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A lot of crypto people bang on and on about choosing a proper random number generator, but if your inadequate random number generator is 1/10 less random than SOA, isn't RSA 2048 still unbreakable?

The Telescope in the Ice was a solid book about this.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1137280085

It's like the VCs are trying to make the AfD win.

Merc taking 1 and 2 in ever race during the first 8 years of hybrid era is balanced?

> I've watched F1 for more than 2 decades, from the paragraph above I realize this year's F1 is basically comparable to AI slop...

F1 has been unsatisfying since the move to hybrid power trains.

I hear you, but there's just so many knobs on postgres that at our correct scale we couldn't amortize the time and effort to become proficient at postges.

The counterpoint is that that new, and existing, mortgage originators did not fare so well after the mortgage market collapsed in the GFC. During large parts of the housing boom deep in the money mortgages could not be refinanced as quickly as borrowers would like due to capacity constraints at the originator level. Obv, not including subprime originators, where there was arguably 10X the needed capacity.

Turing's Cathedral covers this and much more.

Yeah, I know there's more than one way to skin a cat. My point is that storing all accounting values in pennies is overrated.

> because I prioritized extremely high prices for a few years that might have the effect of changing the arithmetic for potential competitors that wouldn't have done it before.

Or maybe they believe the demand is not sustainable, and they don't want to fund $10B ghost fabs.

> Many people know that you shouldn’t do decimal calculations, such as those involving U.S. dollars and cents, with the floating-point numbers in most programming languages. This is because decimal numbers can’t be expressed exactly as such floating-point numbers, so you will encounter rounding errors.

Decimals or pennies, you still have rounding errors. For example, if your contract is $100 / year. You will get the full $100 if you bill yearly, quarterly, or semi-annually. But if you bill monthly, no matter if you deal in pennies or fractional dollars, the sum total of your invoices for the year will be less than $100.

That's only 1/5 of NVDA announced stock buyback.

Before clicking, I thought this would be about the Cross Bronx Expressway.

> normal average US mileage of 14,000mi in a year.

That sounds very high. The most common lease cap is 10k miles per year.

Yes, useful at the personal level. I agree. But at the community level, emission reduction is most useful for cities.

> Sorry, but how are these two related?

I dunno. Ask the OP.

I recently got a hybrid because I wanted better gas mileage--no more, no less. Without subsidies, I can't get the math to work for an EV.

How many cities offer both abundant street parking and abundant charging stations?

That's the irony of EVs. They're most useful in cities--short driving distances and less emissions in dense areas, but easiest for the consumer to use in the burbs where driving distances are longer and emissions are less of an issue.

Matt Levine discussed this relevant NY Times article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business/draftkings-ai.ht...

Pull quote:

> Ms. Kalani said that company leaders made a “collective decision” not to use predictive technology for problem gambling. “We evaluated that it wasn’t evidence-based,” she said.

Mackie acted in Hacks, Tales of the City, and The Love Boat.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0533496/

you must have tokens to burn.

That rapture is coming too. So I guess it will be a footrace.

> so I can better understand the change and alternatives considered. I don’t do this very often,

# YOLO mode

The European Commission strikes again!

> it'll keep running as long as anyone anywhere is willing to make money by renting hardware to it.

You just admitted it's controllable.

fair enough, but in my experience fast models seem to be 5-10X faster than slow models.

> in terms of functionality and value to users, software ought to be malleable and composable.

For technically competent users, sure. but for everyone else the UI should just follow the principal of least surprise.

fast results that you need to verify are better than slow (allegedly better) results that you still need to verify. REPL vs batch.

Information wants to be free. But other than AI slop (where the tokens have become too cheap to meter), information costs money to produce. Pay with you info or your money. It's amazing how many people just cannot come to grips with that concept.