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New comment by mempko in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

mempko — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:54:50 +0000

Is it? Every time Russia hits civilian infrastructure, it strengthens Ukrainian's resolve. You don't think the same thing will happen in Russia? Nationalism increases in times of war. Did the Iranians revolt against Iran when US hit the school full of children? No, it strengthened people's resolve. The movement Iran had before the war died down and people unified.

We should never celebrate hitting civilian infrastructure. Russia right now is bombing bridges in Kyiv, it's awful.

All wars end with diplomacy or when one side is dead or completely out of resources

New comment by mempko in "Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study"

mempko — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:09:41 +0000

We are in the 6th mass extinction event. Want to feel bad? Look at the numbers of decline in the last 40 years, it's dramatic. Even in my lifetime it's been dramatic.

New comment by mempko in "A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE"

mempko — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:16:36 +0000

I wrote my first programming language compiler on VB6. Yes, a strange thing to create a programming language. VB6 has a special place in my heart.

New comment by mempko in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

mempko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:58:48 +0000

And ironically the average person travels less than 500 years ago. Shocking but true. Evem though technology made traveling easier. The reason is money and urbanization. You now need money to travel when I'm the past you didn't.

New comment by mempko in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

mempko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:48:07 +0000

The distinction is a world wide system of borders we call countries where you need passports to cross. That is distinctly a modern thing. The way countries work now is a distinctly modern thing. Yes, there were always some places that had walls and borders, but never as a world-wide system.

New comment by mempko in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

mempko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:45:09 +0000

Exactly! I have the same experience. Most jews I know are not Zionists and are amazing people. Israel is not about religion, but about ideology as you point out and is deeply illiberal.

New comment by mempko in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

mempko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:23:05 +0000

Wow, has reading comprehension escaped the world? What is different about the passport system compared to the examples you gave? Just think about it for a while.

New comment by mempko in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

mempko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:48:38 +0000

How many people died in Iraq? The country is completely broken. Look what's happening in the latest Iran war.

Israel is committing a genocide and we are their partners in crime.

The fact that the dip is so small for both is more a reflection of the dataset. I mean, Gaza is all but completely destroyed, how can the HDI be that high?

New comment by mempko in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

mempko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:40:40 +0000

What is modern are states like we have now. Passports didn't exist before WW1 for example. The idea that people can't freely move across land and imaginary lines we call borders is a modern idea.

You have it backwards.

New comment by mempko in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

mempko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:03:15 +0000

Does this help you sleep? Rationalization is a coping mechanism.

The Nazis first asked the Jewish people to leave and worked with Zionists to provide incentives for them to leave. 60k left under that law to British Palestine. It wasn't until much later in the war did they start doing mass genocide. It's not like they started with mechanized murder. It starts as ethnic cleansing and ends in genocide.

So don't be proud of "only 50k" and destroying everyones home. Israel is still at committing genocide and things can get much worse. It's not like it's over. 50k is the beginning unless Israel is stopped.

It's frankly disgusting to argue over definitions and words when people are still dieing daily.

This "lawyer" mentality is so dumb.

New comment by mempko in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

mempko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:00:52 +0000

An ethno state is a stupid backwards idea.

EDIT: how is anyone downvoting thos. Who thinks it's a good idea?

New comment by mempko in "Grok 4.7"

mempko — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:03:38 +0000

If he wasn't supporting far right parties, including Trump's all over the world, you would have an argument. But you don't. It's not like he is going around supporting left leaning parties or centrists. It's all far-right for him.

What's silly is people like you defending the richest man in the world who cares nothing about you and your family. Why spend the effort? I don't think he needs your help. And you aren't even getting paid to do it. Sad.

New comment by mempko in "Grok 4.7"

mempko — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:01:38 +0000

Are you ok?

New comment by mempko in "A Million Agents Is a Distributed System Problem"

mempko — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:02:34 +0000

Try mine writing about a similar thing here written by me, a human man: https://blog.mempko.com/misconception-about-agentic-scaling/

I go and explain why adding more agents can slow you down and the model I use including an example of my own setup.

New comment by mempko in "Grok 4.7"

mempko — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:30:50 +0000

I don't know man, Musk doing Nazi salutes doesn't seem that superficial. He did help get Trump in power and also killed a lot of aid to children that need it.

What's superficial about refusing to use a product from someone like that? Or are you one of those 'technology isn't about politics' people? That's a superficial take if you ask me.

All technology is political, and understanding that is a deep, not superficial take. It requires systems thinking which unfortunately many people building technology seem to lack, despite software being a sophisticated complex system.

New comment by mempko in "Grok 4.7"

mempko — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:27:38 +0000

Not sure why you are being downvoted. Until Musk owns up to his Nazi salute, I won't have anything to do with Grok, no matter how good or cheap it is. And yes, we need to keep talking about this because it's absurd.

New comment by mempko in "Grok 4.7"

mempko — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:26:30 +0000

Yes, and that's a bad thing.

New comment by mempko in "Grok 4.7"

mempko — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:25:32 +0000

Until Musk owns up to his Nazi salute, I won't be using Grok, sorry. I don't care how good or cheap it is. And no, I won't stop talking about it either.

Why Adding More AI Agents Makes Your Team Slower

mempko — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:27:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mempko.com/misconception-about-agentic-scaling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537759

Points: 3

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A Million Kakapos

mempko — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:05:14 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mempko.com/a-million-kakapos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523905

Points: 3

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