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New comment by a34729t in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

a34729t — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:19:17 +0000

Please, Kubernetes is the Chlamidya of infrastructure software. Ever hear of a large K8s migration going well? No, because it needs to be completely re-implemented under the hood for anything halfway serious. Mesos was pain in the ass to use, but was mature when K8s arrived. Nomad was cool though.

Dart is also complete shit: Speed of javascript with verbosity of Java. Who the hell though that was a good idea?

New comment by a34729t in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

a34729t — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:16:00 +0000

Who would have thought that our saviors will be the Chinese!?

New comment by a34729t in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

a34729t — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:40:57 +0000

mandatory fun

New comment by a34729t in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

a34729t — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:45:29 +0000

We should allow privateers to go after spammers, and get the seized assets. And spammer is then tortured appropriately. Satan could run a successful single issue campaign on this in the most religious state in the US.

New comment by a34729t in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

a34729t — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:44:53 +0000

IMO the purpose of going public is primarily to make it hard to nationalize SpaceX, which some people have called for.

New comment by a34729t in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

a34729t — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:40:42 +0000

Heaven forbid we could pay better! Something something market signals... not like Alaska is hurting for money.

New comment by a34729t in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

a34729t — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:32:07 +0000

Dont forget the artificial people personalities

New comment by a34729t in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"

a34729t — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:40:29 +0000

This is amazing. I'll be sure to do this but also add "Claudigula"!

New comment by a34729t in "The desperation of NYTimes"

a34729t — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:01:04 +0000

In a universe where FT exists, the only reason for NYT to exist is Wordle.

New comment by a34729t in "12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date"

a34729t — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:58:51 +0000

These are toys for adults, to be put on the bookshelf once complete.

New comment by a34729t in "Can A.I. produce writing that we want to read?"

a34729t — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:54:32 +0000

My boss always asked me to write in a more neutral style in documents. He doesn't do that anymore.

New comment by a34729t in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

a34729t — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:38:54 +0000

Yeah, I feel like it has been decided that "AI apocalypse" talk has been deemed dangerous by the masters of the universe, and thusly the talk needs to be different. Dangerous meaning, of course, how bad things will get.

New comment by a34729t in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

a34729t — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:26:05 +0000

Absolutely. A state senator in my state was a strategy consultant for a cutthroat consulting firm whose major client was a hedge fund and happily did that for a while. Then she decided to get into politics. She is the right gender, but had to become a progressive to fit in. So she did that, and career has advanced accordingly.

My republican operative acquaintances report the same deal on the other side of the isle of course, though usually with more idiots as the right tends to disdain politics and smart people go into business, whereas many more smart people on the left go to politics.

New comment by a34729t in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

a34729t — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:20:53 +0000

Any sort of extremism can be fought if you provide all people with opportunity. Its not just a social saftey net but also a purpose and jobs and the idea of a better future.

IMO the right broadly misses the fact that government can be efficient, and that a robust universal healthcare system can be good for business dynamism by helping small businesses.

The left loves the government too much and always seems to think if we can just government and NGO a bit more, that'll work (generalization). And that businesses are kind of a dirty idea.

New comment by a34729t in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

a34729t — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:15:38 +0000

And it is common to cheat, as it is cheaper to pay the fine than to buy a pass annually. Naturally, this is done more by the foreigners I know than the natives. But the foreigners are not Japanese...

New comment by a34729t in "New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions"

a34729t — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:35:39 +0000

So basically local LLMs are rapidly improving to the point where they can handle many of the automation or local coding use cases on reasonable hardware (say $5k or less). What's the edge for frontier model providers here?

New comment by a34729t in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

a34729t — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:16:01 +0000

No, it is culture, not race. A friend of mine (half asian, half white) and by happenstance devot christian got his graduate degree at a top 3 school in the US, and he was shocked the international student brazenness in cheating. He reported it and it was brushed under the rug, and this severely disillusioned my friend. Every professor I know reports this cultural difference.

And obviously we see it with SDE interivews with 1point3acres and the other "interview study" sites and AI tools.

New comment by a34729t in "How Weak Evidence Is Fueling a National Push to Ban Social Media for Youth"

a34729t — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:11:20 +0000

If i was dictator i would straight up ban social media for everybody. I would even consider disabling the internet and tv on the weekends and forcing people to have a mandatory vice, subsidized by the government.

New comment by a34729t in "The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)"

a34729t — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:07:00 +0000

Hold on now William Gibson...

New comment by a34729t in "Starship V3"

a34729t — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:57:15 +0000

One of the dumbest things ever was the left giving up on the flag. The only way this makes sense is if much of the left actively disdain most of the nation (ie Stanford vocabulary guide around American flag being a triggering symbol or something ridiculous). I dont see how the left and patriotism are incompatible...