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New comment by cezart in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

cezart — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:43:28 +0000

The age restricted good is an unrestricted computer.

New comment by cezart in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cezart — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:01:54 +0000

Depends on the desired output. The author wanted variability, for which Memory.md was an obstacle. Another project might need consistency.

New comment by cezart in "Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books"

cezart — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:28:17 +0000

That leap reminds me of the Soviet Unions official ideology/non-religion “Dialectical Materialism”. It had the goal of explaining everything in the world, from the dynamics of atoms to the global communist revolution, with one common logic. To make it sound like the ideology of the system was based on the rules of nature itself.

New comment by cezart in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

cezart — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:03:10 +0000

What happened during COVID? Could you please explain shortly what they agreed to, and how it bit them?

New comment by cezart in "Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products"

cezart — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:42:00 +0000

Depends what you compare it with. I grew up in the post soviet union. That system allocated resources to various monopolies who were too big to fail. Turns out allocating capital based on who can make things that people want/need to buy, and do it with a profit, multiplies said capital way faster. From this point of view, over time your initial base grows into all kinds of industries etc. That's probably why the USA won the cold war.

New comment by cezart in "Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products"

cezart — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:45:55 +0000

I've been thinking about this recently. The centrality of the stock market, while historically a great tool to allocate resources efficiently, might actually be a big weakness for the USA today. A capable adversary, like China, can kill entire strategic sectors in the US using the stock market. If they undercut the US companies and are willing to accept low returns on their investments, then the respective USA competition will be driven out of business by their investors, because there will be other sectors to invest in, with higher RoI. Do this at various points in strategic value chains, and over a decade or so it might kill entire verticals in strategic sectors, leaving the US economy vulnerable to any kinds of shocks.

New comment by cezart in "Making any integer with four 2s"

cezart — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:42:19 +0000

Your first example uses 2 five times. Your second results in 3

New comment by cezart in "Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation"

cezart — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:59:29 +0000

Depends on the pub. Where we play there is a gentlemen’s agreement that no one uses phones to help them answer questions

New comment by cezart in "Title drops in movies"

cezart — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:16:56 +0000

The Elephant (2003) has my favorite Title drop, and of course, is not marked in this database. As I remember it, at some point in the movie we are shown a drawing of an elephant randomly hanging in the room of one of the protagonists. Both the drawing, and the main protagonists are easy to ignore, yet are the main subjects of the movie.

New comment by cezart in "Move Fast and Abandon Things"

cezart — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:25:11 +0000

Thank you for sharing this! I think a focus on shrinking personal projects to the point I might actually finish them, might be just what I need right now

New comment by cezart in "Sanding UI"

cezart — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:58:24 +0000

I still just throw in default bootstrap in a .container div when I need a fast prototype that looks decent.

New comment by cezart in "Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)"

cezart — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:42:30 +0000

I remember what I liked about Rijks upon visiting was that it was organized by decade, and had not only paintings, but various historical artifacts as well. Like state corporation sealed opium, which offered a context for the contemporary relaxed attitude of the Dutch towards drug consumption. And in general offered many windows into how the country grew up to be what it is. So yes, much history!

New comment by cezart in "How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)"

cezart — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:18:08 +0000

Can you please share the other post you are referring to?

New comment by cezart in "DOOM rendered via console.log() in a web browser (2021)"

cezart — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:15:41 +0000

also works for me on m1

New comment by cezart in "Sora: Creating video from text"

cezart — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:40:00 +0000

Not dismissing, but being realistic. I observed all the AI tools, usually amaze most people initially by showing capabilities never seen before. Then people realise their limitations, ie what capabilities are still missing. And they're like: "oh, this is no genie in a bottle capable of satisfying every wish. We'll still have to work to obtain our vision..." So the magic fades away, and the world returns to normal, but now with an additional tool very useful in some situations :)

New comment by cezart in "Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]"

cezart — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:41:41 +0000

At a company I worked in, we had a joke about this: "Good thing we don't build nuclear reactors".

In some software projects the level of rush, and the fact that bugs sometimes would leak into production was kinda horrifying. It would've been way more so, if it would've been the kind of project that could kill people in case of failure. Like it happened in Chernobyl with nuclear reactors, or at Boeing with planes.

I can't really imagine what these engineers feel when they rush this kind of work knowing what's at stake.

New comment by cezart in "How Google perfected the web"

cezart — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:41:49 +0000

well it's your choice to not read it, but the article is actually pretty good

New comment by cezart in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

cezart — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:26:10 +0000

I had the opposite problem, the languages I usually typed in(Romanian + English) didn't have a multi language mode on iOS. So it was a constant pain to switch btw them when I needed to insert some English terms in Romanian sentences. IOS didn't support multi language for this language pair. On Android it always worked like a charm.

New comment by cezart in "How Lego builds a new Lego set"

cezart — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:58:17 +0000

especially because on a Mac scrolling horizontally coincides with the back/fwd gestures. I never even realised this until this article...

New comment by cezart in "Charlie Munger has died"

cezart — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 06:57:33 +0000

They lived frugal lives, with everything needed covered for probably 10'000 years ahead. Large families, plenty of friends and a lot of wisdom. Yeah, I think Charlie and Warren's life's have way less stress than most people do.