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New comment by Ekaros in "Ask HN: Is the Steam Machine worth $1049?"

Ekaros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:33:18 +0000

I think if you are not in hurry it might be sensible to wait for deals on market pcs. Things are not great but there will likely be better deals if you are ready to wait and can identify right combinations of memory, cpu and gpu.

New comment by Ekaros in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

Ekaros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:30:01 +0000

At scale that OpenAI is valued at public markets are only place with enough of liquidity. At smaller scale private equity is an option. But if you are speaking of near trillion scale it really is not.

New comment by Ekaros in "Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits"

Ekaros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:01:36 +0000

I have understood that they were more so extractive from surrounding communities than anyway independent or disconnected. They had to get input of people and usually collected taxes or rents of their sizeable land holdings protected from other state like actors.

New comment by Ekaros in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

Ekaros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:54:21 +0000

I am starting to think do they have some metrics or KPIs that they are trying to fill with this stuff. Pressure to produce anything that at least on first glance sells... Then again they probably are not only place doing that with AI...

New comment by Ekaros in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

Ekaros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:31:14 +0000

I am not sure where the money would be. You could already streamline something like itchio.io like that. Or reminds me of old shareware cds. Still even with how cheap AI makes things I am not sure you can generate enough revenue.

Most revenue now comes by making the game a habit and thus making people invest both time and money. I am not just seeing that happening with too short term throwaway content.

New comment by Ekaros in "Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says"

Ekaros — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:46:14 +0000

I never really understood why not just shift schedule. Set a certain date and move all schedules of public institutions. Inform this early enough to allow rest who want to follow. Then later fix as needed.

I fully support permanently moving to correct time. Meaning not summer time. And then just fixing schedules as needed.

New comment by Ekaros in "Reasons to Dislike AI Coding"

Ekaros — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:07:53 +0000

I think this can be extended. Wasting time playing music or drawing or writing by hand would also be like using the washboard when there's a washing machine.

There is so many things that AIs can do just as well and much faster. Not just coding but all other kinds of things in art and craft. Like why sculpt anything by hand when you can just get AI do model and then 3d print it.

New comment by Ekaros in "The cost of lies: A Mineserver story"

Ekaros — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:37:45 +0000

Add Tim Schafer to the list. It feels weird to consider how long many in the industry can coast on their early successes. Or keep doing same thing over and over again and no one is wiser...

New comment by Ekaros in "We Asked Starbucks Why Their 'Sugar-Free' Drinks Have Sugar"

Ekaros — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:46:58 +0000

Also I question how can you have sugar-free caramel? Caramel is browned sugar so I would expect it to have sugar. Maybe in this too should terms like "caramel like flavour" be mandated...

New comment by Ekaros in "What's Earth's dominant species by mass?"

Ekaros — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:23:52 +0000

Unless there is some sort of magic we have missed I would venture to guess that to become species capable of interstellar travel you need certain scale of industry. And scale of that industry is most likely colossal.

Just energy inputs to get to orbit are somewhat significant. Any sort of mega-structures to bypass chemical rockets are certainly colossal. Just technology you would expect has rather large foot print even if space was only singular thing being done.

New comment by Ekaros in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

Ekaros — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:17:42 +0000

Really thinking about what happens with these mergers and splits. In the end it is just moving numbers from one pile to an other. Nothing is really created or destroyed...

Well there is massive waste of time on doing all the stuff need for it to happen. But I think they would have come up with something as unproductive as that anyway so overall it is not like that time would have been spend for anything actually productive.

Made up "value" moving from one place to an other. Just so that some people have something to do. And most likely they would not have much productive things to do in any case.

New comment by Ekaros in "We are going to kill "unalive""

Ekaros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:26:43 +0000

Remember the online commentary during covid... So many terms you couldn't use. And then commentators coming up with some alternative to anyway bypass the filtering. In the end whole thing is pointless. If someone wants to say something they will figure out way to bypass filters.

Well, maybe with AI the net can get wide enough to catch everything. Might be lot of bycatch but I think platforms are willing to accept that.

New comment by Ekaros in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

Ekaros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:41:46 +0000

My point is that pedestrians don't directly pay fair share of costs. Just like trucks don't directly pay fair share of costs of roads. Scenario is exactly the same. Or really much much worse with pedestrians. There is no tax they directly pay for the roads. I see no reason why they should be treated different from trucks.

New comment by Ekaros in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

Ekaros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:33:51 +0000

This could be solved by tracking those activities. Say GPS tracker attached to everyone. Decide certain beneficial point and then going under it or too much over it would result in losing credits.

New comment by Ekaros in ""Rising cost of memory," Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM"

Ekaros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:18:25 +0000

Wrecking ball might be more apt comparison at scale of house...

New comment by Ekaros in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

Ekaros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:03:58 +0000

That number is laughably low compared to value of cargo they move. Really they should get to tech company model. Take 20-30% of value what they transport. Say you got 100 billion of AI servers. 30% of that goes to trucking company when they move it point to point.

New comment by Ekaros in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

Ekaros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:55:41 +0000

They are still free loading on infra they have not paid for. I see no reason not to make them share the cost too especially for the space they need to be dedicated to them.

New comment by Ekaros in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

Ekaros — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:46:51 +0000

And pedestrians, cyclist and such pay nothing. We should easily gate all sidewalks and make them pay fair share of cost needed to build that infra. Just have payment terminals before and after each crosswalk allowing them to pay their fair share of use of roads.

New comment by Ekaros in "Are Babies Conscious?"

Ekaros — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:45:45 +0000

If brain is the source. And it is two organs. Which of the organs is the source?

It is slightly interesting question. There is unlikely to be too many good outcomes from answers. But it might be something to think about...

New comment by Ekaros in ""I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry""

Ekaros — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:11:48 +0000

I had fun with one warranty system. Including stupid steps of like taking photo of it not being on when reason I send it for warranty was it not turning on... And then weird login system that needed postcode or something else. Just that customer rep had not put my postcode in originally...

Oh not to mention UPS and inability to enter entry code to their system as they did not pass my phone number or email to them. I did have tracking number, but that clearly is not enough when you can no clearly contact customer. So only option to give the code to them that was to call them...

Like utterly broken flows. Often it feels that no one considers the extremely common corner cases.