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New comment by deburo in "How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll"

deburo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:22:30 +0000

Indeed, their argument makes no sense. They would probably complain about any industry building large factories. It seems they don't like progress, and not even the status quo, they would prefer regression.

New comment by deburo in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

deburo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:14:56 +0000

Which makes me curious about what Marc actually meant. The quote itself raises eyebrows.

EDIT: From checking in with Claude about his talk.

> So the thing he was arguing against was specifically what he sees as a modern therapeutic culture — the expectation that people should examine their motives, feel guilty about their actions, and look backward. He wasn't framing it as a philosophical position so much as a practical one about founder effectiveness.

https://claude.ai/share/9c5611f7-fd0e-4f76-bd39-e1129c035a4f

New comment by deburo in "Super Micro Computer Investors Look for Exits"

deburo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:27:04 +0000

It's not at all a similar analogy, and you know it. China is a threat. I assume you personally don't care about it, but it is in our interests that it does not dominate the AI industry.

New comment by deburo in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

deburo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:36:30 +0000

That's not what deterrence means. From google: the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.

It's meant to avoid conflict altogether, say with China and Taiwan.

New comment by deburo in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

deburo — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:53:16 +0000

Perhaps you'd like to know how well interceptor missiles fare today. They are rapidly being made obsolete. Offense is still the best defense.

New comment by deburo in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

deburo — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:27:38 +0000

Why would that be fraud? Is the subsidy something other than giving the people purchasing EVs a "rebate"?

New comment by deburo in "Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples"

deburo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:55:54 +0000

You should check out Michael Levin. Cancerous cells do not grow organ-like structures. Normal cells communicate with other cells as a network to control growth.

New comment by deburo in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

deburo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:01:03 +0000

Nicely done. Will you be able to render 3D donuts? And even animations, say pick a slice & see it tear apart from the donut.

New comment by deburo in "How AI labs are solving the power problem"

deburo — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:58:43 +0000

Isn’t the Memphis city admin mainly composed of blacks?

New comment by deburo in "Five Years of Tinygrad"

deburo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:19:30 +0000

So this is all python? I bet Chris Lattner probably approached them.

New comment by deburo in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"

deburo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:30:09 +0000

You know, 1.5x for overtime seems great until it is enforced for everybody (like it's done in Quebec) and so it is forbidden by company leadership unless it is deemed a necessity. So for people with more time on their hands than responsabilities, they usually can't (voluntarily) work more in their main job to boost their pay, and so they get side jobs, which are usually not declared.

Mandated 1.5x overtime has consequences.

Another side effect (that I know happens in manufacturing jobs) is that people will deliberately slow their work during the week to work overtime on the weekend. I'd wager this is very common in jobs with frequent overtime opportunities.

New comment by deburo in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

deburo — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:25:59 +0000

Hah, it feels like Microsoft is currently in "Code Red" to implement AI features.

New comment by deburo in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

deburo — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:33:59 +0000

It’s not just redistribution from the very rich. It’s redistribution from every tax payer, and you can bet your tax dollars aren’t used very efficiently.

New comment by deburo in "Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians"

deburo — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:36:36 +0000

Unless you agree with the US's current budget (and the staggering debt it entails), you can't say that the government is particularly efficient.

New comment by deburo in "My flight has an unrestricted Starlink"

deburo — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:12:33 +0000

Curious why the upload is so great compared with download speed.

New comment by deburo in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"

deburo — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:56:45 +0000

Huh, with AI you can always "review" those mods. They are small enough. Anyway they are distributed via the creator's github repo, so it's already somewhat of a peer reviewed mechanism.

New comment by deburo in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

deburo — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:50:53 +0000

This must have happened within seconds otherwise he must have been breathing almost imperceptibly, right? Otherwise how could his brain still survive?

New comment by deburo in ".NET 10"

deburo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:24:23 +0000

* C# has way to many features, it feels bloated

Most of the newer features make C# less cumbersome to use. I can't imagine using the language from ten years ago, in fact the first thing I do when working on a legacy app is to set langVersion=latest.

New comment by deburo in "Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own startup"

deburo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:04:01 +0000

No, he said that he was not involved. He had his own research model to develop, his startup will probably continue his work there but I wonder if he thinks its viable in the short term since he's launching a startup. I thought it was a moonshot.

New comment by deburo in "Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control"

deburo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:27:41 +0000

That's a good point. I think it would be bearable if they actually had a good feedback platform & interact with their users. Feedback Hub is just terrible: slow, featureless & built on top of their buggiest ui platform.

Unfortunately their audience is probably too big.