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New comment by ReptileMan in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

ReptileMan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:42:43 +0000

Probably zero. The problem with methanol comes when distilling big batches. Then you can have it accumulate in the beginning.

New comment by ReptileMan in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

ReptileMan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:33:49 +0000

Have you tried putting the sanitizer in ultrasonic bath with charred oak chips? Asking for a friend.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

ReptileMan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:41:42 +0000

Nope. So was mine.

New comment by ReptileMan in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

ReptileMan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:28:10 +0000

The joys of locked bootloaders strike again.

New comment by ReptileMan in "WireGuard VPN developer can't ship updates after Microsoft locks account"

ReptileMan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:27:06 +0000

Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'

New comment by ReptileMan in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

ReptileMan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:22:26 +0000

Except the rumors are they subsidize even the inference, not that they have capex in training.

New comment by ReptileMan in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

ReptileMan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:43:12 +0000

It is easy to get 30B when you resell something you buy for 50B

New comment by ReptileMan in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

ReptileMan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:47:42 +0000

Model doing what the user wants with high quality is definitely aligned in my book.

New comment by ReptileMan in "US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days"

ReptileMan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:32:19 +0000

Which should be a good waking up call to investigate the MIC about their abysmally low productivity. Iran is a good stress test for the airforce and logistics - and the lesson is that Taiwan is indefensible with current production rates.

If US stocks are so depleted after something that is barely a skirmish against 8th tier adversary - a lot of people that have been responsible for procurement in the last 20 years should lose their jobs.

New comment by ReptileMan in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

ReptileMan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:02:16 +0000

Won't matter - if enough people in developing countries can afford iphones, apple will just rise the prices.

New comment by ReptileMan in "NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast"

ReptileMan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:09:26 +0000

Safe trip to the crew. I do hope that they have ironed out all the issues.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"

ReptileMan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:55:15 +0000

It is the Middle East. Wars are always in season. And supply is more than the demand.

New comment by ReptileMan in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

ReptileMan — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:24:22 +0000

Capitalism works quite well at solving problems.

New comment by ReptileMan in "When do we become adults, really?"

ReptileMan — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:41:47 +0000

I have seen of course. But the point is - if you abandon everything in life right now while childless you are not a failure as human being. It is your right to say fuck it all at any moment. If you abandon your kids you are.

New comment by ReptileMan in "When do we become adults, really?"

ReptileMan — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:55:48 +0000

Yes. When you don't have kids you can always quit the game/rat race one way or another if it gets too much. With kids - it is different. Kids are the only burden you can't easily shrug off in this life.

New comment by ReptileMan in "When do we become adults, really?"

ReptileMan — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:49:14 +0000

There are 3 stages in life - when they care for you, when you care for yourself, when you are forced to care for someone else.

So i would say that you become adult when you have kids. Due to reasons this is postponed (or missing) to older and older age.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Brewers are turning Coca-Cola into a boozy wine"

ReptileMan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:36:57 +0000

The drink started as a cocaine wine. So if we are looking for authenticity - we are half way there.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

ReptileMan — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:55:13 +0000

To me it seems like the rent seeking is everywhere and getting strong in all facets of our lives. Tech companies, utilities, marketplaces, car companies, appliance companies - everyone is pushing subscriptions, gate keeping features and milking every possible dime.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Taming LLMs: Using Executable Oracles to Prevent Bad Code"

ReptileMan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:33:45 +0000

Now is Haskell's time to shine.

New comment by ReptileMan in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

ReptileMan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:21:37 +0000

Indochina is the name of the whole peninsula. Only cambodia and vietnam were. The domino theory was that Thailand and Myanmar will fall too.