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Panzer04 commented on C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)   faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt... · Posted by u/stickynotememo
ux266478 · 5 days ago
> Only C has, yet, given use that level of serviceability.

On the contrary, Lisp outshines C to a large degree here. Success has nothing to do with technical merit (if such a thing even exists), it's not a rational game.

Panzer04 · 5 days ago
What makes you say that?
Panzer04 commented on Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025   pugetsystems.com/labs/art... · Posted by u/zdw
mrweasel · 7 days ago
Maybe they just don't really use anything else, but I just love that the most reliable memory is just Kingston ValueRAM. No fancy heat spreader or packaging, not even a black PCB, just chips on a classic green circuit board.
Panzer04 · 7 days ago
This is presumably in part because it's going to have loose tolerances as a bottom-bin product.

The difference in performance between "good" and "bad" DDR5 can be very large.

Panzer04 commented on Why software stocks are getting pummelled   economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/petethomas
rglullis · 8 days ago
You are taking my comment way too literatlly.

The point is not that people will be using specifically Excel, but that most business only pay for software because it is the tool that gives them the most power to automate their processes. They don't need high availablility, they don't need standards compliance, they don't extensive automated tests, they won't need cloud engineeers and SRE... all you need is some tool that can get the results your are looking for right now.

Academia already works like this. Software wrtiten for academic purposes is notoriously "bad" because it is not engineerd, but that doesn't matter because it is good enough to deliver the results that researchers need. Corporate IT will also start looking like this even at mid-sized companies.

Panzer04 · 8 days ago
An academic paper needs to deliver its output once, for the research. Maybe someone will try to replicate it later but that's someone elses problem (and fairly often proves the output of the former to be wrong)

Some stuff in companies might be similar, but there's a lot of things that people use every day, in a lot of different ways, and the software needs to work correctly regardless. You can't just drop it like a hot potato once you've built processes around it.

As always, the first 80% takes 20% of the time/effort, the last 20% takes the other 80%.

Panzer04 commented on Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples   sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/saikatsg
munificent · 19 days ago
I was trying to be healthier, so I started biking to work. I was worried about safety, so I only felt comfortable doing this because my commute was 90% on bike paths.

Then I slipped on a puddle and landed really wrong on my left ankle. :(

I don't know if I stuck my foot out and foot planted or the bike landed on it or what, but the end result was a tri-malleolar fracture with dislocation. Basically I tried to twist my foot off and broken the tips off my tibia and fibula in the process. I had a bunch of other complications after that: severe fracture blisters, nerve block rebound pain, infection, problems with wound healing, and then finally the cartilage crapped out and I got post-traumatic osteoarthritis.

> I always had broken bones in my head as this thing that heal after a couple months and you're back to 100% :/ (also broke my ankle)

Me too! This was my first broken bone. I thought I'd just go to the hospital, they'd patch me up, and I'd go on with my life. But then every appointment with the surgeon, the prognosis got worse and worse.

With the replacement, if everything goes well, then I should at least be able to walk, and hike, and dance without pain. But nothing high impact or putting a lot of torque on the ankle. No running, no intense sports. The door to that part of my life has closed.

Panzer04 · 19 days ago
Man, that bull** :'(. I had a Bimal syndesmosis, so not as bad as you (and many fewer complications..) - I was riding an electric unicycle off-road on MTB trails, which sounds a lot dumber than what you were doing XD. Even so, it still bothers me over a year later.

I feel like it's worse with an ankle because if you don't break it they basically don't get arthritis, unlike a knee or hip; so you've lost more when you get ankle PTOA :'(.

I hope your TAR serves you well - they definitely sound like they've been getting better, so hopefully you get a good long while out of it.

Panzer04 commented on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections   blog.citp.princeton.edu/2... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha
Panzer04 · 20 days ago
To some extent, I think the cost of paper voting is almost a feature. It takes more work and effort to corrupt a paper voting system enough to change an electoral outcome, it helps more people gain familiarity with the electrical process and places an additional weight on the decisionmaking,
Panzer04 commented on Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples   sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/saikatsg
munificent · 20 days ago
I broke my ankle nearly two years ago. I've had three surgeries already and will be getting a total ankle replacement in about a month. Even with that, I will never run again.

Sometimes in a dream, I'll start running. I'll notice how magically effortless it feels. How wonderful to be able to run again. Then a little voice in the back of my head reminds me that this can't be real. It wakes me up every time.

It was a rough day when I opened Strava to log one of my physical therapy walks and realized that if I scroll down a bit, I can find a record of the longest run I will ever do.

I'm mostly at peace with it now. I'm grateful that at least I was into running for a while before I lost it, so at least I don't regret never having done it. And I never really enjoyed it then anyway. I just did it for health reasons and the sense of accomplishment.

I'm sorry for your suffering. I know what this longing feels like.

Panzer04 · 20 days ago
Godamn that sucks :(. What did you do to it?

It really sucks when you break something and realise it might not ever go back to how it was before you break it (whether in how it feels or functions). I always had broken bones in my head as this thing that heal after a couple months and you're back to 100% :/ (also broke my ankle)

Panzer04 commented on Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)   harvardmagazine.com/socia... · Posted by u/KnuthIsGod
keernan · 22 days ago
Many of the comments lay the blame for the threat to democracy at the feet of SCOTUS and Congress for failing to act in a time of crisis to strangle the constitutional excesses of the Trump administration.

I see it much differently. I see a Constitution exposed. It's purported 'checks and balances' stripped naked. For the reality is this: the Constitution provides neither SCOTUS or Congress the ability to enforce their constitutional authorities. The Executive has sole control over the police power and military power.

And when a President is surrounded by heads of the FBI DOJ and Military who swear loyalty to the man, not the office, there is literally nothing SCOTUS or Congress can do.

SCOTUS has, thus far into the current Trump term, been very careful to rule in a manner that avoids inviting Trump to tell SCOTUS: "you've had your say, not enforce it." SCOTUS would much rather grant Trump powers that some future SCOTUS can take back. But the Executive exposing SCOTUS as barren is something that can never be undone.

The same for Congress. Congress can impeach Trump yet again. And in some imaginary world the Senate could actually find him guilty. But where is the army or police who shoot it out with Trump's FBI and military so they can walk Trump out of the West Wing in handcuffs?

The very terms of our Constitution are such that only a coup d'etat can remove a President who, surrounded by loyalists in the FBI and military, refuses to step down voluntarily.

That is my conclusion about why the Constitution is broken: it has been exposed for what it is. All we can do is wait and see how SCOTUS and Congress respond when Trump finally tells them: "Let's see you make me"

Edit: correct "...that invites Trump..." with "...that avoids inviting Trump"

Panzer04 · 22 days ago
If the president doesn't step down when ordered to do so lawfully, its up to the individual participants in government to obey the law and not the president. It's not that complicated.

That the American government has reached a position where it's somehow questionable whether the government and its departments should answer to congress or the president is ridiculous.

Panzer04 commented on Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study   brown.edu/news/2026-01-07... · Posted by u/hhs
Krasnol · a month ago
Why does it HAVE to be profitable?

Why can't we just leave some things out of the whole madness?

It's not like we don't have enough stuff that can be made profitable already.

Just let your customers be healthy, have a roof over their head, water, electricity, internet. They'll have more time and money to spend on all the other profitable stuff.

It doesn't have to be EVERYTHING!

Panzer04 · a month ago
Because we would like people to continue providing our healthcare services?
Panzer04 commented on Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study   brown.edu/news/2026-01-07... · Posted by u/hhs
renewiltord · a month ago
Private equity goes where the money is. Nothing is magically non-exploitative just because it's done by a bunch of small businessmen instead of a private equity company. There's a reason why Private Equity bought so many dialysis clinics. There's a reason why they're doing this.

It's easy to scam the government out of money for this because a bunch of well-meaning "useful idiots" will say "pay whatever it takes; give them as much money as they need; it's for human lives!" and none of that is true. It's all about using different battalions to rent-seek on normal tax-paying Americans.

Tim Walz lost his hope for re-election over this but he's not the only one. In time we will discover a large array of healthcare scams and home-care and autism/child mental health are going to be near the top.

Panzer04 · a month ago
We have something like this going on in Australia right now.

The NDIS is our disability welfare scheme, and it's costs have exploded as oversight has failed to keep pace with exploitative actors. Few questions asked welfare for our vulnerable would be nice, but sadly it doesn't look sustainable in most places.

Panzer04 commented on Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study   brown.edu/news/2026-01-07... · Posted by u/hhs
p-e-w · a month ago
Because between the 1970s and 1990s, Western nations decided that private operations should be the default for everything except where the law specifically requires state institutions, instead of the other way round.

In many countries, essential services like hospitals, drinking water supply, airport security, schools, even prisons are now partially or fully privatized. It seems insane when you think about it, but that’s what your grandparents voted for.

Panzer04 · a month ago
Private is the default solution for all problems. The state only provides a service when the government takes action to do so, and usually this is on top of whatever existing private infrastructure there is.

This seems like a pretty weird perspective to have?

u/Panzer04

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