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Interesting - I haven't seen that mentioned in any of the coverage, do you have a source for that?

According to the BBC reporting, it appears that for each country he's charging 50% of the tariff they place on US goods coming into those countries, or a baseline of 10% for some countries like the UK.

(sorry, this is a BBC live news ticker link):

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A3a34...

And a picture of the chart they had showing the per-country tariffs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1dr7vy39eet?post=asset%3A7f78...

Pretty much every young person (in their 20's) that I know outside of work (obviously) either can't get a job, or has an "in-between" job (e.g. temp work). All but one of them have college degrees (albiet not necessarily in the most useful subjects), all of them are either living with their parents, or are heavily funded by them.

They all report more or less the same, hundreds of job applications going out, mostly zero, or only 1-2 responses (but for jobs that they have hundreds of candidates for).

Forget buying a house (which is totally unaffordable), even paying their monthly bills is a challenge.

Seems like with AI (for a lot of white collar jobs at least), this isn't going to get better. Governments might have to start thinking about UBI ...

It's in the article (and the comments here) -- yes, it was remediated within 3 hours of being reported back in January by GitHub.

If you've ever had to fly with (cordless) power tools the rules allow this but the batteries must be in carry on and not be in the checked baggage (the tool itself must be checked!) and there's a limit on the max battery size (160 Wh), although I don't think there's a limit on how many you can carry-on.

For example, with DeWalt 20V batteries, 160Wh is an 8Ah (which is one of the larger sized batteries), but if you have 60V FlexVolt tools (circular saw) you are probably out of luck as they start around 6Ah (and @60V, 160Wh is only 2.6Ah), going up to 15Ah (which would be 900Wh).

Every company was founded by someone and yeah they do go away at some point; for a more recent company as it grows, the founders often get more and more disconnected from the core mission of the company (at least no longer hands-on). Meanwhile they have the B.o.D. whispering in their ears (in parseltongue!) " ....ssss.... you need to hire some big company people to run this businessssss..."

Totally -- I signed up for the beta/preview when it was announced, and TBH after it was enabled, I couldn't (and still can't!) really tell what's different! If they just had Siri ask Claude or ChatGPT, it'd be way better!

This is a big company problem. When companies grow, they eschew the folks who helped build it from the ground up and are intimately familiar with the business, products and customers in favor of people who have "worked at big companies". But in most cases, they didn't actually build them. So all they have to offer is the "big company baggage" that they were exposed to previously.

You can imagine how it usually works out ... after a few years of zero or negative progress, they'll move on to somewhere else, claiming victory on their LinkedIn profiles. Meanwhile the employees who actually built the company continue to get passed over in favor of another round of impostors.

So actually, staying at the same company for a long time probably means you're trapped by a glass ceiling and not promoted very far as you'll "never have had the big company experience that we need". Meanwhile, the company starts to stagnate.

/rant

Mortgage appraisals are far higher than the local tax appraisals which seem to run 20-25% lower than say Zillow says. Local tax appraisals are also typically only updated once every 10 years or so (depending on the jurisdiction).

Besides, I think these days the appraisers don't actually do appraisals, they just look at Zillow.

Loved the books, 1st series was great, not so much for the second.

I thought the Rebel Moon duology was a little so-so ... until I watched the directors cut(s). F-ing fantastic. If you haven't seen them go watch it -- so so so much better than the original release(s), different movies really, they even have different names: Chapter One: Chalice of Blood and Chapter Two: Curse of Forgiveness.

Really good stuff IMHO, I suspect it was the movie(s) Snyder actually set out to make.

You don't need a pickup truck to be on the phone! It's truly shocking to see just how many (usually speeding!) drivers are on their phones on the highway and elsewhere.

I have some friends over there and they (or their employers) are cutting back on their business expenditures, staffing and overall outlook. The new payroll taxes (unemployment insurance?) are going to bite both employers and employees alike.

Taxes are too high, there's too much red tape for businesses and successive governments have failed to invest in anything outside of the "south" (e.g. Greater London). I was (half) joking with them that the "north" would be far better off if it seceded and joined Scotland!

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Enemy of the State

Although Acorn designed the ARM chip in 1983 as the Acorn RISC Machine, in 1990 it was changed to Advanced RISC Machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings#Name

Looks promising -- it's about time, I haven't been satisfied with any debugger since the days of Periscope!

https://www.os2museum.com/files/docs/periscope/periscope-man...

I still prefer neovim+lazy, but Zed is really pretty good and way way way faster than VSCode. Really, my only stumbling block with Zed is simply that while its vim mode is pretty decent, it's not the same as my neovim+lazy setup. However as pointed out in TFA, it looks like the Zed folks are doubling down on the vim bindings:

https://zed.dev/blog/vim-2025

It's be kinda cool if Zed had a TUI mode (in that the rendering engine would generate VT escape sequences).

Interesting theory -- maybe trying to diluting/confusing the technology market with alternatives that phone home [to the LLM] with your content.

I just had to talk someone I know out of using RedNote as the TikTok shutdown loomed last week -- they had ZERO IDEA about its provenance. Unless you're paying attention, it's actually not clear what's what.

I actually started with Telegram, then there was some "don't the bad guys use that?" so Signal it was ...

This. After WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook (this predates any of the current political stuff, it was entirely about privacy), I tried to get friends and family to switch to something else -- Signal in fact as iMessage was a no-go because of the lack of Android support.

Out of ~30 people, I got precisely 3 people to switch. No one else cared, no one else wanted the hassle of switching. I even got a few comments along the lines of "but no-one I know is on Signal" etc. I ended up re-installing WhatsApp because I decided that the loss of contact with so many people was worse than any privacy worries I had at the time.

The Twitter Files a were releases of some internal memos and files from Twitter's operation prior to Musk's acquisition that document the policy machinations within the company and its interactions with the Biden administration.

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

Similar experience with PRUSA for me -- I had a MK3S+ (which I loved) and paid ~$250 for the upgrade to the MK3.5S. Very, very impressed, for a modest investment I now have the new color LCD, a good chunk of the MK4 features and the print speed is at least 2x improved (if not better, I haven't quantitatively measured it but it's noticeably faster).

I went for the 3.5 upgrade as the upgrade from 3S+ to 4 was almost as much as outright buying a new 4. I'm glad I did it this way because now I'm thinking of getting the CORE One and then I'll have 2 excellent printers.

The Address Sanitizer (ASAN) in both clang and gcc is/are excellent:

https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/addresssanitizer

I believe to integrate a custom allocator with ASAN, you need to look at the memory "poisoning" mechanisms:

https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerMa...

Last time I was in Seattle the Starbucks on 1st Ave (& University?) didn't have any seating at all. 90% of their business seemed to be online to-go orders (the O.G. Starbucks at Pike Place had several hundred people in line!).

Yes that works too! I use <leader>fb to fuzzy search over open buffers so <leader>ff is a bit more natural, albeit longer than <leader><leader>.

I think my favorite feature is `gr` (in command mode) to "goto references" for the symbol under the cursor. I use this all the time (as well as `gd` for goto definition which with the LSP is really precise).

Not at all -- if you're something like LazyVim with the stock config, then in a large project it's just <leader>ff to search by filename or <leader>sg to grep across the project (using ripgrep!) or for a symbol search <leader>sS (using symbols provided by the LSP).

I haven't found anything better than Neovim+Lazyvim and switched from ST4 a couple of years ago and never looked back.

It must right? (even if very slightly), otherwise it'd be in violation of Newton's 3rd law of motion.

This appears to be a collection of for-pay Rust books no? Not sure the authors would be happy with this.

I love the "fairly good representation" of what had happened to the amp's internals (using Jenga blocks and random parts).

Ion thrusters [0], solar sails [1], nuclear pulse propulsion [2] are all things that have real research being done on them. There's more esoteric stuff (theoretical) such as the Alcubierre Drive [3] (Warp drive!) that's more of the realm of sci-fi.

If you can maintain a constant 1g of acceleration, you'd get to ~0.99c in approximately 1 year -- but you need to carry/provide the energy to fuel whatever propulsion system you're using and the amount of fuel needed to maintain that 1g of acceleration increases as you get closer to c.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive