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New comment by aardvarkr in "Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered"

aardvarkr — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:51:37 +0000

If stranger things ended with everyone dead and no happy ending then sure but no, everything is fair and the heroes always win. Horror has always been mainstream fyi, it’s not a recent invention

New comment by aardvarkr in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

aardvarkr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:29:35 +0000

Sounds like you just want a car from the year 2000.

New comment by aardvarkr in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

aardvarkr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:05:22 +0000

That’s fine. They can choose to use whatever model their political hearts desire. the supply chain risk designation means EVERYONE who works with the government isn’t allowed to use Claude. Nearly everyone in tech has some sort of contract with the government.

New comment by aardvarkr in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

aardvarkr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:50:59 +0000

Survivorship bias and the corporate finance world of today is completely unrecognizable from the world of Google and Apple. Just look at the resulting performance of the SPAC craze

New comment by aardvarkr in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

aardvarkr — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:23:17 +0000

It’s a $200M contract. That’s not nothing but it’s definitely not such a huge sum for these companies at their scale when they’re spending billions on infrastructure.

I’m sure anthropic has signed up more revenue this week in response to this debacle to cover it. Where they’re actually screwed is if the gov follows through and declare anthropic a supply chain risk.

New comment by aardvarkr in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

aardvarkr — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:18:40 +0000

I don’t care who is in the whitehouse. Snowden revealed the crimes of the NSA in 2013 when Obama was president. They’re all going to want to use AI for mass surveillance

New comment by aardvarkr in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

aardvarkr — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:15:25 +0000

I hate this so much. The nsa’s spying on everyone in 2010 was “legal” and I can only imagine how much worse it is now with AI to follow your digital footprint around everywhere. Too bad we don’t have any more whistleblowers like Snowden

New comment by aardvarkr in "MacBook Neo"

aardvarkr — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:11:13 +0000

Capture the student market 100%. I’d buy one for my kids tomorrow. These machines are made with an iPhone chip so they’re going to be great at browsing the web and studying. I wouldn’t buy one for myself To do actual work on but for light users it’s the perfect device. Start them early and get them hooked in the ecosystem so they’re grow up and keep buying iPhones, Apple Watches, AirPods, and iPads.

New comment by aardvarkr in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

aardvarkr — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:46:13 +0000

It’s more a factor of how they structure the desired output. They follow a template instead of trying to come up with something on the fly

New comment by aardvarkr in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

aardvarkr — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:39:37 +0000

Ugh I have actually started hating Gemini for this specifically.

New comment by aardvarkr in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

aardvarkr — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:54:27 +0000

They look like any other pair of sunglasses. No piece of glass over one eye reminding everyone you meet that you’re wearing a camera. They’re incredibly stealthy

New comment by aardvarkr in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

aardvarkr — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:32:53 +0000

This is the same government caught spying on its citizens by Snowden so I don’t trust them at all.

New comment by aardvarkr in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

aardvarkr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:40:43 +0000

Huh? In what world was the tariff on sand 2000%?

New comment by aardvarkr in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

aardvarkr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:38:53 +0000

The feds are the ones that control import duties, not the states. The courts will decide two years from now what to do.

New comment by aardvarkr in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

aardvarkr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:04:39 +0000

No, you can think of them more like unarmed artillery shells. Can you walk down the street to buy some artillery munitions?

Even if they were considered arms for the purpose of 2a this isn’t a ban on drones but a specific manufacturer. They government can definitely refuse to grant a manufacturer license to sell on this country.

New comment by aardvarkr in "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"

aardvarkr — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:32:17 +0000

If you read one book a quarter then yeah it’s not for you. If you read one book a week you can queue up fifty good books and wait for that one to come available at some point in the year.

New comment by aardvarkr in "Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it's sinking"

aardvarkr — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:27:59 +0000

So what makes a bitcoin worth $100k if it’s such a shit currency?

New comment by aardvarkr in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

aardvarkr — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:03:04 +0000

Medical tourism is a huge industry. A 3 month supply costs more than $3k in the USA. A flight to Canada costs $300 and takes a few hours of your time. I’d definitely do it if I was taking the drug.

New comment by aardvarkr in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

aardvarkr — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:55:26 +0000

Generics are so cheap and easy to make that they can reasonably justify that it will save the government money by making the population healthier. Just think about how much less heart disease and cancer and every other obesity-affected disease costs the taxpayer.

New comment by aardvarkr in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

aardvarkr — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:39:33 +0000

This article is saying that the patent elapsed in 2018 because thy didn’t pay the $250 to renew the patent. Instead they relied on “data exclusivity” which means their trial data is exclusively theirs and anyone who wants to sell in Canada must first run safety trials of their own at a huge expense. It’s just as good as a patent but has a shorter window of exclusivity.