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Sounds like a reason to prefer multi threading over multi processing.

mastaxon Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

Well, AI do lack motivation unless you use goal mode or whatever.

mastaxon Nvidia is the central bank of AI

But for the duration, there is more money. This isn’t some crank theory, it’s orthodox economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

mastaxon Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

Why wouldn’t you be surprised?

mastaxon The only road in London where you have to drive on the right

No it makes it sound like much of the rest of the world drives on the right.

mastaxon VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

My understanding is that VLC and FFMpeg are both projects which develop in house codecs and also incorporate codecs developed by third parties.

mastaxon VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

I assume it’s a GPL workaround.

mastaxon Bitchat is now on Radicle

Did banning it cause it to get adopted even faster in India than it otherwise would have? That seems like the salient point to me for the Indian government’s calculus. I don’t have a particularly good feel for Indian society but my prior is that this kind of official friction puts a pretty low hard cap on how popular an app can get. If the realistic ambition was only ever to reach a small circle of activists and nerds then sure, this event probably helped the app reach those people faster.

mastaxon Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful

I found that if you allow any low value things into memory, Claude will notice that established pattern and start trying to add low value memories at an ever increasing pace.

mastaxon Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

If all you want is a chat interface you can install Claude.ai as a PWA. The value proposition of the Claude desktop app includes being able to screenshot and interact with desktop app windows, the file system, etc. That drags you into desktop environment and compositor API hell.

mastaxon Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

The recents list on my browser got changed to newest so I end up checking it by accident.

mastaxon Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You

There’s a slash command that’ll look through your conversation history to add allow permissions.

mastaxon What is a Demand Coop

Pre-agricultural Hunter-gatherer bands aren’t a monolith. Many were radically egalitarian, yes, many others were strictly hierarchical including slavery and human sacrifice. A surprisingly large proportion of them were hierarchical for one part of the year and egalitarian for the rest (often coinciding with religious festivals and/or different means of sustenance depending on the season).

mastaxon Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets

That isn’t how they were pitched to the FTC but it does appear to be their ultimate use case.

mastaxon Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids

That’s like saying the solution to cigarettes is that tobacco shops must be forced to sell clove cigarettes as a not-addictive alternative.

mastaxon Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC

I was just looking at these funny parts: https://www.vicorpower.com/products?productType=cfg&productK...

130A, 48V -> 1.2V @ 94% efficiency! Except:

- $100 ea.

- Fixed 1/40 voltage ratio, regulation done by upstream regulator.

- Look at the minimum specs for efficiency…

mastaxon An incoherent Rust

Language changes could help for sure. There’s a library implementation we can use right now though: https://facet.rs/ Basically a derive macro for reflection. Yeah it’s one (more) trait to derive on all your types but then users can use that to do reflection or pretty printing or diffing or whatever they want.

mastaxon The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor

The M-15 is still uglier. Also intended as a cropduster, though unlike the AirTruk it was really bad at that job in every way.

mastaxon Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout

Was the Nuscale cost estimate somehow worse than AP1000 or EPR(2)? That seems very unlikely to me given the history of those programs.

mastaxon Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service

Out of all the SSO login flows Microsoft has to have the buggiest. It’s the only one I can remember routinely having issues with. Why are there so many redirects? And why doesn’t the “remember me” checkbox ever work?

mastaxon Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam

The modern Atari has no relation to the original Atari. They’re essentially copyright trolls. I do not believe we owe them any moral obligation for the works they bought from the original Atari via a series of many intermediaries.

mastaxon 3D-Knitting: The Ultimate Guide

Uniqlo offers a few 3D knit items, I’ve been meaning to try them out. Pretty basic styles though.

mastaxon Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years

Only 92 of the 842 peers are hereditary currently, so it’s not really necessary to convince them to agree; the deal only needs to be seen as fair enough by the other peers. Or really, it only needs to be seen as fair enough to the House of Commons.

mastaxon RISC-V Is Sloooow

I assume the TensTorrent TT-Ascalon is one of the CPU designs.

mastaxon Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case

Really? Could you point at one of these shell companies?

mastaxon Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

I don't think that is compatible with his ruling in Biden v. Nebraska, nor some others during Biden's term.

mastaxon Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

It seems likely to me the ruling took this long because John Roberts wanted to get a more unanimous ruling.

Additionally, the law in this case isn’t ill defined whatsoever. Alito, Thomas, and to a lesser extent Kavanaugh are just partisan hacks. For many years I wanted to believe they had a consistent and defensible legal viewpoint, even if I thought it was misguided. However the past six years have destroyed that notion. They’re barely even trying to justify themselves in most of these rulings; and via the shadow docket frequently deny us even that barest explanation.

mastaxon Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

If the US really wanted to make a durable shift to manufacturing, presidential tariffs by fiat aren’t a good strategy anyway. Tariffs could be a small part of that strategy but they should be targeted, not broad, and enacted by congress so businesses have the kind of decades-long stability required to invest in factories that take years to pay off.

mastaxon Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

The tariffs have been absolute hell on small businesses and manufacturing businesses of any size.

mastaxon America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

Then we must repeal the state laws criminalizing electors not voting in line with the states popular vote allocation, and directly elect electors to ensure they are people of sound morals and judgement rather than partisan hacks. Because at the moment the electoral college serves no function besides distorting the popular vote. Any other possible function has been removed by law.