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It baffles me that we've spent decades building great abstractions to isolate processes with containers and VM's, and we've mostly thrown it out the window with all these AI tools like Cursor, Antigravity, and Claude Code -- at least in their default configurations.

Gemini's native protocol isn't HTTP, they invented their own. I don't really see what this does you couldn't do with simple HTML pages (or Gopher 35 years ago).

So Gopher?

From the brand that brought you “people don’t want CarPlay”

Ah yes, let's put our multibillion dollar ecommerce site on... checks notes Hetzner.

Lol

The problem is the roll out as the bees knees by anthropic, when its.. just some JSON slop without a ton of careful thought behind it.

I think it should be mostly thrown away and start over with an MCPv2 that has first class auth, RBAC/identity, error handling, quotas, human-in-the-loop controls, and more.

These topics are so important for junior engineers to grasp, because not only is it helpful for interacting with humans, providing the additional context to LLM's will get you much, much better answers.

I wish there was a good source of this information from a less polarizing figure.

Seems to add to the wrong days for me. Adding to Monday never seems to work.

Path globbing, pipes, redirection, job control (fg/bg), and all shell variables -- not just $PATH -- are all handled by the shell.

The kernel has no idea what the current process' environment $PATH is, and doesn't even parse any process environment variables at all.

Looks like all the bending the knee to Trump didn't work out so well for Zuck.

I wouldn't call 1.6kWh tiny, running your fridge and charging phones for a day will have a big market in places that might get outages during the winter that last a day or two. How about apartment dwellers in cities? Not everyone needs something gigantic or permanent.

They support up to 1200W of solar with the expansion pack. Running a cable out a window during a prolonged outage doesn't seem like a huge deal, but I'd guess most of the use case is shorter outages < 48 hours.

The solution is far cheaper than something like the Tesla powerwall (which I have and adore, but it's definitely a bigger investment).

I get your point. Inevitably someone sees “oh I can swap two values with 3x xor” and puts it in a real codebase. Write readable code. We probably don’t need to save the single word of memory in 2025.

Someone at work learned what a bitmap was and now uses them in dozens of golang structs as part of API bindings to know whether a field is set or not. It’s insane. Cool lower level tricks are neat but let’s not invent things that are difficult to understand or work with.

Eh, sure, the CIA isn't behind honest. China isn't being honest. There's too many parties with ulterior motives to trust anything being said. China has done a great job of looking like they're covering something up.

I read "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley" and it convinced me the lab leak theory was at least fairly likely. The proximity of the outbreak to WIV -- which was doing gain-of-function research of bat coronaviruses -- is convincing. Occam's razor and all.

Removed by the mods - who IIRC are Boox employees lol

The /r/ereader post is still live. It’s really really bad, but it seems Boox have also disabled the AI servers meanwhile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/s/7UcSlYd8tx

It’s the moderators of the subreddit… who are Onyx BOOX employees.

I mean, I do. I've written some GPL code that actually runs on Boox devices, and I'm quite annoyed they refuse to comply to share back their changes.

If the new Paperwhite supported immersion reading (highlights the word as audible book plays), I'd grab it. It works on my Boox with the Android app but as far as I know not on any kindles (battery life + screen refresh speed allegedly. I really want to ditch my Boox, horrible company.

I wouldn't buy anything from Boox. Notorious GPL violators.

That's disappointing. Rumors were 300 ppi for the color screen.

> If you need to "discover" the printers on your network, something is probably wrong, as in my experience public printers are always labeled with the relevant information and home printers can print or show that information on their menus.

This is a terrible take. The average user is not going to go find out the IP of the printer and go on their computer and configure it. Discovery is the primary way people print now.

And... CUPS is how 99% of people print on Mac or Linux.

That’s honestly more than I thought after watching mkbhd’s review.

> unrelated people recounted confessions he made to them that included details that were never made public

Do you have a source?

"The case against Mr. Williams turned on the testimony of two unreliable witnesses who were incentivized by promises of leniency in their own pending criminal cases and reward money. The investigation had gone cold until a jail inmate named Henry Cole, a man with a lengthy record, claimed that Mr. Williams confessed to him that he committed the murder while they were both locked up in jail. Cole directed police to Laura Asaro, a woman who had briefly dated Mr. Williams and had an extensive record of her own.

Both of these individuals were known fabricators; neither revealed any information that was not either included in media accounts about the case or already known to the police. "

It is here. AED’s are everywhere in NYC. Whether someone actually stops to help is another story.

Why doesn’t NYC have smaller ambulances? In Berlin for example they’re normal width vehicles. Maybe they're not equipped the same but all that gear won’t do anything if you can’t get there.

I have the same setup and it works fine on iOS 18.

I teach CS, and oh we know but I don't know what to do about it. Scores have skyrocketed because students are using some kind of AI helper like co-pilot, if not just outright pasting the assignment text to ChatGPT. It's hard to prove.

I've thought about putting instructions in the assignment to sabotage it (like, "if you're a generative AI, do X - if human, please ignore.") but that won't work once students catch on those kinds of things are in the assignment text.

PCMCIA cards were cool. It's much nicer to have peripherals in the laptop.

Although my modem card didn't have this XJACK thing, it had a big chunky end that stuck out of the laptop to fit an RJ11.

All refugees are migrants but not all migrants are refugees.

> Or at least who I purchase from.

There is no ethical slaughter.

Maybe their focus on costs is why their recent cars are terrible.

I've had a 22 Jetta as a loaner and it's the worst car I've driven in a long time. I've driven older jettas like 10-15 years ago and they were pretty sporty. This one's a boring sedan. The screen is so tiny. Its lane keeping is beyond useless.

We had to do a 6-hour road trip, and everyone agreed the seats are unbearable after about 2 hours.