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New comment by mortehu in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

mortehu — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:25:58 +0000

Your answer makes it seem like you too missed the point. If a Starlink sends a 1000W signal to Earth, that is 1000W of power that does not heat the satellite.

New comment by mortehu in "Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin"

mortehu — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:15:30 +0000

Wouldn't "code sign" be two words in English? And "code signing" rather than "code sign"?

New comment by mortehu in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

mortehu — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:35:39 +0000

When you're talking about changed laws, are you referring to the civil case against E. Jean Carroll? And when you are talking about "charges that the banks said weren't even an issue" are you talking about the civil fraud case? No banks were victims in the hush money case, which is where the felonies are from.

New comment by mortehu in "How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack"

mortehu — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:02:46 +0000

US colleges last one year longer, and the first year is more academically similar to the last year of high school in Europe.

New comment by mortehu in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

mortehu — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:06:50 +0000

The difference is whether you get locked into having it on or having it off at the end.

New comment by mortehu in "Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?"

mortehu — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:29:17 +0000

In addition to the other signs that this is fake, you can't "check your mail" and find a certified letter.

New comment by mortehu in "Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?"

mortehu — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:24:17 +0000

This is not exactly skeptical analysis of such an extraordinary claim. I can put the same image on my screen and print a letter like that with no involvement from Tesla.

New comment by mortehu in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

mortehu — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:20:58 +0000

Twitter has a permanent outage reporting breaking news. Whenever something big happens now, the feed looks like any other day. This didn't use to be the case.

New comment by mortehu in "Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US"

mortehu — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:52:40 +0000

Maybe unrelated to your question, but the individual bars in the Fed vault have specific owners. They are not mingled.

New comment by mortehu in "Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN"

mortehu — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:08:33 +0000

A more sensible way to break it down is by "something you have" (phone or YubiKey), "something you know" (password) and "something you are" (face or fingerprint).

Username and password are both something you know, so they count as just one factor. A card on the other hand is something you have, so combined with the PIN that's two factors.

New comment by mortehu in "Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day"

mortehu — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:26:35 +0000

Seems pretty similar to distributed rate limiting. But it's much simpler to solve the common case of overspending on a single API: give each API the same daily limit with no communication between APIs.

New comment by mortehu in "Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01"

mortehu — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:31:50 +0000

To be clear, buying back stock is one of the ways they can invest in Waymo (and other business units).

Since Alphabet buybacks mostly just offset employee stock compensation, the main thing they are getting for this money is employees.

New comment by mortehu in "30% drop in O1-preview accuracy when Putnam problems are slightly variated"

mortehu — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:23:17 +0000

While this may be true, it's a very common problem that people who want to demonstrate how bad a model is fail to provide a direct link or simply state the name of the model.

New comment by mortehu in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

mortehu — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:21:40 +0000

If I had missed the point I would have given a much broader list of examples. I specifically listed ones that make employees totally redundant rather than more useful doing other tasks.

When these people were made redundant, they may very well have gone on to make less money in another job (i.e. being less useful in an economic sense).

New comment by mortehu in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

mortehu — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:30:32 +0000

Self check-out stations, ATMs, and online brokerages. Recently chat support. Namely cases where millions of people used to interact with a representative every week, and now they don't.

New comment by mortehu in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

mortehu — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:30:37 +0000

The chart is super misleading, since the test was obscure until recently. A few months ago he announced he'd made the only good AGI test and offered a cash prize for solving it, only to find out in as much time that it's no different from other benchmarks.

New comment by mortehu in "NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway"

mortehu — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:09:00 +0000

When I'm heading to New Jersey, I often check the Holland Tunnel entrance camera to see whether there's a jam. The intersection only flows well if there's a traffic cop there, which factors into route decisions.

New comment by mortehu in "The correct amount of ads is zero"

mortehu — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:07:29 +0000

Before that, they did a bait and switch and added free videos to their package delivery service.

Beyond that, there's no lock-in to a video service beyond any exclusive show you're currently watching, so your decision to continue paying is on you.

New comment by mortehu in "Just use Postgres"

mortehu — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:17:52 +0000

It's literally 4 lines of Python code calling subprocess.Popen to start a PostgreSQL server for a given database directory and connecting to it via a pipe on the filesystem. However, you can't launch multiple concurrent instances like this.

New comment by mortehu in "Just use Postgres"

mortehu — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:13:52 +0000

It can be a process and some unnamed sockets also, which is the main difference between PostgreSQL and SQLite.