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manoDev··on Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
> These tests blew me away. At the very least, I expected that presoaking the beans and pitching the water would reduce fartiness. After all, the sugars are water soluble, so they should leach into the soaking water and get discarded. As it turns out, not so much. I still don’t understand this result.

I don’t buy it. He’s says it doesn’t work but can’t explain why it didn’t work. Could be his method was faulty, the type of bean, the age of the bean, etc.

I rather take the experience of an entire country.

manoDev··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
This is the expected result of a society optimizing for GDP and quarterly results.
manoDev··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
Their price point goal is a SWE salary.
manoDev··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
There are multiple watches, cameras, etc., with a lot of physical buttons even, all with replaceable batteries and weather-resistant (or even better, water proof). This is a bad excuse.
manoDev··on SDL bans AI-written commits
We’ll need “Organic software” seal of approval soon.
manoDev··on DaVinci Resolve – Photo
People who live in the real world, not in a basement living a fake metaverse life.
manoDev··on Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
These might be theoretical issues that people without experience worry about, but let me share what I've witnessed in practice working almost a decade with Clojure at Nu.

We mostly hired people with no previous Clojure experience. Majority of hires could pick up and get productive quickly. People fresh out of college picked it up faster. I even had a case of employee transitioning careers to S.E., with no previous programming experience, and the language was a non issue.

I can't remember an instance where the language was a barrier to ship something. Due to reduced syntax surface and lack of exotic features, the very large codebase followed the same basic idioms. It was often easy to dive into any part of the codebase and contribute. Due to the focus on data structures and REPL, understanding the codebase was simply a process of running parts of a program, inspecting its state, making a change, and repeat. Following this process naturally lead to having a good test suite, and we would rely on that.

Running on the JVM is the opposite of a problem. Being able to leverage the extensive JVM ecosystem is an enormous advantage for any real business, and the runtime performance itself is top tier and always improving.

The only hurdle I could say I observed in practice was not having a lot of compile time guarantees, but since it was a large codebase anyway, static guarantees would only matter in a local context, and we had our own solution to check types against service boundaries, so in the end it would've been a small gain regardless.

manoDev··on Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt
I understand the need of terminal emulator for certain interactive programs, but inside Emacs I just use 'shell-command and output buffers. What's the benefit of having a terminal emulator inside the Emacs process? If the program is interactive (TUI) it won't integrate well with Emacs buffers/keybindings anyway right?
manoDev··on U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years
SPX performance since 2024, with all the AI hype, was 32%. Gold was 155% in the same period.

Even if you ignore this disastrous quarter, SPX is up mostly in nominal terms only.

manoDev··on U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years
The Gulf countries are dumping their gold reserves and buying dollars, that put a momentary halt on what was a steady declining trajectory for the USD. But since this blip isn't caused by structural reasons (nothing changed in the US economy), it will only last as long as these countries have gold to sell.
manoDev··on A second Starlink satellite exploded in orbit
Second? When was the first?

Is this an instance of weaponization of the LEO? No statement from SpaceX?

manoDev··on IronGlass Brings Legendary Soviet Cinema Lenses to Mirrorless Cameras
These Soviet lenses are copies and adaptations of classic optical formulas at the time, e.g. the Helios 44 is a Carl Zeiss' Biotar. But while Zeiss produced in limited numbers, these Soviet versions are abundant in the used market and therefore very cheap.

Due to this, these lenses developed a cult following, and even more now that some prominent cinematographers used in some high caliber productions (The Batman (2022), Dune (2021)).

manoDev··on Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines
This is more evident in games/simulations but the same problem arises more or less in any software: batch jobs and DAGs, distributed systems and transactions, etc.

This what Rich Hickey (Clojure author) has termed “place oriented programming”, when the focus is mutating memory addresses and having to synchronize everything, but failing to model time as a first class concept.

I’m not aware of any general purpose programming language that successfully models time explicitly, Verilog might be the closest to that.

manoDev··on VisiCalc Reconstructed
VisiCalc has, undoubtedly, the highest impact-to-complexity ratio in the history of software so far.
manoDev··on Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla
https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/02/27/elon-mu...

https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/117956/documents/...

manoDev··on Honda is killing its EVs
That projection won't last in a world where Brent Oil @ $100. That was only true while the petrodollars kept flowing.
manoDev··on Honda is killing its EVs
Japan is just being the usual USA vassal. Since now China absolutely dominates EV and batteries, they rather align themselves with the oil-thirsty war monger.
manoDev··on Teens sue xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them
You would lose this bet.
manoDev··on From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024)
My understanding is that you're describing the CIE 1931 color space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#Color_vis...

You'll see it is based on the physics and human biology, and is the basis for everything else.

The thing is, this color space isn't very useful for color calculations in the perceptual/subjective sense (e.g. if I just want to change one characteristic, like luminosity, without affecting the chromaticity), so we have transformations to more useful spaces like XYZ, Lab, etc.

There's also the fact human vision is a subjective/psychological phenomenon, so only frequency response is not enough: our vision can map different frequency responses to the same perceptual color (metamerism), our vision adapts color perception based on light source, etc.

manoDev··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
I believe it would be interesting to compare to graduates / etc. in the same timeframe.
manoDev··on Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk
Creating a private militia, silencing dissent, declaring wars without congress vote… I don’t see how this is being allowed to happen without public approval, or at least, public apathy.
manoDev··on Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk
“Concerned” is an understatement. USA is already operating at nazi Germany levels and more than half of the civil society is approving. Not that it’s a surprise for global spectators though - it’s finally showing it’s true colors.
manoDev··on Apple: Enough Is Enough
We’re past the golden age of personal computing, the money isn’t there anymore. I’m afraid we’ll have to get used to bad software for a while.
manoDev··on Good software knows when to stop
That's reinforcing the author's point: the classic game already existed, users just wanted the same game with some maintenance updates - not a new game with new features.

In this case it was the producers (not the users) that were wrong in wanting to throw away something that already worked.

I believe his point isn't exactly about users not knowing what they want, but instead the tension between evolutionary design vs. "keep piling features".

manoDev··on Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral
I know the first reaction reading this will be "whatever, the person was already mentally ill".

But please take a step back and check what % of the population can be considered mentally fit, and the potential damage amplification this new technology can have in more subtle, dangerous and undetectable ways.

manoDev··on Don't trust AI agents
They need to keep the musical chairs going.
manoDev··on The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
There are two ways to look at it:

- Software engineering is a cost center, they are middlemen between the C-level ideas and a finished product.

- Software engineering is about figuring out how to automate a problem, exploring the domain, defining context, tradeoffs, and unlocking new capabilities in the process

manoDev··on Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit
“It’s not about human writing. It’s about the message.”

AI is turning the entire web into LinkedIn itisnotaboutism.

manoDev··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
People are overestimating the value on having AI create something given loose instructions, and underestimating the value of using AI as a tool for a human to learn and explore a problem space. The bias shows on the terminology (“agents”).

We finally made the computer able to speak “our” language - but we still see computers as just automation. There’s a lot of untapped potential in the other direction, in encoding and compressing knowledge IMO.

manoDev··on A word processor from 1990s for Atari ST/TOS is still supported by enthusiasts
The list of features is impressive even today!

https://tempus-word.de/en/info/index

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