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I don't know if you're based in the US, but here in Europe I used Xometry and, while expensive for what you're getting, it was pretty reasonable.

I built a cyberdeck bigger than this and the case came out to be around 30 euros.


> Why would they prioritize national interests? Because they were elected to do so?

How about because they are human people like you and me. You don't think you are a bad guy who always does things only in your own interest right? So why do you think they are like that?

How about if they really screw people over they know there will be mass protests

etc.


Ok - this obviously doesn't work everywhere but recently was flown to a city for an interview. Day long, full loop, 5 45 min interviews + 1 working session with a panel. Had dinner with the team the night before.

There's no way to cheat at that point. You either have what they need (yay btw) or its not a fit


On the other hand, I've had extremely skilled senior Indian colleagues who were essentially paid like juniors.

YMMV


I feel this explains our "productivity puzzle" quite well - A lack of infrastructure and R&D investment that is holding the UK back and really needs to be fixed.

From the author's Reddit post <https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/1ot83o4/y...>:

>I’ve got my HP 9000 Model 340 booting over the network from an HP 9000 Model 705 in Cluster Server mode and I’ve learned some very unsettling things about HP-UX and its filesystem.

>Boot-up video at the end of the blog, where I play a bit of the original version of Columns.


Aren't there other ways to load and parse a technical format like RSS to a human-readable format? Like you would do with JSON.

Or can't you polyfill this / use a library to parse this?


yeah, it would be too ironic if so tho

In all seriousness, XSLT looked stillborn even 25 years ago when it was introduced.

So you're not able to trust inference providers like Google Cloud w/ ZDR etc with your data?

I’m currently creating a simple community where people can honestly share their emotions and empathize with others’ feelings (without comments). It’s a web community where users can receive a comforting message from AI based on emotion analysis of their text, emojis, and chosen colors.

If you have any ideas or comments for improvement, feel free to reply anytime! (For reference, this service is designed for Korean users — I’m Korean myself.)


Thought they’re talking about airsoft lol

> Remind me what was Google's profit last year?

Last i checked, google isn't a charity.


> For some reason people seem to think raising awareness is all you need to do.

I don't think many do.

It's just that raising awareness is the first step (and likely the only one you'll ever see anyway, because for most topics you aren't in a position where convincing *you* in particular has any impact).


Yes. How i tried to solve it: you have a shopping list where you can add things on the fly. These things will need to be categorized (food, household supplies etc) at a later date, which is when the review is due for the "Uncategorized" category.

Generally, i tend to buy the same things, so the "big" data entry job happens only once.


Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing

Chatbot vendors routinely make up a new benchmark, then brag how well their hot new chatbot does on it. Like that time OpenAI’s o3 model trounced the FrontierMath benchmark, and it’s just a coincidence that OpenAI paid for the benchmark and got access to the questions ahead of time.

Every new model will be trained hard against all the benchmarks. There is no such thing as real world performance — there’s only benchmark numbers.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/06/oxford-pretends-ai-benchm...


China dominates refining, which is also a nasty industry. The mining is done in many places.

> China's "If it develops a market, yes" answer to that is their strategic advantage.

i.e. long term thinking is their strategic advantage.


At least not neighbors likely to be alarmed when their neighbors run out of their garage at odd hours of the night, pushing a flaming cart and screaming "fire!"...

Even if so, I don't think anyone doubts that they do have functional nuclear weapons. Maybe not all 5000 of them, but definitely enough to use them if they want to.

I think the whole narrative of "well maybe Russian nukes don't actually work" is unhelpful - if they wanted to use nuclear weapons they would and the weapons used would work. I think people sometimes think Russia is North Korea experimenting with sticks to make fire(and even they have managed to get something working) - despite the massive corruption their nuclear industry and the engineering corps are functional and it's in my mind without a doubt that there is a stockpile of weapons which would work if needed.

Russia is just not suicidal enough to actually use them in the current conflict, luckily.


When I hire, I always look at personal github projects. They are a hint that the person loves coding and loves creating software. I'm not looking for 1000 stars projects, and I don't even look at the kind of project, just the fact that the candidate has done some work in his spare time.

If there's no github project, I ask the candidate what website, web communities he watches/participates in regularly. I check if they are related to programming or building software (bonus point if you read HN :-)).

Both are good signs that there is an interest in the job that goes beyond paycheck.


Zensical team here. It's perfectly usable – we're of course building our own docs with it and the first users have already switched – but you have to have an eye on compatibility. Whether you can switch right now largely depends on which plugins you're using from the MkDocs ecosystem. We have an entire section on compatibility.[1]

If Material for MkDocs ticks off all or most of the boxes, you can definitely start using it, and switch later once everything you need is available. Our promise to the 70k+ projects using Material for MkDocs is that we'll make switching to Zensical as simple as possible with automatic conversion tooling once we ship certain functionality. The compatibility we have now is a first step towards that goal.

[1]: https://zensical.org/compatibility/


If we throw out everything that is a vector for a Chinese supply chain attack / supports them economically then there won’t be any tech in the West

This feels like the painkiller autism thing. Some crazies theory became law


And also don't expect smooth sailing with WebGPU yet, unless all your users have modern mainstream browsers with up to date hardware.

Dutch is the only language I know that uses the "ij" digraph, where other languages write "ei", "ay", maybe "y".

Same reason it got out of every other industry. It wasn't short-term profitable. After the 70s at least everything began moving to the private sector and there was no strategic thinking. This completed in the 90s and there was no reason for anyone to think that semi-conductors, minerals, even oil and gas now shouldn't be bought from a friend rather than being produced internally.

I pay for usenet indexers and access, VPNs and Plex. I also pay for Netflix, Sky for Appletv.

The piracy setup costs far more to run the streaming services.

I do it for the quality and the all in 1 nature. I pay for the streaming services too, which makes me feel less bad about it. I should cut one or the other, but haven’t yet.


No, we have build custom importer. e.g you can import a csv and map it's columns to what we need internally. We also allow some logic in importer. E.g. to figure if a row is credit or debit. etc. It should be feasible to import most csv statements. PDFs and Excels should also work, except for some complicated cases where a transaction is spread across multiple rows.

There are a few custom importers also, for indian context.

In other words, all processing happens locally.


I haven't found this to be the case as much. Posted a job, got 100 applications, at least 10 had referrals. 10 is manageable for me to sift through but not the win the applicant thought. More than that, I found a colleague had a whole google form process to farm out referrals.

I mean, you can just do that in the browser too. "Enter ID" allows you to enter the MusicBrainz UUID (or just full URL). You can even do in the command itself.

  beet import "Iron Maiden.zip" -S 4500ad36-5f92-4e4c-bb24-3a9a57faf550

Most people who use xslt like the grandparent described were never using it on the client side but on the server side. Nothing google chrone does will effect the server side.

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