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New comment by debatem1 in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

debatem1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:18:34 +0000

how did you compute that?

New comment by debatem1 in "Do you even need a database?"

debatem1 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:49:25 +0000

I'm curious if you tried different madvise strategies and if any of them worked better than others?

New comment by debatem1 in "The AI Layoff Trap"

debatem1 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:59:10 +0000

So you work in one of these fields, right? Hydroponics, homebuilding, theatre construction, pothole repair?

New comment by debatem1 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

debatem1 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:27:01 +0000

Do funny jokes about potatoes or great poetry about lemons exist? If not, can they exist? How do you know?

New comment by debatem1 in "The Failure of the Thermodynamics of Computation (2010)"

debatem1 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:18:23 +0000

The author should write a followup article about how theory of computation has failed because nobody makes a Turing machine with enough tape.

New comment by debatem1 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

debatem1 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:23:45 +0000

You can do this with some forms of trip insurance. I stared hard at arbitrage there a few years ago but it was too hard to get your money out if you were right.

New comment by debatem1 in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

debatem1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:41:50 +0000

What's unfair about office hours? At least at my school they were posted in advance and available to any student at no charge.

New comment by debatem1 in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

debatem1 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:16:59 +0000

I'm encouraging my folks to try it pretty hard because A) I've personally seen the productivity gains and B) using it is at first deeply weird/uncomfortable. Sometimes you've got to convince people to push through that kind of thing.

New comment by debatem1 in "Can I Run AI locally?"

debatem1 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:32:21 +0000

For me the "can run" filter says "S/A/B" but lists S, A, B, and C and the "tight fit" filter says "C/D" but lists F.

Just FYI.

New comment by debatem1 in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

debatem1 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:31:30 +0000

I'm curious about the Iran match.

New comment by debatem1 in "Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth"

debatem1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:49:41 +0000

The one in Las Vegas.

New comment by debatem1 in "The only moat left is money?"

debatem1 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:07:33 +0000

As someone who has tried to make several businesses around art, people generally like art but not enough to pay "at scale" money for it.

New comment by debatem1 in "Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth"

debatem1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:35:12 +0000

I hear about meow wolf all the time and I seem to be the only person in the world who thought it was an underwhelming cash grab that is beaten by a half dozen events a year in nearly every major city in the US. Am I just missing some huge piece of it?

New comment by debatem1 in "Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)"

debatem1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:59:47 +0000

Not meaning to derail an interesting conversation, but I'm curious about your description of your work as "applied probability". Can you say any more about what that involves?

New comment by debatem1 in "What functional programmers get wrong about systems"

debatem1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:30:01 +0000

...then it is clearly AI?

It isn't impossible that it's AI, but assuming writing and publishing happen at the same time would also lead you to conclude that Anne Frank wrote from the afterlife.

New comment by debatem1 in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

debatem1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:49:28 +0000

> Imagine if Siri could genuinely file your taxes

If you trust openclaw to file your taxes we are just on radically different levels of risk tolerance.

New comment by debatem1 in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

debatem1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:47:40 +0000

Every time I see one of these stories I wonder how many tools I would have to remove from my garage to make it impossible to build a primitive gun in there. With enough ingenuity I'm really not sure there would be anything left.

New comment by debatem1 in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

debatem1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:36:36 +0000

There is some evidence to suggest that spacex knows how to reenter an object without burning it up.

New comment by debatem1 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

debatem1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:31:43 +0000

Possibly, although that article seems quite confused as well (of course they need custom silicon, and of course that doesn't mean anything about what COTS parts they do or don't use). It would be nice if SpaceX would publish more about its compute architecture.

New comment by debatem1 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

debatem1 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:42:35 +0000

SpaceX supposedly mostly runs non-rad-hard parts, the ostensible reason being because its more cost effective to double or triple up than buy specialty equipment. Do you have a source for this?