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New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Anthropic S-1"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:15:28 +0000

I don’t know you, but if you have several billions in USD, you can give it a shot.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:56:29 +0000

That feels like an analysis stuck in 2015.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:34:17 +0000

Wouldn't a smart contract also have a statue of limitation built in?

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Plan mode is dead"

_fizz_buzz_ — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:14:08 +0000

I also use Plan Mode. How does it otherwise work if I am not even quite sure what exactly I want to build myself?

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi"

_fizz_buzz_ — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:13:26 +0000

I think their point was more: is an ESP32 more like a arduino (or any other MCU) running bare metal or some thine RTOS or more like a raspberry pi which is more like a mini computer running a full fledged Linux. And I guess the answer it kind of always sat in between a little bit and now the family kind of spreads out across this whole spectrum.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "PCB is brought to you by Fable 5"

_fizz_buzz_ — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:32:34 +0000

I have used fable to aid me with PCB design. It is pretty good. But it can also sometimes make very human mistakes. It mixed up RX and TX on a uart line. If you don't catch stuff like that and get assembled boards this can obviously be pretty annoying. On the other hand I have also mixed up RX and TX before, lol.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:29:26 +0000

Sure. More precisely: they resolved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem as posed by the Clay Institute. Not sure what else "solving Navier-Stokes" could reasonably mean. A general closed-form solution probably doesn't exist. And numerical solutions have existed for decades. But of course there are still open questions like unforced solutions etc.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:03:33 +0000

Humans are incredibly good at adapting. A few days ago AI solved Navier-Stokes and I was blown away. Now I'm already thinking: "Well, it was only a counterexample and it brute-forced its way to it." lol

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

_fizz_buzz_ — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:33:33 +0000

> If global warming disrupts 99% of all crop production, the remaining 1% is still plenty enough to sustain a stable, if miserable, population.

That is extinctesque enough for me. An AI extinction would probably be similiar.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

_fizz_buzz_ — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:08:22 +0000

Can someone explain if i understand this correctly: Are they saying that they started training this new model on August 28th and then started using it on September 1st? Does training a new model only take 3 days?

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]"

_fizz_buzz_ — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:54:48 +0000

> I've heard it said that true understanding is demonstrated when someone can explain difficult concepts well.

I think this not generally. I worked together with this amazing engineer, but he really struggled to sometimes explain what he was trying to do. He came up with great solutions, but often took us some time to figure out what he was trying to get at.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise"

_fizz_buzz_ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:26:44 +0000

Probably some of those issues are not a big problem when you have a good salary (like child/healthcare). And a Silicon Valley salary in Idaho sounds like a pretty sweet deal.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:01:04 +0000

I feel your argument is shifting. Also, it was Fraunhofer that was threatening developers at the end of the 90s not Thomson. Fraunhofer will very aggressively defend their patents/licenses.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:22:51 +0000

Fraunhofer absolutely does licensing. That is one of their main sources of income. Also,your retelling of the story is off: https://www.4ipcouncil.com/features/mp3-digital-audio-coding

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Waymo in Dallas"

_fizz_buzz_ — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:45:57 +0000

I am from Germany and public transit is hit and miss here also. Big cities like cologne are great. My commute to work is also fine with public transit (although I mostly bike, actually) But very often there are places I have to go where public transit is pretty inconvenient (adding a lot of time to a trip). I am all for public transit and it should be cheap (maybe even free) and widely available, but it simply doesn’t work for me all the time.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Show HN: I created a project management system"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:29:45 +0000

Yeah, fake testimonials and sales numbers are problematic both in the US and in the EU and can actually get fairly expensive. I would just leave this stuff off or be very prepared to back the claims. I think a problem is that a competitor (like slack or jira or whoever) might file a complaint.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

_fizz_buzz_ — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:14:38 +0000

So, OpenAI and Anthropic say the Chinese models are only as good because they distill their models. How true is that. I am sure it adds something. But is it more like a marginal 1% improvement or something really significant?

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Grok 4.5"

_fizz_buzz_ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:33:24 +0000

> Claude just gave up and did an HTML/CSS implementation but I insisted on native SwiftUI+Metal.

That sounds very odd and very contrary to my experience. You don’t say which model you actually used, but I never had opus 4.8 (or sonnet for that matter) ignore which language/stack i wanted to use.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Germany’s Infineon opens major chip plant as EU seeks tech autonomy"

_fizz_buzz_ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:37:11 +0000

I think (but I have no actual insides), they picked 800V dc for datacenter also because that is commonly used for the DC bus in EVs. So, one can share a lot of components across industries. Also, 800V just kind of works well for power transistors like SiC Fets.

New comment by _fizz_buzz_ in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

_fizz_buzz_ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:31:37 +0000

> Not a fair comparison. 30-40x population difference.

I've always found that argument puzzling. A population 30 times larger also means roughly 30 times the technicians, funding, and resources etc.

Although, you have a very good point that internet speed is not everywhere good in Europe. Maybe that is what you are getting at? One can pick a place Europe with great internet speed, but one can also find places in Europe with terrible internet speed. In that sense it is a mixed bag just like the US.