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New comment by V__ in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

V__ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:04:16 +0000

> There's no question that there are synergies between Tesla and SpaceX in our futures," she said. "There's a convergence of what we're all trying to accomplish in the future."

Accomplish a ludicrous valuation above all else?

New comment by V__ in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

V__ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:44:59 +0000

I knew that in Germany contracts with minors are voidable. After some checking they apparently are voidable in the U.S. as well:

> Contracts with minors are voidable at the minor's discretion but exceptions exist, such as contracts for necessities (e.g., food, health, and transportation).

[1] https://www.upcounsel.com/minors-and-contracts

New comment by V__ in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

V__ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:08:58 +0000

Can a kid set up an AWS account? Are there no checks?

Wouldn't the contract be void for anyone underage anyway?

New comment by V__ in "Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code"

V__ — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:26:25 +0000

OpenSuse is (or will be) "Euro-Linux".

New comment by V__ in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

V__ — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:32:54 +0000

This looks very repetitive and not-fun to build.

New comment by V__ in "Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility"

V__ — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:59:04 +0000

I just checked and there is even a seller on Amazon delivering in the U.S., so it shouldn't be too hard to get.

New comment by V__ in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

V__ — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:42:06 +0000

"Thumbs" down

New comment by V__ in ".de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?"

V__ — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:04:14 +0000

Just before the outage happened I updated multiple client servers. That was a very stressfull hour trying to figure out why nothing works.

New comment by V__ in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

V__ — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:31:43 +0000

Has anyone used this and ansible and is able to give a short comparison with likes and dislikes?

New comment by V__ in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

V__ — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:52:52 +0000

Can you give a source on this? I can't belive this to be remotely true.

New comment by V__ in "Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans"

V__ — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:18:05 +0000

You correct, you are allowed to "break" patent law in Germany, if the use is private and non-commercial. This does not encompass schools and science though.

New comment by V__ in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

V__ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:23:19 +0000

This is such a good metaphor.

New comment by V__ in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

V__ — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:11:06 +0000

You replace half of a team with AI. Salary cost go immediately down, but team output can keep up for some time. You don't see the technical debt, the security issues and the prompt injection which will result in wrong invoices being sent. In six months suddenly there will be a big problem, but this quarter a lot of shareholders are happy about the cost-cutting. You may even be promoted by the time shit hits the fan, and it won't even be your problem anymore.

On the other hand there probably also is a general correction in the market after the covid hiring spree.

New comment by V__ in "Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)"

V__ — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:24:33 +0000

Has someone answered why a civilization would send "von Neumann probes" or similar into space? It would take so long for any answers from those probes to arrive that there really doesn't seem much value in them.

New comment by V__ in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

V__ — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:40:30 +0000

Especially Cheney pushed hard for this, ignored the intelligence communities assessments, then got his own source, a burned source, Ahmed Chalabi to fabricate reasons for an invasion.

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

V__ — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:46:22 +0000

The U.S. can't win this war. John Kiriakou did a nice analysis on this on his recent podcasts. "Iran just has to prolong the war and survive it to win". Trump on the other hand needs a decisive win fast, or the economic and political fallout will be too big. As long as Iran can launch cheap drones and keep a small but steady pressure there is just no path out of this for the U.S. except to go home.

New comment by V__ in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

V__ — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:34:21 +0000

Bond's Casino Royal had a stock short sell bet with a planned attack.

New comment by V__ in "Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data"

V__ — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:00:16 +0000

This is so interesting. Especially since it's kinda weird to train a robot to mimicking human play. I wonder what a perfect robot what actually behave like.

It wouldn't need to split-step to activate muscles, the footwork would probably be minimal. I imagine a lot of different unusual looking swings to confuse human players, while still making perfect contact. It could make really late drop shots or even rotate the racket at the last moment for crazy angles.

Would love to watch this.

New comment by V__ in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

V__ — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:37:27 +0000

There is probably some lingo somewhere clarifying that you pay for the "experience" of her and not for her in particular.

New comment by V__ in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

V__ — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:59:32 +0000

Another big problem is the mentality. "We have always done it this way" and "I don't want to change it" is extremely prevalent. I say this as a German.

This is also reflected in the big political parties, which would rather keep these beliefs alive than inspire change.

I really don't see a solid economic future for Germany when enough other countries implement more progressive economic policies.