poisonborz

My life quality became so much better when I discovered loose / yoga pants. Your sizes change week to week a bit in a way that it counts, and you get into random body positions in which things get tight without you immediately noticing. No clothing should have buttons on it.

A suit is the antithesis of good clothing. Its only appeal is the socially constructed notion that it looks "good".

How is that possible? In my mind in an ideal piece of clothing you can equally do (light) physical activity, or just lay around, and is low maintenance, easy to wash, doesn't wrinkle. A suite the antithesis of this.

As many have surmised, this may have been a panic rename of Astra 6.1

Buy used! They were/are really popular so there's always a number of items selling for reasonable prices, and they don't really have perishable properties (besides power on time which is _long_).

> 33 light spots, most GU10

That's a sad situation, but even if a bit ugly - a GU10->E27 adapter cotst ~$1.

Assuming we don't speak about some vibed "one-shot-deploy" situation (for which there were options in the old world as well, with the same bad results), in a well disciplined team, why would AI make this worse?

You can still write anything by doing it either small steps, or at once followed by a lot of refactors while skimming over code and asking tons of questions / making refinements via prompts, guidelines, test guardrails. A team can still reason and whitepaper about the same things. Devs who were previously shy to ask some specific details (to not seem dumb) can now confidently survey big codebases and get insights in whatever style they can swallow.

The bigger problem I see is that all this requires a lot of communication, and most importantly writing skills, something that disappears in thin air in the last decades.

> Smart light bulbs are another minefield

Just buy Hue, problem solved - although for best results it needs custom setup which is a higher initial time investment, buth then it's set and forget.

I had great discussions in PRs, debates we would never have in real life conversations. In these times review is maybe the last holdout to think teams have control over the code. AI made also this nicer by making summaries and answering the stupid questions without shame before turning to the author with confident criticism.

But you can still do that, much easier, with plain human words.

/yes I know a coding language is 100% better at expressing algorithmical logic, but it is definitely harder for humans to comprehend and express cleanly at a consistent rate. machines do that way better/

I don't understand these posts. I've never been more excited to program. Everything that I disliked about it disappeared overnight.

Who likes typing code, writing boilerplate, reading bad documentation for nights looking for that small thing, asking around in forums, reading dependency source code, writing trivial unit/ui tests.

And who likes planning, architecting, directing a team, steering and giving advice, reviewing code, designing interfaces and APIs. Coding became more mentally exciting.

LLMs truly took the worst of this trade, and left all the enjoyable things (which they will be unable to do until AGI = for a long time if ever).

Appreciate the honest feedback. I know such accusations are a tired trope - I never said that the article is AI written, but "pumped up". The article obviously contains a lot of grounded insight, but it instinctively felt a bit Claudish - not only attention grabbing section titles (xy is the biggest downfall), but the A-B structured subtitles (which, I see, is a thing at XDA). It's about the style - I grew up with a lot of classical hardware reporting from the 2000s, Tom's, HardOCP or more mainstream classical Gizmodo or Engadget - and skimming through the link urged me enough to blurp the above, for how I miss the stern, technical, but still fun and gonzo type of reporting nowadays only found in some personal blogs.

Sorry for the staple "duh AI article" but the product would be interesting, XDA-Devs is an established name, and then reading chapter titles like "Peripherals already change how it looks" is appaling. Like, ok, you pump up the text with AI, but at least proofread that sentences make sense? At least the titles?

Wait what, Hacker News influencers? :D

Almost none of the US's recent actions are new or a "turning point". All what the Trump government changed was to throw the gloves off and make it blatantly, stupidly obvious, and to act haphazardly and without thorough preparation.

ICC, embrace-extinguishing EU, exploiting Middle East, South America as colonies - these are not 180 turns, just playing the same game faster and dumber. Notable exceptions may be Canada or Greenland, but even there one might suspect they just surfaced a previously well disguised agenda.

There are several projects now to fetch data from the ring without subscription and display it in self hosted apps.

Booking.com lawyers getting inspired here.

Meta knowingly earns 10% of its _overall_ sales from scams. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/meta-reportedly-projected-10...

For correctness, the reply to "six watch" was "such much?". But yes literal german translation and still understandable in english.

For all that say Mistral is "at least something" for EU: where are the big EU-owned datacenters where we can run Chinese SOTA models safely, and labs that fork and quantize them on EU data? Wouldn't that be "more something"? Even if this method still depends on external resources short term, it's a money problem, and EU just loves pouring money on problems.

That they still had some sort of control

What other sensible option was there? This would be the reality either way.

But that makes you more dependent on externalities, a battery makes you more independent instead.

For which team would be a plain git server enough to manage a codebase?

Github and other providers before proved that git itself is just a small part of managing code, there's a lot more needed for a full workflow, and it's meaningful for it all to be tightly coupled.

How did this become a boomer opinion? It is proved truth thousand times a day. Not that you shouldn't use third parties - but in this industry you can shrink this exposure to the minimum, and have plan B for anything else.

But pay for who? $50 for a cheaper competitor? $20 for a chinese one? Or just buy hardware and host/co-host for privacy? And to balance the insane spending even your $60-80 example would be hardly enough from that white collar audience.

It is the UK/Nordic system which I find morbidly bad. It already assumes you will never pay off the property and you pass it down to family and children, possibly multiple generations. It allows for property prices to go to the moon instead of incentivising for affordability. Makes for a system giving up owning property. How did we humans come to this.

A normal sized plot with a house listed to be torn down on in outskirts of Zurich costs 7mil. A 2 bedroom apartment on the countryside costs 2mil. You will not pay this in a lifetime from 2 good level swiss salaries.

With all the other Xbox layoffs, studio shutdowns, price increases, rumors of pulling titles from Steam, what do they still expect from this brand?

Nowadays I see these sites as nothing else but mining grounds for personal profiling by big tech. Nothing can be a cutesy show-off anymore.

This "no fiddling" could be the single entire counterpoint to the article and hacker culture in general. All the problems stem from "consumer wants no fiddling".