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more-nitor··on American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms
dang seems your only parrot argument is "health care!!!"

hmm have you seen stabby maniacs and drug addicts in "healthcare provided countries"?

does having healthcare make those people visit those "providers" and go:

"Hello! I'm a maniac with mental issues/drug problems, and I'm visiting you to be treated! good day!"

more-nitor··on Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
hmm so.. "I give you every herb bearing seed upon the Earth" is followed by "to eat/stuff into nose"?

with this stupidity, maybe you should try eating list of 20 deadly plants and see how it goes?

"ownership" means "edible/nose-able"... maybe you should try eating your car?

more-nitor··on Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations
sorry I didn't read the article - just the parent comment
more-nitor··on Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations
maybe we're using the word "imflammation" to describe too much stuff?

I mean, we name viruses & bacterias by their category/shape/etc, so shouldn't we do something similar to inflammation? eg. blue, vege-inflammation, red inflammation, pink-diamond-shaped inflammation inflammation-from-burn, etc?

more-nitor··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
> What Israel is doing is tame compared to

this.

even though some Israel's actions are spooky (targeted-exploding walkytalkies?), they're at least designed to minimize civilian deaths (or at least they're trying)

But... Iran and their ilks (eg. Hamas)? they not only don't give a shit, but actively seek to kill civilians with maximum brutality (baby beheadings, killing & parading even with non-israeli bodies)

more-nitor··on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
"non-profit" doesn't mean "this guys are morally right and only conveys truths"

it just means that they don't pay taxes

more-nitor··on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
hmm have you actually read the article? did you find anything of "substance" other than hand-wavy "this company is from israel, so must be mosad" or "has notorious for its questionable practices" (without even giving actual examples or incidents)?

I mean, if I was the mosad guy planting a deal with samsung, I wouldn't even name the app "AppCloud"

heck, why would you even make it appear to the user?

this is a classic competitor-bashing article -- no substance, only hand-wavy "this guys bad!"

I'm guessing this can be traced to others like xiami/huawei/etc who definitely want to get samsung's slice of the market there

more-nitor··on The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
I just don't get the fuss from the pro-LLM people who don't want anyone to shame their LLMs...

people expect LLMs to say "correct" stuff on the first attempt, not 10000 attempts.

Yet, these people are perfectly OK with cherry-picked success stories on youtube + advertisements, while being extremely vehement about this simple experiment...

...well maybe these people rode the LLM hype-train too early, and are desperate to defend LLMs lest their investment go poof?

obligatory hype-graph classic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Ga...

more-nitor··on Why Use Structured Errors in Rust Applications?
there's ("I'm hoping someone would...") phrase omitted here...

> (I'm hoping someone would) create `with_err` function: some_mayerr_func().with_err_log()

> (I'm hoping someone would) add 'newbie beginner mode(default)' / 'expert mode (optimized)' for rust

about: Adding an invisible, inaccessible, always-implicitly-initialized field sounds too weird and non-Rusty to me

maybe rust-devs are too focused on "zero-cost abstraction"? I mean, if I'm building for embedded sys, I have to make sure I don't waste any ram... but for other cases like web-server dev, it's much better to have some-cost abstraction that helps debugging

(this might actually be one of the reason rust isn't used a lot despite having an extremely good language basis/growth -- other one being async cancellation...)

more-nitor··on Why Use Structured Errors in Rust Applications?
hmm this might be solved in some simple ways:

1. create `with_err` function: some_mayerr_func().with_err_log()?

2. add 'newbie beginner mode(default)' / 'expert mode (optimized)' for rust:

- current Rust default is a bit too focused on code-optimization, too much so that it defaults to removing backtrace

- default should be 'show every backtrace even for handled errors (in my code, not the lib code -- bonus points for "is handled" checkbox)'

more-nitor··on UndoDB – The interactive time travel debugger for Linux C/C++ for debugging
this

if someone's bringing "google payscale" for comparison... well that's not some average joe...

why not just bring Bill Gates and say "everything -- including private jet -- is dirt cheap" ?

$8k per year simply doesn't make sense for 95% of the programmers. For a lot of developing countries, that's more than a well-paying programmer's annual salary...

more-nitor··on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
this

if a TV seller went bonkers and only said "it's 10:16", can you guess the actual size of that TV?

more-nitor··on Doge software engineer's computer infected by info-stealing malware
idk the law differentiates between "attempted but failed murder" / "accidental murder" / "successful(?) murder"

...maybe your "law" is some ancient eye-for-eye kind of law instead of some modern stuff?

more-nitor··on When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history
idk why are you changing targets for comparison?

it's like:

"does apple cure cancer in monkeys?" vs "does blueberry cure diabetes in pigs?"

more-nitor··on Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?
idk have you ever been stuck on some AI chatbot?

some credit card companies have botched chatbot process: "lost/forged credit card report" / "talk-to-person" are essential support process, but they require you to enter your PIN to get thru that process

(if the request for a new credit-card is faked, you're out of luck)

more-nitor··on India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops
but ryandrake's comment might be the solution to what trump/republicans/rust-belt wants:

1. employment-rate for Americans. 2. bringing back industrial capacity in US.

If large companies are forced to recycle/repair INSIDE USA, that ultimately means employment for Americans, and bringing back industrial capacity back to US.

(which could mean forcing Chinese manufacturers settings up whole industrial complexes in US...)

btw, this would be a much easier/lesser-side-effect measure than "tariff on everyone" situation

more-nitor··on Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error
I'm sorry but Americans including democrats were really harsh on biden on the last election.

Arrange a political debate right after a diplomatic tour, with huge jet-legs sleep loss?

free-trans-surgery with tax payer money?

no wonder that man went "fck this"

I just wonder if democrats simply gave up on the last election

more-nitor··on Where does air pollution come from?
hmmm not accounting for population size differences?
more-nitor··on Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds
...and wouldn't that actually be problematic in health-related research?

I mean, it seems like saying copper/iron/titanium/lead are all "metal"

more-nitor··on Chewing gum can shed microplastics into saliva, pilot study finds
idk labeling everything "microplastic" doesn't seem ok

I mean, shouldn't different plastics (PE, PP, etc) have different effects?

more-nitor··on Population much more than 8.2B, rural areas underestimated
> It’s effectively villagers certifying each other that they really live there as a primary residence.

this. some smart asses would be calling all their relatives, distant-relatives, friends, etc AND claim that they all lived there. then, share the loot(?) like 50%, 30%, 20% etc

the more better approach would be compensating by property, though does have its own downsides

more-nitor··on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
idk this is all irrelevant due to the huge data used in training...

I mean, what you think is "something new" is most likely to be something already discussed somewhere in the internet.

also, humans (including postdocs and professors) don't use THAT much data + watts for "training" to get "intelligent reasoning"

more-nitor··on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
your claim (hypothesis): LLMs can reason

your evidence: "it works with these inputs I tried!"

...hmm seems you're not quite versed in basic mathematical proofs?

more-nitor··on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
wow this is like:

"I made a hypothesis that works with 1 to 5. if a hypothesis holds for 10 numbers, it holds for all numbers"

more-nitor··on My Impressions of Gleam
hmm isn't python's popularity mostly from ML libraries?

you have to see ruby's popularity to see whether "it's despite or because of"

more-nitor··on My Impressions of Gleam
> people just get used to it

it's not just a matter of preference -- "no-curly-brace" dogma means it's impossible to do multiline lambdas in python

more-nitor··on Error Stacking in Rust
idk if its about a few syntax, then it's possible to make a temp proc-macro for those
more-nitor··on Australia's 3G Shutdown – Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked
idk what about temporarily shutting down 1/2~2 day(s) per week for 2 months right before fully shutting down?

then we can know if something is affected by the full shutdown

more-nitor··on The Kimchi Masters of South Korea
ok so no salt? that's just cabbage gone bad...