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New comment by moffkalast in "Tesla Roadster"

moffkalast — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:35:11 +0000

Ah indeed, a new and unheard of piece of cutting edge engineering that is at the same time a completely useless and extravagant waste of resources? My analogy was more on point than I thought :)

Both made by nazis too.

New comment by moffkalast in "Tesla Roadster"

moffkalast — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:19:00 +0000

I thought it was the animal abuse that was the main attraction? /s

New comment by moffkalast in "Tesla Roadster"

moffkalast — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:18:19 +0000

That's some clean powered cars I tell ya hwat

New comment by moffkalast in "Tesla Roadster"

moffkalast — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:08:34 +0000

Well unfortunately he's made it necessary to do so. I can like this demo in the same way I can like the V2 rocket as a pioneering achievement in rocketry. There's a very big elephant in the room.

New comment by moffkalast in "Tesla Roadster"

moffkalast — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:03:22 +0000

A circus showing these would never recoup the cost of even one being built, hah. But it is very cool. It's also neat to see the Brabham BT46 make a return after like 50 years.

New comment by moffkalast in "Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall"

moffkalast — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:03:04 +0000

I though this was about The Swedish Job, but apparently this is a completely new Renoir theft? Did they not learn anything from the first one?

New comment by moffkalast in "Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series"

moffkalast — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:10:46 +0000

> as machine written code cannot be Copyrighted, thus, cannot be Open Source

Including CC0 works as parts of works licensed in other ways is perfectly fine iirc? It's like WTFPL after all.

New comment by moffkalast in "ASML's strong orders ease fears AI spending boom is running out of steam"

moffkalast — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:04:30 +0000

Uh we had a slight hype cycle malfunction, but uh everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine, we're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

New comment by moffkalast in "Why do LLM pelicans look like this?"

moffkalast — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:05:42 +0000

They say the pelican isn't benchmaxxed, but at this point how can it possibly not be?

New comment by moffkalast in "Gemini 4 Argon"

moffkalast — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:49:04 +0000

Sounds like it might not have your precise location in context?

New comment by moffkalast in "My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping"

moffkalast — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:17:37 +0000

Ask a cop pulling you over if it's a feature as he writes you a ticket lmao.

New comment by moffkalast in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

moffkalast — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:52:23 +0000

Well at the end of the day, the point of trying to understand the universe is to achieve specific goals leveraging that understanding.

It seems to me that all of these hundreds of proofs we've seen recently are glorified academic exercises, whose purpose is curiosity for its own sake without any practical application, or we'd already hear about at least one of them being implemented to some gain somewhere. It's all woefully unimpressive. It's not like anything stops mathematicians from trying to find more elegant solutions to their machine solved pet problems, since that's what they were going to try and do anyway despite it being completely pointless in practice.

New comment by moffkalast in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

moffkalast — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:25:03 +0000

CXMT is not part of the cartel that is probably once again coordinating to keep prices high for as long as possible, so we'll hopefully get some actual competition soon.

New comment by moffkalast in "PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP"

moffkalast — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:10:23 +0000

Speaking of, are there any SBCs that do have smartphone-tier suspend levels and could idle on a single cell for days, waking up on a dime? The Pi line is usually the most software supported and featured and even they lack this entirely, so I'm not optimistic that it is an off the shelf thing that exists.

New comment by moffkalast in "I'm sorry, but you still have to think"

moffkalast — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:38:18 +0000

"Mr. Anderson, what good is a brain if you're unable to think?"

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

moffkalast — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:29:07 +0000

Could just send them for 15 years in a very harsh prison if they say otherwise, if that's what they already do for anti-war speak anyway?

New comment by moffkalast in "Lobbying is corruption"

moffkalast — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:25:29 +0000

Well, anything YCombinator as startup accelerator finds interesting, and nothing that offends their corporate goals.

New comment by moffkalast in "Lobbying is corruption"

moffkalast — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:21:11 +0000

I suppose I should post the mandatory https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

New comment by moffkalast in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

moffkalast — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:18:24 +0000

Unfortunately

New comment by moffkalast in "How to head into VR without wearing a headset"

moffkalast — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:10:28 +0000

The selling point is flipping it up when someone comes to talk to you and saying "you have failed me for the last time, commander".