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New comment by aswegs8 in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"

aswegs8 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:52:39 +0000

Was looking for the comment that addresses the clickbait-y headline, found this top comment by you, was not disappointed.

New comment by aswegs8 in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

aswegs8 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:32:32 +0000

Could

New comment by aswegs8 in "Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase"

aswegs8 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:57:06 +0000

BREAKING: ETHZ REFRAINS FROM RELEASING THE DETAILS OF THEIR QUBIT EXPERIMENT IN FEAR OF BREAKING THE FABRIC OF REALITY. READ NOW!!

New comment by aswegs8 in "Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting"

aswegs8 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:12:02 +0000

Why can I just go 30? Feelsslowman

New comment by aswegs8 in "Am I German or Autistic?"

aswegs8 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:44:02 +0000

I would argue East Germans are more German than average Germans

New comment by aswegs8 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

aswegs8 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:45:49 +0000

Yeah I get that, I have been in a similar situation. At some point you just want to pull the trigger instead of going along with values that aren't yours. Sure, there is always the way of just silently disagree and move on, but who cares. We live one life not to maximize our careers, but to be who we are. Was an interesting read and wish all the best to you in the future.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

aswegs8 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:23:14 +0000

Microsoft Azure holds 20% of global cloud infrastructure market, 2nd largest behind AWS. Seems to be working.

New comment by aswegs8 in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

aswegs8 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:45:12 +0000

Not sure either, it seems like OpenAI has more money than they can spend and just looks for outsized bets.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

aswegs8 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:09:45 +0000

https://archive.is/20260323190952/https://www.wired.com/stor...

New comment by aswegs8 in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

aswegs8 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:38:37 +0000

My bad, in my language its derivate. It's equivalent to the English derivative:

"In chemistry, a derivative is a compound that is derived from a similar compound by a chemical reaction, or that can be imagined to arise from another compound, if one atom or group of atoms is replaced with another atom or group of atoms."

New comment by aswegs8 in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

aswegs8 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:37:02 +0000

The German-speaking world loves playing devils advocate in arguments. It is even seen as some form of duty to get to the truth.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

aswegs8 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:35:59 +0000

Are you implying his incentives might have shifted?

New comment by aswegs8 in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

aswegs8 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:47:52 +0000

I love the use of the term clanker. There is just no one there that can be offended by this.

New comment by aswegs8 in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

aswegs8 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:01:19 +0000

Writing like AI isn't a bug, it's a feature - to read it is quite annoying. And that's the problem.

New comment by aswegs8 in "We Have Learned Nothing"

aswegs8 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:34:06 +0000

Exactly. If you would launch a startup with principles from 100 years ago you probably wouldn't stand a chance in most industries.

New comment by aswegs8 in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

aswegs8 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:31:49 +0000

It is no derivate. It's just the tartrate salt of LSD. There is no pharmacological difference. It's like saying I got this new Magnesium Tartrate which is now different to the Magnesium Oxide / Citrate / Glycinate / whatever you are taking. It might affect stability or absorption rate or similar, but Tartrate itself doesn't have an effect.

New comment by aswegs8 in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

aswegs8 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:30:16 +0000

It's just the tartrate salt of LSD. It isn't even a derivative of it. Does not have any other effects pharmacologically.

New comment by aswegs8 in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

aswegs8 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:14:44 +0000

You might have replied to the wrong comment. OP implied it would have no impact

New comment by aswegs8 in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

aswegs8 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:49:07 +0000

I was laughing out loud at the absurdity. Oh I got laid off? Well, time to let my dog code computer games.

New comment by aswegs8 in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

aswegs8 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:42:34 +0000

Funny how we now see AI go through developmental phases similar to what we see in young child development. In a weird convoluted way. Strawberry spelling and car wash aren't particularly intuitive as cognitive developmental stages.

E.g. well known mirror-test [1], passed by kids from age 1.5-2

Or object permanence [2], children knowing by age 2 that things that are not in sight do not disappear from existence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence