Giving an addict a hit also reduces anxiety.
This was literally my first thought
Readit Newsymsodev commented on Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety news.uark.edu/articles/80... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
ymsodev commented on All of Apple's services are abysmal coryd.dev/posts/2025/all-... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
All of them? The author points at some particular issues they have had and concludes that all Apple services are garbage?! Well, except for iMessage and FaceTime.
I’ve been using Apple Music, iCloud Drive, bookmark sync, etc. for many years with zero issues. I even host my email at iCloud (since Google pulled the rug on the free Google Apps tier)—no issues whatsoever.
My family has also had zero issues.
Google Maps has a disgusting UX and I hate it every time I need to use it (for the reviews). Apple Maps has been great for the past few years. And don’t get me started on Dropbox with their monstrosity Electron client. F*ck that. Or the silly Spotify client that can’t do smart playlists and has no concept of genres.
IME, while not perfect, Apple’s services’ quality is far above the competition’s.
Yeah same here. Sure they're not perfect, but in 2025/2026 what services are perfect exactly?
To me, the article reads with a lot of exaggerated hostility towards Apple specifically for issues that are so commonplace nowadays. Not defending them, but I think it's unfairly targeting one company.
This somewhat answers the question of "how on earth is a JS runtime company going to profit?"
> Your real middle class refuses to show any but the most bland books and magazines on its coffee tables: otherwise, expressions of opinion, awkward questions, or even ideas might result. -Paul Fussell, Class
The greyification of our lives, the loss of whimsy and kitsch and being too afraid to be a little cringe, I get the sense that a lot of people associate "growing up" as the loss of any and all expression: we wake up in our grey beds in our millennial grey house, drive to work in our grey car to work in our grey cubical, etc, etc. If you want a gauche laptop covered in stickers, do it, embrace the gauche. Everyone sneering at you is more miserable than you.
I feel like this direction of thinking is also a bit reductionist: there are plenty of reasons not to want to put stickers on a laptop. For me, personally, I don't like stickers because a year or two later, they don't represent how I think anymore. It's not an expression I would make today, it's a ghost of my old expressions.
And I feel like this greyification is only true in theory from the perspective of the manufacturers. I still run into plenty of people that are not afraid to decorate their space, laptop, or whatever else.
Greyification actually makes sense precisely because everyone has a different way of expression. That's why canvases are still white; you just have to find a different primer.
> Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?
What a refreshing thing to hear in 2025... :D
…aren't they the same thing
They're not, but I also misunderstood the original question, they're referring to the correct definition of kernel. I thought they were confusing the GPU kernel with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)
> non 100% correctness of kernels
wouldn't model not work properly if kernels are even slightly off?
wasn't kernels a part of training stack for models? am I missing anything?
The article is referring to GPU compute kernel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_kernel), not the term kernel used in ML/NN/etc.
ymsodev commented on Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer blocksandfiles.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
ymsodev commented on Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler github.com/astracompiler/... · Posted by u/qwertycodepl
Thanks for the feedback! You're right - Astra is technically a bundler-to-executable tool, not a source-level compiler like Babel or TypeScript.
I called it a “compiler” in the sense that it transforms a JS project into a standalone .exe, similar to how tools like pkg or nexe are often described. That said, I’ll consider clarifying that in the description to avoid confusion. Appreciate the comment!
Honestly, I would drop calling compiler altogether -- it's just not a compiler. It doesn't make it any less cool though!
ymsodev commented on Memos: A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub github.com/usememos/memos... · Posted by u/Tomte
The app itself looks pretty neat. But I don't know how much I can agree with "lightweight" for a full stack webapp that just stores and presents text.