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New comment by bwv848 in "Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)"

bwv848 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:59:02 +0000

茄ke2 汁zap1, but if I remember it correctly, Dan Jurafsky believes it is from 喼git1 汁zap1, worcestershire sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iYwUh1Hdho

New comment by bwv848 in "High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building"

bwv848 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:41:58 +0000

I don’t understand why folks mention AC games first when this kind of thing is brought up, KCD is not perfect but much better for historical accuracy.

New comment by bwv848 in "Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)"

bwv848 — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:29:32 +0000

Wrong. Mao didn’t have full control at the time. Before the Lushan Conference in 1959, China had a system of collective leadership, and Mao more or less respected it. Mao was always insane, even before the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference and the Cultural Revolution, but Qian was definitely not under pressure, he simply enjoyed his alliance with Mao so much that his last words were: ‘毛泽东思想活着，中国就永远年轻’ (‘As long as Maoism lives, China will remain forever young.’)

New comment by bwv848 in "Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)"

bwv848 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:36:23 +0000

Qian gave a talk about agriculture at the 6th Supreme State Conference in 1956, Mao directly talked to Qian about his article in 1958 '你在青年报上写的那篇文章我看了，陆定一同志很热心，到处帮你介绍。你在那个时候敢于说四万斤的数字，不错啊。你是学力学的，学力学而谈农业，你又是个农学家。', while later Qian admitted it was theoretically only and he miscalculated, he probably did it out of modesty and he didn't say shit about his impact on tens of millions of death whatsoever. In fact, Mao's secretary at the time was Li Rui, who was a pragmatist and quite liberal during his lifetime. He questioned Mao's sanity, and Mao just blamed Qian.

New comment by bwv848 in "Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)"

bwv848 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:06:59 +0000

Also fun fact, he advised Mao on agriculture during the Great Leap Forward, using rough estimates of photosynthetic efficiency to calculate potential crop yields. Those estimates were far removed from reality and indirectly contributed to the Great Chinese Famine, while other countries were benefiting from the success of the Green Revolution.

New comment by bwv848 in "DeepSeek v4"

bwv848 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:58:27 +0000

What argument? It was just contradiction, he didn't care how much evidences and points I brought. 3 months of trauma and depression and it is just merely irk in his eyes. It was just an unfunny, callous version monty python's sketch.

New comment by bwv848 in "DeepSeek v4"

bwv848 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:34:23 +0000

Do not fucking reply to me, this is harassment.

New comment by bwv848 in "DeepSeek v4"

bwv848 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:47:50 +0000

God I wish I could just block you. So called inconveniences in the name of so called massive public health emergency? First of all it was the Omicron variant, we knew its mortality rate is low, second it did spread to the rest of the country by the end of 2022 and killed millions of people, so what was the fucking point? If you have to downplay all suffering by calling them inconveniences, I guess there's no one could convince you anyway, you better hope it doesn't happen to you.

Anyway here are few links and videos for those curious what happened

The Initium's timeline of the whole thing https://campaign.theinitium.com/20220506-mainland-covid-shan...

A viral video on Shanghai lock down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBdOXwdBn5s

Forced transfer to Fangcang quarantine center without testing positive https://youtu.be/NQfmOTB_naA

Spoiled food in groceries https://www.sohu.com/a/539911328_118622

Community effort to collect the names of those who died, whether it is covid or othe medical conditions or suicide(the og Airtable is down) https://github.com/augustuscaesarr/runrunrun/blob/main/%E6%9...

Here's a fun one, a fake app for Covid Health Code, which was required to enter any public space and private business and even your home https://ilovexjp.pages.dev/

And it is fit to finish with Shanghai protesters shouting Xi Jinping Step Down, Dec 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDAX8UO4ZQA

New comment by bwv848 in "DeepSeek v4"

bwv848 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:14:29 +0000

> That was a scandal inside China, and it was immediately reversed.

Tell it to the people in Wuhan, and Shanghai, Urumqi, and other cities that had lockdowns. I was in Shanghai in 2022, I was confined to my apartment for nearly 3 months, you couldn't be more wrong.

New comment by bwv848 in "DeepSeek v4"

bwv848 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:03:50 +0000

Really laugh my ass off, so much whataboutism and American centrism when the debate is whether China is trustworthy on AI. Given your ignorance you should go and do your research, but I will help you a bit here.

- Control goes beyond politics

state corporation monopoly, 党支部 in private sector, crackdowns on NGOs and charities.

- A single, all-encompassing ideology

Party led, mandarin speaking Han Chinese nationalism, blended with Little Pink's unquestionable support for Xi and the party.

- No meaningful private sphere

社区网格员

- Mass mobilization and propaganda

We saw mobilizations on Chinese social media, attacking celebrities who don't openly say anything the party wants them to say. Mobilization in real life is rare though, cos it had shown it can backfire.

- Extensive surveillance and repression

Do I really need to explain this?

New comment by bwv848 in "DeepSeek v4"

bwv848 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:06:44 +0000

How totalitarian is exactly totalitarian? I asked chatgpt and it gave few points

- Control goes beyond politics

- A single, all-encompassing ideology

- No meaningful private sphere

- Mass mobilization and propaganda

- Extensive surveillance and repression

Seems like China is ticking all the boxes.

New comment by bwv848 in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

bwv848 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:08:23 +0000

Given the current best open-weight model (Kimi 2.6) is 1T A32B, I wonder how long we’ll have to wait for hardware like strix halo or gdx spark to be able to run it.

New comment by bwv848 in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

bwv848 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:23:33 +0000

One-child policy did not die, it just morphed into Three-child policy, still a form of family planning, and still would probably fine people for having more than three kids.

New comment by bwv848 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

bwv848 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:00:29 +0000

I've been trying the Q4_K_M version, and sometimes it gets stuck in a loop. Gemma 4 doesn’t have this issue.

New comment by bwv848 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

bwv848 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:43:08 +0000

I always shoot 12 grains per pound, it usually gets me around 150-160fps, marginal weather is where the fun begins.

New comment by bwv848 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

bwv848 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:44:20 +0000

Try instinctive aerial shooting with spiral flu-flus.

New comment by bwv848 in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

bwv848 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:40:37 +0000

I agree with your point but you guys really have to take a look at what I was replying to and was I being serious at all.

New comment by bwv848 in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

bwv848 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:05:04 +0000

What's the difference? All have to live under central planning, all have to live with hubris of the rich and elites, at least Mars sounds way cooler than living in cities.

New comment by bwv848 in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

bwv848 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:45:52 +0000

And the best way for Earth is we all migrate to Mars aboard Elon Musk's spaceship.

New comment by bwv848 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

bwv848 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:03:56 +0000

You can’t really deduce THAAD was used against drones based on this. As the number of US assets in the Middle East increases, it is logical to deploy more THAAD to protect them from Iranian ballistic missiles. Israel intercepted a few[0] at the beginning of the current conflict, so it is common sense to presume there are still some remaining.

[0] https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2035762512147128344