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New comment by f33d5173 in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

f33d5173 — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:30:16 +0000

The full quote is "don't cite the deep lore to me, I was there when it was written". The intention is to imply that he was there when the thread was created.

New comment by f33d5173 in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

f33d5173 — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:58:09 +0000

You need one to sign up lately I believe. Which is really all it takes if your identity is required for the captcha and gets associated with your account forevermore.

New comment by f33d5173 in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

f33d5173 — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:45:10 +0000

Rust is a significantly more mature language. Adoption of zig has to be done on the assumption that the language will significantly improve as your project evolves, and if those improvements don't agree with your project's goals you're in something of a lurch. Rust is basically finished and adopting it has to be done on the assumption it won't change very much. I don't know what their initial logic for adopting zig was, but I think porting to a more mature language was inevitable, unless by some miracle zig happened to rapidly mature in exactly the direction they wanted,

New comment by f33d5173 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

f33d5173 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:45:53 +0000

Has any of this stuff hurt their valuation? Then who says it isn't working?

New comment by f33d5173 in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

f33d5173 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:01:14 +0000

what immense power?

New comment by f33d5173 in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

f33d5173 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:21:15 +0000

Lawful is presumably defined in the usual, common sense, ie we can do whatever the f we want until a court physically forces us not to.

New comment by f33d5173 in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

f33d5173 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:15:23 +0000

> without bringing in proof

Did we read the same article?

New comment by f33d5173 in "What async promised and what it delivered"

f33d5173 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:31:58 +0000

> This functionality is experimental, and comes with a number of requirements and limitations.

I assume that answers your question.

New comment by f33d5173 in "Trump evacuated from White House Correspondents' Dinner after shots fired"

f33d5173 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:18:30 +0000

Ridicule doesn't work. It hasn't worked at all. In fact it did the opposite. The constant attention on trump since the beginning was what lead to his rise. Certain elements in the masses saw themselves in the ridicule directed at trump, and identified with him as a result. That's why despite being a total failure policy wise he was voted in a second time. You need to focus on the failures of his policy. Take them seriously. Demand they be explained to you, as citizens of a republic. When they harm you, express outrage. That is what hurts trump.

New comment by f33d5173 in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

f33d5173 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:36:44 +0000

This has always been the case, and is really the main practical advantage of open source. Contributing code back is an act of community service which people do not always have time for. The main issue is that over time, other people will contribute back their own acts of community service, which may be bug fixes or features that you want to take advantage of. As upstream and your own fork diverge, it will take more and more work to update your patches. So if you intend to follow upstream, it benefits you to send your patches back.

New comment by f33d5173 in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

f33d5173 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:25:47 +0000

As apologetics what he's saying is complete nonsense. The jizyah has been interpreted by every islamic society as a tax on non muslims, not a fine for those who break the law. You could argue that the passage doesn't actually say that the purpose of jizyah is to humiliate people (humbling is different) or that islamic societies in practice didn't (typically) use it as a means of ridicule, but saying that actually it was just a fine is utter make believe.

New comment by f33d5173 in "Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys"

f33d5173 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:13:50 +0000

In my example I had imagined that your nanobots would also create solar panels and radiators for the chips you were tiling the surface of mars with. This is why it needs to be done on the surface instead of underground somewhere.

New comment by f33d5173 in "Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys"

f33d5173 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:44:07 +0000

You don't need to keep shrinking features. Brute forcing is highly parallel; to break a key within a certain time frame all you need is a large enough quantity of chips. While it's in the realm of science fiction today, in a few centuries we might have nanorobots that can tile the entire surface of mars with processors. That would get you enough orders of magnitude of additional compute to break a 128 bit key. 256 bit would probably still be out though.

New comment by f33d5173 in "Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)"

f33d5173 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:52:13 +0000

It's just n x 2 for light and dark themes.

New comment by f33d5173 in "It's OK to compare floating-points for equality"

f33d5173 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:04:04 +0000

"Maths" is short for "mathematics". The latter is not plural and can be substituted into this quote with no other alterations.

New comment by f33d5173 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

f33d5173 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:52:04 +0000

I don't know what such a demo would prove in the first place. LLMs are good at things that they have been trained on, or are analogues of things they have been trained on. SVG generation isn't really an analogue to any task that we usually call on LLMs to do. Early models were bad at it because their training only had poor examples of it. At a certain point model companies decided it would be good PR to be halfway decent at generating SVGs, added a bunch of examples to the finetuning, and voila. They still aren't good enough to be useful for anything, and such improvements don't lead them to be good at anything else - likely the opposite - but it makes for cute demos.

I guess initially it would have been a silly way to demonstrate the effect of model size. But the size of the largest models stopped increasing a while ago, recent improvements are driven principally by optimizing for specific tasks. If you had some secret task that you knew they weren't training for then you could use that as a benchmark for how much the models are improving versus overfitting for their training set, but this is not that.

New comment by f33d5173 in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

f33d5173 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:51:59 +0000

Sovereignty doesn't mean autarky. Gas requires continuous resupplying which depends on maintaining relations with foreign countries. Solar requires you to acquire equipment to set it up, but doesn't require an ongoing relationship beyond that. Having invested heavily in solar doesn't give china a veto in your political affairs thereafter, except to the degree they would have one otherwise.

New comment by f33d5173 in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

f33d5173 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:55:19 +0000

This is what government should be doing. Figure out how to do something safely, make that a regulation, then shield companies from liability as long as they follow that regulation. In practice you won't extract trillions of dollars from most companies anyways, because they'll go bankrupt long before they manage to pay all that back.

New comment by f33d5173 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

f33d5173 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:56:38 +0000

Idk if you're joking but I edited to make it clearer...

New comment by f33d5173 in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

f33d5173 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:27:27 +0000

When the sentence doesn't specify a time frame, it's implied as being perpetual, so being explicit is redundant and as you say used for emphasis.