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New comment by cherryteastain in "US removes Syria from terrorism sponsor list, lifting major investment obstacle"

cherryteastain — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:17:11 +0000

> buddies at the helm in Iran

Shows how ignorant you are of the dynamics of the region. Iranian regime belong to the Shia sect, and backed Assad in the civil war. Sharaa/Jolani's faction are Sunnis, principally backed by Turkey. Shia and Sunnis generally dislike and often fight each other.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

cherryteastain — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:12:56 +0000

> There’s a short sighted cheering on of the 3rd tier and lower companies offering lower rates, but we’re already seeing them ratchet up the pricing and keep larger models closed after they get market attention.

Sorry, but people are cheering on Chinese companies (of whom your are unduly dismissive with your '3rd rate' comment given how good GLM-5.3, Kimi K3 are) not only because they are more economical, but also because they do not constantly refuse to do legitimate tasks and provide you with the weights for self hosting these models.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

cherryteastain — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:47:19 +0000

They would not be so vehemently against it if it did not work. There is a reason E2EE, duress passwords and similar technologies are under such intense assault these days.

New comment by cherryteastain in "US debt tops $40T as Treasury doubles bond buybacks to calm markets"

cherryteastain — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:19:08 +0000

Doing that in the middle of the AI bubble would be a huge systemic risk to the US and world economy. Expansion of the US economy is now largely driven by the colossal amount of data centers being built. No one anywhere in the world would invest in risky data centers, LLM company IPOs etc if they could get a 30y 20% bond. Financial institutions like investment banks, hedge funds rely on the AI musical chairs to justify the trillions of commitments on their balance sheets. A Volcker style rate hike would trigger a dash for the exit and cause the collapse of some of these institutions, risking a domino effect rippling through the entire economy.

Plus it'd also massively increase USG deficits since all the debt that's added and rolled over would be financed at that elevated rate. At that point, cuts would amplify the above domino effect (cf. Kalecki Levy equation) reducing tax intake, but no cuts would mean unleashing a debt spiral.

New comment by cherryteastain in "The Two Factions of C++ (2024)"

cherryteastain — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:28:19 +0000

> Google supposedly significantly lowered its participation in the C++ development process, and instead started to work on their own C++ successor language.

Did they decide to keep things as is or rewrite in Rust with LLM assistance in the couple years since this article? Carbon seems to have gone nowhere.

New comment by cherryteastain in "People are worried about America's solvency"

cherryteastain — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:15:15 +0000

They did the equivalent in their time which was cutting the precious metal content of their coinage.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

cherryteastain — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:06:54 +0000

Other parties did not support Binface

New comment by cherryteastain in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

cherryteastain — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:27:55 +0000

For comparison, the GNOME Weather app takes 80MB.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

cherryteastain — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:17:34 +0000

Looking at more holistic metrics, the lowest HDI US state (Mississippi) has a HDI of 0.868 [1], around the level of Argentina/Uruguay/Oman [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

New comment by cherryteastain in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

cherryteastain — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:12:16 +0000

This is about country's total GDP. Per capita graph in TFA shows Poland is still behind Belgium [1].

[1] https://images.euronews.com/articles/stories/09/86/71/11/108...

New comment by cherryteastain in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

cherryteastain — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:09:49 +0000

So is Anthropic...

New comment by cherryteastain in "Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?"

cherryteastain — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:10:52 +0000

> Early capitalism didn’t have steady growth because of technical advances. It had steady growth because it was early capitalism.

The same technical advances created rapid growth in non industrialized non capitalist societies once they were introduced like the USSR or China. It's silly to say that orders of magnitude reductions in human labour needed to produce food, provide clean water, build sanitation and sewer systems do not result in steady growth regardless of economic system. Producing the food easily is more fundamental than deciding who gets what amount of easily produced food allocated to them.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

cherryteastain — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:48:47 +0000

Probably won't/cannot be ımplemented. C++ and Rust disallow the analogues of this (templated virtual methods/dyn with a trait containing methods taking type parameters) as well.

New comment by cherryteastain in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

cherryteastain — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:27:17 +0000

This is China's way of applying its modus operandi of '80% the quality at 20% the price' to LLMs. Aim is dumping the tokens on the world market like they did with other industries like shipbuilding, steel etc.

New comment by cherryteastain in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

cherryteastain — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:49:07 +0000

Big PC OEMs offer models with various distros preinstalled. Examples: Lenovo [1], Dell [2]

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/configurator/cto/?bundleId=21NS...

[2] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xps-13-9350-inte...

New comment by cherryteastain in "US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system"

cherryteastain — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:38:38 +0000

GrapheneOS has a feature to scramble the locations of the numbers on the passcode unlock screen to prevent this exact problem

New comment by cherryteastain in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

cherryteastain — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:37:42 +0000

Right, I thought you meant there was some GPL-caused license issue.

New comment by cherryteastain in "PySINDy – A package for the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems"

cherryteastain — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:55:01 +0000

Maybe if you apply it at a microstructural scale (think seconds) with order book and trade print data from many sources/symbols. Certainly not if you blindly apply it to the time series of the price.

New comment by cherryteastain in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

cherryteastain — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:27:44 +0000

What do you mean? BSDs have tons of code lifted from the Linux amdgpu driver.

New comment by cherryteastain in "US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system"

cherryteastain — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:58:54 +0000

Easier solution: phone wipes itself if passcode is not entered every X hours