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New comment by ywvcbk in "DeepSeek v4"

ywvcbk — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:40:23 +0000

Modern China isn't exactly totalitarian though and US is rapidly converging with China in that regard anyway.

New comment by ywvcbk in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

ywvcbk — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:51:21 +0000

I don't think this is true at all? A ballistic missile is way harder and more expensive to shutdown (they are flying at Mach 5-10 while you can outrun that type of drone with a mid tier car on the freeway)

Shahed is very primitive in general and not hard to shot down but because its extremely cheap it can be used to overwhelm any type of air defenses. Wasting $4 million to destroy a $50k drone doesn't scale at all.

New comment by ywvcbk in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

ywvcbk — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:58:17 +0000

They didn't invent it quickly enough i.e. they generally lagged behind Eurasian civilizations by several thousand years so by 1500 they were approximately still stuck in the bronze age or so.

New comment by ywvcbk in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

ywvcbk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:57:11 +0000

Yes, exactly, that's what I said. There is significant overhead but is it the only or the main reason why these apps are so slow and inefficient? It's perfectly easy to write slow and inefficient code in C++ as well...

New comment by ywvcbk in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

ywvcbk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:31:31 +0000

No, compared to everything else in those apps. i.e. if they are writing extremely bloated Electron apps why would the native version be less slow and bloated? I mean Electron's overhead is mostly fixed (it's still a lot but its possible to keep memory usage we below 1 GB or even 500 BB even for more complex applications).

New comment by ywvcbk in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

ywvcbk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:40:21 +0000

The overhead added by Electron is hardly that significant at this point, you can still use it to write significantly more efficient apps

New comment by ywvcbk in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

ywvcbk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:50:12 +0000

It's not self evident this is caused by regulation.

And regulation generally certainly works when it come to regulating and splitting up monopolies and oligopolies, workers right and etc. (US has plenty of both even if its occasionally idiosyncratic)

New comment by ywvcbk in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

ywvcbk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:33:35 +0000

Codex is opensource though and there are quite a few forks already.

New comment by ywvcbk in "Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL"

ywvcbk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:12:59 +0000

> You can't use 100-400 years ago as the counterexample

Or just a year or two ago?

> https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settl...

New comment by ywvcbk in "Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL"

ywvcbk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:11:38 +0000

> claimed that Chinese models trained on it without permission

That's extremely rich coming from Anthropic, though? Well they would know all about it of course...

New comment by ywvcbk in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

ywvcbk — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:36:52 +0000

Exception in those days it took a lot of time and effort to build software and you couldn't just do it by answering a few multi choice questions on a phone.

New comment by ywvcbk in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:46:43 +0000

> Brixton riots.

That was more than 40 years ago. I was wondering whether bringing up 2011 might make sense (since it was over 10 years ago, the riots weren’t as politically motivated etc.) but this is just something else..

New comment by ywvcbk in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:37:15 +0000

Except it can’t happen in that environment. Twitter always was and is inherently unsuitable for any semi-productive discussion due its format.

However that is besides the point any discussion in such “free” environment will be drowned by noise and bigotry (from both sides). Pretending otherwise is silly.

New comment by ywvcbk in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:30:52 +0000

More like the fact that Elon Musk literally bought himself a cabinet position and basically the president himself in almost the most blatant and transparently corrupt way possible.

> it's sad

Even more sad when people lack the concept of nuance and see the world as entirely black and white.

New comment by ywvcbk in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:27:29 +0000

Yes? To an almost extreme degree?

I don’t recall Zuckerberg ever buying himself a cabinet position. Do you?

New comment by ywvcbk in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:23:15 +0000

> This was not why freedom of the press was granted

Not about this specific point but people making these decisions back in the 1700s and 1800s were at least as flawed as us (arguably much more) and made some extremely horrible/stupid choices in hindsight.

Treating them as effectively infallible religious figures is well.. just that.

Especially if we consider that the interpretation of what freedom of speech (and press) meant was extremely narrow by modern standards well into the late 1800s and beyond.

New comment by ywvcbk in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:02:37 +0000

> there is a two-tiered system targeting white people. That's obviously a myth

Except… That’s obviously not what Farage et al are saying.

The claim is that white nationalists (verging on fringe(?) neo-nazi) protestors and rioters were treated more harshly than protestors and rioters belonging to other races or subscribing to other (also violent and radical) political (or religious) ideologies.

It does not seem obvious at all to me that this is clearly a myth.

New comment by ywvcbk in "Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:51:45 +0000

Were they? They [Guardian] are now claiming that both groups are being treated the same when they were clearly claiming that that wasn’t the case earlier?

Which exact groups they are talking about doesn’t really matter for this specific argument.

New comment by ywvcbk in "Using BenQ's latest 32" 4k monitor (RD320U) which is aimed at programming"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:37:11 +0000

Why not? I certainly get 16:10 or even 3:2 on laptops but for a desktop just get a taller display (if there is truly not enough vertical space on 32” screen...).

New comment by ywvcbk in "DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13"

ywvcbk — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:25:41 +0000

> will cost a lot more.

Presumably everyone buying this thing would already have (or need) a proper PC/Mac to use alongside it.