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nick49488171··on The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?
I'm not a psychopath but how are we supposed to fix the deficit without something like DOGE that can cut programs.
nick49488171··on Grok 4.5
Authoritarian?
nick49488171··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
The gyroscope and battery should not be getting exposed without permission. That seems unexpectedly invasive, and I'm in tech.

Also we should disable referrer field.

nick49488171··on Ti-84 Evo
The interface is great for what it does though. I still use ti-83 interface with the calculator app on my phone.
nick49488171··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
My brand new Pixel phone several years back, I was so excited it was IP68. Took some photos splashing around in water, not more than a foot or two. It died in minutes.
nick49488171··on Artemis II safely splashes down
That would have been absolutely horrible
nick49488171··on Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?
No probably not
nick49488171··on "Disregard That" Attacks
Eventually we will rediscover the Harvard Architecture for LLMs.
nick49488171··on ARC-AGI-3
Arc AGI 4 can be Chip's Challenge!
nick49488171··on Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health
I would make the same argument about bicycles then. What is the point of spending taxpayer money providing services for such a dangerous activity?
nick49488171··on Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health
The counter argument is this: if the chance of dying is 2% to make a historic mission, then people should be able to make that choice. What's your counterargument to this statement?

As for your hazards Microgravity can be counteracted with a centrifugal living environment.

Radiation can not be mitigated effectively yet other than throwing mass at the problem. But if someone wants to launch enough mass that's on them.

nick49488171··on Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health
I was not arguing about the hazards of space travel. Of course it is hazardous. I dislike the article because his conclusion is more dangerous to society than any hazardous activity: "something is dangerous therefore nobody should do it." And he makes no arguments to support this conclusion.
nick49488171··on Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health
Fixed pie fallacy.
nick49488171··on Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health
"Space travel is bad for your health and here's what we know about it" is actually a fine article. It's his concluding statement that is contemptible.

"Space may be fascinating, wonderful, and exciting, but most of all, it is incredibly dangerous. As far as human space travel goes, it’s probably best that it stays in the realm of science fiction, at least for the foreseeable future."

How about letting explorers, informed adults, and risk takers make their own decisions.

nick49488171··on Why Going to Mars Would Be Bad for Your Health
About as dangerous as climbing Everest. So we definitely shouldn't do that either, in case these pearl clutching anti-progress journalists experience emotional discomfort.
nick49488171··on ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies – study
You can start by comparing "doctor" care vs "doctor who also uses AI" care
nick49488171··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
One would assume
nick49488171··on People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much
Probably because at that time, normal people weren't rolling off the back of a massive inflationary period where they can no longer afford to look forward to having enough money to buy/use/participate in whatever cool new technology arises.
nick49488171··on Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization
Agreed. Huge annoyance when looking for routes on MountainProject as one example.
nick49488171··on Speed up responses with fast mode
Seems like an opportunity to condense the context into 'documentation' level and only load the full text/code for files that expect to be edited?
nick49488171··on Speed up responses with fast mode
For us mere mortals, how fast does a normal developer for through a MTok. How about a good power user?
nick49488171··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
Not your weights, not your agent
nick49488171··on The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice
Maybe xAI/Tesla, Meta, Palantir
nick49488171··on Amazon cuts 16k jobs
Just like AI, the winners will (continue to) be the ones with the most access to data and the technical and financial capital to make use of it.
nick49488171··on Amazon cuts 16k jobs
He's going for number 7 it seems
nick49488171··on UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M
Screenshot of the top 3 results on Google shopping ought to do it
nick49488171··on Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
With a non-sequential generative approach perhaps the RAM cache misses could be grouped together and swapped on a when available/when needed prioritized bases.
nick49488171··on Tesla ending Models S and X production
China is capitalist on a state level, that's where they are winning. The US lets things get mired in red tape and special interests because nobody wants to take responsibility for growth.

In China, I imagine that if your company does something relevant to the five year initiative then you get a lot of red tape cut for you.

nick49488171··on Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires
You can always put a blank plate over the old one and save yourself a mess of plastering.
nick49488171··on Sins of the Children
Project Hail Mary?

Bobaverse series.

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