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New comment by cherryteastain in "Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Controls on Sensitive Chipmaking Equipment"

cherryteastain — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:50:03 +0000

In practice if you use no US part you will get sanctioned as a 'national security risk' or whatever anyway. Even if your product uses no US parts the customers who still want to interact with the US financial system (by e.g. having a USD account) will still be unable to purchase it.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

cherryteastain — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:08 +0000

Seems to solve a problem very similar to Conan or vcpkg but without its own package archive or build scripts. In general, unlike Cargo/Rust, many C/C++ projects dynamically link libraries and often require complex Makefile/shell script etc magic to discover and optionally build their dependencies.

How does craft handle these 'diamond' patterns where 2 dependencies may depend on versions of the same library as transitive dependencies (either for static or dynamic linking or as header-only includes) without custom build scripts like the Conan approach?

New comment by cherryteastain in "Tiny Corp's Exabox"

cherryteastain — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:37:58 +0000

Curious that they listed the GPU as "RDNA5 AT0 XL". RDNA5 is not out yet, but that naming seems to align with the naming in this leak [1]. It's explicitly labelled as a "desktop/gaming" model with 154 CUs and 36GB of VRAM.

[1] https://www.club386.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/rdna-5-ml...

New comment by cherryteastain in "Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction"

cherryteastain — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:29:57 +0000

We can see how monumentally important to preserving the right to privacy the work to stop Chat Control has been by the frothing anger we see displayed here. The companies which complain to Uncle Sam every time they're fined by the EU for getting caught red handed smothering competition now ask the EU for more regulation.

Ms. von der Leyen will need to find a way to make things up for Google et al considering she has been pushing this regulation at their behest with fervour. That will probably take the form of even further prostration of Europe to US big tech.

New comment by cherryteastain in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

cherryteastain — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:55:07 +0000

What's the 'new normality' in the fifth stage? Do you think you'll start to believe it actually works 100%? Or that you won't change your assessment that it works only sometimes, but maybe pulling the lever on the slot machine repeatedly is better/more efficient than doing it yourself?

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

cherryteastain — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:53:20 +0000

Presumably they meant WW2 Germany.

New comment by cherryteastain in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

cherryteastain — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:31:04 +0000

There are also large trading/market making firms providing liquidity, especially on markets associated with up/down bets on crypto, stocks etc. They use all the options trading machinery they've already built for more 'respectable' venues like CME/Eurex etc, further squeezing the margins for retail traders.

They're active on bets that are even considered "meme" bets. Example: Jesus returning in 2026 - If you can get a loan at 4% as a big well respected trading firm and plonk it on Jesus not returning at 94 cents, you're making ca. 2% for 'free'. (Unless Jesus returns, in which case you have bigger problems than your portfolio pnl).

New comment by cherryteastain in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

cherryteastain — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:39:02 +0000

Not an expert in game development, but I'd say the issue with C++ coroutines (and 'colored' async functions in general) is that the whole call stack must be written to support that. From a practical perspective, that must in turn be backed by a multithreaded event loop to be useful, which is very difficult to write performantly and correctly. Hence, most people end up using coroutines with something like boost::asio, but you can do that only if your repo allows a 'kitchen sink' library like Boost in the first place.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Philips to drop Google TV for European-based Titan OS"

cherryteastain — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:56:19 +0000

GPLv2 means at the very least kernel sources must be available on demand for any buyer of a TV shipped with this OS

New comment by cherryteastain in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

cherryteastain — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:45:49 +0000

OOP has nothing to do with it. In your C++ example, foo(bar const&); is basically the same as bar.foo();. At the end of the day, whether passing it in as an argument or accessing this via the method call syntax it's just a pointer to a struct. Not to mention, a C++ compiler can, and often does, choose to put even references to member variables in registers and access them that way within the method call.

This is a Python specific problem caused by everything being boxed by default and the interpreter does not even know what's in the box until it dereferences it, which is a problem that extends to the "self" object. In contrast in C++ the compiler knows everything there's to know about the type of this which avoids the issue.

New comment by cherryteastain in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

cherryteastain — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:59:45 +0000

You can also get private medical insurance in the UK. The cost is usually much lower than the US and quality is decent. NHS acts as an anchor keeping down premiums.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

cherryteastain — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:34:47 +0000

Teaching an undergraduate class or even a graduate class is still teaching. The author does not say he won't do that anymore.

The problem is about the fresh talent pipeline for researchers (i.e. PhDs). In many ways, elementary school and a Master's degree are more alike than a Master's and a PhD in the sense that you're learning prior art with clearly defined exam/project assessments and no expectation of making something truly novel in both elementary school and the Master's, while a PhD is all about discovering something nobody uncovered before. So, calling this a problem of not wanting to teach isn't quite right.

IMO, the article is rather highlighting a different problem; the former problem in this area was that only a tiny sliver of the best engineering/CS undergrads wanted go into research given the far more lucrative industry careers, and now the supply part of that market is about to vanish too due to agentic AI. This will basically kill the concept of an academic career as we know it and the point of the article is that we need to find a different model of advancing and funding science.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

cherryteastain — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:42:34 +0000

A datacenter IS a high value military target.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

cherryteastain — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:00:53 +0000

> community needs a better response to this problem than "nuh uh, everything's fine as it is."

You can also cut yourself with a kitchen knife but nobody proposes banning kitchen knives. Google and the state are not your nannies.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks"

cherryteastain — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:46:33 +0000

Claiming they have the unrestricted right to scrape whatever information they want off the internet but complaining about it when others do to you and bringing out the 'China bad' card, just ironic

New comment by cherryteastain in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

cherryteastain — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:26:24 +0000

I switched to it for my personal subscription because on discount it was less than half the price of ChatGPT Plus/Claude Pro

New comment by cherryteastain in "15 years of FP64 segmentation, and why the Blackwell Ultra breaks the pattern"

cherryteastain — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:25:19 +0000

Nobody cared about deep learning back in 2007, when CUDA released. It wasn't until the 2012 AlexNet milestone that deep neural nets start to become en vogue again.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

cherryteastain — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:39:24 +0000

I will let you explore the Israel Palestine angle yourself as it is more subtle than Qwen's Tiananmen hard filtering.

But there are topics that ChatGPT hard blocks just like Qwen [1].

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-ai-david-mayer-op...

New comment by cherryteastain in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

cherryteastain — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:42:21 +0000

From my testing on their website it doesn't. Just like Western LLMs won't answer many questions about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

New comment by cherryteastain in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

cherryteastain — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:16:38 +0000

ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are banned in China. Chinese model providers are getting absolutely massive amounts of very valuable user feedback from users in China.