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New comment by bajard in "I don't care if web content is AI-generated"

bajard — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:08:43 +0000

Sometimes I watched YouTube documentaries that I believed contained real images, and I thought they were real. However, I noticed that some images looked weird until I realized they were AI-generated.

Now I cannot trust any AI content anymore. Historical imagery is either accurate or fraudulent.

New comment by bajard in "Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE"

bajard — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:36:46 +0000

Indoor plumbing is very ancient. Many ancient civilizations had it, although generally only for the rich, temples, or government buildings. The Indus Valley and ancient Egypt developed it 4,500 years ago (2500 BCE). (Greek) Minoan Crete followed around 3,700 years ago (1700 BCE).

New comment by bajard in "Upload Your RAM"

bajard — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:17:28 +0000

I tried to upload 16 GB to help Zuckerberg, but the GUI is suspicious.

New comment by bajard in "Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE"

bajard — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:56:26 +0000

What Plato describes perfectly fits a volcanic island, including the central pillar of rock that some volcanoes have as a volcanic plug, thermal springs and the ring of water inside the caldera.

And the way Atlantis supposedly ended also fits what happens on volcanic islands.

Nobody at the time could fabricate it out of his own imagination. The description is too accurate.

New comment by bajard in "Germany just told us we'd have fire one of our founders to qualify for funding"

bajard — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:35:29 +0000

It's called socialism. You have to give money to a parasite who has no part in it, do nothing and gives nothing in return, but acts as if he's owed everything and pretends to have the moral upper hand, despite trying to live by exploiting others, and calling everybody else "greedy" while wanting your money, meanwhile dismissing "consumerism" despite the only thing he wants to do is to consume more.

New comment by bajard in "Hola"

bajard — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:24:19 +0000

Chau

https://youtu.be/tN7uz2JtXNM?list=RDtN7uz2JtXNM&t=924

New comment by bajard in "Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser"

bajard — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:15:18 +0000

It's 2026, and we still haven't solved the aliasing problems.

New comment by bajard in "Upload Your RAM"

bajard — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:06:41 +0000

I suspect that this actually downloads something instead of uploading. I have no proof, but I believe it.

New comment by bajard in "AI is dramatically accelerating AI research"

bajard — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:11:46 +0000

I suspect that if models were able to be aware of and answer questions about their internal vectors, they would be much smarter and able to progress faster.

New comment by bajard in "MTG-I2 First Images"

bajard — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:04:50 +0000

Why do most (almost all) images of Earth have Africa in front? Are they stock photos? Is it because only the Sahara Desert is frequently visible?

New comment by bajard in "Gemini Just Deleted Another Machine"

bajard — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:44:26 +0000

Some AI (not this one) had advised me to nuke stuff a lot of times just to solve a minor problem.

Problem with one website? Change settings for the entire OS.

Problem with one file? Delete the entire folder.

AI is super dangerous when giving advice on OS management. Giving it the keys to your computer is s*icidal.

New comment by bajard in "Linux 7.4-Rc2 Change Yields as Much as 162x Improvement for FAT32"

bajard — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:35:29 +0000

Translation: "Certain types of files will be written faster on FAT32."

New comment by bajard in "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash"

bajard — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:36:56 +0000

I can't use it. The webpage reloads continuously after logging in. It's probably some ad blocker add-on, but it's the only web AI that doesn't work, so I simply don't use it at all.

New comment by bajard in "Ask HN: Are you writing your own programming language?"

bajard — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:48:52 +0000

I once made a program for calculations in engineering, but it wasn't general enough to be practical, so I thought of creating a simple coding language to script it. After the first day, I realized that creating a language was far more complicated than I had ever expected and would be a maintenance hell. So, in the end, I exposed the program routines to Python and made a GUI around it, so it could be scripted with Python.

Today, with AI and LLVM, creating a language is probably an easier task, but I still think it's smarter to do what I did. Any language you create will necessarily be mediocre and full of bugs. Don't reinvent the wheel.

New comment by bajard in "Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active"

bajard — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:45:27 +0000

Google Earth also has Mars. You can measure the length of the banks. It's roughly 30 km, and the maximum elevation change is 7–8 km. That's the maximum, not the average. It gives a slope between 10% and 15%.

But visually, it's even less, because Mars is smaller than earth, so its curvature matters.

New comment by bajard in "C++26 Disapproved"

bajard — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:12:38 +0000

I wrote an example answer, but it was shadowbanned

New comment by bajard in "C++26 Disapproved"

bajard — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:58:43 +0000

That's why it needs a lot of work. Writing SIMD in c++ is like writing assembly.

New comment by bajard in "Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active"

bajard — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:51:03 +0000

If you were standing on the "walls" of the canyon, it would look like terrain with a 10%–15% slope. You wouldn't even notice it's a canyon.

New comment by bajard in "Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines"

bajard — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 02:12:11 +0000

Linux: Install and use. Windows: Fight 3 days with the installer. Spend 4 weeks tweaking it... And do it all again after any random update.

New comment by bajard in "A new take on the Fermi paradox"

bajard — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:57:03 +0000

Simulations runs faster than the programmers, and are more capable. Do you think we are that smart?