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This is IMHO a very problematic take. This suggests the more votes, the more initiatives, the better. But this is very obviously wrong. Generally most industry nations have "only" a handful of large problems. (Something along climate, pensions, health care, housing and economy)

What happens when these get solved in a Stakkato timeframe shows the current US government which at this point even fails to fulfill basic needs of supermarkets. Proper laws/initiatives aren't created/fleshed out by actual politicians but by a whole army of employees of the related institutions.

Everything else is pure populism.

True, I also believed it for a second. But it's also easy to blame Ubuntu for errors. IMHO they are doing a quite decent job with assembling their packages. In fact they are also compiled with Stack fortifications. On the other hand I'm glad they are not compiled with the possibly buggy -O3. It can be nice for something performance critical but I definitely don't want a whole system compiled with -O3.

Yes, especially Azure's success seems largely driven by their generous free tier for startups and the lock-in of the Windows ecosystem.

While I like the user interface, after having used it for more than a year I've successfully stayed away from it ever since.

Meanwhile AWS' popularity was largely driven by EC2 servers which are VPS.

Also they are literally called OVHcloud...

Somehow the technology "stack" seems to have way more sharp edges, from hydrogen diffusing out of the storage tanks up to inefficient generation. However I think a lot of those have been solved and cars are already in the 3rd generation.

IMHO hydrogen is the most foolproof way to store cheap solar energy.

Quite confusing though

> “There’s no slam dunk to know immediately from the experiment” that the qubits are made of topological states, says Simon. (A claim of having created Majorana states made by a Microsoft-funded team based in Delft, The Netherlands, was retracted in 2021.) The ultimate proof will come if the devices perform as expected once they are scaled up, he adds.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00527-z

The chip is literally called Microsoft Majorana 1

Indeed Majorana fermions are completely unseen/unconsidered outside of Neutrinos. In fact all Standard Model fermions except Neutrinos are proven to be Dirac fermions

This seems quite a bold claim that Microsoft proofed that Neutrinos are Majorana particles...

The biggest problems I see with DDoS is metered traffic and availability. The largest Cloud providers all meter their traffic.

The availability part on the other hand is maybe something that's not so business critical for many but for targeted long-term attacks it probably is.

So I think for some websites, especially smaller ones it's totally feasible to not use Cloudflare but involves planning the hosting really carefully.

I mean Nvidia has also so far been priced for perfection, things just continuing like this. Also considering the future value being priced in already.

At this point I'm thinking AI is here to stay. But reliance on CUDA or a small set of companies probably not.

I agree, also I see this mostly as a tool. Sure there are more reports that don't necessarily have the highest quality. But just omitting those doesn't seem the correct approach.

Yeah I don't know, I was never a big tweeter although I used it at some point for networking. But eventually I didn't use it anymore, emptied my profile and it was largely left unused for years. Once Elon Musk went crazy I eventually deleted my account.

So I've tried Mastodon because I'm also interested in a service operated by a more neutral org but I found it too random. Bluesky seemed quite nice, kind of like a UX friendly Mastodon.

Most people I follow seem interested in talking about tech and not so much politics which I find quite refreshing. Also it's quite easy to onboard and enjoy the platform without having to make it a huge effort.

Check for LCOE, there's a lot of research on that

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

Ok, so assuming for a moment it wasn't that problematic what he said (which it was actually).

So he's sending around angry company-wide memos as an IC which hits the news. And it's not just 100 people who can read it but a significant part of Google which has almost 200,000 employees. Sorry, but this is missing the point.

I've seen people getting fired for less. And it wasn't even related to DEI.

But back to the topic. The content of this memo seems to me a metaphor to what is wrong with "classic IT culture" when talking about DEI etc. I cannot see how implementing this memo would solve anything, on the contrary it would make things worse.

I mean I'm speaking for me as a straight, white male, not even living in the US but EU. But some observations from my side:

- no program will get support/taken seriously if it's just to tick a box

- implementing DEI as positive discrimination seems a painfully stupid idea (and yes, large corporations also do that in the EU)

- I'm surprised how many comments are celebrating scrapping this effort

That being said, I don't really get why companies aren't working on actionable goals instead. There've been so many scandals related to this in the last years. One complaint from someone affected being taken seriously by HR seems like a bigger step than a purely box ticking endeavor.

Again, I'm speaking from my non expert point of view but it seems a banal truth that a diverse workspace may also score better on innovation and perhaps offer a larger solution space for certain cultural problems. But this might be just my ignorant point of view.

Depends on the recruiter, some get commissions, others are hired with a flat rate. The problem I've sometimes seen with companies hiring while working there is they have expectations that are impossible to fulfill. E.g. some niche knowledge or an ancient hiring process that doesn't really work, so hiring by themselves takes forever.

I just wanted to say this. If the recruiter sees a fit with a job I'm actually interested in they are doing all the work of chasing the other company. Automation or not, I think many companies aren't able or willing to put in the (team)work to create a working hiring process.

I've been quite worried about it at this point. However I see that "this is not going to happen" is likely not going to help me. So I rather go with the flow, use it where reasonable even if it's not clear to me whether AI is truly ever leaving the hype stage.

FWIW I was allowed to use AI at work since ChatGPT appeared and usually it wasn't a big help for coding. However for education and trying to "debug" funny team interactions, I've surely seen some value.

My guess is though that some sort of T-shaped skillset is going to be more important while maintaining a generalist perspective.

I vaguely remember from an Analysis lecture when Mathematical rigor wasn't such a thing, the professor mentioned a famous Mathematician (maybe Euler?) who had a notebook with hundreds of proofs where many of the visual ones didn't turn out right. Definitely nice for intuition though since this is oftentimes lacking

KDE up until version 3 was very configurable and robust. KDE 4 was neither. Basically it seemed just like a (bad) copy of GNOME and other recent DE efforts. That's why there's this fork.

In my opinion the text to code ratio is just really high. The standard itself isn't even that complex but hidden behind a huge wall of text. It's a bit sad that the most readable OAuth2 docs are from auth0.com.

The message would in principle even make sense if there was a real-world standard that was consistently adopted. Then not every SaaS would have to implement OAuth2 for the millionth time...

Yeah there's a certain amount of effort most people are willing to put in to do something. If it's too high, it won't happen. Yet at the same time a certain baseline is needed to not end up being low hanging fruit for attackers.

I've also seen this, especially in security tools. The usability is often straight out of the 90s which keeps me wondering, who uses this voluntarily?

Yeah but this is basically about countable and uncountable sets. It's rather counter-intuitive that the rational numbers are countable. So it's possible to create even a bijective mapping between rational numbers and natural numbers. On the other hand real numbers (which number types in programming languages try to approximate) are uncountable

Sounds legit, infinity is singular and so is 0. I think one problem is also that division isn't the only mathematical operation which can produce dubious results. E.g. sqrt(x), arctan(x) which have multiple branches which is why there is often a separate arctan2(x, y) to select the correct branch. Oh well and then there's just addition which silently overflows in almost every programming language.

Without arbitrary precision numerics and functions which aren't explicit about corner cases it's always a simplification. However performance-/code-wise this is usually not feasible.

> This to me is the most damning evidence against the current classification of 'ultra-processed foods' being absolutely, totally worthless.

It's quite funny that even 15 years after labeling UPF as such there's still a struggle to "officially" mark it as unhealthy and I don't understand why it should be challenged. I would think that most children growing up are being told that candy, fries and Gatorade aren't healthy foods. Most people I know consider E-numbers as dodgy ingredients.

As mentioned in the article there are statistics that under the UPF classifications people are way more unhealthy both physically and even mentally. Shouldn't that be enough? Now a new study is needed to benchmark UPF that is low in fat, sugar and salt. Basically against a product class that hardly exists. I mean nobody eats like that. Most people put extra salt on their food, the Mediterranean diet somewhat the gold standard in good yet healthy food contains tons of fat and various cuisines from the region have rather sugary desserts.

I'd be fine classifying UPF as unhealthy and calling it a day. If food businesses want to explore "healthy" UPFs they should probably do so and take the burden to re-classify it as healthy. This seems like a quite Kafka-esque endeavor.

I remember times when supposedly low Opensource software quality was a constant complaint. On the other hand I think taking Linux as an example, I always found it to be significantly more stable than Windows.

That said, it's a funny choice for Manjaro to go for opt-out telemetry. As a simplified Arch it seems to be popular among privacy conscious users. (But I don't know the project goals, maybe that's just coincidental)

> There's no security model for desktops that works well.

> Like another commenter said iOS has no legacy cruft and could deliver the security model that made sense.

Yeah I just was wondering about this. In the presentation also Seatbelt is mentioned, I thought this was considered deprecated legacy since years. IIRC the last time I checked for sandboxing I basically couldn't find anything recent for the Application level

Sure, but then it isn't related to the CA system anymore and any action from them wouldn't be under the radar anymore.

Also this problem would apply to any key like gpg. Well, as long as it's not in a Hardware security module. Of course they could also seize that but at some point it becomes logistically impractical, at least for mass surveillance.

Yeah but I imagine the ice is getting thin. Sure, use of key pinning on the web failed - but for instance banking apps commonly use it. Once monitoring Certificate transparency logs gets more traction, things like that could get noticed.

Yeah the smell is very distinctive. I think I had it 30 years ago in my hands and at times I remember