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New comment by TremendousJudge in "ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam"

TremendousJudge — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:58:47 +0000

what? you mean that all my beenz.com stock is worth nil?? but it's an online currency! it's the future!

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

TremendousJudge — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:19:47 +0000

They are also very repetitive. When I started reading it (back in 2015 I think?) I thought that they had some interesting info, but needed a good editor to remove at least 60% of the material; many chapters argued the exact same point as the previous chapter, with a slightly different analogy. Also many are responses to other blogs of the time, which also isn't interesting to read in a book since you don't have any context. Very tiresome to read.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Leaving Tech"

TremendousJudge — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:59:14 +0000

> we built this technology, we enthusiastically embraced it and one-upped each other by showing how much we can vibecode

Who's "we"? I'm a software engineer and I sure didn't

New comment by TremendousJudge in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

TremendousJudge — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:19:58 +0000

The government can’t regulate a black market, but they could stop the charade of illegal drugs, convert the black market into a regular market, and regulate that. Suddenly you get less fentanyl overdoses, better outcomes for addicts (they're not criminals anymore), AND you remove the power of drug cartels (they'll still exist, but will compete with each other through less murder-y means, like any other capitalist company). Plus, stabilize a lot of third world countries where illegal drug production and export is a big part of the economy, which is what allows the cartels to fight and corrupt the state.

Or, just keep doing what they're doing. It's bound to work eventually, right? Drug cartels are definitely growing less powerful every year, the war of drugs is being won, rate of addiction is going down.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

TremendousJudge — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:53:47 +0000

I use SumatraPDF for reading, but it doesn't do editing. The Firefox PDF editor works perfectly fine.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:19:51 +0000

I guess you're not one of those "Don't worry about it" people

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Incident with Github.com"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:57:55 +0000

I have worked with some "american born engineers" that were some of the least competent people I've ever seen, while getting paid 2x or 3x of some "foreign contractors" on the same team

Earth.nullschool.net

TremendousJudge — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:42:23 +0000

Article URL: https://earth.nullschool.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299364

Points: 83

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New comment by TremendousJudge in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

TremendousJudge — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:20:41 +0000

>Some country has laws that some other country dislikes, therefore they should be able to ignore them?

Yeah, I think that's pretty much the definition of the right of asylum.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

TremendousJudge — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:31:33 +0000

less than 10 years ago I worked for an AI company that sold Naive Bayes classifiers as a service. so I would call it AI

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:25:40 +0000

I use zed for this (you can use vscode as well), just use the side panel chat, take away write permissions, prompt it with "answer with code in chat" or similar, then you can use it as a personalized StackOverflow for your codebase. Even if it outputs an entire new file, you can take your time and go function by function.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "How to Survive Boiling Water"

TremendousJudge — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:03:41 +0000

I think GP meant in the tea instructions

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

TremendousJudge — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:29:00 +0000

why is it a paradox? guarding their IP overseas has been the modus operandi of American software companies since their inception

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home"

TremendousJudge — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:21:48 +0000

well, it's often said that all good architecture leaks [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0j0d2ymixY

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

TremendousJudge — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:22:03 +0000

There are plenty of humid, warm cities in the world. Not so many humid, cold cities. It's easy to check, usually the (English) wikipedia article of a city will have a Climate table with month-by-month data. On the winter months, Montevideo gets around 80% average humidity. I challenge you to look for cities that get as cold, but are more humid than Montevideo in the winter. You can find some (I think Auckland is one), but they are very rare.

Greetings from the Shoelace neighborhood, Montevideo

New comment by TremendousJudge in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:55:15 +0000

yes, and all their abstract, philosophical thought is now being used to justify high valuations by these companies. if what they are making is the new nuclear bomb, well then they must be very valuable indeed.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:17:36 +0000

what do you think they should do instead of what they currently do?

New comment by TremendousJudge in "John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard"

TremendousJudge — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:27:12 +0000

>For example, if you’re building a proof of concept (POC), then it’s more important to prove the idea than it is to define the architecture.

I have tried to do this for POCs (just hacking everything together), and I always get stuck very quickly. Then until I figure out some sort of architecture for what I'm supposed to be doing I can't proceed. It's like, once I have the first step (of several) of the a POC working, I literally cannot think of how to implement the second one until the first one is somewhat well organized

New comment by TremendousJudge in "CrankGPT"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:50:00 +0000

From http://hpmor.com/chapter/64:

MORPHEUS: For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. But then I saw the fields with my own eyes, watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living -

NEO (politely): Excuse me, please.

MORPHEUS: Yes, Neo?

NEO: I've kept quiet for as long as I could, but I feel a certain need to speak up at this point. The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. The efficiency of a power plant at converting thermal energy into electricity decreases as you run the turbines at lower temperatures. If you had any sort of food humans could eat, it would be more efficient to burn it in a furnace than feed it to humans. And now you're telling me that their food is the bodies of the dead, fed to the living? Haven't you ever heard of the laws of thermodynamics?

MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?

NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics!

MORPHEUS: Where did you go to high school, Neo?

(Pause.)

NEO: ...in the Matrix.

MORPHEUS: The machines tell elegant lies.

(Pause.)

NEO (in a small voice): Could I please have a real physics textbook?

MORPHEUS: There is no such thing, Neo. The universe doesn't run on math.

New comment by TremendousJudge in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

TremendousJudge — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:14:57 +0000

Great little article. 12 years later, he is still right on every count. Who would have thought that Peter Higgs was a very clever, clear-thinking man