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New comment by Ardren in "Your ePub Is fine"

Ardren — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:13:18 +0000

ePub3 is CSS2.1 (+ some extras) CSS21 standard says "Illegal values. User agents must ignore a declaration with an illegal value."

Ignore != Fatal error

New comment by Ardren in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

Ardren — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:09:33 +0000

What function signature isn't going to look messy with 36 keyword arguments.

https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/blob/0798e6cbe11b30...

New comment by Ardren in "How is Groq raising more money?"

Ardren — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:21:35 +0000

> Groq Launches European Data Center Footprint in Helsinki, Finland

https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-launches-european-data-center...

That sounds like they are renting racks in a Equinix data centre. Do Groq have 4 data centers worth billions?

New comment by Ardren in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

Ardren — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:30:37 +0000

Creationism does not want to say "magic" and admit that God is intentionally trying to deceive people. So that's why some of these responses seem silly. I mean they are, but only because the pro-creationism arguments are silly.

New comment by Ardren in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

Ardren — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:26:13 +0000

100k per seat? That's crazy. How do you even hire or train employees with software that expensive?

New comment by Ardren in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

Ardren — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:01:21 +0000

Wow, I bought a 128GB Strix Halo machine for $2000 USD in September. Same model is currently on special for $4,399. Insane.

New comment by Ardren in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:12:37 +0000

It's actually is a literal transformation (and only a Catholic thing)

https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/arch...

283

> Transubstantiation means the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of his Blood. This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit. However, the outward characteristics of bread and wine, that is the “eucharistic species”, remain unaltered.

New comment by Ardren in "Magnifica Humanitas"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:10:18 +0000

> who better to lead the cause of humanity than the Catholic Church?

Oh no, is my sarcasm meter broken?

New comment by Ardren in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:08:43 +0000

> Do you disagree with the Pope?

Yes I do. I don't think you a prayer can literally transform wine into blood. How about you?

New comment by Ardren in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:06:14 +0000

It's actually litterally true.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/arch...

283

Edit: It's a catholic thing, and it's very silly (other denominations say its symbolic)

New comment by Ardren in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

Ardren — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:00:11 +0000

> Presidents through out American history has believed various forms of genocide and slavery were applicable practices to modern problems; hell the current president thinks variously incredulous things.

And we shouldn't criticize them? Is that the point?

New comment by Ardren in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

Ardren — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:16:06 +0000

It seem confusing. My understanding is the AI assistant part (i.e. chat) is configurable. But Junie IDE is only via credits through Jetbrains.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/articles/SUPPORT-A-1833/What-...

(To make it more confusing, Junie CLI seems to say it will any provider)

New comment by Ardren in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

Ardren — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:55:27 +0000

"Ah, the classic Poe’s Law in action. Reality has officially outpaced parody"

Do you want these to be shorter for quick replies on X/Twitter, or longer for more detailed forum discussions?

New comment by Ardren in "Will you heed my warnings now?"

Ardren — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:38:51 +0000

Is there a better benchmark to use?

Honest question.

How can a lay person track the real word progress of quantum computers?

New comment by Ardren in "Will you heed my warnings now?"

Ardren — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:02:58 +0000

> If there's a reason why you think it can't work beyond a certain scale, say so

I'm not saying it can't work. Just that in 14 years no one has managed to factor a larger number than 21. Seemingly focus has shifted to other factoring algorithms that don't have performance improvements over conventional computing.

I'm not the one implying that Shor's algorithm will breaking encryption in "a few years from now".

New comment by Ardren in "Will you heed my warnings now?"

Ardren — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:48:38 +0000

> Shor of Damocles

What is the biggest number factored using Shor's algorithm?

Last time I looked it was very unimpressive.

Edit: It's gotten worse. 21 from 2012. "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" say the factorization of 35 in 2019 actually failed.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237

New comment by Ardren in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

Ardren — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:08:24 +0000

I don't remember ever having downtime on DO when I was using them.

I used to get those emails all the time, but the type of downtime they were talking about was extremely minimal (the entire point of VPS systems).

The last email I got about possible downtime was increased latency for the UI and API for ~10s last year. The email before that was ~5s of potential lost traffic to a droplet.

New comment by Ardren in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

Ardren — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:16:26 +0000

> removed "Don't be Evil" as its motto and from its code of conduct

It's still in the code of conduct

https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of...

And it still doesn't mean a damn thing.

New comment by Ardren in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

Ardren — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:03:59 +0000

On a scale of 1-10, Yeah, I'd give them a 1-2 for notifying him after the fact.

The problem is they tell user that they'll inform you right away and give them a chance to challenge the subpoena.

A quick search shows that they've done in the past and people have been able to get the subpoena's withdrawn.

https://thefulcrum.us/rule-of-law/us-administrative-subpoena...

New comment by Ardren in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

Ardren — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:44:01 +0000

> While ICE “requested” that Google not notify Thomas Johnson, the request was not enforceable or mandated by a court

Sounds like Google stopped caring.

But... Why on earth do the people filing an administrative subpoena not have to notify the interested parties too? Why is it Google's responsibility? If they didn't tell you, would you ever find out?