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SV_BubbleTime··on What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?
They’ll find it easy to keep their homogenous culture and shared traditional values.

Why would the solution to “our people aren’t having enough babies” be “we should import different people to have their babies here”?

Why does ever single bleeding heart liberal globalist try and ignore the deep psychological truths about human tribalism? It’s not even a bad thing, but even if it was, it’s a fact.

SV_BubbleTime··on The Causes of Long Covid
> Given that the major COVID-19 vaccines had a significant protective effect against Long COVID,

Are there studies for this?

SV_BubbleTime··on South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools
And when you need longer reach than that?

A “I vouch for this person” system?

SV_BubbleTime··on Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
Then it doesn’t function as a boat anchor anymore. The point is that only a few people are using their GPU at any time.

The bandwidth is terrible here, but if it wasn’t, this would be a good utilization of resources.

SV_BubbleTime··on My Students Can't Read
That’s fair.

When I was in school we joked about it being 13th grade, that was seeing all the kids as freshmen who CLEARLY didn’t belong there, but their guidance counselors told them for 12 years about how they need to go to college.

SV_BubbleTime··on My Students Can't Read
I know formerly smart people, the same people are phone addicts. They’re not kids.

It definitely has something to do with it. I’m not convinced the best way to discuss it is long form article. Nor do I know how to fix it, no majority group is going to give up their phones.

SV_BubbleTime··on My Students Can't Read
>And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a four-year college.

Well… yes. The loans are secured, so it is within the college’s interest to make 13th grade.

>showed that the mere presence of a participant’s smartphone — whether that be face down, powered off, untouched, or across the desk out of vision — measurably reduces available working memory and fluid intelligence on cognitive tests

Claim without data that I see, but ok… going on…

>Eighty-three percent of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier.

Well, this makes sense. They didn’t write anything. This isn’t ground breaking, they let the students cheat.

>districts replaced sustained reading with the practice of pulling “evidence” from disconnected short passages, the same format used on the standardized tests that increasingly determine school funding

I remember this first hand.

>The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.

I’m certain I remember my parents complaining about the same with my generation…

There are probably excellent points around these topics. But… this article doesn’t make the point as well as that kid getting his classmates failing to read a simple sentence on video.

SV_BubbleTime··on My Students Can't Read
Is that irony? Or did the author just use a tool to help? It would be ironic if the author was unable to write about how the students can’t read.
SV_BubbleTime··on Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
I mean, if you aren’t using the car while using the boat and it won’t really damage the car… yes?
SV_BubbleTime··on Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
They already do that on windows and it kinda sucks. If you are targeting something like LMStudio or ComfyUI, both of those have superior methods to do exactly this.
SV_BubbleTime··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
> The message you’re sending is that you think I’m not capable of reading and writing my own emails.

I mean… this is probably true for a great number of people. Perhaps the majority and they are statistically correct to assume.

But yes, fuck Gmail pushing this shit so hard by default.

SV_BubbleTime··on Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
Isn’t it like 15% up to the first or second million in sales?
SV_BubbleTime··on Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks
Oh, well, I didn’t realize that someone’s feelings could be involved! That changes everything.
SV_BubbleTime··on Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai
Everything you said is exactly the proper argument against vibe coding.

If you can’t or don’t entirely go over the output, the failure mode is invisible.

SV_BubbleTime··on Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery
I’d love to see peer reviewed large group study for it. Plenty of claims, and never seen actual evidence. There may be some, I’m open minded.

I think bad to the years before lasik and remember the thousands of pairs of readers I saw older people with.

SV_BubbleTime··on Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks
> Full transcripts are unfortunately not available for any of those cases,

And they never would be without the lawsuits, so, I don’t feel bad for OpenAI. All of big tech needs a kick in the ass on transparency.

SV_BubbleTime··on Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery
Man, lasik was the best $3000 I ever spent. 20/15 laser eyes for almost twenty years now. Traveled around the world, no contacts, no glasses, no missing anything because I just woke up on a train or stepped off a boat or a bus.
SV_BubbleTime··on Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery
There is no case where you need reading glasses and weren’t going to before lasik.

That’s a myth and completely unrelated.

You need reading glasses because muscles at your eyes lose the ability to pull tight and focus up close. LASIK is a correcting of the lens. Entirely different systems.

If you put off lasik because you thought you would need readers, congrats, you could have been seeing sharp at distance this whole time and will likely still need reading glasses.

SV_BubbleTime··on Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
I see all the Lowe’s in my area are Flock’ed up.

Home Depot from now on.

SV_BubbleTime··on wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack
For the most part yes. JWT is a part of JOSE. For most things CBOR, think binary JSON.

I love me some CBOR, but Carl isn’t very adventurous in deviating from JSON (rightfully!) so I don’t expect a lot new in COSE if you have worked with JOSE.

Other than the tagged data types, the main inconpatibiiiry in CBOR to JSON is that CBOR map keys can be integers and in JSON must be strings.

SV_BubbleTime··on Anonymous age verification using only hand gestures
I mean… all I want nothing more than to see the error rate.
SV_BubbleTime··on EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated
I’m against “vibe” anything important, but the fundamental flaw with this reasoning is that unknown unknowns exist.

I can’t cite “from scratch” for something outside of my knowledge but I side LLM training or assisted search.

SV_BubbleTime··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
Of the four frameworks I bought to test. I’ve repaired components from two, a screen and a touchpad both from damage.

But, two other frameworks were totally unacceptable for users, so it wasn’t really a great experiment.

SV_BubbleTime··on The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin
When you say Deepseek API, you mean servers in China? Or is it a copy of the model operated and run by OpenRouter?
SV_BubbleTime··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
Hello, long-time automotive EE here… The absolute insanity I’ve seen from the UAW would make your fucking head spin right off. It took me a LONG time to accept it.

Ignore my first hand experience with your political ideology, it doesn’t bother me.

But, I’ll tell you I’ve been at on-site RVs and BBQs with dozens of on the clock workers. I know a guy making 80/hr to nap and watch TV in his RV for six of his eight hour shift, and this was not uncommon. I know him, because he is THE GUY that can get a vital operation checked out and no one else.

I’m not debating history or ideology. Just experience of a long time working adjacent to UAW.

When I go to on-site to Mexico it’s like an entirely different industry.

SV_BubbleTime··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
I’ll make sure if I’m ever listing anything through a store via consignment that I remember to ask if the contract with their their franchiser allows consignment in the event that the franchisees folds. You know, typical stuff.
SV_BubbleTime··on What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (2021)
Yes, thanks. It was confusing me for a second because no, no almost one is terminating twinax in the server room.

I had IT company recommend to me a bunch of fiber cables for a cleanup I was doing. They had about 20 or 30 laser modules we would need, and however much fiber.

When they asked why I planned on doing copper, I told him because each run is three fucking feet.

I’m not sure if they just didn’t realize that’s not what fiber is for or they didn’t know that DAC existed.

SV_BubbleTime··on The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
I’m apparently a heartless monster or something, but that elicited less than zero for me. I wanted it to end because the squeeky annoying voice and over the top cuteness was for effect.

I’m happy for you that you felt that was dark. Well, IDK, maybe I’m happy for you, hard to say.

SV_BubbleTime··on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
It’s not though.

All three of those events were separated by at least a year each long after PayPal bought Venmo.

SV_BubbleTime··on Ferrari Luce
Yes, I wish I had $650k to blow on an electric car, and it’s not that I can objectively define this as bad. I’m just sour I can’t have it.

We all have eyes, bro.

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