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New comment by boppo1 in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

boppo1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:38:33 +0000

Can anyone give me a semi-technical reason on why the hydrogen division are delusional? I'm actually convinced of it "osmotically", but I just don't know enough about it. I've got chem 101 behind me but otherwise I'm a finance & tech guy. It would be nice to actually understand why it can't be done though.

New comment by boppo1 in "Googlebook"

boppo1 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:09:29 +0000

Horseshit. It means we're doing less with more and anyone with a brain should be able to figure out that's bad for Quality of Life on a long term. Wasting your resources is not how an economy grows strong.

New comment by boppo1 in "Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy"

boppo1 — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:43:20 +0000

Provide a credible link or gtfo.

Btw I have no love for Israel, but "just google it" is an uninformative, unhelpful comment

New comment by boppo1 in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

boppo1 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:04:47 +0000

Thank you for elucidating!

New comment by boppo1 in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

boppo1 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:29:47 +0000

Can't they just raise prices?

New comment by boppo1 in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

boppo1 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:25:29 +0000

>Compare it to a flag carrier like Singapore air and it is a shockingly different product

Never flown one of these, can you describe the difference? Hard agree about what you said about the others.

New comment by boppo1 in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

boppo1 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:23:18 +0000

Can you elaborate on your claim about capitalism and all activities being about trading imaginary units? My uni gave me a degree in finance & I can still basically explain CAPM off the top of my head, but I'm unfamiliar with this aspect. Always interested in expanding my understanding.

New comment by boppo1 in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

boppo1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:21:22 +0000

How did apple make it unusable? What model?

New comment by boppo1 in "Paraloid B-72"

boppo1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:27:50 +0000

Does it not level from gravity like other resins?

New comment by boppo1 in "Paraloid B-72"

boppo1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:27:08 +0000

I'm reading that turp does not dissolve it, which is ideal so I can mix paint on top of it.

New comment by boppo1 in "Paraloid B-72"

boppo1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:47:06 +0000

I'm new to it and having trouble finding guides:

- how do I apply it as a coating? I want it to be ~ 1/6" to 1/8" thick and as hard as possible

- will turpentine dissolve or soften it?

New comment by boppo1 in "Paraloid B-72"

boppo1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:43:26 +0000

Oil painter here, this is news to me and if it doesn't dissolve in gamsol this is EXACTLY what I've been looking for for about 2 years.

New comment by boppo1 in "GPT-5.5"

boppo1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:50:44 +0000

Which, unfortunately is still slow unusable garbage compared to fronteir models.

New comment by boppo1 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

boppo1 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:16:02 +0000

Yep. QE was a monumental mistake that killed economic mobility. Asset owners vs wage earners.

New comment by boppo1 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

boppo1 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:13:47 +0000

>massive interest in local AI

Gosh I just read a really hellish thread on what frontier LLMs will become as they're infected with advertising, I hope apple manages to break locsl LLMs (and training?) Into the public discourse

New comment by boppo1 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

boppo1 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:57:35 +0000

I've been way out of the local game for a while now, what's the best way to run models for a fairly technical user? I was using llama.cpp in the command line before and using bash files for prompts.

New comment by boppo1 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

boppo1 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:37:08 +0000

I havent been using my claude sub lately but I liked 4.6 three weeks ago. Did something change?

New comment by boppo1 in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

boppo1 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:09:10 +0000

>Especially as local LLM continues to develop so fast.

I'm sorry is there anything even close to sonnet, much less opus, that can be run on a 4080? Or 64gb of ram, even slowly?

New comment by boppo1 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

boppo1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:00:34 +0000

Last I heard, claude was the model powering maven when it bombed that school. Most aren't up-to date on that because anthropic launders their culpability through palanntir. Anthropic is better at optics not ethics.

New comment by boppo1 in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

boppo1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:24:01 +0000

>render video assets without needing FFmpeg on the server.

Help me understand: able to do video with less compute? Or offload compute to client browsers?