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Destin of Smarter Every Day went down the drain in my books as soon as he published a video about Flagella, and ended it by suggesting it could be intelligent design and told viewers to read a book authored by someone who is a staunch believer of intelligent design.

Crossed the line as a science Youtuber. You don't need to be athiest to be a scientist, and he definitely isn't. But you should at least know the line.

Finding out this site is basically just a copy of something that already existed and something they knew existed just further degrades my opinion of him. Especially with it being littered with ads. The ad literally takes up half my screen.


That's a bit harsh.

I don't agree with intelligent design either simply because it is based on no data or scientific theory.

I also expect Destin to know better than to suggest that.

But still, I wouldn't say he went down the drain.

His contributions far outweigh this.


He’s openly been a Christian since the beginning of his channel.

Many science channels are run by Christians without these issues, that wasn't the problem.

Stating Christian ideals like intelligent design is definitely something I’d expect from a Christian.

I'd expect that from a Christian as well, but not in the channel they bill as "I explore the world using science. That is pretty much all there is to it" in the description.

It's even more than fine to have a channel which mixes both, just don't claim science is all there is going to be to it.


"The goal of this website is to spread the amazing actions, feats, and words of the men and women currently aboard the International Space Station."

It is so easy for me to separate the art from the artists, study me


The goal of the website is clearly to serve ads.

What does this have to do with the linked page? Not a criticism...I just don't understand like I am missing context.

It took me a second too but "WHO IS IN SPACE? | ©2026 Smarter Every Day" was "this site" in:

> Finding out this site is basically just a copy of something that already existed and something they knew existed just further degrades my opinion of him


He went down my drain a long time ago for the same reason. I also find it funny how his good ole boy down south project to make a grill scrubber has basically just re-discovered what all the predominately atheist city slickers have been trying to tell the predominantly Republican voting south, which is that unregulated free market capitalism is the problem.

The problem he found was not unregulated free market capitalism, rather the opposite. Suppliers and supply chains did not operate on the free market and the denigration of manufacturing in north America due to worker/talent shortage

Outsourcing to cheaper locales is the unregulated free market at work. Why would the free market pay you more when I can pay less to someone else, for equivalent enough work? Because you’re an American? The unregulated market does not care about that factor. Manufacturing doesn’t pay enough to attract workers, if it did, this wouldn’t be a problem.

This is an exceedingly simplified version of a roughly hour long video in which he points out problems and gives credit to capitalism.

As a publisher who relied on Adsense it’s so sad to see how Google is absolutely destroying the industry with every user hostile practice imaginable. It’s absolutely disgusting and pathetic. They are hooked on a type of crack that will ruin the product in the long run.

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It doesn't seem they have problems with the content existing in itself or desire his arrest over it. They're just disappointed in things like billing that as science or copying someone else's free stuff for ad revenue and that lowered their view of them.

Maybe that's not reasonable, maybe it is, but I dunno enough details about Galileo's prosecution to follow this comparison as a take on that - did he try to claim heliocentrism was the word of God and so some religious people said they stopped liking his works because of the false billing? Where'd the house arrest come in?


The line is don't push your religion in your science content. Not a hard line to not cross.

LLMs change the calculus on DRY in some cases. I would say it's still very much a no-no on the frontend side of things. Code repetition is directly correlated with bad loading performance. When you're optimising for people on slow mobile connections, your HTML/JS/CSS being 500KB instead of 1.5MB matters a lot.

That only matters in context: if this repetition allows you to forego React and a zillion JS libraries you’re better off in the end performance wise.

I have never seen a single website where performance downgrade was caused by HTML.

However I’m not advocating for it, just making the case that it’s very hard to do worse than we’re currently doing with front end development.


The folding/unfolding animation is one of the coolest I've seen from a foldable. So slick.

That impressed me too. Be if those “Apple touches” of yore. I kind of wonder how well it works in person, but it’s nice that it’s there at all.

Lets consider something like the right to take sick leave. There is no strict definition of what "sickness" is. It is something that YOU feel impacts your ability to work. Maybe a bad nights sleep, sore back, headache, runny nose, bad tummy, etc. There's no need to provide any amount of proof to an employer when taking a single day off sick, and they need to pay at least the statutory sick pay, many companies pay full.

Most people agree that this rule works well in practice. Most people don't take a sick day because they don't feel 100%, even when its within their rights. If everyone decided to take Monday off because they're sick, that would be possible within the law, there's no need to provide proof you're sick. Yet, if that happened, the country would grind to a halt.

Now ask yourself, how could you implement that without eroding someone's rights and without introducing more friction?

Sometimes, you just have to assume that people are honest and won't take the piss out of the system. Or you have to introduce friction to discourage the exercise of their rights. The friction for sick leave is that you usually have to notify your employer ASAP and that you may have to fill out a return to work form.


Never really a sound argument.

It's like having new solar panels installed every week. Sure you're "profitable" on the $0.20/kWh you're selling your "free" energy at when you ignore the cost of the solar panels you're buying every week.


It is a sound argument in the context of trying to estimate what it costs them to generate this specific output. They have training cost eather way.


That doesn't apply to a corporate travel portal. If you're on the portal, you're booking a business trip. You're not going to not book a trip because it takes 1 click too many.


That's approximated by the portals - the people building these go and look at Expedia for their flow and design ideas... so the information permeates across.


Because now you're locked into the Rust ecosystem.

JSONRPC over Unix sockets is a better interface for language agnostic IPC.


How does a cross language IPC library being written in Rust lock you into the Rust ecosystem if you can use it in C++ and other programming languages listed here https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2#language-binding....

You have to engage in a significant amount of motivated reasoning to believe that.


Yeah but not any language.

JSONRPC can be trivially implemented in any language which can read/write a Unix socket. Which is any language worth using.

It's the trade off for performance and accessibility.


iceoryx2 maintainer here. Of course everybody has different requirements when it comes to IPC and if a rich set of supported languages is the highest priority, then protocols like JSONRPC are a good option. But using such protocols for local IPC also has downsides, especially when the amount of data increases and the available resources are limited. This is where iceoryx2 has its strengths by utilizing shared memory for communication. We also split up the data flow from the control flow and one could send data to other processes without a context switch, in a way similar to what io_uring is doing. There is an upcoming blog post where we describe the possibilities shared memory enables compared to using sockets. I'll post it here once it is published.

Like another poster already commented, while iceoryx2 is implemented in Rust, it already support other languages, like C, C++, C# and Python. We'd love to add even more languages to the list, with Go being on top of our wishlist, but like always with OSS, someone needs to do the work or needs to step up and fund the work.


Yeah, I know the benefits. There isn't a lot of data transferred though. The GitHub repo for this robot has design decisions on it so you can read their reasoning for themselves.

At the end of the day, it's an open source robot so someone can implement these protocols if they see the reason to.


That's a completely different class of robot. The Beni robot is just a toy, it's just connect the app and drive it around, record videos and do some fancy tricks like flips. It is not meant to be a platform you program yourself.

The Microduck is meant to be a hacker toy. Train it yourself, write software, hack it, etc.

It depends what you're trying to get for your daughter. Is it something to get her into robotics? Then probably the Microduck is the way. If it's literally just a toy, then the Beni robot is better because that's literally all it is.


I would describe the Microduck as more of a toy than Beni. Autonomous cameraman is a real application that Beni performs out of the box. I think you'll struggle to get Microduck to do anything genuinely useful.


IMO with that definition of "toy" you're overselling the value of performing useful work and underselling the value of farting about.


The creators of Beni seem to have promised that the platform will be open (including sim2real parts of Beni).

I have ordered Beni for my family. It's sturdy and more practical for careless fun.


Their current messaging is "we're busy, no promises" on dev kit or API access -- where did you see this open promise? I'm super curious.

UPDATE: That's their kickstarter customer service. Their subreddit has founders liberally promising API/devkit access, targeted at Q1 '27


i think i heard someplace that ssh/adb is open by default, if true, that is ENOUGH for me to take over and do the rest on my own.


That would be awesome. Probably worth getting a v1 and not upgrading the firmware just to be sure


I'm an early backer and plan on jailbreaking Beni ASAP. Seems like really, really cool hardware.

With Unitree bots all but banned in the US I've been looking to pivot away from that platform anyway. Took a couple months to jailbreak the Go2 platform initially, but I'm betting this will go even faster with modern agents


> Train it yourself, write software, hack it, etc.

it seems like the only useful capability this thing has is picking up very small items of clothing with I imagine a very low success rate.


Weird phrasing "just a toy" for one and "hacker toy" for the other. Beni is actually something you can use more than a toy.


yes to both :)


I open it to do the daily puzzles. But it means that I'm subject to 1 or 2 cringe posts before I get there.


The top nav is completely broken for me.


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