Hacker News: jabberwhookie

New comment by jabberwhookie in "Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers"

jabberwhookie — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:32:31 +0000

> Each rack can hold up to 96 Mac minis,

Sounds like 2 per 1U to me. I think it's power efficiency that limits filling a rack with typical 1U servers in most plans. The power efficiency here is probably not really impressive enough given so many power units, etc.

New comment by jabberwhookie in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

jabberwhookie — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:05:42 +0000

Big pharma might choose to pay full cost to get reasonable speed. To get to a partnership that looks a lot like tenant farming you would need a model that is actually 100X better at drug discovery than any other model, Why would that be OpenAI instead of deepmind? Not that either is likely worth much premium.

Generally, I think only penny stock pharma cares at all to deal with IP with any kind of baggage instead of having already forgotten it in the backlog.

New comment by jabberwhookie in "OpenAI needs to raise $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money"

jabberwhookie — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:22:23 +0000

A cartel of last entrants can create a much smaller debt problem for themselves to ruin anyone who wasted time in the industry until now.

New comment by jabberwhookie in "Demand for UK Food Bank Up 15% Year on Year"

jabberwhookie — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:39:37 +0000

Plenty of social problems are fixed without tackling them head on. The entire concept of the economic advantage of capitalism lifting all boats is an attempt to ignore the details of social problems, accurate justice and all those other annoying details that make it hard to cash in on stealing shared resources. Why fox anything without seeing what the surplus might wash away is not so stupid, but that theory must be lazy?

Your thinking is entirely lazy. You don't want to do something so you need to find a "tough question" and a cheap policy.

Every country needs a next generation and if it isn't getting one it is because it is a miserly society that thinks it can poke and prod parents and still expect them to do all the work that is actually a shared responsibility.

New comment by jabberwhookie in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"

jabberwhookie — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:07:28 +0000

I've always found that cringe to be a strange shibboleth. AFAICT everyone has to summarize with the bay area instead, which I find even more comic having grown up on a coast, aka a bay area.

New comment by jabberwhookie in "Markdown is holding you back"

jabberwhookie — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:02:25 +0000

Being held back is the point.. WYSIWYM is a better ideal than more fonts, but it still tends towards trouble. It is hard enough to get engineers to write and maintain small amounts of correct comments without adding boilerplate metadata. I think everyone on this site is familiar with gripes against Jira but they are supposed to take a brain holiday when evaluating documentation mediums? Who is going to make sure previous and next topic are correct after the addition of a new topic? The great thing about absent fields is that they don't end up with bad content.

New comment by jabberwhookie in "Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS"

jabberwhookie — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:30:23 +0000

You can (mis)use ssh keys for git signing, but GPG on gpg-card and S/MIME on PIV card are the two standards and their respective hardware implementations (for signing keys in general.)

New comment by jabberwhookie in "Netherlands opens fire on suspicious drones near base with US nuclear weapons"

jabberwhookie — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:51:27 +0000

You've made me evacuate my semi-colon.

New comment by jabberwhookie in "Demand for UK Food Bank Up 15% Year on Year"

jabberwhookie — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:06:02 +0000

Your comment is completely patronizing. Every child who needs help has parents who should know better and let's make them suffer.. Not because it is rational or even meets the objectives of the community but because we should be a community that is mean spirited.