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peterlada

118 karma · joined May 26, 2010

Code poet. Espresso fiend. Starter upper.

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peterlada··on 'Humans need solitude': How being alone can make you happier
Red pilling is a right wing propaganda tactic, straight out of FSB.
peterlada··on CEO of Health Care Software Company Convicted of $1B Fraud Conspiracy
They didn't (don't) have expertise
peterlada··on Chrome achieves highest score ever on Speedometer 3, saving users millions of
As one of the monitizable subject I am eternally indented to my trillionaire corporate overlords.

Seriously, break up Google already.

peterlada··on California has got good at building giant batteries
Battery capacity is measured in (k)Wh as it stores energy.
peterlada··on California has got good at building giant batteries
BYD does batteries at scale now for about $45/kWh.

The cheapest US made ones are $120/kWh.

The yield and the lack of automation is the holdup.

Source: recent article on Works In Progress.

peterlada··on DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
The "American" chips sanctions is outsourced. It is a single Dutch company (ASML) in EU which machines are installed in Taiwan. The EU which Humpty-Trumpy is working very hard to completely alienate...
peterlada··on Coffee for people who don't like coffee
Ask for medium roast, not light. You might like dark roasts, especially if you drink with milk or fakemilk.

There are two kind of "sourness" in coffee, one is of acidity, which is a (for some highly desirable) feature of the beans, which can be toned down with darker roasting levels. The other is astringency (tea-like) which is a sign of extraction defect and generally not liked by all. This can be controlled with grind settings.

peterlada··on Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm demand problem
EV convert here. I owned two Teslas so far. Won't buy a third one until Musk is the CEO. My sentiment is widely shared on /r/tesla and other Tesla forums. South Korea will get my car payment.
peterlada··on Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I'm doing instead)
Way off. Angel investing is betting on people you know well enough.
peterlada··on White House lashes out at 'hostile and political act by Amazon'
White House is a hostile political act.
peterlada··on Is China Pulling Ahead in the Quest for Fusion Energy?
100 square kilometers of panels is the total energy consumption of the world now, two thirds of which is extracting, shipping refining and trucking around hydrocarbons which are stored sunlight.
peterlada··on Is China Pulling Ahead in the Quest for Fusion Energy?
It ain't. The lower bound on cost is the fusion energy at a safe 1AU distance. It's ignited and will produce energy for another dozen billion years. With asymptotically zero cost panels and relatively cheap batteries anyone can harness it anywhere.
peterlada··on More Everything Forever
Add to that a soil and dust that's toxic to humans. Our biology, unsurprisingly, is only compatible with a single planet.
peterlada··on College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era
Can you include the barely inhabited Rockies, the Badlands, the arid low and high deserts, the Sierras?
peterlada··on MTA says tolls keeping 82k drivers a day out of Manhattan
Good.
peterlada··on Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot
To summarize: multiplication hashes are inferior but when used with the golden ratio derived integer, they are actually superior
peterlada··on Everything wrong with MCP
Let me give you some contrast here:

- employees are not necessarily trustworthy

- employers place a lot of trust in them anyway

peterlada··on Everything wrong with MCP
Love the trollishness/carelessness of your post. Exactly as you put it: "it is not the road's job to limit your speed".

Like a bad urban planner building a 6 lane city road with the 25mph limit and standing there wondering why everyone is doing 65mph in that particular stretch. Maybe sending out the police with speed traps and imposing a bunch of fines to "fix" the issue, or put some rouge on that pig, why not.

peterlada··on Growing trade deficit is selling the nation out from under us (2003) [pdf]
Billionaire's take. Plutocracy works like that.
peterlada··on National security adviser Michael Waltz reportedly conducted business via Gmail
Lock him up
peterlada··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
I hold a more pessimistic view of the cause and I do agree with your argument that they do know the consequences. But they don't care for another reason.

The plutocracy has fully captured the government and now seeks its ultimate goal: complete transfer of all tax burden to the 99%. For this end they cut the government spending, wrecking the democracy and they impose tariffs to generate fake temporary revenues, so they can argue that the huge tax cut (dwarfing all that came before) is economically sound and fully justified.

This will wreck the global economy and with the coming bad times (wars, famine, extreme migration) nobody will have the presence or the governmental weight to rein in these few rich man.

peterlada··on There is no Vibe Engineering
Vibe coding is functionally equivalent to drunken coding. It all seems to make sense ... until next morning when you try to run it.
peterlada··on Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as CEO Critic
Compared to this, the governmental credit system of China seems to me a giant improvement, no?
peterlada··on The FBI Seized This Woman's Life Savings–Without Telling Her Why
Wasn't this a story broke by Politico?
peterlada··on Tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
Yet, even those stories were missing from mainstream media. We are at a turning point and even these stories selected with racial bias help us to understand Trumpler's bullshit smokescreen of "deporting only the violent" undocumented immigrants. This at this point is a rouge department largely staffed with the worst of the racist xenophobic misanthropes.
peterlada··on Bloomberg: BYD's Five-Minute Charges Compare with Competitors (Gift Article)
What the actual AI slop is this article??!?

And I quote: "BYD’s latest platform goes up to 1,000 volts, which fires up the battery, motor, air conditioning and other components."

I'm sorry what does it do???

peterlada··on Nervous international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans
As an American I second this.
peterlada··on A look at some of the creative ways companies try to dodge high tariffs
Triple the transportation carbon footprint. <sarcasm> Brilliant! </s>
peterlada··on Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
China is not losing this decade, the scientific gap will add to the growing chasm of future outcomes between the two superpowers.
peterlada··on What happened to the n in restaurateur?
Coffee is Ethiopia, came with the Ottomans to Europe, tea came from Chine with the British or the Silk Road. Either of them post dates the Romans.
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