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New comment by indoordin0saur in "The Aperiodic Table"

indoordin0saur — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:56:22 +0000

> but the periods change as you move down the table

Sounds like the periodic table is already aperiodic.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

indoordin0saur — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:05:01 +0000

It's even farther along than you think. It's the one writing the comments you're responding to. So why are you still thinking up and typing out your HN comments?

New comment by indoordin0saur in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

indoordin0saur — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:37:56 +0000

Write your code by hand, but AI still serves as something of a stack overflow and code completion tool. Also good for writing tedious things like regex or little one-off utility scripts as well as a first crack at unit tests. Using it to actually write big blocks of important code is a no-no in my opinion as it produces what I would characterize as slop, even if it technically works.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "xAI Is Reportedly Using Just 11% of Its 550k Nvidia GPUs"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:00:49 +0000

I've actually found it to be very good, as good as the other big models. Which version did you most recently use and for what purpose?

New comment by indoordin0saur in "Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:26:18 +0000

Went there in 2012 and then again last year. It's wild how quickly it's changed. IMO, Japan is a very special place and it's sad to see that it's having the same problems as the rest of the first world.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "EFF is leaving X"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:04:47 +0000

On this Instagram is far worse than X. Yeah, their suggested content rarely is the sort of thing that offends delicate sensibilities, but it is generally irrelevant slop and Meta always seems to be conspiring to trap you in it, giving you few options to remove it from your feed.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "EFF is leaving X"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:33:11 +0000

The current electronic frontier is AI and X is the place where high level AI researchers, developers, influencers and users converse. IDK where else has more of the intellectual discourse on AI. Definitely not the likes of instagram or TikTok. Sure, those platforms are more censored and kid friendly, but I don't think that's really who the EFF should be focusing on as their audience.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "EFF is leaving X"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:38:58 +0000

Those concerns have evolved away from their original mission. Not an unusual situation for organizations like this as a they shrink and lose relevance.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "SpaceX files to go public"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:30:37 +0000

So basically we don't have full self driving, not because it doesn't work but because the regulators haven't approved it yet? Seems a little misleading to claim this is some failure on the part of Tesla's technology

New comment by indoordin0saur in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:28:40 +0000

I think you completely missed the point about the Chinese Room. The assertion wasn't that machines can't think or compute, but that they don't necessarily have any experience of the thing they are computing. We still have not the faintest idea where consciousness comes from and the Chinese Room thought experiment I think demonstrates this.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

indoordin0saur — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:36:49 +0000

The 2nm claim is all marketing. The smallest features on these gates is much larger. For example, the gate pitch (what this measure used to refer to) on the 2nm process is actually 45 nanometers.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

indoordin0saur — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:17:19 +0000

"They're made out of wires!"

"Oh god, you're right! They're all just tiny pieces of rubber and silicon, transistors and circuits all crammed chaotically together! How horrifying!"

New comment by indoordin0saur in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

indoordin0saur — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:13:57 +0000

> This story is obviously satire.

Is it though? What is it satirizing? Is it satirizing the idea of water and carbon based life? How does that tell any truth?

New comment by indoordin0saur in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

indoordin0saur — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:09:19 +0000

I think this story is tacky and doesn't really make sense. Do they already know what meat is? And if so, why do they act surprised when they find that lifeforms are "made" of it? Why even do they have an opinion on "meat"?

I find it good for a chuckle perhaps but there's nothing profound in here.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "SpaceX files to go public"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:16:18 +0000

The last few were but they were all in regards to this front page news story

New comment by indoordin0saur in "SpaceX files to go public"

indoordin0saur — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:09:58 +0000

They decay out of orbit by design

New comment by indoordin0saur in "SpaceX files to go public"

indoordin0saur — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:55:08 +0000

SpaceX has reduced the cost of getting a ton of mass into orbit by a factor of 10 and with their new system (Starship) it's poised further reduce that to 100x. They launch, land and re-use their rockets so often now that what was considered impossible 15 years ago is now routine. They currently put more things into space than the rest of the world combined and by a huge margin. They also have the most advanced internet infrastructure in the world and are poised to replace legacy ISPs and even mobile carriers in the coming decade. Oh, and they're doing all this while making a profit ($16B last year) despite their massive R&D spending and even with the money sink that is xAI their profits will be higher this year. It's hard to say that this isn't one of the most innovative and fast moving companies in the world. $1.75T maybe seems excessive, but less so than a lot of other companies out there.

New comment by indoordin0saur in "SpaceX files to go public"

indoordin0saur — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:44:30 +0000

1.) All the image generation models will do that, xAI is just the one that caught flak for it

2.) SpaceX made $16B in profit last year, despite its enormous R&D costs and is on track for $20B this year, despite the losses from AI. People still wise to invest in Google despite their AI business still being a huge loss

New comment by indoordin0saur in "SpaceX files to go public"

indoordin0saur — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:38:29 +0000

How is this false opinion so common? I use self-driving regularly it has always worked more or less flawlessly

New comment by indoordin0saur in "SpaceX files to go public"

indoordin0saur — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:36:06 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember stage 1 being maybe 2011. There were plenty of Musk critics back then, as there are now, but they seemed to have been completely wrong on pretty much everything. I remember people saying he was a charlatan whose technology would never work and even if it did it would never get mainstream market penetration. I feel like you would have smugly chuckled if anyone told you the following things that are true:

1.) Tesla cars will be ubiquitous on American roads

2.) The best selling model of car globally would be a Tesla

3.) Most cars would be made in the US, yet still be price competitive with foreign competition

4.) SpaceX rockets would be re-used multiple times per week

5.) SpaceX's launch business is highly profitable despite lowering prices to less than 10% of what they used to be

6.) SpaceX launches more mass to orbit than the rest of the world combined