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New comment by dehrmann in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"

dehrmann — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:11:43 +0000

> Does anyone notice anything interesting about the graph?

Cherrypicked dates? But I'd like to hear analysis comparing the Nixon shock to the covid shock since one was monetary and one was supply and demand.

New comment by dehrmann in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

dehrmann — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:30:38 +0000

While this is probably bad, reading gets more credit than it should, especially when it gets to reading junk content, not engaging with the content, and escapism. A baseline level of reading is important, but beyond that, I'd rather kids go out and do things than just read about them.

New comment by dehrmann in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

dehrmann — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:28:48 +0000

They're not necessarily "cooked," (but they certainly can be). Inflation is genuinely hard to calculate since it's different for everyone, goods and services purchased drift over time, and as you mentioned, that exact good also changes over time. CPI (and others) are more useful in a MoM or YoY context. At 10 years, it's better viewed as best guess cost of typical living rather than an economic indicator comparing apples and oranges.

> housing

This is actually the hardest to get right because it's the largest, and 2/3 of Americans own homes, so part of their costs are fixed.

New comment by dehrmann in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"

dehrmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:12:39 +0000

Did you just read my other comment about Doom, or is this a coincidence?

New comment by dehrmann in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"

dehrmann — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:47:38 +0000

I feel like the modern, more relevant version is being Doom-complete...which is essentially that any fast enough device with a screen can run Doom, and someone will eventually make it run Doom.

New comment by dehrmann in "If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II"

dehrmann — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:44:44 +0000

It's sort of like how anything turing-complete can run any code ever.

New comment by dehrmann in "Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime"

dehrmann — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:42:21 +0000

There's a well-known story about a man who escaped a murder conviction because he was at a Dodgers game when the murder happened, and there just happened to be a TV show filming at the stadium that just happened to record him there.

https://innocenceproject.org/news/how-curb-your-enthusiasm-s...

I'd like to think motive and a police sketch wouldn't be enough evidence for a conviction, but that's optimistic.

New comment by dehrmann in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

dehrmann — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:59:57 +0000

What you're describing is closer to the DJIA.

New comment by dehrmann in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

dehrmann — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:48:57 +0000

Elon Musk.

New comment by dehrmann in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

dehrmann — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:57:24 +0000

Aren't these things a jit is better suited for?

New comment by dehrmann in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

dehrmann — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:16:16 +0000

There are also individual-level risks. If you capture everything, you might capture bank account numbers when setting up direct deposit or credit card numbers from corporate purchases (these are clearly valid uses of company equipment). In a only slightly less valid use, you might submit a medical claim (using a company benefit), and surveillance software gets part of your medical record.

There are underappreciated liabilities companies take on with this monitoring.

New comment by dehrmann in "A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law"

dehrmann — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:01:51 +0000

Yeah; without Dennard Scaling, cooling becomes an issue, they're useless to laptops, and you can only double or triple density vs a regular chip before they draw too much power for a home outlet.

New comment by dehrmann in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

dehrmann — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:27:36 +0000

> you cant even buy kidney friendly cat food without an expensive Rx from a vet and tons of controls

There are a few law suits over this. Essentially, the claim is that they call it "prescription," but it has no prescription medications in it and isn't approved by the FDA to treat anything. So if you have an extra bag and sell it, this is OK since it isn't actually a drug, it's allegedly a price fixing scheme between vets and pet food makers.

New comment by dehrmann in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

dehrmann — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:07:08 +0000

I might be an outlier, but I grew up listening to some genres that have fallen out of fashion, and I don't feel like I need more songs from them--we've explored enough of what they can do. What I miss from the 90's isn't third-wave ska as people trying things and bizarre songs becoming hits.

New comment by dehrmann in "Sweden becomes a smoke-free country"

dehrmann — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:23:35 +0000

FT ran this headline a few days ago: French nicotine pouch ban is ‘attack on Swedish way of life’, minister says

New comment by dehrmann in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

dehrmann — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:11:45 +0000

> he bigger thing here is just the idea that the alternatives are "Boeing assembly plant" or "data center".

This is a false dichotomy, though. That region has enough land that you could do both. There just isn't much demand for manufacturing in the Upper Midwest right now.

New comment by dehrmann in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

dehrmann — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:35:40 +0000

My land destruction deck was fun for me.

New comment by dehrmann in "The sigmoids won't save you"

dehrmann — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:49:22 +0000

My doubts in the architecture is how different they are from human intelligence. They need an inordinate amount of training data and lack any sort of generational architectural intelligence.

New comment by dehrmann in "Building a UMatrix Replacement"

dehrmann — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:03:45 +0000

uMatrix is very hard on sites by default. When something is glitchy, I assume it's because uMatrix blocked random third-party code.

New comment by dehrmann in "Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution"

dehrmann — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:02:02 +0000

> multiple tokens are predicted at once and then verified

Reminds me a little of a carry lookahead adder.