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New comment by Ekaros in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

Ekaros — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:52:01 +0000

You are treating humans as reasonable actors. They very often are not. On easy to access platforms like github you can have humans just working as intermediaries between LLM and the github. Not actually checking or understanding what they put in a pull request. Banning these people outright with clear rules is much faster and easier than trying to argue with them.

Linux is somewhat harder to contribute to and they already have sufficient barriers in place so they can rely on more reasonable human actors.

New comment by Ekaros in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

Ekaros — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:20:17 +0000

Thinking it for bit it comes to "what comes after Git" and what does "Git" mean there.

To build better tool than git, probably a few months by tiny team of good developers. Just thinking of problem and making what is needed... So either free time or few hundred thousand at max.

On other hand to replace GitHub. Endless millions will be spend... For some sort of probable gains? It might even make money in long run... But goal is probably to flip it.

New comment by Ekaros in "Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge"

Ekaros — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:59:17 +0000

That is the trade off for renewables. Power is very expensive when needed and very cheap when not.

New comment by Ekaros in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

Ekaros — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:28:13 +0000

I have always said that going back 1400s would be best.

New comment by Ekaros in "There Is a RAM Shortage"

Ekaros — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:08:20 +0000

Sounds like market manipulation to me... But I suppose that is not punished...

New comment by Ekaros in "The most-disliked people in the publishing industry"

Ekaros — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:47:07 +0000

Being a farmhand is arguably one of the most goodness jobs. You are feeding everyone else with your labour... Somehow it is not very well paid or very popular job.

New comment by Ekaros in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

Ekaros — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:34:03 +0000

Merger in all stock deal? That could happen... Have to get to be bigger than everyone else.

New comment by Ekaros in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

Ekaros — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:32:55 +0000

Could be. People are not very logical and schools don't teach math anymore.

It is somewhat complex subject. Taking in account actual use, cost of fuel and maintenance and then comparing it to purchase price and depreciation is bit of a work. And I don't think too many people do that when they should.

New comment by Ekaros in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

Ekaros — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:10:18 +0000

Great things to have on balance sheets. With inflation their value can only go up. And as they are level 6 self-driving capable as is soon they can be sold for massively more money. Really they should stock pile hundreds of thousands more.

New comment by Ekaros in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

Ekaros — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:19:21 +0000

That comparison actually sounds horrible for gold... By all accounts we should be extremely more efficient in manufacturing loafs of bread. So a same amount of gold should buy lot more bread now than 2000 years ago.

So if you really think about it. If you held gold for 2000 years. You would only reach same standard of living as 2000 years ago...

New comment by Ekaros in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

Ekaros — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:09:29 +0000

That is just what the O18 want in there. Last one also got their role because that. Doing it in public on camera.

New comment by Ekaros in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

Ekaros — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:16:25 +0000

I think exercises when student is given pre-generated AI output and told to identify as many issues or mistakes as possible might be sensible. Not sure how long creating such exercise would take and what should be the tools or sources to verify the output but that might be helpful excersise.

New comment by Ekaros in "SpaceX files to go public"

Ekaros — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:26:03 +0000

On one hand I do take some enjoyment of suckers being fleeced. But on other hand I know who this all will benefit so I really can't do that.

As whole I find that valuation just insane, but seemingly if you only offer tiny enough slice with enough hype it might bump prices to something that really make no sense at all...

New comment by Ekaros in "A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe"

Ekaros — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:18:19 +0000

Cost of living and cost of goods sounds ludicrous from outside. Like rents and car payments, and insurance. And even stuff like some restaurants... Ofc, there is expensive locations outside but there is also lot more reasonable places. From outside it feels that there is something especially broken in cost wise in USA.

New comment by Ekaros in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

Ekaros — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:04:10 +0000

It might very well be that building and maintaining a bridge for 100 years costs three or four times as much as building and maintaining one that last 50 years. If demolition costs are not same as cost of bridge well in long run replacing the bridge ever 50 years is cheaper.

On whole it is entirely reasonable optimisation problem. What is the best lifespan of single bridge over desired total lifespan.

New comment by Ekaros in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

Ekaros — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:50:55 +0000

Demos might ne nice an flashy. But eventually you actually have to have generally working product. Too many issues with too many annoyances and eventually users of even enterprise software will be heard. Especially so if there is some actual loss of money or data that is not corrected very fast.

In the end software is means to the end. And if you do not get to end because software is crap it will be replaced, hopefully by someone else.

New comment by Ekaros in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

Ekaros — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:02:05 +0000

Yes. Fundamentally goods and services at time you retire must be produced by someone. If there is less people producing that means that labour will get more expensive. Or then you must really kick down that population. And well if they don't take it well you might have no retirement...

New comment by Ekaros in "How to Survive in the Tech industry in 2026"

Ekaros — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:08:04 +0000

I think this has been shown for fast majority with homework. You just don't learn much by copying homework from somewhere else. Actual effort is needed for learning process. Unless you are some weird most likely rare genius...

Also makes me think of lot of incidental learning that can go on. Like when looking at API docs noticing the other things. Might not be useful now, but could very well be later.

New comment by Ekaros in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

Ekaros — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:26:03 +0000

I would also say give them a year of free vacations in various places. Say a maximum security prison in general population, any type of dark camps, hospitals, mental institutions and care homes.

Give them the rest and recreation they need in these wonderful places.

New comment by Ekaros in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

Ekaros — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:22:36 +0000

Most players are rational actors and this isn't their first time in this sort of market. Getting more production online if you do not have slack like downtime takes quite a while. And there is no guarantee that they can sell the new production even at previous rates if they end up in over supply.

Generally people just don't understand how long ramping up new production facilities can take and what is the realistic pay off period for them.