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I would be interested in seeing a list that would order countries by:

- a sheer number of assembly lines,

- number of SKUs,

- automation engineer jobs.

Something more fuzzy: mean/median wait time from a fully specced project to a 10,000 unit batch. Of course only for products where such a batch number makes sense, but probably it could be divided to a few groups of batch magnitudes. For this to be an interesting metric it would require to pick several specific classes of products. For example: per Integrated Circuit number magnitude, per price point, a car, a smartphone, a TV, a home radiator, a bathtub, etc.

What is "laptop class"?

I think that LLMs should not be allowed to say "I". It should always be in third person. Instead of "I can write this for you" it should say "This machine can write this for you" or with a store front name "Google can write this for you". To operate on a given text or while generating texts it should divide what is meta from what is direct. This generated text "quote" should be styled different, a bit boring: smaller text and maybe monospace. There should be a clear divide between the machine conversation part and its workable output. If one converses with the machine it should not answer in the first person, because it is not a person.

Of course it wouldn't be bullet proof, but it would help in general to not let people personify the machine. Just a step into a better thing. At the same time it should be relatively easy to replace unquoted "I" and "me" with "This machine". At least it should be easier to find where it falls off the rails.

My first thought was that if there was any carbon based life around there there isn't anymore.

In this case watch your toes!

At the moment those are region locked.

It is not that easy.

From https://fosdem.org/2025/faq/#registration

> Q: I plan on visiting FOSDEM, where can I register?

> No registration is required.

> Q: How much does a entry ticket for FOSDEM cost?

> Attendance is free, including access to all talks and facilities.

I understand that those drugs are very useful, but in a way it feels for me like ancient Rome with its orgies and vomit inducing so they can eat more. At least looking at USA from Europe. The problem of sugar content, dietary choices and portion sizes remains. It is similar to gas guzzling cars.

Sorry if it seems not empathic enough, that was not my intention. I know that the use of such drugs may be medically necessary.

Edit: To serious answers: I was wrong, I stay corrected.

Depending on coding style you could just do something like this:

  ^struct whatever

When I hear Chinese CEO, I think they may be easily replaced and in the end the real CEO is Xi Jinping. I am sure it is a bit more complicated and I may have some prejudice, but how far am I? I would expect for a Chinese CEO that would behave like Elon Musk to disappear quite quickly. Am I wrong in this assessment as well?

Isn't a shared host with php serverless for all intents and purposes?

A lot of people listened to music from YouTube as their primary source besides an FM radio before Spotify was available as it is now. YouTube somewhat famously signed deals with music labels back in the day. Content ID was the controversial, but necessary compromise for the music to remain on YouTube. I am pretty sure a very significant percentage of music listeners globally listen mainly from YouTube, I did it and I also saw a lot of people doing it.

It may seem stupid or counter productive, but it is easy and good enough. YT Music is a clear upgrade for those users.

I think YT Music makes more sense than many of the Google initiatives and it will continue to make sense as long as they will have deals with music labels.

Color Halftone Hyperzooms by Posy

You need to read the post.

> Wait a minute, this list goes to 17, yet the intro only mentions 14! I actually did that because a couple might overlap and a couple of them are half-approaches, and that last one is just here for fun. Besides, as I learn more approaches and add them to the list, the title will get more and more out of date anyway.

That is very informational. Thank you.

I am interested in Vale and it feels very promising, though because my interested in bootstrapping I don't like that it is written in Scala. I know, that is shallow, but that's a thing that limits my enthusiasm.

If you are like me and don't like jumping around between notes and text and you prefer to read the notes anyway, here is a little snippet you can run in Web Inspector's Console:

  document.querySelectorAll(".slice-contents a[data-noteid]").forEach(e => {document.querySelectorAll('.slice-notes [data-noteid="' + e.attributes["data-noteid"].nodeValue + '"] p').forEach(p => {p.style.fontSize = 'smaller'; e.parentNode.insertBefore(p, e)}); e.remove() })

It will replace note links with notes themselves making them smaller, because they will not always fit smoothly.

I don't understand what is notable about this. Looking at timestamps those are all jokes, not even good ones.

He had 10 days to find out on site.

I would think that getting rid of the evidence is the integral part of planning a crime. Otherwise it is sloppiness. There is a lot of ways to do such things I am sure, but you have to thought it through before. He didn't or the adrenaline was too much for him.

I remember using Box86 to play some old DOS games on Windows around 20 years ago. But other than that experience I don't know much about it. I only see it mentioned somehow more lately. What differentiates Box64 from i.e. QEMU?

I don't like this design all that much. It makes sense, but it is too spaced out for me.

I love the design I have in my current car - Renault Laguna 3. The HVAC control panel is between air vents and on the top it has three buttons: Soft, Auto and Fast. I like how it uses words with no negative connotations (it could be Slow and Hard). Soft is for it to be quiet, Auto is the most common setting for me and Fast is self-explanatory, though also recommended if you have passengers on the backseat. Then there is the current temperature (and other HVAC settings) display and finally very comfortable and big up/down rocker switches to change the temperature with a 0.5°C resolution. I usually do not change the temperature much. A knob seems to invite changes for people who do not understand a concept of a thermostat.

Then there is AC off, closed circulation, fan speed and air distribution buttons. Right below this are buttons for quick defogging (I don't know how to call it) and the back window heating. Buttons that do not change the state shown on the LCD display have their little LEDs to signify their state.

You can see it in action here: https://youtu.be/oNHvtI_8A5w?t=12

I understand what you mean, but the point of respect would be for this all games and pretense not to matter. I know, in the real world we can't just count on that sadly.

Browsers are infrastructure. I wonder if their development should be financed like other infrastructure projects. Though I don't really know what I am talking about. Who pays for telecommunication cables on the ocean floor?

JS culture is to pull a dependency for anything, in Zig land I assume it is more conservative like C or C++: pull one or two for your specific bigger picture or often enough none at all, because people pride themselves with projects having the minimal amount of dependencies. Otherwise there is truth to what you are saying.

The thing about the tooling is often that most users do not have the ability to contribute even if it is in a language they are proficient in.

For me it is mainly ease of use. I don't have to login to GitHub, it has all the necessary filters just there: repositories, paths, languages. It is very fast and supports regex search.

I fully agree with you. Though I would add that it a little depends on the type of program. A CLI program's lazy, but often sufficient way of handling erroneous input are asserts (that are still enabled in release). In GUI app it shouldn't happen.

Steve Mould of Youtube fame did this:

Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WGKz2sUa0w

I do pullups sometimes and I also observed this. I wonder if it is related to how index finger is not really in-line with the arm. When I look at my hand I can see that if U would draw extension lines from edges of my forearm they would contain middle, ring and pinky fingers, but not really the index finger.

I would think that education and awareness could work for another generation, though them being bombarded with a popular social media image of life it may be hard. Incentives work to some extent (the biggest being a cost of doing the good thing being lower enough than doing the bad thing), but if you will make costs of doing bad things artificially bigger (I know, it is about things the society currently thinks as free) you risk populists getting to power.