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New comment by scaredginger in "Eat Real Food"

scaredginger — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:16:49 +0000

Normalising by mass is a poor way to assess food's protein content since different foods have greatly different water contents. E.g. beef jerky has much higher protein per 100g than beef largely because it's dried (admittedly, probably also because they use leaner cuts)

New comment by scaredginger in "The inefficiency of RL, and implications for RLVR progress"

scaredginger — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:52:09 +0000

Bit of a nitpick, but I think his terminology is wrong. Like RL, pretraining is also a form of *un*supervised learning

New comment by scaredginger in "An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)"

scaredginger — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:08:06 +0000

Looks like the impl uses a HashMap. I'd be curious about how a trie or some other specialized string data structure would compare here.

New comment by scaredginger in "New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden"

scaredginger — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:05:57 +0000

There may be some cost to each resistance gained, reducing the fitness of the bacteria

New comment by scaredginger in "The A.I. Bubble is Bursting with Ed Zitron [video]"

scaredginger — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:40:20 +0000

I think the AI bubble may have some interesting parallels with the dot com bubble ~25 years ago.

The internet was revolutionary and transformed the global economy. However, most of the internet companies at the time were garbage and were given money because people were blinded by the hype. At the end of the day, we were left with a handful of viable companies that went on to great things and a lot of embarrassed investors

New comment by scaredginger in "Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)"

scaredginger — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:54:43 +0000

Yeah, no.

If I know what my data look like, I can choose an order of summation that reduces the error. I wouldn't want the compiler by default to assume associativity and introduce bugs. There's a reason this reordering is disabled by default

New comment by scaredginger in "What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (2017)"

scaredginger — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:50:35 +0000

That's not how I'd express it either. Insurance is a positive EV bet on a log-utility basis

New comment by scaredginger in "Tech companies are flocking to the Middle East"

scaredginger — Wed, 15 May 2024 01:16:20 +0000

You don't make many friends being a moral relativist

New comment by scaredginger in "The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword"

scaredginger — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:11:29 +0000

Maybe a nitpick, but virtual inheritance is a term used for something else entirely.

What you're talking about is dynamic dispatch

New comment by scaredginger in "Do Kwon and Terraform Labs found liable for $40B fraud"

scaredginger — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:19:19 +0000

Also, Terraform Industries (natural gas company)

New comment by scaredginger in "Peter principle"

scaredginger — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:54:05 +0000

And some won't, so they'll remain directors

New comment by scaredginger in "US farmers are turning to solar power as a buffer against volatile crop prices"

scaredginger — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:44:14 +0000

https://archive.is/IzfVe

New comment by scaredginger in "A lock-free ring-buffer with contiguous reservations (2019)"

scaredginger — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:15:56 +0000

Obtaining an uncontested lock absolutely doesn't require calling into the kernel

New comment by scaredginger in ""14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike"

scaredginger — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:15:11 +0000

You might be interested in Odin. It's very focused on numerical computing and has certainly taken some design hints from Go

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

scaredginger — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:28:53 +0000

It was shielded

New comment by scaredginger in "Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate"

scaredginger — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:03:34 +0000

Can you explain this 'common sense'? I was under the impression that Tether was in the business of taking USD (with the promise of returning it) and earning interest on that USD without paying any interest on it. If that's true, it sounds like a dream business to me

New comment by scaredginger in "4B If Statements"

scaredginger — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:02:52 +0000

I think this counts as a bottom-up DP solution

New comment by scaredginger in "Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)"

scaredginger — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 05:07:25 +0000

I'm pretty sure you can perform tests and find defects without actually flying the rocket

New comment by scaredginger in "Cooperative C++ Evolution – Toward a TypeScript for C++"

scaredginger — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:22:12 +0000

> Note that Carbon is not ready to use

New comment by scaredginger in "The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete"

scaredginger — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 00:25:14 +0000

https://archive.md/eIXcA