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4,501 karma · joined February 4, 2016

ignores everyone, my comments are fire & forget, don't expect a response and if you think I'm wrong, that is your problem not mine.
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consp··on Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
Maybe a French or Canadian person typed it wrong often and complained about the weird location of the w. Don't think it is the reason but there are more than one way to explain there lines of thought.
consp··on Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Google maps uses suggestive names (e.g. a park walkway given a name by the municipality) as official road names, and when it does that it marked it as a cycling path. Both are invalid and cycling on them is illegal. This has been going on for years.
consp··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
It's easy talking points during elections but requires lengthy legal procedures and thus gets chopped immediately. Politicians gonna be politicians. Better to be talking about the time of day than some other dog whisle.
consp··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
I'm not sure but it sounds like a skirmish to lure out the lobby groups talking points into the wide open by the voice of the EU commission.
consp··on Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan
The Maltese route is still open but a bit different since 2025. It's now citizenship by merit (aka the old by investment, since dumping money is considered a cultural contribution).
consp··on The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE
Doesn't the block simply get marked as deleted and only wiped on a write?
consp··on Honda Civics and the Evil Valet
By the time post quantum matters for things like firmware packages the thing they've build, even if done well, will have been broken anyway in some other form. But rules are rules, thy must obey and introduce more logical errors and bug in the process.
consp··on CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers
It is always interesting to point out to people claiming it would be better to not cure people that over half of the people in the room would be dead by the age of 5. That likely includes them.
consp··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Don't know where you get your apples but I can buy 1 if I want. Just not at the supermarket since they optimise to sell you more than you need. No regulation involved here.
consp··on Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
Or people with not enough time, not enough resources and too much overtime already to kill off any happyness in creating the product.
consp··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
Damn this is horrible. So the author chose to waste everyone's time by expanding with cow manure. I generally don't read much articles online anymore since they are all likely to contain slop unless authored by known non-slop users.
consp··on I design with Claude more than Figma now
What's wrong with a good cli?
consp··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
That number usually includes cost of habitat and others. It's also a stupid number as it is skewed by how much you can squeeze out of your employees. A better number would be to compare it vs revenue per capita.
consp··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
If those don't go the caps and coils will eventually.
consp··on New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades
The EEVBlog[1] video about this has a nice example of only a single chinese manufacturer offering the same stuff as TI now does, even with the same PNP instead of NPN topology. All the others are comparable to the original.

1: https://youtu.be/22ZmmZ67SMY

consp··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
This sounds like the "everything you create in your own time is company property since we cannot distinguish if what you do in your own time isn't company related" clause in some contracts. Under no circumstance is it actable where I live, but it can sure scare the hell out of people and presents a line of thought. Yes, some companies think they can own copyright on the things you write at home.
consp··on Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code
Interesting analogy since there is lots of stuff you can't use a dishwasher for without harming or destroying it.
consp··on AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
The problem is the low levels have no influence whatsoever. The higher ups force crap down and none ever comes back.
consp··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
Tastes differ.
consp··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Because it is useless now.
consp··on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
Since google got as bad as bing, it doesn't matter anymore and ddg is fine (afaik still the main source). This is just a plus.
consp··on The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)
A modern example of odd color schemes is 18bit color which is still often used in small cheaper displays (666/18bit vs 565/16bit) keeping the maximum color space available for all colors on these displays. If you are lucky you only have 16bit bus available and also need to do 3:2 packing, but that allows you to use 24bit in code and ramming the bytes in sequence over the 16bit bus without any modification (since they ignore the extra two bits per color).
consp··on A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
Only when you remove it from the original server or enable low fan mode (if available). Most 1U/2U cases will happily blow at full speed well over 90db.

You likely need to replace the flow-through server chassis system with an active "normal" cooler to achieve a bit of silence.

85W might be about right. My old server CPU is in the same ballpark and compiling kernels it reached about 90w in power usage. If you want to keep it running: idle is not very low power unless you have one of the "low power" L versions, keep that in mind.

consp··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
I failure is the goal: yes.
consp··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
I'd argue there would be two lanes as well: one where the issues are addressed in code, the other being the discussion of why people think this is a bad idea and speak so openly about it. This topic is the second I guess. Looking at the flow there is quite a bit of flamebait by the LLM and non-LLM camps which only muddies the water and doesn't resolve anything. The better discussion (imo) would be to decide if the vide coded fixes are worth it and if not, fork the project somewhere and let the distro's chip in to maintain that.
consp··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
> I think this behavior is very silly and people are just trying to justify their hate to AI by latching onto every possible thing

It's not silly to have issues with something. People act on their issues. Possibly not the issue underlying the commit at hand here but something else, and act on it which makes it something to consider. My guess is people are tired of the "AI is the greatest thing since [cultural reference]" being forced down their throat and grasp at every straw to combat it, which is a sane response in my opinion and should be taken into account.

consp··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
When LLMs make mistakes, it is still the human making the mistake of trusting the LLM. And more often than not "AI" is hailed as costing no effort and being perfect in every way (yes exaggerated), which you can attack when it obviously is going to fail at some point.
consp··on Accenture to acquire Ookla
Marketing without a product is called a scam. Marketing with a "good enough" product to sell it is the same.
consp··on IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses
Considering what people do whole driving, I doubt this will add any measurable risk.
consp··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
On a gdp basis, which heavily favours the US, the US is not even the top dog. It's just above Belgium and below South Korea.
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