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New comment by topaz0 in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

topaz0 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:56 +0000

Individuality is not to be tolerated.

New comment by topaz0 in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

topaz0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:57:00 +0000

Nice work. I guess "vast majority" is overstating the case, but majority anyway.

New comment by topaz0 in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

topaz0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:02:22 +0000

But also all of their multiples. I suspect that those account for the vast majority.

New comment by topaz0 in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

topaz0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:16:44 +0000

The 2^64 in gps argument comes from the number of pairs of 32 bit numbers, not from the upper bound of multiplying two 32 bit numbers. So for the addition case the symmetry argument is still only good enough to get you down to about 2^63, which doesn't help you at all because you have much stronger information from the upper bound.

New comment by topaz0 in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

topaz0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:06:10 +0000

It's a bit more subtle than that -- most n>2^32 are not prime in which case 2 x n has more factorizations you would have to check.

(Just by way of example, for n=2^33, 2n=2^34 but also =2^17*2^17)

New comment by topaz0 in "Can we have the day off?"

topaz0 — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:36:49 +0000

My man, you suffer from capitalist realism. I don't think I can help you.

New comment by topaz0 in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

topaz0 — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:03:48 +0000

You underestimate how much of the cost is the chassis, hinges, screen, speakers, keyboard, which add up. Sure the CPU is the single most expensive component, but CPU + mainboard for the fw13 is less than half the price of a new fw13. And of course part of the idea is that you don't know what you'll have to replace first, when you're staring out. You might bust the hinge, or get excited about their touchpad upgrade, or decide you need a higher resolution screen, long before you need the new mainboard. The flexibility, in other words.

New comment by topaz0 in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

topaz0 — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:44:11 +0000

Humans own inference power efficiency by a much bigger margin

New comment by topaz0 in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

topaz0 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:45:52 +0000

For lots of things, yeah. Don't try to fold proteins or open Facebook or whatever, but if you want to run a 3d printer or make some drawings or organize a bunch of notes and docs it would be way more than enough.

New comment by topaz0 in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

topaz0 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:43:18 +0000

Let's hope software gets enough less bloated to make that workable.

New comment by topaz0 in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

topaz0 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:40:45 +0000

I don't think the idea is that the upgrade will take it from decent to stellar compared to other things you might be able to buy for the same money, it's about paying a bit extra now to be able to go from decent-in-2026 to decent-in-2031 while paying a fraction of the cost that you would buying a full replacement in 2031, not to mention saving a bunch of waste. And then in 2036, and 2041, and 2046... They haven't been around long enough to be confident it'll work out that way, but that's the bet in my mind.

New comment by topaz0 in "Various LLM Smells"

topaz0 — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:53:36 +0000

You could stop using it first I suppose

New comment by topaz0 in "Various LLM Smells"

topaz0 — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:49:48 +0000

New York is the Ljubljana of America

New comment by topaz0 in "Can we have the day off?"

topaz0 — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:25:16 +0000

I don't know what starvation and gulags have to do with anti-capitalist reform. In this country (the USA), capitalism is what produces gulags and starvation.

New comment by topaz0 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

topaz0 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:20:47 +0000

And there's the indirect capex that their revenues will pay for indirectly, like in the case of oracle

New comment by topaz0 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

topaz0 — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:55:34 +0000

Even if an audit never comes they could be incorrect.

New comment by topaz0 in "My I3-Emacs Integration"

topaz0 — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:59:50 +0000

That's fine as far as it goes, but I don't think that gets you what this article is for, which is things like using the same binding context-dependently to navigate between emacs splits and regular window manager windows, context-dependently. Which is a fun bit of overengineering.

New comment by topaz0 in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

topaz0 — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:59:32 +0000

Right, the point of the person you replied to was about the scenario where inheritance taxes are small or non-existent - they literally said step up in basis makes sense when inheritance is taxed meaningfully.

New comment by topaz0 in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

topaz0 — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:21:13 +0000

You and me both

New comment by topaz0 in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

topaz0 — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:01:44 +0000

Which argues in favor of the inheritance tax mentioned.

There could be other solutions too -- say, require a virtual wash trade at time of inheritance, so the capital gains from the parent's lifetime are taxed at time of death and the child gets the stepped up basis. Somewhat different than an inheritance tax, but at least not a giveaway.