.... And today I learned that daily passes to "cable tv" are a thing. Bye bye, YouTubeTV. Don't mistake my cancellation as evidence I ever wanted your service in the first place.

There was a paper about rust use in open source projects, looking at vulnerabilities introduced by developers with different contribution histories. They suggest that you need to spend working several years in a C++ codebase to get down to the same defect rate as a new contributor in a rust project.

https://cypherpunks.ca/~iang/p...

If that is true, then there is probably little reason to worry.

The interesting thing is more productivity while reducing the number of bugs. Normally reducing bugs requires stricter processes, which typically reduces productivity.

I haven't yet looked into why our beef and chicken prices have gone up anyway. At least during COVID they had issues with workers and transport... what's the excuse now? Hell, milk in my area has gone up maybe 20% in the last year or two. That's ridiculous. It's not like all the dairy cows are gone, and we've always had a slight excess of supply.

Doctors who prescribe antibiotics to complaining patients who don't have symptoms consistent with a bacterial infection should be investigated, and if it's a consistent behaviour they should lose their licenses.

Vets and wholesalers who supply farmers should be shut right down.

It really ought to be a criminal offense. Overuse of antibiotics is an unnecessary risk to all our lives.

That, however is a temporary issue. Obviously a far longer term issue than the government cares to consider, but it is one that can be overcome.

The economic issue cannot.

The reason parts aren't made in the US is cost. Maybe you think "OK, tariffs and outright bans will mean they have to be made in the US".

The problem is, those foreign parts cost fewer American dollars to produce. The cost of the parts goes up and cost of living goes up, or American wages go down, and the relative cost of living goes up.

There is no solution to this where your cost of living relative to your wages remains similar. Standard of living goes down. No political slogan can overcome this.

Or if it's even still readable. Intel when retrieving the 486 tape-in for the Edison project had to bake the tapes in an oven to remove moisture, and then had ONE CHANCE at imaging the tape as it crumbled to dust going through the reader.

What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.

We never shut down anti-vax talk, that's why it failed. We should have. So many people have died who didn't need to because we're afraid of offending bros and Karens.

As long as the government isn't in full control of the degrees in question... it's a bad solution to a worse problem.

We're living in a world where old diseases are coming back because we couldn't shut down anti-vax talk as quickly as the asshole who started it all to discredit vaccines in production so he could sell his own and get rich. He took a big hit because he had something to take away... the greedy fools who followed did not.

You shouldn't be able to give medical advice - even if you slap "for entertainment purposes only" on your message - unless you have a medical degree that is relevant to the kind of advice you're giving. Because the alternative is, apparently, the return of polio.

It's 2025. We've known for a couple of decades that Win32/Win64 and Windows and its main ecosystem only work because various hacks into the kernel to make it all run more smoothly. Even the video driver architecture basically has built in restarts when buffers blow up.

It's a shitty proprietary operating system which somehow, every time they try to clean it up, it gets worse under and on top of the hood. I stopped using Windows for my own personal devices four years ago, and will not go back. Ubuntu, Debian and MacOS offer cleaner UIs, and even if the software libraries are a bit smaller, at least I'm not a prisoner to endless ads.

Christ I had to set up a Win11 laptop yesterday, and between setting up the OS and Edge I had to turn down "offers" and additional tracking functionality around seven or eight times. Actually more, because then I set up a non-privileged user profile, and had to do it all again. And that was Win11 Pro. I can only imagine how much worse the Home editions are.

There's no speculation that increases CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere lead to the more heat being trapped. We've known that since the late 19th century.

Sure... go work yourself to death so the guy at the top can try to become the next member of the billionaire club. Forget about anything other than the potential of getting a little bit more of that money for yourself.

WTF is the point of living if all you do is work?

It just goes to show you, there's none more gullible than the paranoid.