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>Most software engineers can't write a program without google. They can't remember basic facts about the language they use every day.

How many years of experience do you have? and how many languages have you written code in? Include all languages where you tweaked or wrote even a single line of code.
> and other than a bit of open source (PyTorch and React are nice, I guess) as far as I can tell it's never really had any mission other than getting big.

I sometimes wonder what motivations these orgs have in contributing to open source.

My cynical side refuses to believe that the reasons are altruistic (although I'm sure there are altruistic individuals in those orgs!).

I think that the decisions to contribute to open source are calculated business decisions made to benefit the organization by:

* Getting outside contributions to the software that's widely used inside an organization

* Getting more people familiar with the software so that when they're hired they are already up to speed

* Attracting talent

* Improving PR

* Undermining competition (Llama?)

Regardless of the reasons, I think that there's a huge net benefit to society from large companies open-sourcing their software. I just don't think that's an argument to view these companies more favorably.
I fail to see what is gained to flash ESP32 from the browser vs from a small software gui you can run on your computer (and offline as well).
Saving the 1 minute setup time needed to install the software ? The rest is basically the same procedure.
You misread their comment (emphasis added):

> direct ties to Biden associates

Biden hired people with ties to people in his circle. Trump does the same. That is not, in and of itself, nefarious—in private companies it's widely understood that hiring through your network is the most reliable way to hire.

There may be other reasons why these particular cases are nefarious, but simply pointing out "ties to" does not show that by itself.
I have been quite happy with Porkbun. But I also was aware of Proton’s CEO and Proton the company’s vocal far right endorsements which didn’t matter much as I had written Proton off multiple times even before that for various reasons. Now, I am really not sure how to react to this Proton+Porkbun relationship thingie.

What are alternatives to Porkbun in cost and UX simplicity?
It's not an either-or thing. Every case of WebUSB flashing I've seen also offers an open source CLI tool you can pull down and use instead.
How much time did it take from start to finish in terms of planning and preparing the entire operation?
I went to Santana Row in the Bay Area and the Tesla store was very popular. Most regular people aren't terminally online and constantly worried about politics.
The Church building is only considered Holy when Christ is considered present for Eucharist. Should it be removed along with the Altar, it only becomes a building, to Catholics at least. This is why abandon Churches can be converted to other things, in Montreal there are examples of these buildings.

OP is correct here by saying that the Church is the people. It’s just that the word has two meanings, the church building and the Church of Christ.

It’s also why sometimes you hear Christians say things like “your family is also your Church”
Extension + a native program for the extension to talk to. The native program has to manage accessing the usb device and providing an interface to the browser extension.
Not just toxic, he's simply wrong. A 10X is someone who supposedly completes 10 hours' worth of work in one hour. If anything he was a -10X lol...
What's a surprise, a guy who has stolen startup from Winklevoss brothers and had to settle the case in the court has a "brutal image". Who would've expected that!
But it also means freedom and self determination for those who would otherwise be minorities within an agglomerated state.
Just because there is a process of voting, doesn’t make it a democracy, hence my claim that the US is only nominally democratic - democratic in name only.

Because the option are so restricted, and the people’s influence of the politics, I do not consider the US democratic.

Yes there was a vote, but it is not sufficient. The people don’t hold the power.
Right, essentially every private hospital's response if, say, a patient they're giving a boob job suddenly becomes unresponsive is to... call the NHS. Yeah, the medical staff will be better than your neighbour or some random passing guy in the street when it comes to knowing how to put you in recovery position or attempt CPR but those hospitals won't have a crash protocol beyond too bad call the NHS.

I spent eight hours at an Accident & Emergency department at my city's hospital a couple of weeks ago (Those electric scooters look easy enough, I have a driving license, I watch the training video, then at midnight I thought I'd try one, signed it out, crashed into a lamp post within seconds, broke my hand and busted my head open. Oops. Signed the scooter back in, walked to the Urgent Care, it shuts late at night, walked towards hospital, saw a cop - "Hey, I can't see my head, I can feel the wound, is it bad?" "You should get a taxi to A&E. I'll call you one"). There is no private emergency care, private cosmetic surgery sure, and lots of private non-urgent care, like knee replacement or whatever - but no emergency care.
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Even the most fanatic Tesla fanbois, have given up on trying to justify anymore the absurd valuation as a car company....

They are always watching forwards.... :-) Now it's all about the value of the non existing...but coming soon robotics...And coming soon... but non existing, self-driving taxis.

Watch and see, how rational adults, can dream on while totally awake: https://youtu.be/HTesFrD7_Zw?t=18
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Because corporations literally forbid people working for them and living in some cheap places. My corporation forbids this, I must live withing commute distance of any of our offices, despite working full remote for years. They also made a weak try to shove us back in the office in 2023, but that was universally ignored and not enforced thankfully.
Honestly that seems high enough, yeah.
It would seem that marketing was not one of your responsibilities in past roles
> In fact, the DMA doesn't even explicitly require that gatekeepers allow third party app stores; they can only allow direct distribution (e.g. via web sites) instead, if they want.

Is Apple actually complying with the DMA then? They are still requiring notarization, which means apps still have to be approved by them.
Prolog is definitely the tool for this. I created an entire year's schedule for teachers a decade ago without a sweat. Maybe remove some constraints and try to debug which one is causing the problem.
Hi from Argentina!

Yesterday someone tried to hack my WhatsApp. He call me and said something like:

> Hello! I'm from phone company $Name. Someone tried to register your WhatsApp number form $Another_city. We are calling to confirm because otherwise we will have to block your phone line with $Name.

The first problem was that $Name was not my phone company. I though it was a "change company" call that is worse than a scam because it's real and is done by the phone companies. They even let children accept the company change. So I said that I didn't authorize any change to anything. He replied that:

> You are in WhatsApp group $Something and if you don't confirm we will have to block your phone line with $Name.

Weird pause because I was in group $Something! And he continued:

> We will send you now an SMS with a code to confirm your identity, because if we don't get the confirmation we will have to block your phone line with $Name.

I hang up.

I got a SMS from WhatsApp with a secret number to install WhatsApp in a new device, that explicitly says that I should not share the number with anyone.

They probably hacked the account of other member of group $Something. The main plan is to send money request to other persons in the group. Our bank system is quite modern and everyone has in their phone an app from the bank to transfer money instantly for free. (I have not seen a dead-tree check in decades.)

So today I have zero sympathy for scammers. Moreover, I think the employees of the call centers of the real companies here have worse working conditions than the scammer here. And neither of them are in almost slavery conditions.

(From time to time we have police investigations of slavery conditions but mostly for forced prostitution and ilegal cloth factories. It's a real problem but not in the scammer area.)
10x is not about the number of lines produced.

It is about programming languages and tools, about database design/schemas.

Choose the wrong language/tool for the job and the amount of work needed to solve the job easily expands 10x.

Guido van Rossum and James Gosling and Anders Hejlsberg likely have reduced the amount of work by 10x for a lot of projects compared to implementing them in a lower level programming language.
You don't have to be terminally online to see nazi salutes at national political conventions or people protesting and pelting cars & stores nationwide.
The Framework desktop seems like a next step.

Although I appreciate the drive for small profile I wonder where the limits are if you put a big tower cooler onto it, seeing as the broad design direction is for laptops or consoles I doubt there's too much left on the table. I think that highlights a big challenge - is there a sizeable enough market for it, or can you pull in customers from other segments to buy a NUC instead. You'd need a certain amount of mass manufacturing with a highly integrated design to make it worthwhile.
Fine with you for your tech candidate question, if that works for you.

Maybe I never encountered your perspective; in 20 years in the industry, in about 10 significant software prod/consulting companies, we never outsourced hiring or pre-hiring. From my experience and perception, minor coding tests are a hiring filter than does not gives good results, for both sides of the interview.

You want to hire junior candidates? that test is fun and maybe ok an indicator. Having them live comment/describe/solve existing pieces of code is much more effective and fast. They will still demonstrate ability once on the job, that's what juniors are for.

You want to hire experienced (or even senior) candidates and filter for domain knowledge? 1. Filter on experience & referrals. 2. Conversations: same approach as with the juniors, but much deeper and wider, relevant to your domain. 3. Call at least one reference to counter-check.

A generic fizzbuzz/minesweeper (remember also "code a functional basic blog engine with comments in 30min" back in 2006) coding test demonstrates (in my very subjective and limited opinion) laziness and kind of a lack of interest in the candidate from the hiring person/company.

I understand that when you screen 1000s of people, it gets massive and more basic filters may apply, at least at first contact, though.

> But would you bet on that? Bet your team, your product, your company, your mission, whatever is important to you, on their ability to get things done? I don't think you would. And hiring (and everything else in business) is about making good bets, not about batting 1.000.

I've seen more rejected candidates because of "soft skills" failures than because of technical skills. And much more fired for behaviour than for technical/performance issues. Domain knowledge can be trained, fixed and integrated within the company. Behaviour cannot.
Why are the embedded GPU:s always so stunted?

Memory bandwidth. Besides LLMs, gaming on an iGPU will always be more expensive for the same performance as dedicated GPUs due to memory bandwidth.

Before someone tells me consoles using iGPUs, keep in mind that consoles use GDDR as its main system memory which has slow access times for the CPU. In a non-console, CPU performance is important. GDDR is also power hungry so they can't be used as the main system RAM in a laptop form.
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Hmmm, maybe the DEI was making the planes safer, after all
But the entire world is California and Texas, right? No need to worry about extreme temperature swings.

I live in Ohio and have been LOLing at watching stainless steel Cybertrucks drive around completely covered in road salt. That’s gonna work great.
In this case, if the scammer is from Russia there is likely no trafficking involved (except maybe for the woman who called on the phone because she did not sound Russian to me).
Elon Musk is a text book definition of an oligarch, combining tremendous wealth, control over major technological industries and political power.
To be fair, it's more likely they just looked you up on FB.
Taste: Why do we like what we like?
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> a company to develop creative projects that were not my novels

This may be related to Netflix movie/series adaptation of "Old Man's War" ?

https://reactormag.com/netflixs-adaptation-of-john-scalzis-o...
Now explain why iPhone is more popular in Denmark, Norway, Monaco, Andorra, Iceland, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland than they are even in the US.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma...

Efficient markets at work, right?
Right, but those 200 people won't be prosecuted for watching it, which was my point. The example I was thinking about when posting would be putting up a copy of copyright art in a public place. The people in the public place are not breaking the law by looking at it, only the person who placed it... well even then, would the workers who put it up be liable? Probably not, it's not reasonable for someone who puts up billboards to check the copyright license.
Apple, I think, would lose market share but would live. It would probably make them better since it would be a nice boot in the ass. But their products are at least good, if a bit overpriced and with more rough spots than some will admit.

Tesla would be dead the instant BYD hit the US shore. Total death. Like chapter 11 and fire sale.
This. The 'black circle' in the tutorial is no good, maybe a dotted circle instead to make it clear you're supposed to be tapping empty space and not a black bubble.
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It is not just political/cultural reasons. There are lots of other EV cars in Europe now (including both European, Korean and Chinese brands). Tesla has also gotten a bad reputation regarding build-quality and service lately, and Tesla's big sudden price reductions in 2023/2024 meant that the vehicles lost a lot of resale value.

But yes; Tesla's primary remaining competitive advantage was its brand -- which Musk has done an amazing job at eroding lately.
Nazis on one hand, stealerships on the other. What a terrible market.
3. There's always that one person whose only ability to contribute is to cheerlead the others... and some nerdy types take a long time to figure out you don't need to listen to them or tie your fate to them.
Shrinking by the minute
Cool!

Feedback: the concept of “lives” spoils the fun for me; I’d like to retry a level without having to replay earlier ones.
"Elon Musk praised Viktor Orbán – and not just any way" - https://mandiner.hu/belfold/2025/02/orban-viktort-meltatta-e...
This needs proper citations for the episodes used as examples.
Why is it racist? Nationalist? Sure. But not racist.
My first thought was 'why invent templates when you can use prolog' and turns out the author has similar observations.

I've been thinking over the years how to make prolog more useful. The primary constraint I have is not syntax or expertise, it's how to embed a useful prolog in a 'modern saas microservice' if you will. From what I can gather, this is not being done in the open; perhaps some closed products do it. It's telling that it's much easier to embed Z3 than prolog...
It's an antisocial car. It basically screams FU.
It's rather something that sits between WebAssembly and containers, combining the sandboxing guarantees of the former with the performance of the latter. From a security perspective, the composition is also really good (WebAssembly enforces memory limits, but doesn't have memory protection, NULL pointers are writable, etc. and this is solved here). But unlike WebAssembly, it is Linux-only. So, not something that can run in Web browsers.
> who are essentially modern day slaves

scams are not acceptable, no matter who's performing it

> I've never quite understood this sort of anti-scammer content and what its appeal is to readers.

mocking is a very effective way to raise awareness of the issue, it delivers information on how scammers act and how to understand you're being scammed, and make that information stick.

making that kind of scam inefficient is a very good way (entertaining, non-violent, essentially harmless to scammer) to make the phenomenon disappear.
This is effectively part of Google's official argument for making ad blocking more difficult (the unofficial argument being that they actively don't care if ad blocking is more difficult, for obvious reasons).

The use cases for extensions cover a much larger segment of browser users than programmable keyboards and microcontrollers though: there is a lot more mass appeal for things like languagetool/grammarly, ad-blockers and other page tidiers, tools that are useful for devs¹, and so forth.

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[1] I'd put money on even the vast majority of front-end devs not touching microcontrollers or having programmable keyboards.
During covid, when everyone was told to stay at home and not do anything, the library offered library books.

And what they actually did is violate the requirement to have a physical copy of the book they were lending.

As I understand it, they did not offer anything new that wasn't available to loan prior.

I could be wrong. But if I'm not, I see no reason to lambast IA.
Well we've used pigeons fr missile guidance before [0], and for
messaging [1], so birds have a firm place in the military including
having their own special units [2]

More generally, the history of warfare is all about taking the enemy's
resources and using them as weapons against the foe. This will be a
defining feature of future cyberwar and AI - everything we build to
"protect ourselves" will at some point be repurposed to advantage an
enemy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon

[2] https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/warfares-unsung-pi...
Strange to use WhatsApp and "utilizing network effects" as part of your rhetoric. Haven't they been commonly used to harm users?

And to address your general argument, I don't think bad UX can be put in the same category of harm as monopolistic market manipulation. Of course you can have the most integrated, slickest, most clairvoyant apps if you're Google. They have the money, data and access for it. And you could justify walled gardens for this but not abuse of monopoly. It's unbelievably shortsighted to do so.
I was able to connect a USB c hub monitor keyboard and Bluetooth mouse into a Pixel 8 Pro with the latest (non beta) version of Android and get a good desktop experience including keyboard shortcut keys.

It will be interesting to see where this goes as Google merged Android and Chrome OS
This place worships Zuck because he apparently “open sourced” AI. It’s the most ridiculous narrative on its own but we also live in the most absurd moment in history.
I'd want reports from randomly sampled Cybertruck users before agreeing to that last clause...

Reports of Tesla cars being awful and full of problems have been around for a decade, but the people I've directly spoken to like their Teslas, though none own a Cybertruck.
yes that's the durable objects ~ durable agents model that cloudflare is building
Updated iPhone and two iPads yesterday. None of them had Apple Intelligence turned on after the update completed. Maybe it happens to some people but I doubt Apple deliberately re-enabled it in the update.
Any concrete plans to offer Serverless also in Europe?
As an apparently “poor person” owner of model 3 bought used, who it seems “must drive” it - I dislike the whiff of elitism in your post.

What must your world look like that you consider a 30K off-lease car a poor person’s last resort vehicle….

It might surprise you - as having never owned an EV before - I turned to Tesla because I thought of it as buying a trend-setting vehicle from a pioneering car maker that envisioned what next generation transportation might be unanchored to tradition - rather than risking buying a half-baked me-too attempt at a market-share catchup from a legacy brand.

Whether I was ultimately correct in these expectations is a different conversation, but I think one might see how I may have thought that knowing little about EV?
Why are these idiots trying to ape Russia, a dumpster fire, to make America great again?

If there’s anyone to copy it’s China in industry and maybe elements of Western Europe and Japan in some civic areas.

Russia is worse on every metric, even the ones conservatives claim to care about: lower birth rate, high divorce rate, much higher abortion rate, higher domestic violence rate, more drug use, more alcoholism, and much less church attendance.

I. Do. Not. Get. The Russia fetish.
While being terminally online might reduce your capacity to understand the thoughts and actions of the everyman, I'm not certain that the Tesla store at Santana Row is a great alternative to get a read on "most regular people".
This website tries to deliver a trojan payload.
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Can't you already do something very close to this with termux?
Just look at how a discrete GPU vs. an integrated GPU look like in terms of size, power, cooling, and other constraints like memory type and placement. That’s why both options still exist. If one size did it all, the other option would just die out.
> Tesla is done in Europe for political/cultural reasons

I don’t know anything about Tesla or EVs or Europe. But is there a precedence to this? That a good product went extinct because of political/cultural reasons?
They are so greedy, it didn't take me much effort to run a successful phishing campaign against multiple scammers a few years ago, when I got bored.
The twittefiles nothingburger?
You can buy a Rivian or Polestar without dealing with dealerships.

You could also buy a Hyundai Ioniq 5 or 6 directly on Amazon (even though the implementation still goes through dealerships in the backend) [1].

[1] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-autos-buy-car...
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We are already available in Europe; it is just our infrastructure that is currently more us-centric in that sense.

Eventually as the demand grows we will of course deploy in EU region to improve the availability.

If it is more of a sovereign aspect; we are deployable on kubernetes;one can already use our installer on OVHCloud and deploy on a European region.
APUs are going to replace low end video cards, because they no longer make economical or technical sense.

Historically those cards had narrow memory bus and about a quarter or less video memory of high end (not even halo) cards from the same generation.

That narrow memory bus puts their max memory bandwidth at a comparable level to desktop DDR5 with 2 DIMMs. At the same time quarter of high end is just 4GB VRAM which is not enough for low details for many games and prevents upscaling/frame gen from working.

From manufacturing standpoint low end GPUs aren't great either - memory controllers, video output and a bunch of other non-compute components don't scale with process node.

At the same time unified memory and bypassing PCIE benefits igpus greatly. You don't have to build an entire card, power delivery, cooler - you just slightly beef up existing ones.

tl;dr; sub-200 dollas GPUs are dead and will be replaced by APUs. I won't be surprised if they will start nibbling at lower mid-range market too in the near future.
I want Elon to play EVE Online, it'll be a shitshow for him