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Both uv and polars are technically Rust, too.
I don't think that's fair. The US has so many administrative layers with taxing powers - federal, state, county, and municipal, and in many cases administrative bodies also charge massive filing fees, and courts charge large fees to finance themselves because they're consistently under-funded by legislatures.
So Americans get taxed a lot at many different levels of activity. The cognitive load of having so many different points of taxation is annoying and exhausting to a lot of people. It makes household budgeting a lot more work than it really needs to be.
But it is this way because of the Constitution
They maybe we should change that and have a simpler system with much less complexity. Dismissing people who object to the painful complexity of the US tax regime as 'evaders' is npt insightful or helpful.
I stopped after the 4th click, I found it irritating to have to click to get 1 or 2 sentences at a time. This would have been just fine as a short article, making it interactive annoyed me more than the revealed content informed.
> I will spare you some misery: you do not have to read this blog. It is fucking stupid as hell, constantly creating ideas to shadowbox with then losing to them.
OK. Closed tab.
The overlord model might be expensive to run, take a long time, etc.
Please provide evidence for what you considered to be normal to be an effective workforce for the ongoing task at hand (nation state tax collection).
This is so dumb. It isn't the printers where you could solve this but the slicers and slicers are for the most part open source. Effectively this is another ban on particular numbers. The printers just execute G-code and to make a printer aware of what it is that it is printing requires a completely different level of processing than what is normally present in the printers. Besides that, you could break anything up into parts that don't necessarily look like the complete article.
How amateurish! Officials should have just deflected to talking about the stock market.
Fronted by Cloudflare, not good for them.
The "before it touches disk" thing in the promo copy is silly, yes, but there's really no sane threat model for this; from every vantage point where this could matter, you already have game-over attacks on the app.
Great work! Looking forward to using it!
He's 65, so that might be long enough to be for life (based on life expectancy).
>One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful.
Yes, as the saying goes, the law equally forbids and punishes the poor and the rich if they sleep in the park or under a bridge.
>We wouldn't have Apple, Netflix, or so many other Bay Area giants without the equal application of law.
US has nowhere near "equal application of law", and yet it has these companies.
In fact, if it did have "equal application of law", those companies would have dead, as they get away with things that, if a smaller company or private business did, they'd have the book thrown at them.
We wouldn't have Apple, Netflix, or so many other Bay Area giants without the equal application of law.
You have to ask the question of "what exactly is Capitalism?"
By putting capital ahead of everything else of course capitalism gives you technological progress. If we didn't have capitalism we'd still be making crucible steel and the bit would cost more than the horse [1] -- but if you can license the open hearth furnace from Siemens and get a banker to front you to buy 1000 tons of firebricks it is all different, you can afford to make buildings and bridges out of steel.
Similarly, a society with different priorities wouldn't have an arms race between entrepreneurs to spend billions training AI models.
[1] an ancient "sword" often looks like a moderately sized knife to our eyes
A real shame BMW discontinued the i3. It was, and still is, the most stylish BMW. I wonder why they select their designers for lack of creativity.
Additional citation:
Graphs About Religion: When Are Half Your Members Going to be Dead? - https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/when-are-half-your-mem... - January 29th, 2026
https://gist.github.com/ryanburge/2034b9dea297f6b4db4ebad7e8...
> Not more blog posts, more emails, more boilerplate — but something structurally new?
This is a point that often results in bad faith arguments from both AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics. Enthusiasts will say "everything is a remix and the most creative works are built on previous works" while skeptics will say "LLMs are stochastic parrots and cannot create anything new by technical definition".
The truth is somewhere in the middle, which unfortunately invokes the Golden Mean Fallacy that makes no one happy.
I would imagine variables that are passed to functions would be considered ABI-visible. If the compiler is smart enough, it can keep the pointer wide when it’s passed to a function that’s also being compiled and act accordingly on the other side, but that worries me because this new meaning of “pointer” is propagating to parts of the code that might not necessarily agree with it.
Our sense of smell also evolved in the past couple thousand years. And the further back you go, the hungrier our ancestor will be.
I need to get food at the market, not wait for it to fall into a trap or fight it to death.
After telling Copilot to lose the em-dash, never say “It’s not A, it’s B” and avoid alternating one-sentence and long paragraphs it had the gall to tell me it wrote better than most people.
One relevant motivation for innovators is to escape poverty or the risk of poverty. When you have an adequate social safety net, there is little incentive to overwork oneself in order to build something new. It’s also natural not to keep thinking on what big idea you want to go after for fame and fortune when neither is that much attractive.
Also, it’s worth noting most startups fail, and when that happens, founders are often worse off than when they started. Well born founders can try until something sticks, but poor ones have, at best, one chance.
That may be, but it's also exposing a lot of gatekeeping; the implication that what was interesting about a "Show HN" post was that someone had the technical competence to put something together, regardless of how intrinsically interesting that thing is; it wasn't the idea that was interesting, it was, well, the hazing ritual of having to bloody your forehead of getting it to work.
AI for actual prose writing, no question. Don't let a single word an LLM generates land in your document; even if you like it, kill it.
Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10042-w - February 18th, 2026
This has been posted a bunch of times [1] and argues for lax worker protections as a reasonable trade off for "innovation", which is fine if you're comfortable making the trade off of continuing trend of rapidly declining global fertility rates [2] because of economic insecurity (which governance.fyi goes into detail on [3]). Those arguing for people to have more kids while also arguing innovation requires making it easy to fire citizen workers, leading them to not have economic security and therefore not have kids will need to pick a lane. I also admit that fertility rate decline causes are numerous and complex, with the caveat that economic insecurity does not help based on all available data.
"You should economically suffer so that we can have a small cohort's idea of innovation" ain't gonna sell well to the general public, unless you're offering robust non employer government provided and guaranteed social safety nets in lieu of jobs (healthcare, housing, basic income, etc). If those safety nets are on offer, certainly, this piece's argument might hold some water.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fworksinprogress.co%2...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I see "trillions" in there but don't really believe it. I mean there are 8 billion of us on Planet Earth and to see it 2 trillion times that would mean we all saw it 250 times on average. This is the first time I saw it, the number of votes and shares and comments is not remarkable (compare to https://www.threads.com/@mg_pink_angler/post/DU8UL8ECEPl)
Maybe your analytics dashboard is busted.
I'm really excited about the Index. I don't love that it's disposable, but I really like the UX. I couldn't wait, so I made my own (obviously not a ring, but airtag-sized), and it's amazing. I have it in my pocket, I take it out, speak a little note, and it goes off to my AI assistant for whatever needs doing.
That and the AI assistant have really changed how I operate day to day. I'm super excited about the Index, and I hope it has the same capability my app has (mostly, sending a webhook with the transcription with exponential backoff, so I'm sure all my notes will eventually be sent).
As long as I've been involved with marketing I think most people have always underestimated the amount of work to break through indifference. If it came to putting up flyers for instance, my idea of a marketing plan is 50-1000 flyers with 5-15 distinct designs, the average young person thinks that people are so desperate to hear your message that 10 flyers will do it.
Back in the day for everything that "went viral" there were 100 "normal dudes" who had a marketing plan that involved "going viral" but it didn't happen.
People are about to learn in the AI age that: (1) if you speed up execution or the appearance of execution you run into the difficultly of marketing more quickly, and (2) Putting "AI" in your subject line will just make people close their earflaps the same way that "NFT" did two years ago.
Sure it is tuff and most people won't succeed, but with hustle and imagination some people are going to make it today, but the "life hacks" that work are either not generalizable (you are not going to transform into a fox) or trade secrets.
Google would really wish the only channel that worked was their ad platform, I'll tell you that.
We also don't know what you're pitching. If it's another samey AI startup seeing the subject line is like a punch in the gut. To be fair, 99% of people are trying to sell something that nobody wants to buy but once in a blue moon you see somebody's whose response rate has extra zeros on the right because they're selling something people are interested in.
It's a pelican. What do you expect a pelican to have in his bike's basket?
It's a pretty funny and coherent touch!
If that's her attitude she's never going to have a stable relationship.
It doesn't (you can retire early), but it does decide part of what you will need to be saving and how.
And the reason it decides that, apart from "because it can", is because many societies have seen what happens when it's left to individuals to take care of this, and they fuck it up in massive numbers, and the outcome of that then fucks up society.
See https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115939341268444811 for music cards that i decorate with and share with people.
Gemini has an obvious edge over its competitors in one specific area: Google Search. The other LLMs do have a Web Search tool but none of them are as effective.
Interesting how it went a bit more 3D with the style of that one compared to the pelican I got.
Pretty great pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ - took over 5 minutes though, but I think that's because they're having performance teething problems on launch day.
Additional citations:
GOP angst over voter turnout builds as losses pile up - https://www.axios.com/2026/02/19/republican-angst-voter-turn... | https://archive.today/a9C1h - February 19th, 2026
GOP's new fear: Losing the Senate in November - https://www.axios.com/2026/02/06/gop-senate-midterms-2026 | https://archive.today/2iGNf - February 6th, 2026
Price is unchanged from Gemini 3 Pro: $2/M input, $12/M output. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
Knowledge cutoff is unchanged at Jan 2025. Gemini 3.1 Pro supports "medium" thinking where Gemini 3 did not: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3
Compare to Opus 4.6's $5/M input, $25/M output. If Gemini 3.1 Pro does indeed have similar performance, the price difference is notable.
You can retire whenever you want. The government decides when to start funding it.
As for why - the same reason why they get to decide what side of the road you drive on and what laws you follow. They rule the patch of land you were born on, and if you don't like it you can either participate in the system (assuming it's a democracy) or leave.
The counter question is: why have AMD been so bad by comparison?
I tried, “In the mood for country cowboy-ish music played for someone like John Wick bleeding out on a cold, snow-covered park bench.”
I ended up with kinda shrill. I was hoping for something that would sound like I’m listening to something while the coffee gets cold in a cabin.
It is hardly any different from,
C Source code => Tradicional UNIX C compiler => ASM => object file
Now everyone is doing
AI tooling => C Source code => Tradicional UNIX C compiler => ASM => object file
For all pratical purposes, just like using a language like Nim, the workflow exposed to user can hide the middle steps.
Then there is the other take, if you start using agents that can be configured to do tool calling, it is hardly any different from low code applications, doing REST/GraphQL/gRPC calls orchestrated via flow charts, which is exactly what iPaSS tooling are offering nowadays, like Workato, Boomi,...
Tell the AI that wrote this to lay off on the em dash and the "is not A; it is B" pattern.
I don’t remember seeing the outline function on the online version of Word.
A confounding factor here is that savings behavior is cultural rooted: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6135367/. Studies show that people within a country can have substantially different savings behaviors, robustly correlated with their origin countries, even among people who are third generation immigrants. It’s a mistake to treat either the U.S. or Singapore as homogenous populations for purposes of this analysis.
Funny, Roundup really is the herbicide for the ignorant. That is, with other herbicides you have to know what plant you are spraying and what time you're supposed to spray it, with Roundup you can just spray it indiscriminately and know it won't kill your GMO plants.
It's not an honest opinion — it's A.I. slop.
Even better, starting with C++26, and considered to be done with DR for previous versions, hardned runtimes now have a portable way to be configured across compilers, instead of each having their own approach.
However, you still need something like -fbounds-safety in C++, due to the copy-paste compatibility with C, and too many people writing Orthodox C++, C with Classes, Better C, kind of code, that we cannot get rid of.
This wasn't human written [em-dash] This an AI opinion.
A lossy process in itself, even if done by aware humans.
Actual non-reg statement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tech-firms-will-have-to-t...
The key phrase is "non-consensual intimate image" commonly known as "revenge porn". It seems this includes fakes as well.
Edit: full text of draft legislation https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-and-policing... ; still very much in the process of being amended.
I note that publishing NCII is already an offence in Scotland, although it doesn't have this kind of liability for platforms. Primarily used against ex-partners publishing real or fake revenge images.
Not sure about that; why does the US have a huge number of troops in Germany in the first place? Defence, or occupation?
It seems to me that the objectives until ~2014 were to (a) provide moral and a small amount of physical support for the War on Terror; (b) sell US weapons, such as the F-35; and (c) ensure that European defence centered around NATO, under US control, and not the EU. The US wanted Europe to have enough capability to assist the US, but not to go off on adventures of its own and certainly not (going all the way back to the Washington Naval Treaty here) enough military might to resist the US or start another European empire.
That is, the strategy from WW2 until fairly recently was to prevent Germany re-arming. Just as the large deployment in Japan is to prevent Japan from re-arming just as much as it is there to defend the Pacific from China.
The sad thing is that people don't miss the administrative state until it's too late.
I'm reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal ; one side effect was people importing baby formula to China from Australia, because they trusted the Australian food safety authorities more than the Chinese ones.
The DOGE gutting has most likely set up some sort of similar problem that hasn't arrived or gone public yet. Not to mention the background level of problems like the Purdue Pharma one.
> The people that “build wealth” definitely play by the rules
Are you talking about the workers who actually do the job and build the things others pay money for?
Because they have no other option than to play by the rules - if they don’t, they go to jail and won’t be able to buy a pardon.
For some reason, the website is down for me. I have always been fascinated by the Mongols after reading “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” by Jack Weatherford.
Recently, I stumbled upon the 6:40+ hour YouTube video, “The Mongols - Terror of the Steppe.” You might like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFwMDuAnS4
This is Nice.
However, how do one access their diary, when you stopped maintaining it? Is this targeted more at the technically inclined, high-profile people who need to keep secrets?
Personally, I believe that for something like a diary/journal, it should be in a format easily readable by most tools (so a Plain-Text or a MarkDown at best), then it is in a container/folder. Now, encrypt that container/folder instead. In the future, when you need to change the tool for Encryption/Decryption, move the container/folder.
For instance, tools such as https://cryptomator.org comes to mind.
Worse, physical reality now also depends on "cyberspace".
This stuff only worked, socially and politically, when it was a niche. Echoing the comment of Nursie, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071177 ; as soon as "everyone" is online, online is also real life. People thought it might be a haven for progressive politics, but that didn't outlast the Howard Dean campaign and it turned out that the right-wing could do online politics as well. The medium doesn't care whether your message is pro- or anti-genocide.
The ability of hyper-online memelords to inject bad ideas into the online right policy space has been an absolute disaster for all concerned. US policy is now downstream of Twitter. Let that sink in, as it were.
In a very cyberpunk dystopia way, online warfare is now co-evolved with both kinetic warfare (Ukraine's meme army trying to secure them external support) and urban warfare (following ICE agents around to post video of what they're doing on the Internet is as effective a tactic as legal action).
People forget that the "cyber" of "cyberpunk" and "cyberspace" comes from "cybernetics", meaning systems of control. In the beginning amateurs had control because it wasn't important. Now it turns out that, yes, the question of which country owns the chat client all the government staff are using is a question of national security.
This is only an issue if you think LLMs are infallible.
If someone said "I asked my assistant to find the best hot-dog eaters in the world and she got her information from a fake article one of my friends wrote about himself, hah, THE IDIOT", we'd all go "wait, how is this your assistant's fault?". Yet, when an LLM summarizes a web search and reports on a fake article it found, it's news?
People need to learn that LLMs are people too, and you shouldn't trust them more than you'd trust any random person.
Nah, he is still supposed to come back in a foggy morning according to the legend.
Fueled by the fact that his body was never found, so it might be that he survived and rather stay low than come back.
Type inference saves typing on the keyboard.
Ironically the language which needed this most was C++, which took ages to get the "auto" keyword and can still have a bit of a problem with fully expanded template names in error messages.
I'm not normally given to "conspiracy theory", but .. this feels coordinated, right? Quite possibly by the age verification vendors, or some shadier intelligence service sockpuppeting them?
It's just so rare for so many governments to simultaneously, suddenly, after so many years of social media agree that it's a problem on the scale of chloroflurocarbons.
Because they aren't the same, Bedrock is more limited in modding capabilities, and the Java community doesn't care about it.
Microsoft logically wants to keep sales from both.
Ah. You will also like another story that popped up here some time back.
A Canadian science-fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer, made an Archive available complete with extensive resources on how to use it. In addition, fully text-searchable PDFs of the original manuals, totaling over 1,000 pages, were also available. He is a dedicated WordStar user.
“wellbeing” used as if it were the label of a discipline is almost invariably used for grifts that are intended to be viewed by the audience targeted as being in either (or straddling both) the physical or psychological health spaces, but where the grifter wants to avoid explicitly claiming to be operating in either of those spaces for liability or other reasons.
You aren't paying for usage, you are paying for the product that the subscription is offered to. If you are paying for usage, well, that's their billed by token-usage API plan, which they are quite happy for you to use with any client you want.
not the author but afaiu r3 uses the "color" concept:
tokens are tagged by type via 8bits (number literal, string, word call, word address, base word, …)
and the interpreter dispatches using these bits
it just doesn't use the colors visually in the editor and uses prefixes instead (" for string, : for code definition, ' for address of a word, …) which also means the representation in the editor matches that of the r3 source in files.
I don't see how it's fair. If I'm paying for usage, and I'm using it, why should Anthropic have a say on which client I use?
I pay them $100 a month and now for some reason I can't use OpenCode? Fuck that.
> "people using AI image generators may receive near-copies of existing media instead of new content, with no indication that this has happened".
This has been known for a long time. The main question is how rare something is in the input data, if you're lucky you get substantial chunks of the original input back out.
How come a graphics powered REPL is less capable than a window that pretends to be a tty from the 1970's?
You can certainly use the same Web GUIs from macOS and GNU/Linux as well, as for Powershell remoting, no need for VM when Powershell nowadays is written in modern portable .NET.
>It’s actually worse than that. A centralised SaaS product has to architect for diversity - every customer’s feature permutations, every edge case, every conflicting workflow, all coexisting in a single multi-tenant system. That architectural complexity is enormous. A custom build for a single customer doesn’t carry any of it. One set of features, one workflow, one tenant. Orders of magnitude less complex to build, and orders of magnitude less complex to maintain and run in production.
SaaS also covers all kind of legal requirements (accessibility, auditing, security, payment handling, and so on), and has someone to support, blame, and come and fix it when things go sour. Plus the architecture to cover scaling needs.
With some thing Claude churned, you're on your own.
Those kind of arguments is like posting news about people still dying while wearing seat belts and helmets, ignoring the lifes that were saved by having them on.
By the way, I am having these kind of arguments since Object Pascal, back when using languages safer than C was called straighjacket programming.
Ironically, most C wannabe replacements are Object Pascal/Modula-2 like in the safety they offer, except we know better 40 years later for the use cases they still had no answer for.
The problem is the misconception of what libc is.
In traditional UNIX, there is no libc per se, there is the stable OS API set of functions and that's it.
When C was standardised, a subset of the UNIX API became the ISO C standard library, aka libc. When it was proven that wasn't enough for portable C code, the remaining UNIX API surface became POSIX.
Outside UNIX, libc is indeed a thing, because many of those OSes aren't even written in C, just like your language lists example, in those OSes libc ships with C compiler, not the OS per se, as you can check by diving into VMS documentation before it became OpenVMS, or IBM and Unisys systems, where libc is also irrelevant if using PL/I, NEWP, whatever.
Also on Windows, you are not supposed to depend on libc unless you are writing portable C code, there isn't one libc to start with. Just like everyone else, each compiler ships their own C runtime library, and nowadays there is also universal C runtime as well, plenty of libc choices.
If not writing portable C code, you aren't supposed to use memset(), rather FillMemory ().
Same applies to other non-UNIX OSes, you would not be calling memset(), rather the OS API for such service.
> They'll all do this eventually
And if the frontier continues favouring centralised solutions, they'll get it. If, on the other hand, scaling asymptotes, the competition will be running locally. Just looking at how much Claude complains about me not paying for SSO-tier subscriptions to data tools when they work perfectly fine in a browser is starting to make running a slower, less-capable model locally competitive with it in some research contexts.
Recent price trends for DRAM, SSDs, hard drives?
As someone who was on that team for a long time, we took that into consideration, but it was never specifically for that. There was some stuff the Servo team would have liked us to have implemented that we didn’t.
In the case you are asking in good faith, a) X requires logging in to view most of its content, which means that much of your audience will not see the news because b) much of your audience is not on X, either due to not having social media or have stopped using X due to its degradation to put it generally.
I still run a MacMini (2012) with Catalina, and it just got a security update. Long back, the drive got an SSD upgrade, with max-out RAM. It still serves as a Media Server. Unfortunately, I don’t want to find out or fix, but my other Macs running Tahoe are unable to access the drives there directly, and a few other issues. I used to just mount it on my local drive like a file server. I had attached two drives, one as an offline Apple Photos copy and another for Dropbox. Both seem to have stopped working the way I want.
But hey, it still works. Survived a bad fall while cleaning up, duck-taped as the screws are not screwing.
I don't see how they can get more clear about this, considering they have repeatedly answered it the exact same way.
Subscriptions are for first-party products (claude.com, mobile and desktop apps, Claude Code, editor extensions, Cowork).
Everything else must use API billing.
Generating infinite fanfics would probably be far more interesting and entertaining.
So far, the only thing I've found AI to be consistently good at is entertainment of the humourous kind.
> The auto industry — which has long advocated for unified regulations across the United States — now could face a scenario where it’s not only easier for California to issue tailpipe rules, but states like New York or Illinois could also create their own patchwork of standards.
Easy. Blue states form a coalition and enact legislation to replace what the EPA is removing. US automakers can decide if they want to build to those standards or not, while their export TAM is crushed by Chinese EV makers.
That just makes the bot more like a human writer.
> Translations are not the same work as the original. They are derived works.
Which adds yet another layer. Because you still want them to be considered as part of a larger single entity. If you're performing a search, you want to find the single main entity, and then have different translations listed the same way you have different editions listed.
When this was first discussed, the thread was…skeptical to say the least, but it has been proven to be a success.
We continue to reach combustion->EV tipping points country by country.
It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39243196 - February 2024 (69 comments)
My problem with Ed is that he's established a very firm position that LLMs are mostly useless and the business is a big scam, which makes it difficult to evaluate his reporting.
He often gathers good information but his analysis of that information appears to be heavily influenced by the conclusions he's already trying to reach.
I do pay attention to him but I'd like to see similar conclusions from other analysts against the same data before I treat them as robust.
I don't personally have the knowledge or experience of company finance to be able to confidently evaluate his findings myself!
If they have the documentation... With Microsoft probably the answer to that is yes, but more often than not documentation is simply absent. And in cases like this not being too aware of where the lines are is probably a great way to advance your career.
Sure they do. They even explicitly made some changes back 2-3 years ago to make it easier for Asahi (or such projects)
> Nobody is reading or reviewing these documentation so what hope is there that anybody is reading or reviewing their new code?
Why do you assume that reviewing docs is a lower bar than reviewing code, and that if docs aren't being reviewed it's somehow less likely that code is being reviewed?
There's a formal process for reviewing code because bugs can break things in massive ways. While there may not be the same degree of rigor for reviewing documentation because it's not going to stop the software from working.
But one doesn't necessarily say anything about the other.
GLP-1s disprove this to an extent. Personal responsibility is based on a fallacy, it’s just brain chemistry.
So give everyone GLP-1s to cast the shadow of personality responsibility (reduction in adverse reward center operations, broadly speaking) through better brain chemistry. Existence is hard, we can twiddle the wetware to make it less hard.
Right, so you think.
But: your bank knows who you are and the recipient's bank knows who they are. Your transfer may have been below the increased attention threshold ($10K to $50K depending on the jurisdictions of both recipients).
Both your accounts are most likely not recent and in good standing.
And so on. I routinely make international wiretransfers as well but I'm under no illusion whatsoever that if I tried to cross an anti-money-laundering or anti-terrorism-financing threshold somewhere that the transfer would be immediately stopped and an investigation would ensue.
And if not that they'll comply with the letter but not the spirit so you're going to have to send them snail mail or fax to receive a copy of the open source parts but it won't build because they have a whole slew of requirements that you'll never be able to meet.
Malicious compliance.
Most recent example: Rigol.
>Like, why doesn't the market solve for this? If the median woman can't buy clothing that fits in many brands, surely that's a huge marketing opportunity for any of the thousands of other clothing brands?
Because
- in reality it's not much of a problem. Billions of women manage to buy and wear clothes just fine. Some might fit slightly better or worse, but unless you have very special body shape (and even extreme thick/overweight/tall/short are covered by niche brands) you can get in any clothes store and get plenty of clothes to wear
- some random brand making something that fits better doesn't mean any sizeable consumer percentage is going to buy it. First because see above, and also because a lot of clothes purchases are about brand and fashion and status signalling, not mere fit.
- if some women absolutely can't find something in their size from a specific brand, that makes the brand even more exclusive, like it being "for fit people only". Obviously brands for thicker and even obese people also exist, but they're seen as a brand of need, not a brand you'd be proud having to wear
I want a lie bounty. If I pay for an article and find a lie in it, I should get a refund plus a bug bounty. That would make fact-checking pay off.
A real problem is that most of the fact-oriented sources are paywalled, while the polemic sites, especially on the hard right, are free. Fox News and X are free, but the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are paywalled.