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I see the basic problem as "plastic monomers cost about 50 cents a pound." Exxon-Mobil is happy for chemical recycling systems to break plastics down to "a mix of chemicals you might find in the BTX section of a chemical factory" because those all cost about... 50 cents a pound and are interchangable from that point of view.
Landfilling costs maybe 2 cents a pound, any kind of recycling scheme chemical or mechanical has a hard time beating that.
That said there is some market for mechanical recycling. I've got some nice garmets made from recycled PET bottles, I think the feel of the polyester is better than average. That's no "circular economy" however. In New York you can find PET bottles for Pepsi and Coke company beverages but I know some people who are afraid these will shed more microplastics than virgin bottles.
That must be some extension you have installed. I don't see it.
Not enough to be a deterrent. Until now NATO implicitly relied on the USA as their deterrent. That seems to no longer be a smart thing to do.
The Russo-Ukrainian war started with an invasion 12 years ago at the end of next month, not 4.
It was by design very difficult to secure.
It's not free, but it's much cheaper. (And yes, that includes taxation.)
https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/health-spending.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expendit...
As a bonus, all that spend doesn't make us better in outcomes.
https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low#life-expec...
This is interesting. John Logie Baird did in fact demonstrate something that looked like TV, but the technology was a dead end.
Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a competing technology a few years later, but every TV today is based on his technology.
So, who actually invented Television?
Why didn't you just post a link to your blog? If you post a link in an Ask HN we can't click on it. If you have to explain your blog post so we can have a conversation about it you should have written a different blog post.
That argument is so broken it's not even funny. A lot of assumptions would have to hold for that particular outcome to be true. There are many more and most of those simply result in corporations employing fewer workers and having higher profits. I'm sure that the next argument you'd get is 'trickle down economics' but that doesn't work either.
Submarines are one of several options for this.
Rockets, submarines, aircraft, or even a nuke in a container ship parked in a big harbor work.
Not everyone is optimizing for total comp. Some are optimizing for better lives. It's not a wild concept considering how many people get pulled into startups, 90% of which fail, under the guide of "mission" and lower market comp. Do you pick a mostly assured better quality of life? Or an equity payout lottery ticket/fairy tale? Certainly, there is a minority of folks making wild comp at FAANG, but that is a privileged minority of total tech and IT workers.
I'd prefer it to tell me it can't help me rather than write random code that I then have to spend time debugging.
+1 to "it's a stupid benchmark".
Broken link, should point to https://www.zackliscio.com/posts/rip-low-code-2014-2025/
While I have great respect for this piece of IBM literature, I will also mention that most humans are not held accountable for management decisions, so I suppose this idea was for a more just world that does not exist.
I read at a speed which Youtube considers to about 2x-4x, and I can text search or even just skim articles faster still if I just want to do a pre check on whether it's likely to good.
Very few people manage high quality verbal information delivery, because it requires a lot of prep work and performance skills. Many of my university lectures were worse than simply reading the notes.
Furthermore, video is persuasive through the power of the voice. This is not good if you're trying to check it for accuracy.
> If the videos are the best presentation of the information, best suited to convey the topic to the audience, then that is valuable
Still doesn’t make them a primary source. A good research agent should be able to jump off the video to a good source.
afaiu not all of their models are open weight releases, this one so far is not open weight (?)
This is the key to the whole thing in my opinion.
If you ask a coding agent to port code from one language to the another and don't have a robust mechanism to test that the results are equivalent you're inevitably going to waste a lot of time and money on junk code that doesn't work.
There's no realistic competition because the amount of work to switch your OS ecosystem, especially for businesses, is huge. So the product doesn't have to be good, you can just slam ads in the Start menu or whatever.
> Misusing a forklift might injure the driver and a few others; but it is unlikely to bring down an entire electric grid
That's the job of the backhoe.
(this is a joke about how diggers have caused quite a lot of local internet outages by hitting cables, sometimes supposedly "redundant" cables that were routed in the same conduit. Hitting power infrastructure is rare but does happen)
The Great Lakes have a management principle that is basically "You can use the water of the Great Lakes by permission as long as the water remains in the watershed." And permission is not automatic either.
The reason for that to a large degree is that the Great Lakes area looked over at the Southwest, which wasn't even as bad at the time as it is now, did some math, and worked out that if the Great Lakes tried to supply the Southwest that it would cause noticeable dropping of the water level. I'm sure it would be even more dropping now.
The problem is, the Great Lakes aren't just some big lakes with juicy fresh water that can be spent as desired. They are also international shipping lanes. They make it so that de facto Detroit, Chicago, and a whole bunch of other cities and places are ocean ports. Ocean ports are very, very valuable. There are also numerous other port facilities all along the great lakes, often relatively in the middle of nowhere but doing something economically significant. This is maintained by very, very large and continual dredging operations to keep these lanes open. Dropping the water levels would destroy these ports and make the dredging operations go from expensive to impossible.
So, getting large quantities of water out of the Great Lakes to go somewhere isn't just a matter of "the people who control it don't want to do that", which is still true, and a big obstacle on its own. The Southwest when asking for that water is also asking multiple major international ports to just stop being major international ports. That's not going to happen.
That's true of exercise in general. It's bullshit make-work we do to stay fit, because we've decoupled individual survival from hard physical labor, so it doesn't happen "by itself" anymore. A blessing and a curse.
I remember reading about a metal shop class, where the instructor started out by giving each student a block of metal, and a file. The student had to file an end wrench out of the block. Upon successful completion, then the student would move on to learning about the machine tools.
The idea was to develop a feel for cutting metal, and to better understand what the machine tools were doing.
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My wood shop teacher taught me how to use a hand plane. I could shave off wood with it that was so thin it was transparent. I could then join two boards together with a barely perceptible crack between them. The jointer couldn't do it that well.
He might be coding by hand again, but the article itself is AI slop
> A close relative is a practicing surgeon and a professor in his field. He watches youtube videos of surgeries practically every day.
A professor in the field can probably go "ok this video is bullshit" a couple minutes in if it's wrong. They can identify a bad surgeon, a dangerous technique, or an edge case that may not be covered.
You and I cannot. Basically, the same problem the general public has with phishing, but even more devastating potential consequences.
Have you looked at antirez's code?
Exactly, think StarTrek replicator.
Apple AirTag is one of those interesting products that you don’t think you need until you use it. An Apple thing that just works as advertised and is cheap enough that you can keep picking them up at Airports, without the guilty feeling that usually comes with buying high-priced Apple products, such as the Polishing Cloth. And when you order it online, the nice engravings are fun for my daughters. They like it when it is pinged, finding their toys and bags, and it is worth the price tag.
I had to put in a few of my daughter’s pencil pouches and some toys; they are cheaper than the AirTags and, financially, make no sense to lose an AirTag that costs more than the items being tracked. But hey, daughter is happy, and that covers up for the cost.
I'd like to see some talk about alternatives.
I do crafting with an inkjet printer and something like the Cricut would be an interesting addition but I had two problems with it:
(i) the quality of work it does is not terrible but not great -- it's better than somebody who's bad with scissors but worse than somebody who's good with scissors.
(ii) when I was looking at it in 2021 they'd announced they were going to put limits on how many unique designs you could upload in a month, but the abandoned this after outcry: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/18/22338801/cricut-crafting-...
It looks like the anti-stalking mechanism remains the same: if your iPhone detects that a non-paired AirTag is traveling with you you'll get a persistent notification about it.
I've seen these myself for my partner's AirTag when I was carrying her stuff.
Apparently Android 6+ can warn you about AirTags in the same way, since May 2024: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-and-google-deli...
"why go to the shed"
A good question but there's a good answer: Debugged and tested code.
And by that, I mean the FULL spectrum of debugging and testing. Not just unit tests, not even just integration tests, but, is there a user that found this useful? At all? How many users? How many use cases? How hard has it been subjected to the blows of the real world?
As AI makes some of the other issues less important, the ones that remain become more important. It is completely impossible to ask an LLM to produce a code base that has been used by millions of people for five years. Such things will still have value.
The idea that the near-future is an AI powered wonderland of everyone getting custom bespoke code that does exactly what they want and everything is peachy is overlooking this problem. Even a (weakly) superhuman AI can't necessarily anticipate what the real world may do to a code base. Even if I can get an AI to make a bespoke photo editor, someone else's AI photo editor that has seen millions of person-years of usage is going to have advantages over my custom one that was just born.
Of course not all code is like this. There is a lot of low-consequence, one-off code, with all the properties we're familiar with on that front, like, there are no security issues because only I will run this, bugs are of no consequence because it's only ever going to be run across this exact data set that never exposes them (e.g., the vast, vast array of bash scripts that will technically do something wrong with spaces in filenames but ran just fine because there weren't any). LLMs are great for that and unquestionably will get better.
However there will still be great value in software that has been tested from top to bottom, for suitability, for solving the problem, not just raw basic unit tests but for surviving contact with the real world for millions/billions/trillions of hours. In fact the value of this may even go up in a world suddenly oversupplied with the little stuff. You can get a custom hammer but you can't get a custom hammer that has been tested in the fire of extensive real-world use, by definition.
I'm just speculating (please chime in if you know more!).
Afaiu protocol buffers are very popular for over the wire communication and in that use case cap'n proto does not win you much @ performance (?).
And if you don't go over the wire the performance difference might not matter for many use cases (e.g there is plenty of json sent around as well) and when it does matter: cap'n proto or something custom w/ desired performance characteristics other than protocol buffers is chosen but here cap'n proto covers a slim middleground (?).
+ usual adoption dynamics: protocol buffers have more mindshare and if another solution is not clearly way better for the use case: switching/trialing is not happening as much. (?)
> Could America engineer an aquaduct from the great lakes to california?
Why would the midwestern states consent to that? The southwest is structurally unsustainable. If we can’t develop sufficient renewable energy to power desalination, we’ll probably have to abandon much of California.
My prediction is that if we ever have another civil war, it will be states going to war over access to water.
Isn't that the epitome of the hacker spirit?
"Why?" "Because I can!"
Little by little, eventually it won't be different from many other regimes.
> Not only does an agent not have the ability to evolve a specification over a multi-week period as it builds out its lower components, it also makes decisions upfront that it later doesn’t deviate from.
That's your job.
The great thing about coding agents is that you can tell them "change of design: all API interactions need to go through a new single class that does authentication and retries and rate-limit throttling" and... they'll track down dozens or even hundreds of places that need updating and fix them all.
(And the automated test suite will help them confirm that the refactoring worked properly, because naturally you had them construct an automated test suite when they built those original features, right?)
Going back to typing all of the code yourself (my interpretation of "writing by hand") because you don't have the agent-managerial skills to tell the coding agents how to clean up the mess they made feels short-sighted to me.
I like how it (afaiu) leaves my codex config alone (meaning when I start codex the usual way I have the usual settings but when I launch it via ollama I get the model from ollama).
That said: many open weight models, while quite capable are not a great 1:1 fit for each agent harness and it's not easy to figure out if it is an issue with the model, model size, quantization, inference parameters or something else or a combination.
So for me it is a bit frustrating to pinpoint if a 'bad' experience is just 1 simple change away from a great experience.
For ollama specifically: make sure in settings you have set the context window size to something around 64k or 128k.
The default is 4k which is not enough for agent workflows. I have set it to 256k initially but that then was too much apparently (maybe i need more RAM).
Also it is possible that you have to restart ollama once you have changed the context window size or once you have downloaded the model (?).
Also check if the model you want to use is a good fit for your RAM, if in doubt pick a smaller model first.
I had good results out of the box with qwen3 coder and gpt 20b.
Except the small detail that as proven by all the people that lost their jobs to factory robots, the number of required SRE is relatively small in porpotion to existing demographics of SWEs.
Also this doesn't cover most of the jobs, which are actually in consulting, and not product development.
generative ai increases ambition, lowers barriers
more open source, better open source
perhaps also more forking (not only absolute but also relative)
contribution dynamics are also changing
I'm fairly optimistic that generative ai is good for open source and the commons
what I'm also seeing is open source projects that had not so great ergonomics or user interfaces in general are now getting better thanks to generative ai
this might be the most directly noticeable change for users of niche open source
Since Android has 70% of the world market share, and there are countries where iOS is hardly a presence other than the country's elite population, those are quite a few customers they will be missing on.
Maybe they can keep the lights on with those 30%, I guess.
COM is pretty much alive, it is the main delivery mechanism for new Windows APIs since Windows vista, and in the context of your remark powers UI Automation framework.
I have a DDE book somewhere, with endless pages of C boilerplate to exchange a couple of values between two applications on Windows 3.x.
Or, most charitably, maybe they're not sure and trying to Cunningham's Law their way through the conundrum.
One of the reasons is that there are a lot of adverts masquerading as Show HN.
Yeah, just last year I had several issues with a Gigabyte board that refused to boot Linux regardless of the UEFI incantation, paritions being used, or distribution, yet it had no problems booting the very same M.2 SSD if plugged via an external case.
Eventually it gets tiring, I still remember Yggdrasil, my first distro was Slackware 2.0, bundled on Linux Unleashed first edition in 1995.
Yes, but it is a massive investment in time to establish a presence and if it is all going to be used by some asshole billionaire in the long term then I'll just opt out.
How far we have fallen from the "Do no evil" marketing.
I've been static linking my executables for years. The downside, that you might end up with an outdated library, is no match for the upsite: just take the binary and run it. As long as you're the only user of the system and the code is your own you're going to be just fine.
We had a time when static binaries where pretty much the only thing we had available.
Here is an idea, lets go back to pure UNIX distros using static binaries with OS IPC for any kind of application dynamism, I bet it will work out great, after all it did for several years.
Got to put that RAM to use.
Same article also says the bill includes a ban on social media for users under 16, like Australia. Pretty dramatic change.
Meanwhile the government and official accounts continue to use X even as they're trying to ban it. Mixed messaging.
Lead proponent of the VPN ban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash,_Baron_Nash; he's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Policy_Studies again, the dead hand of Thatcherism.
Nothing, the point is that they have a couple of fig leaf reasons while doing what they want to do anyway.
Java, C# for example.
Yeah, they are supported depending on the semantic interpretation of what the English word supported means.
As long one is happy with printf debugging, a language subset, and gimmick toolchains.
Something that I always wondered about this tool, and why I bucketed it in my mind as a "cool but ultimately boring toy" - why are all effects perfectly spherical? Surely the actual effect, especially for lower-yield devices, would be meaningfully affected by local topography and even buildings?
Huh, through experience with (mostly non-premium) LED bulbs, I've learned to interpret "gradually dims over the course of a second" an an early indicator of imminent bulb failure.
This is an entry on my link blog - make sure to read the article it links to for full context, my commentary alone might not make sense otherwise: https://aifoc.us/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
> Materials like this are infinitely more accessible to us than our grandparents generation. We all have devices in our pockets that can get to service manuals for our products in minutes.
You mean minutes to find the right bootleg manual site with PDF for an adjacent product category, then some more minutes to realize you cannot safely (if at all) get at the manual, some more minutes to find a different bootleg PDF site, realize that it's actually not close enough to the model you have, and 1h later, finally find the good enough PDF... only to realize that "service manuals" today are often useless, and decide to repeat this process on YouTube?
> I can have common parts at my door overnight from Amazon with the press of a button on my phone.
Overnight is often too long. Also good luck finding the right parts and reconciling conflicting IDs between manuals, manufacturers and vendors.
> Every local hardware store carries replacement cartridges and gaskets for common faucet types.
Except when 90% of the faucets are uncommon, and support for them gets effectively discontinued after a few years.
Now contrast that with our grandparents, who usually had repair manuals included with the product, most parts were universal (and probably on-hand or extractable from something else at home), and you could actually go to a local hardware store where the clerk would be able to figure out what parts you needed on the spot, and with luck had them in stock.
I'm not claiming our grandparents had it better in general, but let's also not pretend there are no downsides to ongoing specialization and market competition. We may have more stuff, prettier stuff, better stuff[0], but nothing is ever compatible with anything, it's that way on purpose, and people are no longer supposed to repair anything themselves.
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[0] - That's highly debatable in appliance space.
More likely it will be used to brain control the population
That's because the "30k" number is bs
It's not a stupid question but: technically, after passing through Google's facility that is now gray water, and you can't use that for agriculture or any other 'common usage' without a whole raft of work and you can't just dump it into the aquifer either.
> 8819991197253
Which sadist decided that that is a good number for an emergency call?
Ah yes, you are right! I was going by ear, rather than by the written version, in fact I can't recall seeing it written. German is a language that I will happily use but don't ask me to write a letter in it, you'll probably need exponential notation to represent the number of errors.
Does TikTok even have persistent personalities of this type? I thought a big part of the service was its recommendation algorithm that will keep recommending you other new stuff, not just reruns of the same influencers.
There was a post a while ago, I think it was here, pictures from Iran in the early 1970's. It looked absolutely amazing.
It's interesting to see the prices back then - the model 400 cost $24.95 (see page 15), which would be around $260 today.
Incidentally, the newer variants also have flow restrictors, which aren't hard to remove.
Doctor Yellow.[1] Full rail inspection every ten days.
I remember that being true of early ChatGPT, but it's certainly not true anymore; GPT 4o and 5 have tagged along with me through all of MathAcademy MFII, MFIII, and MFML (this is roughly undergrad Calc 2 and then like half a stat class and 2/3rds of a linear algebra class) and I can't remember it getting anything wrong.
Presumably this is all a consequence of better tool call training and better math tool calls behind the scenes, but: they're really good at math stuff now, including checking my proofs (of course, the proof stuff I've had to do is extremely boring and nothing resembling actual science; I'm just saying, they don't make 7th-grader mistakes anymore.)
I think a useful litmus test for these kinds of stories is: do the people who most actively participate on them believe there's a conversation to be had, with multiple perspectives, not all of which agree with theirs? That's what this site is for.
If not, they're wrong for this site; more than wrong, corrosive. The stories themselves aren't bad (I have a lot of strong political beliefs too), but they're incompatible with the mode of discussion we have here: an unsiloed single front page and a large common pool of commenters.
(For the record: I don't believe there's a productive conversation to be had about ICE in Minnesota and wouldn't care to argue with anyone defending their actions. All the more reason not to nurture threads about it here.)
PS: I'm a longstanding "too-much-politics-on-HN" person, and even I'm a little annoyed that Jonathan Rauch's piece won't work here, if only so I can annoyingly noodle on the varying definitions of fascism. But flags are the right call here.
Pointing out a user’s hypocrisy from their contribution history violates which rule? Please be specific. You cannot say “No politics please.” when it’s clear the argument being put forth is “but only politics I don’t like.”
They posted their blog post. That was a choice, and theirs to defend against evidence presented.
Somewhat ironic that the author calls out model mistakes and then presents https://tomaszmachnik.pl/gemini-fix-en.html - a technique they claim reduces hallucinations which looks wildly superstitious to me.
It involves spinning a whole yarn to the model about how it was trained to compete against other models but now it's won so it's safe for it to admit when it doesn't know something.
I call this a superstition because the author provides no proof that all of that lengthy argument with the model is necessary. Does replacing that lengthy text with "if you aren't sure of the answer say you don't know" have the same exact effect?
For comparison, estimates of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre death count are usually put in the 300-1,000 range by journalists and human rights groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...
Better take another look at your profile!
Just to be clear, this is specific to did:web, did:plc does not have the same downsides (it has different ones).
Venice is the extreme "tail wagging the dog" situation. Venice is dinky. It's not much bigger than San Francisco. Yet it was a major European power for centuries.
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
We blew up shipwrecked survivors a few weeks ago, which is a textbook example of a war crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attac...
> Two survivors of the initial attack later appeared to wave at the aircraft after clambering aboard an overturned piece of the hull, before the military killed them in a follow-up strike that also sank the wreckage. It is not clear whether the initial survivors knew that the explosion on their vessel had been caused by a missile attack.
And "textbook" is not an exaggeration.
https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-survivors-hegseth-72...
> The Pentagon’s own manual on the laws of war describes a scenario similar to the Sept. 2 boat strike when discussing when service members should refuse to comply with unlawful orders. “For example,” the manual says, “orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.”
This seems anti democratic. How can we prevent small minorities from hassling everyone until they get their way?
Religiosity is negatively correlated with intelligence, so it sounds directionally accurate.
The primary legacy of Occupy Wall Street is that "the 1%" became a meme. Enough so that policies are still evaluated on how they affect "the 1%" vs the rest of the population. The concentration of wealth in the US became much better known. It did not, however, reduce that concentration of wealth.
Great news that these draconian pro natalism efforts will be ineffective. Low fertility rates and traps are primarily due to modernization and more opportunities for women. Bodes well for the citizens of remaining countries not yet below replacement rate, as their modernization and opportunities approaches.
> While China’s historic programs to push down fertility rates were successful, they were aided by wider societal changes: The policies were in force while China was modernizing and moving toward becoming an industrial and urbanized society.
> It’s policies aimed at increasing the birth rate now find unfavorable societal headwinds. Modernization has led to better educational and work opportunities for women – a factor pushing many to put off having children.
> In fact, most of China’s fertility reduction, especially since the 1990s, has been voluntary – more a result of modernization than fertility-control policies. Chinese couples are having fewer children due to higher living costs and educational expenses involved in having more than one child.
> Another factor to take into consideration is what demographers refer to as the “low-fertility trap.” This hypothesis, advanced by demographers in the 2000s, holds that once a country’s fertility rate drops below 1.5 or 1.4 – far higher than China’s now stands – it is very difficult to increase it by 0.3 or more.
> The argument goes that fertility declines to these low levels are largely the result of changes in living standards and increasing opportunities for women.
> Accordingly, it is most unlikely that China’s three-child policy will have any influence at all on raising the fertility rate. And all my years of studying China’s demographic trends lead me to believe that making contraceptives marginally more expensive will also have very little effect.
If you think it's going to replace you, then it's going to replace you regardless of whether you personally are feeding it data or not.
If it produces value for you, you should use it. If not, don't.
Individuals can change the world, too. Lee Harvey Oswald, for one. Elon Musk, for another (in a totally different way). And Fritz Haber. Plenty more.
tl;dr: things are fucked because we have been too content to rely on hopium, we need more fictional doomer and rebellion narratives to spur (other) people to action in the real world and change their cultural orientation over the long term.
There's a lot of problems with this perspective, but a very simple pragmatic one is that these data sets depend on volunteer consent, which will be withheld if people believe their contributed data will be used this way. At the end of the day, human consent is the paramount concern.
“…not only did Iryo train's front carriages which stayed on the track have "notches" in their wheels, but three earlier trains that went over the track earlier did too.”
This sounds like something a camera mounted on a sample of trains watching a wheel could catch.
(2019)
Chenoweth has backed off her previous conclusions in recent years, observing that nonviolent protest strategies have dramatically declined in effectiveness as governments have adjusted their tactics of repression and messaging. See eg https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/07/erica-chenoweth-demo...
One current example of messaging can be seen in the reflexive dismissal by the current US government and its propagandists of any popular opposition as 'paid protesters'. Large attendance at Democratic political rallies during the 2024 election was dismissed as being paid for by the campaign, any crowd protesting government policy is described as either a rioting or alleged to be financed by George Soros or some other boogeyman of the right. This has been going on for years; the right simply refuses to countenance the possibility of legitimate organic opposition, while also being chronically unable to provide any evidence for their claims.
Very interesting. I've always thought that there was something a bit "off" about LED torches and car headlamps; the brightness is there, but something about the light just doesn't seem to illuminate as well as an old dim incandescent or even fluorescent tube.
Japan has a culture of perfection.
> I do think there's a bit of an experience divide here, where people more experienced have been down the path of a codebase degrading until it's just too much to salvage – so I think that's part of why you see so much pushback.
When I look back over my career to date there are so many examples of nightmare degraded codebases that I would love to have hit with a bunch of coding agents.
I remember the pain of upgrading a poorly-tested codebase from Python 2 to Python 3 - months of work that only happened because one brave engineer pulled a skunkworks project on it.
One of my favorite things about working with coding agents is that my tolerance for poorly tested, badly structured code has gone way down. I used to have to take on technical debt because I couldn't schedule the time to pay it down. Now I can use agents to eliminate that almost as soon as I spot it.
I've heard Canada described as a "more moderate, and somewhat colder US".
In other words the same old boogeyman they always use to justify this crap.
Yes, that is indeed the point.
I keep seeing people complain that the internet isn't as weird and fun as it used to be. The weird and fun stuff is all on TikTok!
Here's a guy who rigged a theremin and a hurdy gurdy up to Singer sewing machine and performs spectacular covers on it https://www.tiktok.com/@singersoundsystem/video/751772710192...
And here's someone living my dream, he moved to the Scottish Highlands to start a workshop creating mechanical sculptures inspired by my childhood heroes the Cabaret Mechanical Theater and he just made a piece for them! https://www.tiktok.com/@mechanicalcreations/video/7598189362...
But it is the right thing to do for "this topic violates HN guidelines both in letter and in spirit, as well as predictably causing low-quality discussion threads".
Science and Nature are mol-bio journals that publish the occasional physics paper with a title you'd expect on the front page of The Weekly World News.
People keep forgetting that it's possible to legally migrate, work for awhile, and so on, and then "become illegal" due to deadlines or administration issues.
An example every tech worker should understand is H1-B, where as an added bonus your employer can make you illegal.
On the one hand, it's fascinating to know just how much of what shapes our lives was already there a hundred years ago in some form.
On the other hand, it's just as fascinating to realize that all that, and ~everything that shapes modern life, did not exist until ~200 years ago. Not just appliances, but medicines and medicine, plastics and greases and other products of petrochemical industry and everything built on top of it, paints and cleaners and materials and so on...