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> Goal: 200mb RAM usage

This is why Zed is great but I just can't get used to the debugger experience so I end up back in VSCode.


Yes, but the idea is to have all of VS Code Extensions working as well, which is what Zed doesn’t have. There are just too many Extensions that people would like to use but on a less usage.

vscode debugger has always felt lacking to me; I still find myself firing up jetbrains* just for that

The funny thing is that dishes and laundry are already automated and people are still complaining about them.

Do we need a humaniform robot to move the clothes from the washer to the dryer? Maybe we just need smarter appliances.


> laundry [is] already automated

Partially. Ironing/steaming is only partially automated. Folding/hanging is not.


my dishwasher in my apartment simply doesn't work. i've tried everything, cleaning the filter, using special cleaning chemicals, vinegar, whatever. maybe if you can afford a nicer machine but if you're in an apartment and especially in one where they choose what dishwasher to use, then dish washing is not really automated at all. i rarely use mine because of how ineffective it is.

Not for that task, you don't. Just get a washer/dryer. They're very common where I live: the machine both washes and dries your clothes, and uses a heat pump system on the dryer side for high efficiency.

What's missing is a robot that will take the clothes out of your washer/dryer, fold them up, and put them away for you.


Yeah, that's Rosie from the Jetsons. Still a few years away unfortunately.

I agree with the teachers one. Having one lady in charge of educational instruction for that many kids will be looked back upon as barbarism.

The solution is more teachers, smaller class sizes and not underpaying and abusing teachers to function as nanny’s also charged with raising your children.

This isn’t exactly a mystery problem, we’ve understood clearly how to educate humans well for quite a while. It’s just that doing it properly is “eXpEnSiVe” as if the alternative, isn’t quietly orders of magnitude worse, and more costly.


Even if you doubled the number of teachers (which you won't), we're still not getting to anything that resembles individual instruction.

We're still basically warehousing those kids, and we can do better.


class sizes of 15 is better than 30 and 7 is better than 15.

So the solution is to have less ladies in charge? Who's going to wipe snot off the kids' noses, pull legos out of their mouths, and tell them not to hit each other?

> Who's going to wipe snot off the kids' noses, pull legos out of their mouths, and tell them not to hit each other?

The robots? That's what we're discussing in this thread.


But who's going to unlock the expensive items from the plexiglass case?

You mean the hot food in the display case? They still have a person for that, but they aren’t taking money.

I wonder what's stranger. That they think Trump will care about OpenAI's datacenter in Abu Dhabi, or that we're getting this news from tomshardware.com

He may care in the end, because TACO. Looks like this is a pattern of modern war where both sides are testing the escalation levels by attacking the infrastructure. It‘s like MAD, but going up in smaller increments rather than hitting with everything after one or two limited strikes like nuclear. Basically, you hit my power plant, I‘ll hit yours. It‘s the same path Ukraine went on: they initially showed restraint in responses, but now they are matching Russian pressure by choosing the same civilian targets.

Indeed. Tit for tat is well known to be an effective strategy. It's almost guaranteed to create one side that feels weaker than the other, while giving that party a way out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat


He won't care unless someone bribes him to care. This is all happening someplace not at one of his golf courses.

Well, there you have it - the principal investors in $30 billion dollar capital infrastructure projects have been known to bribe a POTUS or two.

At the very least dangle a shiny gold ball tickling trophy in his eyeline to briefly gain attention.


> by choosing the same civilian targets

not sure what the point of this propaganda is?

ukraine doesn't shoot rockets at appartments.

hitting (dual use) energy infrastructure is a completely different level then targeting civilian homes.


Nobody except Israel is setting civilian homes as targets for their rockets. Not all energy infrastructure is even remotely „dual use“ (and this label is itself propaganda used to justify strikes on non-military targets).

All Russian infrastructure of all types would be perfectly safe tomorrow if they just stopped brutally invading their neighbors. Let's be plain and clear here: the Russian moral position lies somewhere 10 miles below the floor of the deepest ocean trench. The moral high road is pretty easy to achieve.

I don‘t think „moral high roads“ have any relevance in context of this discussion. If such conversation triggers you, try to breathe and think why first.

Yes, I find that quite often morality becomes temporarily irrelevant when it's inconvenient for the party acting immorally.

Nevertheless, this is the one of the vanishingly few conflicts where there is a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes the universe gives us a break from endless grey areas. This is one of those!

If you find the idea of an autonomous sovereign state defending it's borders 'triggering' I might suggest some soothing jazz and a warm milk.

All the best


US seems to have hit more than a few apartment blocks in Tehran. But you're mostly right

This has happened in all ongoing conflicts but in only a few cases it is known to be intentional (Israeli strikes). I don‘t think USA or Iran does target residential blocks, but just like everyone else they may act on bad intelligence or it may be accidental.

And the reason is not just rules of engagement - such targets simply have negative value for attacker.


Dual use is nonsense, all power plants and highways are "dual use", hell so are farms, water treatment, dams... It's a term used exclusively to justify war crimes.

It's not a terrible target. Long-term it puts stress on US/UAE cooperation, and short-term it mirrors the destabilization inside Iran with escalation outside it.

From the armchair perspective, these sorts of strikes are exactly what I'd imagine that China is advocating for behind closed doors. A few well-placed drone strikes can cause more economic damage than any SAM shootdown or embassy attack could, tactically accelerating the war and strategically entrenching Chinese technology.


> Ignoring a law is different from knowingly and intentionally breaking the law

Huh? In a legal sense I'm pretty sure they're the same thing.


I ignore the law every day when I jaywalk. Technically, you’re right that that is also breaking the law. I wasn’t being careful with my words.

How and why matters, though.


> How and why matters, though.

How and why you break a law matters (to a judge / jury). Whether you frame it as "ignoring" vs "breaking" in your legal defense, not so much.


I agree; I attempted to clarify that with my “not using words carefully” but that is a fair criticism of what I wrote.

That’s not how words work. This sentence

> I ignore the law every day when I jaywalk.

Means the exact same thing as “I intentionally break jaywalking laws every day”. They are equivalent sentences.


I agreed with you; that is why I said I wasn’t being careful with my language.

What does that mean

> I ignore the law every day when I jaywalk

Not illegal here, but I hope you not complain when caught and fined.


Jaywalking was illegal in NYC until 2025 but literally every crossing had people doing it constantly. This is not figurative, it actually is literal.

Including people doing it in front of police. Including the police themselves!

The law only existed for police to harass and fine blacks and Latinos. And indeed, that was how it was struck down.

It is critical to a just society that victims of unjust laws or uneven enforcement complain!


There is a difference between "fake it till you make it" and "blatant widespread fraud", but the line is blurrier than many startups would like to admit.

It should be profitable from just the eggs (source also wife) unless you're overpaying for server costs

The first week after we got chickens my wife comes to me upset and tells me one of them died overnight. Apparently it's covered in slime and neither of us knows what to make of that.

A few days later it happens again. Huh, so she asks some locals what the heck is going on. It turns out a big snake was getting in there and eating the chicken, but then he was too fat to get back out of the coop so he had to barf it up to escape.


Skyrocketed above 5% is an expression I would discourage anyone from using because it's a broken metaphor. Unless the trajectory of that rocket was a few degrees from horizontal.

How about grasshopper-ed above 5%?


The number doubled in the last year. April 2025 it was around 2.3%, and has been jumping around 2-3% for several years. Skyrocking seems justified when looking at a greater picture.

Though, it's a longer process, not something that suddenly happened immediately. The combination of Steamdeck, proton, good gaming-distributions and Windows 10 phasing out, while Windows 11 sucks and becoming an AI+Ads-infested mess, seems to have pushed this trend. So let's see how high this sky will be.

Edit: Found a good visualization: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/


Right but clearly 5% is still much closer to the ground than it is to the sky. Not that ground-rocketed makes any more sense because it doesn't.

Skyrocketing in this context is a fast steep rise, moving fast toward the sky; so it's about relative height in a specific timeframe, not absolute height. I mean, nobody would say Windows is skyrocketing, because it already is the sky (here).

Things can skyrocket whilst being relatively small compared to other things.

It creates semantic dissonance. There's nothing wrong with saying it doubled to 5% which is much more informative anyway.

It's been an exponential curve since 2022.

https://gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker


Let's revisit that topic if the FED raises interest to 5%.

How does a hacker steal a website? So many questions.

You steal the domain name, not the website so to speak. Which would mean someone got their registrar credentials most likely.

And transferred it away? Registrars make it really hard to do that if you're not the actual person. I'm finding it hard to believe someone can do this anonymously.

Yeah that’s because it’s not what happened. It’s a common expiration snipe.

That's neither hacking nor stealing

Legally and technically no, but it borders on both...

No it doesn't. If you were careless and let your domain expire, anyone can register it. There is no legal gray area here.

If you otherwise have a copyright claim to the name that's a separate issue.


Except the domain did not expire, if you check WHOIS.

Oh my bad. Top comment when I had said this was a claim that it was expiration related. Sorry for piling on to the claim.

I mean... anything is possible at zombocom

Registration expires, someone snaps it up immediately. It happened to a customer of mine with a domain that was their name. It pointed at a page saying it was available for sale for $4000.

Don't domain registars auto-renew domains for you?

If your credit card is current. One of the "oh, this gets into trouble" is when you do a 10 year registration paid in advance and the credit card on file expires before the auto-renewal time.

The registrar will poke you, and put up warnings when you log into the server to check on your account that your auto renewal is coming up soon and the card on file has expired.

But if you're not paying attention to your domain registrations, or the renewal reminder emails get sent to the spam folder, or you've lost access to the original email address that you had to register it a decade ago, then godaddy is quite happy to put up a lander page with some inflated price on it and sell it to someone else.


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