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New comment by guiriduro in "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections"

guiriduro — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:00:05 +0000

For a critical thinking exam, you should be able to show that you can decipher political gobledegook, identify lies and platitiudes, strawman arguments etc(there would be much less of it anyway as in a restricted franchise very few with votes would be swayed by it, which is the point.)

Non-evilness would be shown by answering questions designed to test basic empathy, and also by the lack of recent recorded crimes or misdemenours.

New comment by guiriduro in "Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections"

guiriduro — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:48:52 +0000

The diagnosis I largely agree with. To the point I no longer identify as a (small-d) democrat, it is the tyrrany of the mob's choice of (usually reprehensible) representative, who will have lied and pacted with corrupt elites to obtain his/her position, and been nominally elected by the ignorant. Anyone who wants power should by that fact be excluded. The solution however (lottery-election) is absurd. We should instead restrict the franchise by exam to provably non-ignorant, non-evil critical thinkers so that we get representatives who are non-sociopaths that we can respect.

New comment by guiriduro in "Apriel-H1: Towards Efficient Enterprise Reasoning Models"

guiriduro — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:09:18 +0000

Apriel-H1-15b-Thinker-SFT uses incremental distillation from Apriel-Nemotron-15B-Thinker, selectively replacing less critical attention layers with linear Mamba blocks to reduce computational complexity while preserving reasoning quality.

Apriel-H1: Towards Efficient Enterprise Reasoning Models

guiriduro — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:09:18 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02651

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299767

Points: 1

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New comment by guiriduro in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

guiriduro — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:00:56 +0000

That's exactly the point (ie just prior to distribution) where a simple sanity check should have been run and the config replacement/update pipeline stopped on failure. When they introduced the 200 entry limit memory optimised feature loader it should have been a no-brainer to insert that sanity check in the config production pipeline.

New comment by guiriduro in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

guiriduro — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:21:27 +0000

Come come now. Elon has built Tesla on something closer to $38bn of taxpayer largesse/avoidance according to the Washington Post.0 I doubt many people would fail to create public entities with healthy casino ponzi stock trading if they had umpteen billion $ of govt funny money propping them up. Hell they might even start a rocket business as a sideline...

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/e...

New comment by guiriduro in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

guiriduro — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:25:42 +0000

Don't need to. Would it be a big deal to hop on a plane to e.g. Switzerland once a year?

New comment by guiriduro in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

guiriduro — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:23:20 +0000

No. It would be run by a US affiliate using the Microsoft brand, paying royalties to a global company in some other jurisdiction.

New comment by guiriduro in "ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk"

guiriduro — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:57:21 +0000

MS could always refocus themselves as a global company (in the legal rather than marketing-only sense), and move their HQ out of the US, then there could be no Trump tantrums affecting other countries, the worse that could happen would be some sanctions on what would then be their in-country US affiliate, with no ability to affect their other global operations whatsoever. Why haven't they followed this approach? Haven't lost enough customers yet?

New comment by guiriduro in "AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process"

guiriduro — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:18:08 +0000

Its pretty decent. Decent enough in fact that I can run a Windows 11 ARM install on vmware Fusion on my macbook m4 pro, and it will happily run win arm and x86 binaries (via builtin MS x86 emulation) decently fast and without complaint (we're talking apps, gaming I haven't tried.)

New comment by guiriduro in "Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales"

guiriduro — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:09:14 +0000

I decided a Macbook pro M4 pro was the right option for me, 48gb/36 accessible to the gpus with very decent tokens/s throughput for (increasingly impressive) offline midrange open LLM inference and huge battery life. Nothing in the windows world to touch it. But a few windows-only bits of software I occasionally use now run very happily in a Windows 11 arm vm on a free VMware fusion 25H2 on my mac, with a 5 dollar win oem license.

New comment by guiriduro in "AI is not killing jobs, US study finds"

guiriduro — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:35:39 +0000

https://archive.is/54LhN for the ft article.

New comment by guiriduro in "UK government underwriting £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack"

guiriduro — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:38:01 +0000

The Landrover side is clearly doing work, even if the Jaguar part was doing poorly before this. There are a lot of suppliers also that end up having to furlough if their main client shuts down. And there are second order effects on local economies when that happens, and therefore on HMRC. And you also don't want to lose engineering skills that might be needed for e.g. military crossgrades/upscales. Ultimately its better to have that continue than not, but I also believe the consequences should be significant on the mismanaging equity holders, esp. Tata, and potentially beneficial for taxpayers longer term, which reduces the moral hazard aspect for a better overall solution.

New comment by guiriduro in "A proposal to add GC-less, unmanaged memory spaces to C#"

guiriduro — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:03:31 +0000

Forgive my relative inexperience as a newcomer to C#, but doesn't it already provide things like stackalloc, Span and unsafe for these things?

New comment by guiriduro in "A proposal to add GC-less, unmanaged memory spaces to C#"

guiriduro — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:25:20 +0000

> It looks like a process model; isolation between programs with a system for inter-process communication, and running within a single process's memory.

Which is better handled by existing mature and simpler abstractions from the actor model, like Akka.net, or maybe Orleans.

New comment by guiriduro in "UK government underwriting £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack"

guiriduro — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:07:25 +0000

I'm divided, a lot of people internally and from suppliers depend on them for work. Equally they are majority owned by an indian company (Tata) now that also mandated they use their useless in-group IT outsourcer whose secrity appears to be pretty lax. In the end I'd say the govt should make the condition for a loan that they dilute out much of the equity holders / share out the loss - in order for them to step in and prevent a total loss, and so the taxpayer gets some longer term contingent benefit.

New comment by guiriduro in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

guiriduro — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:11:33 +0000

Two things about backdoor layoffs. Mostly its about who. When its corporate dictat, those most likely to leave are those with other options, ie the best talent. So sure a business might save on severances in aggregate, but it doesn't get to decide on who, but simple statistics show it will be the best who move on. So a demoralised and increasingly mediocre workforce is then faced with a much tougher hiring environment with unfillable positions and the downward cycle continues, destroying customer value and reputation to a far greater degree than any temporary layoff savings. All for what exactly, control? Its the C-suites that should be being marched out the door.

New comment by guiriduro in "Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language"

guiriduro — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:24:04 +0000

The .NET ecosystem itself has another mature actor-based framework in Akka.NET, being probably closest to the Erlang/Elixir supervisor style, in C#/F#.

New comment by guiriduro in "Making Postgres slower"

guiriduro — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:08:58 +0000

Yup that's a variation of the general 'deliver a hugely inefficient solution first, then iterate' tactic. Keeps multiple people employed much longer than a little (debatably) "premature" optimisation ahead of time, keep delivering benefits QoQ (that could have been delivered sooner, but whatever...), keep managers happy.

New comment by guiriduro in "CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians"

guiriduro — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:12:15 +0000

Maybe the problem is the MBAs and letting them run your company? Surely AI could do a better job than most MBAs? The knowledge requirement is lower, the reasoning and analytical capability lower, just learn a few frameworks and glib vacuous McKinsey-speak, have an AI produce those meaningless powerpoints instead of expensive suits if the C-suite really needs to see it (also candidates for replacement), then instead invest in your IT staffing with local culture that understands the business and its customers and which has a tangible benefit.