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New comment by flyinglizard in "Tesla Roadster"

flyinglizard — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:27:42 +0000

In my experience electric cars aren’t significantly smoother or quieter. Most noise in a modern passenger car is generated by the tires and air drag, and for some reason I found these more pronounced in the electric cars I’ve tried (maybe for the lack of engine noise).

New comment by flyinglizard in "ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam"

flyinglizard — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:03:15 +0000

If you buy the machines and not use them, at most you lost several hundred of millions of dollars (not really, because that machine still retains value for you or someone else later).

On the opposite end, if you don't buy the machines in time, mispredict the demand and can't produce, you lose tens of billions.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

flyinglizard — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:23:54 +0000

These countries measure processes in decades. Their rulers are not up for election. They can go through huge (sometimes futile), multi-year projects and processes which would not survive any regime change in the west. They are willing to pay a price to assure their independence from Iranian influence - they pushed and encouraged this war in the first place.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

flyinglizard — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:02:03 +0000

Visit Iran, then visit UAE or Bahrain, then tell me again if they got in bed with the wrong ally.

New comment by flyinglizard in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

flyinglizard — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:19:13 +0000

At some point Adobe will go after the clones, copyright their interfaces, close standards, patent stuff etc. The barrier for software used to be implementation effort, but now that it's out of the window, it will be more like other forms of IP (music, physical products, etc).

New comment by flyinglizard in "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

flyinglizard — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:51:47 +0000

It’s written as if this was Claude congratulating itself.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Orkut.com"

flyinglizard — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:53:17 +0000

TikTok Live, I guess? You can limit it to followers or just friends.

New comment by flyinglizard in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

flyinglizard — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:23:02 +0000

Brainfuck is Turing complete too. But it's not about the ability to implement something, it's about the ability to practically model it. LLMs are magic because the modeling is excessively easy in relation to their capability to infer later.

New comment by flyinglizard in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

flyinglizard — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:53:59 +0000

With all due respect, I think you've been radicalized to the point you think the world is going to come together with the singular goal of destroying Israel. No, it will not. Israel's economy is very strong, in fact it's been getting stronger as the war with the Islamists has gone on. It's a technological and military powerhouse. European skies are defended by Israeli systems. A large part of your iPhone was designed in Israel. If you've been running any workload on Amazon, GCP or Azure, chances are you've been using Israeli tech.

Relax, Israel is not going anywhere :) Yes there is a growing anti-Israeli sentiment, but that will go away with time. The strategic gains Israel has made over the past 3 years, though, may hold.

New comment by flyinglizard in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

flyinglizard — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:11:34 +0000

It's a completely different situation than South Africa in so many ways. Israel is very well integrated into the global supply chain, has the power of the Jewish diaspora, is majority Jewish (unlike Afrikaners which were a small minority), and is a nuclear power.

New comment by flyinglizard in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

flyinglizard — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:18:46 +0000

History is not on your side. US did not support Israel until the 1970's. Israel is far, far stronger today then it was back then. Israel will always have friends, it has a lot to offer and situated in an interesting area.

New comment by flyinglizard in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

flyinglizard — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:14:58 +0000

Israel was NOT created through ethnic cleansing. It was a declared a state first, and only then attacked by the Arabs in Palestine and around it, which led to whatever narrative of history you wish to accept. But at the time of the Nakba Israel was already a done deal, legally speaking.

Now, one must ask what would have happened to the Jews in Palestine had they lost that war...

New comment by flyinglizard in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

flyinglizard — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:11:59 +0000

Israel is the world's 7th largest arms exporter but only the 14th largest importer. It in fact sold this year around $8bn to Europe alone (Arrow-3 to Germany, and Achilles Shield missile defense to Greece).

The concept that Israel relies on foreign weapons for its survival is detached from reality. Yes, there are things you can't replace like F35 and submarines, but in drones, missiles, air defence, radars, armored vehicles, communication systems etc - Israel is amongst the worldwide leaders.

New comment by flyinglizard in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

flyinglizard — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:22:34 +0000

Why this arbitrary timeframe of “8 decades”? Why not 6 (to Jordanian and Egyotian control of West Bank and Gaza) or 9 (to British control) or 11 (Ottoman - Turkish - control) or 300 (Jewish control)?

New comment by flyinglizard in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

flyinglizard — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:05:28 +0000

That's a crazy take on history!

1. Around half of Israelis are not from Europe, but from Arab countries (Sephardic). Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Syria etc.

2. Jews have always lived on this land, for as long as history is recorded. Safed, Tiberias and Jerusalem have had continuous Jewish presence for thousands of years.

3. The land belonged to the British mandate and before to the Ottomans, never a self-governing Palestinian group (which are just Arabs).

4. Palestinians are not fighting for their lives and land; that has been offered many times before, starting in the 1930s with various plans, then with the British partition plan, then many other times culminating in Oslo accords and later in the Gaza disengagement. They could have had one state, two states, autonomy, whatever they wanted. They refused all of those, because their STATED goal is to completely and thoroughly remove Jews from that land, which is considered holy to Islam (Al Aqsa mosque is built on the ruins of the Jewish temple mount). Now when Islam came into being, around the sixth century, Jews were a few thousand years old already. So think about this when you try to attribute the land to this group or that.

Throughly fascinating history for those who want to learn it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwN0K2ZSAoQ

New comment by flyinglizard in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

flyinglizard — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:59:44 +0000

I'm sure Israel would love to have the Swiss as their neighbors but it's Hamas they're dealing with. And it's not a "terrorist organization", in Gaza it is a government that commits terror. The ministry of education or health in Gaza are Hamas. The police are Hamas. The tax collectors are Hamas.

New comment by flyinglizard in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

flyinglizard — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:25:01 +0000

Hamas is a party in the West Bank but in Gaza it is the government.

New comment by flyinglizard in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

flyinglizard — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:11:15 +0000

Is Hamas (which are the only government in Gaza) a signatory of the ICC convention?

New comment by flyinglizard in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

flyinglizard — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:48:45 +0000

ICC is trying to get the elected officials in Israel on trial for enacting a defensive policy they think is vital for the country, and overwhelmingly supported by their public.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

flyinglizard — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:04:41 +0000

Nvidia and AMD do not fall in "easy to predict". Half, or more, of Nvidia's demand base is like, what, 5 hyperscalers? Which themselves are driven by OpenAI and Anthropic? It's not a sustainable market. Meanwhile Apple's business and demand are very easy to predict, with near constant moderate growth. Apple is also much more sensitive to margins than the hyperscalers, which is why Nvidia can get away with 75% margin.