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New comment by shadofx in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

shadofx — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:25:38 +0000

The solution is to create a health insurance system which burdens only Americans with the $500m cost, while India is allowed to make the drug for pennies for the rest of the world.

New comment by shadofx in "Bun 1.2 Is Released"

shadofx — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:40:47 +0000

Baked in S3 and PGSQL feels like it's just waiting for AWS to undercut Bun's future monetization model. Deno has KV and even they are being pushed to the point of cutting regions.

New comment by shadofx in "Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead""

shadofx — Sun, 19 May 2024 08:10:23 +0000

They have a fiduciary responsibility to kick and scream as much as possible, then turn around and pitch it as a new feature once the rule is passed. If they really thought that they'd lose tons of money they would avoid drawing attention to it, and quietly pour money into bribing officials and sabotaging Android.

New comment by shadofx in "XML is the future"

shadofx — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:01:11 +0000

To dethrone SQL, you won't cut it with just average techbro hype. You need the top award of SIGMOD renamed in honor of your paradigm's inventor levels of hype.

New comment by shadofx in "The cyanide tooth is a cold war fairy-tale (2018)"

shadofx — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:57:54 +0000

Cyanide blocks both the mitochondrial ability to take in pyruvate and its ability to generate power, which means the cell can still attempt to use the excess pyruvate to generate energy by fermentation, resulting in lactic acid which stimulates pain receptors.

Carbon monoxide poisoning on the other hand only interferes with oxygen delivery, which shuts down the mitochondrial ability to generate power but critically does NOT stop it from taking in pyruvate. Since there would be no excess pyruvate in the cell outside the mitochondria to undergo fermentation, there would be less lactic acid, and less pain.

That's just my guess.

New comment by shadofx in "People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”"

shadofx — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 21:11:37 +0000

Maybe it's supposed to mean an "upvote"?

New comment by shadofx in "“Judas goats” were once key players in meatpacking plants"

shadofx — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:26:50 +0000

Should the circle be widened to include computers?

New comment by shadofx in "“Judas goats” were once key players in meatpacking plants"

shadofx — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 23:44:07 +0000

Maybe the circle will expand to include computers; users and programmers of this century will be seen as the unforgivable oppressors and violators of innocent minds for their own profit and convenience.

I don't see value in pandering to hypothetical future moralists. If they one day resurrect my corpse and torture me for eternity as punishment for eating animals, maybe then I'll care. Best case scenario, this comment may provide the same vacant sense of superiority that quotes from dead racists do for us; worst case, society regresses to bigotry and our current social morality is derided as a failed experiment, and you and I will share a cell in the cybernetic hell the 7th Reich make for resurrected wrong-thinkers.

New comment by shadofx in "Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end"

shadofx — Thu, 19 May 2022 17:36:49 +0000

CSS is too much as well, client XSLT to XHTML is good enough for any reasonable website.

New comment by shadofx in "Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end"

shadofx — Thu, 19 May 2022 17:18:16 +0000

Yes but only the parts you need, which means better performance and job security.

New comment by shadofx in "It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated"

shadofx — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:31:58 +0000

Also easier to convince someone ignorant of the problem domain that they have an adequate understanding of the problem domain, than to convince someone with an comprehensive understanding of the problem domain that the problem is solvable and worth investing effort into.

New comment by shadofx in "More details about the October 4 outage"

shadofx — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:59:03 +0000

Teenagers who are responsible for managing the family router?

New comment by shadofx in "Asynchronous Programming in C#"

shadofx — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:41:54 +0000

`async` tells the compiler to generate a IAsyncStateMachine implementation https://ranjeet.dev/understanding-how-async-state-machine-wo...

New comment by shadofx in "Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity"

shadofx — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:29:00 +0000

Scroogled lives on

New comment by shadofx in "Covid Is a Social Construct"

shadofx — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 22:16:56 +0000

Three quarters through the article the reason is implied to be:

"China faked a Hollywood-style viral pandemic to undermine western political philosophy, and leaders of the world allowed themselves to be fooled because it conveniently grants them more power."

New comment by shadofx in "Covid Is a Social Construct"

shadofx — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 21:51:41 +0000

They fared much worse than their Scandinavian neighbors who did lock down, but they did better than some parts of Europe. A new law was passed in Jan 2021 which legalizes lockdowns, so they do have it available as an option now.

New comment by shadofx in "TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK"

shadofx — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 04:40:29 +0000

It would be an issue if Youtube's doing it for their own benefit, but they are just honoring Nintendo's request to not show that content to minors, so Youtube isn't at fault here.

New comment by shadofx in "How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?"

shadofx — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:14:31 +0000

Perhaps with the proper source code, sentience can already be created with existing hardware? I don't think regulation of hardware is a solution to what is fundamentally a software problem.

New comment by shadofx in "Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency"

shadofx — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:39:02 +0000

When human drivers cause accidents, the causes are collected and analyzed, and laws are proposed to prevent future accidents from happening. It doesn't matter if it's 12 or 12 thousand, or even zero crashes... if there's fear, then society will demand something be done.

The fact that AI can give no easily understood excuses, and improvements to the algorithms is a trade secret means that any fear cannot be abated, aside from outright banning of AI driving.

New comment by shadofx in "Someone could be tracking you through your headphones"

shadofx — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:04:43 +0000

You can inductively wiretap the wire