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stein1946··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
> The sad thing is that in a way the terrorist won.

That's what the sad thing is?

> A minority might have voted “pro Palestine” but most people wanted affordable flats.

Interesting interpretation.

stein1946··on Programming is Art
> Nothing, ever, is just a tool.

Are you going to expand on this or should we stand in awe?

stein1946··on America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums
Again, who is this "Democratic Socialist" you speak of?
stein1946··on America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums
> a Socialist mayor

Who is that "Socialist" mayor you speak of?

stein1946··on America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums
Don't ban smoking, this won't do anything for those who want to smoke.

Don't force seatbelts, those who don't want to wear are not going to

Don't try to restrict $A, it's against personal freedom/liberty that us at $corporate love.

stein1946··on The Highest Point in the Netherlands
Indeed, The Netherlands is this make-believe place where Peter Pan and Tinker Bell come from
stein1946··on Software Engineering in the Agentic Era
I kinda feel that this person makes a lot of noise in this website. Can we rate limit them a bit?
stein1946··on Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
> will we have a viable alternative to jump ship before that happens ?

Here is a better question:

"Is the EU going to stop this?"

stein1946··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
> Raising awareness is the only real solution.

You'd have to raise awareness on every single person in the room and them sustain pressure to the organization in order to have proper CO2 levels in the room/organization.

And then you have to align every other person on every other organization to do this as well and hope for the best.

Or, you can do the right thing and have the state introduce regulations

stein1946··on Is America becoming a gerontocracy?
"We are going to call the current situation anything but class warfare."

boomers vs millenials, reds vs blues, south vs north, city folks vs country ones

stein1946··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
I am not sure I like the direction the modern libraries are taking.

Libraries should be places where people pickup books and read them, that's it.

They should not be community centers, DYI hobby centers, convention/exhibition places.

I feel they have been co-opted by people who have no interest in knowledge acquisition.

stein1946··on Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs
How much cheaper will a phone with 2gb vs one with 4gb? What changes in the supply chain?
stein1946··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
> This decision seems to based more in politics than engineering.

Project governance is very important on a project; the fact that Bun's authors bent the knee to their new owner shows where their priorities lie.

> Have you observed Bun have more segfaults, OOMs, etc, since the Rust rewrite? Have you noticed more security vulnerabilities? Have you seen more bugs?

I - them - are not going to sit around waiting for bugs to start crashing everything

> I don't select my engineering tools because they give me a bad feeling - I select them because they do the thing I want them to

Good thing that you don't run an open source project then, I would remove anyone's project from my dependencies who thinks like that.

stein1946··on Why Japanese companies do so many different things
> It’s always fascinating to see how Westerners idealize Japan

Replace 'Westerners' with Americans and you are spot on.

I have never met any European that glorifies any part of Japan (I'd see Asia as a whole), most of them will tell you how the tall buildings make them feel little and how the society is beyond oppressive.

Whatever meritocracy exists in capitalism is ironed out by those rigid hierarchies.

I am not sure what is appealing about Japan, Korea or any of these parts of the world, to me they are full of plastic, sugar and late stage capitalism that makes the Americans look as socialists.

I do strongly suspect that a certain type of male likes these places for reasons I cannot even hold in my mind for more than a few seconds.

stein1946··on Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
All I want is a machine that I can drop ingredients in it and it can give me a delicious meal

And another that I can just drop all my clothes in, and have them washed and ironed for me.

Doesn't have to be a humanoid.

stein1946··on No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure
Are you going to offer a “multi sided, unbiased and fairly sophisticated” view yourself or?

The view that trump went to Iran because “regime awful” does not seem to qualify

stein1946··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
> America wages a war of revenge

A war of what? Do you really believe that states wage war because of "revenge"?

> Perhaps America isn't as dumb as you think

No, they are dumber.

If this presidency was in Europe - or any other 1st world country - it would have been obliterated immediately and the party wiped out in the next elections.

> because of their strategic preparation.

lol to that.

stein1946··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
> it's not an exaggeration to say that Cuba is flattened and invaded that same afternoon

But it is, the US is no position to flatten anything.

Afghanistan? Lost Vietnam? Lost Ukraine? Lost Iran? will be lost

And these are heavily embargoed 3rd world countries.

In the first days of the Israeli-US war in Iran (a country under decades of embargo by the way) the US, Israel and vassals lost 60+ planes (plus who knows what else they are not reporting.

Trump is not coming out of this, if he makes the grave mistake of sending troops to their demise this administration is done.

stein1946··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
> There is absolutely no doubt about Yann's impact on AI/ML, but he had access to many more resources in Meta, and we didn't see anything.

That's true for 99% of the scientists, but dismissing their opinion based on them not having done world shattering / ground breaking research is probably not the way to go.

> I sincerely wish we will see more competition

I really wish we don't, science isn't markets.

> Understanding world through videos

The word "understanding" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I find myself prompting again and again for corrections on an image or a summary and "it" still does not "understand" and keeps doing the same thing over and over again.

stein1946··on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
It just seems to me that that Macbook Neo is basically them telling us that come next year they will unify iOS and MacOS and they are testing the waters at the moment.

All this version alignment, the blurring of "here is a laptop with A processor and iOS" points to that direction.

The errs of Tahoe are basically a result of the rush on that direction

stein1946··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
I am 37;

Claude Code and it's parallels have extinguished multiple ones.

I was able to steer clear of the Bitcoin/NFT/Passport bros but it turns out they infiltrated the profession and their starry puppy delusional eyes are trying to tell me that iteration X of product Y released yesterday evening is "going to change everything".

They have started redefining what "I have build this" actually means, and they have outjerked the executives by slinging outrageous value creation narratives.

> I’m chasing the midnight hour and not getting any sleep.

You are 60; go spend some time with your grand-kids, smell a flower, touch grass forget chasing anything at this age cause a Tuesday like the others things are gonna wrap up.

Absolutely sincerely.

stein1946··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
What if educating people takes decades and lies can be prompted in a few minutes?
stein1946··on The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
While I understand that once one attains those short of connections, certain intelligence agencies will reach out offering lucrative opportunities for your co-operation.

Disgusting nature aside, I can't help but be amazed as to how someone can be so well connected. What sort of skills did Epstein have that managed to have so many people on speed dial?

How do you get in a position to correspond with presidents, royals, celebrities and getting them all hooked on you?

Amazing indeed.

stein1946··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
First time I hear about this Kuycon, the pricing seems phenomenal and the quality as well. I will probably buy one by the end of the week.

It's odd that we don't get to see a lot of high quality OEM monitors.

stein1946··on Iran is likely jamming Starlink
How likely is it that those "protestors" are US and Israel propped and the plan is to do another regime change via this route?

Isn't this "son of the late Shah" a guy from the US?

stein1946··on Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order
> Don't give your "smart" TV internet access. It's that simple.

No it's not.

Am I supposed to counter every action taken by a conglomerate against me every time?

Do all the consumers have to align to this as well?

a TV must be a TV, in the same sense that orange juice must be made from oranges.

Looking forward to EU reining in on them.

stein1946··on US threatens EU digital services market access
> LLMs are rapidly commoditizing software

Can you elaborate on this one? Hopefully with some citations.

stein1946··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
> A lot of the criticism is based on the concept that it won't be technically watertight

Those who do that, are not interested in this ban working, they are the individualists assaulting the community.

> a) normalising people uploading identification documents...

we have technical measures for which there is no need for the end user to upload anything. With oath you can basically have a simple age check; nothing more.

> (b) a small fraction of kids branching off into fringe networks that are off the radar and will take them to very dark places very quickly.

You can always minimize the fraction, but you can never make it go away.

> Because it's politically unattractive, I don't think enough attention has been given to the harms that will flow from these laws.

This was a politically bold move and there will be no harms that will come out of it; especially when compared to the status quo.

Those who feign concern about this usually have vested interests into stopping this bill; their "interest" is just another attempt in stopping it albeit with a more "nuanced" approach.

stein1946··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
> To all the parents defending this: you are responsible for your children and what they do.

Stop delegating action to the individual.

Me and missus are full time employees, I do not have oversight to what my kid is doom-scrolling on his lunch break.

> Passing laws that affect all of us because you are too lazy and ineffectual to raise your children properly is unacceptable.

How does it affect you? Unless you are a corporate mouthpiece this does not affect you at all.

I do not want my kid to watch any degenerate pornography on his formative years just because some lobbyist wants to shove freemarketeering ideologies down our throats.

stein1946··on How Brussels writes so many laws
A quick glance on who Luis Garicano is tells me all I need to know about these pieces.

Economics @ University of Chicago Professor @ LSE

Various memberships at pro American institutions

Expect deregulation narratives, freemarketeering dogmas and how lobbying is actually good for democracy.

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