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New comment by landl0rd in "GPT-5.5"

landl0rd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:07:49 +0000

There’s been some, but naive activation steering makes models dumber pretty reliably and training an SAE is a pretty heavy lift.

New comment by landl0rd in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

landl0rd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:11:18 +0000

I live in a town with a massive, well-stocked food bank. I don't think anyone is stealing a crust of bread to feed his hungry children.

If I see someone stealing food, yes, I did. It's immoral for you to do otherwise.

New comment by landl0rd in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

landl0rd — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:56:02 +0000

Two people can both be wrong. President Trump also has nothing to do with this unrelated truth claim.

New comment by landl0rd in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

landl0rd — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:43:37 +0000

Wow, maybe Cloudflare can help them secure their systems? I hear they have a pretty good WAF.

New comment by landl0rd in "Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)"

landl0rd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:11:24 +0000

It dates to 2010. It's not any part LLM hallucination.

New comment by landl0rd in "A perfectable programming language"

landl0rd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:01:57 +0000

Imo F* is a much better choice for proof-oriented programming than lean4. The latter is still largely about mathematics while the former has things like https://fstarlang.github.io/lowstar/html/LowStar.html

New comment by landl0rd in "HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X"

landl0rd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:45:58 +0000

At which point twitter will probably yell at you to "verify" with a phone number or something else tied to your government name. Yes you could probably go get a prepaid SIM for cash (depending on your country, many now ban this though America doesn't) but very few people bother with it. Or they just lock your account and demand your ID which I think they now sometimes do.

New comment by landl0rd in "Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#"

landl0rd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:43:15 +0000

I actually really like the CLR developer experience next to java ngl. I reach for C# in lieu of java (less J2EE SingletonBeanFactoryManagerInstance slop) but particularly F# is pretty nice to use. Haskell has bad tooling, OCaml is getting better thanks to JaneStreet (and if OxCaml gets wide adoption unboxed types are a big perf win) but if nothing else lack of a Rider-esque debugger is just a big time sink.

New comment by landl0rd in "Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#"

landl0rd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:40:14 +0000

AOT is a little fussy in real-world usage particularly for things like reflection. You can probably force it to work but it may make your code much uglier.

Span is more important for performance TBH JIT warmup isn't a huge issue for a long-running process

New comment by landl0rd in "HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X"

landl0rd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:37:05 +0000

Twitter has IP addresses at the very least. HBO will then subpoena the account's ISP. If the account had the checkmark pro plan or whatever it's called, it may have or be able to obtain legal name and address for payment details, or its payment processor (Stripe I think) would.

New comment by landl0rd in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

landl0rd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:31:21 +0000

No, if I kidnap someone it's kidnapping. If the police based on probable cause receive and execute a warrant for someone's arrest, it's an arrest. This is how the state monopoly on violence works.

New comment by landl0rd in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

landl0rd — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:28:05 +0000

There's a very cold-blooded but good reason why a nation rationally should use men as cannon fodder before women: they are more expendable in terms of reproduction. You need fewer men relative to women. Also, societies with more men than women tend to be unstable and high-crime and whatnot. Societies with more women than men survive a bit better.

New comment by landl0rd in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

landl0rd — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:21:36 +0000

You can't have a country that doesn't have conscription in time of war. For example if Russia were to attack which is unlikely but plausible. I don't like conscription at all and it's necessary but still an evil.

New comment by landl0rd in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

landl0rd — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:58:11 +0000

The "kompromat" is the world's largest nuclear arsenal, some five thousand and change warheads, along with a delivery system that includes an HGV MIRV payload that can deliver a multi-megaton warhead at ~mach 20-something.

New comment by landl0rd in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

landl0rd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:25:49 +0000

This headline is false; it will not go take your private repos and dump them into a training dataset. Rather, GitHub will train on your copilot interactions with your private repos. If you do not use copilot, this makes no difference to you, though you should probably still turn it off.

New comment by landl0rd in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

landl0rd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:08:29 +0000

How much capital would you invest in a capacity expansion for a trend that may or may not yet be durable? Now, how much would you invest when there are two major state-backed chinese entities that essentially aren't allowed to go bankrupt and have infinity money are competing with you?

New comment by landl0rd in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

landl0rd — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:50:51 +0000

Well, it's not that simple. It's reasonable to expect that you could see some increased level of oxidative and excitotoxicity. It's harder to draw a bright line around the dopaminergic system specifically because some level of neuronal death is expected over the course of a lifetime. We lose 5-10% starting with middle age yet don't tend to show parkinsonian symptoms until 60-80% are gone.

It's pretty reasonable to expect reversing DAT and inhibiting VMAT2 increases oxidative flux, the question is really how much not if. Methheads certainly get "brain damage", but is nudging the average loss from 5-10% to 7-12% "damage"? Is it meaningful? Over 30, 40 years that could very well add up.

New comment by landl0rd in "Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026"

landl0rd — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:40:17 +0000

My gas was $3.09/gal this morning

Still too expensive but not exactly going to bankrupt me.

New comment by landl0rd in "Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun"

landl0rd — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:33:48 +0000

Is there an examples section? Would be helpful to see a demo

New comment by landl0rd in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

landl0rd — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:10:08 +0000

My suspicion is that WFH/remote living doesn't increase fertility so much as pulling it forward. I.e. those who will have children already have them sooner and may be more likely to have the marginal child. Those who are single are probably likely to have fewer children and have them older.

This is a pretty terrible distributional effect, all things considered.