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Romario77··on Qwen3-Max-Thinking
nowhere near to China.

In US almost anything could be discussed - usually only unlawful things are censored by government.

Private entities might have their own policies, but government censorship is fairly small.

Romario77··on Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
Right. Plus often the tax is paid out of RSUs given, you just get less in RSUs, some is subtracted to pay tax.
Romario77··on Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
this only works for manually typed text, not computer to computer communication where you can't deduce much from what is being "typed" as it's not typed but produced by a program to which every letter is the same and there is no different delay in sending some letters (as people have when typing by hand)
Romario77··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
One Claude agent told other Claude agent via CLAUDE.md to do things certain way.

The way Claude did it triggered the ban - i.e. it used all caps which apparently triggers some kind of internal alert, Anthropic probably has some safeguards to prevent hacking/prompt injection and what the first Claude did to CLAUDE.md triggered this safeguard.

And it doesn't look like it was a proper use of the safeguard, they banned for no good reason.

Romario77··on I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
You are confused because the message from Claude is confusing. Author is not an organization, they had an account with anthropic which got disabled and Anthropic addressed them as organization.
Romario77··on 25 Years of Wikipedia
The thing is - Britannica is a lot smaller. Also - wikipedia is updated almost immediately for significant events where Brittanica would only be updated sometimes.

Wikipedia is uneven, some popular topics are well covered and have good info, others are outdated, biased, often written by one person with agenda.

Romario77··on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid
the commercial company I worked at had a contract with Palantir - https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220817005178/en/Bet... .

From what I understood they were to read our data and provide some kind of insights. I don't think any of this happened, at least while I was there.

They talk about government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - it's most likely the reason the company got into this contract, so Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac get some kind of data that they need in their systems.

Romario77··on IBM to acquire Confluent
pull vs push. Plus if you start storing the last timestamp so you only select the delta and if you start sharding your db and dealing with complexities of having different time on different tables/replication issues it quickly becomes evident that Kafka is better in this regard.

But yeah, for a lot of implementations you don't need streaming. But for pull based apps you design your architecture differently, some things are a lot easier than it is with DB, some things are harder.

Romario77··on IBM to acquire Confluent
I wouldn't describe it as improved necessarily, but successfully integrated. This happened many times - youtube by google for example. Facebook acquisitions are pretty successful too (not looking if it was good for humanity, just from business perspective).

Some companies like Amazon buy companies and let them run almost independently - IMDB for example, Zappos, Twitch, Whole Foods, Zoox, Audible.

Romario77··on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
I mean - DOS or it's equivalents still exist and for older computers you will probably be able to find drivers.
Romario77··on Ghostty is now non-profit
Hashicorp was sold for 6.5B to IBM.

Another thing - when it went public it was valued at 13B and Hashimoto owned 8.5% of it according to the filing.

So, depending on when he sold or converted his shares it is pretty plausible that he got a billion.

Romario77··on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill
There are already insider trading laws which almost everyone has to comply with, congress people being an exception. They specifically allow insider trading for themselves while prohibiting it for everyone else.

If you work in a financial company which does trading often times you are very restricted in what you could do. You also have to report all of your accounts plus close relatives accounts.

And if you have an insider info and give it to someone else, no matter how remote from you it's still against the law to trade based on that and it's not "fully compliant with every letter of the law"

Romario77··on Gemini 3
It's available in cursor. Should be there pretty soon as well.
Romario77··on Zed is our office
it doesn't work quite well for complex projects that require integration with other teams/software.

You would need to either have separate versions running at the same time or never do breaking changes or devise some other approach that makes it possible.

It's not always feasible to do it this way

Romario77··on Solarpunk is happening in Africa
It's an AI generated article full of errors. Simple arithmetic errors. Probably copied from a video or another article.
Romario77··on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
with smaller companies there is another problem - they get acquired and then you get the same deal.
Romario77··on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
You could write crappy code in any language. I don't think it's specific for Java. Overall I think java is pretty good, especially for big code bases.
Romario77··on Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
I don't think it's a fallacy, it's much easier to optimize water usage for something that much larger.

Agriculture uses about 70% of all freshwater while datacenters are less than 0.5%

Some leaky channel will cost more than all the datacenters.

Romario77··on Claude Haiku 4.5
you can put in your rules what type of output to do for diagrams. Personally I prefer mermaid -> it could be rendered into an image, read and modified by AI easily.
Romario77··on You are the scariest monster in the woods
you could make the same argument about humans - we run the cycle of "find food", "procreate", "find shelter" ...

Some people are better at it then others. The progress and development happens naturally because of natural selection (and is quite slow).

AI development is now driven by humans, but I don't see why it can't be done in a similar cycle with self-improvement baked in (and whatever other goals).

We saw this work with AI training itself in games like Chess or Go where it improved itself just by playing with itself and knowing the game rules.

You don't really need deep thoughts for the life to keep going - look at simple organisms like unicellular. They only try to reproduce and survive withing the environment they are in. It evolved into humans over time.

I don't see why similar thing can't happen when AI gets to be complex enough to just keep improving itself. It doesn't have some of the limitations that life has like being very fragile or needing to give birth. Because it's intelligently designed the iterations could be a lot faster and progress could be achieved in much shorter time compared to random mutations of life.

Romario77··on Apple M5 chip
Linux UI is crap compared to Mac.

It's a server or developer box first and a non-technical user second.

Romario77··on Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent
This sounds more like a stipend for established artists, not basic income.
Romario77··on Zoo of array languages
avg=: +/ % #

+/ sums the items of the array.

# counts the number of items in the array.

% divides the sum by the number of items.

Romario77··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
LLMs are not good at "cycles" - when you have to go over a list and do the same action on each item.

It's like it has ADHD and forgets or gets distracted in the middle.

And the reason for that is that LLMs don't have memory and process the tokens, so as they keep going over the list the context becomes bigger with more irrelevant information and they can lose the reason they are doing what they are doing.

Romario77··on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino
clone relies on hardware being designed and software written - this takes a lot of money, so you can't just count the final price of parts as the price.

Arduino is open sourced in hard and software which allows this cheap cloning to exist. It also helps a lot with software and docs, which makes it cheaper for them.

Romario77··on Doing Rails Wrong
I think it adopts some ruby conventions (one I discovered is the name in singular vs plural can mean different things like a collection and an item of a collection). I think there are a lot of conventions like this - you have to know.

I am not a UI developer and just needed to understand/debug something, it was not easy at all.

Romario77··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
This could be one of the building blocks of quantum computing. You can have a macro system behave in quantum way.

This is a practical implementation of something that was only theoretically possible or observed on very small scale.

Romario77··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
I mean - it should be part of due diligence of any competent department trying to use this G-drive. If it says there are no backups it means it could only be used as a temporary storage, maybe as a backup destination.

It's negligence all the way, not just with this G-Drive designers, but with customers as well.

Romario77··on I only use Google Sheets
yes, that's true. It also brings the issues related to that - it's easy to delete the whole org data, change things uncontrollably, corrupt the data, there entries in the tables are free-form (well, you have to do programming to make it more robust).

it works fine initially, but for long term it's usually more productive to have custom software.

Romario77··on Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement
How would you explain discount airlines that don't have business class at all?

You also contradict yourself saying they only profit from business class but at the same time they can't profit from business class because there is no enough demand for it.

Your statement doesn't make sense and what the poster above you said is right - they need both and that's the reason there are both.

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