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New comment by blovescoffee in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

blovescoffee — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:14:28 +0000

Only bc we’re on a nerd site, miso doesn’t involve lacto fermentation in any significant way. And I guess you can pickle cherries in any number of ways that aren’t lacto fermentation.

New comment by blovescoffee in "Michael Rabin has died"

blovescoffee — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:18:16 +0000

Wikipedia has demonstrably been ravaged by anti-semitism. Feel free to ignore any of the notes here about Israel / anti-Israeli sentiment which I understand is not clear cut. There's demonstrably antisemitic coalitions editing wikipedia en-masse.

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-i...

New comment by blovescoffee in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

blovescoffee — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:28:32 +0000

Naive question, could agents help speed up building code for ROCm parity with CUDA? Outside of code, what are the bottlenecks for reaching parity?

New comment by blovescoffee in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

blovescoffee — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:58:01 +0000

There's definitely a few reasons but one of them is that you have to ask the GPU to do ~60x less work when you render 60x less frames

New comment by blovescoffee in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

blovescoffee — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:12:21 +0000

Do you really recommend people travel internationally in 2026 without a cellphone? I’m kind of bewildered by this suggestion. As someone who has to go between LATAM and US frequently, I have no choice but to bring my cellphone.

New comment by blovescoffee in ""Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?""

blovescoffee — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:42:08 +0000

I'm working on this. It works pretty well. The main issue I'm working out right now (which has proven very difficult) is the auto-placing and auto-routing on a multi-layer pcb.

New comment by blovescoffee in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

blovescoffee — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:31:44 +0000

Okay read anything about David Ogilvy

New comment by blovescoffee in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

blovescoffee — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:29:15 +0000

customer acquisition

New comment by blovescoffee in "New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis"

blovescoffee — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:26:51 +0000

Not quite, compression enables you to simulate / represent / encode x data with less than x memory.

New comment by blovescoffee in "GPT-5.2"

blovescoffee — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:13:29 +0000

Source?

New comment by blovescoffee in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"

blovescoffee — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:47:53 +0000

Like "someone" who's knowledge cutoff is from a while back...

New comment by blovescoffee in "China's BEV trucks and the end of diesel's dominance"

blovescoffee — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:54:12 +0000

What makes you think/say they’ve skipped safety standards?

New comment by blovescoffee in " Htmx – The Fetch()ening"

blovescoffee — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:13:31 +0000

Do you actually feel like this is better (and not just at par or worse)?

New comment by blovescoffee in "Facts about throwing good parties"

blovescoffee — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 02:27:59 +0000

I would not consider this to be a potluck. I've been to many parties in both LATAM and the US. LATAM parties are indeed just like US parties very often but in many cases they are much more "communal" without being a potluck per-se. A potluck is still too formal a name for what I've experienced at least. Someone's uncle will bring a piñata, someone's aunt will cook pozole, a cousin will bring a speaker, and so on. And these types of parties are not "uncool" or even "laidback" they can be wild.

New comment by blovescoffee in "WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model"

blovescoffee — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:37:19 +0000

More details on the actual arch would be nice. It seems like this autoregressive action world model space is a local max until the JEPA work takes over.

New comment by blovescoffee in "Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico"

blovescoffee — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:47:40 +0000

First, understand that Mexicans are a diverse group of people, some with very “Spanish” lineages. Second, the Spanish intentionally erased very large portions of indigenous culture. The Spanish colonizers absolutely did not “respect” the old culture except for very specific and unique instances. I’m not sure how you can possibly say as much? It’s essentially genocide erasure.

Anyways, the Mexican government currently communicates in a variety of indigenous languages on official forms and so they’re certainly trying to reinvigorate those traditions now.

Could you explain where you got the idea that the Spanish as a whole respected indigenous culture in mesoamerica ?

New comment by blovescoffee in "Breaking computers taught me to build them"

blovescoffee — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:32:42 +0000

Note: title is currently borked, it should be

> How breaking computers taught me to build them....

but it is

> Taught me to build them...

New comment by blovescoffee in "Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability"

blovescoffee — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:34:09 +0000

What makes it a good alternative? The fact it’s in beta would be a non starter for my org but it’s possible once it’s out of beta it would be worth looking at.

New comment by blovescoffee in "Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability"

blovescoffee — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:32:04 +0000

Why do you assume people who choose Next don’t understand those things or what they are? Is it so hard to imagine someone understands “servers and things of that nature” and still chooses next?

New comment by blovescoffee in "The Last Drops of Mexico City"

blovescoffee — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:01:54 +0000

FWIW I was not referring to brita filters. Two days ago I was at a friends house who had a literal fabric filter on top of his big water carafe.