ilikepi

They talk about it in a couple segments because they held off at first until getting confirmation...here's the YouTube version with some timestamps:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcvPifFSUL0&t=32m29s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcvPifFSUL0&t=47m12s

ilikepi

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Not only that, but iOS 18.7.8 actually seems to be available to devices capable of running iOS 26 without any workarounds, unlike 18.7.3 through .6. It makes me wonder if those intermediate releases really were supposed to be available but weren't due to some issue on the distribution side that no one bothered to fix.

ilikepi

il y a 5 moisdiscuss

There's a name for this sort of phenomenon...

https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/242/escape-goat/

ilikepi

il y a 5 moisdiscuss

This seems like a nice breakdown of some options:

https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/

(Not affiliated)

ilikepi

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Every 5x5 Nonogram was featured previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140918

The improvements are solid! I think 5x6 was the right call...it's a good balance of being able to reuse strategies from 5x5 but also having to develop some new strategies.

ilikepi

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Just note that listing is for an item from a third-party seller. Walmart's website includes listings from their third-party marketplace unless you explicitly filter them out.

ilikepi

il y a 9 moisdiscuss

This may interest you: https://adsb.exposed/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990346

ilikepi

il y a 9 moisdiscuss

> I've seen codebases that enforce these commit prefixes such as "chore", "feat", "bugfix" etc. Is there any real value to that?

It's a choice some teams make, presumably because _they_ see value in it (or at least think they will). The team I'm on has particular practices which I'm sure would not work on other teams, and might cause you to look at them with the same incredulity, but they work for us.

For what it's worth, the prefixes you use as examples do arise from a convention with an actual spec:

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

ilikepi

il y a 9 moisdiscuss

> Or otherwise you can enable the app exposé feature to swipe down with three fingers and it will show you only windows of the same app.

If you have an Apple keyboard, CTRL-F3 (without the Fn modifier) will do the same. Not sure if there are third-party keyboards that support Mac media keys, but I'm guessing there are some at least...

ilikepi

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Welp, now that there is confirmation that lawyers are involved, the chances there will be any of sort of open and transparent reconciliation process have plummeted.

ilikepi

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Er...FYI, your [2] link is to a discussion about an article written by the person to whom you are responding.

Personally, I think the reason this post about gem.coop has been flagged is that we've reached the point at which new HN threads about things related to the recent RubyGems shake-up quickly devolve into people rehashing the DHH "aspect" of it all. So it has become less about flagging the actual target of the post and more about flagging the parts of the discussion that seem to go nowhere.

EDIT: expanded

ilikepi

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

There have been several releases with incremental but still notable performance improvements. The overall cadence has been pretty steady, intentionally targeting roughly one minor release per year since 2019-ish, with handfuls of quality of life improvements in each. Arguably RubyGems and Bundler are infrastructure, so the major feature is stability. What sort of big feature are you imagining is missing from your dependency management system?

ilikepi

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

Not sure what post you have in mind, but Kenji Alt-Lopez's video[1] on the topic is excellent. If I remember right, it's based on work he did with a well-known food publication (or show or something)...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0Elaa6gxY

ilikepi

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

This thread has probably run its course, and newer postings[1] have more information, but I'll respond anyway if it's helpful...

> How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar...

The official RubyGems projects in question were under a GitHub organizational account, not a single user's account. A subset of the maintainers had the "owner" flag on the org. One of those folks basically initiated the takeover. See [2] for a more detailed recounting.

[1]: Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390 - September 2025 (107+ comments)

[2]: https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/#the-takeover

ilikepi

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

There is some more context on a post[1] in /r/ruby, including the fact that the maintainers and others had been working on a proposal[2] for a formalized organizational governance structure as recently as yesterday. The latter also adds some context into Mike McQuaid's involvement: the proposal was influenced by the structure put in place by the Homebrew project.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1nkzszc/ruby_centrals...

[2]: https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/61

ilikepi

il y a 11 moisdiscuss

Ah, since Atlassian has been increasingly messing with Trello over the past couple years, it has really gone to shit. I currently have a Firefox profile dedicated solely to it, using >2 gigs of memory and about 1/3 of an M1 core. It has cumulatively used about a day's worth of CPU time in since I booted in 6 days ago. In contrast, the profile dedicated to Slack is using 750 MB and has burned about 27 minutes of CPU time.

ilikepi

il y a 12 moisdiscuss

One reason might be that one owns more than one set...for example, living in an area that has both hot summers and cold winters, we have summer sheets (sateen) and winter sheets (fleece).

ilikepi

l’année dernièrediscuss

> One is that with some frontends you can't actually get the raw context window so the LLM is actually more capable of seeing what happened than you are. The other is that these context windows are often giant and making the LLM read it for you and guess at what happened is a lot faster than reading it yourself to guess what happened.

I feel like this is some bizzaro-world variant of the halting problem. Like...it seems bonkers to me that having the AI re-read the context window would produce a meaningful answer about what went wrong...because it itself is the thing that produced the bad result given all of the context.

ilikepi

l’année dernièrediscuss

Woohoo, thanks! :)

ilikepi

l’année dernièrediscuss

There are a couple examples linked in another comment[1], so they do exist. The author of the game has stated[2] they excluded about 1/4 of all possible configurations to avoid including puzzles that required too much trial and error. Perhaps symmetry leads to more ambiguity than asymmetry, and therefore more than ~1/4 of symmetrical configurations were excluded?

Your comment made me curious about how often symmetry occurs in the full set of all possible 5x5 configurations. I took a shot at calculating this as an exercise, but I am a bit rusty when it comes to combinatorics...

First consider mirror symmetry via the center column. There are 2^5 configurations of the center column, and for each of those, there are 2^10 configurations of the left two columns. Since we are mirroring the right two columns from the left two, the number of configurations exhibiting mirror symmetry via the center column is 2^5 * 2^10 = 2^15. Rotating these 90 degrees gives us mirror symmetry via the center row, which is another 2^15 configurations. Mirror symmetry via the corner-to-corner axes, which also have 5 squares, is another pair of 2^15 configurations. So now we're at 2^17 configurations for mirror symmetry for the four axes.

Radial symmetry is slightly harder to describe, but it involves similar partitioning. You can partition the 5x5 grid into two 12-square subsets excluding the center square:

    x x x x x
    x x x x x
    x x . o o
    o o o o o
    o o o o o

For any given configuration of the x-subset, you flip and reverse that to get the configuration of the o-subset. There are 2^12 possible configurations of the x-subset. Since there are two possible values of the center square, that gives us 2^13 configurations of two-subset radial symmetry. I believe rotating 90 or 180 degrees simply produces another configuration that has already been accounted for.

There is also four-subset radial symmetry:

    a a a B B
    a a B B B
    D a . c B
    D D D c c
    D D c c c

however, I think these would all be special cases of two-subset radial symmetry. If I pick a random configuration for the a-partition and apply it to the other subsets, it matches a configuration that would appear in the two-subset group:

    a a a B B    X X o B B    X X o o X
    a a B B B    o X B B B    o X X X X
    D a . c B => D X . c B => o X . X o
    D D D c c    D D D c c    X X X X o
    D D c c c    D D c c c    X o o X X

So between mirror symmetry and radial symmetry we have: 2^17 + 2^13 = 139,264. There are a total of 2^25 = 33,554,432 configurations irrespective of symmetry, so that's 17/4096 or roughly 0.415% that are symmetric...a bit more than 1/256.

EDIT: And by some hilarious bit of fate, I just went to go knock out a few puzzles to reset my brain, and the first one I completed[3] exhibits mirror symmetry in one of the diagonal axes. I'm pretty sure this is the first one I've hit in over 1000 solves.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148396

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44141047

[3]: https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram#3328511

EDIT: formatting; add link to symmetric puzzle

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