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New comment by Ekaros in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:27:44 +0000

I feel like I am better off with cast iron or stainless steel compared to slightly bigger torch. Stainless steel allowing some deglazing for sauce. Torch is still too small area and burns more so sears.

New comment by Ekaros in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:35:26 +0000

It is reasonable for measuring cooking environment. Like say pizza oven. Just have to be aware of things like right emissivity.

New comment by Ekaros in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:09:16 +0000

Shock moved the price equilibrium to new higher price point. And big enough share of demand accepted that new price point.

New comment by Ekaros in "EA to pay $1.8B in interest annually on buy-out debt"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:03:22 +0000

I have become cynical. I am starting to believe that there is a lot of fund managers who do not are not doing their best for their clients but instead of their own bonuses. From that viewpoint everything starts to make lot more sense. Out-sized returns when there is not risk for person deciding on investment.

It is easy to rope in gullible who want those big returns. And the game has been run for years now. On paper things looked or maybe still look good. Reality is probably lot worse.

New comment by Ekaros in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:58:48 +0000

I am starting to think that there might be lot less competition on free markets than we think. And many markets tend to be established with big enough players. So they have stopped competing. If new entrants try to come well they might be undercut or simply bought out.

New comment by Ekaros in "Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:35:00 +0000

I can see one company being incompetent. But so many? Should it not be pretty trivial to to track whatever traffic goes out? All this traffic must originate from somewhere or have I massively misunderstood how these things work?

New comment by Ekaros in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:01:24 +0000

Not all numbers. Some numbers have certainly gone down. Your home might be one of them. So might really bad stock pick too.

New comment by Ekaros in "Humans Will Never Leave the Solar System"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:45:31 +0000

It is actually kinda hard problem. Anything a ship going away would drop would continue to move at speed it was dropped. And then if you are doing whole speed up and slow down they might even overshoot...

You could keep launching them from solar system. But well might need lot of them.

It really does get complicated when you start thinking of details and how mechanics work.

New comment by Ekaros in "How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:33:15 +0000

Financing election campaigns is corruption. Then again I suppose you can't operate elections without some type of campaigning happening someway... So how to fix it is nearly unsolvable question.

New comment by Ekaros in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:01:30 +0000

What I really don't understand how differently it seems that AI for programming and for anything else is treated.

I don't think there is insignificant group who would say that using LLM to write a book does not make you an author. Or make a song musician. Or draw a picture a painter or artist.

This just somewhat baffles me... Or maybe the LLM for programming people all believe that you are as much artist if you use AI in those fields and the product generates as such is as if not more valuable than one by more traditional means.

New comment by Ekaros in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

Ekaros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:45:00 +0000

At some point LLM forgetting to check the scope? On the nth automated rewrite. Everything else works. It might even test for test case. But not in production...

New comment by Ekaros in "Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else"

Ekaros — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:07:32 +0000

One sickening idea I had is even more bureaucracy. You know how any big infra project now has tens of thousand of pages of impact reports, studies and so on. With AI it can be easily scaled to millions if not more. Lots of words that then will be ingested by other AIs. All happily burning electricity in the process.

So more documentation that no one will ever read... Both generated and summarised multiple times by AI...

New comment by Ekaros in "Universities would prefer no AI"

Ekaros — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:50:08 +0000

It is in sense contradiction. Schools and universities are greatly limited by facilities and teachers. Self studying is not. Thus with modern technology or even with just mass printin you could theoretically educate as many students as you want. In that sense I do say it scales much better.

I fully admit that for efficient time spend and production of sufficiently educated students it is not effective method.

New comment by Ekaros in "Universities would prefer no AI"

Ekaros — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:42:20 +0000

It does scale even better than anything else. Majority of students are just not very good at it. And proving that they have learned sufficiently is hard. Thus schools and universities.

New comment by Ekaros in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

Ekaros — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:13:41 +0000

Makes one think about "flying cars". How well designed they will be for losing such system? How reliable any systems would be in such eventuality. For both safety of the craft and anyone near them or on ground... Especially if there is other things going on like weather conditions. Say both heavy fog and rain.

New comment by Ekaros in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

Ekaros — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:27:11 +0000

Weirdly I might slightly prefer your AI-generated image if some thought is put into it to entirely average soulless and tasteless corporate stock photo. You know multicultural team or photogenic enough person doing some meaningless staged task. Those have no chance to adding anything to the text. Same really goes for clip art.

At least with AI there might be some thought or idea behind it. Even it is lazy slop.

New comment by Ekaros in "Cyberpunk Video Games"

Ekaros — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:36:56 +0000

My biggest complaint about the story is that it basically robs you from player agency. You are the side character in story of someone else. It is fully forced on you. And not in traditional I say acceptable manner. I understand if you are playing story of set character. But with Cyberpunk it feels like you are not. You are just carrying someone else around.

Side content itself is fine. I can pick to do it or not and approach it at least in some ways. With main story I only get to choose how to suffer.

New comment by Ekaros in "Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)"

Ekaros — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:14:56 +0000

It might be that both really needed similar level of metallurgy and precision machining. After all limiting thing about aeroplanes was the power to weight ratio of engines. So more so that enablers of both were only available at that time.

New comment by Ekaros in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

Ekaros — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:03:00 +0000

Expensive movies are liked because they look impressive much more so than cheap movies. Say Titanic in past. Or Lord of The Rings. If AI can do the same they don't actually care if it was expensive or not.

New comment by Ekaros in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

Ekaros — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:59:45 +0000

Honestly I don't really see use of AI in films or music any worse than use in say programming. Actually even less so. Output is fixed and much easier to verify. So if it is reasonable and it sell why not go for it instead of expensive way things are now done.