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New comment by TSiege in "Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?"

TSiege — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:35:41 +0000

Yes Pangram rated it as 100% AI written

New comment by TSiege in "Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?"

TSiege — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:27:52 +0000

This is pseudoscientific AI slop. Pangram is scoring it as 100% AI written. Modern humans originated 300kya, so the idea that oral to written culture could date back 240k years is absurd.

Checking to see if these dates correspond to climatic events only makes sense if the texts imply that. However, this list does not mention climatic events for these kings records. The only climatic event it does mention is the great flood which in their chronology comes after these lists of kings. So why would these writers use dates to some past events and leave out that context? I don't see any scholarly articles suggesting this. Googling for it only brings up this article. It comes across to me as ploy for self promotion rather than anything of value to prehistory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List#Lines_1%E2%...

For a real example of a possible ancient human record of an actual event aboriginal australians have oral histories of a volcanic eruption 37kya.

https://www.science.org/content/article/aboriginal-tale-anci...

New comment by TSiege in "Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?"

TSiege — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:09:51 +0000

If this was the case why do the kings that come after this on the list have normal human reigns?

New comment by TSiege in "Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?"

TSiege — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:08:47 +0000

The most likely explanation is that we are treating the list too literally. This list is at least 4000 years old and we do not have the cultural context to understand what it's intent was

New comment by TSiege in "I Used AWS Cognito for a Startup. I Wouldn't Do It Again"

TSiege — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:44:33 +0000

I've used AWS Cognito for two start ups. One is still trucking. Cognito definitely leaves a lot to be desired, but overall I've never encountered any major issues with it. I think it's cheap precisely bc it's lackluster, but that's fine for my needs. YMMV I guess

New comment by TSiege in "The turbulent AI era is here"

TSiege — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:03:41 +0000

They're also much cheaper from an infrastructure perspective to maintain

New comment by TSiege in "Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children"

TSiege — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:41:31 +0000

The case isn't whether or not this happens, it's whether or not the Facebook knew the about the harms and made decisions that were negligent at best or deliberate at worst

New comment by TSiege in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

TSiege — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:12:53 +0000

what’re your gripes with people wanting to buy a Mac for the OS and hardware? It’s nice to have things work out the box

New comment by TSiege in "Anthropic Sees over $30T in Potential Revenue"

TSiege — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:54:21 +0000

The combined revenue of the SP500 ~$18.28T, or ~14.8% of global GDP in 2025 (~118.35T). So is anthropic really saying that they expect to have 1.64x the revenue of the SP500 or that the total addressable revenue for AI they suspect is $30T? That number is at least plausible but expect to earn 25% of global GDP is a bit whacky unless you've drunk a lot of koolaid

New comment by TSiege in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

TSiege — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:12:53 +0000

To those replying that it’s feeding starving children read the article. The equipment to do this isn’t accessible to poor fishermen. From the article, “While understudied, the incentives for the use of dangerous dynamite fishing are often falsely attributed solely to poverty and desperation. The cost barrier to buying boats, bombs, and detonators means it’s more likely a practice for middle-income fishers, according to experts.”

I’d argue this practice hurts poor fisherman more than helps as coral reefs are important nurseries for fish and reliable sources as well. Blowing them up will rob communities of shallow fishing grounds and future fish

New comment by TSiege in "Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs"

TSiege — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:09:17 +0000

If you read the article it’s pretty clear this is greed and short sighted thinking

> While understudied, the incentives for the use of dangerous dynamite fishing are often falsely attributed solely to poverty and desperation. The cost barrier to buying boats, bombs, and detonators means it’s more likely a practice for middle-income fishers, according to experts.

“A combination of factors drives blast fishing, including ineffective enforcement and management,” said Hampton-Smith, highlighting how indiscriminate the explosions are, killing all manner of species, regardless of age, size, or intent.

New comment by TSiege in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

TSiege — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:12:37 +0000

I think describing what's happening "other countries seem to sit on their hands and happily outsource every bit of manufacturing to a single country" is disingenuous. It's been dubbed China Shock 2.0 and it's being taken very seriously by the EU. The US admin is a joke and too busy shooting itself in both feet to have coherent policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Shock_2.0

New comment by TSiege in "Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch"

TSiege — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:15:49 +0000

I’ve started doing this for myself with a productivity app. I’ve tried a bunch and they just were never exactly what I wanted. Now I can just have the robot vibe code me exactly what I need to help with the challenges I personally face. I don’t think I’ll ever make it public bc then I have to care what other people want. It’s refreshing to have an app just for me like a luxurious dish I don’t have to share

New comment by TSiege in "Mathematics in the age of AI"

TSiege — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:43:15 +0000

I’m not anti AI but thinking the human brain is obsolete and using it will become a hobby is a dystopian view of the future where no one has any agency anymore. By your logic since our brains provide no value why not just shoot ourselves in the head while we’re at?

New comment by TSiege in "OpenLogi"

TSiege — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:25:53 +0000

It's never been easier to audit open source code than now. Why not just have a model examine it for you?

New comment by TSiege in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

TSiege — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:41:35 +0000

I’ve heard from people who left GitHub that Microsoft pulled all their best dev ops people to work on AI scaling. This is blatant disinvestment by Microsoft bc they think GitHub is untouchable. I hope better alternatives than musk come up

New comment by TSiege in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

TSiege — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:21:04 +0000

If demand remains as elevated as it is you will definitely see new fabs breaking ground to meet it. China is expanding a lot as well. Even if AI doesn’t go anywhere there is no way prices remain this elevated or climb forever

New comment by TSiege in "People are worried about America's solvency"

TSiege — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:17:48 +0000

So US manufacturing would go up and up by that logic. Not to mention the US can simultaneously restrict the money supply via increased taxes at same time. The US also could just stop issuing bonds entirely and simply create the currency directly rather than the Rube Goldberg that is the bond market

New comment by TSiege in "People are worried about America's solvency"

TSiege — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:14:55 +0000

The Romans used the gold standard the US does not

New comment by TSiege in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"

TSiege — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:32:42 +0000

Does anyone know if there is a theoretical limit for how energy dense a battery could be?

I wonder if there is a possible future where some sort of commercial long haul flights could be done by a fully electric plane. I've never gotten a great answer on this, and maybe we don't have an answer for certain since battery chemistry is some sense is still early days