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New comment by ohnei in "Why TUIs are back"

ohnei — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:32:44 +0000

The TUIs I've looked at seem to be largely NPM dependent? Bizarre that agents apparently don't have time to rewrite themselves in something that isn't a security tire fire. It kind of makes me assume that all this agents taking over stuff is from people working at garbage-pivot-garbage startups that don't really have to worry about any consequences but not being fast enough.

New comment by ohnei in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

ohnei — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:14:08 +0000

The laws are the rules I refer to that I say do not mention you or your idea of reasonable speed at all. Going through town at 30 km/h was considered reckless. Killing someone in a cross walk it doesn't matter if they are an adult capable of liability.

New comment by ohnei in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

ohnei — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:23:30 +0000

What sounds sedate to you is not encoded in any rules and certainly wasn't considered sedate when the laws were written in most jurisdictions.

New comment by ohnei in "Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died"

ohnei — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:38:08 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by ohnei in "Canonical Under Attack"

ohnei — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:41:55 +0000

I find this take a bit silly. There are perhaps a dozen companies that could put as complex a surface out as Ubuntu has and actually expect to defend against any sort of sustained interest from a nation state. Canonical absolutely could have made better decisions in the design of many things for this situation but doing that as a corporation that isn't under attack is extremely hard when no one wants long delays for theoreticals.

New comment by ohnei in "Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business"

ohnei — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:40:29 +0000

Better check the baggage fees before you make an offer like that.

New comment by ohnei in "Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died"

ohnei — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:12:57 +0000

Right, academics who deligate their entire intellectual life to GPT will be unaffected.

New comment by ohnei in "NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers"

ohnei — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:48:07 +0000

What happens if an American orders a router from Aliexpress? In the past the US generally ignored low volume end user imports..

New comment by ohnei in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

ohnei — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:33:56 +0000

It doesn't seem like it is at a deep layer such that it could be used to test updates to kubernetes and CRDs in a cluster that isn't yet updated?

New comment by ohnei in "The USB Situation"

ohnei — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:34:45 +0000

They now have the option to silently add this kind of detail to logs and have clippy find answers to why is my computer odd/slow only when asked. For a long time I felt like companies leaving product decisions to the Occamist (or the closely related lazy programmer) was a superpower to compete against larger organizations that usually don't, but we may get a run for our money from emulated simplicity.

New comment by ohnei in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"

ohnei — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:46:42 +0000

You are apparently very happy with a market that is defined by an economist who views it as you view the prediction* market.

Prediction markets are useful in their own right because they help people plan with information independent of themselves and more accurate and less biased than other sources. That is very similar to a market allocating a societies future allocations through rewarding holding of past investments. Both actually have many of the same problems and elimination of either can not prevent insider trading on information or significant resources being wasted on zero sum game aspects or faults in how such simple systems of reward function layers allocate as well.

(If you plan to propose to a partner in September might it not be helpful to have an opinion about the night of the 28th? Is that more or less important than the OTC penny stock for a probably defunct mine that possibly has copper? But why not pick equivalent strong points. If you are planning purchase like a next auto might you find future energy market related bets helpful to estimating long term risks for your choice?)

*typo

New comment by ohnei in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"

ohnei — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:10:09 +0000

Why stop at prediction markets? Trading in markets is heavily tied to information or information processing advantage so probably all assets should be held by the government to avoid conflicts of interest involving self interests.

New comment by ohnei in "No new trial for Sam Bankman-Fried"

ohnei — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:52:28 +0000

We really have no evidence that if he accidentally had a few extra billion he wouldn't have done the right thing and reported his crimes so he could divide the proceeds with people he illegally borrowed money from, though clearly not immediately first he would need to wait for it to come back from loans to his associates where he would have had to augment the bellow market interest rates with money he saved from his childhood allowance.

New comment by ohnei in "Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year"

ohnei — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:24:35 +0000

I'm not familiar with a stealth meant for even when you have to park it sometimes. If anyone has a great drone dominance then all your anti drone should go into drone related infrastructure. If someone has the corresponding high dominance then you can wait until nature runs out of resources for maintaining the absurd.

The US is a strategy of failure since Vietnam because it is profitable to war hawk supporters to lose every war in the economics and funnel the money back into more strategic losers.