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darthruperton Ask HN: How are parents who program teaching their kids today?

Don't teach your kids programming. Answer their questions when they have them, stop them when they're doing something obviously stupid (like too many hours on the computer, staying up too late, punching/yelling at the computer, that sorta stuff), but do not actively participate. Let them have their fun. Above all, do not get them a personal computer that is located in their own room.

In other words, be a parent, not a friend or, even worse, a colleague.

darthruperton EXT4 for Linux 6.16 Brings a Change Yielding "Stupendous Performance"

I'll hold out for ludicrous performance.

darthruperton Intel versus AMD is currently an emotional decision for me

I braved out and got the latest x1 carbon, and I've been rather happy. Battery life with latest kernels is quite ok (although obviously not macbook level) and nearly everything seems to work quite nicely.

Only weird part is the slow throttle up that happens after sleep. Seems like the machine is at 400MHz for half a minute before actually waking up.

darthruperton Flattening Rust’s learning curve

Yes, python has strong typing and in that sense passes this bar. It's a fine choice for many things, and if you enforce certain things in CI, it can be a good choice for many more.

darthruperton Telegram's Extraordinary Business Model

> the encrypted messaging service

Haphazard reporting work or malicious lying from Telegram's side?

darthruperton Flattening Rust’s learning curve

On the other side where this question is not asked we have things like

    > "1" + 2 
    3

And it's utter madness that everyone does anything important with languages like that.

darthruperton Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust

The worst of both worlds is colleagues who insert type annotations but they're wrong. And there's no CI pipe to verify the types before check-in.

Working with these things makes me often think that people who want to write high quality software should just use a better language. But, well, real world is real.

darthruperton Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust

Don't blame the tool for your shoddy work. Either accept your mediocre quality or do something to fix it.

darthruperton Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail

Typically it's amazingly great evidence for the high quality of a mail service that certain governments hate them.

darthruperton No alternative but to disband Hong Kong's Democratic Party, leader says

Bit of a Game of Thrones situation when going against tyrants: you win or you die (in some sense).

darthruperton Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study

Unless the people who are "tipsy" from weed tell it to you, you will never be able to detect it.

darthruperton 4Chan was hacked and has been down for 4 days

I was on your level 10 years ago. It has become obvious recently that humanity cannot handle it.

Now, I need very good evidence that it's a good idea before I support the kind of free speech that destroys civilized society from within.

Perhaps it's supremely ironic that americans will have actual need for anonymity in online spaces now. And not for posting dumb memes, but for doing the things to tyrants that their Founding Fathers kept talking about.

darthruperton A new form of verification on Bluesky

Ultra-woke Twitter? What the hell are you blathering about?

darthruperton SteamNix OS

What are Fitgirl repacks? Looks like straight up piracy, but I'm guessing you could not advertise them on Github if they were.

darthruperton Tesla delays new 'affordable EV/stripped down Model Y' in the US

>Musk has believed that Tesla is on the verge of solving self-driving technology for the last few years

It's nowhere even close to solving it, and it's also no longer even the best at trying.

Elon Musk is a pathological liar.

darthruperton Canadian government freezes bank account of People's Party of Canada candidate

This is how a 1st world country is supposed to work when confronted with a fascist.

darthruperton RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism by September

The reason is known already: diagnosis got better. I'd welcome more knowledge if the endeavour wouldn't be by a known charlatan.

darthruperton Show HN: Real-time AI analysis of Trump's posts on financial markets within 30s

Good idea, and one that probably is already used by some financial institutions in some form or other.

I'm not sure about the ethics of forcing an LLM to digest that junk.

darthruperton Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a

Nfc card payments have a pretty low max limit at least without a pin.

Phone nfc payments do not.

darthruperton Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python

Looks amazing. I had to deal with time handling in my very first programming job 25 years ago, and lousy handling has been a pet peeve of mine ever since.

darthruperton Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Many seem to work, if you apply some tweaks. Google Wallet NFC payments totally don't, I believe.

darthruperton Why Your 'Harmonious' Team Is Failing

Once I was in a team that had built for themselves a bubble of happiness, because the CTO / second founder of the company was a toxic scumbag. At the time I thought it was the best team ever but the bubble was cracked in a very ugly way, revealing the horrific situation.

darthruperton Ask HN: Should I smuggle components from Shenzhen to California ?

You might be underestimating both China's and US's capability to link this message to your itinerary. Perhaps don't plan crimes on a public message board.

Perhaps relocate to a country that is not attempting a global trade collapse and fascism. That is still legal for you. It might not be in the future.

darthruperton How many supernova explode every year?

The whole things seems like such a massive living system that I cannot help guessing that what we think of as universe is just a somewhat large single creature.

darthruperton Mastodon Exit Interview

Yeah. RIP email, too bad you never worked.

darthruperton Mastodon Exit Interview

Trusting a social network with your DMs is a massive delusion.

darthruperton How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured

Good question, I honestly don't know anymore. Some manifestation of soft power that vanished into the air?

darthruperton Tech CEO: 4-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity

Yes, that's exactly the wrong perspective to take. The right one is that you shouldn't try to squeeze the last bits from a lemon. The only get is bitterness.

darthruperton Tech CEO: 4-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity

Not merely my opinion, rather my interpretation of the results in the article.

This is an opinion: everyone who tries to squeeze more out of their knowledge workers is a moron and/or malevolent and should be demoted or fired.

darthruperton How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured

A year ago I would've been ready and willing to pay double price for a fully US-made phone. Purism's liberty phone seemed interesting.

Now, I will not buy american products at any price. It feels totally ridiculous now to even talk about moving the supply chain to the US.