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> how about kicking sick people off of flights
Difficult for the airline to do given the myriad of health privacy adjacents.
Entire subthread is excellent, great comments and observations by all.
My feeling is this will sort itself out as stories of kids getting strokes and blindness return to the zeitgeist.
Wait ‘till folks hear how expensive roads are.
(usps is a public good that can be run at a loss, it does not need to be profitable; as you mention, this is super cheap postage for the value)
This "religious ruling" stuff is less interesting than it sounds. To begin with, while the Islamic Republic of Iran is a totalitarian state, the Twelver Shia hierarchy isn't unified. The supposed ban on nuclear weapons was Khamenei's, and binding only on his followers. But there are several other marja (marjas? marji?), with significant followings even in the security state & IRGC (al-Sistani being a good example).
More importantly, it's pretty clear that the geopolitical rulings are, well, geopolitical in nature. Iran is a nuclear threshold state; its strategy is to come as close to the breakout line as it can and extract concessions for not crossing it. The supposed nuclear fatwa is just public relations strategy. At the point Iran decided the cost/benefit/risk/reward of crossing the threshold made sense, it would be updated.
> the late Ayatollah had a self-imposed range limit on the strikes or tests they would carry out.
Can you elaborate on what kind of strikes the Ayatollah was carrying out within the old range limit?
One of my kids had a college visit recently. Everyone had Macbooks.
It’s funny how the above comment reveals exactly why the problem is politically intractable.
I would say that wearing a sweater knitted by one's grandmother is its own kind of status symbol. I'm more impressed by that (someone having a grandmother willing to invest that much effort in a gift for them) than someone spending $1000 on an item of clothing.
The fact that those items took a long time to make is part of what makes them status symbols though, because if you pay a lot of money for something that took no time to make at all (see most NFTs) you look like an idiot to a lot of people.
Yeah, the tone felt off to me too. It felt a bit too much like a celebration of "look how right I was" concerning their earlier posts.
You'd have to at least present a candidate to make such a suggestion, otherwise the simple counter is 'where else would it be?'
Trying to pull people away from reference tooling requires lots of investment and historical has always failed.
Eventually the reference implementation gets good enough, and that is it.
In JavaScript case, the first error was to ignore compatibility with native addons and existing nodejs modules.
The second was not providing a business value why porting, with the pain of compatibility, one because "it feels better" doesn't release budgets in most companies.
> We soon found out that we could make algorithmic improvements so much more quickly
It's true that writing code in C doesn't automatically make it faster.
For example, string manipulation. 0-terminated strings (the default in C) are, frankly, an abomination. String processing code is a tangle of strlen, strcpy, strncpy, strcat, all of which require repeated passes over the string looking for the 0. (Even worse, reloading the string into the cache just to find its length makes things even slower.)
Worse is the problem that, in order to slice a string, you have to malloc some memory and copy the string. And then carefully manage the lifetime of that slice.
The fix is simple - use length-delimited strings. D relies on them to great effect. You can do them in C, but you get no succor from the language. I've proposed a simple enhancement for C to make them work https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html but nobody in the C world has any interest in it (which baffles me, it is so simple!).
Another source of slowdown in C is I've discovered over the years that C is not a plastic language, it is a brittle one. The first algorithm you select for a C project gets so welded into it that it cannot be changed without great difficulty. (And we all know that algorithms are the key to speed, not coding details.) Why isn't C plastic?
It's because one cannot switch back and forth between a reference type and a value type without extensively rewriting every use of it. For example:
struct S { int a; }
int foo(struct S s) { return s.a; }
int bar(struct S *s) { return s->a; }
struct S { int a; }
int foo(S s) { return s.a; }
int bar(S *s) { return s.a; }
> agricultural airplanes don’t make money when they are on the ground
Neither do any other airplane types. Airliners, for example, are designed to minimize the need for maintenance and the fastest turnaround, because an airliner loses money at a prodigious rate when it sits on the ground.
It's on the way to be merged with SpaceX.
Paris has one thing that Amsterdam does not that makes cycling more challenging: elevation. (Ok, Amsterdam has bridges but those are for the most part really short and momentum is enough to carry you across).
The other day I was joking with friends about how I'd love to have a car with a deployable surveillance drone to help with parking and so if I'm stuck in traffic I could have my drone scout ahead and see what's up.
Turns out BYD have one of those already! https://www.theverge.com/news/622963/byd-dji-vehicle-mounted...
> Sooo... where's the retreat?
As the article says; "In the US"
That's not a good interpretation of Astral and uv.
uv is way more than a rewrite in Rust of Poetry or pip - it has a metric ton of smart design decisions that are independent of the language it was written in, both in terms of what it does and how it speeds things up under the hood.
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html is a useful review of some of the architectural tricks they came up with.
Huh? Fewer cars seems like a win to those who really rely on them. Could probably wind up with more accessible spots if done right.
Why would the simpler version be better for a technical audience?
I've had people living in the East of Durgerdam explain to me that people from the West of Durgerdam were a bit weird. For context:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1026+CD+Durgerdam/@52.3790...
People having Apple in high regard should also learn about its history, and the almost bankruptcy that didn't kill the company out of sheer luck.
Russinovich nowadays is busy with Azure, AI, and overseeing the Rust takeover at Azure, where 60% of the server load runs on Azure Linux.
Even Dave Cutler seems having some Azure Linux fun, with repurposed XBox Cloud racks for AI research, as per his Dave Garage interview.
Data centers are (a) private not public and (b) throwing money at the problem on the assumption of being able to capture a significant chunk of all white collar incomes.
And they're running into the public issues already, such as lack of large power transformer availability and noise complaints from trying to generate their own power.
Could argue it is the opposite. The more people in a conversation the more you can play social games instead of thinking.
Plenty of grids are publicly owned, or regulatory equivalent.
>Same app. Same tests. Same JDK.
Same AI slop.
>thanks to a new lower barrier provided by LLM.
New lower barrier means commodification.
OMG you hit my third rail when it comes to the brain-dead-designed Apple TV remote. After using one for many years I STILL press the wrong button many times every day, and in the dark, since the buttons are NOT backlit, I routinely press an unintended button. I think the user interface designer was promoted to create the Vision Pro UI/UX which is even more dreadful.
The idea of institutionalizing AI generated code before we actually have a working model of what software engineering should look like is what makes me skeptical about this direction.
Whenever I bring up aerospace and the way they do software engineering there as an alternative to how it is usually done elsewhere (and sure, it still isn't perfect) is that you don't have the resources to do everything right. Ok, so now with AI that shouldn't be a limitation. But those projects that have had substantial (or even all) of their code written by AI mirror the common practices rather than the best (at least not the worst). So we're casting that model in concrete now and will generate much more of it than before. I'd much rather see that effort go towards the validation of the software created than the generation itself, I think the long term pay-offs in terms of quality would be much larger.
We can hardly walk and now we're trying to run.
So all this rewriting will achieve is that the motivation to do it better is going to drop out because you'll be able to rewrite everything in a half-baked way in a few minutes, but to deliver quality over the longer term will no longer be nearly as enticing. This is a really hard engineering problem and I for sure don't have the answers but the key for me is that we should be writing better software, not more of it.
A ChromeOS Platform application, rather.
>However, I wonder how many care about actually learning about algorithms, data structures and mechanical sympathy in the age of Electron apps.
Never mind the age of Electron apps, even fewer care about those in the age of agents.
This was during 1999-2002 and 2004-2006, HP-UX 10.x and 11.
This is why, when a programming language already has tooling for compilers, being it ahead of time, or dynamic, it pays off to first go around validating algorithms and data structures before a full rewrite.
Additionally even after those options are exhausted, only a key parts might need a rewrite, not the whole thing.
However, I wonder how many care about actually learning about algorithms, data structures and mechanical sympathy in the age of Electron apps.
It feels quite often that a rewrite is chosen, because knowing how to actually apply those skills is the CS stuff many think isn't worthwhile learning about.
That's a fairly common pattern. As frequency of incidents goes down the severity of the average incident goes up. There has to be some underlying mechanism for this (maybe the one you describe but I'm not so sure that's the whole story).
Exactly.
Who could imagine Apple would eventually inherit Sun’s crown as the king of the RISC unix workstation?
Our industry certainly did not forgot that, people putting UNIX on a pedestal did.
It is no accident that many of the most successful graphical technologies that originated in UNIX world, came from UNIX vendors that went beyond being yet another UNIX clone, like NeXT and SGI.
Depends on how you write program, there are enough language features for low level coding and value types.
Additionally lets not pretend Delphi doesn't have issues with memory and resources tracking.
Even the whole reference counting support only applies to COM types, or when targeting Apple platforms.
Which have had various changes to their behaviour across Delphi version.
Other than that it is as it has always been since Turbo Pascal days.
> Bots listening to thousands of songs would not make a difference in this model.
The ad revenue from the bots would be distributed. The same problem happens on Youtube.
WinUI is still a bloated pig compared to Win32.
If MS really wants its users back, many of which have left for Linux and Mac, it should seriously consider going back to the Win7 era UI, or at least restore the Windows Classic theme.
Did anyone else think the first photo was AI-generated at first, due to how unusual it looked?
I experienced the same "muted, TOO LOUD" when I bought some very sensitive IEMs, but fortunately I have a rooted Android where I can customise the volume control curve, so I moved more of the steps down towards the lower end of the DAC range and made the loudest just a little beyond "threshold of pain".
This debt will never get paid back, it’s already gone.
That's obvious. But it is apparently not so obvious that there were people that felt the need to go to court over this and I recognize that if you enshrine bodily autonomy at one level you are going to have to argue much harder to achieve the reverse on another when it is the collective health that is at risk.
I love how they have words for the different kinds of rule breaking. Truly civilized people.
What a great project. I wonder how the modern sensors stack up against the military version in times of jitter and drift, that might cause some surprises. Larger sensors have a lot of inertial filtering compared to smaller ones.
I also think that the MTBF target the original had will be vastly exceeded by this replica due to the reduction in component count, but it will probably be more susceptible to bitflips. But you won't be flying that high if you put this on a drone. Please post future updates.
Good analysis, although it would have been better with some charts on eg the crack spread. The death (or murder) of expertise on social media, most recently accelerated by AI commenting bots, is doing a lot to obscure market signals for the general public while allowing insiders to make a killing, both figuratively and literally. I anticipate deep and long-lasting consequences once a critical mass of the public grasps the fact that they're staring down years of economic austerity that was imposed on them by fiat.
Yeah, all these "work has always been fine!" writers forget that we've never invented cheap artificial people before.
EIR = Entrepreneur In Residence. It's a slightly odd position, and varies a little depending on the firm, but generally it means someone is employed by a VC firm for a period of time to work on developing their next idea and also help out around the VC firm sourcing deals and mentoring companies.
Old notepad is still there, you just need to remove the new abomination.
Control panel is still not migrated over to settings after 12 years nor you can open two settings apps.
I wish they'd migrate back to the old Control Panel...
Error messages in modern apps are just the worst
...as the new one is a "modern app" and about as horrible as they come.
Here's the build script that uses: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostling/blob/main/bin2heade...
I ran it against a 1x1 pixel GIF:
cmake -DINPUT=pixel.gif -DOUTPUT=pixel.h -DARRAY_NAME=pixel_gif -P bin2header.cmake
// Auto-generated from /private/tmp/exp/pixel.gif — do not edit.
static const unsigned char pixel_gif[] = {
0x47, 0x49, 0x46, 0x38, 0x39, 0x61, 0x01, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x80, 0x00,
0x00, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2c, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
0x01, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02, 0x02, 0x44, 0x01, 0x00, 0x3b
};Doesn't it make sense that, if you were taking a drug that reduces morbidity, you'll get increased morbidity if you stop it?
I suggest learning not to interpret comments in bad faith.
This is a very odd phrasing that makes it seem like heart attack and stroke risk are higher for those who stop taking the drug than those who never took the drug. Moreover, the effect of restarting taking the drug seems attributable to the study design. Those who took a break had higher risk at the end of the study than those who don’t. But those who took a break took the drug for less total time than those who took it for the entire study.
You could characterize these same facts in the opposite way. GLP-1s don’t permanently change your body. They provide benefits while taking them but quickly clear out of your system when you stop taking them. Arguably, that’s a good thing in a drug.
I like the Vanta people just fine and think it's a fine product, but I would not recommend it to startups looking to get SOC2.
https://fly.io/blog/soc2-the-screenshots-will-continue-until...
Most startups should be doing way, way less than automation platforms like these tell them they need to do to get a SOC2 attestation.
In the same way that Christopher Columbus is to be blamed for this comment, sure.
Embedding your signature at the end of a blog post is such a bullshit executive move. You just know this guy has been playing corporate politics for the last 30 years.
I pay $100/mo to Anthropic. Yesterday I coded one small feature via an API key by accident and it cost $6. At this rate, it will cost me $1000/mo to develop with Opus. I might as well code by hand, or switch to the $20 Codex plan, which will probably be more than enough.
I'd rather switch to OpenAI than give up my favorite harness.
Well, yeah, their agenda is reporting on fraud and illegal actions. If you do more fraud or illegal actions, you will have more stories about you. Trump does more fraud and illegal actions, objectively. If you’re a Trump supporter, reality may make you sad and angry when in conflict with the mental model.
I don’t mind pension bailouts, compared to tax cuts for the very wealthy and unnecessary military action in the Middle East (which has cost ~$50B as of this comment). Compare the costs.
Caltrain, from SF to SJ, is part of the California high speed rail system, and you can ride it right now. It's now electrified at 25KV, welded rail, concrete ties, and compatible with high speed rail. The Stadler trains are capable of 125MPH but are run slower because there are so many stations.
If you want faster, anything running on a Cerebras machine will do.
Never tried it for much coding though.
Interesting to note that, At 1.2 TiB/s memory bandwidth, it has twice as much bandwidth as an M5 Max chip from Apple. In the unlikely event Apple decides to make an M5 Ultra, it'll have the same memory bandwidth.
Of course, all the other metrics are well below this monster.
> he had more money than virtually the rest of the field put together and had name recognition
Money doesn’t buy elections. Someone gets shocked about this every cycle when the overwhelmingly-funded toast sandwich lands with a thud.
Isn't ready for, or doesn't need?
I had to have meetings with… myself, at times, for compliance reasons.
Thanks! I asked my bot to make me a plugin for it and it one-shotted it, the resulting script was ~20 lines, very nice!
I'm not very convinced by these prompt injection tests:
https://github.com/SharpAI/DeepCamera/blob/c7e9ddda012ad3f8e...
I have zero idea of what I'd do with it except programming in Python and doing my e-mail and browsing, but I would still love to have one under my desk.
"… by making them necessary entry points! Muahahaha!"
The entire discussion is about rented cloud clusters, so I guess anyone with the money to rent one?
Guys I own a BYD and love it, but oil prices have risen in the past, like, two days. Perhaps the headline is a bit sensationalized?
Are you making the same point as the person you said "err, no" to, or are you correcting the inconsequential details while not addressing their main point?
"...we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad."
Great!
> And a 777 is about 16x faster than a carrier.
Surely that's missing a 0 or are carriers really that fast?
Genius strategy by the USA to disincentivize EVs, disincentivize solar and wind, increase dependency on oil & gas, and...start a war that makes oil and gas more expensive for everyone. Markets are now forecasting oil prices will stay above $100 a barrel for multiple years. Best of luck to the economy.
> That's restricting freedom isn't it by preventing those without a few minutes to unlock it from having true freedom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty
Both are "true", to different people. Europeans tend to think our positive freedom to go bankrupt from medical bills is a bad one, for example.
Your freedom to unlock the bootloader and the general public's freedom from having to get a masters degree in cybersecurity to survive modern society are butting heads with each other.
Oh yes, this is what LLMs excel at. Introspecting a database, either the schema or the live data, running a few checks to see whether all the data had the same shape (or how many different shapes it has), writing validations to catch edge cases, they do this extremely quickly and pretty accurately, whereas it would have taken me hours of trawling.
Then I can look at the output and say things like "what if the data is lowercase?" or anything else I suspect they may have missed. A few rounds of these and I have a pretty good feel for the quality of the resulting checks, while taking a few minutes of my attention/tens of minutes of wallclock time to do.
I have a more detailed example here: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/
I'd share all my plans but I once found that the LLM used my actual phone number as test data, so I don't share those any more, just in case.
The problem with PHEVs is the data shows that, at scale, consumers typically use them in ICE mode vs EV mode. Its great it works for you, and hopefully BEVs kill the need for PHEVs in the next few years as the technology continues to rapidly improve around charge rate (<10 minute 10%-80% battery state of charge).
Plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim, analysis finds - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/18/plug-in-... - February 18th, 2026
Smoke screen: the growing PHEV emissions scandal - https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smoke-screen-t... - October 16th, 2025
There was a really amusing article in Bloomberg Businessweek a few years ago which pointed out that most of the really big donors just sprayed money at a unicause indiscriminately and that Michael Bloomberg was the only one that showed any sign of investing rationally.
I mentioned that to my wife and she of course rolled her eyes because it seemed so self-serving to her. (Last night we were sitting around the kitchen table and talking about how much better The Economist was than Bloomberg Businessweek and how I finally canceled my subscription to the latter when they hired genius financial writer Matt Levine [1] to write a whole issue boosting crypto in a 200% cringe writing style just before the FTX scandal broke)
[1] ... sent him an email about how sorry I was for him!
Marine Traffic: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:45... (IMO: 7390454)
https://github.com/jsvine/waybackpack
https://github.com/oduwsdl/warrick
(older code, might be brittle, but communicates a potential path to recover what might available in Wayback)
This is very unfortunate, usual advice to keep backups (3-2-1 backup strategy).
> what the average passbook interest rate is in the USA? I just checked my bank (Chase) and right now it's... 0.01%
Not sure what the point is. Chase checking accounts pay for access to branches and other Chase products. If you want yield there are checking accounts that provide that. Though the correct move is to use currency correctly by using the transacting medium (cash and checking) separately from the store-of-value medium (money markets and Treasuries).
This infographic basically explains it:
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
tl;dr: Urban water use is tiny. In NorCal, the vast majority of the water flows unimpeded to the sea. In the Central Valley, most water is used for agriculture. Agricultural water use in any one of the 3 major basins in the Central Valley is more than all urban areas in California combined. Unsurprisingly, urban use is the primary one in the SF and LA areas, but the absolute totals are very small compared to total CA water supplies.
All call centers are actually located in Lake Wobegon, where all the call wait times are above average.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#Recurring_monolog... , for the probably many people who don't know the reference.)
3-electrode EEG devices don't really work and that's one of the reasons why biofeedback was a fad of the 1970s. There are some very slick devices out there now like
but at that price it is not going to replace the Polar H10 in my biosignals kit, the respiration radar or the GSR and EMG sensors -- and any of those hidden under coat can tell my phone to tell me that I tilted before I realize it on my own.
That seems something completely out of scope for systemd.
Ugh. The worst of SEO, but a bunch more of it? Noooooo.
> seriously doubt there is a country on earth which lacks the capability to detect an aircraft carrier
They probably lack the ability to figure out which specialists are on board.
It seems to be little known you can not file your tax returns for years and usually nothing happens but in the current situation I suspect that some years could get added to those years unless like, they found out I wrote some post here where I said something like "Trump wasn't the best president of all time" and then they decide to come rip up all my floorboards looking for gold bars.
https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/10-facts-you-may-not-know-abou...
> New York City’s water (including drinking water) is unfiltered, making it the largest unfiltered water system in the country. Were New York to begin filtering its water, it would cost the city approximately 1 million dollars per day to operate the filtration plant.
They have hundreds of sampling stations to check daily.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/nyregion/nyc-tap-water-qu...
This causes some issues for observant Jews, because the water technically might not be kosher.
https://oukosher.org/blog/consumer-news/nyc-water/
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/nyregion/the-waters-fine-...
This is what makes RISC-V so much fun.
You might never be able to get a RISC-V laptop that can compete with an ARM laptop, but you sure can take a RISC-V core and modify it in whatever way you can imagine.
> Unrelated but the UK has 2 aircraft carriers (but not enough planes, but that's for a different time). Why aren't they being deployed?
Because the UK isn't really in the war, and doesn't want to be?
Nobody's lobbying achieved objectives in the Illinois primary, which is more a statement about the ineffectiveness of lobbying (at least in these kinds of races) than anything else. The candidates that won were the candidates you'd expect to win given demographics and the recent political history of the region.
Is this really a thing?!? Blasting the others with unwanted noise.
I never been in a flight, or train across Europe where passengers showed just lack of respect for the others.
The only ones pumping anything loud, on trains or busses, usually get quickly pointed down by other passengers, personal or security.
Ah, and then there are the rebellious kids or gangs, as the other exception, which usually don't take flights anyway.