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zackees··on Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21
Aka green threads.
zackees··on Supreme Court rules against Epic, so Apple can keep its App Store payment rules
A court will decline a stay if it’s likely the case will not prevail.
zackees··on YouTube-Dl Site Goes Offline as Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban
China and other nation states are certainly using this feature to scrap all publicly available content to monitor political discourse.

I doubt Sony/RIAA comes close to that weight.

zackees··on Observation of zero resistance above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O
Because science has been captured by the global mafia who wants to shut off oil imports if some client state decides to get uppity.

This proverbial gun is disabled if there is abundant decentralized power generation they don’t control.

Just look at the oil shutdown at Niger.

zackees··on Cognitive AI for ADHD
Too limited as a chrome plugin. I need an ADHD app that works across devices and watches me from my phone/watch.

If I have to go to my desktop then most of the value is missed.

zackees··on Observation of zero resistance above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O
Cold fusion was replicated by a few labs but that wasn’t good enough for the media and they killed it. For background see 60 minutes episode “Cold Fusion is Hot again” where they interview and admit Pons Fleischmann was right.

The difference now is that China is a super power and doesn’t have to kiss the ring of the US hegemon.

As an example of replication see

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036031992...

There are many paper like this.

The “cold fusion is a hoax” was in itself, a hoax.

zackees··on Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?
Also, the clock speed of CPUs are limited by resistance and heat.

Both of those go to zero. We may see 100ghz CPUs and 3D stacked cpus with almost no need for cooling.

zackees··on Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?
I use Chat GPT 4 for all coding. I’ve learned some amazing prompts that will add features to existing code.
zackees··on Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
Yes.
zackees··on Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10
But is that true if the dynamically typed language has type annotations?
zackees··on Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
Very early stage, but I have a small electronic jewelry project that merges voice sensing electronics to timeless gemstones and bespoke hand wrapped high end jewelry.

The value here is that everyone wants to be more important. A shining crystal that pulses with your voice makes you a celebrity everywhere you go.

Later versions will include an AI assistant that is tuned specifically to keeping you on task and engaged.

zackees··on Oregon County Sues BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon for $51B Climate Damages
The sources have been posted and you can see for yourself that the climate sensors are located at the tarmac airports, many in the pathway of airplane exhaust jets.

Example: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/lcd/

What you are looking for are “authoritative” analysis from the same in group perpetuating this scam, which is circular reasoning and a logical fallacy.

Many authoritative sources outside of this club are rightly pointing out with hard data that this warming is so overstated, fraught with integrity problems (to put it lightly) and conflicts of interests that the entire narrative needs an audit and inclusion of climate scientists that have been locked out of this debate.

zackees··on Oregon County Sues BP, Chevron, Shell, Exxon for $51B Climate Damages
No, it’s not dead, the first link is coincidental down for maintenance, per the message on the page.

You can see the archived link here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170115133353/https://www.epw.s...

The other two links are alive but you need a twitter account to view them.

zackees··on PayPal “Buy Now” buttons have been broken for a week
Because I said so on twitter?
zackees··on Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buyers Leave
Keep in mind that half of America can’t participate in politics and news (and others). Their views are deemed wrong think and their accounts are banned.

This is effectively the type of censorship employed by communist regimes like China.

This is all facilitated by the Apollo app and the 3rd party api. The amount of censorship is really depressing. Anything that disrupts this at least a little is a huge win.

zackees··on PayPal “Buy Now” buttons have been broken for a week
Paypal is destroying themselves. I went to J6 protest. Didn’t go to the hot area, but one block away.

Both personal and business accounts were closed with paypal. Personal venmo was cancelled.

The letter they sent me said that they couldn’t tell me why my accounts were closed, and any further correspondence would be ignored unless I contacted their legal department.

It looks like the wrong people are now running the company.

zackees··on Is ORM still an anti-pattern?
I use sql alchemy in all my python microservice. It’s great.
zackees··on Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
Yeah 10 browser tabs on brave my ubuntu grinds to a halt.
zackees··on Don't Use Mocks
If running a micro service use sqlalchemy and switch your db to sqlite for testing purposes.

There are scalability limits to this but for most cases it works extremely well and is fast.

zackees··on Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes
We aren't talking about the earth being blown off course though, just that there is a large amount of energy that was previously unaccounted for and that this energy is large enough to trigger an earth quake at vulnerable parts.
zackees··on Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes
“Fringe scientists” have been saying that cosmic and solar particles have been causing earthquakes for a long time.

It seems counter intuitive but an analogy is very simple:

A 15 mph breeze will do almost nothing to push a person, but will exert tremendous force on a sail of sufficient size.

Earth, in this analogy, is a really big sail.

zackees··on PhpBB
I don’t like the flat style comments of sites like PhpBB.

Is there an equivalent open source solution that does reddit style hierarchical comments?

zackees··on Our Plan for Python 3.13
I agree with this take.

The GIL is hiding all kinds of concurrency bugs. If the CPython team default disable it then all hell is going to break loose.

It's better to carve out special concurrency constructs for those that need it.

zackees··on I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me
Not 10%, more like 35% when all is said and done. Add in FBA and it’s closer to 45%. add in advertising and the majority of the sale price is going into amazon.
zackees··on Tucker Carlson bringing show to Twitter
He’s the most popular news anchor and has been the best signal in the msm complex who bucked the current thing narrative.

Hence the reason he was kicked out.

zackees··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
It's not scary. Earth is a lush place with warmer temperatures. The deserts turn green and there's more rainfall everywhere.

Earth has never suffered a mass extinction from a warming climate. The only climate which does cause a mass extinction is an ice age.

If you are a climate scientist that goes against the narrative you get your funding cut. The result is a dearth of doom and gloom, because that's where the money is at. Dissident climatologists like Judith Curry get the boot.

Additionally, and what the main stream science won't tell you is that "global warming" is happening on other planets as well, where there are no humans and thus no industrial activity that could account for this.

A Gloomy Mars Warms Up https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/2007/marswarming....

The media and captured scientific institutions are trying to cover this up by saying that the planet is darkening.

The solution to climate change will only be taxes and more regulation. Solutions like Nuclear, which produces abundant carbon free energy has been sabotaged by regulation so that had no choice but to have a carbon based economy. Also, it's very effective blackmail against a country that decides to not pay the IMF for it's predatory loans, where the oil imports can be shut off via mandate, and the economic system of said country grinds to a halt.

The entire global warming system has been caused by... the sun. The sun is getting a little bit hotter right now but the string pullers that own the global financial system are using their influence to say it's the trace gas CO2, despite the fact that H20 has even more heat trapping capabilities than CO2 does and is far far more abundant.

zackees··on Is Gmail killing independent email?
I wrote a very good spam filter using chat gpt that was way better for whatever excuse big tech is using for their “spam filters”.

We need to stop buying the narrative that they are doing this to fight spam and are doing it as a gate keeping exercise.

zackees··on Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?
Yellow stone is not going to erupt because it’s venting its gases. If it wasn’t then that would be a problem.
zackees··on Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes
The same thing can be said of solar panels and wind turbines.

The truth is that the once the power plant is built it generates clean power for decades. That power can then be used to power things like building new power plants.

zackees··on SQLite performance tuning: concurrent reads, multiple GBs and 100k SELECTs/s

    WAL mode has some issues where depending on the write pattern, the WAL size can grow to infinity, slowing down performance a lot. I think this usually happens when you have lots of writes that lock the table so sqlite never gets to doing wal_autocheckpoint.
I believe that WAL2 fixes this:

    Wal2 mode does not have this problem. In wal2 mode, wal files do not grow indefinitely even if the checkpointer never has a chance to finish uninterrupted
https://sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/wal2/doc/wal2.md
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