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throwaway27448on A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young boys into books

I remain firm in replying to precisely that sentiment. I don't believe many will admit it, but this is how many view boys: stupider and less-capable girls.

throwaway27448on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3

Well with omarchy specifically it feels a lot more like an weight around LeBron's neck—they've vibe coded up a storm without seemingly producing any value beyond dotfiles. That's a liability in net. Just use asahi alarm and dodge the vibe-coded screensavers.

throwaway27448on A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young boys into books

There's not exactly a shortage of action fantasy books aimed at children with female protagonists.

Second of all, claiming that boys only like action heroes is frankly offensive and stupid. Boys are not intrinsically less capable than girls.

Edit: i said what i said. I am not just replying to the above text but decades around parents who think less of boys.

throwaway27448on A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young boys into books

Skill issue. I read hundreds of books with female protagonists as a child and thoroughly enjoyed them. Parents are failing their boys. Marketers are just lazy. Everyone wants to retreat to accepted bigotries rather than lift a finger.

throwaway27448on Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)

This is well-trodden ground of the theory of knowledge. People not being explicit about their assumptions about the world lead to destructive myths like "empirical fact" that collapse with the slightest institutional distrust.

throwaway27448on ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui

How would you you do that—chucking libc out the window? A monokernel?

throwaway27448on ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui

You're welcome to demonstrate otherwise

throwaway27448on Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)

What problem does the concept of an empirical fact solve that isn't solved better with consensus?

throwaway27448on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI

I learned on blender and now all the other editors are ruined for me. I wonder why they haven't added a blender mode at this point for people who want more expressive use.

Zbrush is ok.

throwaway27448on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI

Do imgui/egui have comparable numbers of interface objects and parameters to adjust their look and behavior? I certainly wouldn't suggest either as an alternative to QT-level interfaces—which seems to be what's offered here.

throwaway27448on Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative

WOW instant download

throwaway27448on Search for everyone

Ukraine isn't afghanistan, and if it were, the afghanistan part (non-plains) has mostly been conquered already. So I'm not sure what the plan is.

> What does this even mean?

The morons running the west want to do something about russia, because they swallowed their own cold war bullshit for decades and never learned to play nice with others. Ukraine was just the nearest opportunity to do so, even if it meant fucking over 25 million people for no clear benefit.

Look I love for you that you have hope. If I could pay to get your hope, I would! It would be better sleep at night. However, I will be right in the end, and the history books will reflect that europe chose to watch ukraine die in front of their eyes, and in fact paid to prolong the pain and violence.

throwaway27448on Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?

> It also attracts a very specific type of person; everyone I personally worked with was very bright and capable.

I don't know anyone at canonical personally, so I have no specific opinion. However. This smells like the same bullshit peddled by any tech company's hiring policy but executed less competently.

throwaway27448on Search for everyone

Pressuring ukraine to cede territory and accept the loss would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and Ukraine itself. As it stands it looks more like suicide to continue fighting.

> Entering the war with troops would be escalatory, anyone who claims to know the result of that hypothetical escalation is a liar.

Anyone who claims there is an alternative path to victory is a liar.

I won't ever forgive the west for throwing ukraine under the bus to express their anxiety about russia, fully knowing that ukraine has no hope without full military commitment.

> Winning is Putin backing down, being deposed, or doing the swan lake thing.

Russia will just replace him with someone on the right wing of russian politics. That's actually a worse scenario in every way.

> That's not a terrible outcome if the alternative is Russia actually following through with their mad man nonsense.

They're following through regardless.

The only victory path is to collapse russia. We have no way to do that and there are no domestic pressures indicating this will happen any time soon. And in every way Russia is hurting, Ukraine is suffering harder.

throwaway27448on Search for everyone

Are we not prolonging the conflict by funding the other side but not committing the troops necessary to win?

throwaway27448on Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed

The term tankie originates in describing western supporters of the soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

throwaway27448on Search for everyone

> but really they are taking your money that and sending some of it to a Russian company which is either directly or indirectly funding a pointless war

How is funding america any better?

throwaway27448on Kagi Search for Everyone

You just append it to the end of a query and it reroutes it to google maps.

throwaway27448on Nordstjernen, Northstar, Southstar: minimalist webbrowsers in C and Rust

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1142659&po...

Pretty damning tbh

throwaway27448on Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

I'm a coder. But software sales are very unnatural—data wants to be free, baby!

throwaway27448on The AI Boom May Be Sowing Seeds of Another Financial Crisis

Sowing the seeds or failing to paper over? Pretending this is new is baffling.

throwaway27448on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes

Does it not manage logical volumes?

throwaway27448on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes

> It doesn't really do everything that a real LVM does though.

It manages logical volumes. Any quibbling is a matter of degree.

throwaway27448on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes

For those of you who have never heard of this, it's macos's LVM. Why they didn't just refer to it as LVM is beyond me.

throwaway27448on Scaling Git at OpenAI

I have full faith in LLMs to produce code that does something (whether or not it's desired or expected). I have little faith that the engineers (or MBAs) have any clue what they're doing. It'll be interesting to see what parts still exist in ten years and what parts they'll have to light on fire to contain bad assumptions.

throwaway27448on Scaling Git at OpenAI

How would you know?

throwaway27448on Scaling Git at OpenAI

Sure, but you also don't know what your LLM is doing without running into these same limitations. So how is this an improvement?

throwaway27448on Scaling Git at OpenAI

Technical details aside, this volume is ridiculous. How on earth do they see this kind of "growth" as an asset and not a liability?

throwaway27448on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

The politics of using technology in social circumstances is an emphasis for sure. I'm specifically thinking of Olhado recording Marcão's physical abuse of Novinha with his bionic eye.

throwaway27448on Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

Huh. I guess I just never viewed coding as a competitive sport.