I've got Firefox 144.2 on Android; are profiles available there? If so, how does one use them?
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thyrsus commented on Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s... · Posted by u/Sgt_Apone
If it's a mechanical one, there's a possibility that it's been repaired or replaced. The mechanism after all these years will likely wear out. At the same time, I know someone with a car whose odometer has been at 249,999km for a few years now.
As for (early) digital odometers, does the soul more specifically exist in the EEPROM chip in the instrument cluster* that stores the odometer data?
*at least on my late-90s car, this is how the odometer/trip meter works.
My 2007 Corolla odometer has been at 299999 since 2019. I've replaced the transmission once, but the rest is original, aside from expected maintenance - tires, brakes, fans, etc. - and an added stereo.
thyrsus commented on Literate programming tool for any language github.com/zyedidia/Liter... · Posted by u/LorenDB
If your colleagues just don't feel the benefit of the extra .lit file, is there a way to pull their changes to the derived files into your own .lit files and to keep the .lit files in a parallel version control repo or branch?
thyrsus commented on Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/amichail
It's got me wondering: do any of my hard work actually matter? Or is it all just pointless busy-work invented since the industrial revolution to create jobs for everyone, when in reality we would be fine if like 5% of society worked while the rest slacked off? Don't think we'd have as many videogames, but then again, we would have time to play, which I would argue is more valuable than games.
To paraphrase Lee Iacocca: We must stop and ask ourselves, how much videogames do we really need?
Nope. The current system may be misdirecting 95% of labor, but until we have sufficiently modeled all of nature to provide perfect health and brought world peace, there is work to do.
thyrsus commented on Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/amichail
Personally, having worked in professional enterprise software for ~7 years now I've come to a pretty hard conclusion.
Most software should not exist.
That's not even meant in the tasteful "Its a mess" way. From a purely money making efficiency standpoint upwards of 90% of the code I've written in this time has not meaningfully contributed back to the enterprise, and I've tried really hard to get that number lower. Mind you, this is professional software. If you consider the vibe coder guys, I'll estimate that number MUCH higher.
It just feels like the whole way we've fit computing into the world is misaligned. We spent days building UIs that dont help the people we serve and that break at the first change to the process, and because of the support burden of that UI we never get to actually automate anything.
I still think computers are very useful to humanity, but we have forgot how to use them.
And not only that, but most >>changes<< to software shouldn't happen, especially if it's user facing. Half my dread in visiting support web sites is that they've completely rearranged yet again, and the same thing I've wanted five times requires a fifth 30 minutes figuring out where they put it.
I agree that this was a great article.
For me, this isn't intuitive. It works; however, it doesn't scream recursion to me.
def ints():
yield 1
yield from map(lambda x: x + 1, ints())
def ints():
cnt = 1
while True:
yield cnt
cnt += 1I'm a python newby, so please correct the following: The first function looks quadratic in time and linear in stack space, while the second function looks linear in time and constant in stack space. Memoizing would convert the first function to linear in time and linear in space (on the heap instead of the stack). For python, wouldn't I always use the second definition? For Haskell, I would use the [1..] syntax which the compiler would turn into constant space linear time machine code.
thyrsus commented on YAML: The Norway Problem (2022) bram.us/2022/01/11/yaml-t... · Posted by u/carlos-menezes
I do a lot of ansible which needs to run on multiple versions, and their yaml typing are not consistent - whenever I have a variable in a logic statement, I nearly always need to apply the "| bool" filter.
thyrsus commented on We're Waiting for the End of the Sentence twitter.com/fluopoika/sta... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
> The Japanese mostly think like Yoda. They first establish some concepts and facts, like when you're pushing data to the stack of a scientific calculator, and finish it with the intended action.
Thanks, this actually explains a lot. Korean is like this too. I'm realizing that a lot of communication difficultly comes from my aging mother speaking more slowly with words coming out this way. I get impatient thinking 'what are you talking about? get to the point' and frustrated if it takes very long or if I'm already busy or in a rush. It's like watching a movie with no context and an extended set up--not great if you weren't expecting the pace.
It definitely does extend beyond sentence structure. There will be preamble that sets the stage and covers considered adjacent points, then finally get to the ask/point.
That style is not restricted to Asian speakers. Reading (a translation of) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" with its deep recursive layers of introducing a topic and then giving the backstory thereof - the firing squad from the first paragraph gets explained a hundred or so pages later - I immediately recognized my wife's normal pattern of discourse. I then congratulated her on having a Nobel prize winning speaking style :-)
I enjoy this humor.