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New comment by rdevsrex in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

rdevsrex — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:15:42 +0000

How long they will have access to staggering amounts of compute is uncertain and not guaranteed, especially if they get a junk or near-junk credit status when they go public.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

rdevsrex — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:38:20 +0000

Maybe in a country like the UK, but not in the US. The Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination.

Which covers divulging encryption keys because it is treated the same as compelling you to give up the combination to a wall safe which is testimonial and protected.

New comment by rdevsrex in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

rdevsrex — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:21:18 +0000

Do they have the rest of the Epstein files?

New comment by rdevsrex in "OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev"

rdevsrex — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:09:46 +0000

There is one benefit that Jev has, that it is not OpenAI and thus it's probably less likely to steal your own work.

New comment by rdevsrex in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

rdevsrex — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:56:40 +0000

There is no human right to have a US visa interview; everything is a privilege that can be withdrawn.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Git at any scale"

rdevsrex — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:54:08 +0000

Seems well written to me.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

rdevsrex — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:36:24 +0000

Maybe at a bankruptcy sale; otherwise, it's a bad investment that only relieves current investors of their problem by passing the hand grenade to someone else.

If Norway, or any other country, wanted to, for far less money than buying a problematic company, they could fund a public cloud and rent it out at below-market rates to citizens, universities, and small businesses.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

rdevsrex — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:14:43 +0000

This is the most Euro commie thing I've heard in a long while.

Sure, get rid of factory farms and CAFO's, but I see nothing wrong with raising animals on family farms where they eat a nutritious diet in line with what they evolved to eat.

Grass for cows, pasture and bugs for poultry, silvopasture for pigs. Anyone who wants to go vegan for ethical or environmental reasons is fine, but I hate this idea that all of us have to fall in line with your crazy ideas.

New comment by rdevsrex in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

rdevsrex — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:31:40 +0000

This looks pretty cool! I can already imagine use cases for admin portals or other tools that I'd prefer to run over ssh.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

rdevsrex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:09:26 +0000

This is a good move. I hope Switzerland doesn't become like the UK.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

rdevsrex — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:28:05 +0000

This won't cause any confusion with the jai language :)

New comment by rdevsrex in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

rdevsrex — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:51:36 +0000

The problem with riding the bus in the US is that you end up around a lot of undesirable people.

New comment by rdevsrex in "The Post-American Internet"

rdevsrex — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:43:02 +0000

Why not go all the way and establish your own publicly owned central bank and establish an alternative to the dollar?

Oh, yeah, the US will send the CIA or the military in and take you out and make you take on IMF debt to ensure your future compliance.

Clearly, there are limits to what tech alone can accomplish.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Why I chose Lua for this blog"

rdevsrex — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:14:10 +0000

Why would anyone today leave port 80 open? I do https by default even for my blog.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

rdevsrex — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:04:27 +0000

Thankfully I'm employed, but from what I've heard there pro diversity bias against hiring straight white males.

Does that have any basis in anybody's personal experience?

New comment by rdevsrex in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

rdevsrex — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:19:31 +0000

I'm sorry, I don't care who you are or what the history between your country and the US is, you don't come and be disrespectful like that and get away with it.

All he had to do was was smile and wave, but Zelensky made it into a dick measuring contest which he was always going to lose.

He is a terrible leader and this is just more proof of it.

New comment by rdevsrex in "China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025"

rdevsrex — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 02:11:59 +0000

One day they might be able to sell ready made thorium reactors. That would be big business.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment"

rdevsrex — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:09:35 +0000

I don't know why, from the start, we haven't used nuclear power more for baseload.

China is already building between 6 to 8 nuclear power plants a year and plans to expand that number to 10 a year.

It's nothing compared to all the other sources of power they are creating, but it seems to me that rather than investing in mass battery storage, a few dozen modern nuclear power plants would be a good idea.

Assuming, of course, you can actually get costs down and cut through red tape like China can.

New comment by rdevsrex in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

rdevsrex — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:17:19 +0000

Just because we have machines that can lift much more than any human ever could, it doesn't mean that working out is useless.

In the same way, training your mind is not useless. Perhaps as things develop, we will get back to the idea that the purpose of education is not just to get a job, but to help you become a better and more virtuous person.

New comment by rdevsrex in "United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency"

rdevsrex — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:19:48 +0000

That's simply not going to happen. The West isn't sending enough military aid to tip the scales, and this is an existential war for Russia and they are managing it well enough.