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sigwinch··on SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns
It is. I’d wondered if STORED is necessary and this example uses VIRTUAL.
sigwinch··on Nvidia allowed to sell its H200 chips to China, the gov takes a 25% cut
I think a lesson in smuggling will sink in before a lesson on tax bureaucracy does. If the $50m worth smuggled through Canada would have been an easy $12.5m for the US government.
sigwinch··on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
That does kind of draw a contrast between Jesse Helms, the ultimate tobacco Senator, and Trump. They’re almost opposites.
sigwinch··on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
It’s hard to tell if what he says is even relate to what he will do. A hardline on semiconductors to China faded this week when he needed some economic stimulation.

So when states without AI data centers seek to ameliorate tax and zoning obstacles, it won’t be Federal preemption in their way, but what benefits Trump.

sigwinch··on I wasted years of my life in crypto
I’m not sure the paper or the character Satoshi himself matter anymore. Once you have a preeminent coin with fiat power behind it, the details of a paper and the wherewithal to reinvent that coin more purely are irrelevant. Once a particular political family signaled that control starting in Sept 2024, keeping close to that family reassured you of a bailout or pardon.
sigwinch··on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
I think the logic totally follows, if your ex is a cop and you’re thinking of getting a Ring camera.
sigwinch··on Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop
VGA standard supports up to 256k
sigwinch··on Show HN: RAG in 3 Lines of Python
It’s enough for the demo to use a variable named ‘kb’, which harkens to the business logic jargon. I don’t see benefit for expanding technical jargon once the business jargon has been uttered.
sigwinch··on The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
Yet you have to admit that 4 days lecturing about the Antichrist is an order if specificity greater than the tangle of European alliances before WWI.
sigwinch··on Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant
I think regular, small transfers are pedestrian-enough not to be reported. And in some countries, the information about a large transfer attracts offers of protection.
sigwinch··on Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant
Please double-check your advice. Just because it’s not seen in a combobox within Canada, Ireland and Belgium doesn’t mean it’s invisible.
sigwinch··on C100 Developer Terminal
I’m like this, except after reseating DRAM enough times I now indulge in ECC.
sigwinch··on X.com is gonna snitch you out to the public if you use a VPN
I think, in regimes with total metadata surveillance, the only authentic online speech will rely on reassurance that the handset won’t be able to be tracked down. Without that condition, I have multiple reasons to devalue the speech, even if only a little.

And I think that the Nazi-salute guy who runs Twitter is playing a game with this.

sigwinch··on X.com is gonna snitch you out to the public if you use a VPN
Well, I want logins everywhere. I’d like comments made with mTLS to sort to the top. Maybe just comments with mTLS signed by FSF.
sigwinch··on X.com is gonna snitch you out to the public if you use a VPN
It’s very difficult to know what the median VPN user would do without one. For some people, it’s not an afterthought and those people are the ones with valuable opinions.
sigwinch··on X.com is gonna snitch you out to the public if you use a VPN
I suppose this could target people who use DNS other than, say, the biggest ten.
sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
Based on your post, I assumed you avoided grain, as part of a diet. I know a few people who cannot touch the stuff. But the article is about these different graduations of processing. And I couldn’t tell if your diet also avoided those. I don’t know anyone who categorically avoids cocoa or coffee.
sigwinch··on Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB
The duckdb http extension reads S3 compatibles.
sigwinch··on Comprehensive Girl Math Theory by Irma Mastenbroek
There’s this common problem with pulp math, and the article has it: mathematical rationality and philosophical rationality are different and only philosophical rationality is difficult to define. If we began articulating that distinction in the 20th century, then ironical maths are pre-modern.

Which is why they don’t piss off well-adjusted adults. Which is why they’re funny. Drunk logic, cat logic, these can fit in cartoons. David Letterman said, “If what you've done is stupid, but it works… then it really isn't all that stupid.” But that phrase is delusional in the way ironical maths justify themselves.

sigwinch··on Comprehensive Girl Math Theory by Irma Mastenbroek
Good article, perfectly demonstrating how people use “math” ironically or unironically. I periodically need that pointed out, as a mathematician.

The thing about logic is that there’s “animal logic”. A human can observe an animal’s logic and, understanding their system, exploit it. Different logics all around; astrology, crypto, etc. I used the word human to relate what a rational observer can do with some smaller model of logic.

So I’m happy when I see articles about the culture of logic. In this case, ironical “Girl Math” and “Boy Math” are being observed, rationally, by the human capable of exploiting them. Those juvenile joys are punctured a little when you have to admit that someone more rational is exploiting your cute logic.

sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
Reference [10], “sophisticated packaging, usually with synthetic materials“
sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
Acually, MSM is not found in hamburger, only hot dogs.
sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
Pâté is the commercial offering.
sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
A better example is astronauts. Their diet (on the job) is 100% ultra-processed food. They perform highly and have limited access to normal physical activity. But they’re hard to study because radiation and gravity differ so much that categorization of food might not be influential at all.
sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
The necessity for any sophisticated packaging is itself a factor for the terminal Nova classification of ultra-processing.
sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
What about cocoa powder (which is fermented and dried and separated at least)?

And coffee? Does it matter whether you buy beans and grind them yourself, or offload that grinding to a processor person?

sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
Actually, according to the Nova Wikipedia page, the packaging of potato chips would push them into UPF. The actual, non-edible bag with the slogans and other soothsayings.
sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
Just like other parts of science, that organization can be discussed and tested. It’s the opposite of “we asked the King what foods we can be most proud of”.

Linnaeus did this, and allowed himself to be wrong, and I argue his organization alone was necessary to talk about theory.

sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
So rather than apple juice, consider watermelon juice. The nutrition and fiber are unchanged, the volume is close to 1:1. But you can drink more than you can eat.
sigwinch··on Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
I don’t get the downvotes, this is a good question. I would prefer that the meat substitute market is allowed unbounded processing; and that the mere addition of nitrates to meat categorizes it into the terminal ultra-processed category.
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