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New comment by legulere in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

legulere — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:46:27 +0000

A new technology being able to do something better than humans does not mean it’s intelligent though. A calculation program is not intelligent just because it can remember more digits than me, work more than me

New comment by legulere in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

legulere — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:26:10 +0000

Depends on the false-positive rate of the test. With a high false-positive rate testing a lot of people leads to a lot of unnecessary treatment

New comment by legulere in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

legulere — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:57:40 +0000

The problem is that the grid can’t get built out fast enough. You’ll probably see most AI data centers switch to grid power in the coming years using mostly wind and solar because it’s simply cheaper as well

New comment by legulere in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

legulere — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:59:47 +0000

No, Germany imports massive amounts of fossil fuels. Renewables and electrification help reduce that. Electricity-wise Germany is a net exporter again

New comment by legulere in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

legulere — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:57:06 +0000

There are indeed bidding zones in Europe. France is one bidding zone and Germany and Luxembourg is another one. Market prices are indeed pretty comparable.

Taxation and cost for the net are very different with a higher price for the connection in France and a higher price per kWh in Germany. In the end for a normal use of electricity the prices are very comparable.

New comment by legulere in "Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer"

legulere — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:18:17 +0000

The actual article explaining the use for fountain codes in this use case: https://divan.dev/posts/fountaincodes/

New comment by legulere in "The only road in London where you have to drive on the right"

legulere — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:55:55 +0000

An inch is 1/36 yd or 1/12 ft or 6 pica or 72 pt. There is no power of two whatsoever in this.

New comment by legulere in "The only road in London where you have to drive on the right"

legulere — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:19:10 +0000

With imperial you have weird fractions instead of decimals. To know that 3/4“ is larger than 1/2“ I have to actively think, decimals come pretty naturally (which was probably different in times before people went to school and learned to do math on paper)

New comment by legulere in "The only road in London where you have to drive on the right"

legulere — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:15:08 +0000

There are enough standards that don’t have non-metric alternatives like the square drive of socket wrenches or a lot of bicycle standards. It’s very unlikely that they will get replaced

New comment by legulere in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

legulere — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:38:36 +0000

Microsoft is in the same situation as IBM decades ago. „ nobody ever got fired for buying IBM“ used to be a common saying. If at all you’ll see a slow decline.

New comment by legulere in "The Lindy effect in software"

legulere — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:41:13 +0000

I really like the concept of novelty budget: keep most parts boring and use new stuff only where you can gain an advantage from it.

New comment by legulere in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

legulere — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:30:06 +0000

> in just under one hour.

I wonder what the survivorship bias is though. How many other problems did they try but fail? Did they try to solve this problem but with another prompt? Still very impressive though.

New comment by legulere in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

legulere — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:41:56 +0000

You need to write some unsafe code in a kernel, but most of the code does not have to be, which allows you to eliminate memory unsafety from almost all code and give more scrutiny to the parts the compiler cannot guarantee for you. I don’t know though if the affected code in openbsd would have needed to be unsafe. Moving towards rust is a possible way for kernels as Linux has shown, but I guess for OpenBSD the pros and cons are different, as it’s striving for a more minimal system and has been affected far less by memory unsafety issues.

New comment by legulere in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

legulere — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:48:46 +0000

I guess the problem is with the price of the sensors. Just look how expensive the Aranet 4 home shown in article is. There are worse devices for less like the IKEA alpstuga. I also don’t know how much electricity they pull.

New comment by legulere in "Austria Lobbies EU to Host Anthropic After US Access Curbs"

legulere — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:56:10 +0000

You can build gas power plants on site at your data center and don’t have to wait for the grid to be upgraded. In the long run gas will be replaced by cheaper renewables

New comment by legulere in "Dallas Fed: 30% of housing cost increase driven by unauthorized immigration [pdf]"

legulere — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:19:17 +0000

Housing suffers from being based on a naturally scarce resource land. Markets drive prices higher but new land cannot be created

New comment by legulere in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

legulere — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:03:21 +0000

Part of Elon Musks strategy seems to sell some kind of hype that does not materialise or at least won't for long (Mars, autonomous Cars) The vast amounts of money collected are then used to develop products that are still a significant progress in its market. Now AI is where all the hype is. It's difficult to sell some hype without AI currently.

New comment by legulere in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

legulere — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:29:53 +0000

It generates tokens by estimating what the next token is going to be.

Sure it cannot think like a human, but given it's input, it should give a good statistical answer (approximating not of how long it actually takes, but what a human would say how long it takes).

New comment by legulere in "US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate"

legulere — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:16:45 +0000

The Chinese Government isn't like Russia where power is mostly legitimised by having power, like the law of the jungle. A big part of its legitimacy is from economic growth and lifting people out of poverty.

New comment by legulere in "Improving C# Memory Safety"

legulere — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:53:01 +0000

The examples in Clean Code show that Uncle Bob himself misunderstood heuristics as strict rules that are to be taken to the extreme. There's nothing to not misunderstand.