I think we'd need a lot more suffering before we have enough people to start that kind of action. If we see 35% unemployment over the next 5 years with insufficient time to adjust, then maybe the pitchforks come out.
One small clarification up front, since this tends to get misread:
Cohesix isn’t trying to be a better Linux, a lighter Kubernetes, or a new ML runtime. It’s intentionally not a workload OS.
The problem it’s aimed at is the authority boundary: where control, policy, leases, and revocation live once you already have large, fast-moving OSS stacks on the host. That’s why the VM is aggressively constrained (no_std, no POSIX, no daemons) and why everything reduces to file-shaped operations with explicit budgets and failure modes.
Most of the “use X instead” answers assume you want more power inside the boundary. This goes the other way: remove power there so the remaining behavior is auditable and explainable.
If that tradeoff doesn’t resonate, it’s probably the wrong tool—and that’s OK.
Whenever a government offers loans at an interest rate which is below the risk premium, that difference essentially represents the government giving the borrower free money paid for by all citizens through loss of buying power.
So when Japan offered 0% interest loans to traders who used it to buy USD bonds, it represents the Japan government offloading the cost of the risk premium to its citizens and giving the money saved to the traders for free... But then the traders give that free money to the US government where it helps to inflate the USD currency supply to make American asset-holders richer.
The traders aren't actually profiting from the carry trade because the 4% return on US bonds doesn't cover the real inflation (loss of buying power) of the US dollar; their net worth in terms of buying power is actually the same or dropping. US asset holders are the ones actually reaping the benefit.
I will never understand these perpetually online CEOs. You company has given up its lead in AI and has been steadily falling further behind Google and Anthropic over the last year, and you have nothing better to do than reply to random people on X? Should be a clear signal to the board that there needs to be a shake up at the top.
> One of the most prestigious universities in the US offers perks to those who say they have ADHD, night terrors, even gluten intolerance. You’d be stupid not to game the system
Used to be that was called fraud and it was considered wise not to do it. I guess all that is in the past these days.
It's also important to remember that vibe coders throw away the natural language spec each time they close the context window.
Vibe coding is closer to compiling your code, throwing the source away and asking a friend to give you source that is pretty close to the one you wrote.
I don’t believe this was ever confirmed by Apple, but there was widespread speculation at the time[1] that the delay was due to the very prompt injection attacks OpenClaw users are now discovering. It would be genuinely catastrophic to ship an insecure system with this kind of data access, even with an ‘unsafe mode’.
These kinds of risks can only be _consented to_ by technical people who correctly understand them, let alone borne by them, but if this shipped there would be thousands of Facebook videos explaining to the elderly how to disable the safety features and open themselves up to identity theft.
The article also confuses me because Apple _are_ shipping this, it’s pretty much exactly the demo they gave at WWDC24, it’s just delayed while they iron this out (if that is at all possible). By all accounts it might ship as early as next week in the iOS 26.4 beta.
The comment thread is a little confusing. Your previous comment was about a large category of programs, and your new comment is about a specific program.
In terms of useful AI agents, Siri/Apple Intelligence has been behind for so long that no one expects it to be any good.
I used to think this was because they didn’t take AI seriously but my assumption now is that Apple is concerned about security over everything else.
My bet is that Google gets to an actually useful AI assistant before Apple because we know they see it as their chance to pull ahead of Apple in the consumer market, they have the models to do it, and they aren’t overly concerned about user privacy or security.
I don't know how to quantify "national appeal", but the Post had about 2.5 million paid subscribers in 2023 and ~800 newsroom staff, while The Atlantic had about 1.1 paid subscribers and ~200 newsroom staff.
Now the Post is down to ~2 million paid subscribers and 500 newsroom staff.
I don't think the Post was known as a slanted project for "the political opposition" during red or blue administrations, but it's got that reputation now.
My claim is that this new slant is responsible for the bulk of the paper's loss of paid subscribers. There's a market for rigorous, fact-checked reporting. Degrading that makes the business worse, not better.
The output is the program behavior. You use it, like a user, and give feedback to the coding agent.
If the app is too bright, you tweak the settings and build it again.
Photography used to involve developing film in dark rooms. Now my iPhone does... god knows what to the photo - I just tweak in post, or reshoot. I _could_ get the raw, understand the algorithm to transform that into sRGB, understand my compression settings, etc - but I don't need to.
Similarly, I think there will be people who create useful software without looking at what happens in between. And there will still be low-level software engineers for whom what happens in between is their job.
I think it's all he knows. His "oh, shucks" good-boy routine is what he's been doing for 15 years now, it's gotten him far, it's never been genuine, but it feels especially out of place now with much attention on him and his lies being so obvious.
I am not native english, but I think the title is misleading because it suggests that Debian could be struggling with a situation where developers would massively drift away (my first reaction was "what ?? is there really a significant amount of devs that are leaving Debian now, and why ?"), while actually it's more a discussion on how to bring awareness to a team and encourage developers to better communicate with colleagues when they have a life change that would lower their commitment (which can happen to anyone, and in any project), so that the project can better handle when a developer "drifts away".
The analogy can work if you're not looking for an HVAC at all and the HVAC guy is instead approaching you, unprompted, to explain that you need to buy this new system. Because if you don't, your business will become uncompetitive and fail.
His relationship with Epstein and the alleged secret dosing of his wife with antibiotics to clear an STD he gave Belinda from the escorts.
I hadn’t seen the denial of the STD claim when I made my comment and what went on there is murky according to the below. Bill denies and Belinda expresses sadness. What actually happened?
I personally bought a 486 (and left the Atari ST world) in the winter of 1992 precisely so I could run the earliest versions of Linux. Which were next to useless, but so was running most of the Unix-ish stuff on 68k platforms.
I have no idea why do we need to have a witch hunt like this. Many people have Epstein anyway and not all of them is able to approach his inner ring (ahem circle), but you are attacking all the people that approached or interacted with him.
And yet they'll push out AI-driven "message summaries" that are horrifically bad and inaccurate, often summarizing the intent of a message as the complete opposite of the full message up to and including "wants to end relationship; will see you later"?
