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New comment by fasteo in "A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions"

fasteo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:42:54 +0000

Spontaneous combustion[1] at scale

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_combustion

New comment by fasteo in "They’re made out of weights"

fasteo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:03:43 +0000

>>> Weights helped me draft and proof this story.

Nice touch !

New comment by fasteo in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

fasteo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:55:13 +0000

count me in !

New comment by fasteo in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

fasteo — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:05:17 +0000

Spaniard here. The 'siesta' is just to combat - avoid - midday heat, specially in southern regions.

New comment by fasteo in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

fasteo — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:03:31 +0000

I thought that biphasic sleep was a fact, since there is plenty of evidence of ‘first sleep’ and ‘second sleep’ in doctors’ prescriptions from the pre-industrial era.

New comment by fasteo in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

fasteo — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:48:40 +0000

You are missing some context. Full quote below.I believe it is just a fancy way to say that the are rebuilding their backend to make it more scalable

>>>5a/ Machine-scale infrastructure.

>>> Others are bolting AI onto platforms built for human-rate commits. Git itself wasn't designed for agent-rate work.

>>> We're rebuilding the underlying infrastructure for machine scale: a generational rebuild of git, the monolith giving way to composable, monetized services with agent-first APIs.

New comment by fasteo in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

fasteo — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:18:35 +0000

>>> should-be-illegal process of putting debt on the acquired company's balance sheet

This is a basically a leveraged buyout (LBO). All private equity works this way. Yes, it should be illegal, or at least heavily limited.

I highly recommend this book: "Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America"

New comment by fasteo in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

fasteo — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:11:54 +0000

They were onto something

April 1st, 2026 Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

New comment by fasteo in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

fasteo — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:20:56 +0000

>>> In the last week we received ~470000 crash reports, these do not represent all crashes because it's an opt-in system, the real number of crashes will be several times larger

Having the number of unique machines would be great to see how skewed this estimate is.

New comment by fasteo in "SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser"

fasteo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:12:17 +0000

It might have a place in its current state,as far as write speed goes

war and peace[1] is 3.2 MB in the plain text version, so it will take less than a second to store it.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600

New comment by fasteo in "GPT-5.2"

fasteo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:57:28 +0000

>>> Already, the average ChatGPT Enterprise user says AI saves them 40–60 minutes a day

If this is what AI has to offer, we are in a gigantic bubble

New comment by fasteo in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

fasteo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:04:14 +0000

cute ad. Too bad wolves are hypercarnivores. They won't survive without a heavy-meat diet

New comment by fasteo in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

fasteo — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:42:36 +0000

$MU, another ticker to short

New comment by fasteo in "I just want working RCS messaging"

fasteo — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:19:37 +0000

>>> Apple, run your own RCS servers.

I believe they can't. RCS is implemented over IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), part of the mobile carrier infra and tightly tied to them (SIM card auth, APN settings pushed from the operator, etc)

... unless they become a mobile operator

New comment by fasteo in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

fasteo — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:21:20 +0000

> a routine configuration change we made

Every.Single.Time

[1] https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646

New comment by fasteo in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

fasteo — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:51:24 +0000

The whole damn internet now depends on them. I guess I am bullish for $NET

New comment by fasteo in "How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep"

fasteo — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:33:05 +0000

Could you please elaborate on 1. ?

New comment by fasteo in "Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework"

fasteo — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:34:01 +0000

Slighthy offtopic, but I have been using xmlui[1] (paired with Flight PHP framework [2]) lately for some internal tools and it has worked really well.

[1] https://www.xmlui.org/ [2] https://docs.flightphp.com/en/v3/

New comment by fasteo in "Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI"

fasteo — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:05:43 +0000

From the actual report[1]

>>> Despite persistent material uncertainty around the global macroeconomic outlook, risky asset valuations have increased and credit spreads have compressed. Measures of risk premia across many risky asset classes have tightened further since the last FPC meeting in June 2025. On a number of measures, equity market valuations appear stretched, particularly for technology companies focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves equity markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of AI become less optimistic.

Actually, the quoted 'sudden correction' is not referring specifically to AI, but the market in general

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/financial-policy-committee-r...

New comment by fasteo in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

fasteo — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:43:41 +0000

> According to some reports, sales of Synology’s 2025 NAS models dropped sharply in the months after the restriction was introduced. What did NAS customers purchase instead?

I honestly can’t believe anyone at Synology thought this would turn out differently.