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teh_klevon Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

> all the same knowledge is still out there though

> The markup is the millions in training they committed and the connecting the knowledge

Sure, but gated behind a hallucinating idiot.

teh_klevon Let's make quality the norm again

You didn't specify which one.

Also...

> But boy was I disappointed that their "Zwilling Peak" branded ceramic hybrid frying pan for $100 says "Made in China"

But does it work? My twenty year old B&W speakers were built in China but they do the job and do it really well.

teh_klevon Let's make quality the norm again

There's two Henckels listed:

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands/henckels-internatio...

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands/zwilling

The first one is on their watchlist and probably the brand you're thinking of?

teh_klevon A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

>but the quiz is unfair - it assumes there is only one "true way", but a lot of frameworks give you options

It says right underneath that quiz:

"There isn’t really a right answer, because you were probably right for some language"

teh_klevon Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

This was my experience. Years ago I travelled to New Zealand in what would be their spring time. We stayed in Wanaka but also travelled around Twizel, Tekapo etc.

Although it was pretty sunny with clear blue skies, the air temperature was fairly chilly (shirt, jumper and fleece cold - and I'm Scottish so used to cold weather) and I started to burn. I was warned about this, and the probability of high UV exposure at altitude by the locals and family, and was advised to apply a high factor sunblock whilst roaming around the higher elevations of New Zealand's South Island, which I did.

teh_klevon "Solving a largely imaginary user goal"

> I don't get the "everything needs to support dark theme" thing either tbh

I started my career when screens were black with text displayed using green/white/amber phosphor and was used to that. I never liked the bright white UIs when GUI based OS/front ends took over (before themes became a thing).

I find the wall of bright white with black/dark text tiring to look at. Collaborating with colleagues doing screen sharing where they don't use dark themes is really jarring.

It's almost an accessibility thing for me these days.

teh_klevon The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”

I don't mind taking a long time to complete a book if the story is good. I just re-read a couple of Peter F Hamilton 1200 page tomes that took me over a month to complete (Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained). However they were fun and I was immersed in the world building.

There are other far shorter novels I have abandoned after 70-80 pages because they're just not very good.

teh_klevon The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”

I gave up on the Booker Prize years ago. It's mostly hand wringing, dreary, navel gazing tedium, which is a shame.

teh_klevon The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”

I own, and have read, quite a few novels from the SF Masterworks series. It's my go to for decent quality reprints of older sci-fi. Can definitely recommend.

teh_klevon Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)

These are the original articles this re-heat was created from:

- https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/magnolias-be...

- https://gardens.si.edu/learn/blog/the-botany-of-magnolias/

teh_klevon BLISS

That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates:

https://github.com/madisongh/blissc

teh_klevon Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM

> My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops

I used to do this as well and this is fine if you're able to source cheap power. But I'm in the UK, electricity prices are insane and I can't afford to run this kind of setup any more.

teh_klevon .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types

> Microsoft management has decided CLR has a new meaning, C# Language Runtime. > VB, C++/CLI and F# are only there because existing customers.

Oh, I think we need a citation for these claims.

teh_klevon I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

No, sadly not.

teh_klevon I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

When I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick branded hardware, amongst a fleet of terminals and early PC hardware. Nothing ever seemed to go wrong with it.

teh_klevon I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

As a former Data General engineer, I too would like to see some love for RDOS and AOS. And also their diagnostic tool ADES which was a specialised OS in its own right, and ICOS.

teh_klevon Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

Why is it "combative"? Seems like a needlessly hyperbolic description of launching a desktop app.

teh_klevon SQL Design Patterns (2010)

>hides the execution.

But you're not prevented from finding out how your query was executed. For example EXPLAIN (MySQL, Postgres) or query analyser for MSSQL.

teh_klevon Why are there so many rationalist cults?

I have a link for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

teh_klevon Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

Yes, this is that company. This is the "original":

https://github.com/sst/opencode

teh_klevon .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution

This isn't LinqPad's selling point. All that dotnet run *.cs has done is remove the need to have a project file for each "script" you write.

LinqPad maybe has this feature but it's selling point is as a scratch pad to experiment with working with data and general futzing around.

teh_klevon The mysterious Gobi wall uncovered

Or, just link directly to the paper which isn't paywalled:

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/5/1087

teh_klevon Introducing command And commandfor In HTML

Start here I think:

https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/264

teh_klevon How good are American roads?

I did google "bus-stops-on-a-slope", but nothing jumped out. What are "bus-stops-on-a-slope"?

teh_klevon This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats

Years ago I ended up in a system with a star I couldn't refuel from and was S.O.L. I had vaguely heard of the Fuel Rats[0] and did a google to see if they were real and contactable. I put in a call to them and about an hour later a kindly pilot turned up, refuelled me and off I went with a warm fuzzy feeling. I was very grateful. It reminded me of happy times being in a corp in Eve with your comrades helping each other out.

Being reminded of this might make me give Elite another go.

[0]: https://fuelrats.com/

teh_klevon LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders

Ah, ok :)

Don't be so hard on yourself, even after 20+ years of .NET dev there are still things I can be a bit forgetful about, such as this UI annoyance.

teh_klevon LoaderShip – CSS-Only Loaders

> Often in aspdotnet we have programmers

Pretty sure this is a problem across many other development platforms. Odd that you singled out aspdotnet programmers.

teh_klevon What Was ISDN?

> 64 Kbit/s ISDN leased line

That would have been Kilostream which wasn't part of the ISDN system. Kilostream pre-dated ISDN. The reason for its high cost was that you could throw as much data as you wanted to 24hrs a day and it was a point to point dedicated circuit, i.e. you couldn't "dial up" different locations the way you could with ISDN.

teh_klevon Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms

Minor nitpick...Active Directory didn't appear until Windows Server 2000.

teh_klevon UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts

Should we then destroy all legal documents, for example The Magna Carta?

Museums aren't just a store of "art", museums are a way to preserve our heritage, preferably in its original form.