mikece

How would you make an application designed for creating Hollywood grade cinema easier? The fact Resolve isn't two orders of magnitude more complex is astounding to me!

Resolve is like a top of the line professional camera: there are so many more knobs, buttons, and dials on those because top-end pros run everything manually changing settings as they take photos based on changing light conditions and what the subject is doing. Resolve isn't going to assume what you want and do it: it's a professional tool for professional users. The fact they are still giving it away is amazing to me.

I know a lot of NH readers homeschool their kids; any of them teaching computer science? I never pushed my kids toward any path. None of them were interested in what I did for work so the most I "forced" on them was an awareness of how internet scams and surveillance capitalism works so as they use computers and phones they can be properly skeptical and not be taken by scammers.

Hermes or some other agent?

Going on the title, I think it's to blame men.

I've kept an eye on Darktable for a while. I do high volume photography for high school sports so while Lightroom Classic (LrC) is the final editing tool before exporting the images that go to the clients a more critical app for me is Photo Mechanic (PM) to cull down from 6,000 images to the 300 keepers from an event (a process that only takes about ten minutes on PM). The last time I tried to run Photo Mechanic on Linux (using Wine) I was able to get it to load but it crashed hard every time I tried to actually use it. If there's a capable competitor to Photo Mechanic for Linux I might take a serious look again at switching. Then again, the speed from the Apple Silicon CPU+RAM+GPU processors means that even if I could get comparable hardware for Linux it wouldn't be any less expensive than a new MacBook Pro M5 Max. Definitely keeping an eye on this space but it's not where I need it to be for my workflow.

On the other hand, isn't the FreeBSD user base shrinking and its former users going to Linux?

Very neat project! I am curious if it can support other AI CLI tools as well.

And if not for the rise of AI it's possible that WASM as a machine-level compilation target for all languages might have happened. As much as Gary predicted he didn't see AI coming.

Not really: ASM.js became WASM. What killed the possibility of WASM being The One Way to run everything is AI... the one wildcard that Gard Bernhardt didn't predict.

I re-watch that presentation two or three times a year because it's a great example of how to give a presentation, how to structure your slide deck to complement your presentation, and a surprisingly educational tour of the permission rings architecture of operating systems.

And at some point we're going to have a period or war and our psychological attachments to old programming paradigms will be released so that we can move on to a more advanced way of doing things (but that won't stop your bank from running YavaScript for at least another 85 years).

I still refer to it as YavaScript much to the confusion of junior devs. I just tell the new kids: "you had to be there..."

I feel like the title of this post should have "for now" appended.

Interesting that Colombia is currently powering more than 70% of their electrical consumption on hydropower. They currently have about 65 TWh of hydropower capacity; the total feasible generation potential is around 200 TWh. Makes then an interesting country to host such talks.

The launch of Proton Meet officially eliminates the lazy excuse that securing real-time WebRTC media at scale is "too hard" for modern enterprise platforms. Hopefully this forces the hands of Slack, Teams, and Google to stop treating E2EE as a premium afterthought and start offering it as a standard option for the modern web.

Sounds like a reason to just watch regular TV to me.

What is the preferred/best way to rip CDs from the Linux CLI? Is there a way to apply track info (is CDDB still around?) and edit that as well?

A good time to (re-)recommend the movie "The Social Dilemma".

Do they think so-called AI is capable of self-awareness or abstract thought, that it's not a human-programmed mountain of if statements and strict logic?

How much longer before Graphene OS is killed by Google?

Yes, and according to Steve Ballmer (back in the day) Linux Torvalds was a terrorist. People are allowed to say stupid things.

The best way to monitor the DLQ is by setting up CloudWatch alarms on the ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible metric. Set an alarm to trigger when the message count exceeds 0, paired with an SNS notification to alert developers via email, Slack, teams, Pager Duty, or whatever your preferred mode of being alerted is.

First California, now Colorado. Are New York, Oregon, and Washington next?

Alternate link: https://archive.is/whepR

I seem to recall that the residents of Martha's Vineyard have killed multiple attempts at offshore wind, also claiming it to be a threat.

In my experience Claude is like a "good junior developer" -- can do some things really well, FUBARS other things, but on the whole something to which tasks can be delegated if things are well explained. If/when it gets to the ability level of a mid-level engineer it will be revolutionary. Typically a mid-level engineer can be relied upon to do the right thing with no/minimal oversight, can figure out incomplete instructions, and deliver quality results (and even train up the juniors on some things). At that point the only reason to have human junior engineers is so they can learn their way up the ladder to being an architect and responsible coordinating swarms of Claude Agents to develop whole applications and complete complex tasks and initiatives.

Beyond that what can Claude do... analyze the business and market as a whole and decide on product features, industry inefficiencies, gap analysis, and then define projects to address those and coordinate fleets of agents to change or even radically pivot an entire business?

I don't think we'll get to the point where all you have is a CEO and a massive Claude account but it's not completely science fiction the more I think about it.

What could possibly go wrong with allowing full access to the internet at thirteen?

Given the power draw of data centers it was only a matter of time before just cutting to the chase and co-locating data centers with one of the most consistent, high-output base load generation technologies. I do hope that the data center builders help to accelerate the adoption and rollout of small modular reactors (SMRs) as those will be needed for supplying the grid in general in the coming years and everyone will benefit from economies of scale.

For fun or for profit? If the latter, DM me.

Why is ZFS/OpenZFS not used by (more) Linux distros?

I'm curious why Apple doesn't support this effort: they have done a lot of the work and it won't exactly harm their market share.