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There's clearly demand for notepad++ on Mac. Refusing to meet users where they are at with a simple port feels like squatting on a trademark. I find myself sympathetic to the Mac porter more than Don Ho.

Full tweet (since it wouldn't fit in the title): Sam Altman: Superintelligence probably by end of 2028. So we got roughly 2 years left. Enjoy your job while you still can. Time is ticking.

Non-Nitter link: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2024502735584780593

I keep getting "Edge Function returned a non-2xx status code." Run out of tokens?

Title was truncated due to being too long. Original title: WATCH: 'You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns,' Trump says of Alex Pretti killing

I guess 'walk in' refers to being outside

Never fear, the 2nd amendments days are numbered too. Trump just said 'You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns' (the 'in' in this context being 'outside')

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-you-cant-have-gu...

Low-res cel shading would be a better descriptor. It lends itself to looking like pixel art when zoomed out, but cel shading when zoomed in.

4b-model take. LLMs are far more intelligent than you give them credit for. Every new layer of abstraction allows us to develop software better and faster. People constantly ragged on OOP yet it is the foundation of modern computing. People while about "bloat" but continue to buy more RAM. Compilers are a black box and meaningfully inhibit your ability to write asm but these days nobody cares. I see LLMs as the next logical evolution in computing abstractions.

a WSL2-esque wrapper around Virtualization.framework allowing for easy installation of Linux containers.

So Linux is now a first class citizen on both Windows and Mac? I guess it really is true that 'if you can't beat em, join em.' Jobs must be rolling in his grave.

Why does QEMU need to start X? Shouldn't that be OpenBSD's responsibility?

I've also seen it stand for Make Israel Great Again, given the unwavering support for Netanyahu and his agenda from the administration

C has a lot of ambiguity in how it is parsed ("undefined behavior") but people usually view that as a benefit because it allows compilers more freedom to dictate an implementation.

I don't really know how to feel about this. I've seen enough misconfigured Workday instances that result in most decent candidates never getting their resumes looked at because they didn't keyword-optimize enough, so it feels quite justifiable.

But for those businesses that actually review resumes, it's gotta be brutal.

Also, archive link: https://archive.is/ux6E7

users may want to scale differently anyways

Users think they want a lot of things they don't really need. Do we really want to hand users that loaded gun so that they can choose incorrectly where to fire?

Seemingly this is for any reason, though whether this will be applied consistently remains to be seen.

I have to wonder if this is in response to the lawsuit from WP Engine over being banned, in a "fine, I'll unban everyone and we'll see how much you like it then" way.

Original title was too long, but for posterity, it was: "Communities that experience mass shootings drink more alcohol in the aftermath, a new study finds"

The whole train DRM saga has been endlessly entertaining as someone looking in from afar, but I can only imagine the stress this must place on operators trying to keep trains maintained with this dagger dangling over their heads. I wish I could hack a train, thats a once in a lifetime opportunity and would make for an incredible "2 truth and a lie" type story

Also available at https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-we-ve-not-been-trained-for-this-...

Previous coverage:

"37C3 - Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlrbfGZo2k

"O trzech takich, co zhakowali prawdziwy pociąg – a nawet 30 pociągów" https://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/o-trzech-takich-co-zhak...

Mastodon post by q3k https://social.hackerspace.pl/@q3k/111528162462505087

That's just pre-provisioning by another name, auto-scaling implies on-the-fly provisioning

E: I can't even load the fly.dev website, it keeps timing out. I guess they forgot to pre-provision/under-provisioned it

When I read about these things, I cant help but wonder if anybody took a step back and thought "maybe we just have too much code"?

At some point, perhaps you're just doing too much

Ive noticed the same and wonder if this is the natural result of public codebases on average being simpler since small projects will always outnumber bigger ones (at least if you ignore forks with zero new commits)

If high quality closed off codebases were used in training, would we see an improvement in LLM quality for more complex use cases?

I don't trust any project with a Discord listed so prominently

Give me a forum (even Discourse will do) , I'm tired of needing 3rd party spyware to interact with developers. That it is all closed off from search engines makes it even worse

Original title (had to clip it to meet the character limit): Aaron Wagner And Wags Capital: From Pro Football To Utah’s Latest Disgraced Financial Influencer

Isn't that just a nationalist version of a ponzi scheme?

Original title was too long, but for posterity, it was: "Model G" as the original designation for IBM Model M & the existence of Models "1A" and "1B"

The article is commentating on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w

It never fails to impress me how thoroughly this game has been deconstructed. How many other software titles can be said to have been so utterly reverse engineered?

Just when I'd forgotten about Faketoshi, he surfaces again, like a cancer.

He's an unrepentant scammer who should be taken seriously by nobody, and yet he has the favor of the second highest court in Britain. He doesn't care about the fallout of his demands, he just wants to enrich himself.

Why do you need a work site?

I can think of 3 good reasons:

1. Businesses don't want to remember a bunch of addresses and who sent what where. Even if it's dropped off at a central lot, you'd still need to arrange further transportation from the lot since a lot of the equipment is broken, doesn't even have tires, or is otherwise not street-legal.

2. Diesel mechanics don't usually work on consumer diesel engines - this is heavy equipment. These shops tend to be located along highways for a reason - they need the wide berths highways provide. You'll have trouble fitting a lot of this equipment in your driveway, much less your garage.

3. The shop insurance situation would be a nightmare.

Would using Rust have prevented this?

I think the live map looks quite nice (the amount of times I've had to glance over at my phone to see the GPS make me long for something like this), but the calendar and two analog clocks look decidedly less enticing. We need simpler interfaces that are easy to read what we need at a glance, not a bunch of distractions.

The problem with this, of course, is that it runs counter to the continuous consumption much of this industry has been built upon. Apple could probably pull it off if they wanted, given their ability to curb stomp companies into compliance, but they would have to actually want to do it and resist the constant stream of investors asking "why not increase upselling opportunities in the CarPlay UI?"

Much the same way that vinyl records are back in vogue, I wouldn't be surprised if someday some luxury car brands started advertising physical controls for minimal distractions someday, given the direction the entire automotive industry seems to be headed. Hopefully my old Toyota will keep on chugging until we see a physical resurgence, I can't stand the way automakers are trying to shove everything onto a single screen to cut costs.

Also, that's audiobooks, not iBooks.

Something I've observed over time, as programming has become more prestigious and more lucrative, is that people have tended to come from wealthier backgrounds and have less exposure to people with different income levels. An example we've discussed before, is at a well-known, prestigious, startup that has a very left-leaning employee base, where everyone got rich, on a discussion about the covid stimulus checks, in a slack discussion, a well meaning progressive employee said that it was pointless because people would just use their stimulus checks to buy stock. This person had, apparently, never talked to any middle-class (let alone poor) person about where their money goes or looked at the data on who owns equity. And that's just looking at American wealth. When we look at world-wide wealth, the general level of understanding is much lower. People seem to really underestimate the dynamic range in wealth and income across the world.

Perhaps the falling salaries for programming in the US could be a good thing in that regard. So many people get into this career because they want to make it big, which seems to drive down the quality of the talent pool.