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New comment by mistrial9 in "Court Records Should Be Free"

mistrial9 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:50:03 +0000

other extreme case, California, where electricity costs are a large multiple of US averages, and the utility company owns military equipment. PG&E + minions monitor every connection, and charge to connect to the grid. High quality solar cannot be connected to the grid by regulation, not law, unless supervised by PG&E and minions. Naturally the regulations de facto equate to a monthly bill in a certain non-free range, no matter how much effort the client site makes.

New comment by mistrial9 in "From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access"

mistrial9 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:16:54 +0000

this is how power politics works? There is a massive, population wide complaint.. something that annoys or damages many, many people. Politics waits, studies, private meetings .. of course there are business who are making money actively, perhaps making money very actively.. they meet with the politicians.. activated individuals form some kind of complaining platform but lack funding and force.. the problems' damage increase.. Then, there are the enforcement groups. The courts, their financial interests, and the worldview. "Everyone must show ID (insert preferred ID)" We must have records for the enforcement. We require the ability to verify.

There are some people, many in uniform, who have already accepted the covenant that their actions are recorded and monitored each day. What do you have to hide? they ask rhetorically

Then the politics. Use the mass aggreavement, and accomplish the goals of the enforcement groups. Use the need to fix, to implement the rule, despite the protest and despite the civil liberties views. The politics needs the damage to push the unwanted changes. See also big business for a window into this.

Many parties have already heard (for thirty+ years?) that "freedom" builds a vigorous communications network. But now, this is different. These will be the rules (insert Law) and We will Enforce them (insert paid by taxes bureaucracies, and paid by penalties enforcements).

New comment by mistrial9 in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

mistrial9 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:14:19 +0000

those that know, do not talk?

New comment by mistrial9 in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

mistrial9 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:01:20 +0000

> The failure of the environment movements over the last 60 years are proof

superficial and incorrect

New comment by mistrial9 in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

mistrial9 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:16:47 +0000

the reply here is .. any software can really perform badly.. it takes some effort to not perform badly. the default gravity is to be buggy and bad performance. The parent-post is right there are hundreds of small parts and they all have to do well to accomplish "live video and audio across half the globe"

New comment by mistrial9 in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

mistrial9 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:09:24 +0000

> officials in Denmark and the Netherlands have similarly expressed a desire to uncouple from the US-based software group

oh that is clever writing

New comment by mistrial9 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

mistrial9 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:30:54 +0000

Isn't true that a collection of truly difficult behavior was also attracted to the original efforts, and within a few years there was intractable corruption in that, but it was difficult to detect as a new entrant?

real info welcome as I really do not claim to know it

New comment by mistrial9 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

mistrial9 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:26:43 +0000

"bad people" ?

New comment by mistrial9 in "Show HN: Breathe CLI – Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal"

mistrial9 — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:54:37 +0000

this book is somewhat useful

https://archive.org/details/etaq_light-on-pranayama-b-k-s-iy...

New comment by mistrial9 in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

mistrial9 — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:46:03 +0000

this argument is weakened by welding large bulky statements together.. IMO each part there is a tip of a dynamic-systems-iceburg. "He just does THIS" and "that is THIS" ... the short form medium kills inquiry.

A studied person once admonished me "avoid the word IS when comparing systems in the abstract"

New comment by mistrial9 in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

mistrial9 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:15:32 +0000

I believe that your individual ability to execute an order is constrained such that some of the difference is removed. On the other hand, the overall thesis has merits IMHO

New comment by mistrial9 in "Digital identity management in Norway is a success but also a disaster"

mistrial9 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:13:49 +0000

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

New comment by mistrial9 in "Digital identity management in Norway is a success but also a disaster"

mistrial9 — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:59:34 +0000

> average Nordic Baltic person

there is no average person, it is a myth of statistics.

New comment by mistrial9 in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

mistrial9 — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:57:01 +0000

you might be surprised if you take this approach.. give key words and phrases in small amounts, each sentence of a prompt building on a previous sentence. Take a an example that is not very hard, like Lewis Carrol Alice in Wonderland original text. Although a quick question might get things sort of wrong, or miss details, if you guide the LLM to a certain part of the story, then a certain set of characters in that part of the story, then a certain statement or dramatic moment with those characters in that part of the story, you might get very specific detail that is close to line-by-line accurate. On the other hand, if you ask a quick, ordinary question about the same part of the story without supplying context and character names, you get something equally vague. YMMV

New comment by mistrial9 in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

mistrial9 — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:45:53 +0000

different models have been very different in this way.. almost ten years ago the French made a very large effort to capture languages.. the release notes I read at the time IIR had quite a few languages from South Asia / India, and in Africa. The language that was prominently missing was German IIR. I cannot say for the 2025-2026 models since so much has happened.. but models are not equal.

New comment by mistrial9 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

mistrial9 — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:48:52 +0000

these ideas need some refinement.. literacy and a written Law come to mind. Basic Catholic teaching purposefully excludes quite a lot of material that is recognized today.

New comment by mistrial9 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

mistrial9 — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:44:53 +0000

don't forget thought leader and trendsetter Alex Karp

New comment by mistrial9 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

mistrial9 — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:10:07 +0000

chemical engineering answers that in the small.. There are endless systems of testing within the chemical engineering discipline.. it has a bad name to the lay population, probably for real reasons, but the actual rigor is real also.. much worse scenarios from large scale industrial and agricultural applications could have happened..

one of many caveats to that is lead additives to gasoline, which is a wound to the living Earth to this day.. there are others.. RoundUp comes to mind in a similar way

New comment by mistrial9 in "Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah"

mistrial9 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:17:30 +0000

no, Hasenpfeffer is not exclusively a yiddish dish AFAIK

New comment by mistrial9 in "Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah"

mistrial9 — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:55:41 +0000

> They cut costs and ruined the formula and brand.

"they" did not cut costs! "they" was actually one single guy, who inherited an empire, and put his mark on it.. which killed it.. Robert Uihlein Jr

This is listed among some collections of "biggest mistakes in the history of US Business" IIR