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New comment by Revanche1367 in "ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies"

Revanche1367 — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:12:50 +0000

There is no path back. Even if the next administration overturns ICE and its activities and dissolves all contracts related to them, there is no reason to think the US govt will not keep using any and all technologies or services obtained in the name of security, regardless of party, even if they have to do so with deep secrecy.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

Revanche1367 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:43:59 +0000

The vast majority of real world ML code today is written in languages like Python and C++. Relatively few people outside of academia and online forums are functional language enthusiasts. The industry is also looking like most actual coding is going to be done by LLMs going forward, so it makes little sense to design new languages with a niche potential user base since LLMs need a ton of training data. I’m think that was a factor in deciding to base mojo on Python along with the other reasons they state.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "OpenWarp"

Revanche1367 — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:46:21 +0000

If I recall correctly, warp is older than ghostty. Warp became popular because it was one of the well maintained rust-based terminals, and it had some simple AI features like completions and natural language command recognition. That’s why I started using it at least and I liked the dark theme better than that of any other terminal. I barely used the AI features initially but my company pays for it if I want to use it so I started using it occasionally.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Will you heed my warnings now?"

Revanche1367 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:12:23 +0000

The analogy between nuclear fission and quantum computing doesn’t really work. Fission was a relatively new physical phenomenon the Manhattan Project scientists were studying to turn it into a weapon of mass destruction on a scale that too had no precedent except in natural disasters. Quantum computing is a new technology that is supposed to make already effectively computable problems computable faster; it is ideally supposed to provide an increase in capacity, not capability. It should definitely be able to make tiny computations work before going for the bigger problems. That’s how all computing works, if it can’t solve simple problems, it’s never going to solve bigger ones. What you’re saying here essentially sounds like “there will be a magical event one day when quantum computing solves the biggest computing problems and we’ll all realize it works.”

I am not particularly invested either which way about the likelihood of quantum computing being a major breakthrough or not but this is seeming like yet one more area of computing research like crypto and LLMs which in recent years is increasingly being flooded by people on a hype train.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Be Alexandra Elbakyan"

Revanche1367 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:34:12 +0000

I didn’t say it wasn’t factually correct. I assumed it was mostly correct, perhaps a bit sensationalist for comedic purposes. I found it quite funny actually. My answer above was just that it was not actually written by the Elsevier company like that user seems to have thought.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Be Alexandra Elbakyan"

Revanche1367 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:19:52 +0000

That’s not a reply, it’s sarcasm by the same poster pretending to speak for the publisher as a joke.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "“Why not just use Lean?”"

Revanche1367 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:08:32 +0000

Not everyone has to subscribe to your philosophy, weird I know.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "“Why not just use Lean?”"

Revanche1367 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:37:30 +0000

This entire thread is making clear that constructivists want to speak on behalf of everyone while in the real word the vast majority of mathematicians or logicians don’t belong to their niche school of mathematics/philosophy.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

Revanche1367 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:36:52 +0000

First big disaster of its kind directly resulting in death, almost certain to get more attention. Plus it allowed for substantial propaganda points (probably well deserved) against the USSR during the Cold War, their opponents would have been stupid not to take advantage of the disaster to ridicule them for their incompetence.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"

Revanche1367 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:59:44 +0000

Same here, loved the idea since I was a kid and I spend a lot more money on gadgets than I probably should but somehow managed to avoid getting a smartwatch because it doesn’t do anything a smartphone does better. I just wear a simple casio solar powered watch I got for about $100 which I never have to charge. I still like the idea of something programmable though, but this watch in OP is a bit too DIY for my tastes.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "DeepSeek v4"

Revanche1367 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:46:20 +0000

Indexes made by Europeans and Americans to congratulate themselves are not reliable.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Revanche1367 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:32:20 +0000

When terrorists like the Trump administration openly admit to it in some cases and threaten to do it in others, and we see the evidence, it’s easy to believe our eyes and ears over your fantasies.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Revanche1367 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:23:10 +0000

Not just HN, just about all social media except far-right Trumpist echo-chambers have been calling it a Iran win or at least a US loss.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

Revanche1367 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:07:38 +0000

What do jewish supremacists think of non-jews? See? I can play the whataboutism game too. Anti-Americanism might just be because of the repeated wars of aggression that harms the rest of the world.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

Revanche1367 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:15:56 +0000

The key difference (which I am sure you are aware of) is that the victims in your second scenario are foreign brown people. The comments would be very much like your first scenario if this was about Russians attacking even military targets in Ukraine for example.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

Revanche1367 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:41:22 +0000

That’s obvious but you seemed to be putting down foreigners for being able to stomach a million or more of them dying to protect their country from invasion unlike the enlightened democratic countries who couldn’t tolerate so many of their own dying for any reason. I think if tens or hundreds of thousands of soldiers from, say China, attacked the US, Americans would be very willing to fight to the last man to prevent becoming a vassal state of the CCP.

Perhaps the disconnect exists because some Americans have become too used to thinking from the perspective of invaders that they cannot possibly think from the perspective of the invaded?

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

Revanche1367 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:40:18 +0000

It’s easy when you worship money and consider people of other races or cultures as less than human. Not that I am advocating for this view of course but a lot of Americans do even if they won’t admit it.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

Revanche1367 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:02:21 +0000

As opposed to democratic countries like the US or UK which would just lay down their arms after a few tens of thousands of their soldiers were killed in the event of a foreign military invasion on their territory?

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

Revanche1367 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:09:22 +0000

I feel this as a guy trying to lose weight very seriously this year. On one hand, I can lose weight but I will forever be short unless a miracle occurs lol. I’ve made my peace with being unattractive for the most part, the attempt to lose weight is primarily for health reasons.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing"

Revanche1367 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:21:45 +0000

Or he was not comparing those two things to say they are the same thing but rather making an analogy based on the common factor of people in the US often wanting legal protections for both speech and privacy to draw his point that one is giving up their rights by making the excuse about not wanting privacy which they would probably not do when it comes to speech.

Thinking comparisons of two similar things are always for the purpose of saying that they are the same thing is ridiculous, don’t you think? It might sound like clever reasoning to people of a mediocre intellectual capacity but it is not logically coherent.