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vizzieron Grok Bot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892468 plus the whole cursor brand should be tainted alongside it after this malarkey

vizzieron So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/the-ocean-and-climate...

Has a pretty good overview. But in brief: Changes in biosphere due to heat and decreasing pH balance due to increased CO2 can leave species unable to adapt fast enough causing deaths.

vizzieron Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine

Not an AI thing per-se [1] but may be pushed by or increased in usage by the agents.

[1] https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/#summary

vizzieron Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't

https://www.youtube.com/@arduinoversusevil2025 also great for teardowns of specific tools. Seeing a few really put into perspective how many companies were transitioning to trading on their brand goodwill instead of making good stuff.

vizzieron Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

by definition connection poolers re-use connections so it it can happen with any connection pooling setup, PG or no.

in pgbouncer the connection is reset via a customisable command [0] which should reset the connection to a clean state.

[0] https://www.pgbouncer.org/config.html#server_reset_query

vizzieron The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies

The answer is probably an automatic state in any company over a specific size given to the government. The only competition is then international.

vizzieron Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition

Really the correct unit is Joules, but try convincing anyone of that.

vizzieron Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition

> This isn't an energy issue.

Renewables don't have the same level of external dependence on a constant flow of instantaneously used fuel. So while I do agree with you, it is an energy issue regardless of your politics.

vizzieron Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern integrated into Obsidian agenic workflow

Sync is good, but they also have a great git plugin. One big advantage of local text based notes is that you can just source control them and set up quick shortcuts to commit, push and pull; as well as setting up automations to do that automatically when you open the app.

> And are exposed as local files stored in documented, stable, and sane paths.

This is highly dependent on the user (Mine is a god damn mess) :D.

vizzieron Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile?

Or us dyslexics, I don't mind having the robot check and rephrase my work.

vizzieron GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

They now also own xAI

vizzieron Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

Agreed, we should also nationalise resource extraction and put the funds in there. Canadian resources should be for Canadians.

vizzieron Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS

This feels not unlike talos linux, but for single instances over k8s containers. Pretty neat.

vizzieron GPT-5.5

You think you've got problems? What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don't try to answer that. I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.

vizzieron 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet

For the record, I do agree with this perspective at least from an external observer of the US. Many places already regulate these types of gambling much better. What I mostly took issue with is what I read to be a resolute throwing up of the hands of any action being useless.

It is indeed unfortunate that the level of corruption in the current US administration likely precludes any action on it in the current term.

vizzieron 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet

> offshore jurisdictions and uses crypto.

This vastly increases the barrier to entry for the normal person though. Is your position that just because laws don't work 100% of the time we shouldn't bother with them?

vizzieron Framework Laptop 13 Pro

I'm open to being wrong, but so far as I understand it ECC mostly lives at the controller level and shares the same DRAM chips across all forms of server memory (including non-ecc), which is why we see price increases across all sectors including consumer.

Those DRAM chips being the bottleneck that would require hard to build new silicon fabs to increase supply.

vizzieron Framework Laptop 13 Pro

ah fair, I was thinking on the iphone, but in fairness this is a thread about a laptop

vizzieron Framework Laptop 13 Pro

not since like 2015, they're soldered on to the mainboard

vizzieron Framework Laptop 13 Pro

> or switch to another provider

Can you though? Its been a few years since I've been on apple, but being able to get anything but icloud native support in other apps was basically non-existent. Compared to android where it gives you a plethora of choice out of the box.

vizzieron Framework Laptop 13 Pro

to be fair, your money isn't as good as VC money for RAM at the moment

vizzieron Framework Laptop 13 Pro

14" macbook pro with those specs is ~2100. 200 dollar delta for repair-ability seems acceptable to me.

vizzieron Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State

Isn't really political. By my reading the clause also invalidates the entire amendement soon as the US aquired a standing army, but I'm not from the US so, who knows.

vizzieron Nowhere is safe

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Command_System

> And of course to defeat such underground networks you need vast armies of small intelligent drones that can go in there and explore every tunnel where no human wants to risk setting foot in.

In the book they're defeated by biological warfare.

vizzieron Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

People think the trolley problem is easy.

vizzieron Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI

> I've done very well in my career but a private secretary is quite out of reach.

This says more about how companies have chosen to allocate pay in the current era than anything about technology though, no?

vizzieron Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs

twitters own lawyers argue against this reading in 2023, see page 11 onwards:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.38...

vizzieron Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables

Combining those god awful beliefs with a set of advisors with room temperature IQs (and I'm in canada where we use metric temps) results in a true inability to forsee any of these issues in advance. Real shame, I can only hope it drives your populace to finally do something about it, but I won't hold my breath.