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New comment by paintbox in "LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active"

paintbox — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:58:45 +0000

For comparison allow me to add chatGPT 5.5:

"Choose U-235 if the goal is safe, boring, practical electricity generation. Choose Pu-241 only if the goal is specifically to consume/recycle plutonium in a reactor designed and licensed for that fuel.

In brutal shorthand: Pu-241 is a better “fissile isotope” in some nuclear-physics ways, but U-235 is a much better reactor fuel in the real world."

If only I knew anything about nuclear reactors. But it sounds to me that the answer is also correct.

New comment by paintbox in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

paintbox — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:42:17 +0000

But how will I signal my status to other people then?

On a serious note, I run my models on desktop pc, simple api and i can use them wherever whenever.

New comment by paintbox in "Ferrari Luce"

paintbox — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:44:45 +0000

You are interpreting it the wrong way around. It's not a disaster for general population. It's a disaster for the artist and others involved.

Money/time/effort is spent on the wrong thing. It's a disaster for them. Not for you.

New comment by paintbox in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

paintbox — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:48:16 +0000

How many solutions can you think of?

New comment by paintbox in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

paintbox — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:12:47 +0000

That will impact dozens of people.

New comment by paintbox in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

paintbox — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:24:47 +0000

Read the posted article before commenting.

It's literally written to refute your point.

New comment by paintbox in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

paintbox — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:41:08 +0000

You have some rather uncommon prejudice towards people who go to bars. Unless of course your culture is significantly different from mine.

But where I am from: - bars are 'a third place' where people hang regularly without getting wasted - bars serve dozens of different non-alcoholic drinks - most people in the bar are not "looking for a one night stand" but for some socializing, fun, and a chance to meet interesting people

But as I said, maybe your part of the world has bars that attract different clientele.

New comment by paintbox in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

paintbox — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:32:15 +0000

I believe the odd part is "young female" phrasing. And I agree, it is odd.

New comment by paintbox in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

paintbox — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:02:13 +0000

> US lost more planes to friendly fire and accidents than the enemy

Truly a force to be reckoned with.

New comment by paintbox in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

paintbox — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:40:55 +0000

What type of developer chooses UX and performance over security? So reckless.

I removed the locks from all the doors, now entering/exiting is 87% faster! After removing all the safety equipment, our vehicles have significantly improved in mileage, acceleration and top speed!

New comment by paintbox in "How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe"

paintbox — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:12:39 +0000

Dignity has no calories, though.

New comment by paintbox in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

paintbox — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:39:20 +0000

I used to be an occasional MR reader, but stopped visiting lately because of this. When it became obvious how the US presidential race will end (basically after assassination attempt) Cowen's tone heavily shifted. Even the facade of objectivity went through the window. Now most of his writing is spent on defending the indefensible. Shame, his early takes helped shape my world model.

New comment by paintbox in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

paintbox — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:51:04 +0000

If I found a folder with a hundred images of naked kids on your PC, I would report you to authorities, regardless of what pose kids are depicted in. So I guess the answer is no.

New comment by paintbox in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

paintbox — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:59:39 +0000

There's a reason I rarely see local subsidiaries of cool small companies from other EU countries - it's too complicated to open them, have a couple of local employees on a payroll, handle notarization, translations of documents, not to mention labor laws etc.

New comment by paintbox in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

paintbox — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:41:00 +0000

Energy is expensive because fossil fuels are destroying the only planet we have.

If a person is taking lifesaving medicine that unfortunately makes their skin itch, you wouldn't call itchiness "a problem which they have created themselves in the first place"...

New comment by paintbox in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

paintbox — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:32:29 +0000

Ease of incorporation is indeed not revolutionary, but is certainly a good direction.

What is revolutionary (in context of EU of course) is easier business operation across different countries, a real bottleneck for EU SMEs.

New comment by paintbox in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

paintbox — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:10:22 +0000

>I like the pelican riding a bike test, but my standards for what’s “good” seem higher than generally expected by others.

If you train for your first marathon, is your goal to run it under 2h?

We are all looking forward to perfect results, but our standards are reasonable. We know what the results were last month, and judge the improvement velocity.

Nobody thinks that's a good SVG of a pelican riding a bike - on it's own. But it's a lot better compared to all the other LLM-generated SVGs of a pelican riding a bike.

We judge relative results - you judge absolute results. Confusion ensues.

New comment by paintbox in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

paintbox — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:16:12 +0000

You have been able to buy milled flour for thousands of years, and will probably be able to for as long as there is civilization.

Betty Crocker would be lucky to survive another hundred years.

New comment by paintbox in "Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured"

paintbox — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:59:45 +0000

If entities comprising the union are not forced to compromise (and compromise by some type of majority is the most logical one), and want to pick and choose, then that is no union. And there can be no union like that.

New comment by paintbox in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

paintbox — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:26:04 +0000

>Food shipments are being restricted because it's not generally accepted that you have to feed your enemies while you're at war with them.

Funny way to put it. You do not feed the enemy, rest of the world feeds the enemy. You make all effort to prevent the enemy being fed, to starve the enemy to death. Starving the enemy is generally accepted as a war crime, but Israel disagrees. Oh yeah, and enemy in this case includes infants.