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Veliladon··on No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record
El Niño sends the jet stream southward. Once the jet stream gets far enough south it tears apart any developing storms in the Gulf and Caribbean Sea before they have a chance to become a problem.
Veliladon··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
There's only one mostly AI company you can short right now and everyone's already doing it.
Veliladon··on Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling
Start by banning disposable vapes. The sheer waste of lithium from those fucking devices is insane in 2026. We need every scrap of it we can get!
Veliladon··on San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs
>Compare to Santa Clara, which has their own well run utility, and charges less than half PG&E rates.

This. Lived in Santa Clara. SVP is the best utility in California.

Veliladon··on We Need VAT and UBI
We don't need a VAT. Taxes on consumption are insanely regressive.

Put a tax on the value of land instead of the property improvements. Then you'll start to see some wealth flow away from the UHNWIs.

Veliladon··on We need to add 6k seats to Congress
Yep. Take every seat, make it 15 seats. Ideally we’d have ranked choice and STV. Something like how Australia has a quota system for Senators being elected. People who achieve 1/16th of the votes get a seat, distribute preferences, repeat until all seats are full.
Veliladon··on Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
The problem is that open codecs can still be encumbered by patents and the holders will sue. VP9 and AV1 have their own patent pool for that very reason. Google may have open sourced its codecs but if they don’t indemnify users people who think they’re safe might be in for a bad time.
Veliladon··on America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out
The electorate does give control but they get bored after a few years and want to wreck everything all over again. It's goldfish levels of political memory in this country.
Veliladon··on How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz?
Getting pristine resampling is insanely expensive and not worth it.

If you have a mixer at 48KHz you'll get minor quantization noise but if it's compressed already it's not going to do any more damage than compression already has.

Veliladon··on Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
And we learned zero from the change after shutting down the Purdues. The electorate just wants to see drug users punished, not treated. Even though treating cheaper, more humane, and has way better outcomes.
Veliladon··on Tesla publishes analyst forecasts suggesting sales set to fall
Given that xAI only has a few billion in cash on hand? Very fucking low. It'd bankrupt Elon before reaching that stage though.
Veliladon··on Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components
It's a wonderful day on the Internet. A beautiful day for a CVSS 10 exploit!
Veliladon··on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks – and no, he's
Fuck him and people like him. There's no good reason to have a 70 hour work week other than insecure management needing it as a security blanket like some nine year old child. Researchers keep showing how human beings have a maximum productive time each week but instead he and his ilk want to go against this research for the sheer optics of it.
Veliladon··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
Errors work just like exceptions especially if you use the ? operator and let the error bubble up the chain. This is the Rust equivalent of an unhandled exception and the ripcord being pulled.
Veliladon··on Maybe you’re not trying
Probably because our desire to help and not let down a person we care about gives us courage. That courage serves as motivation to go outside our comfort zone.
Veliladon··on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
> The mod injects only in the process Winlogon.exe, and exits once the handle of the memory area is closed. It does not hook any functions.

Yep. Sure. Going to let a Russian utility fuck with winlogon.exe. Excellent idea.

Veliladon··on Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned
^ This. I'm waiting for an LLM where I can just point it to a repo, slurp it up, and let me ask questions about it.
Veliladon··on California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind
Normally this would be handled by a wider synchronized network. The EU has a continent wide synchronized network and the UK isn’t part of it.

There are also other ways to store energy. For polar regions sand batteries are capable of storing heat for months. High grade heat to the point they can siphon off that heat for power generation.

Veliladon··on Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment
>But you cannot use this anywhere where the ultrasound would be blocked by other organs.

Yes you can. If you had an array of ultrasonic transducers around the body you could have each of them in phase targeting a single spot. Beamforming is a thing we've been doing for years with RF. It's even more trivial with sound.

Veliladon··on Why we need SIMD
GPUs are literal SIMD devices. Usually 32 or 64 ALU lanes.
Veliladon··on Battering RAM – Low-cost interposer attacks on confidential computing
Need to go Apple style where the AES engine is on die. Only the AES engine and the Secure Enclave know the decryption keys. The CPU doesn't know the decryption key. Nothing is sent in clear text over the bus.
Veliladon··on A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
For me it's because I learned Ada in college.

18 year old me couldn't appreciate how beautiful a language it is but in my 40s I finally do.

Veliladon··on A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code
> The ability to make number types that were limited in their range is really useful for certain classes of bugs.

Yes! I would kill to get Ada's number range feature in Rust!

Veliladon··on US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
What could possibly go wrong? /s
Veliladon··on iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark
Because the A18 had its L2 and LLC caches slashed in half. Frequency and uarch improvements don’t matter if you can’t keep the ports fed.
Veliladon··on Apple pushes EU to repeal tech rules over feature delays, app vulnerabilities
It's a double edged sword. The problem is that there's a lot of bad actors out there. You know why Apple doesn't let companies get access to the raw camera data on the Vision? Because Meta is salivating at getting inside people's homes and being able to get even more data.

Some of us are able to navigate the minefield through a lot of hard won experience acquired over years if not decades. I lived through the J2ME era with compromised JARs, premium rate scams, carriers monopolizing things, and all the bullshit that came along with it. The App Store, for all its MANY faults basically solved all that for normal people in one fell swoop.

A lot of people aren't going to realize what they might be giving up until it's too late. Apple is at least trying to mitigate this by keeping as much processing as possible on device and trying to secure those devices as best they can. For a lot of people who aren't technically inclined this is a godsend. DMA somewhat counteracts that because it forces Apple to give up some of the control that is keeping these bad actors at bay.

Veliladon··on Disrupting the DRAM roadmap with capacitor-less IGZO-DRAM technology
They can do it with 3D NAND because the electrons are injected into the charge storage medium through brute force. The problem is that the capacitance scales with area. We're reducing the node size but now the aspect ratios are insane and the trenches for the storage wells are >3um high. That's over 1,000 times thicker per layer compared to NAND.
Veliladon··on Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators
Just about all of them.
Veliladon··on A Brilliant and Nearby One-off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 pc Precision
> nearby (40 Mpc)

Perspective is always so interesting. I’ve never thought of anything 130 million light years to be nearby but on a universe spanning scale it kind of is.

Veliladon··on How can AI ID a cat?
I have a Finnish Lapphund dog and from the right angle AI thinks it's a cat.
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