caleb-allen

Thanks for linking that, it resonates deeply with me. It's an odd place we find ourselves

I started reddit.com/r/androidterminal for discussing this feature

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them and "escaping" becomes a near-impossible task.

It's as if OpenAI saw that as an instruction manual, I really don't like the direction they're taking it.

And this is where I'm tapping out.

Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them. The challenge, then, is to actually operate independent of the technology and the company.

Sure, just as a considerable group of alchemists believed the recipe for gold was right around the corner

Related discussion of the original Cloudflare post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

Of note from the "Acknowledgements" section:

K.C. is a director of TdeltaS Ltd., a company spun out of the University of Oxford to develop products based on the science of ketone bodies in human nutrition.

Maybe it's possible anyways? Qualcomm was able to integrate their own hypervisor on top of AVF

Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 | Adding Third-Party Hypervisor to Android Virtualization Framework

https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1447/attachments/1... https://youtu.be/hLdUCrlheKg

Plug for reddit.com/r/androidterminal !

Article I. Section 8. of the US Constitution:

The Congress shall have Power To [...] establish Post Offices and post Roads;

So any such change to the mail would be legislative

You put this really well. It's been incredibly frustrating to try to understand the mentality of these people, but that's just the problem—there is barely any "mentality" at all, it's easier understood by what they don't consider or understand.

The arm architecture is also optimized for UI-like tasks, quick to start and stop processes on one of many cores with differing power constraints, whereas x86 is more for workstation-type sustained workloads

You are right, an object at supersonic speeds will create a sonic boom, but it can be mitigated by structuring the object in such a way that it shapes the sound wave(s) in such a way that they reduce the noise at ground level.

This is a great explainer from Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM5lbIzH2kc

I have the Forerunner 945 and it's the only thing that has ever filled the void left by Pebble. Garmin is so good.

They reduced the team sizes in the US but are claiming that global team sizes and roadmap are not changing

I have no reason to suspect that the person who tweeted that believes what he's saying, but Google has a track record of publicly denying rumors of a project being killed only to kill it days or weeks later (Stadia)

There are a handful of exciting movements, imo, but they're few and far between.

The Android Virtualization Framework, for one, is something I'm really excited to see in the next few years

Google the company can't be "out of touch" or "self-important".

Such descriptions are precisely what is meant by the term "company culture"

I attended the Android Dev summit a few years back, shortly after Flutter had made some public noise.

During a Q&A, I was literally laughed at when I asked the head of Android whether developers should take Flutter seriously. His eventual answer equated to "well Google is really big so we can't say".

I think that was the moment I understood just how deep the mismanagement at Google actually is. Just shocking.

I mean, HTML was originally invented as an interchange format so that the client could adapt it back into whatever form was suitable.

Pardon my ignorance, but is this something that a language with a GC could potentially use to run in a WebAssembly environment?

Unless the attack vector is the "screen mirroring" feature of the Apple Watch? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/watch/apd890848603/wat...

Surely this is a vector for attack then?

I can't imagine that a traditional furnace and AC could be less efficient than a heat pump, unless you almost never turn your heat on—a heat pump is many times more efficient, in terms of energy consumption, than a traditional furnace.

That said, if it's rare to run your heating then a standard AC unit is probably marginally more efficient than a heat pump for just the cooling operation

Yes, but I'm a programmer.

Maybe it came at the advice of Rishi Sunak when he and Altman met last week!

I work from the British Library a few days a week, it's been quite chaotic (especially the first few days). The entire digital catalog is unavailable, let alone reserving books from the archives.

I'm just hoping they don't lose catalog data.

I was gonna say that this is Bard's chance to shine, but it looks like Bard is also having an outage!

Apple won't do it until they're proven by integrating with existing manufacturers of some kind

I've had this exact problem before. Extremely frustrating!

Such a loss. I've spent many hours reading vim's incredible source code and documentation while developing a vim emulation plugin for the Julia REPL. Absolute world class codebase.

Moolenaar was an amazing programmer, and his impact will be long lasting. May he rest in peace.