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stepanhruda··on South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
If the margins weren’t so razor thin, it wouldn’t happen
stepanhruda··on OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
Is there a way to use this with blosc?
stepanhruda··on If you are harassed by lasers
Fighting noise pollution with light pollution
stepanhruda··on Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study
That’s for actually eating 10-15 grams.

Can’t speak for IBS, ymmv there, but similarly you are rinsing and spitting, basically just microdosing.

stepanhruda··on Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study
I recommend using a mouthwash based on xylitol which kills strains like streptococcus mutans but does not impair these nitrate reducers.
stepanhruda··on The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated
I thought these studies often control for additional factors like wealth, education etc. not sure about this one, but genuinely curious whether I am mistaken and science “did not figure it out” yet
stepanhruda··on OpenAI for Countries
I agree that “AI for governments” is much more accurate, just saying that diametrically opposed doesn’t really capture the relationship between the two concepts well
stepanhruda··on OpenAI for Countries
Diametrically opposed? They are distinct, but hardly opposed.
stepanhruda··on Getting things “done” in large tech companies
Skip level is your manager’s manager, presumably 2 is one further step etc
stepanhruda··on After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
The only way we can do something is if these actions become deeply unpopular - which they currently aren’t, still about 43% of the population are totally onboard.

All we can do is wait for the empire to tumble enough until people without empathy become personally affected and turn sour. My guess is it won’t take the full 4 years.

stepanhruda··on Gemini 2.5
They don’t hide reasoning output anymore?
stepanhruda··on SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale
You could have another sqlite with this global information related to users / sessions / passwords etc
stepanhruda··on Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
stepanhruda··on Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
Those are not the metrics used in said performance reviews though - whether you mentored a junior engineer is.
stepanhruda··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
That’s not news, just reiterating, this was announced separately earlier in the week
stepanhruda··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
With all due respect, there are so many projects. They don’t care about clashing with a repo that has 12 stars and 14 commits.
stepanhruda··on Support HTTP over Unix domain sockets
Windows has had Unix sockets for quite a few years now.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...

stepanhruda··on Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
As I understood it, a big part of the premise of the post was that they see sequential storage (either in db or cache layer) as desirable
stepanhruda··on Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
Correct, it speeds up latency in best case scenario, and falls over in worst case scenario. Randomly sharded keys give a more consistent performance.
stepanhruda··on Goodbye integers, hello UUIDv7
Yes but if that machine with sequential data receives 100x the traffic of other machines, it can be worse than splitting this traffic evenly across all available machines.
stepanhruda··on Open Source does not win by being cheaper
All you need is knowledge about this from a former employee and you have an excellent opportunity for a lawsuit
stepanhruda··on Oregon finally legalizes pumping your own gas
“Creating jobs” only makes sense if funding those jobs provide actual value that wouldn’t exist otherwise. You can “create jobs” by making people dig holes and fill them up, but you’re just wasting your population’s productive time - you would be better off by just giving those people money for nothing, some of them might just do something useful in the newly created free time.

I’d argue that pumping gas overall provides very low value.

stepanhruda··on CodeCompose: A large-scale industrial deployment of AI-assisted code authoring
Does it need to be that novel of a UX?

If you want to know what some code does, just select it & hit a keyboard shortcut (or right click and choose explain from menu).

If you want AI to write code for you, write a comment starting with a specific word, it suggests the implementation and you can choose to accept & replace the comment with it.

stepanhruda··on Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online?
It’s amazing there are so many of us who started on EasyUO!
stepanhruda··on Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop
Yeah, no. I’m a vegetarian and life without these meat substitutes would be much harder.
stepanhruda··on Oligopoly Everywhere
The two-party problem is directly caused by first past the post election system - I’d like to see data from other countries, my guess is party plurality is as strong as ever there.
stepanhruda··on Oligopoly Everywhere
Agreed - I have been doing the bare minimum by avoiding Marvel and Star Wars, but people simply seem to love franchises.
stepanhruda··on Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web
It’s only HTTP if it comes from the 1.1 region of France, otherwise it’s sparkling bytes?
stepanhruda··on The first minute of every phone call is torture now
Hah, no it's not, I don't even have the phone app on my home screen unless I search for it.
stepanhruda··on SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
It’s good UX - presumably most users want to turn off WiFi/bluetooth temporarily when using these buttons and this saves you from forgetting to turn it back on. I was delighted when they changed.

I agree it’d be nice to have a choice for how it works on your device, but current behavior would still be a good default.

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