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New comment by quaverquaver in "Claude Sonnet 5"

quaverquaver — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:30:41 +0000

these are capital intensive commodity businesses. They can be plenty big - see railroads or airplanes... or refining... but that doesn't mean that most value won't be added elsewhere.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Claude Sonnet 5"

quaverquaver — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:26:34 +0000

I would not take "space data centers" as a given! from most to least likely these will be vaporware, vaprorized-ware, rubble-ware, loss leaders.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

quaverquaver — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:10:31 +0000

marginal tax rates reached 94% in 1944 on income over 200k in the US. The high marginal tax regime gave rise to a period of relative equality. Nothing stupid about it - if a long right tail is a social ill (it is) then why have it?

New comment by quaverquaver in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

quaverquaver — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:05:00 +0000

...but there is data that there are issues upstream - there are fewer couples to begin with! That is not economical (economies of scale) suggesting that we are looking at changes in social structure rather than some kind of aggregate economic adaptation.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

quaverquaver — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:08:49 +0000

...but one of your examples has had disastrous consequences. Sure cars prevailed but they have changed the climate and let to unfriendly development patterns. Likewise social media may make people less happy, less likely to couple etc. Novel tech solves problems but can create others. We can surely afford to move deliberately at least, particularly in education.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

quaverquaver — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:17:25 +0000

...yes but apparently while the posterior hippocampus actually grows in these people the anterior hippocampus shrinks... so there may be tradeoffs required to get this level of spatial knowledge... https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.070039597

New comment by quaverquaver in "EFF is leaving X"

quaverquaver — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:06:12 +0000

X is a rare platform where an individual manipulates the algorithm per his own personal political whims. And, yes he is explicitly racist and anti-democratic. No org that cares about freedom should contribute to what is really a personal effort to commandeer the information environment.

New comment by quaverquaver in "America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws"

quaverquaver — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:00:08 +0000

In the US per official data ~5% have more than one job (and that includes lawyers doing consultancy for example) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620

New comment by quaverquaver in "Factor 0.101 now available"

quaverquaver — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:05:26 +0000

I got my start programming in Forth - we were making PC games for the Japanese market in the early 80s - Epson and Sharp machines... and Forth was just magic - I've missed it - must check Factor out!ppl interested in a concatenate audio synthesis DSL should check out SAPF https://github.com/lfnoise/sapf

New comment by quaverquaver in "Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness"

quaverquaver — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:48:31 +0000

also this explains squirrels

New comment by quaverquaver in "Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness"

quaverquaver — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:47:48 +0000

these things are 100% true. I eat one hazelnut per hour and have lived already 230 years.

New comment by quaverquaver in "Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox"

quaverquaver — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:50:54 +0000

suggest many many cups of 1/3 caffeinated and 2/3 decaf. There are some observed health benefits to even decaf coffee... and its got potassium besides. I drink around 10 of these. lower longer peak. Joy!

New comment by quaverquaver in "How to Synthesize a House Loop"

quaverquaver — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:39:29 +0000

the great advantage over DAWs etc is that you can name things and slowly build your own bespoke tools... for this work all timing was done in reference to the words rather than beats and bars - I can re-flow the whole piece by tapping through the syllables on my space-key. Something that would be totally impossible in a traditional platform!

New comment by quaverquaver in "How to Synthesize a House Loop"

quaverquaver — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:36:34 +0000

here's a whole opera from a Star Trek episode I coded in Supercollider - can indeed code things other than EDM... (its a screen grab - being synthesized in real time)

https://vimeo.com/944533415?fl=ip&fe=ec