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New comment by vasco in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

vasco — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:05:56 +0000

Did you get an iberian to lay the pattern in your vomitorium?

New comment by vasco in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

vasco — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:55:37 +0000

Not only I agree with you that I don't think I've had an original idea, even when I try to do artistic stuff it seems like the things most praised were the ones where I was trying to do something else and the good part came from failing to do the thing I was trying to do.

New comment by vasco in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

vasco — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:01:26 +0000

Lists aren't randomized in your corner of the woods? That's a big thing in our ballots, different people get differently sorted lists.

New comment by vasco in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

vasco — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:58:21 +0000

Every election should have a funny absurdist person like this absorbing all the blank and null votes to give the other candidates more incentives to convince the electorate.

New comment by vasco in "Hello, me. It's been a while"

vasco — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:42:35 +0000

Man, between noticing your own thoughts and listening to affirmations there's a gap that would fit the world.

New comment by vasco in "Hello, me. It's been a while"

vasco — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:30:47 +0000

I believe anyone that can listen through affirmations with a straight face is either a psychopath or wants to be one.

New comment by vasco in "Compression is prediction"

vasco — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:15:06 +0000

Fabrice Bellard published this in 2023: https://bellard.org/ts_zip/

> The ts_zip utility can compress (and hopefully decompress) text files using a Large Language Model. The compression ratio is much higher than with other compression tools.

It's not only an old idea it's been totally done already.

New comment by vasco in "Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client"

vasco — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:08:35 +0000

I really doubt that null and \n make any sense to replace with non ascii symbols. They are both most likely already a token only and for other purposes at least \n becomes larger as a symbol.

New comment by vasco in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

vasco — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:35:26 +0000

I can induce tinnitus if I want by thinking about it and then after a while it goes away. Very similar to consciously thinking about blinking which causes you to be aware of it but then after a while you stop being conscious about it again but you never know when it stopped.

Always been confused about it.

New comment by vasco in "Everything you do is being recorded"

vasco — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:51:10 +0000

The likelihood is 100% that it is the company.

New comment by vasco in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

vasco — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:36:09 +0000

Mate with all due respect, get bent.

Now you really have an example of breaking the rules.

New comment by vasco in "Saying No"

vasco — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:33:42 +0000

I wonder what you think I wrote

New comment by vasco in "Saying No"

vasco — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:36:35 +0000

Well you got told No, did it anyway and lost the room. Not sure you understood the negotiation part.

New comment by vasco in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

vasco — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:25:15 +0000

Someone else will do it is the lowest form of justification for any bad behavior. Regarding the rest of your judgement of the quality of the comments that's why we have votes. Some of my comments for this 15 years are downvoted and others upvoted and some are even flagged and it lets me learn what the crowd agrees with and not and I reflect from it and you can see the average to judge for yourself what the crowd thinks of my contributions. I appreciate your answer but it's one person's opinion, as is mine.

New comment by vasco in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

vasco — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:52:12 +0000

You might want to google what inb4 means, at least you could've put a bit more effort substantiating it.

New comment by vasco in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"

vasco — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:33:17 +0000

It's not easy. Part of the instructions would need to contain things like "how to convince your boss to not just delete the old thing" and "what to do when the startup you worked for went bankrupt" among others. Most URLs don't disappear by mistake.

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

vasco — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:51:35 +0000

I'm portuguese so that's funny.

New comment by vasco in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

vasco — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:48:57 +0000

Ok but none of that is what was mentioned. I lived near the sea all my life I'm aware of winter vs summer differences in slope and waves in different beaches. You were saying that if for example your 24h case happened, the weather around that beach would be affected. What I know of and what you describe are not that.

You were saying something like, if the slope changes the weather will change. But ended up saying many things can change the slope. The order is reversed.

New comment by vasco in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

vasco — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:43:10 +0000

> what the slope of the beach is today (many people don't even know this changes drastically daily and why it is important

So why is it important? As far as I know the slope changes AFTER the weather not before as a prediction mechanism but happy to learn

New comment by vasco in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

vasco — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:27:02 +0000

> The companies are begging to be regulated for this reason and have been doing so for years

Regulations are rules that you force on a market, but the actors in the market should not be assumed to be all operating against the regulations before they come into play. Said in other words, these companies don't need to wait for regulation to not destroy the world, if that's truly what they think will happen.

> inb4 someone else will do it