The lack of faceid is very surprising - it’s by and large one of my favorite features esp in winter.

Apple is the champion of removing features. It gives them room to bring them back in the next edition

At least where I live there’s a shortage of doctors so you can’t negotiate with them . There’s a shortage of nurses too, but if you lose 1 nurse because they’re striking it’s bad but things don’t collapse. With 1 fewer doctor who also knows and is allowed to do things nurse don’t / can’t things get really bad. They also have access to power, are often elected, and are respected.

Nurses need to unionize I think and strike to get something .

So that’s what I thought - but if I hadn’t been exposed to it early I don’t think I’d have gone back to it as an adult.

So I think it’s useful.

I got bitten by that one - I remember my 3d engine going all wrong because I hadn’t realized I couldn’t mix mmx and fpu registers unless I was willing to pay for the extraordinarily expensive EMMS (?) instruction

Yes im reading it now. I find that the total lack of formalism makes things difficult from time to time just like his insistence on using basic geometry when there are easier ways. That being said, its an excellent book.

Ok so stl here is not standard template library. I was very confused for a minute.

.STL files are the most common file format for 3D printing. STL is short for stereolithography, which is usually abbreviated SLA

Same here. Nothing made sense

Doesn’t work for me. I used to be able to read in cars but over the years I’ve reached a point where I last maybe two minutes, except if I’m on a straight road where it takes longer. I was really hopeful this would work but clearly it doesn’t .

Yeah I tried to have a conversation about security yesterday with Claude and it immediately stopped me - I was taken aback, I didn’t expect it at all.

This is highly problematic.

Claude's "I'm going to draw the line here", "This is where I'm going to hold the ground" always rubs me the wrong way. Classifiers rejecting a request are one thing, but there's something very troubling about machine saying "I'm going to draw the line".

Lol that’s so hostile. It’s insane how much the language of these models create real unaddressed human reactions.

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

I found GPT 5.3 was the last model that was sufficiently competent and still open to discuss security on my own github repos. 5.4 started refusing to even look at potential problems, albeit not consistently. I'm considering a Kimi subscription, but I know many employers will simply not be on board with this and I don't know if I get enough personal use out of this for the few things I run on servers. When those companies realize what they're currently missing out on, it will be a game-changer.

keep in mind that Kimi trains on your data, so if you care about that, sandbox what it has access to.

They only train on the subscription memberships. Like everyone else. They also have a metered API that is not used for training (like most others too).

With Openai and Anthropic, you can opt-out of training. Kimi you can't.

Wdym? According to their FAQ, you can opt-out for Kimi memberships too.

Recently Claude helped me fix a security issue and while it was present Claude would talk.

But after I fixed it and tried to talk to Claude again Claude stonewalled me like it assumed I was trying to introduce a hole…

Models are treated as weapons with export controls - if they can do this it’s with the blessing of the Chinese government who’s getting something out of it.

It’s fairly obviously about being a nuisance to the US.

Not everything that happens in the world is about the USA

Indeed and I’m not American, and don’t work in the US. It is however fairly obvious to me. We agree to disagree.

Linux has gone mainstream a long time ago - from dvd players to android phones. It just hasn’t succceeded on old preexisting markets ( personal computers ) but has taken large parts of most of the newly created ones ( servers , mobile devices , embedded devices etc )

I feel like this is a little nitpicky. Clearly they are talking about mainstream for the average home computer user as a daily driver OS. Even with the steam deck it’s barely touching 5%. It’s still obscure and mysterious to the vast majority of the population in a way windows and macOS aren’t.

I've been a techie my whole life, and for me, the mysterious OS is macOS. I haven't used it since high school (late 90s), which is when I picked up linux at home.

I was never able to afford mac products as a young person, and now that I can, I wouldn't part with linux.

I really don’t feel like I need to explain how this is not what I’m talking about.

Okay, well this is: I've installed ubuntu for my elderly father, who is the opposite of a techie.

He didn't know the difference. He can still browse the web and play solitaire, just like on windows.

He ran it for a few years. Then he bought a new device and hasn't asked for my help.

This is still not what we are talking about. This has nothing to do with ease of use when set up or the practical considerations of swapping. Linux is not mainstream in the consumer world. People do not really know what it is. It is still mysterious and personal computer installation is far from turnkey.

I know but I’m not sure it actually matters.

To many people the internet and internet explorer ( or edge ) are the same thing, and for almost everyone I know , the daily driver is the phone or tablet OS not the laptop/desktop OS. And I’m not even talking about the ones who live in a browser.

I started using Linux in 96 and for many years it was going to be the year of Linux on the desktop. It never happened , and I’m not sure it’s that important these days , given the gigantic presence Linux has, and the way people interact with computing devices in general these days .

Edit / clarification : there are a lots of computer professionals on HN, and as such see actual pcs / Macs etc a lot. Many people don’t and just see their phones.

The percentage of computers involved running Windows when you Google, Netflix, Amazon, Bank, Email on your Windows laptop is less then 50%.

As I said to the other person, I really don’t feel like I need to explain how this is not what we are talking about.

Go ask 100 random people to name 1 Linux distro.

Go ask 100 people what operating system they're using and if they do say windows, ask them what version.

With the steam deck 5% is around 300% to 500% growth over the last 5 years

Yes - but this will be the year of Linux on the desktop.

one of the more interesting things about the harnesses and agents is that they solve a lot of the ops issues in both linux and windows desktops.

A prompt with - "disable telemetry, disable useless services and memory hogging ones, disable auto restart" makes windows quite bearable.

The core difference there being, those settings will stick on Linux, and Microsoft will happily revert them next Windows feature update without telling you.

Not when you have disabled the updates and put the script in scheduled tasks.

Sysiphus be like

And then on the next Windows update they will all be turned back on again.

I mean Playstation uses FreeBSD 11.