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New comment by colordrops in "Can you see three trees?"

colordrops — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:17:37 +0000

I'm in a part of Los Angeles that matches 3-30, but virtually none of the city matches 300, and it's my least favorite thing about LA.

New comment by colordrops in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

colordrops — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:38:41 +0000

Naw, the real answer is that factories have been built around human labor - they weren't built to be forward-compatible with purpose-built robots, so during the transitional period where we build these purpose-built robots, you need humanoid robots to fill in the parts where the factories were geared for human labor.

New comment by colordrops in "Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)"

colordrops — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:27:58 +0000

Hmm, I got one and they used ketamine and an amnesiatic. Not considered general anesthesia but I don't remember a thing. This was in the US.

New comment by colordrops in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

colordrops — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:21:29 +0000

I didn't say anything about linked libraries. I was just using glibc as an example. I could have used a man page too.

New comment by colordrops in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

colordrops — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:34:22 +0000

No, it doesn't recompile everything, that's not how Nix works. The only way it would recompile everything is if, for example, you modified a particular version of glibc that was imported by most packages. Something else must have happened. I modify udev rules and the system rebuilds in seconds.

That's the great thing about nix, it should actually compile LESS than other distros, because, you can have multiple versions of the same lib on the same machine. You just create another version of the package and only patch the packages that need it. You don't even have this option on other distros. Name one other distro that lets you run multiple versions of glibc natively (not containers or flatpaks or whatever).

New comment by colordrops in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

colordrops — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:40:40 +0000

They still build though. No one said anything about Nix being a solution to buggy software or bad maintainers, that's an absurd expectation.

New comment by colordrops in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

colordrops — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:26:51 +0000

That problem is overstated. I've been dozens of custom packages and modules and it's not that much more complex that basic Nix config, and in fact is a huge positive, not negative. How easy can you write config that packages a binary and/or sets up a new service reproducibly? I'd much rather do that on Nix than Ubuntu or Arch for sure.

New comment by colordrops in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

colordrops — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:25:05 +0000

"real" meaning truly reproducible and not brittle.

New comment by colordrops in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

colordrops — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:26:49 +0000

People shy from Nix because of supposed complexity but it really is the only real solution to this sort of problem. It's not really that much more difficult to learn, and in fact if you are willing, AI works really well generating nix config.

New comment by colordrops in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

colordrops — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:49:00 +0000

Isn't that just the truth based on revenue streams?

New comment by colordrops in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

colordrops — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:47:56 +0000

Sure, but there is still a more dense talent pool with SV companies, and training frontier models requires massive amounts of capital. Are Netherlands and Sweden prepared to invest 10s of billions?

New comment by colordrops in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

colordrops — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:43:49 +0000

If that was the only thing in the original message, then yes, but the very last comment about the IPO should have clued you in, among other things. But I get your point, there are a lot of people out there saying crazy ungrounded things.

New comment by colordrops in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

colordrops — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:54:03 +0000

This one's pretty easy dude.

New comment by colordrops in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

colordrops — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:17:08 +0000

The real reason behind this is that Fable was not well received due to costs and unpredictable quality so they are shifting blame to the government.

New comment by colordrops in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

colordrops — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:04:19 +0000

Brew is probably serving your needs, but you might also want to look into Nix/NixOS, which takes what you are talking about to the next level.

New comment by colordrops in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

colordrops — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:09:19 +0000

You are arguing with a straw man. Most are saying they should be explicit with the failure modes rather than fail silently. They aren't saying there should be no guardrails.

New comment by colordrops in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

colordrops — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:59:37 +0000

What do you mean "demo"? Seems to work... Who is behind this?

New comment by colordrops in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

colordrops — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:10:40 +0000

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/

New comment by colordrops in "They are looting your life savings"

colordrops — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:54:18 +0000

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New comment by colordrops in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

colordrops — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:17:49 +0000

People were smeared regularly for suggesting this less than a decade ago. You are being tripped up by recency bias since mainstream media started reporting on it.