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New comment by carlob in "Grok 4.5"

carlob — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:49:07 +0000

a non-peer-reviewed preprint with an high schooler as the first author is the best citation you can come up with?

New comment by carlob in "The Private Capture of Public Genius"

carlob — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:49:16 +0000

at this point I'm just confused whether you are talking about north korea or the us

New comment by carlob in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

carlob — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:18:16 +0000

And who is the kingmaker behind those three?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo

Look him up and his connections to Opus Dei.

New comment by carlob in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

carlob — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:21 +0000

> trying to stay cool

FTFY

New comment by carlob in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

carlob — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:51:42 +0000

I'm pretty sure no Marxist considers Piketty a fellow Marxist, he's much closer to social democracy and Keynes. Piketty advocates for market economy and a global capital tax, Marxists on the other hand advocate for the violent overthrowing of capitalism and collective ownership of the means of production. Can you spot the difference?

New comment by carlob in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

carlob — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:41:41 +0000

500 TB/25 GB = 20.000

if some have more than one layer it could fewer but that's the order of magnitude

New comment by carlob in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

carlob — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:56:32 +0000

Sweden is one of the countries with the lowest salary inequality in the world. In Eastern Europe 100k a year puts you at what 10x minimum wage? I think that would be considered a pretty high salary in France or Spain as well. I think your friend reaction is warranted, but I don't think it would happen often in Sweden...

New comment by carlob in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

carlob — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:05:53 +0000

I'm curious: I do cycle in jeans and a t-shirt while in the city. Up to 45 minutes I'm perfectly fine, but if I'm on the saddle for over one hour I really start to miss the chamois. What's your experience with that?

New comment by carlob in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

carlob — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:44:57 +0000

> 'war'

> anytime a person in power feels like assassinating a leader or taking out a dissident

I don't really see much of a difference nowadays

New comment by carlob in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

carlob — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:06:10 +0000

Right, it says exclusive rights, which does not translate to "we siphon everything and you get a tiny percentage of our profits", it means I can choose to say no to all of this. To me the matter of compensation and that of authorship rights are mostly orthogonal.

New comment by carlob in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

carlob — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:28:17 +0000

> What have Governments ever created except for laws that stifle innovation/progress every single time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ

In all seriousness without the government you would have no innovation and progress, because it's the public school system, functioning roads, research grants a stable and lawful society that allow you to do any kind of innovation.

Apart from that, you have answered to a strawman. I said redistribute, not give to the government. I explicitly worded things that way because I don't think we should not be having a discussion on policy.

I think we are moving to an economy where the share of profits taken by capital becomes much larger than the one take from labor. If that happens then laborers will have very little discretionary income to fuel consumption and even capitalists will end up suffering. We can choose to redistribute now or wait for it to happen naturally, however that usually happens in a much more violent way, be it hyperinflation, famine, war or revolution.

New comment by carlob in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

carlob — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:20:03 +0000

Why settle on some private agreement between creators and ai companies where a tiny percentage is shared, let's just tax the hell out of AI companies and redistribute.

New comment by carlob in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

carlob — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:47:53 +0000

The 'long' code for checking apples is shorter, but it's missing the external for loop. So I guess you could say it's not (ahem) an apples to apples comparison.

New comment by carlob in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

carlob — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:31:42 +0000

I do wonder if throwing a similar amount of computational power behind old school rule based algorithms like the ones in Mathematica's FullSimplify would have yielded similar results.

New comment by carlob in "Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures"

carlob — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:03:47 +0000

add some error correcting codes and you have invented some sort of qr code

New comment by carlob in "Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes"

carlob — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:24:11 +0000

To be fair it is January, so your crispy water has to be grown in a heated greenhouse.

New comment by carlob in "Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios"

carlob — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:50:06 +0000

I would really like to know some stats about the Voronoi cells, like average size, largest and smallest...

New comment by carlob in "OLED, Not for Me"

carlob — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:07:46 +0000

At some point a few years ago I didn't want to get a mac with the crappy keyboard so I bought a Thinkpad, I think it was a t480s or something of that era. The speakers were so bad it was impossible to understand the dialogue while watching a movie in a decently quiet room with some city noises in the background.

New comment by carlob in "Where do the children play?"

carlob — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:58:52 +0000

There was an interesting plot I saw somewhere reversing the old thing about Halloween being the deadliest day for kids by dividing the number of dead kids by the number of kids on the street on a given day. It turns out that Halloween ends up being by far the safest day per capita.

New comment by carlob in "Cheese Crystals (2019)"

carlob — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:01:29 +0000

And ricotta, how can you forget ricotta!