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> since it was backed by the main Linux dev

For “backed by” read “initially written by”.

I don't particularly remember Linus making any push for git to be generally popular. While he was more than happy for other projects to use it and be his testing resource, his main concern was making something that matched his requirements for Linux maintenance. BitKeeper was tried and worked well¹, but there were significant licensing issues that caused heated discussion amongst some of the big kernel contributors (which boiled over into flame-wars more than once or twice), and those were getting worse rather than going away².

A key reason for Linus trying what he did with Git, rather than using one of the other open options that started around the same time or slightly before, was that branching and merging source trees as large as Linux could be rather inefficient in the others — this was important for the way Linux development was being managed.

Of course most other projects don't have the same needs as Linux, but git usually wasn't bad for them either and being used by the kernel's management did give it momentum from two directions: those working on the kernel also working on other projects and using it there too (spreading it out from within), and people further out thinking “well, if they use it, it must be worth trying (or trying first)” so it “won” some headspace by being the first DVCS people tried³, and they didn't try others like mercurial or fossil because git worked well (or well enough) so they just didn't get around to trying the others⁴ that would have worked just as well for them.

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[1] Most people looking back seem to think/imply that BK was a flash in the pan, but Linus used it for a full couple of years.

[2] A significant problem that caused the separation, rather than it being because BK was technically deficient in some way for the Linux project, was people reverse engineering the protocol to get access to certain metadata that would otherwise have required using the paid version to see, which the BK owners were not at all happy about.

[3] So yes, human factors, but less directly related to one particular human that is Linus, more the project he was famous for.

[4] That sounds a lot more dismissive than I intended. Of course many did try multiple and found they preferred git, as well as those who did the same but went with one of the others because they were a better match for the needs of that person/project.
Why not compressed pure oxygen?

Had this idea since the 90s, but no racing team listened to me just because I was a kid in school.
Tailscale has raised $160M
Can you expand on that? I don’t follow, sorry
The problem is that in the past you could rely on laws protecting privacy. You send a letter to someone, and it was illegal to open it. You couldn't eavesdrop on a phone call without breaking the law.

You could thus have a judicial system allowing the invasion of that privacy.

Reasonable people don't have a problem with the court system issuing say 200 wiretaps a year when provided with appropriate levels of evidence on a specific person. People don't have a problem with searching reasonable suspects either.

Even when you ignored the law you couldn't do it at scale. The CIA might plant an illegal wiretap, but that will cost them significant resources, they can't do it to a thousand people for a year, let alone indefinitely to a billion people.

Thus it was limited. The police have always been able to assign 50 people in performing a tail on a suspect. That doesn't scale.

Today though you can scale up. If you spoke on a phone, 99.999% of the time nobody will have heard it, despite it being in the clear, you can track people by following their phone signals. Everyone is tracked all the time, and you just need the warrant to pull the tracking detail - including data from before the warrant.

The next step is using that data and feeding it into AI. Currently the bottleneck is analysis - you can track a billion people. but you can only look at 1,000 of them. Feed that into an AI engine and you can analyse everyone.

With wiretapping, today if you send something without end-to-end encryption, your message is read, possibly modified, by trillion dollar companies designed to extract value from your message, so you need end-to-end encryption.

The problem society has is that judges can't then authorise wiretapping, which society agreed was a reasonable action 30 years ago, and 300 years ago. Even in the US with the optional constitutional amendments, allows for

> Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

End to end encryption removes this possibility, there's no middle ground, because you either have

* fully encrpyted and thus immune to warrants

* encryption with backdoor and thus leakable and thus used against you (by corporations or foreign security agencies)

The problem is the scale that modern technology allows, and that means we need new understandings on what's possible. But public debate doesn't do that, it's still routed in the "nothing to hide".
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As a suburban kid in New York in the 70s, I also got my start in tech by taking apart and sometimes repairing old radios. In my case it wasn't a repair shop but an older sibling who encouraged my interest.
Your problem is that there are thousands of similar "truths" in the past and dozens currently active in the present. Which is true? None of them are able to show theirs is true and the others are wrong.

The problem with these groups is that they are taking a really hard problem and going the opposite direction of feasible ways to begin solving it. Mathematics and the physical sciences came the closest, after much pain and effort. And these groups have as yet only been able to contradict each other and each claim to be the ultimate truth.
I remember reading, when IBM turned "business casual," that everyone adopted the same outfit: Khaki slacks, and blue polo shirts.
It's true for any intelligent species with sexual dimorphism.

However I agree; it's great that the initiative was started for those men, but they could totally hit up the older women in the area as well for an additional set.
How come the men on the cards have Magic/Mana Points (MP)?
Every social norm will be exploited until it becomes a threat to existence. Right now the olds are exploiting their protected status to outright exterminate the younger generations. I will be down voted because the truth is too bitter for most to swallow. This happens close to all of us and isn't some bogeyman foreign/domestic politician or other convenient scapegoat.
I was wondering yesterday how AI is coming along for tweening animation frames. I just did a quick search and apparently last year the state of the art was garbage:

https://yosefk.com/blog/the-state-of-ai-for-hand-drawn-anima...

Maybe this multimodal thing can fix that?
I would probably call it shipping containers for LLM tool integrations.

Containers are not a big deal when viewed in isolation. But when its common size/standard for all kinds of ships, cranes and trucks, it is a big deal then.

In that sense its more about gathering community around one way to do things.

In theory there are REST APIs and OpenAPI standard, but those were not made for LLMs but code.
So you usually need some kind of friendly wrapper(like for candy) on top of REST API.

It really starts to feel like a a big deal when you work in integrating LLMs with tools.
>> Now go ahead and give it to a stranger.

Well, maybe a better example then - I have a secure storage deposit with a bank. I'm 100% sure it's secure from opportunistic criminals and no one, including the government, knows what's inside it, however, the bank still holds a master key for that deposit box in case it's compelled to open it for law enforcement.

>>My private key is mine, and mine only, or supposed to be.

Again, OP was talking about balance - how do we make sure that people's private communications are safe from criminals, but at the same time allow law enforcement to look at them if needed. To which my answer is - that's how. That's doesn't make encryption "useless", it's just that this model doesn't fit your specific usecase.
Having thousands of copies of that image in your training set isn’t a skill at all.
You'd be surprised.

They lost sleep over having images from their devices looking bad.

They wanted ultimate control of their images, and they didn't trust third-party pipelines to render them well.
No I mean clicking a link that's part of the site's internal navigation. So like I'll click a link to go to a different part of the single-page application, then click the back button to get back to the previous place in the SPA, and the URL will change back but the page doesn't change.
> Is it okay to reproduce the hard-won style of other artists using AI? Who owns the resulting art? Who profits from it? Which artists are in the training data for AI, and what is the legal and ethical status of using copyrighted work for training? These were important questions before multimodal AI, but now developing answers to them is increasingly urgent.

I have to disagree with the conclusion. This was an important discussion to have two to three years ago, then we had it online, and then we more or less agreed that it's unfair for artists to have their works sucked up with no recourse.

What the post should say is "we know that this is unfair to artists, but the tech companies are making too much money from them and we have no way to force them to change".
Ha! I always suspected. Now the test reveals I am well past the normal score of 14 :) and well past caring much
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If the recruiter wants your recurring business then they’ll move their percentage to be more favourable for you.

I’ve got 10% rates in the past. Always negotiate.
The pictures on the wall change too.
I'd say the core reason is more that the person who started it was very much likely to be male and had a few existing connections to the group of men featured on the cards.

We should strive for equality where possible but to hold individuals account to it is tougher; we should enforce in our interactions/beliefs, that's personal responsibility.

But in play or for hobbies it's harder - the group of friends I play games with is all male for example (all gay, actually). But does that mean that I need to "diversity hire" a woman for the group? We'd have no problem with that at all, if a female friend asked to join when hearing about it we'd be all for it. But it's not like we're going to go out of our way to ensure that we have at least 1 woman in our play group. If that makes sense.
I guess that was a reference to a recent NYT article:

>U.S. Strikes in Yemen Burning Through Munitions With Limited Success

>In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions, in addition to the immense operational and personnel costs to deploy two aircraft carriers, additional B-2 bombers and fighter jets, as well as Patriot and THAAD air defenses to the Middle East, the officials said.

>The total cost could be well over $1 billion by next week, and the Pentagon might soon need to request supplemental funds from Congress, one U.S. official said.

>So many precision munitions are being used, especially advanced long-range ones, that some Pentagon contingency planners are growing concerned about overall Navy stocks and implications for any situation in which the United States would have to ward off an attempted invasion of Taiwan by China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/us-strikes-ye...
Japan Built a 3D-Printed Train Station in 6 Hours
“Thinking, Fast and slow” by Daniel Kahneman

Surprised no one has recommended it. It’s like an explanation of how we think, and how we should think. My only caution with this book is it represents “thinking” from a Westernised concept of rationality and it also represents western cognitive biases. A lot of the research done by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky was only studied among westernised, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic populations which only actually makes up about 12% of the world population. It’s certainly not going to apply to every culture across humanity, but - it’s super helpful.

Having awareness of cognitive biases helps you recognise them in yourself, but also leverage them in other people and that’s power.
So if its 90% dead cold data, the temptation must be there for "ocassional hit"data, to switch from ssd/ hdd in a server to some slow access magnetic tape with a delayed reply..
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What's wrong with asking people to prove they're disabled? There definitely exist people that lie about being disabled too. Many places have a persons with disability certificate given by the government, so "proving", just means entering the ID of that certificate in a form.
Thank you for taking the time to write this.
As a matter of fact it's my fourth work experience, I basically spent 2y per company, spending the first year at the first one doing something not related to embedded coding, but your point is still perfectly valid.

I'm glad the doubts that were described in the post amount to a tangible risk in term of career according to others, too.

And yes, totally onboard with what you said with basically not coding for a duration equal to my current career duration - I feel there's so much out there I ought to learn and bash my head against that it's honestly crazy to think the managers would not find something weird with such a proposal.
https://archive.ph/BMBht#selection-703.0-703.53
I made an extension which lets you tag files in vs code
i am in my dsa preparation journey for the 3rd time and can't decide on my own abilities because i can't go back to what i studied previously. so, this time i will tag everything, comment everything and categorize every problem so that i will know what i know and what i don't know.

as part of it, i made this extension which lets you tag files. hope i will do good improvements to this in future only if those improvements maintain the same simplicity that it is having at present.
Latest Release of Torus – OLI's LMS Written in Elixir
Torus's latest release is now 0.30.0 - development is steady and there have been continuous releases.
There was always a different caller. One thing I vividly remember was when I found it really hard to understand a pretty heavy Scottish accent. I'm not random-social enough to be talking to new people every day, but it was a fun experience. Fun for that short interval but not really my type of thing.
That may be the limit for sodium, the max RDA for salt is above 5 grams [1].

Now check what happens when you don’t consume enough sodium [2] (it happens relatively often among athletes and gym bros who drink too much water).

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/salt-in-you...

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/...
Almost nobody would and the ones who do would point out that people would say something if it was about women.

Note that my comment wasn't about different opinion based on sex but social framing.

dislike = objectification

like = empowerment
Artur, of course, in Ukraine “Artur” is spelled without “h”.
This is exactly how I use htmx. Is there an expectation that you use htmx differently?
Yes, first a still life and something impressionist, then a blob and a blob, then a smear and a smear. And what about the reflections and transparency of the glass table top? It gets very indistinct. Keep working at the same image and it looks like you'll end up with some Deep Dream weirdness.

I think the fireplace might be turning into some tiny stairs leading down. :)
Let's be real this is almost certainly cursed.
it's back up in any case
> Are you sure that you would be "forced" to wait 6 months?

You're right, I'm still not sure about that. It's just been my experience so far (i.e. that of the employer requesting to oblige the notice period in full when leaving past jobs).

> I understand that feeling, I started with a messy startup and followed into a toxic one. Now I am in a healthy environment that I didn't know could exist! I just want to tell you that there is hope, it exists! Keep looking.

Pretty close to my own experience then, except for an extremely messy corp in between :P
I'm glad it worked out for you!! Gives me hope to find something better myself :)
Objectification is natural in a species that reproduces via sexual reproduction.

The key is sexually objectifying (recognising an attraction) whilst respecting said individual.

As a gay dude I see _plenty_, _pleeeeeenty_ of women wantonly objectifying men when they choose to, with no repercussions or qualms. It's just unfortunate because of sexual dimorphism and expected behaviours, men are expected to take the more active role most of the time and hence these reprehensible behaviours are more common amongst men.

Would be really fun to be a god and tweak everyone's brains such that heterosexual men take the passive role just to see what happens.
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Also, some source files that could otherwise be treated as text⁰ end up effectively being binary blobs because tools don't write them in a stable order, which makes tracking small changes difficult because you can't see that they actually are small changes. A number of XML formats¹, and sometimes JSON & others, have this issue too.

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[0] for the purposes of change tracking and merging

[1] Stares aggressively at SSIS for its nasty package file format² and habit of saving parts of it in different orders apparently randomly so updating the text of an annotation can completely rearrange the saved file

[2] far from the only crime committed by SSIS I know, but one occasionally irritating enough to mention
> This was an important discussion to have two to three years ago, then we had it online, and then we more or less agreed that it's unfair for artists to have their works sucked up with no recourse.

Speak for yourself, there was no consensus online. There are plenty of us that think that dramatically expanding the power of copyright would be a huge mistake that would primarily benefit larger companies and do little to protect or fund small artists.
That's fine if they've world-class people.

But perhaps that's wishful thinking, they might not be able to keep them with less cash.
Sure.
But if you are unable to really explain yourself and your thought process in the hiring process, they might feel like you are unfit for the interview.
they are way more likely to pick a guy who might be a little worse than you in coding but they actually liked him in the interview.

I mean, this comment is literally an emotion. It's not a fact, and even if it was, well it's changing thanks to AI and all the people who promote AI, and AI isn't going anywhere, so neurodivergent people really I think might have to disclose it/ Maybe if they can truly prove that they are neurodivergent, companies can go back to remote interviews?
What do you find inferior in 3.7 compared to 3.5 btw? I only recently started using Claude so I don't have a point of reference.
A new version of your app has just been pushed to Google Play, but there’s no clear confirmation that it’s live. Frustrating, right? Fortunately, there are easy ways to track your update — even if you're not an Android developer or don’t have access to Google Play Console.
I would like to point out 20 years old it's was in 2005, which isn't very old imo,
This guy sounds like a good manager, that took his responsibilities in vetting candidates, seriously. Kind of a "unicorn," these days, it seems. Many managers are tossed the CV, ten minutes before the interview, and are yanked off of whatever critical project they were stressing over, to do an interview.

I would probably have been fooled by the applicant's screening interview, but it would have rapidly come apart, in the ensuing steps.

My team was a very small team of high-functioning C++ programmers, where each member was Responsible for some pretty major functionality.

This kind of thing might be something they could get away with, in larger organizations, where they would get lost in the tall grass, but smaller outfits -especially ones where everyone is on the critical path, like startups- would expose the miscreant fairly quickly.
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The traditional pipeline for unstructured data extraction typically follows these steps:
1. Image → OCR Model (e.g., Google Vision) → Layout Model (e.g. Surya) → LLM → Final Answer

However, this can be streamlined using a Vision-Language Model (VLM):
2. Image → VLM → Final Answer

Recently VLMs have improved a lot for OCR and document understanding tasks, specifically the Qwen-2.5-VL series. We can run the Qwen-2.5-VL-7B-AWQ model locally with just 16GB VRAM, and perform end-to-end information extraction (fields and table extraction) without any external models.

Hallucination with VLMs
One question I am asked often is hallucination with VLMs compared to OCR model. This is a valid point. But, even with correct OCR and Layout formatting, LLM can still hallucinate, and can give incorrect final answers.
Layout models often struggle with complex documents (e.g., tables, complex sparse document). If the formatted text from the layout model is incorrect the LLM model will always produce incorrect extraction with high confidence.

Check out our GitHub repo for implementation details:
GitHub: https://github.com/NanoNets/docext

Would love to hear suggestions for improvement!
Their main application appears to be taking blog posts and internal memos and making them three times longer and use ten times the bandwidth to convey no more information. So exactly the application AI is ‘good’ at.
> Can someone deliberately choose to be a danger to others and not be considered reckless?

Who are the people you view as choosing to be dangerous to others?

It is those forcing dangerous vaccines onto others or those refusing them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRiDgasJDNs
That said, just having the list of who talks to whom is incredibly powerful:

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad...
As I’ve gotten older and more moderate in my political leanings I’ve unsurprisingly revisited some of my earlier absolute positions (usually but not always very liberal) in light of real world considerations.

Encryption and communications privacy is a position I’ve actually gotten more “extreme” on. No, I don’t think the government should get to see anyone’s communication if they don’t want it to. Yes, I know that will allow criminals of the worst kinds to communicate secretly. I’m okay with that. The alternatives are all worse.
Only sailors know how to leave.
You can use a self-hosted runner with an image that has anything pre-loaded.
It's actually kind of impressive how racists can take literally any issue, in this case a legal battle over encryption, and make it all about their own racism.
As someone currently working to move a large enterprise to GH Actions (not quite, but “yaml-based pipelines tied to git”) - what would discipline look like? If you can describe it, I can probably make it happen at my org.
Well the consumable confectionery items cost about £1.15

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254923832

Except, no, there are eight teacakes, so they must have bought at least two packets.

Wonder who ate the other four?
As someone who got back into mtg recently, nah. I think physical games are going to hang around because there's just something different between playing games with friends on discord versus assembling at one of our houses to play.

Humans are social creatures.
this is a great suggestion actually!