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New comment by zeckalpha in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

zeckalpha — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:03:21 +0000

The frontier is a curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front

New comment by zeckalpha in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

zeckalpha — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:26:14 +0000

My understanding is that they're not sure if the vaccine will last in your system for more than 30 years, and that subsequent doses may be less effective, so getting it early may weaken you later.

But I am with you. My personal bet is we'll know more about this by the time that becomes an issue.

The earliest cohorts of vaccinated children are approaching their 30s, so we should learn about long term efficacy this decade.

New comment by zeckalpha in "I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions"

zeckalpha — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:31:11 +0000

Any of it. TFA references https://loganmarchione.com/2025/09/homelab-10-mini-rack-v2/ which uses standard 10" shelves.

New comment by zeckalpha in "I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions"

zeckalpha — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:29:33 +0000

Pedal polarity is inverse of typical barrel plug polarity though.

New comment by zeckalpha in "Leanstral 1.5"

zeckalpha — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:18:42 +0000

Curry-Howard correspondence.

New comment by zeckalpha in "Language Models Need Sleep"

zeckalpha — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:44:20 +0000

Yet this is how "thinking" models got started.

New comment by zeckalpha in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

zeckalpha — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:36:47 +0000

Depends on the DPI of your monitor and your glasses prescription.

New comment by zeckalpha in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

zeckalpha — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:09:36 +0000

Not at all. The Rerum Novarum timing is too intentional.

New comment by zeckalpha in "The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism"

zeckalpha — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:54:02 +0000

Note that at least Negroponte (mentioned in the article once) also had Epstein ties. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/133159/mit-media...

New comment by zeckalpha in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

zeckalpha — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:18:18 +0000

Just like the sun streams lots of power to us!

New comment by zeckalpha in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

zeckalpha — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:17:42 +0000

Sure, but mud puppies and Olm also exhibit neoteny.

New comment by zeckalpha in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

zeckalpha — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:51:28 +0000

How much fertilizer does the Iowan farmer need to add to their field to achieve that? How many years can they maintain that yield without eroding the soil?

New comment by zeckalpha in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

zeckalpha — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:49:07 +0000

Not an axolotl, but mud puppies live as far north as Canada and have external gills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_mudpuppy

Olm in the Balkans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P_anguinus-head1.jpg

New comment by zeckalpha in "New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production"

zeckalpha — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:02:47 +0000

No one electron goes the 1600 mile distance. An increase of cheap energy supply in one place lowers likelihood of production elsewhere, but it is more diffuse than selling Iowan energy in California.

New comment by zeckalpha in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

zeckalpha — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:47:17 +0000

Note that the subsequent 12th edition (1922) may be in public domain in your jurisdiction.

New comment by zeckalpha in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

zeckalpha — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:59:41 +0000

I find similar happening with Gemini Pro. Despite paying for Pro, it regularly locks me out, without visibility into consumption. Nothing on the plan comparison page indicates limits. https://one.google.com/about/plans

Edit: I may have conflated these two threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739260

New comment by zeckalpha in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

zeckalpha — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:29:40 +0000

Yet the article is not using a bitmap font

New comment by zeckalpha in "PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement"

zeckalpha — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:22:37 +0000

Not all that different from the MCS-96 HSIO.

New comment by zeckalpha in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

zeckalpha — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:00:21 +0000

I use a variant of access tracking by treating things like stacks.

My bins are stacked like in the article's photos. When I am done with a bin, it goes on the top. Least recently accessed bin is on the bottom. I need to get better about cache eviction though.

This also works with clothing on a rack. Put clean clothes on the left. Choose what to wear from the right. Eventually, the things you don't like wearing will all be on the right. This also happens to sort clothes by season.

New comment by zeckalpha in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

zeckalpha — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:57:08 +0000

I think of atime as the electronic version. And to address the cost, you can mount with noatime.