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New comment by zamalek in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

zamalek — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:58:44 +0000

Maybe I wouldn't need table as harsh about it were the stakes lower - if things were relatively sane like Clinton, Bush, or Obama (I'm not saying they are perfect, just sane).

When facing the prospect of Trump there is no such excuse as "there were no good options." Yeah, dems are also evil and incompetent, but Trump takes it to an existential level. You're not abstaining, you're leaving the door wide open to the worst of humanity.

And civil war, where we're probably headed, is a much bigger nuisance than voting.

New comment by zamalek in "Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]"

zamalek — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:13:34 +0000

> Why would I believe that someone who can't use a mouse/computer is ready to be taught by AI?

The human element is critical for teaching, in my opinion. (Great) teachers are able to smooth over some of my criticisms of education. I also believe we are very far off from it being able to do even a bad job at teaching. So I'm not suggesting that at all.

What I'm talking about is teaching students how to use it, especially when not to use it, and how to get better results from it. I don't think AI is going to replace us any time soon, but people who use AI will replace those who don't.

New comment by zamalek in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

zamalek — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:57:56 +0000

No. They point out that 60dB is 1000 less than 90dB, which is true. In order to make that point they gloss over the fact that one measurement was taken at 100m (90dB) and another (much lower) at whatever distance the neighbors are at. Both measurements can be true (while the comment suggests that the 90dB is false).

dB should generally be expressed at what distance it was measured, and you'll see this done all over the place.

In this case, you'd reach 70dB at about 1km from the 90dB at 100m source, assuming a spherical cow, but they could also be completely different datacenters.

New comment by zamalek in "Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]"

zamalek — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:46:51 +0000

AI merely exposes the inherent flaws in how we do education (exams, especially failure) - which I personally and honestly don't have a solution for. Both the carrot and the stick rip out some of the gold that is human potential (while instilling some useful skills and behavior).

The knee-jerk reaction of banning AI is probably the wrong choice, people need to learn where the limits are, but I also wouldn't be able to suggest a framework where students aren't rewarded for skirting around being educated.

New comment by zamalek in "Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast"

zamalek — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:34:10 +0000

As much as I am grateful for the stability that the rust stabilization process usually brings, I too am looking forward to seeing this in the mainline compiler in 2045.

New comment by zamalek in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

zamalek — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:51:33 +0000

So macOS has debloat scripts now too?

Still heard from 2026 despite that: Linux is only free if your time is free.

New comment by zamalek in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

zamalek — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:55:27 +0000

> So, first of all, I agree, that's still top much. But I think it's important to point out that 60dB is, _literally_, 1.000 less than what OP was claiming (90dB).

For someone who knows enough to point out that dB is logarithmic, you seemed to have neglected the fact that sound is inverse-square for distance? Unless these neighbors are _literally_ located 100m outside the data center?

New comment by zamalek in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

zamalek — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:21:29 +0000

Quitting in protest makes you look a little better than quitting because of a toxic work environment. I can't imagine working at OpenAI is at all pleasurable with the current amount of pressure they are likely inflicting on their employees.

New comment by zamalek in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

zamalek — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:39:48 +0000

Git, as a protocol, is probably part of the problem for the scale that they are talking about here (1000s of agents). You probably want something between multiplayer editing and commits. That being said, I am terrified about the degree of slop that would be generated with 1000s of agents actually working on a codebase.

New comment by zamalek in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

zamalek — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:50:53 +0000

Which are exactly the two years they are threatening tighter supply.

New comment by zamalek in "macOS 27 is so buggy"

zamalek — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:49:00 +0000

Seems like the slop reaper has business with macOS too.

New comment by zamalek in "macOS 27 is so buggy"

zamalek — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:47:08 +0000

Maybe because you don't do outrageous things like having gifs in the background.

New comment by zamalek in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

zamalek — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:27:58 +0000

Exactly. But that's why I think SHA was a mistake. He should have gone with something like murmur to avoid all this frothing at the mouth.

New comment by zamalek in "Coding is not solved"

zamalek — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:40:53 +0000

That's an extremely creative argument, that doesn't address anything i said at all.

New comment by zamalek in "OpenAI Targets $30B in New Funding at $1.4T Value"

zamalek — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:38:16 +0000

FOMO is a powerful drug.

New comment by zamalek in "Coding is not solved"

zamalek — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:04:25 +0000

What a browser runs avoids the point of my original comment entirely. Is JS strongly typed or not? Is TS strongly typed or not?

New comment by zamalek in "Behold the pawpaw"

zamalek — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:24:48 +0000

I has this a lot when growing up, and it honestly tasted like nothing. Are African pawpaws that different?

New comment by zamalek in "Coding is not solved"

zamalek — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:12:05 +0000

> To JS

> simple C++/SDL to TypeScript/Three.js

Was that misrepresentation intentional?

New comment by zamalek in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

zamalek — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:50:40 +0000

Depending on what you play, you don't have to. But if you play draconian anti-cheat games then fair point.

New comment by zamalek in "Coding is not solved"

zamalek — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:42:04 +0000

The fact that it's Rust should be held against the LLM, no for it. Languages with greater type safety are a massive crutch for LLMs (it's also why using an LLM to manage your NixOS install is pretty fucking awesome).

Make it port some Rust to JS, see how that goes.

And Rust isn't a super difficult language to use on a daily basis. Sure, the initial learning curve is obnoxiously steep, but it's arguably easier to use than other languages once you get past that.

The LLM crowd have this habit of equating something that they don't understand with requiring some kind of advanced skill.