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New comment by 9999_points in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

9999_points — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:24:35 +0000

Here's how the last two books I ordered from amazon went: Book 1, low quality print barely readable code segments and the cover reads "Not for reprint outside of India". Book 2, over a month passes with no shipping update. I submit a cancellation request and it gets denied. I then contact customer support (extremely hard to do btw) and they also deny my request. Another week passes and it is randomly canceled and then the book arrives in the mail from a printing company with extremely bad binding.

Amazon has become the temu of books.

New comment by 9999_points in "Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'"

9999_points — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:15:27 +0000

I assume a lot of people 50+ were exposed to a lot more lead and cigarette smoke than younger people.

New comment by 9999_points in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

9999_points — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:03:12 +0000

I wonder if this could be adapted to the vtuber market. Saw a vtuber body tracker being marketed at $11k recently.

New comment by 9999_points in "Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model"

9999_points — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:42:54 +0000

It seems so bizarre that we need a nearly 9gb model to do something you could do over 20 years ago with ~200mb.

New comment by 9999_points in "Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering"

9999_points — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:07:55 +0000

This is "an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation".

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm...

New comment by 9999_points in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

9999_points — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:23:34 +0000

This is the STEM version of dog fighting.

New comment by 9999_points in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

9999_points — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:20:29 +0000

There is only so much juice you can squeeze out of fuzzy probability word chains. We hit peak diminishing returns on LLM tech already.

New comment by 9999_points in "TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy"

9999_points — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:15:42 +0000

Its a shame his LLC in C was just a launch board for his course.

New comment by 9999_points in "Understanding Memory Management, Part 1: C"

9999_points — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:00:39 +0000

Memory arenas should be taught to all programmers and become the default method of memory management.

New comment by 9999_points in "What every systems programmer should know about concurrency (2020) [pdf]"

9999_points — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:56:21 +0000

Speaking of concurrency, whatever happened to that Parallella "super computer" project?