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New comment by darkstar_16 in "Things to know when you get cancer"

darkstar_16 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:12:47 +0000

> A lot of us are preconditioned from birth to trust our clinicians.

As a Asian, this is really fascinating to me. We, in general, are conditioned exactly the opposite. We don't trust our doctors, govt or anyone other than our immediate family. Taking a second opinion is just normal. As someone who now lives in the "west", and is now taking a second opinion for a condition, my doctor here was almost offended when I asked for a copy of my results in order to take a second opinion.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Movie Review: Musk"

darkstar_16 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:23:00 +0000

2013-2025 and only 2 linked to FSD ? The rest are human errors ? FSD sounds better than human drivers just going by that data. How many people have, for example, BMW killed in 12 years ?

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Tmp.0ut Volume 5"

darkstar_16 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:52:31 +0000

I miss the ezines scene!

New comment by darkstar_16 in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

darkstar_16 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:43:10 +0000

How much data do you have ? Isn't B2 expensive at certain size ?

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

darkstar_16 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:28:53 +0000

If your boss is not able to back you up for something like this, it's time to change job.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

darkstar_16 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:28:58 +0000

It's also geeks and engineers using these models and being the most vocal. We always think we're special and need the extra horsepower. Ever been on one of those home lab subreddits ? Same story.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

darkstar_16 — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:54:23 +0000

Tesla is still doing that. The CEO is a shithead but that's a different matter.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

darkstar_16 — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:50:52 +0000

That's such a cynical take. If everyone does what you're describing, we will never make progress as a society.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

darkstar_16 — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:23:03 +0000

I think you're doing it wrong. Use the frontier moddels for the research, planning etc and once you have a plan give it to a local model for implementation.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

darkstar_16 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:22:59 +0000

I think they're at that stage where people know they want it so lack of a trial isn't a deal breaker per se.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

darkstar_16 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:13:47 +0000

They use claude code to code it. Makes sense

New comment by darkstar_16 in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

darkstar_16 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:24:12 +0000

I don't think it's even a broad strategy from PM or higher ups. I actually think it's engineers inside the company who want to play with the coolest hardware and the build features for the newest stuff. Features can be made to work with older hardware but that requires more time and optimization which they never get, so someone takes a call that x and y features only work on newer gen hardware.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Layoffs at Block"

darkstar_16 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:12:48 +0000

I think it's a bit of both and perhaps 10% AI. Companies like Block are bloated for what they offer.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

darkstar_16 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:05:43 +0000

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but it will happen sooner or later.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

darkstar_16 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:03:48 +0000

It's interesting how this comes up when the west is the one that is trying to catch up :)

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Two kinds of vibe coding"

darkstar_16 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:18:07 +0000

I do the same. Directed tasks with smaller context and start a new "chat" when it's done what I want.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Umbrel – Personal Cloud"

darkstar_16 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:09:24 +0000

Even as a techie, I prefer and use iCloud for exactly this reason, especially for stuff I share with family. I don't want me to be the bottleneck for what is considered basic functionality these days.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

darkstar_16 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:36:41 +0000

I actually I'd be even willing to downgrade my car one level if I'm not driving and just sitting in the back seat. Will likely be cheaper for me to own even with the increased subscription.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

darkstar_16 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:11:55 +0000

I've been meaning to get more components for a diy NAS since atleast the last year and just been pushing it lazily. I'm literally kicking myself now when I actually started looking up deals for this black friday.

New comment by darkstar_16 in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

darkstar_16 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:03:04 +0000

GraphQL sure, but I'm not sure I'd put kafka in the same bucket. It is a nice technology that has it's use in some cases, where postgresql would not work. It is also something a small team should not start with. Start with postgres and then move on to something else when the need arises.