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New comment by Revanche1367 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

Revanche1367 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:26:22 +0000

If our govt officials are willing to betray their citizens for money to China, what’s the point of preferring to give them power over us instead of giving it to China?

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)"

Revanche1367 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:26:34 +0000

Yes, definitely agreed on that.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

Revanche1367 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:48:12 +0000

In my experience, Gemini 3.x wasn’t just getting a bad rap, it was significantly worse in practice. It could analyze codebases and report back from a one-shot prompt as good as Claude or Codex but any slightly complex task that carried on for more than a few minutes led to hanging, seemingly infinite loops, and bizarre and nonsensical hallucinations, to the point of being unusable for serious work. The Claude and Codex counterpart models at the time rarely had such issues for the same type and duration of complex work, if at all. To be fair, later Claude especially started having hanging issues as many people noticed but that’s been better recently.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)"

Revanche1367 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:14:03 +0000

That might be his reason but Prof. Yaghi is from a Palestinian refugee family and born in Jordan. There are probably more than a few reasons he might not feel welcome in the US at the moment.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

Revanche1367 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:24:22 +0000

Hi, I had a quick look through your blog via google translate and fwiw, you seem like a very talented developer to me. Speaking as someone from the US (originally from continental Asia) in a very similar situation to yours (except for the AI-dependence), this is just a hunch, but have you considered seeing a psychiatrist for anxiety or similar issues? I kept ignoring things due to my upbringing but started seeing someone recently in my early/mid thirties and things have been slowly improving, thankfully. I don’t know how the healthcare system in South Korea works but hopefully it’s better than the one here.

Another thing I would suggest, since you’re a freelancer and will hopefully have a more flexible schedule someday soon, maybe consider going back to school to advance your studies or if you’re quite advanced already in your field, maybe try your hand at a different subject? It might be what you need to get comfortable interacting with people who have similar interests and predispositions.

I know you didn’t ask for advice, just thought I would share some ideas as someone with a similar position in life from thousands of miles away.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

Revanche1367 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:07:34 +0000

Ah, the old “only western people have morals, everyone else just cares about how it looks” argument. And where did you get this super objective assessment that eastern peoples only care about “saving face”? Couldn’t be a stereotype popularized by western people to feel better about themselves could it? The racists always come out in full force under any post showing an eastern country doing something better than the US in particular.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Egypt Is Building a New Nile"

Revanche1367 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:08:27 +0000

Any large government project in Egypt is a project of the Egyptian military. That’s the result of being under a military dictatorship with a fake civilian president.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

Revanche1367 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:11:34 +0000

This almost happened to me 4-5 years ago. I don’t recall every detail but right around the time I was deep into a new job interview process, Google Pay decided it needed to verify my identity. It may have been triggered by one of my cards expiring but I don’t think I had ever used the service to actually pay for anything at that point and just had a card saved. Anyhow, I was almost immediately locked out of my primary email account as well and got delayed in sending documents to the potential employer and had to explain that I got locked out of gmail. Unfortunately, I didn’t learn my lesson and still use that gmail account as my primary email but I did at least open alternative accounts on other cloud providers.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Claude Sonnet 5"

Revanche1367 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:11:22 +0000

And you’ll never know because even if you could turn back time and do it from scratch, you’re likely to opt again not to do it all manually because the cognitive load is going to keep tempting you to reach for the agent again.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"

Revanche1367 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:38:26 +0000

If you have to ask, then you aren’t any longer.

New comment by Revanche1367 in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

Revanche1367 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:09:53 +0000

The argument is flawed, there is no logical reason to assume a single prompt won’t be sufficient to constitute the complexity of a software project. It may not be practical in many cases but there is too much variability in what is considered a complex software project and in the sufficiency of instruction in a single prompt to make that claim and say it’s “by definition.”

New comment by Revanche1367 in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Revanche1367 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:53:08 +0000

One could think it’s a software package or library related to a mathematical or other abstract concept. The names of some libraries are sometimes pretty close to the names of the original concept, it’s not too much of a stretch to think it was just named that way. For example, a software package named “General Language Model” ;).

New comment by Revanche1367 in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

Revanche1367 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:35:46 +0000

That’s the inevitable result of machines being invented that can largely do our jobs. Just like how artisanal products are often prized over factory productions. The effort put in to and the organic quality of products have pretty much always been of value to consumers and appraisers. “I clicked a few buttons and look what the machine produced” will never be as impressive.

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.