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Re:The QNX Operating System on Monday October 06, 2025 @01:42AM (#45487997)
Not new in design but in assembly/integration: RMS Instruments (Canada) sells equipment for "real-time compensation" in airborne surveying. Analog-to-digital conversion of, primarily, magnetometry data.

Uses the Photon desktop environment.

> they've not NOTICED any poor results

This is a good enough bar for me to take a chance on someone. If I'm satisfied with the result... I proceed. My "car guy" has a track record of saving me from over-spending on things that don't matter. I don't have a good enough reason to try someone else.

There's a infinite regression in your logic that can only be broken by either:

1. trust in the person, or somewhere along the chain of referrals or;

2. simply possessing the skill and knowledge to assess the work yourself (but lacking the time, energy, or other resources to do it yourself)

Re:Fuck, you're still sad? on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:01PM (#45296819)
Agreed. I think the word "disorder" in DSM terminology is commonly misunderstood/trvialized by lay people. Being forgetful, sad, or tired is just part of life. If it becomes your whole life then you likely need help but an orderly life will contain pain, joy, pride, shame, boredom...

We are always at risk of medicalizing discomfort. Allowing oneself to be miserable for a while can be therapeutic alongside patience, forgiveness, and compassion.

Edit: after a re-read I noticed that she says she feels most of the symptoms daily a year later. That does feel pretty disruptive on its own but the definition is a bit tautological in that case.

Regardless, what she's going through sounds really hard.

Running a binary as a non-root user with scoped access to Docker commands seems more appropriate to me.
Re:Human writers have always used the em dash on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:22PM (#45257337)
As a Linux user... I should be embarrassed to not have set up a keybind for this. Not sure why I didn't think of it before!
Re:Human writers have always used the em dash on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:24AM (#45248836)
Nice try, bot! /s

For lack of an easy way to type it on my computer I tend to use parentheses (which effectively serve the same purpose) but will opt for an em dash more often when typing on my phone at the risk of bookish messages and notes.

Coworkers have emailed me before suggesting a certain course of action which I can tell is heavily influenced by an LLM. "I think we should X because Y" to which I just think "Is this really what you know and believe?". If I wanted an LLM to answer I could have asked it myself. But I don't accuse — I ask for more evidence or a better argument because if I'm forced to work with an LLM by proxy I am going to reflect the burden of dealing with one back to the author.

Re:BCacheFS is being disabled in the openSUSE kernels 6.17+ on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:08AM (#45210161)
To what extent are these customers blaming the hammer for hitting their thumb?

(Legitimate question: I manage several PB with ZFS and would like to know where I should be more cautious.)

Re:BCacheFS is being disabled in the openSUSE kernels 6.17+ on Thursday September 11, 2025 @06:15AM (#45209839)
"behave" in this context can refer to simply respecting existing norms about RC code freezing.
Re:RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601 on Sunday September 07, 2025 @10:07AM (#45158270)
I'm jumping in here to hopefully clarify:

"13:00 December 25 2025 Europe/London" is local time but its Unix timestamp is an estimate depending on how the tzdata database looks right now.

"13:00 December 25 2025 +0100" is also local time but it is immutable.

Using the latter can only be done reliably for present and past (but it conveniently avoids looking up the offset later). All future times must use the former to be stable otherwise you should probably be using UTC.

Re:Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:53AM (#45126248)
Those introductions are iconic! There is no delay and no doubt about what is about to happen. I have the full back catalogue downloaded but never considered that I'd need to start trimming.

Audacity? Are there automations possible?

Re:Offline-First Landscape – 2025 on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:34PM (#45071453)
Ironically, the only use I have for Slack is to communicate with an external web developer that we contracted.

In my world... EVERYONE (50/50 internal and external) is on email and/or Teams (or the phone). It works. Shit gets done. It's a small, high-trust environment of autonomous people doing rapidly changing work.

There is a working world where email makes sense and trying to "make Slack a thing" would be (rightfully) scoffed at. If I'm yanked out of this and dropped into some Slack/ticket/KPI/whatever environment I will adapt and play ball.

Re:Offline-First Landscape – 2025 on Friday August 29, 2025 @08:01PM (#45070757)
> email heavy workflow

What do you mean by this? I send 5-15 emails a day at a minimum throughout the day and receive just as many directly with another 2-3x as cc in various distribution lists (which I read in full). Add in server notifications, automated reports from data processing scripts, and the generic [email protected] inbox and it's probably close to 100 in a day with ease. Lots of skimming and Ctrl-Q'ing and it's hardly a burden.

The lasting power of email is that it's one of the few federated communication channels that has a global network effect. Email and chat are two different media for different purposes. You have plausible deniability when a single message in a group chat is missed. When an email is sent to the team with a change in procedure you can have some expectations that it will be seen and it also provides a one-one or one-many channel for clarification.

I'm not familiar with how the sales world works but I use email every day with clients, vendors, the team, my boss(es), and many other intra-company relationships. I think you have a lack of imagination in this regard :)

How is `curl virus.sh | bash` or `irm virus.ps | iex` any different?
Re:The Minecraft code no one has solved (2024) [video] on Friday August 22, 2025 @06:41PM (#44990802)
Wonderful reference, thank you! I'm tempted to return to my notes and write an essay on this.
Re:The Minecraft code no one has solved (2024) [video] on Friday August 22, 2025 @06:36AM (#44982874)
Without IP law it is all or nothing: obfuscate, hide, encrypt, and protect lest it become public domain.

With IP law you are given the exclusive, enforceable right to control the distribution and sale of an idea for N years... at which point it becomes public domain.

In either case the decision to publish an idea will inevitably make it public domain. The government protects their shit because $REASONS but there is absolutely no obligation for it to be made public until that protection lapse. In matters of human culture this seems like a bug, not a feature but enforcing some standard of "reasonable worldwide availability" by force seems impossible. The invisible hand of piracy "solves" this oversight and functions like a safety valve.

Not an endorsement of either side, just an observation.

Re:When Did AI Take Over Hacker News? on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:20PM (#44935439)
You're absolutely right! /s
Re:QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @06:22AM (#44886659)
I feel privileged to have used a QNX-based system at work. The desktop environment (Photon) is almost enchanting in its simplicity.

I've since learned about its ties with BlackBerry and the automotive Linux world and I'm glad the hard work put into it hasn't been for nothing.

Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:35PM (#44883017)
> After spending extra time researching it I found out there was a technical term for it and when I brought that up Claude finally admitted defeat. It was being a persistent little fucker before then.

Whenever I feel like I need to write "Why aren't you listening to me?!" I know it's time for a walk and a change in strategy. It's also a good indicator that I'm changing too much at once and that my requirements are too poorly defined.

Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:18PM (#44870552)
I tried 'todo.txt' and gave up when I needed more control over recurrency and other small details (I also missed being able to attach files to tasks for quick reference).

Currently setting up [DAVx5](https://www.davx5.com/tested-with) to be used with [jtx Board](https://jtx.techbee.at/sync-with-davx5#setup) and [Radicale](https://radicale.org/v3.html). It's quite a bit of overhead at first but then I can trivially manage my calendar and contacts afterwards.

CalDAV has provisions for [vTODO](https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-6-2-to-do-compone...) and [vJOURNAL](https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-6-3-journal-compo...) so my hope is that this is a durable FOSS solution to aid in getting out of some Google services.

Re:I prefer human-readable file formats on Saturday August 09, 2025 @07:34AM (#44845695)
Wow, I've never heard of 'mlr' before. Looks like a synthesis of Unix tools, jq, and others? Very useful - hopefully it's packaged everywhere for easy access.
"Here are the latest changelogs for Debian 13. Write a punchy listicle to hype up Debian for someone that doesn't already use it."

Every single change mentioned is absolutely an incremental improvement. Nothing transformative at all. Which is exactly what is expected and desired.

Slop article. Skip if you value your time.

Re:NonRAID – fork of unRAID array kernel module on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @06:49PM (#44653904)
This should be a "Show HN".
"I used o3 on my Pocket lists to generate a profile of myself" would be better. The author is the agent, not a passive participant.

Though if it were me I would go with "Self-profiling with Pocket and O3"

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @08:02AM (#44422231)
"ROWM" (read once, write many) robust file copy program that utilizes checksum sidecar files. (1) Read the data, compute a checksum as a 'source of truth' and store it as $filename.checksum_type, and then (2) write the data (and the computed checksum) to N destinations simultaneously, and (3) Compute the checksum of the file on each destination and compare it against the source of truth

Could use "tee" to limit the reading to just one instance but I would like to try Python.

Hoping to write the core of it as an open-source hobby project to learn Python multithreading and then extend it for the actual problem I need to solve at work through the use of config files.

Why SDF over a free limitless VPS?

I joined SDF last year and was disappointed. I was willing to tolerate the limitations (eg. can't change your shell unless "validated"; can't even 'touch' a file...) in exchange for community but it's a ghost town. To make matters worse, IRC for new users is only available on a Sunday!

I would love to give it another shot but I don't understand what its value is in 2025.

Re:Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:53AM (#42801112)
With the MS Store removed too? I don't recall the "wsl --install" commands working out of the box on IOT.
Re:Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:50AM (#42801100)
Thanks, I'll try that instead.
Re:Mastercard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:30PM (#42796568)
It seems more unreasonable to me to make arbitrary exceptions like that. I would want my RNG to be predictably random so that if 123456788 comes up I know that it's not some sort of kludge to avoid a more interesting number.
Re:Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:45PM (#42795436)
The only downside I've discovered from using this version is the inability to install `winget` and thence, Windows Terminal.

I was able to add it at one point but then MS added new barriers and I haven't attempted since.

Re:I Quit the Tsunami of Burnout Few See on Saturday January 11, 2025 @09:46PM (#42670856)
Thanks for writing about your experiences. I went through the same series of realizations as you over the past few years.

> What helped was finding a work situation where I could give my all and not feel taken advantage of.

I have this in bursts during the off-season and that's where I feel like I'm most productive and useful. But the off-season is getting shorter and shorter and I'm compelled to find something else.

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