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New comment by elif in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

elif — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:27:22 +0000

You also have to factor in that your connection can drop to 10% far more often because of connection pooling. Each of your neighbors has a gigabit of bandwidth to use too.

Like in a perfect world, if everyone's cars went 10x faster, traffic would be a thing of the past. But because we can't have nice things, we would actually just be stuck in gridlock behind 10x more car crashes.

New comment by elif in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

elif — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:10:22 +0000

Nah literally crushing plates would feel so good. Worth the effort to melt it again every few sessions

New comment by elif in "GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100"

elif — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:54:17 +0000

In equally compelling results, my lawn mower does not cut grass to a uniformly random set of heights.

New comment by elif in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

elif — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:56:18 +0000

the argument that prediction models are sports betting is not much different than the argument that stocks are sports betting. Who's to say that capitalism isn't a competitive sport? I mean consider that people have agents making trades for them. It is basically a video game at this point.

New comment by elif in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

elif — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:50:34 +0000

I would say his post has the tone of earnest discourse while yours devolves into ad hominem laden reflexive sensitivity.

Which is the pathological take?

New comment by elif in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

elif — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:46:58 +0000

AI psychosis is real, but at worst is only premature. AI-denial psychosis is far more pervasive, and will bite far more people in the long run.

New comment by elif in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

elif — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:23:25 +0000

I doubt the amount of generators running constitute some sunstantial fossil fuel use, at least not more than 70,000 people sitting at home in air conditioning doing "nothing". I would welcome your math though.

New comment by elif in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

elif — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:54:39 +0000

Trashing the planet is mainstream. Taking care of it is counterculture.

New comment by elif in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

elif — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:04:32 +0000

LLMs are a distillation of human.

New comment by elif in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

elif — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:27:08 +0000

They even banned the term "soy milk"

It's now called "non dairy soy beverage" on every carton.

New comment by elif in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

elif — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:32:40 +0000

It is moral to throw your toddler into the pool so that later in life they are less likely to drown.

New comment by elif in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

elif — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:19:57 +0000

The engineering was done in the 70's and 80's. This rocket is built out of leftover shuttle hardware.

The exploration in this mission was done 50 years ago.

I fail to see how this mission is noble. It's biggest accomplishment is keeping the NASA beurocratic apparatus in tact.

This spectacle of a mission is precisely the kind of distraction which enables complacency and allows the "dark age of war" to remain dark.

New comment by elif in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

elif — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:08:05 +0000

They aren't a database company. They are a full spectrum B2B SaaS contract company. They make far more by up selling services than they do from databases total. Half of their stack will run on whatever db you want.

New comment by elif in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

elif — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:06:42 +0000

Fortunately, the most likely outcome is another indefinite delay at the last minute.

New comment by elif in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

elif — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:16:51 +0000

agree completely. When the megacorps are building hundreds of datacenters and openly talking about plans to charge for software "like a utility," there has never been a clearer mandate for the need for FOSS, and IMO there has never been as much momentum behind it either.

these are exciting times, that are coming despite any pessimism rooted in our out-dated software paradigms.

New comment by elif in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

elif — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:56:08 +0000

Your GPU rendering 1 frame vs your GPU rendering 60 frames.

New comment by elif in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

elif — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:55:28 +0000

You're not moving your mouse 100% of the time. Probably less than 25% of the time. Probably using your keyboard less than 25% of the time. It doesn't need to degrade experience OR selectively refresh part of the screen (which it certainly doesn't).

New comment by elif in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

elif — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:49:49 +0000

i could be mistaken but from my read, the 'rotation' aspect is nothing new and not dissimilar from normal spin quant, where the importance matrix is rotated during calibration such that the local minima/maxima are more evenly smoothed and excessive/redundant quantization of parameters is avoided.

as for the J-L transformation is way above my head so i'm almost certainly mistaken but it seems to be some clever way to use a bit as a sort of pointer in order to reuse existing chunks of parameter weight data like in a jpeg or zip compression algorithm.

New comment by elif in "A Eulogy for Vim"

elif — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:25:15 +0000

look i just made a single point about VIM OVERCOMING THE LOSS OF ITS CREATOR by pointing to emacs as a WORSE CASE.

I didn't ask for these weirdos to come demanding to litigate every detail of every sick quote he's ever given.

but i will not stand down to karma bullying to cover up sex crimes of a person just because i like his software.

New comment by elif in "A Eulogy for Vim"

elif — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:41:30 +0000

or am i "not understanding his meaning" here somehow again?