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New comment by noworriesnate in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

noworriesnate — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:09:45 +0000

I doubt it'll ever happen because heat dissipation will be a big problem, but this is likely in response to the proliferation of data centers. I would rather have data centers in space than convert countryside to concrete and metal jungles.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

noworriesnate — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:27:03 +0000

There ought to be an understanding that the school has leeway to use a ruler on misbehaving children without the police being involved. That's what I meant when I said stop getting police involved in everything. I'm not talking about vigilante justice.

An example that requires police to be involved: Small Town A has a law stating that anyone dealing drugs must be caned for the first offense. Someone deals drugs in Small Town, so police catch them and cane them.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

noworriesnate — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:55:53 +0000

I do agree we shouldn't limit it to children! But I don't think the boss/employee relationship should involve violence though because firing someone is simple and effective. But if someone is doing something bad for their community that has no obvious other consequences? Then yeah, it absolutely should be an option.

These rules should be implemented locally at a town or city level. No need to enforce the same set of rules across all society.

And it's interesting you bring up that bullying is a second order affect. If one of the parents is abusive, that should be something that has physical consequences. Solve the problem at the source, stop wringing our hands and getting lawyers / police involved for everything. That's not scalable and as a result there are a bunch of unsolvable problems in our society today.

New comment by noworriesnate in "I'm scared about biological computing"

noworriesnate — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:00:20 +0000

Complaining to the authorities needs to come with a cost, otherwise people who don’t believe in the research or are looking for a payday will join just to complain

New comment by noworriesnate in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

noworriesnate — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:55:23 +0000

Pain is a highly evolved way of telling humans to change their behavior. Why would we choose not to use such an excellent tool, within reasonable boundaries? Also, do you think the victims of bullies have a pleasant experience? Being merciful to the bullies enables them and is cruel to their victims.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s"

noworriesnate — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:24:50 +0000

Making it illegal will raise awareness about how addictive social media is, i.e. it will educate people

New comment by noworriesnate in "'Staggering' number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk"

noworriesnate — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:35:53 +0000

There’s a huge difference between something that is proven false and something that is unproven. Why are these bucketed together?

I don’t know anyone who believes nothing that hasn’t been statistically proven. You can’t operate in real life that way.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

noworriesnate — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:58:50 +0000

Interesting, I imagine the propaganda was also used for the German public, because they had no idea they were death camps.

Israel would doubtless keep its genocide a secret if it could, but there's just so much evidence created by smartphones. This is actually an example of how technology is making the world a massively better place--it's so much harder to genocide without creating tons of evidence.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

noworriesnate — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:22:16 +0000

> Auschwitz Girls’ Orchestra

Is this something from the post-war or did that really exist?

New comment by noworriesnate in "Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing"

noworriesnate — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:41:39 +0000

Have you seen Ibis[1]? It's a dataframe API that translates calls to it into various backends, including Polars and DuckDB. I've messed around with it a little for cases where data engineering transforms had to use pyspark but I wanted to do exploratory analysis in an environment that didn't have pyspark.

[1] https://ibis-project.org/

New comment by noworriesnate in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

noworriesnate — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:28:53 +0000

Are there a lot of manual steps in managing an xcode project? E.g. does it say "now go into xcode and change this setting" instead of changing the setting directly? Or are you using a tool like xcodegen?

New comment by noworriesnate in "The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow"

noworriesnate — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:27:35 +0000

I think it would be better to have one of each of the main AIs / coding tools running instead of all the same model and tool. That way you can keep tabs on latest developments while doing your work. Also if you use multiple providers / tools, you can take advantage of more free credits that way, because some providers have a few free credits each month.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional"

noworriesnate — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:25:44 +0000

Doesn't this mean that farmers will no longer be able to reuse their own seeds then, if a neighbor has GMO seeds?

New comment by noworriesnate in "US Military kills 14 in attacks on vessels in the Pacific, according to Hegseth"

noworriesnate — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:33:35 +0000

I don't see how the cartel could win by doing terror attacks in the US. Nobody likes them here. They won't have popular support. The US military will have enormous popular support. This won't be like Afghanistan or Vietnam or anything like that.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent"

noworriesnate — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:51:01 +0000

Yeah the qualification criteria are undefined, and some criteria are easily gamed, so this ultimately their criteria is going to probably be some combination of:

- Those who have connections

- Those who have an immutable trait that puts them in a minority (after all, there's not enough money / slots for a majority to qualify)

Which makes this a highly political program no matter how you look at it.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++"

noworriesnate — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:35:55 +0000

There's essentially no learning curve moving from manual to automatic. But moving from C/C++ to Rust, there's a big learning curve.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Why we develop EloqDB mainly in C++"

noworriesnate — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:33:52 +0000

If Rust was like Communism, there would be dozens of examples of massive codebases that ported to Rust and ended up with massive infighting, culminating in 20% of the developers being assassinated by the moderation team.

New comment by noworriesnate in "SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly"

noworriesnate — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:39:41 +0000

Do you have a link? I’m always down for a good book. Here are a few you might be interested in: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/189903.books_for_escapis...

New comment by noworriesnate in "SpaceX Starship 36 Anomaly"

noworriesnate — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:35:40 +0000

Children need heroes to look up to, I’m glad that children of right wingers can look up to him but who do children of left wingers have to look up to? Jeff Bezos is hardly inspiring.

New comment by noworriesnate in "Guess I'm a rationalist now"

noworriesnate — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:33:06 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better to spend the time understanding the reality of the situation in Gaza from multiple angles rather than philosophizing on abstract concepts? I.e. there are different degrees of genocide, but that doesn’t matter in this context because what’s happening in Gaza is not abstract or theoretical.

In other words, your question ignores so much nuance that it’s a red herring IMO.