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New comment by zargon in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

zargon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:45:50 +0000

It's mostly professional software that is the issue. CAD, CAM, BIM, GIS, DAW, PLC, accounting, graphic arts, etc. etc.

New comment by zargon in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

zargon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:03:04 +0000

I came across a method of printing that attempts to make the extrusion of two adjacent layers overlap each other by 50%, with the goal of creating stronger layer adhesion. They called it HexWAM and it seemed more likely to work than this one. There were also some test prints available. The website with the full description seems to be down and archive.org unfortunately didn't get the images. Incidentally the person doing this also had an Ender 3, so OP may be able to try out their gcode example directly.

https://www.printables.com/model/438863-supper-strong-layers...

https://www.printables.com/model/437584-qualitative-layer-ad...

https://web.archive.org/web/20251008223152/https://bcarvercr...

New comment by zargon in "Linux 7.1"

zargon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:27:40 +0000

Nvidia, I think? That's what people say but has never been my experience.

New comment by zargon in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

zargon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:54:54 +0000

Consumer oriented parts businesses are going to go out of business from this. Motherboards, cases, coolers, power supplies, fans, etc. At this point it's a matter of how many. Selection and competition will be permanently reduced, as I don't see these types of companies coming back any time soon.

New comment by zargon in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

zargon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:31:13 +0000

I thought I read that Samsung SATA SSDs were discontinued, but apparently that was a rumor and Sansung has denied it. I wonder why they exceed NVMe prices. They're the only SATA drives left with DRAM. I guess they could just be milking that fact.

New comment by zargon in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

zargon — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:01:25 +0000

And what? If someone said "some Muslims haven't even stopped slavery today," my statement would apply equally there.

New comment by zargon in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

zargon — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:19:04 +0000

I make a thorough and well cited post, and get this zero-effort trolling in response? The Mormon central corporation has a dedicated legal hotline specifically for advising clergy how to prevent child sexual abuse from being reported to the police. Since uou can't distinguish this from racism, I'm done here.

New comment by zargon in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

zargon — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:59:29 +0000

The problem of child sex abuse in Mormonism is magnified by several factors. The community is very tight-knit and insular. Mormons believe that God directly guides their leaders. This leads to mental compartmentalization and slowness to recognize abuse to start with. When it is recognized, there is an extremely strong culture of handling grievances internally through the Priesthood hierarchy. Reports will go to the bishop, not secular authorities. The perspective is a bit skewed to begin with because it is normal and expected for Mormon bishops to ask youth (11 yo and up) explicit questions about their sex lives in private one-on-one "worthiness interviews". The "marching orders" that bishops (the equivalent of priests or pastors) follow (the Church Handbook of Instructions) are primarily designed to protect the church and its reputation. In places where the Mormon church has political power, it can even extend to law. For instance, bishops/clergy are exempted from mandatory reporting in Utah. Bishops are specifically instructed to _not_ report abuse to authorities. Instead they are to "call the hotline" (the Kirton McConkie law firm), where are advised on how to protect the abusers so that the church doesn't incur financial risk or negative publicity. The Mormon church is very centralized and hierarchical compared to many other churches, which means the official policy of cover-up is endemic.

The Mormon Stories (John Dehlin) and Radio Free Mormon podcasts have a lot of documentation of this. The first link below is one of the most important and has a lot of written content as well.

Look into Sam Young, whom the church excommunicated because he campaigned for ending the policy of asking teens and preteens sexually explicit questions in personal worthiness interviews.

https://protectldschildren.org/

https://radiofreemormon.org/2026/03/sam-young-protector-of-m...

Example of how the church deals with victims of abuse:

https://www.mormonstories.org/mormon-sa-jared-ashley-jones/

There is extensive documentation that this is the standard operating procedure:

https://radiofreemormon.org/2025/04/child-abuse-in-the-lds-c...

https://radiofreemormon.org/2023/12/rfm-324-how-the-mormon-c...

https://www.mormonstories.org/matt-long-sex-crimes-prosecuto...

https://radiofreemormon.org/2026/02/lds-church-caught-lying-...

The Mormon church was also intimately involved with Boy Scouts, so basically all of the Boy Scout problems overlapped and combined with the issues above.

https://www.mormonstories.org/boy-scout-abuse-tim-kosnoff/

https://www.mormonstories.org/bsa-bankruptcy-update-with-kos...

New comment by zargon in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

zargon — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:28:40 +0000

There was a livestream last night where the Bricks and Minifigs COO said that the franchise agreement has a clause saying that the operations manual overrules the franchise agreement and they can update the operations manual at any time. BAM's court filing instead says that the franchise agreement allows consignment services, but "limited expressly to those approved by BAM".

New comment by zargon in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

zargon — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:45:17 +0000

> Some of the mormons haven't even stopped polygamy today.

Using the term 'Mormon' to refer to the the entire family tree including splinter sects is just a recipe for confusion. Adherents to splinter sects, excluding RLDS, number in the tens of thousands compared to millions of CoJCoLDS. The problems with CoJCoLDS are damning on their own without needing to conflate facts with fringe groups.

New comment by zargon in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

zargon — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:50:55 +0000

Yeah, that's why I tried to include both categories. Even for programs that are small enough to be printed, we just don't do it any more. I could have worded that part better myself.

New comment by zargon in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

zargon — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:51:13 +0000

The idea that it never existed digitally is obviously untrue. Likely poor wording in the author's part. They probably meant something like, so old that a printout is all that survived (which sounds vaguely like not being digital to someone in an era so far removed from a time when programs were/could realistically be printed.)

New comment by zargon in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

zargon — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:55:45 +0000

We wouldn't be switching to Chinese manufactured memory if Korean & US memory wasn't exorbitantly priced. They're forcing the switch.

New comment by zargon in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

zargon — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:47:54 +0000

There are only 3 memory manufacturers. They just quietly follow the same strategy. They learned not to talk about it from the last time they were fined for antitrust price fixing in the 2000s.

New comment by zargon in "Accelerando (2005)"

zargon — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:57:16 +0000

That is just an example of why AI arbitration will happen though. Lower cost.

New comment by zargon in "A few words on DS4"

zargon — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:10:18 +0000

llama.cpp (and consequently LM Studio) don't support DeepSeek V4. If you want to run V4, this is your only option right now unless you have hardware that can run vLLM.

New comment by zargon in "The PSP feels surprisingly present right now"

zargon — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:41:00 +0000

s/old/young

New comment by zargon in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

zargon — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:11:28 +0000

Groq.

New comment by zargon in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

zargon — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:23:34 +0000

They're using the term speculative decoding but doing MTP. It's the same thing as Nemotron, but Google removed the MTP heads from the original safetensora release. (They were not removed from the LiteRM format.)

New comment by zargon in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

zargon — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:49:16 +0000

> I have much greater confidence on eBay that I'm not going to get something counterfeit or unsafe.

On eBay, sellers control their inventory, listings, customer service, and resulting reputation end-to-end. On Amazon, the incentives are backwards.