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New comment by justsid in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

justsid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:14:40 +0000

It’s a company that turns plants into meat like substance. There is no plant that grows like this, of course it has to be processed to get from its original form to the new form.

Likewise, not all processing is bad. Cooking food is a form of processing and just makes the nutrients much more easy to digest.

New comment by justsid in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

justsid — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:30:55 +0000

Missiles are a lot more expensive and much less reusable than goons though. If the nation state can’t afford the goons, it can’t afford to missile you either

New comment by justsid in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

justsid — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:42:38 +0000

I definitely assumed they were encrypted separately in 2048 vote chunks and that one such chunk failed to decrypt.

New comment by justsid in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

justsid — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:23:16 +0000

The coat asymmetry with drones is crazy, they are stupid cheap to deploy on a nation state level. I feel like it’s going to be years until we fully learn the lessons from the Ukraine Russia war.

New comment by justsid in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

justsid — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:17:40 +0000

Absolutely, but they are not losing a billion+ in EUV machines with year+ lead times in a flood. It'll hurt for sure though and doesn't appear to be the smartest overall move.

New comment by justsid in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

justsid — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:42:24 +0000

They are not fabbing the chips there, just assembling the machines.

New comment by justsid in "Our approach to advertising"

justsid — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:13:16 +0000

As a youtube premium subscriber I don’t care if youtube earns more money this way than via ads. I simply don’t want to see ads.

New comment by justsid in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

justsid — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:29:52 +0000

That was my first thought as well, especially given the accusation of code of conduct violation. Not that I think that Adafruit is perfect no matter what, but I would have been shocked if this turned out to be true as stated.

New comment by justsid in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

justsid — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:30:35 +0000

Isn’t the real problem that the new menu somehow can’t show the missing entries of the old one but with its new coat of paint? It’s all data, why can one of them not display the old data?

New comment by justsid in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

justsid — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:25:13 +0000

Especially with the username. The reply felt like pure sarcasm.

New comment by justsid in "Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases"

justsid — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:31:53 +0000

That’s the joke

New comment by justsid in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

justsid — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:46:52 +0000

Yeah Gitlab is a pig, but that’s what I meant with you can throw hardware at the problem. I’ve been meaning to check out Codeberg for personal project hosting since it seems to address the shortcomings of gitea

New comment by justsid in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

justsid — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:47:07 +0000

Gitea scales really badly with large repos in my experience. Gitlab works a lot better mostly because you can just throw more hardware at it. This is with a pretty large git repo and a lot of daily commits.

New comment by justsid in "AMD GPU Debugger"

justsid — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:40:12 +0000

RenderDoc is mostly a frame debugger, although it does support stepping through shaders as well which can be super useful. But for real performance analysis I would use PIX if you target D3D12 or RGP and Nsight for Vulkan. I'm at a Vulkan and Metal only shop and I wish I could use PIX for my every day work, since it also has excellent support for Intel GPUs.

New comment by justsid in "AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service"

justsid — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:21:56 +0000

I think people generally think AI should be good at math because it runs on a very complex and very fast calculator to begin with.

New comment by justsid in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

justsid — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:17:51 +0000

Yes, planes are designed to be able to take off with a lost engine. Usually this will extend the roll a bit because the speeds are different for engine out operations. This isn't the first MD-11 with an engine out take off, 5 years ago a FedEx MD-11 took off with a failure in the left engine[1]. Slightly different case, obviously, but it's certainly something that is accounted for when designing planes.

[1] https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4dfd50b9&opt=0%20

New comment by justsid in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

justsid — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:29:01 +0000

The damage on the ground is scary to look at. I think the only silver lining here is that it was "just" a sparser industrial area and there weren't any homes. I'm really curious about what the investigation will reveal in a few months. This doesn't look like a "regular" engine fire from a bird strike or so, you would normally expect the flames to come out the back and not over the wing. And at least in theory the MD-11 should be flyable with just two engines, although flames on a wing is probably "really really bad" just by itself already. Too early to speculate about what happened though.

New comment by justsid in "Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings"

justsid — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:05:19 +0000

That's not how any of this is sold though. Google did a lot of fundamental research quite publicly in this space for many years, and people were generally quite favourable of this and didn't ask to see insane revenue from it (yet). But Microsoft is not doing that, not even by proxy of funding OpenAI. They are selling it as the greatest business thing ever, so where are the numbers to back that?

New comment by justsid in "Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe"

justsid — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:56:26 +0000

The resources are there in crazy abundance. But we will never get to them, the scale of the universe is unfathomable. Even at the speed of causality, human lifespans are simply not a match to the distances involved. And that implies we can somehow accelerate any real amounts of mass to those kinds of speeds which is already a non starter.

Our species was born on this rock and it will perish on this rock. And it will have no impact on anything even within our star system, let alone this galaxy.

The sentiment that the universe is our home is a nice one, but it’s not true at all. Existential crisis is the only reasonable thing here, at least from the lens of human existence.

New comment by justsid in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

justsid — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:38:01 +0000

And then that script gets processed on hundreds of GPUs in the cloud and the video gets streamed to the client. Wait.