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New comment by lsaferite in "Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM"

lsaferite — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:16:46 +0000

Considering the fact that the gpui code only exists as a crate under the zed repo, I'd say you are correct.

New comment by lsaferite in "Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop"

lsaferite — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:50:19 +0000

It would be absolutely hilarious to follow up the absurd response with a public records request for all documentation around how they calculated that sum.

New comment by lsaferite in "US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions"

lsaferite — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:51:20 +0000

I mean, they could break it, but the devastation would be immense and then everyone would hate us even more. Getting involved was always a losing strategy.

New comment by lsaferite in "Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered"

lsaferite — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:20:03 +0000

I mean, they detailed *exactly* how it works in the very short article.

New comment by lsaferite in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

lsaferite — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:07:05 +0000

On a recent 3k mile cross-country trip I was shocked to see how prevalent Flock cameras were, even in tiny back-woods locations. I'm fairly certain you cannot drive long distances in the US anymore without Flock having a detailed record of your travels.

New comment by lsaferite in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

lsaferite — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:04:35 +0000

Not to mention, didn't it recently change to first-to-file as well?

New comment by lsaferite in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

lsaferite — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:03:37 +0000

That's exactly what Anthropic was doing for a while.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use

New comment by lsaferite in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

lsaferite — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:10:13 +0000

Given the fact that Taalas was claiming 1/10th the hardware cost and 1/10th the power consumption, yeah, companies would absolutely jump at that. Now, whether they can achieve that in practice is yet to be seen.

New comment by lsaferite in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

lsaferite — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:05:56 +0000

The Taalas chip already had a memory region to keep fine-tune weights.

New comment by lsaferite in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

lsaferite — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:49:09 +0000

You should check into hall effect mechanical keyboards. They can have a floating actuation point for retrigger that is based on detecting press, partial release, press. It's really pretty cool.

New comment by lsaferite in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

lsaferite — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:27:13 +0000

I mean, they can generally re-sleeve a cylinder. Did no one offer that solution?

New comment by lsaferite in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

lsaferite — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:23:56 +0000

Funny that you are comparing Copyrights and Trade Secrets. The monopoly granted on Copyright is predicated on it being published. Trade Secrets, by definition, are not published. Copyright is granted based on the value to the public provided by the author publishing their works. Trade Secrets have no such protection as they are not meant for the public good. They have other protection from theft, but once they are published, there is no protection of the information.

New comment by lsaferite in "Why It's So Hard to Add a Column in the Middle of a PostgreSQL Table"

lsaferite — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:30:04 +0000

I started on Oracle, then spent many years on MySQL, and am now using mostly Postgres. I vastly prefer Postgres over MySQL. Mind you, I haven't really worked with MySQL in a few years now, so it might have improved a lot for all I know. The one thing that initially drew me to Postgres over MySQL was DDL being transactional.

New comment by lsaferite in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

lsaferite — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:45:31 +0000

Taalas claims significant cost, speed, and power differential with running on Nvidia (and similar) hardware. Their whole thesis is that with making the hardware cost less, run faster, and run with less power mixed with their claimed fast production cycle for new weights, companies would plan on purchasing and then relegating the other chips to different workloads at the next update cycle. And the chips have facilities for fine-tunes that can by dynamically loaded. The info I've seen has been very light on details, but if they can even get halfway where they are planning, it'll be a massive shift.

New comment by lsaferite in "Why It's So Hard to Add a Column in the Middle of a PostgreSQL Table"

lsaferite — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:10:25 +0000

Out of curiosity, why do you prefer MySQL over Postgres?

New comment by lsaferite in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

lsaferite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:37:24 +0000

Unfortunately the response to that right now is to nuke everything that isn't within a strict set of constraints. That helps with the bad bulk-scrapers, but hits everyone else as well as collateral damage.

New comment by lsaferite in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

lsaferite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:16:25 +0000

I watch a lot of tech adjacent YT videos mostly. I really haven't heard this being used. So weird the different bubbles we all live in and just don't realize. Is the usage recent or historic? What contexts is it used in? Is it common in American English, British English, or one of the several other groupings?

New comment by lsaferite in "Doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be (2016)"

lsaferite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:13:37 +0000

I don't suppose you recall where you picked it up? I really am curious on this, regardless what all the downvoters happen to think. The linguistics that surface in the training mixed with the system prompts is really interesting. Annoying as well, but still interesting.

New comment by lsaferite in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

lsaferite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:10:45 +0000

I'm curious where you picked it up originally. I've been mystified why Claude started using it so much.

New comment by lsaferite in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

lsaferite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:07:13 +0000

I've never heard the term "load-bearing" used outside of the civil engineering world until the more recent versions of Claude suddenly decided everything was "load-bearing".

Did you internalize Claude terminology, use Claude to write/translate your post, or lead Claude into temptation by being the OG?

Asking out of genuine curiosity and not at all trying to throw shade.