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New comment by Ekaros in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

Ekaros — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:26:39 +0000

And then when you end up with actually accessible version of those it is different again. Which I had for a few years as student. No under sink cabinets. Even more massive bathroom. The bathroom was nearly the size of those small bedrooms.

New comment by Ekaros in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

Ekaros — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:27:05 +0000

Same with Gmail. On decent desktop with multi-hundred megabit connection. Frankly just amazing how poor things have gotten.

New comment by Ekaros in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

Ekaros — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:53:59 +0000

Which is why I feel like we peaked years back when we had simple enough web sites where you could just use shared platform to select options and make orders...

And then the VC money ruined it by food delivery intermediaries and acquisitions...

New comment by Ekaros in "2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation"

Ekaros — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:17:06 +0000

Also I thought it was Merry Men? Well certain subgroup is probably against using term Men and probably also anything considered merry in general. Still, it would have made so much sense.

New comment by Ekaros in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

Ekaros — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:49:17 +0000

You do not even need fractional banking for this. Same thing could happen without it. Someone lends money and is unable to pay it back. Both sides pretend that things will eventually go well. As at least on paper they have not lost anything until prices are realised.

New comment by Ekaros in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

Ekaros — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:44:33 +0000

As citizen I might prefer downturn of values. At least in medium term. Yes there is lot less tax income. But on other hand lowering values would mean lower rents which would mean lower overheads and potentially cheaper prices or more business being viable.

New comment by Ekaros in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

Ekaros — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:08:04 +0000

Weirdly I would expect those things to boost sales. At least of certain type of content at right sale price. People will always look for easy solutions. And self-help is exactly that. Or maybe we are already over the horizon where no hope is left...

New comment by Ekaros in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

Ekaros — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:44:45 +0000

Best analogue we have is probably video streaming. Or maybe more so live streaming. Unless subscription based and limited time events it seems those don't do well. Twitch has lost money for how long? And most smaller players seem propped up in other ways.

So if there is real cost involved things start to look lot worse and might not be overcome. OpenAI is unlikely to be exception for me.

New comment by Ekaros in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

Ekaros — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:19:37 +0000

Vibe coding? Just have LLM make it and then press merge?

New comment by Ekaros in "What happened to nerds?"

Ekaros — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:49:34 +0000

At least those were on technical merits. However imaginary or arbitrary those merits were... Which I think was more healthy place.

New comment by Ekaros in "Cooling in Space"

Ekaros — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:38:44 +0000

Nuclear is used in space, but my understanding is that it is too low power and not really scalable to computing needs for this use case. Bonus side really is that nuclear power can provide power for very long time.

New comment by Ekaros in "Cooling in Space"

Ekaros — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:34:41 +0000

How hard would it be to weatherproof a GPU computing rack? Like how much more cost would it add? So theoretically you could even forgo tents. Just have them at field. Technically you could even maybe run them in freeports. Thus saving any tariff costs...

New comment by Ekaros in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

Ekaros — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:23:28 +0000

I read genres where MTL is somewhat commonly used. But good quality human translations take remarkable effort. And even artistic choices. Like choices between transliterating and translating. Or maybe in some cases just doing both for single name or term. And then keeping these choices consistent over substantial works.

And it is not like transliteration is consistent thing. Some cases would prefer the old way. Or existing already common one. Even across entirely different works from different authors.

New comment by Ekaros in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

Ekaros — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:20:43 +0000

I wouldn't tip either. Just have the price include the labour. It is not hard concept. Nearly every single other industry has managed to figure it out.

New comment by Ekaros in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

Ekaros — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:11:06 +0000

Probably because there is demand. Could be that there was very deep waiting list at some point. Or there has been deep waiting list for specific author before. Fulfilling these demands does require multiple copies or it could take years for people to get popular book.

New comment by Ekaros in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

Ekaros — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:07:15 +0000

That is what big national central libraries are for. Hopefully government funded libraries actually properly archiving everything printed in the country.

New comment by Ekaros in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

Ekaros — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:34:48 +0000

Actually no. Asians have common decency to run separate businesses as separate companies. Samsung Electronics does a lot. But it really doesn't have direct hand in other business. Even if there is some ownership in them.

New comment by Ekaros in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

Ekaros — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:29:10 +0000

I am questioning synergies of Tesla and Tesla and SpaceX and SpaceX. So Tesla and Tesla and SpaceX and SpaceX... Is just all that cubed...

New comment by Ekaros in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

Ekaros — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:10:03 +0000

Also part of the process as whole. What if someone tries to attach us with insane amount of bandwidth is almost reasonable thought experiment at some point. Now it was this one. Can we handle it? How much could we handle? What is actually reasonable thing we could sustain. All somewhat interesting questions.

New comment by Ekaros in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

Ekaros — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:02:48 +0000

Why wouldn't debit card work as well? You can get those while underage.