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I'm going to be blunt; this is a wildly bad-faith argument. You started the quote right after the important word: illegal. > the illegal, unpermitted gas turbines they've been runn…

Years ago, I did some work on thermal management of small satellites, mostly for cooling higher-power onboard computers. The scale is different, but the physics are the same. The s…

I often like SemiAnalysis' work, but there's parts of this article that are shockingly under-researched and completely missing critical parts of the narrative. > Eighteen months ag…

I don't love this comparison, because I have to use Linux, not Mac. It's not really optional for me, and Asahi simply isn't far enough along to fill the gap. As a result, the quest…

Not that it's super relevant to this discussion, but I think the largest individual machines operated would probably have to go to high energy particle accelerators like the LHC at…

Related to [1]; this topic was discussed earlier today (perhaps inspiring this submission?) in a HN thread on C++ coding standards for the F-35 JSF (search "spaghetti"). [1] https:…

You know, in hockey there's sometimes a saying that "if you're too small to carry your gear bag, you're too small to play hockey." Feels like there might be some kind of moral less…

I'd be interested in seeing these guidelines updated to include "don't re-post the output of an LLM" to reduce comments of this sort. I don't really feel like comments with LLM out…

Here's a 2022 from Quartz article that might have some context on this. Anduril isn't on the list according to the footnote, but Thiel and Lucky have since had a history collaborat…

I haven't heard anyone mention this rule, which I think is useful: Cars, dogs, and water. These are the big three common things that children interact with regularly that can, and …

> For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing. I wish these disclaimers went upfr…

I totally get the point you're trying to make (and don't even disagree) but I think the analogy isn't quite right. I'd actually be surprised if I got robbed at a mobbed-up restaura…

My personal opinion is that System76 isn't really targeting personal users with their desktop line, though, but instead is more focused on professional users. For example, I built …

This completely differs from my own experience with LabView, which I used a number of times in both undergrad/some grad-level coursework (I have a mechanical engineering background…

If anyone's interested, there's a slightly more recent update on this work at the link below, dated about a week after this post (23 March vs. 16 March 2025 on the main link). [1] …

While I think your points about some of the difficulties that arise in multi-language/framework projects is fair, I sort of roll my eyes whenever someone frames Rust as something l…

> But the point is that I need to now do this with every use of a third party library. Well, yes. You have to manage your dependencies (by either catching potential panics or forki…

I think you're using the term "assumed" incorrectly. Per Webster's dictionary[1]: > Presume is used when someone is making an informed guess based on reasonable evidence. Assume is…

The default behavior is unwind, and unless the library is targeting something like bare metal embedded, in all likelihood will never resort to an aborting panic. I'll bet $20 USD t…

There's a such a degree of entitlement to this comment. > And there is no way to wrap this behaviour. [..] As a sibling comment mentioned, this is possible with std::panic::catch_u…

Respectfully, I think it's more likely that you're just not personally plugged into and/or have your awareness tuned to them but those conversations are definitely happening. There…

I'm using Martin on my personal site for serving MBTiles onto MapLibre. With the exception of some quality-of-life updates like hot-reloads/watching the file directory for changes …

She also ended up writing a book called "Working In Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" that is a read I'd recommend anyone interested in understanding the …

This is concept is a neat one that I think differentiates the real world from many fantasy worlds. In the latter, many of the core problems are built around somebody having "forbid…