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New comment by naruhodo in "Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half"

naruhodo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:41:18 +0000

They also use their wealth to rig the system (political manipulation) to the detriment of the societies that allowed them to accumulate wealth in the first place. Don't pretend they're blameless; they're parasites killing the host.

New comment by naruhodo in "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

naruhodo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:31:50 +0000

I'm embarrassed to say that it has taken me approximately $AGE years to notice the double-meaning in the punchline.

New comment by naruhodo in "NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute"

naruhodo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:36:48 +0000

Ah, so it's a source of randomness! Presumably 1.0 corresponds to a really hot cup of fresh tea.

New comment by naruhodo in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

naruhodo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:28:49 +0000

The source code does what it does, including bugs.

So unless you want bugs to be your specification, you actually need to specify what you want.

New comment by naruhodo in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

naruhodo — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:26:02 +0000

Fill it with hydrogen and just squeeze really hard.

New comment by naruhodo in "Are LLM merge rates not getting better?"

naruhodo — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:51:38 +0000

> 1) Something happened during 2025 that made the models (or crucially, the wrapping terminal-based apps like Claude Code or Codex) much better. I only type in the terminal anymore.

I have heard say that the change was better context management and compression.

New comment by naruhodo in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

naruhodo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:16:55 +0000

"Every"? Maybe not, but... from a brief web search, IME should give you the heebie-jeebies due to it's network access.[1]

AMD's PSP (now ASP) seems to be more of a local attack surface[2] that has its fair share of vulnerabilities.[3]

[1] https://www.franksworld.com/2025/09/18/the-intel-backdoor-no...

[2] https://www.digit.in/features/laptops/intel-me-and-amd-psp-t...

[3] https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/a...

New comment by naruhodo in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

naruhodo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:13:22 +0000

If I remember my D&D, Lawful Evil is an alignment.

New comment by naruhodo in "Claude Code Remote Control"

naruhodo — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:45:10 +0000

It can generate lots of code.

Some [1] of it is even correct.

[1] Model Collapse Ends AI Hype @39:45, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShusuVq32hc&t=2385s

New comment by naruhodo in "Anthropic and the Department of War"

naruhodo — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:51:27 +0000

I know this a joke because Russia is in charge of the US government.

New comment by naruhodo in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

naruhodo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:43:39 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpb1OXvNNMc

Glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of this.

New comment by naruhodo in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

naruhodo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:06:13 +0000

Employees are humans and therefore subject to the law. There are remedies. And you can point a camera at the cash register.

Who are you going to arrest and/or sue when you run a chat bot "at your own risk" and it shoots you in the foot?

New comment by naruhodo in "The Five Levels: From spicy autocomplete to the dark factory"

naruhodo — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:50:01 +0000

Pitchforks and killbots.

New comment by naruhodo in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

naruhodo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:27:54 +0000

Mechahitler[1] now has a job at the Pentagon.[2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628d9mre3go

New comment by naruhodo in "France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year"

naruhodo — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 07:02:26 +0000

The law forbids government ID as the sole age verification mechanism, but does not prevent it from being an option:

> As stated in the law passed late last year, platforms also cannot rely solely on using government-issued ID for age verification, even though the government-backed technology study found this to be the most effective screening method.

> Instead, the guidelines will direct platforms to take a "layered" approach to assessing age with multiple methods and to "minimise friction" for their users — such as by using AI-driven models that assess age with facial scans or by tracking user behaviour.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/social-media-ban-fina...

New comment by naruhodo in "Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++"

naruhodo — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:42:15 +0000

For the curious, yes they provide a garbage-collected heap [1] as well as reference counting.

[1] https://sinusoid.es/immer/memory.html#classimmer_1_1gc__heap

New comment by naruhodo in "No-Tifier (2017)"

naruhodo — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:56:10 +0000

A PDA... Portable Distraction Accessory. Or maybe that should be Plywood...

New comment by naruhodo in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

naruhodo — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:09:11 +0000

And nobody else is doing better software wise because Apple is secretive about how to program the hardware. Asahi is not sufficient.

New comment by naruhodo in "A One-Minute ADHD Test"

naruhodo — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:32:54 +0000

From what I have been seeing about ADHD lately, using the adrenaline of last-minute time pressure to get things done is a common ADHD coping mechanism.

New comment by naruhodo in "A One-Minute ADHD Test"

naruhodo — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:28:28 +0000

And up until about ten years ago, the psychiatric profession considered ASD and ADHD to be mutually exclusive conditions.