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We’ll all be like Rick Rubin or we will be no ones.

Q: You must know something. So what are you being paid for? A: The confidence that I have in my taste and my ability to express what I feel

You're right, I changed it a little.

No, I think he is right.

Cargo desperately needs sandboxing for build.rs scripts. It’s been attempted before, but didn’t go very far¹.

¹ https://rust-lang.github.io/goals/2024h2/sandboxed-build-scr...

DHH’s blog post was, to put it simply, spot on. You disagree with that, and that’s fine.

But to cancel a subscription for another service entirely, because someone used a blog platform of the same provider to publish something you were repulsed by – this seems like a really bizarre way of managing your emotion. By this logic I should feel compelled to delete my HN account, delete all my social media and cancel all press subscriptions…

It would, indeed, be interesting to compare, given what we know about Anthropic’s censorship and political bias in their closed and more expensive models.

https://x.com/dhh/status/2081435006770249831 (from the creator of Ruby on Rails).

In his specific case Kimi did the task it was asked to do (translation of the article DHH wrote), which Claude refused to.

The collective leverage of a union gives you significantly more power to do something like this.

I believe the commenter above meant risk to the company, not the employee.

> Notice also that German social security institutions are filled to the brim with Eastern European claimants.

Utterly false: nationals of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania account for approximately 4.9% of all SGB-II Leistungsberechtigte (~256,000 of 5.24 million as of December 2025).

> The Marshall plan also did not involve the US having completely free access to Germany economically and move all their companies to Germany for cheaper wages.

This is such a bizarre point. The openness of the common market goes both ways, you do realise that, right? For more than the first decade after the accession of the Central Eastern European countries to the EU, Western European countries saw an influx of workers that were well educated (or skilled in trade professions), which helped fill the gaps in their labour market. So if you were going to try to draw an analogy here, you’d also have to point out that the US didn’t import millions of Germans after the war into its own labour market. Well, barring some rocket scientists who had built weapons of mass destruction and death for Hitler.

Anyway, yes, that’s how the common market works: companies can move operations to countries where labour is cheaper (in Poland), but other companies have encouraged labour to move where they already operate (in Germany). And what’s forgotten in this discussion is that the cohesion subsidies are in fact a form of compensation for the inherent imbalance that a pure common market would exhibit. That’s why it took years in negotiations for those poorer countries to decide under what terms they’re actually willing to open up their markets, and in many cases it’s been a very controversial issue.

It’s a factor that’s not any more significant than the Marshall Plan was in your Wirtschaftswunder in the 1970s, which, oddly enough, a lot of Germans have no issue attributing to a domestic merit alone. Funny how that works!

If it was the EU contributions that were the dominant force here, Germany could… simply do the same and prop up its own struggling economy with money printed by the ECB. Instead, it prefers to see it crumble under an obese welfare state that largely funds inactive third-world fake asylum seekers. So clearly, there’s way more nuance to economic success than simply having funds redirected from one account to another.

I’ve always been annoyed with the sequential character of jobs in GitHub Actions – that it is impossible to run steps in parallel, when applicable, without moving the job’s logic away from the the .yaml constructs into, say, bash scripts. My ideal runtime for a CI workflow should in my view leverage the model of a DAG and the parallelism made plausible by that to the fullest. Depot CI seems to have addressed this quite well – https://depot.dev/docs/ci/how-to-guides/parallel-steps. I migrated a side project to use it now, and it’s working great – I am seeing some great speed-ups.

Correct, so that’s why it needs to be employed to help develop the Western EV industries so that they can compete with that of China.

EVs are so different that the know-how of the combustion engine power automobile industry does not extend to them. In fact, it can be detrimental.

Little has changed since Bill Gates tried to install Movie Maker.

Did you exhaust the five-hour usage limit already? As I understand it, the ”additional usage” refers to anything beyond the standard five-hour usage limit.

There is a note at the end of the linked announcement:

”Studio Display XDR replaces Pro Display XDR and starts at $3,299 (U.S.) and $3,199 (U.S.) for education.”

”Studio Display XDR replaces Pro Display XDR and starts at $3,299 (U.S.) and $3,199 (U.S.) for education.”

Do you enjoy being so demeaning towards other people?

What percentage of, say, Facebook or TikTok users do you think use an unofficial client/website to access the platform's content?

“The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters” is supposedly a good book discussing the inadequacy of GDP as a metric for how well off a society is.

And here it is! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyp4ljKR8_E

Here it is performed on a square piano from 1835, so just right within the time range which this very waltz is being dated to.

Thank you for this comment.

> Maybe they could have instead worked with some local cultural organization in Poland, which could have made the debut a significant local cultural thing?

I suppose the NYTimes could not be bothered to look for someone to work with in Poland or Europe generally (France would be another option), which is, indeed, a shame. In my home town Kraków we have a wonderful chamber music collective which performs music from this very period on historical piano fortes, so very much the kind of instruments Chopin would play on himself. I contacted them immediately after reading this article and before your comment appeared. I am hopeful we will hear the piece performed by them very soon!

Of all these, only Warsaw was demolished systematically, and to the greater extent not by regular weapons, but by engineering corps using fire and explosives after the fighting has already stopped (the capitulation of the uprising in Oct 1944). It is a rather different case, even though – of course – all the other cities mentioned suffered very much too.

The article does actually mention that:

“What was left was methodically looted and then razed to the ground by the German Vernichtungs- and Verbrenungskommando – even as late as mid-January 1945.”

Vernichtungskommando is the specific German unit that was responsible for the systematic demolition of the remaining buildings.

The other one, Verbrenungskommando, was responsible for the cover-up of the mass murder of the tens of thousands of Warsaw's civilians that had just been carried out by the German army¹.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbrennungskommando_Warschau

The idea is that with features like this widespread, the probability of a theft leading to the thief repurposing the stolen device will be lower. Therefore, the incentives for thieves – the ones acting rationally within the paradigm of being a thief, at least – will be lower. Therefore, the number of thefts, generally, may go down. A few big ifs here, of course.

The German losses were mostly collateral damage related to the bombings of the cities. The burning of the Polish collections and archives by the German army, on the other hand, was a conscious, deliberate act pertaining to the objective of destroying the culture of the Polish nation – I refer you, amongst other things, to Himmler's and Hitler's clearly expressed intent of razing Warsaw, the nominal, but also cultural and intellectual capital of pre-war Poland, to the ground. That intent is not inherent to war in a universal sense – for one, it is a war crime, for which Alfred Rosenberg was convicted during the Nürnberg Trials – and it looks like you are generally convinced the conduct of the German army in WWII was that like of any other, and that war as carried out by Germany in 1939-1945 was war like any other. At this point, my curiosity in continuing this conversation is limited solely to the question on where you received your history education.

> P.S.: Germany still does not own the Berlinka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlinka_(art_collection)

It does not, the German state dropped it for safekeeping in Lower Silesia and according to international law, its ownership was transferred together with the legal status of the respective territories per the Potsdam conference. Any discussion on the possible return of parts of the collection would need to start with the return of the thousands of Polish works of art held in German collections, to which, unlike Poland's legal claim to the Berlinka collection, Germany has none.

> and most of the knowledge lost in the war in todays Poland was actually knowledge of german culture and heritage

Wow. It sounds like you have a grossly misinformed view of this part of the world, with a clear sense of superiority of one culture over the other. So, here's a few facts for you:

> Most likely on October 12-13, 1944, the Brandkommando of the Wehrmacht (Nazi German army) burned collections of the most valuable literary monuments from the National Library in one of the greatest losses to Polish culture in its history, and one of the greatest losses to written culture in history of the world. The National Library lost at least 39,000 manuscripts – and most likely more, perhaps as many as 50,000 – along with some 80,000 books from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, 100,000 books from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, 60,000 drawings and engravings, 25,000 musical scores and 10,000 maps. The great family libraries were almost wiped out, such as the famous collection of manuscripts of the Krasiński Library, of which just 78 volumes survived out of more than 7,000.¹

¹ https://www.bn.org.pl/en/news/3855-75-years-ago-the-germans-...

> Like the workers have possible R2 bindings, but you can't use those in a fetch() call - you have to use S3 compatible endpoint instead.

Sorry, could you please elaborate? Why can you not use a binding to an R2 bucket – and perform operations on its objects – in a `fetch()` handler of a worker? Or did I misunderstand this statement?

I am honestly baffled Amazon hasn't found a way to compete with Allegro. I am happy about it, but also baffled. Allegro's customer experience is just stellar, whereas Amazon's interface continues to give the impression that it's still a bunch of widgets rendered by a hundred microservices and glued together without any elegant cohesion in mind. It's as if little has changed since the famous Steve Yegge's letter.

> And on top of that, we can do some basic algebra. If we know that x < N and N < 5, then we can infer that x < 5. So if we see a comparison x < 5, we can then rewrite that to true.

Even better: if `x` and `N` are integers, then we can infer that `x` < 4. :)

The point of the comparison was to compare the stock growth during the tenures of the two CEOs in question. Steve Ballmer ceased to be CEO in 2014.