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palijer commented on AI-First Company Memos the-ai-native.company/... · Posted by u/bobismyuncle

Whatever happened to "show, don't tell"? Other productivity boosters certainly didn't need such memos; they were naturally adopted because the benefits were unambiguous. There were no "IDE-first company memos" or "software framework-first company memos"; devs organically picked these up because the productivity gains were immediately self-evident.

palijer · a month ago

There was an Apple memo like this though that said they were word processing first.

https://writingball.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-infamous-apple-...

palijer commented on Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki/w/One... · Posted by u/validatori

creato · 2 months ago

It reduces the expected value of stealing a phone, which reduces the demand for stolen phones.

palijer · 2 months ago

I find it hard to believe that Oneplus is spending engineering and business recourses, upsetting a portion of their own userbase, and creating more e-waste because they want to reduce the global demand for stolen phones. They only have like 3% of the total market, they can't realistically move that needle.

I don't understand what business incentives they would have to make "reduce global demand for stolen phones" a goal they want to invest in.

palijer commented on Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki/w/One... · Posted by u/validatori

jnwatson · 2 months ago

The whole point of this is so that when someone steals your phone, they can't install an older vulnerable version of the firmware than can be used to set it back to factory settings which makes it far more valuable for resale.

palijer · 2 months ago

Phone thieves aren't checking which phone brand I have before they knick my phone. Your scenerio is not improved by making Oneplus phones impossible to use once they're stolen.

palijer commented on Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki/w/One... · Posted by u/validatori

geor9e · 2 months ago

This has been a commonplace feature on SOCs for a decade or two now. The comments seem to be taking this headline as out‑of‑the‑ordinary news, phrased as if Oneplus invented it. Even cheapo devices often use an eFuse as anti-rollback. We do it at my work whenever root exploits are found that let you run unsigned code. If we don't blow an eFuse, then those security updates can just be undone, since any random enemy with hardware access could plug in a USB cable, flash the older exploitable signed firmware, steal your personal data, install a trojan, etc. I get the appeal of ROMs/jailbreaking/piracy but it relies on running obsolete exploitable firmware. It's not like they're forcing anyone to install the security patch who doesn't want it. This is normal.

palijer · 2 months ago

It ain't normal to me. If I bought a phone, I should be able to decide that I want to run different software on it.

Let's say OP takes a very different turn with their software that I am comfortable with - say reporting my usage data to a different country. I should be able to say "fuck that upgrade, I'm going to run the software that was on my phone when I originally bought it"

This change blocks that action, and from my understanding if I try to do it, it bricks my phone.

palijer commented on Giving university exams in the age of chatbots ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam... · Posted by u/ploum

palijer · 2 months ago

I'm back in school part time for a bachelor's, and have recently had a class where I had a professor who really understood how to implement LLM's into the class.

Our written assignments were a lot of "have an LLM generate a business proposal, then annotate it yourself"

The final exam was a 30 minute meeting where we just talked as peers, kinda like a cultural job interview. Sure there's lots of potential for bias there, but I think it's better than just blindly passing students using LLM's for the final exam.

palijer commented on Aerocart cargo gliders aerolane.com/... · Posted by u/fcpguru

palijer · 5 months ago

There's no way to make these safe - it's almost comical and this could be an April 1st joke.

Case 1) how are you handling potential rapid TCAS climbs/decent? You're making the targets a lot larger and less responsive. If TCAS commands a decent and slow down, you will be overtaken by the tow.

Case 2) landings thay require rapid braking, such as short runways for emergencies or engine fires (rapid brakes used so emergency vehicles don't have to chase 2km to get to you)

Case 3) aborted take offs. Brakes will need to be more performant and reactive than the ones we have on the main aircraft

Case 4) taxiing across active runways now has reduced margins.

Case 5) go-around performance is diminished. Already sometimes tight margins on that, what happens if you need to do a go around but the landing gear on the glider collapsed and is now a ground anchor?

palijer commented on Global Peace Index 2025 visionofhumanity.org/maps... · Posted by u/teleforce

BrenBarn · 6 months ago

This is a nitpick but it's a bit awkward to call something "Global Peace Index" and then have it be a number where lower scores indicate more peace. It seems like it would make more sense to invert the scores.

palijer · 6 months ago

A lot of indexes and measurements are like this though when there is a potentially infinite range on one side.

Erdős numbers for instance, a higher number indicates less distance to Erdős.

palijer commented on Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad navylookout.com/learning-... · Posted by u/ilamont

sgt101 · 6 months ago

Compare and contrast to the recent collision of Chinese combat ships around the Philippines - much more severe damage, much less severe outcome.

Someone needs to take a very hard look at this.

palijer · 6 months ago

If you are making this comparison to build quality, I think there are some large problems in your logic.

The Chinese combat ships were at a much higher level of combat readiness, and hence a lot more crew who knew what they were actively doing and had their stations prepared accordingly.

The Norwegian vessel had most of her crew asleep and we're navigating in friendly waters.

palijer commented on Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects freewheeling.info/blog/sw... · Posted by u/jbyers

cs02rm0 · 7 months ago

I think this sounds a little like it's viewed through a lens of survivor bias.

If the UK had made a success of HS2 (difficult to imagine with governments in much of living memory, but let's sidestep all of that) then it could have been claimed, perhaps with some merit, that the UK was able to do something with rail infrastructure that the Swiss could never because they were hamstrung by their approach.

palijer · 7 months ago

This topic is naturally viewed through a survivorship lens, but I don't think it is a bias in this situation.

If the facts of the situation were reversed, of course we would draw the reverses conclusion. That golds true for just about any argument.

palijer commented on Sega mistakenly reveals sales numbers of popular games gematsu.com/2025/06/sega-... · Posted by u/kelt

m4tthumphrey · 9 months ago

Off topic: how can anyone use that website. The ads are pure aids.

palijer · 9 months ago

Adguard DNS works amazing and the only way these sites are usable for me.