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New comment by armada651 in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

armada651 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:52:18 +0000

Indeed, the problem is that people tell lies on the internet. We need to do something about that, because it's interfering with our super-intelligent AI models. /s

New comment by armada651 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

armada651 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:16:56 +0000

Emphasis on the word "quite"

New comment by armada651 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

armada651 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:31 +0000

> President Camacho is the exact inverse of Trump: he is stupid, uninformed, disconnected, and has few resources to address the challenges he faces, but he makes good-faith efforts to do so at every turn.

Camacho does so because he literally has no other option, there is an imminent famine he has to deal with. If he was living in an era of abundance like Trump, then I wonder how sincere and transparent he'd be.

New comment by armada651 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

armada651 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:55:48 +0000

I'd like to bring your attention to the fact that society had deteriorated to the point of imminent famine before Camacho thought to try and listen to the smartest person around in an attempt to avert disaster. We are not quite there yet.

New comment by armada651 in "HD Audio Driver for Windows 98SE / Me"

armada651 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:23:57 +0000

As AI companies buy up the supply of hardware, we'll be increasingly dependent on obsolete hardware. So it's a good solution for the problem it created.

New comment by armada651 in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

armada651 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:26:22 +0000

On school computers maybe, but not on their smartphones. If schools actually require kids to have their own computer with internet then that's quite simple to fix by enacting new rules. That's important for access to education as well for kids from low-income families.

New comment by armada651 in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

armada651 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:57:52 +0000

Why is it so important that kids have access to the internet anyway that we're willing to sacrifice both our privacy and freedom of speech rights for it when we already know it's damaging their mental health?

We don't need all this privacy invasion if we just didn't give kids a smartphone with a data plan.

New comment by armada651 in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

armada651 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:31:42 +0000

It's even stupider than that, it's not even to appease his base, it's a personal grudge. Trump sued a wind energy company to prevent them from building an off-shore wind farm in view of his golf resort in Scotland. He lost that case badly and he has been railing against wind energy specifically ever since.

So far Trump hasn't done much to prevent solar farms from being built, it's only wind turbines that he's exacting his vengeance on like some sort of modern day Don Quixote.

New comment by armada651 in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

armada651 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:43:13 +0000

> If NIMBYs were primary motivated by making money the prudent thing to do would be to support unrestricted zoning and then develop or sell the lot.

That is highly dependent on what exactly is being built next to your home. Sure, if it's more luxury housing then it'll probably drive the value of your home up. If it's low-income housing then it probably won't. And what we need is more of the latter rather than the former.

> you can take out loans against the value of the equity but this isn’t particularly common.

It's because it's an investment, you're going to get the return once you finally sell your home. Only in a pinch if someone needs a large amount of money to start a business or pay for an emergency will they mortgage their house.

New comment by armada651 in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

armada651 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:33:37 +0000

Doesn't Windows already do this by default? I can already run models bigger than my GPU VRAM and it will start using up to 50% of my system RAM as "shared memory". This is on a Desktop PC without a shared memory architecture.

New comment by armada651 in "Dolphin Progress Release 2603"

armada651 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:48:33 +0000

It's really unfortunate that the people who run the biggest AI companies don't share your definition of success.

New comment by armada651 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

armada651 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:43:00 +0000

> Since they didn't cancel elections

There's still time for that, but canceling elections would make it too obvious, then even people like you would realize what is happening. That's why these days autocrats prefer to simply subvert the electoral system. That way people who prefer to look away can simply continue to pretend everything is above board.

New comment by armada651 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

armada651 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:05:22 +0000

The moment they made that name change and stated their expansionist agenda it finally became clear to me that this wasn't just MAGA anymore, this was actual fascism.

Whether you think the current targets are legitimate or not, the fact that the U.S. is going to war without seeking any democratic approval anymore is deeply troubling.

New comment by armada651 in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

armada651 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:25:21 +0000

If the author is reading this, I highly recommend you go to Chaos Communication Congress in Germany. There you'll find that the culture you're mourning is very much still alive, far outside of Silicon Valley.

New comment by armada651 in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

armada651 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:57:47 +0000

Even if the AI bubble bursts, having successfully cornered the compute market they can just go rent seeking instead by renting out cloud workstations, given that they've made the hardware to build a workstation yourself unaffordable.

New comment by armada651 in "How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?"

armada651 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:05:19 +0000

I wonder how biased the group is though, is the sample truly representative of the general population or is it a group of people who are already undergoing screen for some other health-related reason?

New comment by armada651 in "The largest number representable in 64 bits"

armada651 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:17:17 +0000

Double negative infinity

New comment by armada651 in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

armada651 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:19:54 +0000

If they don't have any evidence that'd lead them to believe the data they're searching for is on that laptop, then you can reasonably object that there's no probable cause to search the laptop.

New comment by armada651 in "House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs"

armada651 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:55:30 +0000

If this becomes law, then yes. But then people will turn to VPS providers instead and set up their own VPNs, which will then prompt a law to demand age verification before renting any server. I wonder how far they're willing to go down this rabbit hole.

New comment by armada651 in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

armada651 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:13:33 +0000

Sanction-able? I'm not saying you shouldn't comply with a valid warrant, I'm saying that you should object to whether there was probable cause for the warrant.