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New comment by jenadine in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

jenadine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:13:13 +0000

Do you need evidence that "Natural doesn't mean healthy or good for the environment"?

Asbestos, is "natural". So is Arsenic. And CO2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

Or do you need evidence that the bio labels are not optimizing for health or environment? Check the rules. Most of them are just there to restrict synthetic products, regardless of their impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification#False_as...

New comment by jenadine in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

jenadine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:16:50 +0000

They optimise for natural. So you can still have pesticides and herbicides. If you find your poison in some plant, it is fine. If you synthetize the same molecule in a factory, then it's not allowed.

As for the animal welfare, true, but there are also labels specifically for that that.

New comment by jenadine in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

jenadine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:35:25 +0000

But it is controlled for the wrong criterias. "Natural" doesn't mean healthy or good for the environment. It is only greenwashing and "appeal to nature" fallacy

New comment by jenadine in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

jenadine — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:25:11 +0000

> strict Spanish regulation for organic produce.

Organic labels are a different thing than official regulation though. IMHO organic labels optimize for the wrong things.

New comment by jenadine in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

jenadine — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:03:11 +0000

Because users and community contributors most likely already have an account, are familiar with the UI.

There is also the "gamification" aspect that GitHub have. Doesn't motivate me personally, but could have effect on some others.

Projects on GitHub gets a lot more visibility. To the point that many projects that do not use GitHub as their main forge are still often mirroring their repository there, and have to deal with double source of bug reports or pr.

New comment by jenadine in "Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write"

jenadine — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:18:28 +0000

I guess the point is that there is no need for humans to read the code.

How often do you read assembly to check what your compiler is doing?

There is a niche of people doing it when they have special constraints, but that's a tiny niche.

New comment by jenadine in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

jenadine — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:24:28 +0000

Right. Perhaps now, a parental filter could be an AI whose prompt is dictated by the parents, which can look at the contents before validating it.

New comment by jenadine in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

jenadine — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:13:43 +0000

I have hard time imagining what is that argument, that apply to the thing you mention but that doesn't apply to hardcore pornography.

Or do you also think we should forbid hardcore pornography also for adults?

New comment by jenadine in "Zed 1.0"

jenadine — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:24:46 +0000

What's so good about GPUI?

New comment by jenadine in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

jenadine — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:44:01 +0000

So far everything is going according to the plan. Humans are really close to make the AI that will replace them and enter into the next phase of the plan.

Or do you have a better idea of what the plan exactly is?

New comment by jenadine in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

jenadine — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:43:18 +0000

> drop your Nokia and there's a chance the battery pops out.

This was actually a feature: by having the phone split in pieces, it would spread the kinetic energy and prevent worse damage.

New comment by jenadine in "Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie"

jenadine — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:55:52 +0000

"Esprit critique" ? "Sens critique" ?

New comment by jenadine in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

jenadine — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:21:53 +0000

I might be missing something, but what I need is not "stacked PR" but a proper UI and interface to manage single commit:

- merge some commits independently when partial work is ready.

- mark some commit as reviewed.

- UI to do interactive rebase and and squash and edit individual commits. (I can do that well from the command line, but not when using the GitHub interface, and somehow not everyone from my team is familiar with that)

- ability to attach a comment to a specific commit, or to the commit message.

- better way to visualize what change over time in each forced push/revision (diff of diff)

Git itself already has the concept of commit. Why put this "stacked PR" abstraction on top of it?

Or is there a difference I don't see?

New comment by jenadine in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

jenadine — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:02:59 +0000

Could you elaborate why it is more centralized?

The point is that it is resistant to censorship, it is pseudonymous, and so on (all the other bitcoin attributes apply)

New comment by jenadine in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

jenadine — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:54:46 +0000

This link explains it a bit better: https://lightning.network/ and see the paper at the end for the exact details

New comment by jenadine in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

jenadine — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:53:46 +0000

Normally, network A and network B would be connected by a path, so your bitcoins can be routed through the destination by moving balances of each intermediaries. If there is no route to the destination, you can't send them as is. You'd need to take the bitcoin out of network A and open a channel with B. And that's operations on the main chain so it may take some time.

New comment by jenadine in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

jenadine — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:13:56 +0000

On the main chain, bitcoin transactions can have "scripts" that describes who and under what condition this money can be spent.

You have to lock your bitcoin on the main chain in a script that shares the bitcoin between you, and another lightning network user (typically a hub)

The trick is that a lightning transaction happen by signing transactions to the other party that changes the way the bitcoins are split, without broadcasting it to the main chain. You only broadcast to the main chain when you want to unlock the bitcoin. Broadcasting an earlier transaction will result of you losing the found because subsequent transaction contains secrets that allow the other party to take them.

New comment by jenadine in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

jenadine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:28:41 +0000

For example https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/42905#issuecommen...

So there is now a fork: https://github.com/gpui-ce/gpui-ce/ But I don't know if that's sustainable.

New comment by jenadine in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

jenadine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:23:56 +0000

Slint has nothing to do with elecron. There is no browser under the hood so it is much more lightweight. Slint has native looking widgets. Slint DSL gets compiled to native code: no need for a runtime interpreter like in QtQuick

New comment by jenadine in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

jenadine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:21:59 +0000

The thing about Qt is the maturity ("tried and tested"). Xylem doesn't give you that.