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New comment by vjsrinivas in "EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon"

vjsrinivas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:19:50 +0000

Im on the verge of switching from PHEV to full EV. I just need a reasonably affordable EV with 450+ mile of range.

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

vjsrinivas — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:43:45 +0000

He's referencing the common conservative notion that "too much" empathy for certain groups (in this case animals) is at the detriment to ourselves... somehow. This, of course, makes no sense when you look back at the long historical strides taken with animal rights in just western societies. You'll find very old philosophical vegetarian and vegan thoughts in other non-western societies.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "The Overton Window of Food"

vjsrinivas — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:25:09 +0000

Is this supposed to be bad? Fortified foods have helped alleviate many nutritional issues like B12 and iron deficiencies. In both instances, supplementing can be the preferred form of ingestion compared to whole food sources:

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29611716/ - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9268692/ - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12681447/

New comment by vjsrinivas in "Local AI Is Dead. You Are at the Funeral"

vjsrinivas — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:26:33 +0000

As the author stated, he earns money peddling hardware for these large, distributed coding agents so - to put it nicely - he is biased. I fundamentally disagree with almost everything he said. Local models are just starting to have their moment in terms of speed & intelligence. Theyre closing the gap on intelligence to a point where I can see future advancements in both software and consumer-level hardware making these distributed agent workflows kind of pointless.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

vjsrinivas — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:11:05 +0000

India's space work often went under the radar. Im glad they're getting the success and attention they deserve.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "The lost joy of music piracy"

vjsrinivas — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:01:23 +0000

Why would those be your two examples when there are numerous more realistic reasons why YouTube would take down a video?

New comment by vjsrinivas in "Deepsec"

vjsrinivas — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:32:40 +0000

I'd love to have a version of this that supported local models. Maybe even finetuned ones like RedSage.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "Please don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash"

vjsrinivas — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:15:45 +0000

Its almost a given considering how fast this field moves. Also, what kind of workflow structure would someone have that a single specific model is the only one that would perform acceptably?

New comment by vjsrinivas in "Half-Baked Product"

vjsrinivas — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:49:20 +0000

Great story. Reminded me what my professional nightmare would look like. But, I think at the end it started to thin out its allegorical premise when it started including SWE terms like Kanban and retros.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

vjsrinivas — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:30:28 +0000

Cut down on the one thing they need to keep themselves relevant in this space?

New comment by vjsrinivas in "Reviving Papers with Code"

vjsrinivas — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:24 +0000

What will happen to Huggingface's Trending Paper page? Its been my alternative since PWC closed, but they seem to have a level of overlap.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

vjsrinivas — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:20:03 +0000

Almost all of these don't apply to diabetes science. Its just the unfortunate nature of the average populace collapsing the complicated nature of scientific work and real human issues into problems that affect "science". Also, bad actors that want to twist the uncertainity of certain scientific areas into fake news.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant"

vjsrinivas — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:24:19 +0000

This was my first thought. Why would you use a cloud provider to store MP3s? There are plenty of cheap local options that don't paint a giant target on your back.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

vjsrinivas — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:17:47 +0000

Exactly what I was getting at. Social media doesn't help since these algorithms can cocoon somebody from content that might challenge their notions.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

vjsrinivas — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:16:21 +0000

Externally "healthy". Any heavy red meat and high saturated fat diet can lead to CVD.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

vjsrinivas — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:02:02 +0000

I feel like its another symptom of dying health institutions. These kinds of beliefs also lead people down other ridiculous roads.

I've seen the thought process of someone go from:

- replacing seed oils with animal-based oils

- arguing against the role of LDL in increased CVD and events

- building a more animal-centric and meat-heavy diet

- using "looks-maxxing" terminology to describe their diet and associated beliefs around that diet

- digging deeper into that subculture and believing our ancestors only ate meat

- why do we eat plants or "goy-slop"? well because of [x]

- extreme pseduo-science about other topics

From a technological prespective, we all know that social media accelerates this thought pipeline by feeding people certain content. I also feel like Instagram orders comments in a certain way to specifically engage an individual user. Like making sure they see either a statement they'd agree with OR vehemently disagree with. This is regardless of the number of likes.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

vjsrinivas — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:35:43 +0000

Is this a serious question or are you just trolling?

New comment by vjsrinivas in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

vjsrinivas — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:55:19 +0000

If you are not practicing an activity consistently, you'll forget some of the finer grained aspects. When I'm coding, I subconsciously create a continuous logic map. Having someone or something just generate (and generate so quickly) destroys that and makes it easier for bugs to slip through.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

vjsrinivas — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:46:53 +0000

These systems have provided incorrect data, and law enforcement often misuse that data to stalk, attack, and wrongfully arrest innocent people. Privacy matters to everyone - especially for ones who don't care about privacy.

New comment by vjsrinivas in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

vjsrinivas — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:58:37 +0000

Isn't that already being done to a certain extent with things like chili? They add TVP to supplement the meat, and people see it as a very negative thing.