- There's capitalism and then there's communism. Both have proven to not work which leaves us with...
Countries are bad but even the sci-fi authors know the only way to change this is literally an alien invasion. Until then, instead of expecting good from our governments (wherever we live) shouldn't we just assume the worst and go from there? Since switching to that mentality life has been much more pleasant personally.
- To be a little fair to Microsoft, they have made it much harder to enable macros over the years. So when stuck with a bank's spreadsheet that requires a win32 macro to convert for upload, I blame the bank.
Luckily grey market keys for both windows and office are so cheap I can just relegate these to a VM for those times it's needed.
The above is probably enough to keep the typical user on Windows forever though.
- As it's flagged hoping the damage is done but in case anyone finds this
- The original article starts with all-caps EDITORIAL:. It's rare to see such strong labeling but personally I couldn't find any facts in the piece and suspect it's to make that clear
- The article is from Asahi, which along with Mainichi are the anti-government newspapers in Japan. Not an issue for normal news but this is an EDITORIAL (emphasis from the original article, not mine)
Quietly take away from the article what you want but please don't make any claims based on this.
- > For the use cases in this article, the best option is wasmtime-py.
They seem to have gone with a WASI runtime. Though to me, the caveats after it, and throughout the article, make it seem like Wasm is more difficult to deal with than PyO3's excellent ecosystem rather than the opposite.
- Email is one of the last open protocols around. git uses it in commit messages presumably because of that fact. Rob's co-worker at Google Vint always opines on the greatness of this openness.
A well meaning message on an open protocol resulting in a rant - it really feels to me that AI isn't the issue here.
- I had the same reading, it sounded like Windows is worse now than Windows 95, which would be a hot take indeed. But it seems the intent was purely on these nagging aspects which have definitely gotten worse.
It might be easier to swallow the message focusing on Windows 8+ when it really jumped the shark. Windows 7 was a pretty good OS holistically I think even if there are aspects lost compared to the pure simplicity of those really old ones.
- Had been running a coffee lake refresh 4 core for several years and as interested as I was in new platforms, especially AM5, the work of replacing motherboard never felt worth it. Now with the ram wars heating up, I just committed to that by picking up a used top-end 8 core coffee lake for $50 to cut a few seconds off my vulkan shader compiles with minimal replacement effort.
- I'm more interested in the % of rust code that is marked unsafe. If you can write a kernel with 1% safe, that sounds pretty great. If the nature of dealing with hardware (AFAIK most of a kernel is device drivers) means something higher, maybe 10%, then maybe safety becomes difficult, especially because unsafety propagates in an unclear way since safe code becomes unsafe to some degree when it calls into it.
I'm also curious about the percentage of implicit unsafe code in C, given there are still compilers and linters checking something, just not at the level of lifetimes etc in Rust. But I guess this isn't easy to calculate.
I like rust for low level projects and see no need to pick C over it personally - but I think it's fair to question the real impact of language safety in a realm that largely has to be unsafe. There's no world where Rust is more unsafe than C though so it's all academic. I just wonder if there's been any analysis on this, in close to metal applications like a kernel.
- Thanks! I have it working in apps via fcitx5 no problem so "just" need to get it to kick in game. Getting that far was really easy though, clicking through some panels I summon with random keywords in the ... sorry I don't know what it's called and will say start menu. But the excellent indexing powering that has been really amazing.
- Made the switch recently too, I only use the windows box for gaming so went with bazzite-kde. Games were up and running in no time, though I am still noodling over getting Japanese IME working in one though haven't given it any effort yet.
Other issues were Bluetooth dongle not being compatible though I happened to have one that is. Ironically the old one doesn't seem to have the same temporary connection issues I was seeing on Windows. And also fingerprint reader is probably in the worst spot, "compatible" but not functioning, i.e. can enroll a print but never recognize it.
All-in-all I'm fine with it, especially once the IME works. But there are still too many issues to recommend to users that want a working experience out-of-the-box, which should be most users.
Unfortunately I am somewhat skeptical on how things will improve. One issue I see is there are way too many forks, many versions of wine, even the xiv launcher I use is a fork. There was a fork of libfprint that I was curious to try but in the end avoided given the sensitive nature of the library. Appreciate the enthusiasm, but it doesn't seem like moving towards a stable state when there is so much forking happening.
- At first wanted to give the benefit of the doubt that this is sarcasm but gave a skim through history and I guess it's just a committed anti-AI agenda.
Personally I found the tone of the article quite genuine and the video at the end made a compelling case for it. Well I figure you commented having actually read it.
Edit: I can't downvote but if I could it probably would have been better than this comment!
- I don't remember so many non-tech or random posts on HN 10 years ago or so. I think now, as long as you're a self-proclaimed hacker, you can post basically anything. It's less consistent than most subreddits I've seen which is a shame - on the bright side Reddit's tech subreddits seem to be much stronger than 10 years ago and serve fairly well.
- This was good to read, thanks. Last experience with KDE is probably almost 30 years ago when it was so sluggish I quickly gave up on it. With Gnome being _the default_ in some sense given Ubuntu's control of desktop Linux, it never even came to mind to give kubuntu a try, I think I will.
- One of Amazon's biggest growing segments is ads which agents circumvent. Owning the platform they are in a position to block and it's probably reasonable to. Google is in a much worse situation since their ads are on content they don't own - when agents go straight to the content nothing they can do really. Wonder how they'll manage - lots of YouTube videos maybe.
- I don't know about the commenter specifically but in general, using LLMs to format text is a game changer in the ability for English-as-Second-Language folks to contribute to tech conversations. While I get where some of the bias against anything LLM generated comes from, I would keep it for editorial content and not community comments to be fair to a global audience.
- I think it's important Amazon remains stable and a quicker resolution would have been great.
That being said, if many important services (the article mentions banking) are still single-point-of-failure in us-east-1, the least stable but cheapest region, there seems to be a problem far greater than Amazon here.
- Personally I find the $1800 sticker shock must be affecting public perception much more than durability issues. Or put another way, I suspect the people that buy this are buying a $1800 phone every year anyways and don't need to worry about durability - if it happened to break mid-year can always buy another one.
- I think there's some causation vs correlation here - AFAIK Microsoft didn't lead the hike in game prices, it was probably Nintendo? Either way given the strong inflation it seems likely this would have happened acquisition or not.
The layoffs seem more damning but we would need a crystal ball to know if Activision could have skipped them if independent, or bought by another company.
Still it seems hardly clear cut and more story-crafting after the fact by a beurauceat rather than a proper analysis.
- I wonder if this proposal suffers an because of Python's extremely generous support period and perhaps the ship has sailed.
- lazy imports are a hugely impactful feature
- lazy imports are already possible without syntax
This means any libraries that get large benefit from lazy imports already use import statements within functions. They can't really use the new feature since 3.14 EoL is _2030_, forever from now. The __lazy_modules__ syntax preserves compatibility only but being eager, not performance - libraries that need lazy imports can't use it until 2030.
This means that the primary target for a long time is CLI authors, which can have a more strict python target and is mentioned many times in the PEP, and libraries that don't have broad Python version support (meaning not just works but works well), which indicates they are probably not major libraries.
Unless the feature gets backported to 2+ versions, it feels not so compelling. But given how it modifies the interpreter to a reasonable degree, I wonder if even any backport is on the table.
- I haven't used Rubygems before but doesn't it allow publishing from a new repo? pypi allows updating publishing configs.
A repo fork (and maybe more so the GitHub identify fork) is definitely not ideal but if your users can get updates to their packages, maybe it's best to move forward as well as possible.
- I don't like the platform or owner at all but this was the first time I really looked at their oss'ing of the algorithm, which 2y ago is longer than I realized.
The fact that this issue still exists at all and that the variables have been improved to some degree seems pretty awesome? There was actually no need for this repo to exist in the first place anyways.
(Not a critique of the post itself but I couldn't find a better place to criticize "automatic anti-Elon sentiment which prevails across the board).
- Isn't it the EU that pushed for more details on publishers being public in general? I helped someone get their details registered on the Apple app store before their app would be delisted in Europe.
If details are needed, actually verifying them rather than being any self-reported text seems fairly reasonable.
It just feels like OpenAI puts a lot of effort into creating an actually useful product while Gemini just targets benchmarks. Targeting benchmarks to me is meaningless since every model, gpt, Gemini, Claude, constantly hallucinate in real workloads anyways.