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New comment by antonyt in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

antonyt — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:14:02 +0000

Charitably, you could read this as "its overall intelligence [is in a class that] ranks second only to [that of]..."

New comment by antonyt in "IBM is on pace for its worst day ever"

antonyt — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:16:59 +0000

Depends what happens next. RSUs are taxed as ordinary income at their market value at the time they vest, so it's not necessarily bad if the stock is down.

In fact, the ideal scenario is that the price drops just before your vest and then bounces back up after.

New comment by antonyt in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

antonyt — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:51:53 +0000

Your own link contradicts the assertion you’re making about the origin of the fire.

New comment by antonyt in "I Am Behind on C# 14 Features, and I Can't Prove It but Does It Matter?"

antonyt — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:46:49 +0000

I'm not speaking in vague generalities here. New features in C# do not stop you from writing old C#, and they never have.

Here's code that uses the delegate keyword introduced in C# 2.0, twenty years ago. You'll rarely see an explicit delegate in a modern C# codebase, but the C# compiler is still happy for you to use it.

https://dotnetfiddle.net/l14cXD

New comment by antonyt in "Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane"

antonyt — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:53:34 +0000

In my experience they absolutely do. The houses by and large aren't very well designed or insulated, and electricity isn't that cheap. In the southeast I rarely see home thermostats set to the 60s or low 70s. Office settings are a different question, though.

New comment by antonyt in "I Am Behind on C# 14 Features, and I Can't Prove It but Does It Matter?"

antonyt — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:24:20 +0000

This is not how new language features work in C#.

New comment by antonyt in "Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets"

antonyt — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:59:55 +0000

You commented on this thread! You must be involved! Prison for you.

New comment by antonyt in "The room the economy can't see"

antonyt — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:59:59 +0000

My impression is that voluntarily child-free people have a very low regret rate, but there are dozens of conflicting studies on this. Interested if you have anything concrete to link to.

New comment by antonyt in "Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'"

antonyt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:39:23 +0000

What does his status as a foreigner have to do with ruining Windows? You can't think of any homegrown American CEOs that systematically ruin their products and companies?

New comment by antonyt in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

antonyt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:52:17 +0000

Individuals have faced federal charges and served prison time for reselling copyrighted content. I don't see the same happening to AI execs.

New comment by antonyt in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

antonyt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:26:17 +0000

On formatting: having the big-text snippets occur before they do in the main body was jarring. I think it's more normal practice to lift out specific quotes after they have occurred in the text, not before.

On content: if it's any consolation, America is doing this to America as well. Locals everywhere are wringing their hands over stylistic homogenization, Instagrammability-driven design choices, and rapidly increasing prices.

New comment by antonyt in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

antonyt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:22:15 +0000

The conclusion of the piece is that this is no longer a uniquely American phenomenon.

New comment by antonyt in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

antonyt — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:38:58 +0000

I got a 4700k in 2013 for 200 bucks from Microcenter. The thing has been continuously in service ever since. It's my "homelab" box now.

New comment by antonyt in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

antonyt — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:53:23 +0000

It can be both.

New comment by antonyt in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

antonyt — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:52:12 +0000

I'm not sure if payment is involved, but I've heard Orthodox Jews can and do seek non-Jewish help when they need e.g. light switches toggled on the Sabbath.

New comment by antonyt in "Please Use AI"

antonyt — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:41:43 +0000

I see what you mean. I still ask friends for rides to the airport, but you're probably right that it's a shallower net than I might have cast without rideshare apps.

New comment by antonyt in "Please Use AI"

antonyt — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:49:22 +0000

Facebook, sure, but Uber and AirBNB? I don't see how Uber has displaced some community function. AirBNB is arguably destructive to communities, but again how was community fulfilling the need it attempts to address?

New comment by antonyt in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

antonyt — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:31:44 +0000

I've never understood the "teaching to the test" argument against these tests. Take a look at some of the math SAT sample questions: https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/digital-sat-samp...

How would you "teach to the test" for these in a way that looks different from just teaching arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, etc?

New comment by antonyt in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

antonyt — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:29:14 +0000

...why wouldn't it be? Who cares if e.g. Greenland has near-zero total emissions if nearly nobody lives there? Emissions are a cost of human existence, of course absolute emissions should scale with population.

New comment by antonyt in "Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

antonyt — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:25:07 +0000

Drives me crazy too, but headline writers/editors were addicted to "quietly" long before LLMs. Online journalism has been full of these types of tropes for ages.