> Another old person thinking they figured out life
I didn't get this impression at all.
Readit Newsexac commented on Nine things I learned in ninety years edwardpackard.com/wp-cont... · Posted by u/coderintherye
It isn't "sovereign" if the parent organization is controlled by a foreign company.
I had never seen one in the wild until I made a new friend recently, who has one of the foldable Samsung devices. My initial impression was that it is clunky, way too thick/large for comfortable pocket storage+running and it looks cheap for how much it cost... and last week my friend said he got his first ever dead pixel of any of his devices on the foldable phone. Take that opinion and info as you will.
I know less than ten people with foldable phones, but without fail they all claim that the screen is durable, but I have yet to see any foldable phone without a cracked screen after a few years.
exac commented on Type checking is a symptom, not a solution programmingsimplicity.sub... · Posted by u/mpweiher
> The standard answer is scale. “Small programs don’t need types,” the reasoning goes, “but large programs become unmaintainable without them.”
This is not accepted wisdom at all.
I tried using `tailscale funnel` against a dummy server `python -m http.server`, and within 10 seconds the bots started to check for vulnerabilities.
Tailscale warns you about how enabling it will issue an HTTPS certificate which will be in a public ledger. But I wasn't expecting it to be this quick.
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] "GET /@vite/env HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] code 404, message File not found
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] "GET /actuator/env HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] code 404, message File not found
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] "GET /server HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:35] code 404, message File not found
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:35] "GET /.vscode/sftp.json HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:35] code 404, message File not found
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:39] "GET /s/7333e2433323e20343e2538313/_/;/META-INF/maven/com.atlassian.jira/jira-webapp-dist/pom.properties HTTP/1.1" 404 -All the dev servers I've used over the past 10 years come with warnings that they're not security hardened, so I'd be wary of using `tailscale funnel` even though it is awesome to share like that so easily.
exac commented on Thomas Aquinas – The world is divine ralphammer.com/thomas-aqu... · Posted by u/pedroth
This isn't "propaganda", it's attempting to give a casual look at Aquinas' philosophy (which, as the author points out, does not presuppose a deity). Moreover, if you read the rest of the site, you will see that this author tries to give this sort of casual look at many diverse philosophical ideas (not just religious philosophy or Western philosophy). You are having a knee jerk reaction to a strawman, not responding to the actual substance of the article.
This is no knee jerk reaction my friend, the author is capitalizing "he" when referring to the Christian god.
exac commented on Thomas Aquinas – The world is divine ralphammer.com/thomas-aqu... · Posted by u/pedroth
This is the type of religious propaganda that would appear in a worksheet for children in a Catholic school. It doesn't belong here. There are no arguments here, just the presupposition of some deity.
exac commented on Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (and What to Do About It) terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/signa11
In my experience the bad managers are constantly trying to impress their bosses and curry the next promotion. They treat their reports like serfs who are obliged to burnish their image.
The best managers (very few) I've come across are like a mother bear. Protective of their team, running interference and pushing back on out of scope work, etc.
I've only ever had one manager whose calendar was viewable by his team. If he needed a meeting with you, he would ping by email with the subject and any supporting materials and asking you to block out the meeting time in his calendar. Talk about respecting your productive times.
Anecdotal, but every Engineering Manager I've had for the past 10 years has had a calendar I could see. One EM had anonymous event names on their calendar, but I think it might have been the default setting in AD.
exac commented on Meta announces Oakley smart glasses theverge.com/news/690133/... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
I doubt it, these devices have a serious user input problem. The cornerstone of computers is human-computer interaction. That's what makes these pieces of silicon useful. They're tools for humans - meaning, it doesn't matter if the tool is better if it can't be used easier.
Smartphones were a step back in a lot of ways. Typing is slower. No mouse. Fingers are fat and imprecise. The result is most applications were severely dumbed down to work on a smartphone.
The trade-off was portability. Everyone can carry a smartphone, so it's okay that the human-interaction is worse in a lot of ways. Then, when we need that richer interaction, we can reach for a laptop.
The problem with smart glasses is they go even a step further in how poor the interaction is. Speech as an interface for computers is perhaps the worst interface. Yes, it's neat and shows up in sci-fi all the time. But if you think about it, it's a very bad interface. It's slow, it's imprecise, it's wishy-washy, it context dependent. Imagine, for example, trying to navigate your emails by speech only. Disaster.
Smart glasses, however, are not more portable than phones. Not by much. Everyone already has a phone. So what do we gain from smart glasses? IMO, not very much. Smart glasses may become popular, but will they replace the smartphone? In my opinion, fat chance.
What I think is more likely, actually, is smartphones replacing smart glasses. They already have cameras. So the capabilities are about the same, except smart phones can do WAY more. For most people, I imagine, the occasional "look at this thing and tell me about it" usecase can be satisfied by a smartphone.
A lot of people spend hours consuming auto-playing short-form video content. I would guess the majority of young people, in the West.
Give it time, we'll get there, but not anytime soon.
My development flow takes a lot of RAM (and yes I can run it minimally editing in the terminal with language servers turned off), so I wouldn't consider running the local LLM on the same computer.