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New comment by abraxas in "US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion"

abraxas — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:01:59 +0000

Not sure if they ever had it in modern history.

New comment by abraxas in "Passkeys are not a trap"

abraxas — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:04:46 +0000

My OS (Arch), my browser (Firefox) and my hardware (Yubikey) all work fine with some sites. For example my Google account credentials are on my Yubikey passkey. But half of the sites that claim to support passkeys won't offer me the option to save the passkey on my hardware. Paypal is one such example. Facebook is another. I don't understand why. They seemingly only want to cooperate with cloud based passkey storage. I don't know what mechanics govern this.

New comment by abraxas in "Passkeys are not a trap"

abraxas — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:10:59 +0000

What I'd like to understand is why the majority of sites that allegedly supoprt passkeys do not let me store them on Yubikey hardware but instead are pushing into "cloud" passkeys. That's what is triggering my spidey sense about the whole scheme. If they are so great all around and vendor neutral why is everyone pushing me to store my keys in some "cloud" password manager? If I'm going to the trouble of setting up passkeys I want to be in control of them across all my accounts. That means my own hardware dongle. Not some cloud vendor's pinky swear that they'll take care of them and let me use them on my terms.

New comment by abraxas in "Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev"

abraxas — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:13:08 +0000

Does it thrash the session's KV cache?

New comment by abraxas in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

abraxas — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:27:27 +0000

Yes, that was the case for me. I resolved to get a PHEV "because road trips" and after test driving a bunch I went ahead and got a pure EV.

New comment by abraxas in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

abraxas — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:16:57 +0000

Fossil cars are cooked and even Toyota is implicitly agreeing.

BYD makes cars that can charge in about 10 minutes and honestly deliver 500km+ of range. Every advantage that combustion based cars used to have has dissipated by now.

New comment by abraxas in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

abraxas — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:47:26 +0000

That was the case for me. We had one EV and one fossil fuel car for road trips. After driving the EV day to day it was so painful to use the other car that we decided to replace it with a second EV. A longer stop to recharge on a road trip once or twice a year is a small price to pay for the benefits of EV driving day to day.

New comment by abraxas in "Meta VR Glasses"

abraxas — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:01:21 +0000

DK2 also

New comment by abraxas in "English: A vs. An"

abraxas — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:07:43 +0000

The word "cases" is already plural. Why does it need an article in front of it? It's one of the usages that trip me up. Why isn't it just "all cases"?

New comment by abraxas in "English: A vs. An"

abraxas — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:05:57 +0000

Close. It's Polish.

New comment by abraxas in "English: A vs. An"

abraxas — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:28:26 +0000

Here I have no idea why in the last sentence you wrote "all the cases" even though cases is already plural. This is not covered by any of the rules people have been posting in this thread. I'm the GP who started the article usage discussion here.

New comment by abraxas in "English: A vs. An"

abraxas — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:21:42 +0000

What gets me as a non-native speaker far more than "a vs an" is the "a vs the" conundrum. I still don't quite get when something needs to be "indefinite" and I've been speaking English for close to forty years. My native tongue lacks articles altogether and it's soo bloody hard I feel hopeless I'll ever master them fully.

New comment by abraxas in "Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU"

abraxas — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:02:37 +0000

> writing the laws becomes a bigger problem than writing the code itself.

Of course because at its limit programming is basically defining desired behaviour under all circumstances and logical conditions.

New comment by abraxas in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"

abraxas — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:27:32 +0000

I'm not following the local mdoel scene too closely but this seems quite amazing. Is this able to be run on Apple silicon too?

New comment by abraxas in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

abraxas — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:54:10 +0000

And a somewhat lighthearted meme to go with it: https://i.redd.it/v8h0q00xs2371.jpg

New comment by abraxas in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

abraxas — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:21:23 +0000

The UK wanted it the opposite way. They wanted full access to the EU market but forbid the movement of people because they wanted to get rid of the Poles. The EU would never agree to that and rightly so.

New comment by abraxas in "Senior Russian banker fired after scathing speech on wartime economy"

abraxas — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 02:25:22 +0000

I'd not hang out near windows in tall buildings if I were him.

New comment by abraxas in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

abraxas — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:01:35 +0000

Meh, it is the sacred text of Scientology. Mostly pseudo scientific made up bullshit, wrapped in the buzzwords of the day and conveying little actual information. Just like opus 5.

New comment by abraxas in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

abraxas — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:58:26 +0000

This sounds like a Dianetics chapter by L Ron Hubbard.

New comment by abraxas in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

abraxas — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:26:57 +0000

Yes, propaganda is increasingly not about what you say on a topic but what topics are being talked about.

Decades of loose policy around financial regulation and ZIRP made living unaffordable for most western citizens but politicians rediscovered the eternal scapegoat in the shape of immigrants. This way they don't have to answer for their failures. They just made one up.

It's tragic how gullible the public is. This scam worked in Britain, USA and is likely going to work in Germany, Poland etc if the polls are to be believed.