities can be broadened in the future once there there to house other types of "illegals."

They are already ignoring the courts [0]. What the Executive Order does "legally" does not matter to someone who claims "he who serves his country breaks no law." The only thing that matters is intention. You're thinking about this from a legalist perspective but those days are gone.

0: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5292342/trump-federal-f...
It certainly doesn’t run like C. I once thought to port my JSM machine learning engine to python and it felt Cython might just be what I needed. Simply put it’s tight loops doing bitwise ops on bit-vectors. In reality no amount of adding type annotations would help the thing was slower then C++ by an order of magnitude.
Is PyPI moving towards a subscription model or abandoning package neutrality?
It would come as no surprise if Russian intelligence has some juicy blackmail material.
It’s also a totally different security architecture that is considered actually defendable rather than the cat and mouse game we have going on today. It’s actually well designed for modern threats.
I don't have a cloud login. I log into windows with a windows user account.
I don't have ads in start, and i can make my taskbar vertical.

literally everything you said was false, but i can only disprove a majority of it with a single screenshot

https://i.imgur.com/XR1aj5b.png

not only no ads in start, no ads anywhere, ffs
>"we're going to sell your data"

And:

>>This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox.

So now we can use your photo of your birthday party that you sent via webmail... but don't worry, we don't own it, you just gave us a "non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license".
why don't let taiwan decide if they want to be ruled by ccp instead ?
Is it right that they raise $3.5B, projected to burn $3.0B this year with ~$1.2B in revenue _expected_ this year?

So either prices are going to rocket up at some point and/or massive efficiencies? That doesn’t seem like a good position. I like their models, but not sure how they’ll survive long term.
it sounds like you and I have completely different understandings of the world, so I'm genuinely not sure I can convince you otherwise, but let me give it a shot

to oversimplify into a couple points:

* people make mistakes, especially in communication—it happens! I misspeak (or often don't fully consider how people with different POVs will interpret what I say differently) all the time, personally

* nearly mozilla's entire remaining userbase has stuck around because of mozilla's independence and focus on privacy. everyone with a brain knows full well that selling all user data entered into the browser is the single biggest possible violation of that. therefore, how would mozilla continue to exist as a company in any capacity if that were actually the case? they would have zero users

finally, I'll leave you with hanlon's razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
Was it one of these?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=asml%20llnl&type=comment
yes, I guess running switch games on android is like running x86 windows games on x86 linux using wine.
Firstly, VSCode runs on 3 major OSes that don’t have this capability and such software results the way it is partially because of targeting the lowest common denominator. Only a Fuscia first editor would do this.

Secondly, the editor also does it this way this because of reasons other than support within the OS because even with components it would need to design a capabilities model for extensions and a sandbox process to maintain the permissions - it’s much easier to just do the extensions in-process and not think about it.
I can imagine the very same thing being said if the USA had pulled out of the War on Terror. B-but they have WMD! The NYT said so!
From TFA:

This comes just weeks after security analysts sounded the alarm on Sandworm stealing credentials and data from American organizations. Sandworm is the operations wing of Russia's Military Intelligence Unit 74455, part of the GRU, that has been blamed for waging cyberwarfare against America's critical infrastructure.

That 'graph links directly to:

"Two Russians sanctioned over cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure" (22 July 2024)

<https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/22/russians_sanctioned_o...>

And:

"Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities" (17 April 2024)

<https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/russia_sandworm_cyber...>

The Register has tags linking to other Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) stories which detail many further such instances:

<https://www.theregister.com/Tag/Cybersecurity%20and%20Infras...>

Which is a very small sampling of what can be found online.

HN itself turns up nearly 300 story submissions for "russia hackers":

<https://hn.algolia.com/?q=russia%20hackers>

Let's dispense with the asking of facile questions readily answered within the article itself or very proximate resources. It is at best strongly disingenuous.
I have thoughts. Maybe biased because I'm Russian.

Imagine I maimed a guy on the street because he was walking too slowly. Was "the whole deal" about him walking too slowly? Yes and no. He was walking slow. But also I was a violent psycho.

Imagine I killed my wife because she was wearing the wrong skirt and looked at another man. Was the whole deal about my wife behaving how I don't like? Yes and no. She was behaving in some way. But also I was a violent psycho.

People come up with all sorts if rationalizations and I definitely heard both "Ukraine had resources Russia needed" and "Ukraine was willing to sell resources to US".

Resources? Excuse me, look at the map? You know that tiny Netherlands beats Russia in agriculture exports. Russia has the most reserves of mineral resources of any country in the world. The country has insane resources already and its corrupt government is unable to make good use of them.

But anyway. They say Ukraine was willing to sell resources to US (those people like to use loaded phrases like "US wanted to siphon resources from Ukraine") and Putin didn't like it? Well there's a well known way to solve this "problem": offer a better deal, don't be a dick, invest, stuff also called "diplimacy".

Resources, NATO, US military complex, whatever, mostly those things are bullshit, maybe they did motivate Putin, who knows. It's just mentioning those things with a solemn face full of insight as if they explain something is what paints a person as Putin supporter and aggression apologists in my eyes. Because none of those things justify the choice of mass murder by a violent psycho.
> something the tory party did nothing to address

When PM Liz Truss tried, it ended with disaster.
It's my understanding that OCaml does not allow its programs to specify the size and signedness of its ints, so no 16-bit unsigned, 32-bit signed, etc...

Being a huge fan of F# v2 who has ditched all MS products, I didn't think OCaml was able to be systems-level because its integer vars can't be precisely specified.

I'd love to know if I'm wrong about this. Anyone?
Any and all promises made by the Trump administration mean nothing
Keep that same energy with israel then.
exactly. I was not referring to ads, but to annoying suggestions in embedded videos (also when the video is paused!), and even to the long and mostly useless suggestions list on the right of the screen. I want to use YouTube as a useful tool, not to waste my time in endless loops of "oh, that looks interesting!"
I would encourage you to try out a recent reasoning model like Claude 3.7 Sonnet / o3-mini / R1. No, it's not perfect, but it can very much architect and design things at a higher level than you might think. This is already taken advantage of by Aider, which has a mode that splits the tasks: https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html

My point isn't that it's perfect today, but it's already further along the trajectory than one might think.
My perl code isn’t. But neither is my Python, or Java, or C, or JavaScript or bash or anything.

Clearly the problem is all these languages, and not me.
You say CDN but you're really talking about static web servers in general.
To mark the parsing of the day and to note that any incomplete tasks that I intend to keep have been re-planned to elsewhere. Any marked days are then there for historic purposes only.
It was not. I'm a real person, and I'm genuinely willing to concede that I was sloppy in my choice of words. But I'm not sure how I can prove it to you.
Distilling something to a short document is not easy. I write "live" docs, i.e. during the process itself, on a separate document. They become long, but they stay linear and searchable. They are very good for returning back and doing the same thing or improving the doc itself.

However, if I want to distill it to a smaller doc, I'd need to spend another day to make it perfect, and I don't have time, unfortunately.
Can't reproduce. Second one this thread where someone had this error "for years" but I can't reproduce. Smells of a setting that's been migrated for years from an old version, as where I'm writing from is a clean macbook with a clean account (M3, about a year old now).

EDIT: can repro. But it's very important to note: you need to have a color selected already. So select a color with the + sign, close the app, open it, top right click custom color, and then the bug appears, although not like you describe: the color selection is easy, it jumps around for 20ms during dragging.
If this is what we call "low quality" I'm happy to stay on Mac.

Might be a reason why it wasn't fixed if you didn't include that vital step in your repro.
iOS is without question one of the most secure OS out there today with any amount of real world use but the gap between what it is and what state of the art looks like is also insane. Fuchsia is actually quite well aligned with something that’s actually defendable in the real world and across time.