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techbro92··on FreeCAD in the Browser
Why would I want to run this in the browser vs locally?
techbro92··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
Okay question was about drugs that are contraindicated for all medical purposes like heroin.

Also do you see any ironic connection between your two examples: easily accessible antibiotics and a medically resistant infection?

techbro92··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
What is the argument for legalizing drugs that are contraindicated for all medical purposes, are toxic, and have a high addictive potential? How does it benefit me or society if my neighbor is permitted to choose to basically roll the dice on afflicting themselves with a debilitating chronic illness (severe addiction)? If I don’t want to do illegal drugs why would I ant to support this?
techbro92··on Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
I’m pretty sure that “closed loop” in this context would mean that the water is recirculated and not evaporated.
techbro92··on The (real) dead economy theory
I think you are confusing Charles Stross with Cory Doctorow
techbro92··on Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion
Do you think you will be moving towards drifting models in the future for even more speed?
techbro92··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics
This reads as completely schizophrenic
techbro92··on Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer
Don’t we have the jvm?
techbro92··on Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?
You sound paranoid and schizophrenic you should honestly try explaining your situation to someone you know or a professional. I think you’ll realize that your thinking is a bit delusional. I can’t really understand what you’re saying here.
techbro92··on Corporations are trying to hide job openings from US citizens
At certain companies and it’s org structures yeah
techbro92··on The Helix Text Editor (2024)
I would like project wide search and replace
techbro92··on Louisiana cancels $3B coastal repair funded by oil spill settlement
I dont see how thats pejorative
techbro92··on Sguaba: Hard-to-misuse rigid body transforms for engineers
I just found a subtle bug caused by a vector expressed in the wrong coordinate frame. Been thinking a lot about something like this
techbro92··on We Made CUDA Optimization Suck Less
Cuda optimization actually doesn’t suck that much. I think NSight studio is amazing and super helpful for profiling and identifying bottlenecks in kernels
techbro92··on Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan
They’re very underpowered compared to an actual gun.
techbro92··on State-space models can learn in-context by gradient descent
There are actually neural networks with explicit optimization layers but I don’t think these have really had much success.
techbro92··on Why the international experimental nuclear fusion reactor is in 'big trouble'
All energy we use eventually turns into heat so it doesn’t matter that helion skips a step and converts fusion directly into electricity
techbro92··on America's 60-Year-Olds Are Staring at Financial Peril
A lot of people struggle with regular literacy despite being educated on it for their entire life. I don’t think more education will help these people.
techbro92··on Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
I think a lot of the time you would be correct. But this is published to arxiv so it’s not peer reviewed and doesn’t boost the authors credentials. It could be designed to attract attention to the company they work at. Or it could just be a cool idea the author wanted to share.
techbro92··on Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor
I definitely wouldn’t call vscode performant. The UI elements have noticeable latency and most things feel slow. Startup takes multiple seconds.
techbro92··on Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor
I don’t understand the design constraints and goals that would lead to someone choosing this design. It seems like an insane amount of complexity. I also don’t know much about web development. Wouldn’t it be much simpler to just build a C++ application? I think one possible reason for choosing a web based design is because web frameworks can look really good. But I think this is not an important thing to optimize for in an editor, especially if it’s coming at the expense of performance.
techbro92··on Code Models
In general it’s impossible to trace the flow of an entire program due to the halting problem. Also most programs have a lot of branches and this would lead to an explosion of possible paths through the code to trace.
techbro92··on NPGA: Neural Parametric Gaussian Avatars – high-fidelity digital faces
It is kind of a requirement. Scientific papers will typically describe the motivation for a work to start the introduction. The real motivation of course is “I need to publish something”.
techbro92··on Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession – and most blame Biden
I think the reason for this is that most people don’t even know the answer. If there were only 2 options when this question was asked then 49% of people saying the s&p500 is down would indicate a low confidence result I think. The number is basically a meaningless coin flip.
techbro92··on The Second Golden Age of Emacs
Really? Do you have any links to explain this? I find this to be a super unintuitive result because I would expect compiled code to be faster than interpreted. My recommendation for native compiling is just based on personal experience not benchmarks. Emacs feels faster after enabling it.
techbro92··on The Second Golden Age of Emacs
I highly recommend compiling emacs from source with the option for native lisp compilation enabled. Emacs is way faster when you do this.
techbro92··on "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks
This is not an inherent feature of capitalism. This is a failure of the government to create a fair market. This is caused by people that are subverting the rules to out compete the people playing by the rules.
techbro92··on Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks for HPC and Desktop
I skimmed through the tests in the benchmark and it seems like they’re testing based on throughput and I didn’t see any tests specifically to measure latency. It would have been really useful to see that.
techbro92··on RAD Debugger
Fun fact, you can plot variable values over time with gdb. You just have to create a gdb extension to do it: https://github.com/jyurkanin/gdb_extensions This blew my mind when I figured out how to make these extensions and everyone should be making their own extensions. It's a force multiplier. Literally life changing
techbro92··on On Sleeper Agent LLMs
Uh why are you doing this
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