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New comment by gostsamo in ""They're made out of weights""

gostsamo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:57:08 +0000

Read the original mentioned on top for full effect.

New comment by gostsamo in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

gostsamo — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:08:48 +0000

yes. that's why people don't trust russian banks and institutions, but trust european ones.

New comment by gostsamo in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

gostsamo — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:54:26 +0000

The fine is for activity in the EU, so compare it to their business there. Comparing apples to advertisement fliers is useful only if you are using the fliers as toilet paper substitutes.

New comment by gostsamo in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

gostsamo — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:28:33 +0000

the gp asked for confiscation and property rights are pretty fundamental. especially if you are acting as a trustee not only for russian money but for many others who are watching how you are doing your job.

New comment by gostsamo in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

gostsamo — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:23:09 +0000

confiscating money is much bigger deal than you can imagine. Russia and the EU are not officially at war and just taking money because you can is a serious violation of fundamental rights.

New comment by gostsamo in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

gostsamo — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:13:48 +0000

This is a nice narrative, but without real world test cases, reads like yet another fanfiction on the internet.

New comment by gostsamo in "Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume"

gostsamo — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:21:50 +0000

Currently reading a web novel called The Years of Apocalypse. Very similar vibe and though it does not have the same literary aspirations as this one, also goes deep in the existential horror of the time loop and the alienation of your old self pinpoint in a constantly moving away past. Time loops are a fractal like that - a very simple idea and one chooses how deep to examine the repeating pattern. Also, seems to follow similar tropes in order to maintain some momentum.

New comment by gostsamo in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

gostsamo — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:59:12 +0000

The issue with national investment in the EU is that it might be attacked as state sponsored activity where one can complain that public money are used for market moves or if it is EU wide initiative, then the governments will squabble whose economy will get the money. The framework is not mature enough to allow for delegating to someone to solve the problem for everyone and to balance the beneficiaries in the long term.

New comment by gostsamo in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

gostsamo — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:48:17 +0000

If you are dedicated, few weeks to few months of usage with regular ramp up. You should be careful with adjusting which symbols are read though and sometimes the programing languages matters because different symbols have different significance for understanding the code.

New comment by gostsamo in "Accelerando (2005)"

gostsamo — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:38:08 +0000

Also, the mc was using python to write his ai scripts, if I remember it correctly.

New comment by gostsamo in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

gostsamo — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:28:02 +0000

I believe the gp meant the last few decades and the crisis that culminated with the Purdue trial.

New comment by gostsamo in "Traces Of Humanity"

gostsamo — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:15:52 +0000

The author was known with a secure os project some years ago.

New comment by gostsamo in "What if new proofs are included in LLM training so LLM rediscover it?"

gostsamo — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:41:50 +0000

test only on data generated after the training has ended.

New comment by gostsamo in "Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible"

gostsamo — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:53:43 +0000

if the output is consistent, could be used for producing biofuel or plastic.

New comment by gostsamo in "Inventing Cyrillic (2024)"

gostsamo — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:55:14 +0000

Slav comes from slovo == слово which means word or speech, a.k.a slavs are people who can talk to each other which is a pattern in many other ethnic groups about differentiating between themselves and outsiders. Немци or mutes are those who cannot speak the language.

New comment by gostsamo in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

gostsamo — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:27:03 +0000

Cheers to the Pratchett reference. :)

New comment by gostsamo in "Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me"

gostsamo — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:12:32 +0000

Can you give some more context? I looked into Wikipedia and the relevant text there is giving different vibe:

> Charles XII was in exile in Turkey and needed a representative in Sweden to ensure that judges and civil servants acted in accordance with the laws and with their duties. If they did not do so, the Supreme Ombudsman had the right to prosecute them for negligence.

New comment by gostsamo in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

gostsamo — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:04:10 +0000

You might be interested in that. We have observations of galaxies where dark matter likely is not present.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641057

New comment by gostsamo in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

gostsamo — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:57:42 +0000

Reuters had a material on the topic. The big producers have trading desks that can optimise based on spot prices and redirect tankers as needed.

New comment by gostsamo in "Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security"

gostsamo — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:38:23 +0000

and what if they can use your inverter to destabilize not only your netwrok, but the local grit as well? and how far it can go if sychrnoized with malicious intend?