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I've enjoyed your work for close to multiple decades, probably fell on it back in 2005 from MacRumors, but much less in recent times. And I don't want to knock anyone's work, but I'll give you my perspective in good faith.

1. Writing about Apple simply isn't interesting anymore. Nor has it been for close to a decade. They lost me around the butterfly keyboard fiasco.

I know this isn't the full body of your work, but it's plenty of it. As a professional in the tech space for over 25 years, I went from being a devout Apple follower (installed the OSX beta on my Tibook back in the day), to basically not caring. They've gone from being innovative and evolving, and the best mix of Unix+GUI, to just being a system I'm forced to use for work. I'd rather use a Thinkpad/XPS/etc with Linux for anything else.

2. Your writing has gotten dramatically more... cynical over the years? Maybe it's just a side effect of growing older, as I know I have too. But it's also why I stopped blogging on my blog, which was popular enough in enough circles.

Like I said, this is just my perspective, so you can call me full of crap or whatever.
You could disable most useless services back then so it could be even faster.
It certainly is and I think it is like you said, many people more or less buy supplies on demand. Although this is probably a more recent development of city dwellers and the younger generation. It isn't at all unusual that people still have supplies lasting for a month aside maybe from drinking water.

The odd canned vegetables and noodles you never used for cooking can last you for quite a while. That said, to survive 72h you would only need drinking water anyway, even if you might end up hungry.

If a real catastrophe hits, a well or access to drinking water would be quite helpful. The rest wouldn't be too acute at first.
Ubuntu 25.04 Beta Delivering Nice Performance Improvements over Ubuntu 24.10
> 15 years later do you think these classes matter?

Yes. A broad, liberal arts education made me a better, more informed citizen. One might even say I know more than the current President (certainly his supporters) about tariffs, what affects the price of eggs, etc.
There was a downloadable developer toolbar for IE6 and IE7, and scripts could be debugged in the external Windows Script Debugger. The developer toolbar even told you which elements had the famous hasLayout attribute applied, which completely changed how it was rendered and interacted with other objects, which was invaluable.
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The issue won't be your technical skills. The german engineering quality only applies to hardware and physical goods.

It's a different culture. That you'll need to spend a lot of energy to understand.

Also german is a hard language to learn. Typically US people got it easy and don't understand such complexities, but this can be a time consuming endeavor.

Typically Americans have a very naive understanding of how the world works because American imperialism made it easy for them. So you'll need to get over this obstacle when you move here.

I believe it's worth it, it will open your eyes for many things and will make you a more complete human being.

BUT beware, all Americans I know moved back to US to make more money. Often they move here because they believe they are more left-leaning and like the idea about social democracy...

But then go back to the US because everything is easier there, salaries are higher (as long as you are a white-collar worker).

Feel free to mail me, I've been living here for 10 years and can help you understand what you are getting into :-)
If you are looking for another similar magical conert experience and get the chance, take your daughter to The Flaming Lips. Some of their music is pretty accessible, some of it quite challenging but the show was so much fun and there was a 8(ish) year old in a unicorn onesie perched on a riser near the stage for the entire show. The put on their own brand of arena show theatrics even for smaller venues. Highly recommended!
People can be held accountable for making wrong statements.
If that person tells you things again, I wouldn't take their word for it.
Make work jobs will keep us all poor.
The PDP-10: history and replica
It's only useful if the backend is wired to act on the request.

LLMs handle the query understanding part, but it is still up to the backend developer to implement the functionality to fulfill the various possible requests. And the opaque nature of the interface gives the user no clue as to what requests are supported. We all experienced this problem with smart speakers, with their ever-changing features, and resigned to using an increasingly limited set of features.
Myself, went from causal to super fan after watching the above. Highly recommend.
I'm sure nobody would think of targeting the national security apparatus of the USG with such an exploit to gain access to... I dunno, their Signal messages?
You can't open source code that is not yours. They are implementing a clean new version.

On the other direction, a company can't pick a GPL project, uncompile the code and release it as proprietary.
Second that. A lot of our use cases are "remote tooling", i.e. calling APIs. Implementing an MCP server to wrap APIs seems very complex - both in terms of implementation and infrastructure.

We have found GraphQL to be a great "semantic" interface for API tooling definitions since GraphQL schema allows for descriptions in the spec and is very humanly readable. For "data-heavy" AI use cases, the flexibility of GraphQL is nice so you can expose different levels of "data-depth" which is very useful in controlling cost (i.e. context window) and performance of LLM apps.

In case anybody else wants to call GraphQL APIs as tools in their chatbot/agents/LLM apps, we open sourced a library for the boilerplate code:
https://github.com/DataSQRL/acorn.js
If I am not wrong German was supposed to be a dual language in the United Stated but the German migrants there who contributed to founding the country lost their cultural access; and as someonein love with works by Goethe and inspired by other European authors, I believe the loss of European languages is a humanitarian cultural heritage loss;
and a German comapny should endeavour to hire individuals who are interested in German language and culture.
Sacrificing a temporary short-term ease of in finding employees at the cost of cultural loss is not wise, imao.
Studio Ghibli Documentary: 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki (2019) [video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl,_Saarland
Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app
With working public transport, you’ll generally see more development without parking. Very, very few of the places I go regularly have parking at all.
One nice thing about being on the spectrum is that you can spot morally sketchy situations more clearly—or at least more clearly than most normies. I once walked out of a pitch meeting where we were trying to land a client that completely clashed with a solid, well-paying client we already had. I couldn’t believe no one else saw the huge conflict of interest. No one batted an eyelash.
IDK, to me text has higher information density and throughput than a video meeting.
Ever listened to a swagger file?
> If one's management is playing political games, they are failing in their communications, trying to win in some personal game

Is this not A) ubiquitous, B) rich with incentives, and C) not downright implied in "They are masterful language and perception manipulators, in a strategic game of corporate dominance." and "the understanding of what makes others in their management circles feel good."
is this just me, or none of this happens when using LLMs/AIs/Agents while coding? my experiences is overwhelmingly useful and positive, hard to imagine building software without LLM support anymore. I am literally 5~10x more productive.
This is very cool.

I want more companies to do stuff like this. Make it easier to let others borrow digital purchases like how it is easy to let others borrow physical purchases
Which part of the midwest?
The natural-language chat box (or voice command) is seductive as an interface because it elides the question of how somebody will use a product. It makes a product that uses it seem more potentially capable, because you can imagine asking it anything (we all remember the sense of possibility in the first Zork-style games). If the user was provided with an affordance to understand the range of capabilities of the product, they might realize it's too limited for them, or realize that their use case is served by something else.

The chat/voice interface is like Skinner's Box: we keep "using" because we don't know what will work and what won't, and when something works it seems magical. And it keeps being pushed on customers because it's beneficial for corporations: customers will fruitlessly navigate chat support rather than realizing they should give up and call, businesses will invest in products with open-ended interfaces because they can convince themselves it's flexible enough for their needs.
The real benefit I see from mcp is that we are now writing programs for users and ai assistants/agents.

By writing mcp servers for our services/apps we are allowing a standardized way for ai assistants to integrate with tools and services across apps.
> I want to preface this by saying that AI tools are categorically and always bad at the things that I’m listing.

I think there's a not missing there. Why would you preface that they are categorically and always bad? Makes more sense the other way round.

Also grammar error "effected" instead of "affected" in the footer.
The 'Digital Trade' Trap
While this is an excellently written piece and really insightful into the state of higher education funding, what seems to be missing from the debate is concrete ideas of what should be done differently (either in 2014 or today). A lot of US innovation success comes from deep pockets of private venture capital, which is just missing in the UK. So if you're a politician/bureaucrat with a (let's face it) relatively small budget and much politics to deal with, the best strategy to take is not obvious (at least to me).
I bought my minis 3d printed off Etsy, I bought some random wet erase map and markers, and I bought a non-d&d licensed 5e module. I thought this was the whole license debacle which got walked back?

I already owned a 5e players handbook but there's no reoccurring money going to wizards here and we run a biweekly 5e campaign.
In my understanding, Ada allows you to return unsized values, but it's generally implemented via a secondary stack.
I can‘t really understand the love for the format. Yes it’s simple but also not defined in a common spec. Same story with markdown. Yes GitHub tried to push for a spec but it still feels more like a flavor. I mean there is nothing wrong with not having a spec. But certain guarantees are not given. Will the document exported by X work with Y.
Exactly. This probably makes the land somewhat more valuable, but nothing close to 2.5x.
> That said the ability to describe desires in "fuzzy" ways is a usability value unlock.

Ctl-Shift-P does the job where available. Not entirely sure how AI makes it any better.
I'm not into D&D, but I've seen similar things with other non-D&D local groups, like poker and HAM radio. You stop by as The Newbie, and you're greeted by a big group of people who already know each other and have their own pre-formed cliques. Yes, there are always a handful of people who seem to be the designated "do everything we can to make you welcome" committee, but the newbies end up only hanging out with them, and not any of the insular "core" groups.
I don't think it's polarizing. Jobs are how we keep our lives together. With dehumanizing business practices, we need to only look out for our selves and family. After an 8 month job search and financial stress none of that other stuff matters.

I think workers want what you described. And silicon valley /sf bay area companies used to create environments like you described and I think we were mostly satisfied. But it feels like it's not like that anymore. Companies are lo the ones being adversario imo
> The takeover by them and, relatedly, the finance folks has been disastrous for actual productivity and innovation.

The fact that so many companies play tricks with CAPEX and OPEX completely misses the point that almost all corporate spending should be seen as investment or spending to support investment at some level.

The past 50 years of business school has taught people that outsourcing your core competency is a good idea because it gets things "off the books" and makes quarterly reports look better. The end result was shifting huge swaths of our economy to a hostile country.

Here in tech, I've literally seen companies shift stuff into the cloud even though it's more expensive, because OPEX can be written off right away and they don't want CAPEX on the books, only for a year later to want to shift back because they decided it's now better to optimize for actual cashflow. It's infuriating.
Congrats on the launch HN!

I've been following the IDE + LLM space. What's Continue's differentiator vs GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline, Claude Desktop, etc. ?

What are you looking to build over the next year?
> but you've only rewritten an "if" statement in different syntax

I don't understand what you mean. There is, to my knowledge, no different syntax for if-statements. In my code example there simply is no if being used.

Care to elaborate?
And also by Mads Brügger and about North Korea. Civilian self-chosen undercover operation. Fascinating watch.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13243898/
In terms of use it's closer to a magic wand than traditional software.
> Unless you want to play with no book, no minis, no map, and a completely home-brewed campaign with all bespoke characters and stories.

If you aren't concerned about legality, all the books are readily available without paying wizards (heck, most of the recent ones and many of the older ones are also legally available that way in deas tree form in the secondhand market); you can buy miniatures that aren't specifically D&D licensed (lots of people use them in playing D&D, whether alone or mixed with licensed D&D minis; it has no effect one way or the other on the game), there are plenty of D&D-compatible maps with no licensing relationship to Wizards. Its very easy to play D&D without paying Wizards.
What is the scenario exactly?
The knowledge is proprietary and thrown away? And also the worker never wrote or used the innovation elsewhere despite it not living in a patent?
It's like they decided flourine wasn't dangerous enough, so they made it radioactive too!
For me I have two extremes:

1. Complete Vibe coding -- greenfield and just playing or doing a small quick prototype

2. Get out of my IDE, but know my code base -- small snippets, methods, classes that add desired functionality but off to the side completely -- and don't run things in my shell that's just wrong

What I don't like it current codebases getting whacked because it decided to downgrade a dependency or lie about a function signature.
David Geir, who is heading this federal study, was previously disciplined for practicing medicine without a license:

https://www.mbp.state.md.us/BPQAPP/orders/GeierOrder07.302.p...

He also has a track record of retracted publications.

"Only the best..."
Here I am trying to talk about society's shifting attitude towards fantasy role playing games, and here you are disagreeing strongly, bringing the conversation around to your hobby horse topic centered on your animus towards Wizards of the Coast. Thank you for illustrating clearly to me why I'm not tempted to seek community in the role playing space.
Right, that is what I meant about that being unlikely? Most instances of truncated files that I have seen were because of size, not lines.

Still, a fair point.
I would assume that in rust, as in other languages, you can't use keywords as e.g. variable names because it would lead to mixups. So you can't translate programs back and forth without making sure you don't use keyword of _any_ possible language as variable names.
It's funny that Business Insider seems to have gotten on board just in time for D&D's enshittification. For those who don't follow it, D&D was purchased a few years ago by Hasbro and is being aggressively transformed from the old model you may be familiar with (buy a couple books for rules and basics, then get together with your friends and use your imagination for the rest) to a new one built heavily around subscription services.

Of course, you can still play D&D without those services, but it sure seems like the paid model is becoming the norm and will be most peoples' first experience with role-playing: a bunch of online strangers logging into the Hasbro D&D app, forking over an extra $7.99 to unlock the good subclasses, and then giving the DM (who they are paying by the hour) a 2-star rating because he only has the free-tier battle maps unlocked.
Just checked, and I still can't create an 'intelligent' playlist/radio station based on multiple artists.
yeah, confusing. URL literally says martinfowler, and article written by someone else. what... :/
Thanks for the correction! I'd edit my original comment if I could; it certainly makes the point stronger.

If creating Markdown doesn't make you a technologist, what does?
It sounds like you're confusing iTunes Match and iCloud music library. I've been using iTunes Match for about 15 years and never had any issues. It's not matching your stuff with Apple Music (which didn't exist when Match launched).
Tor Browser 14.0.8, a Windows only emergency release
Good idea, however you can just prompt (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude) to generate whatever component and it does great job. We no longer need such websites anymore.
Most people have a smaller context window than LLMs.
I’ve been using public transport my whole life, and that has never happened. Not even when I’ve visited the US. You may be a statistical anomaly.

(If nothing else, the piles of corpses would, presumably, be noticeable and cause scheduling issues.)
That's not at all the same thing. They're subdividing the lot and building a separate house for each family, not just putting multiple families together into an existing large house.
Can anyone name another company that has something similar to a "non-Apple tribe"? And if not, why not? Which is really the question I can't figure out, why Apple makes some folks so angry and the same doesn't happen with other companies.

(Preempting the only example I can think of, would be Internet Explorer, circa ~2000, which isn't really comparable because no one was defending IE then.)
genius:

I'm going down to Cowtown, cow's a friend to me
Lives beneath the ocean so that's where I will be
Beneath the waves, the waves, that's where I will be
I'm gonna see the cow beneath the Sea

from memory, listening on loop as a teenager 35 years ago!
Yes, I remember somebody doing a PhD in the US on theorem proving for a few years, but his last year he focused on doing deep learning work, did his PhD thesis on it, and got hired by OpenAI.
A lot of Rust jobs aren't "Rust jobs," that is, they don't have "Rust" in the description.

Also, "job openings" is not the same as jobs, my organization isn't currently hiring engineering roles, yet we employ ~60 engineers, of whom most write Rust. And we're just a tiny startup.
Of course you are the best kind of correct but to instead advance the whole discussion I think we can agree that there is no trail of carnage in the wake of waymos leaving only them unscathed.

I live in sf. Waymos are far more predictable and less reckless than the meatwagons. They do not cause accidents with their occasionally odd behavior.

And to add another perspective - as a cyclist and pedestrian I put waymos even further ahead. I have had crashes due to misbehavior of cars - specifically poor lane keeping around curves - but waymos just don’t cause those sorts of problems
We need to admit schools are babysitting kids and not teaching them anymore. A few kids can still learn, but so many others don't. Especially the one who would learn in a better environment, but whose class is disrupted by 1 or 2 students preventing their education. Once a student gets behind a year, they aren't going to ever catch up if they are only passed on to the next year instead of being identified as someone who needs to repeat the year.

Edit: I should have been clearer in "are increasingly babysitting" and not been as strong as indicating it as some universal truth. I hear horror stories from teachers about how much of their time is focused on classroom management, how little on actual education, and how much effort it put into processes so the grades stay up regardless.
TikTok viral 'military sleep hack' for falling asleep in two minutes (2022)
Saying that Stormtroopers are bad or that the Vietnam war was bad isn't really that controversial or partisan.
>That's replacing reality with fantasy. Time spent leveling up there is taken away from improving reality. An opportunity cost.

>Best bet is to first repent and put faith in Jesus Christ.

No disrespect to your religion, but this amused me
Open-source AI is hard. Blueprints can help – Mozilla AI
Are you from the UK?

I travel a lot for work(200+ days a year) and so I see the best and the worst.
In every country I've been, the self checkout is implemented differently.
Only in certain countries, low trust societies, do you have to wait for the scale to calculate the weight of the goods to prevent shop lifting

In Switzerland as an example, self checkout is a breeze. There is no such scale at all. Fast, highly efficient with good software.

Same in Sweden, though for some reason some grocery stores in Sweden insist on being a member before you can use the self checkout lanes. I think because they were early adopters of the technology and weren't sure they could trust their customers(hint: they could). Another annoying thing is that you have to scan your receipt to exit the store. This you usually don't have to do in Switzerland.

I've seen the same type of inefficient system you're accustomed to in the UK at pretty much all the stores over there and in Rimi in Riga.
Frankly it works a lot better in Latvia than the UK, though still annoying and disrupts the workflow.
I love this story. And I love when people reply to me with another story.
An Interview with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy About Data and AI
After the update, digital games on Switch will appear as Virtual Game Cards in a dedicated screen, where users can ‘load’ or ‘eject’ them from their library, as if they were physical cards, whether they belong to a member of the same Nintendo Account family group, or a second console tied to your account.
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Users will only be able to lend one game at a time, for two weeks, after which the titles will automatically return to the purchasing user. Save data will be stored after this point.

Does a family group already share games, or does the new scheme only allow sharing within a family group? If the former, does it mean the entire group can share only one game at a time or that any member can share one at a time?
Jump-ing with AlgebraicJulia II: A practical optimization model
>And it keeps being pushed on customers because it's beneficial for corporations: customers will fruitlessly navigate chat support rather than realizing they should give up and call

Businesses tend to thrive when consumers choose to keep using them, not when they don't. How does users fruitlessly navigating chat support serve that end?
> One out of every two Danes has seen the documentary.

Why not simpler English -- "half of the country has watched it"

Also pendatic aside -- i think "every two danes" is a stretch -- i am sure we can find many instances of "two danes" where both has watched it. Or neither. Some are being born as we speak (write).
In a practice that dates back centuries, communities are creating their own currencies to keep local economies strong and resilient.