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New comment by slashdev in "Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms"

slashdev — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:54:47 +0000

That’s kind of funny because Nvidia’s biggest moat is arguably CUDA, the software ecosystem around their chips

New comment by slashdev in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

slashdev — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:32:31 +0000

Exactly, that’s the low margin part of the market. They don’t care about it.

New comment by slashdev in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

slashdev — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:35:59 +0000

That's less an issue than the new emissions going forward from Asia and Africa.

We can't very well tell them to stay poor. They're going to increase their energy usage and they're right to do so.

Hopefully renewables and EVs are competitive enough to reduce the impact of the rest of the world developing to Western levels. Which they may well, thanks to China and Elon Musk's Tesla for jump starting that transition.

New comment by slashdev in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

slashdev — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:32:33 +0000

The population in the US has grown 17%, but emissions have reduced 18%. I think it's doing a good job and merely needs to continue that trajectory. The Trump administration is making some poor decisions there, but won't last much longer, it matters more if that's a long-term Republican position or merely an aberation.

New comment by slashdev in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

slashdev — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:29:51 +0000

China also built more coal than the US has in total. Don't forget the scale is different there.

But yes, it's sad to see America about face on climate change under Trump.

New comment by slashdev in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

slashdev — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:25:43 +0000

Per capita is rather pointless when talking about climate change, but yes, it doesn't absolve responsibility.

You'll note that's not what I said, just that the US is doing well at reducing CO2 emissions. The population has grown 17%, but emissions have reduced 18%. That's a good job.

US manufacturing has not decreased either, it has just not increased while offshoring elsewhere. So for the most part that decrease in CO2 is not simply moving the problem elsewhere.

New comment by slashdev in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

slashdev — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:20:30 +0000

Yes, I think so. I doubt a court would interpret that as being reasonable use of force though. In English common-law it's not just the wording of the laws that matter, one must also look at how the courts have interpreted and applied them.

New comment by slashdev in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

slashdev — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 03:18:46 +0000

US emissions have declined 18% since 2005.

Look at Asia.

New comment by slashdev in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

slashdev — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:31:30 +0000

It also mentions:

> theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime.

Seems like that qualifies

New comment by slashdev in "Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)"

slashdev — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:37:10 +0000

I thought it was the other way around. Too fine/round is not good for concrete, which is why desert sand is unsuitable.

New comment by slashdev in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

slashdev — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:32:26 +0000

This is true. But it’s more of a pricing power problem. The US can no more rid itself of the dependency on Canadian heavy oil than Canada could on exporting to the US. We’re bound together on that front, and it’s why oil has been exempt from tariffs.

If Canada had the ability to sell that oil on the global market, we’d get a better price for it (if you only have one customer you can sell to, you have little pricing power). Western Canada Select trades at a discount to WTI.

US refineries are built for a mix of heavy and light oil and that’s not practical to change. The US can’t just replace Canada with its own oil or imports from elsewhere.

What about Venezuela? Another potential source of heavy oil? It would take decades of investment and development to bring that up to the point where it produces an extra 4 million barrels a day for export. With the uncertain political environment there, it’s unclear where that would come from.

New comment by slashdev in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

slashdev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:26:55 +0000

Police robots and drones.

You say no plausible path to automating - I beg to differ.

It would get officers out of harms way.

Not imminent but not zero risk either.

New comment by slashdev in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

slashdev — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:41:15 +0000

Maybe I’m missing the subtler geopolitical point here, but I don’t think it’s about oil. It’s about preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons and threatening the region via their missiles, drones, and proxies.

Whether they succeed at it or not is an open question, but it seems clear that’s what it was about. Take operation midnight hammer last July. That was clearly only about the nuclear issue.

New comment by slashdev in "Hetzner is working on LLM Inference"

slashdev — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:18:42 +0000

Meh. No matter which side gets in power it’s almost certainly a narcissistic grifter. Who wasn’t over the last twenty years? The current one is a bit of a long term aberration, that doesn’t have to be the norm going forward.

In fact you could argue he was a response to some of the more extreme positions on the Democrat side.

I’m hoping things move more towards the center. But that may be only a fools hope.

New comment by slashdev in "Hetzner is working on LLM Inference"

slashdev — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:48:41 +0000

Give it two years more then it changes again.

New comment by slashdev in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

slashdev — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:06:33 +0000

Agreed, that’s a silly argument.

You should worry more about your daily commute than a little ring.

It’s plastic straws all over again.

New comment by slashdev in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

slashdev — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:40:04 +0000

It works on planes, ships, and in remote areas with no coverage. I live in Canada where the whole of Europe would fit many times over, nothing else would work in the remote areas at that scale. My parents live in Panama and use starlink to get reliable high speed internet at the beach. Even when the power goes out, their solar panels keep the internet online.

New comment by slashdev in "crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C"

slashdev — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:02:00 +0000

What is Microsoft rust? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Or did I miss the joke?

New comment by slashdev in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

slashdev — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:04:20 +0000

Waste heat into the atmosphere is hardly pollution. I think you don’t understand the scales involved

New comment by slashdev in "Samsung demonstrates 3D stacked FETs with triple nanosheet channels at 42nm"

slashdev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:22:19 +0000

Very surprising! Thanks for sharing