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jsLavaGoat··on Africa Has a High-Speed Train; California Doesn't
California has an advanced highway network that moves tens of millions of people and has clean air and water laws. It has a $15 minimum wage. It is also geographically enormous and yet you can be anywhere in the state in hours using said extensive highway network or air network.

But go on lad.

jsLavaGoat··on We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
Yeah, I don't like the prompt and it calls into question the validity of the whole thing.
jsLavaGoat··on Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
When titles with rhetorical questions sound almost like dumb questions.
jsLavaGoat··on Ask HN: Is Reddit trying to kill old Reddit?
I'm pretty sure they would face a user revolt over killing old.reddit but I also know they give zero fs about user revolts. I also know that they are not suddenly doing super well because of all of the enshittification they've done and it's pointless but I am equally sure it will continue.
jsLavaGoat··on Show HN: Manim (3Blue1Brown's animation engine) in the browser via WebGPU
manim mcp is open source and works with your existing agent
jsLavaGoat··on Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis
With respect to Zitron, he has timed it as another commenter pointed out and his timing was incorrect.
jsLavaGoat··on Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis
I can predict that the market will both go up and down and be right. What makes my claim true or not is the attached time value.

Zitron's claims are wrong even if the AI bubble ultimately pops. Being directionally right about stuff like this is worse than useless and makes people overcredulous of the other side.

jsLavaGoat··on Claude Opus 5
In my opinion, the frontier is passed what is really needed for coding. Fable is good as a supervisor.
jsLavaGoat··on Zitron: The Subprime Datacenter Crisis
I thought the AI bubble was supposed to pop in two weeks a month ago?
jsLavaGoat··on I regret migrating to Codeberg
People who derisively call AIs LLMs (not people who are referring to the specific type of system) because they aren't really intelligence or whatever--and thereby sort of ignoring that "artificial" is there--are they aware that some of the AI models we use, e.g., diffusers, are not "LLMs?"
jsLavaGoat··on Mark Cuban: fight inequality by giving all workers company stock
Works in Mondragon.
jsLavaGoat··on WTF: UK Police Tell Citizens to Run, Hide, and Hope [video]
Don't you hate it when people from another country lecture you on how to do things?
jsLavaGoat··on No President Has Embarrassed This Country the Way Trump Did Last Night
Not even in Trump's top 10 what are they on about?
jsLavaGoat··on The Kimi K3 Moment
really weird that they would download every SF-86 file the government had and Equifax credit records of every American then.
jsLavaGoat··on House Votes for Permanent Daylight Saving Time
It shouldn't matter. If there are bad effects from lack of daylight regardless of number on wall, the schedule should be changed. Technology lets us do that and communicate about it a lot easier.

Just have winter hours if it affects you. Why can't we do that?

jsLavaGoat··on Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU
I wonder how long until we have an entire distro in Rust? I worked on this from the other end making drop in clones of bash, git, make, nftables, pf, iptables, and others, build on the Rust uutils.

fwiw, I never liked the ergonomics of Rust when coding by hand, but it is head and shoulders my favorite vibe coding language.

jsLavaGoat··on A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices
Someone should train models to generate clickbait using this.
jsLavaGoat··on What are peoples' biggest issues with Crypto?
It solved an already solved problem so that people who thought they knew better could rediscover exchanges and central banking.

And also fund all kinds of shady shit.

jsLavaGoat··on Home Broadband Is 5G's Surprise Killer App
Yes, between my T-Mobile 5G backup internet that's reasonable at $25 and my powerwalls I have pretty decent high availability at home especially considering how often the power goes out.
jsLavaGoat··on Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl
I did. jonerix on gh. "GNO" means "GNO is not GNU"
jsLavaGoat··on Systemd 261 released with systemd-sysinstall, IMDSD, and storagectl
If you're really interested I have an expansion of rust-coreutils that includes Rust implementations of a drop-in bash clone, git, pico, and many others. You don't need GNU at all if you don't want anymore.
jsLavaGoat··on The case against geometric algebra (2024)
There isn't just ONE interesting facet of this. There isn't just ONE mathematical formalism of a lot of these things. GA is just one of those approaches and you should see it just once, just like you should see the group structure and all of that as well. For most applications, the standard vector calculus approach is fine. But the math underlying all of this is full of richness and no one approach is the skeleton key.

Same with programming languages. Some people are like RUST RUST RUST and some are like C C C! I'm like, you guys only use one language?

jsLavaGoat··on The case against geometric algebra (2024)
OK, well, MTW is a pretty standard GR textbook and it is often cited as a useful text on differential forms for math.
jsLavaGoat··on The case against geometric algebra (2024)
What interests a mathematician isn't 100% the same as what interests the physicist. All I'm saying is there is some math there that's interesting and people should see it once for the math.
jsLavaGoat··on The case against geometric algebra (2024)
From a mathematician's point of view, yes, you should write the Maxwell field equations, at least to see it once, that way because you're showing a very low-level symmetry that even the differential forms approach doesn't get all the way to. Differential forms is a standard approach for general relativity, e.g. MTW.

I guess the people pushing this are a little pushy, but this reminds me of the whole pie fight over the Rust community. OK, so they're pushy. Nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the language (or of C for that matter).

If you're a baby duck about linear algebra and geometry, there's no need to care about different formalisms. Do whatever works. But it's interesting to see how all of this stuff comes together at different levels, whether it's the geometric product, differential forms, or just linear algebra.

jsLavaGoat··on New Air Force One is unveiled, a $400M plane gifted by Qatar
this is fine.
jsLavaGoat··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Is there any evidence, anything whatsoever, that they actually are so powerful?
jsLavaGoat··on Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents
I did something similar and called it gitredoxide since I started with gitoxide.
jsLavaGoat··on The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It's Coming for Protests
You know exactly what point I'm making and your fatuous attempt at playing coy makes my point for me.

Those "NY City Buildings" were what. What do you call them, exactly? Changing what they're called doesn't change what they are yet you want different rules. That's my point exactly and you've confirmed it.

The NY law, which has analogs everywhere no one had a problem with until it came up there, came up after a protest on Nov 19 (and May 5) at Park East __________.

Fill in that blank for me.

Careful arguing a carveout for what event is there, it won't work for mosques or islamic centers (or buddhist, christian, etc.) either. Surely you aren't arguing that the United States doesn't have enough Islamophobes to do some Westboro Church like shenanigans there, are you?

To be clear in case anyone else wants to do this rhetorical trick of playing innocent, the commenter above wants you to be able to protest outside of the religious buildings of only one religion. Apparently by just changing what they're called.

jsLavaGoat··on The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It's Coming for Protests
Surely the author would oppose a law banning a protest within 200 feet of the mosque that was just shot up in San Diego then. Or is that different than the NY law for some reason?
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