Absolutely. We give a system design problem in a blank shared document. as a conversation starter.

Even open questions like "how did you select that technology component over this other one, and what are the tradeoffs?" We're getting long-winded, overly formal, mechanical definitions instead of an honest conversation.

This looks nice. It's debian based, which (I guess?) means they modified any debian package depending on systemd to use an alternative.

I kind of wish debian had made service management pluggable like they did with desktop environment.

Yes it's come to this for us, too. We had 3/3 interviews this week clearly and mechanically reading definitions at us instead of discussing tradeoffs. We're a full remote company but we're considering onsite interviews now.

I think it will.

Now they don't have to go negotiate for every WB content item. As it stands, subscribers might or might not get WB things, same as all the other IP holders that are playing hard to get. Otherwise, they might have to contract some seasons of a show from one holder and some from another, and maybe not at all sometimes.

Sign in with X is a deal breaker.

I agree its not ideal, and I think that will fundamentally limit it for now.

The problem (and my solution) is that x has a convenient way to get every user a name, a profile picture and a way to be linked-back to something else immediately. I like the web-ness of the web. This supports that.

From a technical standpoint, never uploading any images while still letting everyone start with a profile picture simplifies the content policing and cetainly makes storage easier. There's no R2 or S3 here. Though pfps are so small that I doubt I'd have much trouble with policing, unlike other image uploads.

On the technical side there is also no need for me to send emails, or for password handling or password recovery, which makes MVP easier. The sheer technical minimalism made creating this quite fast and let me focus on a snappy and fun ux.

So right now its a site for twitter/x users to better link with each-other. I kind of liked the idea of a different globe for different services (one for IG users, one for Substack users), but that's probably not feasible. (Substack, for one, has no oauth for it!)

Everyone has an email — there should always be an option to sign up with email.

I don’t get how anyone can put “sign in with x” on their website

Same caveat as other types of water harvesting: you have to have water in your air to extract. Arid regions need not apply.

The assertion in the article is that:

   Even in desert conditions, there exists some level of humidity that, with the right material, can be soaked up and squeezed out to produce clean drinking water. In recent years, scientists have developed a host of promising sponge-like materials for this “atmospheric water harvesting.”

The number returned by Google (for what that's worth) is:

  The Sahara Desert has an average relative humidity of 25 percent.

In the part of the world with driest air and least rainfall ... you could always melt the ice underfoot.

Imagine if future climate change caused legal disputes about neighbours drying the air too much before it gets to others.

This kind of tech always gets spun as "water harvesting for deserts" but somehow it never makes it to more efficient dehumidifiers.

They talked around something like that in the article "...who envisions a practical, household system..."

That made it sound like a (practical) dehumidifier, not a (futuristic) personal water harvester.

Sahara desert average air humidity is .. I think 25%?

As far as I know most air trap type humidity stuff works in the desert, just not as quickly as in, say, the jungle.

If we give up the ability to negotiate, then we would not be able to have this conversation in the future. As we have seen many times, all over the world, authoritarian regimes will absolutely suppress dissent and chill speech if they have the tools. Today maybe it's adult content. They're already attacking the press and anyone critical about the administration: they keep trying to get the corporations to fire their comedians and rein in their reporters. So this isn't slippery slope. We're there and nearing the bottom.

I would like to see a detection of when I want a one sentence answer and when I want a full interactive explanation with flowcharts and tables and diagrams.

My most common usecase now is "give me a quick answer because I don't want to wade through the search engine results page and then wade through the blog to get my one liner. Eg: "what's the command line to untar an xz over ssh?"

I hear you, but why not use something like Google AI Mode or AI Overviews for that? That's pretty hard to beat for simple questions in terms of speed, especially for one-liners.

One benefit is that they could use just phind, making it more sticky.

Including this near miss for Lie group E8 which at least had a pretty diagram and made some predictions about new particles. It looks like it was disproven.

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