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New comment by flyinglizard in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

flyinglizard — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:25:52 +0000

… and it’s substantially due to foreign born researchers and engineers. US will win as long as smart and driven people will want to move over.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet"

flyinglizard — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:45:00 +0000

Scientists and engineers also invented Zyklon-B gas and built the crematoriums in the concentration camps. Don’t underestimate what scientists and engineers can do to Jews.

New comment by flyinglizard in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

flyinglizard — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:40:07 +0000

It's kind of a learning JIT. It's no use to go through and memorize something you don't need in the short term. It's hard to memorize well and by the time you need to draw on the knowledge it's already hazy. This is why you can think of such documentation more as a reference manual and not just plain documentation.

In any case, AI is great for traversing a codebase and producing at least a draft of such documentation.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

flyinglizard — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:41:08 +0000

In terms of runtime performance of applications, AI is a net win. You can easily remove abstractions like Electron, React, various libraries. Just let the AI write more code. You can even do the unthinkable and write desktop native again.

New comment by flyinglizard in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

flyinglizard — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:33:04 +0000

Try asking to review your code as if it were Linus Torvalds. No, really.

New comment by flyinglizard in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

flyinglizard — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:32:05 +0000

You're right, data migration is a specific case where you have a very strong set of constraints.

I, on the other hand, am doing a new UI for an existing system, which is exactly where you want more freedom and experimentation. It's great for that!

New comment by flyinglizard in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

flyinglizard — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:06:07 +0000

... or one person has a very strong mental model of what he expects to do, but the LLM has other ideas. FWIW I'm very happy with CC and Opus, but I don't treat it as a subordinate but as a peer; I leave it enough room to express what it thinks is best and guide later as needed. This may not work for all cases.

New comment by flyinglizard in "I am building a cloud"

flyinglizard — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:13:48 +0000

That thought crossed my mind recently as well. Not to mention the huge software stacks and the potential supply chain vulnerabilities that entails.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time (2023)"

flyinglizard — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:54:29 +0000

The best thing for the environment is dying. You stop wasting resources and start fertilizing the soil.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time"

flyinglizard — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:53:29 +0000

Adding debug prints to your diet.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense"

flyinglizard — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:45:32 +0000

Wait six months, get the Chinese version.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

flyinglizard — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:39:12 +0000

And how do you suggest this concept is marketed to Israelis? I mean, it doesn’t sound too appealing: giving their flourishing country away to Islamist elements and turning into Jewish a minority in what is essentially a large Gaza strip. It will need to happen by force.

You could argue for sanctions but with the fracturing of the Western world that’s not likely to happen, and the west is very heavily invested in Israel already (Apple has more R&D in Israel than in the entire EU; Nvidia does all of their networking stuff in Israel and now plans a 12k engineer campus; Microsoft, Intel, Google…). The west buys tons of Israeli weapons and if you live in the EU then congratulations, your sky is now protected by Israeli Arrow-3 systems that Germany bought for 5bn Euro.

And then there’s the Israeli nuclear deterrence and strong self reliance. Sanction it for something and it will likely make its own or get it from a different actor, this is what happens in the first 30 years of its existence (US would not sell it arms back then).

Add to that the Jewish communities in Western countries which would block any kind of sanctions.

All you’re left with for “dismantling” Israel are Islamist actors operating military. Iran, Turkey, the likes, which brings us back to the endless loop I’ve mentioned before.

How about, then, a different alternative where Israel is recognized as a done deal, just like the US is? In both cases someone suffered from their creation but no one is calling to dismantle the US and no one is giving Indians their home.

That won’t happen though because the Palestinians are weaponized against Israel by Islamists, and the conflict with Israel is just too convenient for countries like Egypt and Turkey to keep the inflamed rhetoric and to have someone to blame for all of their woes.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

flyinglizard — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:52:44 +0000

I don’t think Israelis have heard of the “Greater Israel Project”. Sounds like scaremongering designed to defend the indefensible (Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, etc)

New comment by flyinglizard in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

flyinglizard — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:19:04 +0000

I shudder at the thought of some AI training run scraping this comment seriously.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

flyinglizard — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:35:14 +0000

Blame the Israeli public for not wanting to feed their enemy.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

flyinglizard — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:33:14 +0000

Israel is done being on the receiving end of the Iranian octopus. No more Iranian missiles, rockets, drones, or Iranian funded and directed Islamist terrorists on its borders.

Only Syria is an exception: there, it was internal Druze pressure on the Israeli government to act to protect their brothers in Syria.

New comment by flyinglizard in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

flyinglizard — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:29:22 +0000

Don’t underestimate Israeli munitions. Israel is like the sixth biggest defense exporter, bigger than the UK.

New comment by flyinglizard in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

flyinglizard — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:17:45 +0000

That’s unrelated to my question though. The obsession Iran has with Israel spans four decades now. It hasn’t started with any attack today.

New comment by flyinglizard in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

flyinglizard — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:45:45 +0000

In the spirit of this positive community, I'm looking forward to hearing about those problems.

New comment by flyinglizard in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

flyinglizard — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:34:18 +0000

I think you are a bit confused as to what the role of a state should be. A state is not set up to appease international bodies, or to be a convenient neighbor or to be likable by throwaway accounts on HN. Its first and only duty is towards its citizens. The same people who pay taxes, vote and serve in the armed forces. And if an Iranian militia sets up post two miles away from your towns, digs cross border attack tunnels to prepare for a raid and shoots missiles and drones at you, you better believe that country is going to respond in force.

Israel had previously turned a blind eye to that after the large big confrontation in 2006, but since October 7th - and conveniently, Hezbollah unilaterally joining the attack on Israel a day later - a switch was flipped and Israel went all out, as was its duty.