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Many are too young to remember sleaze Larry, Oracle Unbreakable™ Database

https://www.cnet.com/culture/oracle-unbreakable-no-more/
It may not completely include dental, but poor teeth health shortens your life span and they cover that at least.
Which state is this? Some states such as Massachusetts and Maine, will allow you to have a well, but then you cannot have central water. Thus, the dichotomy is irrelevant since it's not like someone actually has a choose, since it's done on the municipal level.

In fact, generally the places in Connecticut, and New England that have well water are because they specifically cannot have the other.

I don't know much about western USA, but I suspect it's similar.
Good link.

There a really unfortunate use of "significant" in that document. The scientific meaning and the general meaning will cause very different interpretations from laymen.
wine, WINE, or both?
Schools aren't allowed to have standards for student achievement levels any more. Thus, everyone passes. This is the nash equilibrium of school funding being dependent on "student outcomes."

At the college level, rankings also rely heavily on 4- and 6-year graduation rates. Administrators notice that and put pressure on processors not to fail students.
I can’t tell you how many professors I’ve had this exact conversation with.

It’s also clear that kids whose parents restrict phone use seem to have superpowers compared to those that don’t.

A good starting point would be fully banning all phones for the entirety of the school day in K-12.
Siri, explain how you became Apple's most embarrassing failure
I work with several interns who are exceptionally smart, capable, and well-read.

I do see an issue with some where they hop around and don't finish long form projects. But I think thats a function of college where racking up resume filler seems more important these days.
> Freedom applies to individuals, not collectives.

In the US, it most certainly does. We have freedom to associate, and associations also have freedoms. Were it not so, we wouldn't have even been able to arrive at the conclusion we have with regard to corporate money in politics.
> I'm in my thirties. I remember most of these things being true a decade ago.

The author has been a professor and teaching for over 30 years. Presumably he would not be writing this if the type and scale of the problem hadn't changed in that time.
Why is the city required to provide water in the first place?
I'm glad I completed my bachelor's before ChatGPT existed. Now in my master's program, I find myself increasingly dependent on AI. It's gotten to a point where professors grade using AI, so no brain-to-brain exchange is happening — just AI to AI.
is it literal ping (icmp echo) or what? havent seen it, but ur network parameters might put you on externally routable ip or ipv6 or so (no NAT). cant capture on my modem here.

any mode traffic parameters to share so people clould verify? (intervals between probes fixed? packet sizes/frequencies?)
For the average student, does it actually matter whether they pass the class or not?

The social contract of "do well in school and you'll get a good job that allows you to afford live a decent life" is on increasingly shaky grounds thanks to things like the property Ponzi scheme reaching even higher levels of pressure, hiring in knowledge work positions being broken, and understandable uncertainty around how AI is going to reshape many positions.

If they're going to be fucked either way, can we blame them for not caring and instead focusing on the very little things that still bring them happiness?
That's true, but of course this is a much slower rate of improvement (30 years to 2x) than the growth of air travel, and has slowed in recent years[1] since seat density and seatu utilization can't be increased much more without radical approaches like sedating people and stacking them like cargo.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/aerospace-and-defense/ou...
Also available as a 3D App for desktop/VR :

https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky
"They can’t sit in a seat for 50 minutes. "

probably because they're bored. Giving a live lecture is the most disdainful form of teaching, using the slowest and most unbalanced way of passing info.

Video your lecture so that the students can watch it at 1.5x speed and do exercises during the class time so that the students are engaged if they decide to show up (which they are more likely to do if they don't have to sit through your live presentation at 1.0x speed).

They'll adjust.
Socialism maybe the but the Roman Catholic church has a strong history of opposition to communism.

I would suggest God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican as for a pop-culture introduction of how the Catholic church aligned itself with fascist states including Mussolini's PNF, the Nazis and the Ustaše.

The Ustaše were particularly closely associated with the Catholic church.
I never heard of that supplement (not a father) and was very surprised to find 80 countries mandate it. I checked the list (below) and it turns out the 80 countries are a bunch of poor nations plus USA, UAE, Qatar, Canada and Australia. I guess our medicare system supports the EU mothers fine enough so we don’t need to put that in the staple of food.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5809909/ (Table 1)
The (unintentional?) irony of this comment is pretty humorous
Could it be that the author changed as a person, sees the past with rose-tinted glasses, or fails to recognise that the context changed in the last 30 years?
Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages
Rocket carrying European orbital vehicle crashes after launch
In fairness to the kids, The Overstory is horribly boring.
You are welcome to eschew AI if you feel like it's hurting your own learning outcome.
HARC Stack – Htmx, Air, Raku and Cro
Hacker culture has been deeply political since the beginning. Hacker culture also didn't consider humor beneath it. But Hacker News isn't hacker culture.
Apparently, Kenneth John Freeman, 1907. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/

Careful about bogus “ancient” quotations on this topic, though., the article warns.
It won’t be that easy. First off, most databases in the wild are not well documented. LLMs benefit from context, and if your tables/columns have non-intuitive or non-descriptive names, the SQL may not even work. Second, you might benefit from an LLM fine-tuned on writing code and/or an intelligent Agent that checks for relevancy and ambiguity in user input prior to attempting to answer the question. It would also help if the agent executed the query to see how it answered the user’s question. In other words “reasoning”… pg-mcp simply exposes the required context for Agents to do that kind of reasoning.
Fluoridation for public health is done at lower levels than fluoride is found naturally in water in other areas.

If it's harmful as you imply, lots of water would need defluoridation.
Author in the start has said, that around 65% of students have skipped on getting a textbook.

And thus I have a genuine question to other people here. How common it was for students to actually read a textbook, cover to cover? I did my CS undergrad in Poland - and talking to my peers, I don't think a single of us ever did that. We used lecture slides at best and online resources for code.
Paper: Coding Malware in Fancy Programming Languages for Fun and Profit

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19058

> The continuous increase in malware samples, both in sophistication and number, presents many challenges for organizations and analysts, who must cope with thousands of new heterogeneous samples daily. This requires robust methods to quickly determine whether a file is malicious. Due to its speed and efficiency, static analysis is the first line of defense.

> In this work, we illustrate how the practical state-of-the-art methods used by antivirus solutions may fail to detect evident malware traces. The reason is that they highly depend on very strict signatures where minor deviations prevent them from detecting shellcodes that otherwise would immediately be flagged as malicious. Thus, our findings illustrate that malware authors may drastically decrease the detections by converting the code base to less-used programming languages. To this end, we study the features that such programming languages introduce in executables and the practical issues that arise for practitioners to detect malicious activity.
Apocryphal and also irrelevant. If someone were to have made an unwarranted criticism in 5th century BCE Athens, that would not invalidate that class of criticism forever through the end of time.

Plus, we have hard data about reduced attention spans so this is not even about moral panic.
Try to build a more or less serious music synth in the browser that won’t kill your battery.
Yes, io_uring is still not supported due to fundamental issues in the overall rr architecture which my modification does not resolve. My modification only addresses the HW counter requirement of upstream rr and the other core aspects of rr remain the same.

Normal system calls transition to kernel space and return back from kernel space. They will change your program's memory/process state as soon as they complete. This gives rr an easy boundary when it "can do its thing" to record memory/process state changes or insert results (during replay).

When does an io_uring request/response complete ? That's difficult to say. The kernel/userspace when using io_uring communicate with each other by checking a queue head or tail with memory accesses to see if something got added/removed from request/response ring buffer.

Think of io_uring and userspace cooperating via memory. (Yes, sometimes "proper" traditional ring crossing system calls are made but what makes io_uring so fast is communicating via memory and not via system calls most of the time). Anyways all this makes it difficult for rr to intervene on the boundary between kernel and userspace because this boundary is elusive when it comes to io_uring. The memory writes cannot be caught by ptrace ! This explanation is simplified of course.

There are some plans to deal with io_uring by rr maintainers https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/issues/2613
I believe the choice of the word “dependent” was deliberate in their comment.
Above and Below the LLMs
I had a lecture, where my professor would read from PowerPoint slides - that commonly contained 50 lines of text.

He was surprised nobody wanted to attend his lectures.

EDIT: fixed a lot of typos...
I remember that at a previous company somehow it leaked that the AWS cost was 50% of all the developers staff salary.

There was nowhere near the same volume of data as Basecamp/Hey, not there was much processing power needed. It was purely bad engineering accumulated over 10 years.
This take has a few problems:
Poor people in the US are capable of using fluoride toothpaste and flossing. At least at homeless shelters at outreach things I’ve been to, toothpaste and toothbrushes are freely available. Your argument hinges on them being incapable on the whole and needing a Benevolent But Superior Intelligence to provide an alternative for them.

Second, it completely ignores any debate over effectiveness or side effects. It could well be that fluoride in water is great for teeth but bad for brains. The objections to fluoride in water I’ve seen are more along those lines. Im not clear the validity of those claims but for example anti fluoride advocates don’t typically object to chlorine in water to kill germs. That seems the core issue- without bias from stakeholders, is the benefit of fluoride proven and the risks disproven? It’s hard to answer because a study needs to span many years and exclude many variables.

And in general I think that is what needs to happen with these type debates. Take them _out_ of the sphere of charged political opinion and focus on getting to the objective truth of risks and benefits, then be transparent. People can handle “here are the known pros and cons and what we think that means” over “there are only pros and no cons and if you disagree you hate poor people”
Things Are Bad at Tesla. They're About to Get Much Worse
Summary:

https://youtu.be/_SKaBwmHq9Y?si=tUMKzL9X_VNc6Pj_
And then it was a decision on the part of compiler vendors to define it to do insane things like time travel. Not the standards committee. Compiler vendors could have just as well defined it to wrap.
This is likely in reference to a recent deal the US (Trump) has made with El Salvador, allowing them to ship US citizens off to prisons in El Salvador, whether this is actually possible is not clear at this point though [1].

Here is some more information about the conditions in these prisons in El Salvador, CECOT being the most notable one:

> Able to hold 40,000 inmates, the CECOT is made up of eight sprawling pavilions. Its cells hold 65 to 70 prisoners each. They do not receive visits. There are no programs preparing them to return to society after their sentences, no workshops or educational programs. They are never allowed outside. [2]

I believe the term gulag makes sense in that context despite it not being a forced labor camp. Not sure how this relates to Russia at all (apart from the origin of the term obviously).

[1] https://apnews.com/article/rubio-trump-deportations-usaid-f7...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-us-rubio-prison-de912...
> Rust feels like a Python developer’s idea of a high-performance computing language.

I'd say the language complexity (and it keeps piling more things) means it's pretty far from Python's ideas.

Julia is closer.
I think his view is much stronger, since the intent is obviously to medicate even if it may indeed be inadvertently poisoning people in practice. So it doesn't assume one truth (poison or not) one way or the other, but still argues that it should be unlawful. While your view is much more narrow and suggests it should only be unlawful because it's poisoning people, which then begs the question of whether it is or not.
If that’s their attitude why are they paying for college in the first place? I could absolutely understand not thinking college has any benefit for them, I did exactly that, what I don’t understand is deciding to go to college and then not engaging with it.
This article doesn’t have anything to do with Trump
Note: The author is aware of this comparison (His reference is Gilgamesh). You may still find it relevant.
You sure are not alone, your mindset is that of a user, not a developer.

Its like expecting people who only eat food to understand how its made.. You're just not the target.
> I worked on projects which refused to use anything more modern than XSLT & XPATH 1.0 because of lack of support in the non Java/Net World (1.0 = tech from 1999).

For some things that may just be down to how uses are specified. For YANG, the spec calls out XPath 1.0 as the form in which constrains (must and when statements) must be expressed.

So one is forced to learn and use XPath 1.0.
Of course he can't fail them.

More reason why college degrees are worthless signals.
Between future statements and other imports, then?
Mugshots Zone
Yes but only later Android versions. If you start supporting those you need to move to the corresponding API level and that means to drop support for older ones. They probably don't want to do that yet. This one is Android 10 and up, and the Android 10 version of scoped storage was quite basic IIRC so you probably want an even later one. I guess they still want to support older phones.
Rust is an extraordinary simple language. Compare it to the complexity of C++.
Hear hear!

—and—

From the hip: I think this is encompassed by dependent types.

The stuff that just falls naturally out of dependent types includes tools that grasp… this. And other concerns.

If I put it like so?:

Software is automation.

Dependent types is the automation of the automation.
I'm not American here - because "cushy" jobs require degrees. Any of them, but you need to have them. And because those jobs are often your bland office ones, they don't really require a lot of training/skill, so you're free to do them even if you were an below-average student at a bad major.

All that matters in paper.

(I'm not condoning it, in opposite - but that's a common line of thought)
Did over 7 years of university at different levels and never ever bought a textbook.

Definitely not important, it mainly reflects on how are teachers choosing to disseminate their knowledge.
I'm a bit mixed on all these kind of tirades. I imagine a big chunk of most literature undergraduate degrees are people who like the idea of being into literature much more than the kind of work it involves.

At the same time, as someone who was very addicted to the internet but only got a smartphone/broadband (previously having a 40 hour monthly limit) in my late teens I do look back at just how much I read then compared to ever since mournfully. I didn't grow up in a house that valued reading much so it was a lot of work to even get started regularly reading stuff with no knowledge base of what I might even like to start from.
I'm still able to read a few semi-challenging novels a year but it's an insane amount of work to get into the zone now and I can't picture teenage me with a smartphone and constant internet access ever managing to build up any kind of habit at all.

As far as writing is concerned, I think how aggressively LLMs want to rephrase everything is a big issue and I'm not sure how it can be resolved. As autoprompts get more and more florid it's probably unsurprising people are going to get lazier and lazier at precisely phrasing anything. I tried using them building out my CV earlier this year and it was a great sounding board but the actual text it was giving me was atrocious.
Heh, I was actually building one. Haven't considered the battery... Are the web audio APIs bad, or are you forced to use the CPU? I guess with webgpu it may be easier?
How to Start Creating Knowledge Base with Obsidian?
>(It is at lower levels than when added obviously)

This is not obvious. Some water has high levels of fluoride, which can cause harm (fluoride added for public health reasons is not the highest level of fluoride you will find [in the UK]).

Fluoridation could be done by mixing of naturally high fluoride water sources into other water.
This is such a boring fallacious argument. Are you seriously suggesting that over the last 2,500 years there have never been any changes to any generation of children/youths due to any circumstances? Of course not; that's a ridiculous preposition.

Maybe there's a bit of complaining from old coots throughout the ages, but that doesn't mean there are never any structural problems ever. Maybe there are real problems today. And maybe there were real problems in Socrates' time too. Merely posting this without any thought is just dismissive nonsense.

Certainly for the situation today, there are huge changes to how kids are raised. Maybe that has zero effect. Or maybe it does. Either way, whatever Socrates did or didn't say has absolutely no bearing on it.
Barry Revzin has written a paper to try to give C++ expressions like this. It's ugly, even by the standards of C++ but it would work. The rationale is that C++ 29 or C++ 32 wil probably get pattern matching and pattern matching doesn't have great ergonomics if everything is a statement rather than an expression. There are plenty of other things C++ will need to fix once it gets pattern matching, but the direction makes sense if you insist on trying to teach this particular old dog new tricks.

Also, I think Rust would consider itself to be a mainstream language, though they aren't techically "making this switch" because the language has always been expresion oriented from the outset. The Book has about two paragraphs about the statements in the language and then a whole chapter on expressions because almost everything is an expression.
Getting closer and closer to OOP
Will the Americans stop massive dairy over production that is supported by government programs like “government cheese”?

Or massive farm subsidies?

You need to expand your view beyond the latest talking points.
For all we know Socrates was correct, and the attitudes did change during his lifetime. History is turbulent, and there is not a straight line from his time to the present. There's plenty of examples of people, children included, behaving differently through a change in time and place. E.g. the difference between a Victorian boarding school and a typical US high school, or the difference before and after the Cultural Revolution in China. Or the difference in behavior between meth addicts and non-addicts.

If meth became widely used, and someone noted the effect this had on how children are behaving, would we also just quote Socrates at them as 'proof' that nothing has changed, because people have been complaining since forever?
As a college student, I think I can respond to this.

> Reading bores them, though. They are impatient to get through whatever burden of reading they have to, and move their eyes over the words just to get it done.

At least for me, it's not that reading bores me - there just isn't enough time and benefit to it, especially for novels and literature. Literary books aren't going in my CV, nor providing any insight into how to write better code. When 1200 people compete for 1 open internship position, can I really afford to waste my time like this?

Edit: note - we don't have any literary modules in my course - any reading would be voluntary.

> What I mean is the reflexive submission of the cheapest cliché as novel insight.

I distinctly remember being penalized for any insight that didn't fit marking criteria back in high school english lit. If ChatGPT-like writing is what'll get me to pass, so be it.

> Attendance is a HUGE problem—many just treat class as optional.

Well, most lectures just aren't very helpful. They move slower than if we just read the docs. This is very uni/course specific though
You started with this... take:

> Rust feels like a Python developer’s idea of a high-performance computing language. It’s a great language for many kinds of applications — just not when you need to squeeze out every bit of performance from advanced hardware.

And went on to say that Rust in particular is problematic for:

> byte-level processing

It's particularly odd for you to say this given that the memchr Rust crate is just as fast as stringzilla for substring search. And is generally faster in cases where the needle is invariant, because stringzilla doesn't have APIs for amortizing searcher construction.

We've had a discussion about this before where I provided receipts[1] and we have not had a meeting of the minds on this point. The thing I'm trying to achieve here is to point out that your claims are contested and there is evidence that you're wrong. And so I'd caution readers to also in turn question your higher level claims about Rust being a "Python developer's idea of a high-performance computing language."

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1ayngf6/memchr_vs_str...