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New comment by randomname93857 in "DeepSeek v4"

randomname93857 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:25:01 +0000

I remember constant grocery deficits, no meat, no cheese, etc in groceries. and all other kind of deficits. But there were rotten potatoes, and 2 types of bread! Glory to our leaders! fun times, you say.

New comment by randomname93857 in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

randomname93857 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:28:54 +0000

I drive long distance weekly on my gas car. Full tank in summer (+20C) gives me 520 km, while in winter (-20C here) I get 430-440 km. I noticed it on my current and previous cars. Maybe it's thicker oil and worse car efficiencies in winter ? And that's despite that full tank of gas has more gas in winter comparing to summer, gasoline is denser in cold temps.

New comment by randomname93857 in "CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA"

randomname93857 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:28:02 +0000

well, if we look at in-memory processes or kernel, or on data on HDD disk tracks, it's kinda also awfully resembles spaghetti :)

New comment by randomname93857 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

randomname93857 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 19:57:29 +0000

>> Imagine how many companies would not take off because there’s no one to implement the founder’s idea... Why should we do imaginary stats with narrated conditions? America striven on startups well before H1B became expanded so much it's barely doesn't include janitor positions... with smaller H1B pool, startups may need pay more. But also more compensation and demand in IT in US would make more people go to IT - smth-smth middle class, not poor class. BTW, what's the stats on how many doctors and lawyers come to US on H1B?

New comment by randomname93857 in "What will become of the CIA?"

randomname93857 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:55:43 +0000

Yeah, with help of KGB. What could possibly go wrong? It could become as democratic as Cuba. In best case. Or take path of other countries with exported communist revolutions, like North Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam. You just don't know about pervasive and perverted level of informants and delation that was installed by these "democratic" countries

New comment by randomname93857 in "DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress"

randomname93857 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 10:44:46 +0000

We do see the signs and reports, you just have to look. LLMs are being adopted to warfare, with drones or otherwise, there is progress there, but it's not currently at the level of "substantial difference". And 5 years is huge time from progress perspective in this domain - just try to compare LLMs of today with LLMs of 2020.

New comment by randomname93857 in "Ketamine for Depression: How It Works (2024) [video]"

randomname93857 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:13:07 +0000

When fermenting foods, use water from good source (e.g. bottled water), you must boil water with salt (,sugar, spices ) first, let it cool, and then add it to cleaned, well washed vegetables or fruit. Use clean glass container. Fermenting procedure varies for different veggies / fruit. Maybe first try to buy readily available fermented foods to see if it works for you.

New comment by randomname93857 in "/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]"

randomname93857 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:10:30 +0000

>> What do you need to do and what do the (even audit) logs say about who performed an activity whenever administrative activity happens? By activity you mean who run some process? doesn't enabling audit on all execve, execveat and looking at AUID besides EUID and UID fields tell you that? Or am I missing something? you may want to configure ENHANCED format in auditd for convenience.

New comment by randomname93857 in "China is the manufacturing superpower"

randomname93857 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:00:36 +0000

labor cost contributes to higher prices, but why we always ignore corporate America and middlemen contributions to price gauging?

New comment by randomname93857 in "An AWS IAM Security Tooling Reference"

randomname93857 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:16:28 +0000

Is there anything like this list but for Azure?

New comment by randomname93857 in "New ways to catch gravitational waves"

randomname93857 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:19:41 +0000

Nah, asteroid is not enough. you'd need to wiggle a couple or more large black holes in super close proximity. But who knows, may there be alternatives we are not aware of? Is it Higgs boson that gravitational field carrier particle , similar to electrons for EM field? Maybe there is a way to mass-produce those and modulate gravity waves that way, eh ?

New comment by randomname93857 in "3rd Edition of Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ by Stroustrup"

randomname93857 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:25:45 +0000

would this help with your problem with modules, it's referenced on the book's page: https://www.stroustrup.com/module_use.html ?

New comment by randomname93857 in "What a difference four years makes"

randomname93857 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:03:22 +0000

Sorry for deviating from OP subject -any pointers to a good (https/ssl) traffic analysis guide?

New comment by randomname93857 in "Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting"

randomname93857 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:40:33 +0000

>> Furthermore matter is just condensed energy, so why bother with some wonky immobile megastructure when you can just decay your everyday trash into pure energy.

True, matter is an energy... however the only known way to convert matter into pure energy is to make it annihilate with antimatter ( akin to electron-positron). We first have to have a good and cheap source of antimatter! And the matter annihilation may still generate a lot of particles/matter - that may be a waste (or not) depending what you do with that further.

A Partial conversion of a matter into energy is also fusion and fission reactions, but they are limited by the difference between source and end element of reaction here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_peak#/media/File:Binding_... - e.g. H2 -> He3, That uses only a tiny portion of matter, no energy that can be extracted from Fe56 (max), and all its close elements are also useless for either fusion or fission energy extraction.

New comment by randomname93857 in "The Future of the Monetary System [pdf]"

randomname93857 — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 20:40:23 +0000

>> countries like El Salvador moving to a Bitcoin standard

Could you please list the countries that are moving to bitcoin, as you say?

New comment by randomname93857 in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

randomname93857 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:06:36 +0000

>>Because the best result isn't going to be from draconian punishments for CEOs.

Why do you bring "draconian" punishment? Is punishment always draconian? Are the best results observed in places where crimes are not punished? Could you provide references to research that confirms this? Or your worries that punishments should not apply to CEOs?

New comment by randomname93857 in "Gemini won't return C++ coding help if you're under 18 "to preserve your safety""

randomname93857 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:08:02 +0000

glad assembler is safe!

New comment by randomname93857 in "Open-source project ZLUDA lets CUDA apps run on AMD GPUs"

randomname93857 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:51:47 +0000

But does that matter? if someone tried a software or a service and then terminated or quit that, then does that end-user agreement still applies in perpetuity? Let say I cancel a cable TV subscription or quit MySpaces, do I still really bound by their EULA?

New comment by randomname93857 in "Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy"

randomname93857 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 17:21:23 +0000

where do you live? I think any civilized country has many local ngos that help abused animals, or provide mental support for children or abused women, or support some medical initiatives, etc...

New comment by randomname93857 in "GoPro Ride Through an Electron Beam Irradiator at Full Beam Power [video]"

randomname93857 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 22:22:41 +0000

They probably can do that much cheaper: just come up with two opposing conspiracy theories, and people will naturally divide into 2 camps and will eagerly kill each other.