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New comment by throwfaraway135 in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

throwfaraway135 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:59:45 +0000

Another big win for opensource AI.

BTW who would have thought China would be the champion of freedom and opensource in the AI arena, while US is fighting for corporate/government control.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Tesla Roadster"

throwfaraway135 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:20 +0000

From a visual perspective it's ok, but put this two cars side by side, which one does feel more "Copy Nothing", at lest for me that answer is obvious.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Tesla Roadster"

throwfaraway135 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:35:49 +0000

Compare this to the Jaguar type 01, both made as a statement. Tesla shows real guts to do something new, instead of just talking like Jaguar.

That said can't wait for a millionaire to pressure cook some grandma at a junction /s.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Tiny Little Office"

throwfaraway135 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:13:00 +0000

yes but love makes sense in the context that this is their passion, but respect? what does it stand for? when they vibe coded this they spoke with respect to the agent?

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Tiny Little Office"

throwfaraway135 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:25:46 +0000

> Made with respect in New York City

what does this even mean?

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Xi's 'death watch' will become a global spectacle"

throwfaraway135 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:38:37 +0000

if you limit your arguments to include only people you dislike (or like), that says more about you than you realize.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Xi's 'death watch' will become a global spectacle"

throwfaraway135 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:24:04 +0000

She is at the helm of EU for 7 years, and afaik can be there indefinitely. This sounds very rulery to me.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Xi's 'death watch' will become a global spectacle"

throwfaraway135 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:18:09 +0000

Trump is 80, Putin 74 and von der Leyen 68. You could argue that some of them won't rule after 10+ years, but considering their successors are also going to be old folk that's not reassuring.

Considering almost everyone else is sent to pension/old people home at that age it's funny we let them decide the destiny of humanity.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Man charged with planting 'sophisticated' recording device in OpenAI office"

throwfaraway135 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:51:11 +0000

Corporate espionage must be a top ten career choice right now.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

throwfaraway135 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:53:56 +0000

I get the sentiment, but if you hijack peoples attention by pretending "look we are civilized, we have humanitarian organizations" instead showing the ugly reality, this in my book is worse.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

throwfaraway135 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:51:24 +0000

I would describe it more of a massacre/war crimes, you can't compare it to something like the East Timur genocide, that said it is going on for a long time.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature 2026"

throwfaraway135 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:37:15 +0000

I wouldn't call it "distressing", but we are entitled to like some genres and dislike others. Not everything should be for everyone. And generally some genres are over promoted by the big labels and imo have worse quality on average.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "The people holding up the internet"

throwfaraway135 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:17:07 +0000

what do you mean by "making on your own"? The first example(time zone db) is portrayed as "holding up" 4B android/iPhone devices, and Google/Apple for sure have the capacity to create something "on their own".

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "The people holding up the internet"

throwfaraway135 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:34:09 +0000

A specific screw in a car can be crucial, but at the same time it's cheep, replaceable and easy to reproduce. When describing the achievement of a car you would never put this particular screw at the top.

I don't mean that the achievement of those people is unimportant, but dislike when people mix up the idea of "dependence out of convenience" vs "dependence out of necessity".

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike"

throwfaraway135 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:10:10 +0000

At some point we will need to get rid of the artificial boundaries of physics, chemistry and biology. It made sense before when we could only look at things in their locality, but as we improve and see things at better and better resolution having a division will become meaningless.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't"

throwfaraway135 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:04:10 +0000

afaik most people who don't eat meat or would consider synthetic alternatives do so because of moral considerations. We are already super efficient in farming meat, to such degree when that transportation is a bigger factor.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't"

throwfaraway135 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:55:09 +0000

Because every second super processed food is reveled to be carcinogenic or harmful in the long term, why would you take the risk if there is a good alternative? Btw I am also against industrial scale animal farms, those are problematic too, not from a morale but health perspective.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't"

throwfaraway135 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:54:24 +0000

People have fetishized animals so much that creating synthetic goop in the form of flesh somehow got billions in founding. Omnivores eat meat, even herbivores do it sometimes, get over it.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees"

throwfaraway135 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:19:54 +0000

I'm pro people having dignity in their jobs, but considering how unnecessarily complex and sometimes even hostile modern bureaucracy is this is going to remove one feedback mechanism that may have been globally good.

New comment by throwfaraway135 in "The Feminist Was a Spy"

throwfaraway135 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:48:44 +0000

there were some, but considering how monumental it was many people including me consider it a lackluster effort[1]

[1] https://theprint.in/opinion/pov/silence-epstein-files-global...