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New comment by tverbeure in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

tverbeure — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:37:18 +0000

You’re really asking for a Keynes comment here. :-)

He flirted with bankruptcy multiple times.

New comment by tverbeure in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control [pdf]"

tverbeure — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:33:59 +0000

I think you're wildly overestimating the rationality of investors.

New comment by tverbeure in "Resurrecting a soaked, corroded, and damaged Commodore SX‑64 (2025)"

tverbeure — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:56:52 +0000

When I was a kid, an SX-64 was the ultimate personal computer. Great to see that they’re still being restored.

New comment by tverbeure in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

tverbeure — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:30:38 +0000

War Games and 'Allo 'Allo.

New comment by tverbeure in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

tverbeure — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:16:59 +0000

You can still buy a 4GB HP T520 thin client for around $25 on eBay. The Radeon GPU has a HW h264 decoder.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185826328888?_skw=hp+t520

New comment by tverbeure in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

tverbeure — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:20:15 +0000

The fact that it completely autonomously read in a 5 MB firmware image of an old piece of test equipment and generated a Python script to generate license keys:

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/04/12/AMIQ-License-Key-Ge...

New comment by tverbeure in "How is Groq raising more money?"

tverbeure — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:21:13 +0000

> There's also no official source for the amount Nvidia paid for the tech,

Did you honestly believe that this kind of deal doesn't leave a trace in financial disclosures?

The February 2026 Nvidia 10-K has this:

Cash flows from investing activities: Groq. -$13B.

And this: "Total consideration consists of $13.0 billion paid at closing and $4 billion, inclusive of imputed interest, payable within one year included in Accrued and Other Current Liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets."

New comment by tverbeure in "Dav2d"

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

> you use a different format and suffer quality loss by transcending.

Compressing to AV1/h264/265 etc is really only done for the final version, but that doesn't mean that videos are stored in RAW format during editing, where it is very common to store frames locally in Apple ProRes, Avid DNxHD, or some other compressed format that's targeted towards professional editing.

Contrary to AV1 or whatever similar format which offer compression ratios of 1000x and more, these formats have a compression ratio of around 10x. They are very simple, and the quality loss is low enough that it doesn't matter. They also tend to store images with 30 bits per pixel instead of the 24 bpp that's normally used for streaming.

New comment by tverbeure in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

tverbeure — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:20:01 +0000

The difference is that until now I had never heard of speed.cloudflare.com before. (I know about fast.com though.)

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

tverbeure — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:12:01 +0000

The percentage is irrelevant for this discussion. As soon as you’re public, you need to report detailed financial numbers.

New comment by tverbeure in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

tverbeure — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:00:14 +0000

Why don’t you start by explaining how an age verification at the start of a Linux installation help against children being groomed?

New comment by tverbeure in "Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash"

tverbeure — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:52:32 +0000

It's really a miracle that the black box was found.

New comment by tverbeure in "Technofascism"

tverbeure — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:51:41 +0000

You’re using that standard tactic of attacking a minor detail to discredit a much larger point.

New comment by tverbeure in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tverbeure — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:54:01 +0000

In the early nineties, standard cell design was already used by everyone except those who needed clock speed at all cost.

New comment by tverbeure in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tverbeure — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:19:18 +0000

BSV won't help for cases you didn't think about a corner case. (I use SpinalHDL/Scala for all my hobby projects, BTW, and yes, I tend to make less mistakes.)

New comment by tverbeure in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tverbeure — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:17:01 +0000

Your mistake is thinking that all people who don't use it are doing so because they're not curious about it.

New comment by tverbeure in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tverbeure — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:30:00 +0000

How do you know up front who will find the best use cases? Both approaches can work.

New comment by tverbeure in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tverbeure — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:18:29 +0000

What if those people are some of the most experienced ones, who can see use cases, and flaws, that more junior people won't?

New comment by tverbeure in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tverbeure — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:08:08 +0000

I think I used Opus 4.6 1M.

New comment by tverbeure in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tverbeure — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:53:10 +0000

> extremely strong evidence that they are not in fact that useful

See my other reply in this subthread. For my line of work, they are in fact ridiculously useful.