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digitalPhonix··on Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
I thought Corsair gave up on the consumer RAM market because Altman would pay more.

How is Drop going to compete internally for their resources (time/attention/rtc.) when the entire consumer RAM market can’t?

digitalPhonix··on 43 hours battery life: Dell XPS 14 2026 lasts almost 3x longer vs MacBook Air 15
The XPS build quality (from what I remember) was pretty good and the new one looks like it has a massive trackpad. Maybe a macbook won't be my default next laptop.

Hopefully this is just the start of x86 laptops responding Macbooks. They've been pretty much unchallenged for most use cases (even more now with the Neo) for the past few years.

digitalPhonix··on Apple Will Enable iOS 18 Security Updates for iOS 26-Capable Devices
iOS 26 adoption is that bad? (I am one of the people refusing to update; the nagging is quite annoying and you basically have to refuse to enter your pin now to snooze it)
digitalPhonix··on Accidental eCall activation in cars lead to 75% false 112 calls in Nederland
It’s an awkward middle problem.

In a fully staffed metro department (or even one with volunteer auxiliaries/volunteers staffing 3rd/4th seats from the station when available) the extra calls aren’t much of a problem and I think give everyone extra reps training & thinking about what to do if there was an incident at that location.

If you have volunteers responding from home/work, then yeah, it’s a huge drain and morale drain.

digitalPhonix··on Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem
Sure, lets test that:

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69c420f3118081919cf525123e39598c

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69c4215daeb481919fdaf22498fb0c4f

Do you have a different definition of false? I'm referring to their reasoning context as their scratch pad if that wasn't clear.

digitalPhonix··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
> What does those three seas you mentioned have in common? They have Nordic coastline on both sides.

You should check out the Norwegian Sea?

> And just out of curiosity: Why don't they build these wind parks inland in the great plains? Too much energy loss from distance to consumers?

Don't worry, this administration has been canceling those projects too: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/trump-c...

(This is why my stance is "bad faith" on the "national security" claim, if that wasn't clear; I know plenty on how RADARs work and it doesn't pass the sniff test)

digitalPhonix··on Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem
I can do it with a scratch pad. And I can also tell you when the calculation exceeds what I can do in my head and when I need a scratch pad. I can also check a long multiplication answer in my head (casting 9s, last digit etc.) and tell if there’s a mistake.

The LLMs also have access to a scratch pad. And importantly don’t know when they need to use it (as in, they will sometimes get long multiplication right if you ask them to show their work but if you don’t ask them to they will almost certainly get it wrong).

digitalPhonix··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
> If the radars that the USA uses are so great, then why don't Finland and Sweden purchase these systems instead of blocking almost all offshore wind farms?

Are you deliberately not trying to see the difference?

Early warning systems need all the help they can get when you only have 100km to your threats (ie. the baltic sea); when you have the entire Atlantic you don’t need that.

US early warning systems are great because they have 1000s of kilometers of space.

As other commenters have already pointed out to you, the Nordic countries do allow wind farms in:

    - Gulf of Bothnia (Sweden + Finland)
    - Kattegat (Sweden)
    - Noregian sea (Norway)
digitalPhonix··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
> Baltic sea

Still don’t see a problem making this comparing?

Atlantic ocean: thousands of miles to the nearest land from the NE coast; unrestricted commercial activity

Baltic sea: Belligerent nation on the coast (Kaliningrad Oblast) ~100 miles away; heavily patrolled and monitored commercial activity

> If wind farms are a problem for radars in the US

I’m asserting they are not because they magically weren’t 2 years ago and the airspace on the NE coast of the US has some of the largest and most aggressive ADIZ in the world since 2001. If wind farms were a problem for RADAR/early warning systems we would have heard about it in the last 25 years.

> So why you are bringing up nearest land I have no clue? The point is that the US is exposed to the oceans.

Er yes... I’m sure the military groups responsible for early warning didn’t just realise that in 2025. 10 years after offshore wind farms in the area were fully operational.

Edit: I want to say that learnings from recent conflicts (especially around drones) would be a compelling argument for why we only just realised these issues, but no one has articulated that or why it’s an issue on the Atlantic coast.

digitalPhonix··on Migrating to the EU
> And by the way, this is not democracy, it is 'representative democracy'

Representative democracy has been part of the definition of democracy (in English) since before the USA existed: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=democracy

(Only in the US have I had to argue about whether representative democracy is a "real" democracy, so I assume you're American)

digitalPhonix··on US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects
There's a big difference between

a) Finland needing fast & accurate RADAR tracking across their 50km gulf and restricting activity in the gulf as a result. Not just wind farms, other commercial activities are restricted in the Gulf of Finland including shipping.

b) USA restricting wind farms on it's east coast (NC and NY/NJ) where the nearest land is thousands of km away and no other commercial activities are meaningfully restricted.

(If the US can't field a RADAR for early warning off the east coast that can handle wind farms on the coast, we have other problems)

digitalPhonix··on The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved
Your original comment was:

> but your local router has old software and treats all packages to x.x.x.x.* as directed to it.

So how do you have an IPv4x address? And then how did you let someone else on the internet know about the IPv4x address?

I know plenty well how IP routing works otherwise I wouldn't be in this conversation. Is there something specific in the RFC you think I’m not understanding?

digitalPhonix··on Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented"
> an administration deliberately failing to enforce immigration laws

What civil liberties are being eroded there?

(I do agree that poor handling of the pandemic normalised the removal of civil liberties)

digitalPhonix··on Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier
Wasn’t it also a free upgrade when it launched? They didn’t bump the price of their search plans when they added Assistant.

I wish they’d separated them from the start because I knew immediately that my subscription (where I don’t use Assistant) was going to subsidise subscriptions that do. Now I don’t know what the right thing for them to do is, given they’ve been marketing Assistant as a feature.

digitalPhonix··on Kagi's Orion browser hits public beta on Linux
> Orion isn’t a recoloured Chromium or another Firefox fork, but a native Linux app built in GTK4/libadwaita and WebKitGTK, with platform-level integration.

Isn't it just a recoloured Safari (through WebKit)? Why is Chromium/Firefox bad but WebKit OK for this argument?

digitalPhonix··on Changing My Mind on UBI
A simple proxy experiment I’ve seen are private torrent trackers.

The ones that have a monthly/weekly/daily free download allowance don’t suddenly deflate the value of “uploaded bytes” across the whole network.

The allowance is enough for someone to bootstrap themselves onto the network by getting some torrents to seed.

UBI should largely be the same? It’s not to replace the incentive of high income, it’s enough to get the basics to live. Trading your time/effort/capital for more income is still incentivised the same way it is now. All the other market effects are still in play.

I don’t understand how Hotz thinks this will suddenly lead to UBI dollars being worthless.

digitalPhonix··on The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved
How would anything on the internet know about x.x.x.x.y.y…?

Your computer knows it’s connected to an old router because dhcp gave it x.x.x.x address and not x.x.x.x... so it knows it’s running in old v4 mode.

And it can still send outbound to a v4x address that it knows about.

digitalPhonix··on Agents that run while I sleep
> Changes land in branches I haven't read. A few weeks ago I realized I had no reliable way to know if any of it was correct: whether it actually does what I said it should do. I care about this. I don't want to push slop, and I had no real answer.

That’s really putting the cart before the horse. How do you get to “merging 50 PRs a week” before thinking “wait, does this do the right thing?”

digitalPhonix··on China Deploys 30k-Ton Liaowang-1 "Floating Supercomputer" to Gulf of Oman
I think they’re asking from the context of it being a military vessel being deployed to a relatively hot zone.
digitalPhonix··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
I am chosing, perhaps naively, that the Chicago red light cameras are an exception and not common because that whole process was criminal: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-redflex-ceo-sent...
digitalPhonix··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
> generally because the operators lower the yellow light time to increase fees

I'm skeptical of this claim because the red light camera operators are usually contracted by municipalities. They don't have any direct control over the light cycles.

(Yes, obviously they can be in cahoots with the municipality, but I would be surprised if that was common and not the exception)

Do you have any evidence of this?

digitalPhonix··on Put the zip code first
> Fine, maybe country first. The purists in the comments are technically correct — postal codes aren't globally unique. You could do country first (pre-filled via IP), then postal code, then let the magic happen. The point was never "skip the country field." The point is: stop making me type things you already know.

It’s addressed in the article (at the end, admittedly).

digitalPhonix··on Can coding agents relicense open source through a "clean room" implementation?
He’s not claiming the rewrite is a clean room implementation. In fact he’s explicitly saying it is not:

> However, the purpose of clean-room methodology is to ensure the resulting code is not a derivative work of the original. It is a means to an end, not the end itself. In this case, I can demonstrate that the end result is the same — the new code is structurally independent of the old code — through direct measurement rather than process guarantees alone.

digitalPhonix··on Where things stand with the Department of War
I was unaware that the secretary of defence was a combat role?

He (and his allies) have referred to him as "warfighter": https://www.radiofree.org/2025/04/23/look-ma-im-a-warfighter...

digitalPhonix··on Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal
> Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-ditch attempt to strike a deal with the US defence department after the breakdown of negotiations last week left his company at risk of being frozen out of the military’s supply chain.

Is the only sentence in that article related to the title and there’s no information to back up the statement? How is this a news article?

The rest of the page rehashes last week.

digitalPhonix··on Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
You have a car (I assume, replace “car” with whatever else if not).

The government asks if they can rent your car. I hope we agree that you don’t have to say yes. (Specific exceptions exist to places of lodging etc.)

Anthropic is exercising their right to say no in the same way.

digitalPhonix··on Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction
This is another example of Goodhart's law in action, right?

Weirdly Pediatrics (chart 7) skews the other way (less publications tended to get into residency programs)? Are those doctors/administrators/programs somehow seeing through the nonsense?

digitalPhonix··on Don't become an engineering manager
Amazon had the concept of terminal role (SDE2, but I’ve heard it has changed) long before facebook existed.
digitalPhonix··on OpenAI changes deal with US Military after backlash
The updated text still says:

> For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose. The AI System shall not be used for unconstrained monitoring of U.S. persons’ private information as consistent with these authorities.

Isn't the "... as consistent with these authorities" phrase the problem as it allows their interpretation to contractually hold?

digitalPhonix··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
> Setting AI aside for a moment, this reflects a broader issue in India and elsewhere. When institutions respond to new technologies with anger or threats rather than systemic thinking, it signals a deeper problem.

No, especially in this case when the first appeal to the high court resulted in the high court brushing it off as if nothing happened.

It was a reprimand two to institutes (the trial court and the high court) they have a job to do and they can't shirk that responsibility.

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