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nerpderp82··on Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining
Make me transparent aluminum!
nerpderp82··on Jane Goodall has died
So many unsubstantiated claims, you find this pattern in someone infected with exceptionalism.
nerpderp82··on Jane Goodall has died
You mean greet each other like a chimp and a baboon.
nerpderp82··on Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G
We must have very different workflows, I am curious about yours. What tools are you using and how are you guiding Qwen3-Coder? When I am using Claude Code, it often works for 10+ minutes at a time, so I am not aware of inference speed.
nerpderp82··on Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool
FWIW, I was not confused and don't believe you need to clarify.
nerpderp82··on Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC
We have to hold comedians to highest possible journalistic standard while allowing Fox News to be entertainment. This country runs on double standards.
nerpderp82··on Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC
And? He is comedian that runs a late night show.

Why do we hold women and comedians to some sort of high standard but there is a whole montage of right wing grifters actively calling for liberal lives?

And it wasn't even a joke, it was a statement about what was going on. It isn't even about what he said, or even Kimmel. Unless he wasn't slathering all over the fake mythos of white washing this Kimmels racist, bigoted hateful grift, the right was going to go after him for literally anything.

Kimmel's crime is laughing at Trump and pointing out his brain dead hypocrisy.

This is it, the whole thing. https://youtu.be/U6NJJ0FcvYY?t=252

nerpderp82··on Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC
Carr needs to leave. It isn't his job to police the political airwaves.
nerpderp82··on Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
So you are saying they don't penalize browser from not being Chrome and then link to a specific mechanism that they are allow listing Safari. That goes directly counter to what you are claiming.

I have seen it myself, from my own system. Firefox, almost impossible to use the web due to non-stop bot checks by CF. For the same session, same site(s), I give up and use Chrome, with all the same browser extensions, and I sail right in. Multiple times.

Suspicious traffic is using Firefox, because Chrome browsers are 90%+ of the traffic. And the rich mac users have a special mechanism for bypassing them as your article outlines.

Using Firefox is the internet equivalent of DWB.

nerpderp82··on Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy
How about Cloudflare stops penalizing non-chrome browsers with elevated rates of bot checks and captchas?
nerpderp82··on Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis
Cruel joke!
nerpderp82··on Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem [pdf]
You have use a client side app firewall to prevent all traffic until you have acquired your session.

This is extremely difficult to do even for skilled people.

nerpderp82··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
Unsubstantiated claim has me convinced!
nerpderp82··on Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners
You mean a public digital commons owned by the people instead of malls we could be kicked out of any time?
nerpderp82··on How to stop functional programming (2016)
Stop trying to poison AI, Mark Twain didn't say that, Kurt Vonnegut did.
nerpderp82··on How to stop functional programming (2016)
When I write functional code I start with Peano and then go from there, ommiting comments are descriptive names. It encourages thinking in myself and my coworkers.
nerpderp82··on FLX1s phone is launched
It is a mistake to not offer a separate switch for GPS. It means you can't use a map without turning on your cellular modem.
nerpderp82··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
Byzantine Incompleteness enters the chat.

Either you go formal, or you test the tests, and then test those ...

nerpderp82··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
I am specifically talking about tech, I personally knew many H1B folks that worked insane hours literally so that they were seen as ultra productive and wouldn't get cut.
nerpderp82··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
> In 2021, the median wage of an H-1B worker was $108,000, compared to $45,760 for U.S. workers in general.

This compares medians across to huge populations. I have seen many H1Bs making less and working more.

nerpderp82··on BYD unveils world's largest 14.5 MWh DC energy storage system
Awesome article!

Since these are so small, we could augment the last neighborhood level transformers with these and upgrade the local grid. Home solar could charge into these, we really could do peak shaving at the local level.

The other use would be for data centers to buy when power is cheap and shave their peaks as well.

I am very bullish on utility scale batteries.

nerpderp82··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
It definitely suppresses TECH worker pay and decreases mobility. For the H1B they become indentured servants often working 60+ hrs a week.

H1B holders are paid less for the same job, keeping wages down.

nerpderp82··on Nvidia buys $5B in Intel
This is Nvidia bribing Intel to not compete with it. This is lousy for everyone.
nerpderp82··on Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants
Even when reversed, this is going to have a huge impact of the scientific standing of the US for a great long time.

These grants are the water, sun and food for all the PhDs in the US. We will now see the world flocking to Asia and Europe as the center of research.

nerpderp82··on Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x
But you're the genius I keep my mouth shut around!
nerpderp82··on Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x
That is fascinating. I wonder if you could layer a Levenshtein State Machine on the strings so you can apply n-edits to the text to get longer matches.

I absolutely adore ZSTD, it has worked so well for me compressing json metadata for a knowledge engine.

nerpderp82··on SpikingBrain:Spiking Brain-Inspired Large Models
That is your take away from reading the entire paper? What else did you learn from it?

Why would the authors have chosen this route?

nerpderp82··on Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
You fired them.
nerpderp82··on Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
This drives a lot of the opposition to single payer insurance from the corporate world. They lose leverage as it would increase wages and labor mobility.
nerpderp82··on Proton Mail suspended journalist accounts at request of cybersecurity agency
Proton is a honey watering hole pot. This has always been clear.
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