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New comment by drowsspa in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

drowsspa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:47:30 +0000

At least the compiler was free

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:16:00 +0000

Yeah, I grew up poor in the 3rd world (not quite Chad level though) and even the upper class culture of my own country was almost alien for us and vice versa... Imagine the 1st world.

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:54:15 +0000

Yeah, as soon as you don't need children to help with your work, they don't make much sense in the capitalist individualistic society. That women still choose to do it, honestly... I see as a triumph of the human spirit

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:51:05 +0000

Who do you think is their perceived neighborhood in time and space?

(edit) And moreover, they still need their children to help with their work... So honestly, any analysis that doesn't take this huge confounding variable is just silly

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:46:55 +0000

People compare themselves to their perceived neighborhood in time and space, not to peasants from 5 thousand years ago.

New comment by drowsspa in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

drowsspa — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:45:46 +0000

Funny how you don't realize you fit perfectly into the description of one of the groups that know exactly what is going on.

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

drowsspa — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:57:58 +0000

That's not how it works. Two bodies are in thermal equilibrium if there's no heat transfer between them: that's the zeroth law of thermodynamics. If you're colder than 2.73K in deep space, you will absorb the heat from the Cosmic Microwave Background. If you're hotter, you will irradiate heat away. So it does have a temperature.

New comment by drowsspa in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

drowsspa — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:19:14 +0000

Honestly back when I was still in college one and a half decade ago, it was quite clear the whole Nvidia-only ML and AI libraries weren't a good idea

New comment by drowsspa in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

drowsspa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:48:47 +0000

That was the point of the successive questions in the second paragraph...

New comment by drowsspa in "The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management"

drowsspa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:47:23 +0000

You still need to compile when those libraries are not pre compiled.

New comment by drowsspa in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

drowsspa — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:22:51 +0000

I find it amazing how much the mess that building C/C++ code has been for so many decades seems to have influenced the direction technology, the economy and even politics has been going.

Really, what would the world look like if this problem had been properly solved? Would the centralization and monetization of the Internet have followed the same path? Would Windows be so dominant? Would social media have evolved to the current status? Would we have had a chance to fight against the technofeudalism we're headed for?

New comment by drowsspa in "Stunnel"

drowsspa — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:55:32 +0000

That's basically the idea behind zero trust, isn't it? The idea being that you can't even knock on the TCP port if you're not authenticated

New comment by drowsspa in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

drowsspa — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:43:34 +0000

I guess we'd have to see the graph with the evolution of paying customers: I don't see the number of potential-but-not-yet clients being that high, certainly not one order of magnitude higher. And everyone already knows OpenAI, they don't have the benefit of additional exposure when they go viral: the only benefit seems to be to hype up investors.

And there's something else about the diminishing returns of going viral... AI kind of breaks the usual assumptions in software: that building it is the hard part and that scaling is basically free. In that sense, AI looks more like regular commodities or physical products, in that you can't just Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V: resources are O(N) on the number of users, not O(log N) like regular software.

New comment by drowsspa in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

drowsspa — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:12:42 +0000

Yeah, for instance: even if Trump's bullying works for now, he made sure that most governments in Latin America, including right wing ones, will prioritize uncoupling the country from the US economy. Even if they won't say this quiet part out loud.

New comment by drowsspa in "Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments"

drowsspa — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:33:52 +0000

We have gambling addicts and the sociopaths they worship deciding the fate of mankind...

Seriously I can't see any benefit in this large scale financial engineering

New comment by drowsspa in "Go Proposal: Secret Mode"

drowsspa — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:22:38 +0000

4. The community seems to have realized that untangling the mess that is building C/C++ stuff is a fool's errand and seems to mostly prefer to reimplement it in Go

New comment by drowsspa in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

drowsspa — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:21:11 +0000

A bit, and it's not like it's too much of a hassle

New comment by drowsspa in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

drowsspa — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:20:18 +0000

Sure, you can't get rid of everything. But you can mitigate a few things, and closing the door is such an easy fix... There's worrying too much, and there's not worrying enough

New comment by drowsspa in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

drowsspa — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:50:37 +0000

If you don't feel disgusted by the idea of your poop particles being ejected and spreading around, I don't think anyone can instill it in you

New comment by drowsspa in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

drowsspa — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:41:48 +0000

You don't close the door when doing number two in your own home either?