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for me the main thing about Tauri is not that it is built with Rust (that's interesting as well though)
but that it uses the webview implementation of windows and macos instead of bundling its own browser
This is do-able on the moon without humans. Just keep sending teleoperated robots and parts. Tesla already has semi-teleoperated robots - balance and locomotion are automatic and onboard, manipulation is teleoperated remotely. Eventually build enough that humans can visit.
Which Apple products run arm32 XNU? Their first Apple Silicon CPUs were already arm64.
Electricity prices have gone up due to datacenters as well as neglected grid infrastructure needing investment. Natural gas prices are going up because of LNG export infrastructure causing US consumers to compete against global LNG consumers for fuel to heat, as well as domestic electrical generation demand. Pick your poison.
Electricity prices might come down over time (renewables push down generation costs), natural gas prices won’t due to global demand for it.
Has anyone ever paid you?
The technical side of this seems easy enough. The human side, that seems more complicated.
Like, if I were your doctor or contractor or kid's schoolteacher or whoever you hadn't happened to already whitelist, and had sent you something important for you, and got that back as a response... I'm sure as heck not paying when I'm trying to send you something for your benefit.
> Reading and understanding other people's code is much harder than writing code.
I keep seeing this sentiment repeated in discussions around LLM coding, and I'm baffled by it.
For the kind of function that takes me a morning to research and write, it takes me probably 10 or 15 minutes to read and review. It's obviously easier to verify something is correct than come up with the correct thing in the first place.
And obviously, if it took longer to read code than to write it, teams would be spending the majority of their time in code review, but they don't.
So where is this idea coming from?
You want to self-host a model?
Overall the theme for Superbowl ads was "getting high on our own supply." When you've got an audience that big you need to to be speaking to everyone in a language they can understand and way too many ads, tech or not, were just unfunny inside jokes.
Sometimes my work will give me problems which I'll continue to think about even outside of my customary working hours. Sometimes the solution will come to me as I'm doing something else. Does that mean I'm working 168-hour weeks? I doubt my employer would.
For knowledge worker jobs, it's stupid to measure performance by number of hours spent in an office.
There are some great alternatives, like Zulip and Twist. Unfortunately, ~nobody uses them.
Fun fact: Chinese has separate "financial numerals" precisely to prevent one digit being changed to another, the way that could be easily done with regular numerals like turning 一 (1) into 三 (3) or 十 (10). A lot harder when they look like 壹, 叁, and 拾 instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals#Financial_num...
People in the US are giving up on our senescent culture industry. Go to Target and you find the new music is: Taylor Swift and K-Pop. My son and I are starting a anime theme song cover band and tell potential vocalists that it is easy to sing in Japanese even if you don't know what it means.
Hollywood is so busy getting high on it's own supply that it hasn't even noticed that you can't understand what people are saying even if you speak English so young people today turn on the subtitles habitually which means it it is all the easier to watch subprime/subtitled TV on Tubi.
So when it comes down to it, US-ians care less and less if it is in English.
Who builds the gold-standard spam filter?
I run Gmail at work and Outlook at home and am thoroughly disappointed by both.
FTFA: “This is almost identical to the previous attack via ChatGPT.”
Do you give attribution to all the books, articles, etc. you've read?
Everything is a derivative work.
More recent models are better at reading and obeying constraints in AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md.
GPT-5.2-Codex did a bad job of obeying my more detailed AGENTS.md files but GPT-5.3-Codex very evidently follows it well.
> An agent that can truly “use your computer” is incredibly powerful, but it's also the first time the system has to act as you, not just for you. That shifts the problem from product design to permission, auditability, and undoability.
Or rather, just reveals that the industry never bothered to properly implement delegation of authority in operating systems and applications, opting instead to first guilt-trip people for sharing their passwords, and later inventing solutions that make it near-impossible to just casually let someone do something for you.
Contrast with how things in real life function, whether at family level or at the workplace.
> The act of providing someone with a tool to change how their own property works ("trafficking in circumvention devices") is a felony.
Can code generators and related agents capture media streams to generate clips for social media commentary?
Can video creators set an attribute or otherwise declare their stance on clips?
Can commentators film video clips using a secondary device?
So? Democratic Lawmakers care about donors, not voters. If they were interested in winning elections as opposed to collecting rent they would have picked a different leader, not a "minority" leader who will keep them forever in the minority -- but it is worth trillions to donors to spoil the emergence of an actual left party in America.
It's Children of Men crossed with The Big Lebowski, with Pynchon instead of noir characters. When you get what it's trying to do, it gets better.
I bounced off of it at first, but I bounced (hard) off of Lebowksi as well.
I don't think it's PTA's best film (or that I will come around to that opinion eventually), but it's pretty good.
As far as I know the author never believed LLMs are the road to AGI.
Do you support DJI drone orchestration?
I got that too, but then I tried the link a second time and it worked.
More than 60 million Americans own a home with a garage (where a charger can be installed) and most are within 100 miles of a fast DC charger. Edge cases continue to shrink and be solved for, electricity is ubiquitous and batteries keep improving rapidly.
"Ownership" is frequently a bad smell, it makes me think of the NFT nerd who crashed your party or a high-pressure sales pitch for a timeshare in Florida.
What's wrong with an honest day's pay for an honest day of work? Maybe the working class is fine with being the working class, but it just wants a fair deal. See
I've never felt the need to use a separate boolean type in C; zero and nonzero are enough and very natural to use.
Seeing "== false" and variations thereof always triggers the suspicion that its author doesn't fully understand boolean expressions. I have once seen the even worse "(x == false) == true".
Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo , although I have used that as a metasyntactic variable before.
In the PC world this would be known as "BIOS modding".
The first two instructions looked legitimate, but the third looked unlikely to be a real instruction.
Given that the first appears to be a branch, that's not surprising. When disassembling, not following the flow will likely not give you anything meaningful. If the author is reading this: have you tried Ghidra?
That said, this seems a lot simpler than PC BIOSes in structure, as the latter are usually written in a combination of C and Asm (I can see why no one wanted to write MIPS Asm) and are self-extracting compressed archives.
Remember those Donut/Verge solid state batteries, which were supposed to ship in Q1 2026? That just slipped to the end of 2026 or 2027.[1] Supposedly they're delayed by needing "certification" for their motorcycle.
(The motorcycle is real, and has been out for years. This is just a battery upgrade.)
[1] https://insideevs.com/news/786388/verge-motorcycles-donut-la...
Story about a startup from the former CEO of Sphero.
Yeah, this heat up effect is massive for around-town use. We have had below freezing weather for two weeks, which is very unusual here in Annapolis. That’s had a huge impact on my wife’s use case, which involves a bunch of 5-10 mile trips to drop the kids off at school, go on a grocery run, pick the kids up, take the kids to math tutoring, etc. She ran out of charge the other day during drop-off b/c the “37 miles left” we had the night before was actually a lot less than that accounting for warming the battery up the next day.
> There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property
Does there? Why? There's no legal means to keep private aircraft (e.g. a Cessna) from flying over your property as long as they're over 500 feet. Then drones are below that, typically between 50-400 feet.
They're already not allowed to interfere with your property or privacy however. They can't hover to annoy you, or get close to snap pictures or whatever.
If you're concerned about accidents and safety, then the solution is safety regulation. But the idea that drones must keep track of which individual properties allow flight above and which don't, and try to navigate some around some kind of patchwork accordingly, is simply unpractical and unreasonable.
If drones turn out to be a general nuisance then cities/counties can ban them altogether or whatever as a collective decision, but the idea that individual property owners should be able to ban them is a terrible idea.
This is an educated guess, but I think it becomes less efficient, so it heats up, and then performs better as it heats. I assume this to be the case because I charge my RC plane LiPos the same way every time, and they take the same amount of energy, but flying in the winter gives much shorter flight times. Since the battery is warm after a flight, even in the cold, I don't think the energy is still there the battery is still discharged when I take it home), so it must just be much less efficient and wasting a lot of energy as heat.
I assume it's just that its internal resistance rises when it's cold, but I might be wrong.
Another one of the greats gone.
We need a high trust society.
Everything else is band aids on a broken one.
That's so reductive as to be useless. You might as well replace "clanker" with "computer" or "pencil" or whatever else you want.
Without commenting on the racial biases of IQ tests (we probably directionally agree), the idea that IQ tests in employment are legally risky is an Internet myth. The companies that offer employment-screening general cognitive tests have logo crawls of giant companies that use them.
They're not unusual because they're legally risky; they're unusual because they don't work well.
Wait, what's the play on words in The Martian?
It's just an example of what you can do, not a global feature that will be mandatory. If I trust someone on one of my projects, why wouldn't I want to trust them on others?
Even with that, your hardware is still running Windows.
I have to say I disagree about containers and Kubernetes as being BS - they are tools that have very legitimate use cases. Most companies, though, don't need K8s, but containers and container images are very handy.
I’ve looked into buying grassland. It’s in in the middle of nowhere. $25k/year is before maintenance and grid hook-up costs, both of which will be substantial in the middle of nowhere.
> trust-based systems only work if they carry risk. Your own score should be linked to the people you "vouch for" or "denounce"
This is a graph search. If the person you’re evaluating vouches for people those you vouch for denounce, then even if they aren’t denounced per se, you have gained information about how trustworthy you would find that person. (Same in reverse. If they vouch for people who your vouchers vouch for, that indirectly suggests trust even if they aren’t directly vouched for.)
> question is: is the date mismatch an accident or is it not
Literally what I need. Context. Whether errors like this are common in this format. If anyone has noted this before.
> let’s get rid of wire transfers, and transactions by bank id / account number
You can’t sent a Fedwire with only account number [1]. And this woman wasn’t shot because of wires, the man was told to hand over hard cash.
Archive blocks VPNs. If you're on one, that could be why.
I've also found that archive.ph is significantly less accessible than archive.is despite hosting the same content. Pausing my VPN for a few minutes and then changing the .ph to .is fixed a similar captcha loop for me, though I still did need to solve a captcha for it.
2015 intro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07nqZIFRDJg
The idea behind Arcan was to find the crunchy middle between a display server, a game engine and a multimedia processor. The control plane to this [BSD] “desktop engine” was designed for a scripting API targeting entry-level developers. Lua remain as the weapon of choice for that role as a better follow up to the ‘BASIC’ of the home computer era..
Static.. means that the compiled app is not capable of loading code outside of its own package, except for a set of preset helper scripts.. user controlled opt-in rather than an opt-out as in “install extension to disable javascript”.. security model comes from a combination of least-privilege and capabilities. “Decode” is security wise the most sensitive one as that is where parsing of untrusted inputs go. “Encode” is privacy wise the most sensitive one as that is where the real ‘you’ distil into digital form.I think a fun thought experiment is, "If this is indeed a cover up and he's still alive, how would you find where is currently is?" If he's still dead, I think finding the truth might still be valuable for historical and closure purposes, but not as valuable as the "still alive" scenario.
> lots of capitalistic activity is basically a search for the cheapest and fastest way to accomplish a minimum set of requirements
This is what produced our high standard of living.
For example, Ford and the Model T. Before the Model T, only the rich could afford to buy a car. Ford was relentless with the T in finding ways to cut the manufacturing cost. And the result was America got wheels.
>Yes, coding is not software engineering
It absolutely is.
>Even if I generate a 1,000 line PR in 30 minutes I still need to understand and review it. Since I am responsible for the code I ship, this makes me the bottleneck.
You don't ship it, the AI does. You're just the middleman, a middleman they can eventually remove altogether.
>Now, I would be lying if I said I didn’t use LLMs to generate code. I still use Claude, but I do so in a more controlled manner.
"I can quit if I want"
>Manually giving claude the context forces me to be familiar with the codebase myself, rather than tell it to just “cook”. It turns code generation from a passive action to a deliberate thoughtful action. It also keeps my brain engaged and active, which means I can still enter the flow state. I have found this to be the best of both worlds and a way to preserve my happiness at work.
And then soon the boss demands more output, like the guys who left it all to Claude and even run 5x in parallel give.
It's AI slop itself. It seems inevitable that any AI enthusiast ends up having AI write their advocacy too.
I just give the link to those posts to my AI to read it, if it's not worth a human writing it, it's not worth a human reading it.
>After re-reading the post once again, because I honestly thought I was missing something obvious that would make the whole thing make sense, I started to wonder if the author actually understands the scope of a computer language.
The problem is you restrict the scope of a computer language to the familiar mechanisms and artifacts (parsers, compilers, formalized syntax, etc), instead of taking to be "something we instruct the computer with, so that it does what we want".
>How does this even work? There is no universe I can imagine where a natural language can be universal, self descriptive, non ambiguous, and have a smaller footprint than any purpose specific language that came before it.
Doesnt matter. Who said it needs to be "universal, self descriptive, non ambiguous, and have a smaller footprint than any purpose specific language that came before it"?
It's enough that is can be used to instruct computers more succintly and at a higher level of abstraction, and that a program will come out at the end, which is more or less (doesn't have to be exact), what we wanted.
It has competition
AI cope regarging "you can still carefully design, AI wont take away your creative control or care for the craft" is the new "there's no problem with C's safety and design, devs just need to pay more attention while coding" or the "I'm not alcoholic, I can quit anytime" of 2026...
I think it makes use of GitHub models.
You find the private keys wherever the owners stored them.
Sorry, but this reads like AI slop.
You'll never know because there aren't that many good films to review.
I started programming 40 years ago as well. The magic for me was never that "you could talk to your computer and it had a personality".
That was the layman version of computing, something shown to the masses in movies like War Games and popular media, one that we mocked.
I also lived through the FOSS peak. The current proprietary / black-box / energy lock in would be seen as the stuff of nightmares.
I really feel this. I can make meaningful progress on half a dozen projects in the course of a day now but I end the day exhausted.
I've had conversations with people recently who are losing sleep because they're finding building yet another feature with "just one more prompt" irresistible.
Decades of intuition about sustainable working practices just got disrupted. It's going to take a while and some discipline to find a good new balance.
>That capitalism logically implies that the rich become richer? I don't think this is necessarily the case,
It doesn't need to imply anything. It's an ideology, those promoting it will say whatever BS attracts people to it. In practice, what is happening in capitalist countries since 1970s (when they abandoned all pretense) is that the rich get way richer and everybody else is fucked.
1. Containers aren't a security boundary. Yes they can be used as such, but there is too much overhead (privilege vs unprivileged, figuring out granular capabilities, mount permissions, SELinux/AppArmor/Seccomp, gVisor) and the whole thing is just too brittle.
2. lxd VMs are QEMU-based and very heavy. Great when you need full desktop virtualization, but not for this use case. They also don't work on macOS.
Using Apple virtualization framework (which natively supports lightweight containers) on macOS and a more barebones virtualization stack like Firecracker on Linux is really the sweet spot. You get boot times in milliseconds and the full security of a VM.
They have separate kitchens for the prep, the cleaners work while they’re out on the yacht, they have people to do the buying, and the restaurants they visit have very well trained staff who stay out of the way.
Those images make me think of
https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2024/02/15/the-rat-with-t...
Kahnemann had the intellectual honesty to accept that large parts of his book are flawed, and he called on psychologists to clean up their act by doing a systematic multiple reproduction study program:
https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.6716.1349271308!/s...
Which is why it is relevant to foster a native Linux gaming ecosystem, and not one that depends on running Windows games.
They’ll have to get rid of those cookie banners first.
I was impressed with my M4 mini when I got it a year ago but sometime after the Liquid Glass update it is now: beachball… beachball… beachball… reboot… beachball… beachball… Reminds me of the bad old days of Win XP.
I enjoy the kind of problem solving you are describing there too. That's why I like being able to point LLMs at them first - if they can find the fix I get to save a bunch of time and spend it on more interesting problems, and if they can't find the fix then I know I'm going to have a great time digging into a really gnarly problem myself!
it states how much it costs but not how much faster it is
Everybody that I know that reads SF has their own favorite Ursula K. Le Guin story. I have a hard time because I have two. 'The Lathe of Heaven' and 'The Left Hand of Darkness'.
Microsoft uses Rust like traits on Windows with C++.
You should still add an IAP to the Play Store build, and make it "paid" even if it has no different features. There are dozens of us who support OSS apps, dozens!
> science has advanced to the point, where we no longer consider there to be “unexplored” realms, in science
It’s interesting that the last time this vividly happened was on the eve of massive technological advancement, social change and a world war.
That's not the best solution for image or video (or audio, or 3D) any more than it is for LLMs (which it also supports.)
OTOH, its the most flexible and likely to have some support for what you are doing for a lot of those, and especially if yoj are combining multiple of them in the same process.
Not really, because when they are feed into agents, those agents will take over tasks that previously required writing some kinds of classical programming.
I have already watched integrations between SaaS being deployed with agents instead of classical middleware.
> I got my first model train when I was 2 years old, and my dad wouldn’t let me play with it. So he ran it around the Christmas tree and I had to watch.
I wonder how many kids had this happen to them.
> The Web of Trust failed for PGP 30 years ago. Why will it work here?
It didn't work for links as reputation for search once "SEO" people started creating link farms. It's worse now. With LLMs, you can create fake identities with plausible backstories.
This idea won't work with anonymity. It's been tried.
25% of global annual auto sales are EVs as of 2025. 50% in China, the largest auto market in the world. This will only accelerate. Norway is already effectively at 100%, the rest will follow in time.
US legacy auto is just squeezing profits from what’s left until they turn out the lights. EVs didn’t fail, the US automotive industry did.
https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in...
https://electrek.co/2025/12/17/25-percent-of-new-cars-sold-g...
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-ev-leapfrog-how...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/automakers-ev-china-ford-gm....
https://electrek.co/2026/02/03/even-after-cutting-ev-incenti...
On the American Spectator:
How about bug fixing? Give someone a repo with a tricky bug, ask them to figure it out with the help of their coding agent of choice.
C-subset, to be precise; but microcomputer C compilers were in the tens of KB range, for one that can actually compile real C.
I really reasonate with this post, I too appreciate "Good Code"(tm). In a discussion on another forum I had a person tell me that "Reading the code that coding agents produce is like reading the intermediate code that compilers produce, you don't do that because what you need to know is in the 'source.'"
I could certainly see the point they were trying to make, but pointed out that compilers produced code from abstract syntax trees, and the created abstract syntax trees by processing tokens that were defined by a grammar. Further, the same tokens in the same sequence would always produce the same abstract syntax tree. That is not the case with coding 'agents'. What they produce is, by definition, an approximation of a solution to the prompt as presented. I pointed out you could design a lot of things successfully just assuming that the value of 'pi' was 3. But when things had to fit together, they wouldn't.
We are entering a period where a phenomenal amount of machine code will be created that approximates the function desired. I happen to think it will be a time of many malfunctioning systems in interesting and sometimes dangerous ways.
No. It's not your identity, it's a piece of software. "I use ____ for as long as the benefits outweigh the drawbacks" is what you should be thinking.
> Also, on a personal level it rubs me the wrong way to have my insurance premiums go towards something that people could just do themselves, from something they did to themselves. I know many will disagree, of course, and there are other examples (say, lung cancer treatments) that are similar.
Our Obsession With Personal Responsibility Is Making Us Sick - https://jacobin.com/2026/02/health-inequality-individual-res... - February 6th, 2026
I think we can agree that Musk is strongly motivated. He works insanely hard and takes huge personal risks with his fortune.
He says why he does it - over and over - to save humanity by spreading it out into space.
> desperate for approval and accolades. From anyone.
If true, it is rather common behavior, not deeply unwell. Politicians 100% fall into that category. So do movie stars. So does every Olympic athlete. So what.
Right, but that's still not Anthropic adding an intentional delay for the sole purpose of having you pay more to remove it.
What coding agent are you using where the code doesn't even compile!?
Also they have trouble stopping in Tau Zero so they have no choice going further than they planned. It's one of the best sci-fi novels of all time, read it!.
That Bussard Ramjet, though, is thoroughly discredited. It can't possibly work. Hydrogen hydrogen fusion is a terribly slow nuclear reaction and if you had to stop the gas to give it enough time to react, you'd end up stopping the rocket not accelerating it. In fact, the most credible use of that kind of magnetic scoop is as a brake!
Best wishes to you! I'm retired myself, but I work full time (on D). Yale is hosting a symposium on D in April, and I'll be a speaker at it.
From Apple's point of view it is perfectly fine for such purposes.
From my point of view, if Go does it, Swift is much better at the same game.