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Ah that makes sense, thanks!

I had been using LineageOS + microG for many years on my Pixel 3. I upgraded to a Pixel 8 and tried out GrapheneOS and the install experience was good, but I found some odd performance quirks - apps would be slow to install and run, downloads were slow, etc. Has anyone had similar issues?

Many apps that work on microG don't work in GrapheneOS without installing Google services anyway. I'm by no means across the full privacy implications, but my feeling is microG balances privacy and usability better for me.

I've since switched back to LineageOS+microG and am happy with it. Just my experience.

It appears to use a lot of memory too, at least in Firefox. I can't have more than a few Linear tabs open at a time.

Boring isn't it? Reading half a book every single day.

Not for him though, he loves it.

There's a lot in here that I which I knew more about. You often hear about think tanks in Australia, and know they have political leanings but I wasn't aware of their precise nature. Shows my ignorance, but the movements between think tank boards and polticial appointments/the RBA are concerning.

The ABC does some truly fantastic political/economic reporting and analysis. This one is unusually long though, many of the author's (Gareth Hutchens) other articles are very good at distilling current economic trends and ideas into something understandable by lay people like me.

I've been using Envoy Gateway in my homelab and have found it to be good for my modest needs (single node k3s cluster running on an old PC). I needed to configure the underlying EnvoyProxy so that it would listen on specific IPs provided by MetalLB, and their docs were good enough to find my way through that.

https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/

Brilliant, I'm anxiously awaiting Australian pricing details (and release dates...) but could definitely seeing myself getting one of these as my first VR device, and the controller looks great too.

Being able to run games on device (and on ARM) is very cool, but I wonder if there is a cheaper/lighter/longer-battery-life version of this that is stream only? That's probably a better fit for me personally, I can't imagine not having a streaming device nearby when I would be using it.

Also hate to be picky, but looks like the frame controllers pair directly to the headset so maybe can't be used on their own? Would be nice to use them standalone too.

Proton/Wine is so good these days. Rarely have I had an issue running a game in the last 3 or 4 years. Sometimes EA/Ubisoft games that have their own special launchers don't work immediately, but ProtonDB and the Proton GitHub issues are great resources to get them going.

I remember when Cyberpunk 2077 came out it didn't work at first, but the Proton and Glorious Egg Roll devs got it running within a few days. Legends.

Even many games that support native linux run better under wine.

Agree. It was getting in the way of me spending time with the family because I was distracted mulling over the puzzles.

I had thought last year that they could peak the difficulty around the middle of the month and bring it down a bit leading up to the 25th. But just finishing it earlier is probably better IMO.

In my experience, the people using AI to make programs are still programmers. As in, they were trained in programming pre-AI. Managers are using AI to output manager stuff - documents, spreadsheets, etc. Similarly, marketers are using AI to write ad copy, not the marketing manager.

This may change as tools become better known or adopted. But for know the same people who did the job before are now using AI in that job.

FWIW, in my IRL experience, all the work output of those using AI for whatever task has been of poorer quality than without.

Thank you!

It depends on the ORM, I know SQLAlchemy and Django ORM have some Postgres specific features (e.g. full text search/indexing). Some also let you extend the ORM to add your own features, or at least write raw SQL.

When I worked as a pizza delivery guy (favorite casual job I had during uni) we only used those big pizza rocker things, which I think are better than these wheels. Easier to clean too.

Insightful article, thanks for writing/sharing!

I think the syntax highlighting for this could make it more readable. Make the leading `\\` a different color to the string content.

I deleted Twitter years ago as I was getting over it. When Bluesky starting take off it sounded like it was "Twitter but better", so I created an account. Felt just the same as Twitter. Lot's of rage bait, hot takes and tired jokes (in my opinion).

This was my default feed to be fair, if I'd taken the time to follow some good people maybe it would be better.

There's a term I read about a long time ago, I think it was "aesthetic completeness" or something like that. It was used in the context of video games whose art direction was fully realized in the game, i.e. increases in graphics hardware or capabilities wouldn't add anything to the game in an artistic sense. The original Homeworld games were held up as examples.

Anyway, this reminded me of that. Making these pictures in anything but the tools of the time wouldn't just change them, they'd be totally different artworks. The medium is part of the artwork itself.

I take my 18-month old to daycare each morning, before parking my car a few streets away and catching the train into work. It is terrifying to think that one day I might just forget to drop him off.

My partner usually picks him up in the evening. About 6 months ago she was busy so I did it. I picked him up, drove home, parked the car in the garage and walked straight into the house. Something felt wrong, but it was maybe 30 seconds until I realised I'd left him in the car. He was completely fine, but it put the fear of God into me.

Anyway, I'll contribute my poorly thought out technical solution - a thermal camera that monitors the seats for warm bodies, if you lock the car when present it beeps the horn.

Great article.

Don't underestimate the value to your soul of good work.

This in particular resonated with me.

My concern is not really that AI will take over my job and replace me (if it is genuinely better at my job than I am, I think I would quite happily give it up and find something else to do). My concern is that AI will partially take over my job, doing the parts that I enjoy (creativity, thinking, learning) and leave to me the mundane aspects.

Some of my colleagues will copy/paste several paragraphs of LLM output into ongoing slack discussions. Totally interrupts the flow of ideas. Shits me to tears.

Terrible performance for me too. Firefox, 3600X and 6800XT. Especially as the header morphs when you scroll down.

I don't mind the icons and general aethetic direction, but seriously undermined by the very noticeable, janky performance. Makes it feel cheap.

I installed it a few months ago, I thought it was pretty good! I couldn't find a prebuilt package mirror in or near Australia though so it was painfully slow to install updates, and I didn't stick with it.

You can install/run guix using a nonfree kernel to get around that.

https://wiki.systemcrafters.net/guix/nonguix-installation-gu...

This is a bit tangential but I've noticed lots of comments aping the style of Matt Walsh. Not just on HN either, but probably more here than other places I visit.

Anyway, I guess this would be useful cluster the "Matt Walsh"-y commenters together.

Lol, this reminded me of those engravings we put on spacecraft. Like, if we had to communicate the algorithm to an alien civilization then sure, this might be the best way to do it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

Though there are exceptions (even amongst your examples IMO), of the good-fast-cheap triangle I feel the majority choose fast and cheap.

Totally. It used to be that LoC was widely accepted as a a terrible metric to measure dev productivity by, but when talking about AI code-gen tools it's like it's all that matters.

I'm always curious with the examples in these announcements, how close is the training data to the sample prompts? And how much of the prompt is important or ends up ignored in the result?

The prompt for the figure running through glowing threads seems to contain a lot of detail that doesn't show up in the video.

In the first example (close-up of DJ), the last line about her captivating presence and the power of music I guess should give the video a "vibe" (compared to prescriptively describing the video). I wonder how the result changes if you leave it out?

Cynically I think that it's a leading statement there for the reader rather than the model. Like now that you mention it, her presence _is_ captivating! Wow!

Aw man I miss n-gate... Anyone know why they stopped?

In a world where some people like to write enterprise software

Come on now...