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NooneAtAll3··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
houses using less energy means energy is cheaper for everyone else, f.e. industry
NooneAtAll3··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
jevon's paradox says that improved efficiencies would increase consumption

I see a lot of comments here see "per capita" and think "residential consumption" - but the decrease is more indicating of general deindustrialization

NooneAtAll3··on Gemini 4 Argon
> Google are the only lab who have publicly shared that they have specifically trained for SVG output

wasn't the whole point of pelicans is that labs *wouldn't* train for that?

so now the benchmark is ruined

NooneAtAll3··on BB(10) > Graham's Number
> why is this particular case BB(10) < G useful for understanding fast growing functions?

it's... not?

it is useful for understanding BB()

NooneAtAll3··on RJ Mitte has died
> best known for his role as Walter "Flynn" White Jr

in case anyone was wondering (like me)

NooneAtAll3··on Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
> I now have an LLM run once a day to just look through the disk and delete everything that looks like it's leftover garbage

...are you sure it wouldn't consider your personal files garbage?

NooneAtAll3··on Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants
cure foreign function interface before it gets too ubiquitous!
NooneAtAll3··on Orkut.com
> I still think that it was one of the most impressive fumbles of a social media "monopoly".

you call it "fumble" - I'd call it intentional internet colonization

your government failed to secure its cultural safety on the internet, and community was transferred to US-controlled platform

NooneAtAll3··on Programming Isn't Special
I'm not arguing about "there being more art"

I'm saying artists don't want anyone doing *the same art they do*

GPL ideal gives everyone ability to copy-paste and expand anything, with only obligation to allow everyone to do the same to you. Artists culture is far removed from that

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even more than that, I see people arguing for MIT(!) to lessen the legal burden on fellow programmers

that's the kind of cultural difference I want to point out

NooneAtAll3··on Programming Isn't Special
I've seen enough tracing scandals

and some of my favorite works have been shutdown for background art

NooneAtAll3··on Programming Isn't Special
basically artists are sellers, while programmers are buyers

creation of new competing products is seen as a catastrophe by sellers, but as more competition by buyers

and our concern as a community basically has been "but do we have enough anti-monopoly protections in place?"

NooneAtAll3··on Programming Isn't Special
> Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists?

imo, that's happening because 2 cultures formed under extremely opposite incentives - "I do stuff and anyone else also doing it is taking my money away from me" vs "Please someone else do same thing as me, it would be so awesome/easier"

the closest art-relating thing to GPL ideals are fanfics. And opinion about ai-generated fanfics has been much closer to our coders view - "sure a lot of it is bad, maybe there's also too much of it, but... there's also some good stuff, so it's good?"

NooneAtAll3··on Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
who's on first?
NooneAtAll3··on Time Travel in Braid (2015)
there's a reason why such "watch later"-style lists are so long

chance of any individual game on that list getting played by you approach zero

and that falls exactly into the second outlined category

either the game grabbed your interest on the first try, or it won't push you over the "interested, but not now" hump in every next encounter

NooneAtAll3··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
> Both ads must run between 30 and 180 days

what can be a reason for an upper limit?

NooneAtAll3··on I think we might lose public key cryptography
I hope we first lose people who post on twitter, as I can't read the replies
NooneAtAll3··on Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
what does "microfinance organizations" even mean? loan sharks?
NooneAtAll3··on Time Travel in Braid (2015)
I don't understand what you're trying to say?

"serious hobbyists" would've already heard about Braid and be in the "played it already" category

NooneAtAll3··on A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU
there are dozens and dozens of kernels around - it's just not hard to do

if you want a serious challenge, try making some drivers

NooneAtAll3··on All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS
welcome to Mersenne prime awareness day

consider providing your pc time for https://www.mersenne.org/ distributed compute project

NooneAtAll3··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
what does MCMC mean?
NooneAtAll3··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
unless mechanism behind our universe dynamically alters our logic on the fly to be artificially self-consistent
NooneAtAll3··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
train engineer an assistant of a rail-following machine
NooneAtAll3··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
what's Roko?
NooneAtAll3··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
> There's no Lean proof for this one so I'm digesting the paper. On the surface it looks like an approach I considered 24 years ago and abandoned.

at least now you are one of the most qualified people to check the result, transform it into understandable (by humans) state and grow stuff on top of it

NooneAtAll3··on What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
should we count bones then?
NooneAtAll3··on What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
cow genes achieved terrific success

cow organisms and social layer on top - probably not (unless we decide to uplift them one day)

NooneAtAll3··on When random is not actually random enough
so it's not really *random* that isn't random enough - it's the operator% that worsens it
NooneAtAll3··on Integer multiplication below n log n
> IIRC, the GapCVP results were released with a 1/n^400 complexity term, but people quickly got it down to 1/n^8 by more careful accounting.

sqrt(n) now https://github.com/Mira-acc/cvp

NooneAtAll3··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
why would "ship it there and chuck overboard" be easier than "crawler train it there and chuck overboard"?
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