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alessandru··on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
mommie, daddie, i just got my watch please don't fight ... :*(
alessandru··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
many non-slavery parliamentary societies have bicameral legislature, why do you think that is considering they never considered counting their slaves...?
alessandru··on Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives
you would go to where trustworthy people are selling it. you would have your friend try it first if purchased from random street dealer. i think many of these get confused in the street, like how would you know it is true lsd and not some other research chemical?

in america there are pockets of psychadelic support that would provide clean sources, you'd maybe network with them through campus norml groups, or that cool chemistry TA. these people have zero incentive to sell you something different or contaminate it with anything (more work).

when it is dosed correctly, you can take a small dose of lsd and see if it is the effect you recognize or something else. definitely just do some homework to make sure that it can be trusted.

alessandru··on Erowid - Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives
"news"

ahahaaha you people just found out about this?!>?!

alessandru··on Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo
who is waiting? amd and apple were part of opencl consortium. cuda simply ran away with the prize. amd needs to match nvidia on software spend. that is/was the difference.
alessandru··on Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo
radeon historically gimped the double precision less badly than nvidia, one might say radeons were more suited for scientific compute. actual scientific compute that cares about numbers and precision.

idk about bad bets, they were just slow to release rdna for desktop when they had it already for consoles. there wasn't conflict between cdna and rdna, cdna was product for their data center. they slow-walked rdna chips because they were busy selling them to consoles. and they never invested in software like nvidia did. they wanted outside people to make openCL work when nvidia was directly investing.

these kind of amateur takes are like a poor distillation of whatever you read in the hardware news. sorda muddying the waters a bit with your confusion.

alessandru··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
almost like ... journalistic integrity and ... maybe less monopoly ... are good things
alessandru··on EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
tesla's cars literally just got remodeled what on earth do you mean bz4? toyota? yes they made their terrible impractical car actually practical in its latest form.

the teslas are newish, with new parts and better sound suppression. they also improve marginally in efficiency every year. so the 2023 will have slightly better mechanicals than the 2021 etc.

not too different ... they are very different. much improved. go read a review comparing them.

how much different is today's durango from last year's or here lemme remind you durango hasn't been updated in 15 (count them!) FIFTEEN years. other zombie gas models are out there too.

alessandru··on EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars
wow 800 comments about an immature ev market complaining of depreciation values.

if more of the electorate knew they could use these ev batteries in second life applications to power their homes businesses or otherwise be recycled into functional power providing devices, perhaps the percieved value wouldn't be so low. but right now everyone is convinced that the batteries are expiring at a fast rate when in reality they maintain usability into the 100s of k-miles.

but again, this article is about india, which is about 10 years behind the west in electrifying anything. so ... why are we asking the new kids on the block about depreciation?

why don't you ask the norwegians (95% ev this year) about depreciation? their market is much more mature with many more advanced consumers that can appraise the depreciated batteries much better. but you don't ask them because you want to muck-rake EV.

don't go to the premier ev market for this information go to the most under-developed one.

why don't you go ask south africans what they think about depreciating batteries?

ugh. 400 points for this drivel. you people are literally inane.

alessandru··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
and when will you support real tennis?
alessandru··on Real-Time Radiation World Map
probably just a miscalibrated "tube"

there is a hotspot in peter jensen's house milwaukee too ... but alas not a stranger thing, likely just his thing is dirty.

alessandru··on Read to forget
who even is this guy?
alessandru··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
let's kindly remember patriot act was bush's baby

neocons love to use disaster to further their deep state dreams.

alessandru··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
and you're just stupid. like reading is the first part before those other things.
alessandru··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
no you don't.

these people don't argue to uncover the truth, they just provoke you into some debate-bro logical gotcha that is simply borne in ignorance.

it's not even if you agree or not with him, he has no intention of ever learning your side, it's just a smorgasbord of conservative bs on repeat.

murder bad. but this guy was a provocateur who tried to get the most "impact" for his side. that is why his hot takes are so insane. they aren't points to argue against, they are dog whistle rallying points for all the racists and misogynists to think society is theirs. so let's not defend his work as "just having opinions i disagree with" ...

alessandru··on Knowledge and memory
this is such drivel and you don't realize it because the guy writes good ... and you don't realize it until you see the "are llms in hell" article ...

let's stop taking opinions on ai from randoms. please. they haven't a fkin clue.

alessandru··on NASA finds Titan's lakes may be creating vesicles with primitive cell walls
this guy is just nasa conspiracy bs repeater

you should go work for spacex and show them how to do the sample return. they've thought about it for at least a decade now and haven't yet. so you can go there and show them how since it's so easy. you'll be millionaire real quick i promise.

alessandru··on iPhone Air
hn endorsements? waow. better go line up for this one!
alessandru··on What Is the Fourier Transform?
you people are so confused by the integral transforms you must post daily?
alessandru··on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
did this guy read that other paper about ai usage making people stupid?

how long until he falls from staff engineer back down to senior or something less?

alessandru··on China is eating the world
you people realize that shanghai has world-class cost of living? like people there probably make 30k+ just to live there, but the rural, who aren't even allowed to consider living in shanghai bring that average down again. this avg without noting the median is about as misleading as saying people in america all make 80k. (this is household income so divide by avg household size 1.7 or whatever)

the ai had older data but it proves the point: "While the average disposable income for urban residents in 2019 was approximately 39,244 CNY (roughly $5,800 USD), rural residents earned significantly less at 14,389 CNY (roughly $2,100 USD)"

alessandru··on China is eating the world
drivel.

yunnan is rural historic farm area, next to tibet, it's not supposed to have mcdo. did author cry he couldn't get shake shack in tibet?

Are they leading in solar panels? wow ... almost like cheap labor and non-existent pollution control makes manufacturing real cheap. Did you hear they're also mining and burning more coal than ever, despite the west's alleged 150 year advantage. But let's forget that. we can totally trust china to remove coal by 2030 like promised.

we call china "emerging" because most (numbers, not the average) of its people make less than 10k per year. most of its rich people aren't investing in stocks or bonds. the government still needs to direct investment in large swaths of society, that is why china earns its "developing" label.

do you think china's courts are developed? we call them emerging or developing, because they haven't shown to be independent yet and they issue political rulings like in some ... developing ... banana republic. that's why it's called developing. their institutions aren't particularly ... instituted.

misleading calling china leader in heat pumps ... yes cheap heat pumps. good for them. but volume doesn't mean good, everyone likes cheap stuff.

china makes 5 year government plans public, what is this 20 year plan he talks about? what is the success rate of these public plans? remember, they promised to control coal and reduce usage by 2030.

small countries like singapore becoming more authoritarian by copying chinese politics isn't the bragging win you think it is.

alessandru··on Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024)
so ... apa ...the apa that writes the dsm-5, psychiatric disorders, the medical group, is the american PSYCHIATRIC assn.

the psychologists, they never went to medical school, so despite forming an organization and many publications, have little to do with diagnostic standards for medical doctors.

for clarity: THERE ARE TWO APA, the one written about in the article is not the same as the one in this comment.