There’s no 16 Pro silver. Design changes are one half, colors are the other half. In total, people know you have a new phone or an old phone.

Where are the open source planes, trains, and automobiles? Medical equipment? Nuclear reactors? Open source cannot afford the quantity control/verification need for these domains. It’s the same for phones. At best you’re going to get an insecure mess.

Did a nation state ask GrapheneOS to add that feature?

They're removing black to force people to either upgrade, or make it painfully obvious to their peers that they're using an old phone. That's what you do when there is nothing new in your phone this year. Status signaling and fashion.

They made 4,000 copies of this aircraft. That’s only $12.5 million per, in today’s dollars.

Don’t get LASIK. Get Wavelight Plus ray-tracing guided LASIK. The outcomes are incredibly improved.

This is interesting, but I’m curious how much of the effect is due to getting paid $15, and how much the data was affected by the fact that everyone was isolated in COVID lockdown at the time.

In my experience, these cars are old and decrepit, and force you to breathe locomotive engine exhaust all the time, and especially when the train is idling. It’s a fast track to cancer. Don’t spend any more time than you need to in one. They do not offer the air quality of a modern passenger rail car. Heck, I wouldn’t even sleep in a modern rail car at night, in a rail yard, when all systems are off.

Please don’t have it run in a virtual machine. Or at least the JVM. All of Jetbrains products would be 10x better if not written in Java. Native is best.

Do you remember how the world got all kinds of weird cults before we got good at identifying cults and the phenomenon of cults? Well, the FSF/GPL is one of those. Many people still need to be deprogrammed.

Huh? Open source licenses long predate Stallman. He was, at best, an opportunist who tried to coopt the OSS movement and take it into a kooky ideological niche.

It's interesting that AI fulfilled for the common user—through vibe coding—the mission which GNU/FSF could not: the freedom to create any software you want at any time. And it's ironic that of all of the software used to create AIs (like PyTorch and NVIDIA's CUDA stack), none of it was licensed GPL, though plenty of it is OSS. GNU is no longer relevant and, compared to MIT and BSD licenses, really never was. RIP FSF.

It’s undefined behavior. It will never be stable. Investigating every permutation of zero-utility undefined behavior in the universe is borderline insane. Will the author next investigate exactly how a 2002 Fiat becomes inoperable after a head on collision with a 2025 Volkswagen? These are all deep dives into infinite chaos.

Allocating memory with C and freeing it with Rust is silly. If you want to free a C-allocated pointer in Rust, just have Rust call back in to C. Expecting that allocators work identically in both runtimes is unreasonable and borderline insane. Heck, I wouldn't expect allocators to work the same even across releases of libc from the same vendor (or across releases of Rust's std).

Why not use deep red lights instead, which are sometimes used in wildlife areas to reduce sleep disruption for animals?