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New comment by netrap in "DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine"

netrap — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:02:33 +0000

https://earnedintuition.substack.com/p/involution-without-ex...

Kind of says that internal China competition is more intense than from America. I think there is both, but I would say it isn't like the "whole state" is backed against "us" in AI.

New comment by netrap in "DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine"

netrap — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:56:08 +0000

Over maybe not. However, it does increase competition possibilities, right? Both of them have a pretty good head start though!

New comment by netrap in "DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine"

netrap — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:50:15 +0000

How much does a fryer cost? How much does the fryer cost to run? How much would it cost to get the fries into the customers hand (i.e. food truck, rent)?

New comment by netrap in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

netrap — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:25:09 +0000

could you poison the model? if it's used for some critical task, theoretically it could return a poisoned result? not saying it is, just curious

New comment by netrap in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

netrap — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:29:54 +0000

This is very close to how I feel about it...

New comment by netrap in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

netrap — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:51:19 +0000

Microsoft BOB!

New comment by netrap in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

netrap — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:05:43 +0000

makes me wonder maybe if NFC/RFID strips were cheap enough you could have all the items tagged in the house and your phone could tell you what you have.. but probably causes e-waste though

New comment by netrap in "Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation"

netrap — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:43:08 +0000

That makes the most sense to me. Although, I don't know if .org is subject to US law specifically? Is it?

New comment by netrap in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

netrap — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:33:02 +0000

I think it's reached commodity status instead of community... 3D printing I mean. At that point only thing that matters is ease of use, price, and quality of the result. People who are not _in_ the community but use the tool.

New comment by netrap in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

netrap — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:05:54 +0000

Maybe this is the purpose of it? To keep us working like cattle.

New comment by netrap in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

netrap — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:41:44 +0000

weird dejavu because this exact comment was on the last one of these job lost updates i saw

New comment by netrap in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

netrap — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:26:50 +0000

Perfect is the enemy of the good, right? I mean a page header or some other simple means to identify "adult" vs not is good for most cases? Just thinking about it.. obviously it can be bypassed but is there a good enough?

New comment by netrap in "Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock"

netrap — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:27:17 +0000

that's a bomb dude.. lmao.. don't take that anywhere!

New comment by netrap in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

netrap — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:22:40 +0000

If it provides similar utility as a car, what's the big deal about that price? It would be the same type of purchase, right?

New comment by netrap in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

netrap — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:58:01 +0000

FreeBSD does not have a desktop installer yet.. the powerpoint alludes to that being a coming feature though.. I think people here should chill out about her not using FreeBSD as the daily driver.. I use FreeBSD daily in my work, but no, I don't on desktop...

New comment by netrap in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

netrap — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:31:01 +0000

I wonder if they will come to their senses and revert the decision? It does seem a bit boneheaded to drop Linux support on the Basic tier... What actual reason would they need to do that?

New comment by netrap in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

netrap — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:52:32 +0000

Interesting analogy but there are many old people in Casinos...

New comment by netrap in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

netrap — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:23:16 +0000

It's not about that, it's about the incentive...

New comment by netrap in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

netrap — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:14:46 +0000

So you decrypt each time you need it? What is the difference in the attack surface?

New comment by netrap in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

netrap — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:30:50 +0000

Intel at one time did 6 month sabbatical if you worked 10 years.