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New comment by gregorygoc in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

gregorygoc — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:20:26 +0000

FUD

New comment by gregorygoc in "Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically"

gregorygoc — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:18:21 +0000

How is this different from AlphaEvolve?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaEvolve

New comment by gregorygoc in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

gregorygoc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:55:43 +0000

I agree. Parent comment is making extremely generalized statements, about German cars with overconfidence. There’s not a single “German” car, it’s a huge ecosystem of brands like VW (Audi, Porsche), BMW, Mercedes. I’m quite sure they don’t have the single “user-hostile” interface.

New comment by gregorygoc in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

gregorygoc — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:53:30 +0000

> In the PISA exam, white American kids outperform kids in Hong Kong and Korea, as well as western european kids of non-immigrant ancestry.

Translation: rich kids have better access to top education in America. Got it.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

gregorygoc — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:08:27 +0000

What’s so shitty about it?

New comment by gregorygoc in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

gregorygoc — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:05:07 +0000

Stop whining

New comment by gregorygoc in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"

gregorygoc — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:19:16 +0000

They are not lies.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide"

gregorygoc — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:16:52 +0000

I’m Polish, I don’t have to hide anything.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide"

gregorygoc — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:39:35 +0000

Wrong assumption, it’s been that way long before the energy crisis started.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide"

gregorygoc — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:38:12 +0000

It’s in the valley and because Polish state is kinda weak they cannot enforce nearby villages to stop burning garbage to heat their homes.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

gregorygoc — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:48:56 +0000

Exactly, seriously complaining about the fact that the system is designed to run on time rather than trickle down delays is beyond me.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

gregorygoc — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:47:09 +0000

Complaining about Swiss trains is beyond me.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

gregorygoc — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:44:15 +0000

Swiss trains are run by a national company and they’re great.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Hashed sorting is typically faster than hash tables"

gregorygoc — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:44:27 +0000

> For small values of N, log(N) is essentially a constant, <= 32, so we can just disregard it, making sorting simply O(N). For large values, even so-called linear algorithms (e.g. linear search) are actually O(N log(N)), as the storage requirements for a single element grow with log(N) (i.e. to store distinct N=2^32 elements, you need N log(N) = 2^32 * 32 bits, but to store N=2^64 elements, you need 2^64 * 64 bits).

How can I unread this?

New comment by gregorygoc in "Trade in War"

gregorygoc — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:00:48 +0000

I’m obviously operating within the assumption that Switzerland would follow EU regulations. So no chloride chicken. I agree with beef, much needs to be done. But… bells attached to cows are considered as torture.

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/inspiration/ski-holiday/endl...

New comment by gregorygoc in "Trade in War"

gregorygoc — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:43:15 +0000

Products are not higher quality… the only thing these tariffs accomplish is basically they allow agriculture industry to do the things the old way. Keep status quo, aka remain extremely uncompetitive and unproductive.

If Switzerland opened to EU competition then they would’ve seen multi store farming like in Netherlands. Subsidies would fare better.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Trade in War"

gregorygoc — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:40:01 +0000

DE is still cheaper for some products but not by much. I have no idea how do they manage there since salaries are like 2x less.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management"

gregorygoc — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:33:27 +0000

For the right set of requirements I can fix bugs in my system with significantly less effort, than rewriting a system which was built with wrong assumptions to begin with.

Again, wrong analogy. I don’t demand perfect analogies though. Treat this as rather charitable gesture.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management"

gregorygoc — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:43:03 +0000

Any efficiency gains which come from cleaner organization structure are gone because of the lossy translation mechanism between a PM and Eng team. You can argue that good PMs translate requirements perfectly, but this is a rare skill and I’m just saying I’ve never seen it from someone in this role. Perceived enjoyment of one’s role is a separate topic, but not completely orthogonal. If someone just wants to code and they force them to be a PM then their personal productivity might drop. This is why I asserted in the beginning I’m talking about feature teams, where a role fit I described is more likely.

As engineering becomes less expensive with generative models I can imagine efficiency tilts even further in favor of engineers doing more PM-like work.

New comment by gregorygoc in "Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management"

gregorygoc — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:40:15 +0000

What is so arrogant in expressing first-hand experiences?