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New comment by GenerocUsername in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

GenerocUsername — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:52:36 +0000

Hot take. Do doorbell cameras next

New comment by GenerocUsername in "How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?"

GenerocUsername — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:13:06 +0000

If 2 people work their whole life to prevent the death of 1 other person... The 1 could have saved 2.

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

GenerocUsername — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:06:46 +0000

Trust me, telling people the vote will look weird ahead of time does not quiet the vote consipuracistst. Heck I'd say it gives ammo. They call it predictive programming. The lie is revealed and normalized.

New comment by GenerocUsername in "How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?"

GenerocUsername — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:10:17 +0000

So each missile costs ~2 human lifetimes to produce? But has the potential to save hundreds if used precisely

New comment by GenerocUsername in "I do not know how to teach kids this low"

GenerocUsername — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:52:29 +0000

There are some schools far far worse than others. The area and demographics make a huge difference

New comment by GenerocUsername in "I do not know how to teach kids this low"

GenerocUsername — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:51:10 +0000

I always wonder what the commonality is across these poor performers. Is it all kids? Kids from home without fathers? Kids from particular areas? Seems like as a society we continue to slip but cannot identify solid commonalities... It's amongst the most important issue in modern society and article after article just cannot find any solution or underlying reasons. Society doesn't just devolve for no reason. What could it be?

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests"

GenerocUsername — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:47:42 +0000

Males back then didn't fail to reproduce from the same social situations as today. They were not neets hiding in basements. Failure to reproduce basically means killed, exiled, or having your groups women taken (by force)

New comment by GenerocUsername in "City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2"

GenerocUsername — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:38:40 +0000

And how are those mods on baseline performance? Are the mods appropriate for general audience mid range rigs? The tech industry has the capability of pure ray tracing. Game engines don't use it because the audience willing to shell 10k for PC to run it is exceedingly small. They have to target mid range specs to have an audience big enough to make money.

The solution is mods by modders for modders.

New comment by GenerocUsername in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

GenerocUsername — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:43:02 +0000

Problem is most will never agree on what it is that's changed causing the degradation and those causing it don't want us noticing...

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada"

GenerocUsername — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:15:56 +0000

It comes down to how a roll is calculated. See in the US 1 material roll is not the same as 1 computed roll. In the Toilet Paper isle you see products listing their 8 roles are equillivent to 36 rolls from the other guy. So when you use 1/16 of your roll, you are really using 1/2 a roll

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure""

GenerocUsername — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:57:04 +0000

That's my suspicion. I used Grammerly in 2021 and those are the type of substitutions I could see

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users"

GenerocUsername — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:50:16 +0000

Agree. It's just the builtin android and chrome uses blowing up the numbers. By these metrics android assistant and siri had reached these levels in 2015. Gemini has no brand recognition outside of the tech worker sphere

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Islamist terrorist attack in Berlin Pride event"

GenerocUsername — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:31:42 +0000

Now do per capita and see that their rate of terror is 10x what it should be. (And that's before readjusting for the undercategorized events being purposefully NOT counted for cultural sympethies)

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Islamist terrorist attack in Berlin Pride event"

GenerocUsername — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:29:04 +0000

Lack of incentive? How about their religion commands it? And that's why it is specifically categorized as Islamic terror rather than generic terror.

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Islamist terrorist attack in Berlin Pride event"

GenerocUsername — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:27:31 +0000

You do better and stop deflecting direct attributable harm as something to hide and cover up to prevent indirect harm.

New comment by GenerocUsername in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

GenerocUsername — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:02:49 +0000

Always good to make it 0.001%

New comment by GenerocUsername in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

GenerocUsername — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:25:03 +0000

If cars did not exist, I would be healthier, able to walk and run many times further due to constant cardio exercise.

I would still travel much less distance.

And just like cars, LLMs will reshape the world to the point that our brains could not even get us to the supermarket because soon it will be 5 miles away and require a car ( or at least a local LLM bike )

New comment by GenerocUsername in "Oh good, screwworms are back (2025)"

GenerocUsername — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:19:35 +0000

It is

New comment by GenerocUsername in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

GenerocUsername — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:56:23 +0000

YouTube and Patreon have done wonders for rebooting the modern research gentleman field.

I follow a dozen YouTubers doing extremely niche, cutting edge, science.

It is progressing beyond 'backyard science'.

New comment by GenerocUsername in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

GenerocUsername — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:54:48 +0000

I agree in principle that reuse is the best imaginable outcome... but You underestimate the labor and cost of machines. I bet it costs $200 to pluck a single tree let alone ship it somewhere else usable.