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While not in the SU directly, I got to enjoy public transport in communist Poland for a few years and yeah, you don't want that.

Let me guess: You get your groceries delivered by some underpaid sucker? While I enjoy biking it's impractical many times (if you don't live a sheltered life with people doing all the annoying stuff for you).

We have those inner city bike extremists here, too. There's proposals like banning all motorized traffic from the city because you "can walk to your bakery duh". But they never ask themselves how the baker gets all his materials to the bakery.

Those alarms are pretty much mandated by law. So it's politicians/law makers who "design" those alarms. This smells like inexperienced engineers designing something and then being surprised by side effects. Sadly there's a severe (temporal) disconnect between making the law and seeing its results in person.

Can't you just snip/disconnect the speaker/bell wire? I did this back when I had a truck and often had to maneuver with open doors (at very slow speeds) - the "door open warning bell" was so annoying that I just pulled its wires.

AFAIK the warning tones don't come from the car's stereo speakers but have its own speaker.

LLMs themselves don't. But selling LLM related bullshit to investors has.

Isn't that same as a jpeg then?

Yeah, but Fuji X cameras are renown for their JPG processing so many people want the in-camera JPG. You could shoot directly to JPG but with an app like that you can later change the JPG profile, etc. while adjusting exposure parameters.

Funny, I've been shooting digitally since 2007 and I've never seen RAW spelled other than RAW. I guess we've been doing it all wrong :shrug:

BSD grep is the pure grep version though. Perl regex is unnecessary bloat.

AI is killing our agency

We manage millions of dollars in annual Meta ad spend.

So AI is doing something good for once :)

Ah yes, the nazis. So yeah, censorship is great then because nazis. Is HN becoming reddit?

what value are local laws

local laws are local and not global. otherwise we could start obeying Iran's or North Korea's laws just to be safe of not breaching any local laws.

All it takes is a tiny drone with a stick attached, and at the end of that stick is a tiny sponge soaked with tempera paint.

This must be the most hi-tech solution to a low tech problem I've seen this week ;)

"It's my job - I just followed orders"

Meh, the threat vector to me as a resident of Germany is the German government - not some dude at the other end of the world. What is Musk going to do? Ban me from Twitter? Not sell me a Tesla?

That's nothing compared to what German authorities can do to me. Germany is a country where you get police searching your home for torrenting movies or making stupid jokes on Facebook. So yeah.

Also about enshittification - one could argue that our local ISPs never left that phase to begin with.

Regardless of who is at fault, you are losing a lot of customers that way.

Don't know. Germans are stingy. I'm German, I live in Germany yet I don't even localize my software to German anymore because German downloads wouldn't convert in any meaningful way. (Even when I had German localization).

It's just anecdotal of course but every other dev I talked to would confirm this unless they had some very germany-specific product.

I'm glad Vodafone is available where I live. They're not better but at least they're an alternative. Also Telekom manages only to deliver 250mbit/s while Vodafone gets 1gbit/s.

Last apartment I rented Telekom was the only option and that was one of the reasons why I decided to move.

Starlink I would love to try but as there's building and trees blocking the horizon it's not an option here sadly.

I have the same problem with Jekyll. I fixed my website for the Jekyll version I installed when I got this machine (in 2021). I dread the moment when I get a new computer and have to either try to install this particular version of Jekyll or to fix my website again.

I just assumed static website generators would be stable but well, there's always something that breaks. Terrible user experience for someone who just wants to use the generator to generate a website vs. to tinker with it as a hobby.

I'm in the process of porting my website to PHP ... but that project hasn't gone anywhere because currently everything works ;)

Download links are here: https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

That's certainly a (to me) very unusual way to learn programming.

Before macOS 26 I would have agreed with you. But after Tahoe my M1 MacBook Pro feels a lot slower.

Funny, there's even some regression in layer backed NSView rendering where the app I'm working on is faster (in some aspects) in a macOS 15 VM than on bare metal under macOS 26.

I've got one of those in my 2004 Mazda. It even came with a backup camera. Best 50 Euros ever spent. :)

Heh, funny. I recently implemented a countdown for a teleprompting app and that's exactly what I ended up doing to make the countdown "feel right".

The countdown in question doesn't display fractions of a second so it would immediately switch from "5 seconds left" to "4 seconds left" which just doesn't feel right. Adding 0.5s solved the issue.

the comments/replies to his tweet remind me why I usually avoid twitter

2025

believing anything a corporation says

shrooms

How did you get out of your photography obsession? Because currently I’m really really into photography as well and it gets unhealthy. (Both time and money wise).

I think Rust speaks to people who don't "play" with their code during development. Moving stuff around, commenting things out, etc. When I try to do this in Rust, the borrow checker instantly complains because $something violates $some_rule. I can't say "yeah I know but just for now let's try it out this way and if it works I'll do it right".

I work this way and that's why I consider Rust to be a major impediment to my productivity. Same goes for Python with its significant whitespace which prevents freely moving code around and swapping code blocks, etc.

I guess there are people who plan everything in their mind and the coding part is just typing out their ideas (instead of developing their ideas during code editing).

They weren't written in Rust. But I wonder why the borrow checker wouldn't catch the date bug...

I almost forgot how bad the dev-tools ecosystem was back in the day. I remember back in 1998, when I was 15, I took on a vacation job in a car shop (wet sanding car parts) just to afford Visual C++ 6.0.

I also had to order the compiler through a local dealer and delivery took 6 weeks. But I still have the box and CD-ROM :)

Don't worry. They can replace those lost engineers with AI ;)