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  • U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business

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  • When Biden was president the Democrats passed the Chips Act, which has grants for chipmakers to build in the US. When Trump took power he basically stopped issuing these grants to companies that were set to get them.

    My understanding is that basically Intel will give 10% of itself if Trump stops blocking the grants it was already set to get. I guess Intel's thinking is that if they make the US a part owner, then Trump won't obstruct the company so much.

    This might sound like good news (kind of) in that the government is getting equity in return for the money, but I doubt Trump will enforce the original requirements and purpose of the grants, so Intel probably won't end up finishing many of the factories it was supposed to build. It also sets a precedent that you can't rely on goverment grants to do things as future parties may change the terms of the deal retroactively, even after you already started.

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  • Not sure if you're joking or being sarcastic, but here are a few examples where the mere absence / presence of a Y can't determine sex & gender.

    • Sometimes a person has XY chromosomes, but the body developed in a female manner because the fetal cells were resistant to testosterone. Such a person has good claim to being a woman (she developed that way) or a man (he has a Y chromosome; his brain could have been sensitive still to the testosterone to still develop male-coded)
    • Sometimes a person has XX chromosomes, but the body developed in a male manner. Usually (though not always) this is caused by part of a Y chromosome ending up on an X. Such a person has good claim to being a man (he developed that way) or a woman (maybe she lacked enough testosterone to male-encode the brain).
    • Other conditions such as XXY combinations, or chimeras (some cells XX, some cells XY), or other intersex conditions where some body parts develop male, some female.

    To me personally, I view trans people as a type of intersex person. It seems entirely possible that you might have a person whose brain cells were more or less resistant to testosterone and/or exposed to testosterone and truly is a man/woman in a woman's/man's body. You don't need to bring choice or culture into it - I think biology alone provides good evidence to believe trans people about what gender they claim to be.

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  • And people wonder why employers are hesitant to hire juniors.

  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • Lol I remember when I was around pre-school / kindergarten age and I was asking family members how to spell words so I could type into a Windows 3.1 "run program" dialog box "make sonic game".

  • Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU?

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  • No. Thankfully (at the moment) vendors are allowing us to install other OSes, but if a vendor really wanted to lock you down to Windows all they'd need to do is hide one option in the bios. I'm uncomfortable with the idea that there's no technical reason preventing the PC industry from getting as locked down as Android phones did over time.

  • Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU?

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  • Only if the motherboard vendor allows you to. Imagine buying a Dell or Asus laptop and being forced to only run Windows.

  • How to deal with a not so good related team that always asks for help?

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  • At some point you have to let them fail. Remind them of it again, so that when they cause a major issue in prod you can point out that you communicated it to them multiple times. If this team keeps causing outages (and aren't covered for by other teams) then, hopefully, management high enough will become aware of it and start to crackdown on them. I know you said elsewhere you don't want them to lose their jobs but if they can't do it, they shouldn't have it. It's not like you're sabotaging them - you're still helping them with advice and warnings. If despite that help they still can't get by, then them getting terminated is the remaining best outcome.

  • How to deal with a not so good related team that always asks for help?

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  • Not sure how straightforward this is, but maybe instead of fixing things directly, point out to them what the fix needs to be. "Oh, you have an extra comma here. Try removing that and then see if it works."

    By forcing them to be the ones that work in their code base, and also forcing them to have to fix their own problems (even if you hand-hold them through it), then maybe they'll start to show a little more care.

  • new Date("wtf")

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  • Yes and no. Wasm has no "standard library" so if you wanted to use Dates, your wasm would need to have its own implemation bundled for when the user visits the page. Ditto for everything else including string support! As you can imagine having to ship all this basic functionality can bloat the wasm and slow page loads.

    You also can't fully escape JS, as the only way wasm can interact with the page & browser are through the JS functions you write and make available to your wasm. I suppose you could take advantage of this to not have to ship your own standard library & use the JS Date implementation, but at that point why not just use JS?

    Wasm has strengths but it's not suitable for replacing JS for everyday websites.

  • What to do with too many raspberries and strawberries?

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  • +1. Buy an ice cream maker and use these to make sorbet; you'll never have too many strawberries and raspberries again.

  • Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO

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  • Your approach won't work if you're behind carrier grade NAT or you can't open ports. My landlord provides my internet so I use tailscale (with headscale on my long distance vps) to connect everything and it works great. It uses LAN when I'm home, and NAT punches when I'm elsewhere.

  • VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI

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  • You will be if you call customer support and get an AI that can't help.

  • What is Docker?

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  • Entirely depends on who's publishing the image. Many projects publish their own images, in which case you're running their code regardless.

  • FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

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  • It's not even necessarily the ISPs that are doing it. In many cases they don't like this because their users start getting blocked on websites; it's bad actors piggy-packing on legitimate users connections without those users' knowledge.

  • FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

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  • There are residential IP providers that provide services to scrapers, etc. that involves them having thousands of IPs available from the same IP ranges as real users. They route traffic through these IPs via malware, hacked routers, "free" VPN clients, etc. If you block the IP range for one of these addresses you'll also block real users.

  • Security of running Headscale on a VPS

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  • Yes but there are ways to protect against that. For instance you can configure Tailscale clients to only trust nodes that have been signed by trusted nodes, or something like that.

  • how old were you when you did drugs for the first time?

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  • I think as a young child I had a banana flavoured oral antibiotic drink drug for an ear infection.

  • If you live in the Pacific time zone what are the advantages and disadvatages over living in the Eastern time zone?

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  • This is what I do. I love it.

  • Debian in WSL not Ubuntu

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  • Work computer. I'd wipe it with Linux if I could.