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New comment by deepsun in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

deepsun — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:49:07 +0000

Sprinting? More like buzzing (or rolling for terrestrial drones).

It's already in mass production, just with simpler models for now.

The most ubiquitous would be "silently watching".

New comment by deepsun in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

deepsun — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:45:11 +0000

I bet any FAANG spend is mostly R&D.

If it's not materials, not energy or taxes, not manufacturing, not licensing or rental fees, then I can only think of R&D.

New comment by deepsun in "I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs"

deepsun — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:18:11 +0000

Especially on government websites like gov.uk serve. It's not a website with cute beanie hats you'd want to share on your socials.

New comment by deepsun in "Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap"

deepsun — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:02:13 +0000

I only add /s if it's not obvious, and someone might take it seriously. Although online you never know, too often people take seriously even the most obvious.

New comment by deepsun in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

deepsun — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:21:39 +0000

You can reply to emails faster and so have more time for hobbies. /s

New comment by deepsun in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

deepsun — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:12:01 +0000

Don't MacOS users all have apple.com accounts? I hear no complains though.

BTW, where do I create an account to for my Linux?

New comment by deepsun in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

deepsun — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:21:47 +0000

I believe Rust will never be a major player in GUIs.

As in other areas where business outcomes of a software is more important than efficient memory management. I don't like Electron, but its popularity just makes it obvious that nobody cares about RAM usage in the GUI area.

New comment by deepsun in "Every Frame Perfect"

deepsun — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:38:42 +0000

I couldn't understand author's point, because they haven't provided the right way to do each thing, their opinion.

It's easy to criticize.

New comment by deepsun in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

deepsun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:55:22 +0000

Yes, and that's normal (except for maybe eastern European cultures who better hire an American/west European).

New comment by deepsun in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

deepsun — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:32:02 +0000

No-no, I mean launch processes by all means, just without shell substitutions.

Ever noticed that docker (and k8s) accept command line as an array? That's the way to go. It does not expand any env variables, path expansions (.. or *). Like

   command: ["java", "Main.java"]

But people hack it in order to get shell features, and that is the failure I mean:

   command: ["sh", "-c", "java Main.java"]

the second example runs shell, and shell is for humans, so is vulnerable to the attacks above.

New comment by deepsun in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

deepsun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:35:29 +0000

I would argue that command line is for human input, so the failure already happened when they composed a `ping` shell command programmatically.

Granted, a lot of software works like that, but the command line was invented as a human interface, we just bungee-strapped a computer instead.

New comment by deepsun in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

deepsun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:06:59 +0000

Yes, and I probably was that student in school.

The thing is -- grades looked to me like a silly attempt in gamification. I did not really care about grades, but I care about learning. So you might have taught them good, and they will carry it to their lives, they just don't care to show it off in the form of grades.

Now, an admission tests grades are way different deal, of course.

New comment by deepsun in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

deepsun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:58:43 +0000

And that is why China wins in production.

New comment by deepsun in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

deepsun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:46:36 +0000

Linq took that from Hibernate in believe. But in general, I'd say almost all ORM and SQL-gen libraries have FROM first, because it's clearer for programmers.

New comment by deepsun in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

deepsun — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:58:40 +0000

Just, for god's sake, move SELECT after GROUP BY, I beg you.

New comment by deepsun in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

deepsun — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:11:04 +0000

Don't make a work off your hobby, you'll stop loving that.

"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life" is a lie.

New comment by deepsun in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

deepsun — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:06:00 +0000

Was. Expired in 2025, as agreed at its inception. Since then it's "just watching doing nothing".

New comment by deepsun in "The dead economy theory"

deepsun — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:27:35 +0000

Agree, subsidies should go only to calorie-rich foods that can lessen a widespread famine in case of big troubles. Not to the freshest cucumbers.

New comment by deepsun in "The dead economy theory"

deepsun — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:23:23 +0000

Your link is about a healthy diet, not surviving. Agricultural subsidies are to avoid or lessen famine, not to look rosy.

New comment by deepsun in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

deepsun — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:14:49 +0000

Hard to say at this point. Imagine in 50 years historians would write like "but crazy regimes kept developing nuclear weapons to exterminat nations they don't like, and the whole world just kept watching doing nothing until it was too late".