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williamtell··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
I think this is because it's still expensive to put themselves into some related businesses before there's not much need for a human UI IDE. But maybe it is now or never to get some of those products visible. If you don't have a little brand recognition now with some sign of historic existence you are going to be a crab in the AI slop bucket.
williamtell··on In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults
A diesel powered generator doesn't generate anything it converts expensive but heavily subsidized fuel into pretty similar value electricity that often requires more subsidies for distribution networks.
williamtell··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
>> During my career there
williamtell··on Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens
I did engage with your main point. Healthy prepared food did not exist in 1980 at a grocery store, the lowest income was more likely to need dual income and therefore not having more free time than now unlike richer people since 1980.

Here is the actual data that says people were spending 50% more on food despite more prep time and lower health food options:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/110333

Your point is very socially satisfying but has no accuracy for why the majority of Americans are overweight or why the trend is global. (People buy expensive brand trash food but could in fact afford and find healthier food for less of their income now than in 1980.)

williamtell··on Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens
Unprepared food was pretty much the only healthy food in shops before 1980. Poor people were more likely to need two bread winners..

The memes you are repeating do not match actual US or world statistics. They do make everyone feel better all around. I.e. even free enterprise and freedom of choice stories work worse when we are genetically tuned to choose ourselves to death and market tuned to profit from it. (A bag of potatoes is far more available globally than decades ago but a bag of doritos has a far more impressive availability increase.)

williamtell··on Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens
I think you are not aware of the average human's reality before 1980. The food deserts of today affect a small percentage of people. If you want something almost as healthy as the produce but prepared/processed you can buy it today but couldn't in 1980. You would also be spending considerably more of your income on food before 1980 no matter the quality. It's fun to blame scarcity of needed things but this has no reality. There is an abundance of preferred things.
williamtell··on Barcodes are about to go extinct
URN that can be copied and put in any national recall website seems better to me. I don't understand who I am supposed to trust to keep domains with the right content on them instead of porn sites. Seems very high faith for clown town.
williamtell··on Barcodes are about to go extinct
I'm also a bit irrationally annoyed by the example. You seem like someone who could explain why a barcode URI isn't defined as a proper URN?
williamtell··on With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now
It would be easy enough for a player to be purely random if that was all it took. I think the tension is that piece rank makes some layouts and move strategies more equal than others and calculating the best ones for what has been uncovered so far makes the best layouts not the best layouts.
williamtell··on GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression
There are plenty of messages on this site where the GOS lead assumed the best while Google tightened the rope.. Google was never the right choice for a partner when being able to choose only one hardware vendor. Google made changes to AOSP that are basically infringement of GPL using the usual embargo security theater. GOS making some noise is good for their business since if they don't, even their existing user base will assume they will be squashed like a bug.
williamtell··on Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens
I didn't say what people prefer is a paradox. There is more availability and use of health related choices that violate this "law" but much more use of things that satisfy it. It would take a hell of a lot of healthy living to make up for cancer rates in 10% of the population having all the options and a dopamine addiction. Pretty remarkable the cancer rates are as low as they are.
williamtell··on GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression
I'll be interested to see if downstreams of AOSP ultimately weaponize updates against Google. For the kernel that's a minefield but Google made plenty of stuff Apache/MIT to keep its options open..
williamtell··on Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid
That's quite optimistic. How many months of further development does a deal usually need to have something sizeable that can collapse?
williamtell··on Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens
Sure but it is rather paradoxical as healthy lifestyle things are far more available like every other consumer option. There's just the higher probability of choosing the more immediately satisfying new choices and/or of envying those who do.
williamtell··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
I don't know for kids specifically but average user time: 2012 1:30 2016 2:08 2019-now ~2:30

If child patterns match the average, an average 8th grader from now has accumulated something like 30% more than one in 2018.