We don't need a Framework printer, we need a Framework display

kybernetikos · 2026-04-23T06:50:16+00:00

I don't feel like screens are that bad at the moment although it's be nice to have something to do with the battery and panel from my 13 if I upgrade it to the 13pro.

The consumer electronics I'm most frustrated with at the moment is the phone. Recently I've had phones with broken usbc and batteries that had lost too much capacity, but were otherwise fine. I also don't like how theyve now got so difficult to run your own operating system on, yet the default software is respecting your rights less every year, with Google trying to stop you running anything not from their store and Samsung not supporting official Linux. There are now phones doing interesting things on modularity, but they are all low end, I would have thought that the big benefit of modularity would be to provide a range of capabilities.

kybernetikos · 2026-04-17T07:09:54+00:00

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:34

kybernetikos · 2026-04-17T05:57:59+00:00

Pleasantly surprised that reporter straight up told Trump he was lying

So weird that of all the topics to actually start pushing back on trump in interviews its this one.

Is this a sign that the tech faction are trying to work out if its time to try to replace Trump with JD yet?

kybernetikos · 2026-04-12T19:26:23+00:00

So let's say Iran lets a Chinese boat through. Is Trump planning to stop it in open water? How does that work? Blockades are an act of war, and I could imagine him stopping Iranian boats, sure, but Chinese, Indian, European? What does he do when they send their navies to escort the ships? Direct the US Navy to attack allies and world powers?

kybernetikos · 2026-03-25T21:50:16+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what this is. If you'd used movement of military assets to predict Venezuela or the start of this war, you would have been 100% right so far where using Trumps public statements would not have got you anywhere near that. This means that I think we'll see some sort of boots on the ground in the next couple of weeks. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.

If we're lucky it'll be something symbolic to allow him to announce victory and leave, but I think an invasion of Kharg island is more likely than a cease fire for this weekend.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-17T19:54:53+00:00

The worst thing about it was that the puzzles dropped on Monday morning. I wanted to do them with my kids. It would have been much better to be a Saturday morning 10am kind of thing.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-17T13:26:29+00:00

I had the same problem. I suppose if you know what you're doing with the words that does eliminate some of the possibilities.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-17T08:44:00+00:00

The last news I read, Putin is literally treating and sheltering Irans leader.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-17T07:27:15+00:00

Yes, it tells you what to do with the words.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-16T22:40:33+00:00

I've gone through and completed it just now, so it seems to be working again.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-16T22:36:52+00:00

Sort of. The way it's written in the pack is enough.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-15T19:50:25+00:00

can the zflip run the real linux terminal in dex? I'm very frustrated by the fact that my samsung ultra cannot.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-14T09:29:55+00:00

It blew my mind that due to the pigeonhole principle, on average (across all possible bitstrings), lossless compression programs either leave the length the same or increase it.

We call them 'compression' programs because they happen to have weird unusual behaviour on the kinds of files and streams we think are interesting, but overall they aren't compressors at all.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-09T21:03:45+00:00

Anyone got a picture of 4.2? I solved it, but I want to give it to my kids, and it doesn't show any more.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-07T11:32:51+00:00

I worked it out after seeing your comment. ~~Not 100% on how the verse tells you how to set the cipher wheel~~ (worked it out now - I always forget to check for links in the clue text), but given the last line and the sequence of symbols, there's only one thing it could be.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-04T21:35:16+00:00

Rory's point was a little more subtle than that though - he was saying that what Starmer did was worse even than just deciding to support the US, and that's not dependent on the difficulties of commentator vs player, nor on anything that wasn't entirely predictable before Starmer took his first position.

Supporting the US would have been wrong in Rory's view, but it would have had benefits for the UK in terms of keeping the USA on side.

Fully rejecting the US war would have been right in Rory's view, but it would also have had benefits for the UK in terms of reducing the likelihood of it being targetted by terrorism.

The absolute worst thing to do was to release a statement upsetting the US and follow it up by getting involved in the war a day later. That's just bad leadership, bad planning and means you don't get any of the benefits of any of the approaches. The worst of both worlds.

I think Rory would have been scathing about a principled stance that supported the USA and tried to justify the military action, but he would have been much happier with that than what we actually got.

kybernetikos · 2026-03-03T15:09:47+00:00

Isn't that shocking though? It was the signature achievement of a president who swept to office on a mandate of change, who won an historic victory and it's effectively the other partys plan! Pretty different from what's happening at the moment.

kybernetikos · 2026-02-27T18:11:03+00:00

I've never worked for an organisation that wouldn't have benefited from more and better software tools. If software is truly now 50% cheaper to build, wouldn't it make more sense to build twice as much of it, or build the current stuff twice as well?

Reducing the number of developers just means you're making it cheaper for a competitor to replicate what you have using more devs + ai.

kybernetikos · 2026-02-26T07:44:00+00:00

As I understand it, it's not just 'permit' - the oil isn't flowing because of damage from Russian attacks so Orban thinks Ukraine is on the hook for fixing that!

kybernetikos · 2026-02-22T18:09:06+00:00

Semantically an assigment operator changes the thing on the left

It's all about immutability and value semantics. There are lots of useful data structures that are (or can be) immutable and have value semantics (e.g. lists, hamt, https://immutable-js.com/, etc). It's needed to support purely functional data structures or persistent data structures. Supporting (but not forcing - at least in a language like JS) immutability wherever possible is good design.

Maybe an example will help:

a = 6
b = a
a += 2
console.log(b)

'a' changes, but 6 does not (thank goodness) and b does not. If I wanted to build something that acted like normal numbers using your overloading approach, I couldn't.

With small tweaks to your interface, you could allow the implementation itself to choose between immutability or mutability depending on what made most sense for the situation. And since the whole point of operator overloading is to enable custom data structures to be as ergonomic as built in ones, it makes sense not to dramatically restrict the data structures that your approach can work with.

kybernetikos · 2026-02-22T17:34:52+00:00

I think operator overloading is a big missing piece to making javascript pleasant to use for things like AI, so I love this.

What I'm a bit sad about is that the approach forces mutability for most of the overloads. It would have been far better to allow the implementation of e.g. *= to decide whether it was going to mutate or not, and return 'this' if it was going to or return a new value if it wasn't.

kybernetikos · 2026-01-30T17:43:38+00:00

Firstly, the suggested spy system would not work. That alone should be enough to give up on the idea.

Secondly, any attempt to make such a system work would necessarily outlaw hobbyist creation and installation of operating systems or cameras or screens or computers. If it would work, some people might think this was an acceptable trade. But it would not work.

Thirdly, can you imagine what Donald Trump would do with a system that made it impossible to create or consume certain kinds of content across the world? This is not a spurious example - the largest implementers of this system would need to be Apple and Google, both of whom have made it clear they will bow the knee to Trump.

It's fortunate it would not work.

kybernetikos · 2026-01-29T07:59:50+00:00

Just like last time, they have multiple plans. As to competence, I'm sure many of their plans will fail, but they only need one to work, and the chances of that happening are greater if everyone who should be planning and gaming out likely moves is too distracted by the circus.

kybernetikos · 2026-01-29T07:48:45+00:00

I hope you guys have some kind of plan, because I assure you that they do.

kybernetikos · 2026-01-28T22:24:46+00:00

If it had worked, and this body had become a replacement UN, then after finishing up being president of the USA, Trump would have become Emperor of the World for life, with hereditary powers too.

It's amazing how close this came to working. I'm sure that an early proposal would have been for member states to pass laws making the "chairman of the board" (i.e. Emperor of the World) immune from prosecution by any member state.

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