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New comment by grg0 in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

grg0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:24:08 +0000

I dropped dead after reading this.

New comment by grg0 in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

grg0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:07:50 +0000

That claim doesn't stand a chance? It's obviously non-linear; once you're really up there in the higher echelons of wealth, I'm sure you get a lot of time back.

New comment by grg0 in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

grg0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:04:52 +0000

I don't know but I'm feeling for this guy right now.

New comment by grg0 in "OpenJDK: Panama"

grg0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:11:37 +0000

They are doing something new in the language -> innovating.

JNI was always the wrong way to do FFI. FFI should require no changes or wrappers in the native code; anything short of that is unnecessary and inefficient. Yet, somehow, in Java land, this is still the norm in 2026?

I'd really want to love Java, but man, it has a long laundry list of warts and a near-zero pace of innovation.

New comment by grg0 in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

grg0 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:49:32 +0000

Ho-lee smokes is that Speedtest screenshot even real? Have some mercy for those of us in third-world infrastructure (US).

New comment by grg0 in "OpenJDK: Panama"

grg0 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:44:49 +0000

I love it how Java is "innovating" by catching up to things that other programming languages have had for three decades.

New comment by grg0 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

grg0 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:40:41 +0000

I flagged the post, don't even care how accurate it is. Go send your AI slop to /dev/null, folks.

New comment by grg0 in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

grg0 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:49:39 +0000

There are no AIs here, only gains.

New comment by grg0 in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

grg0 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:44:41 +0000

I meant Celsius, a popular energy drink in the US, but more generally that and the processed foods people take in for some supposed performance gains.

New comment by grg0 in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

grg0 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:42:27 +0000

Corrected, thank you.

New comment by grg0 in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

grg0 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:39:46 +0000

This is why I tell my gym bros that they should quit all that Celsius garbage and stick to the basics. You should measure your gut health by the quality of your feces (consistency, texture, colour, shape), and then your muscles and rest of your body will thank you. This research is evidence of that. The science is still catching up.

New comment by grg0 in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

grg0 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:25:00 +0000

I'm no musician, but it sounds like trying to understand human psychology by studying the brain, or cells by studying physics, or the colony by isolating a single ant. Answer: no. It's the idea of emergent phenomena not being reducible to its parts.

New comment by grg0 in "Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?"

grg0 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:38:01 +0000

The real meat from the article: https://dev.to/dkechag/how-geekbench-6-multicore-is-broken-b...

First plot really says it all.

New comment by grg0 in "Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds"

grg0 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:48:44 +0000

Here we go!

New comment by grg0 in "Rats filmed snatching bats from air"

grg0 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:12:53 +0000

Rough life inside a cave.

New comment by grg0 in "Foods that make you smell more attractive"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:15:29 +0000

Sounds like another win for my gym bros. The science is still catching up.

New comment by grg0 in "Writing FreeDOS Programs in C"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:25:43 +0000

From the soydev extension.

New comment by grg0 in "Writing FreeDOS Programs in C"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:24:06 +0000

That had not occurred to me and I'm also not sure. FreeDOS was able to boot just fine into the live environment. It was the disk part that failed.

New comment by grg0 in "Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:56:09 +0000

Next: Palantir thinks high school might be a waste of time, so they are hiring middle schoolers.

Wait...

New comment by grg0 in "Writing FreeDOS Programs in C"

grg0 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 16:28:59 +0000

I have it on my to-do list to install FreeDOS on bare metal to set up a retro gaming box. Tried once, but for some reason the installer failed writing to disk. Anyway, if anyone is making new FreeDOS games, I'll gladly pay for them, and it'll give me an excuse to go down that avenue again.