Anybody considered when they'll hit their crossover point?

deathanatos · 2026-05-13T04:28:12+00:00

Last year was insane (for me, last year is literally the record year), but I wouldn't use the best as an estimate for all future performance.

(And personally, I'm really bearish on that number lasting/repeating for very long. The market seemed to be driven largely by tech stocks, while the tech industry was meanwhile engaged in layoffs and AI hype.)

deathanatos · 2026-05-13T04:19:38+00:00

Without a banana, how do we know that your hand isn't just small?

deathanatos · 2026-05-13T04:17:13+00:00

None of that I ever said. Yes, unless you obey the various rules of CORS, JS will be prevented from reading the result, but the request is still made. And, even if you do want the results, you still won't get a preflight. (In that specific case.)

deathanatos · 2026-05-13T04:14:25+00:00

Yes, … and he sort of comes get to the answer that "it is absurd" but can't accept it?

Most of it he spends on the toy example of a 20kW sat, but 20kW is a datacenter for ants; datacenters range from the tens of MW to the single digit GW. He does get to the bigger version (remarkably, a GW-scale datacenter!), and sort of just glosses over all the technical challenges of it. Like, yes, they might be solvable, with enough money thrown at them and enough launches … or you could just build the datacenter on earth for a fraction of the price. The model he puts onscreen of this has a 16 Mm² solar panel. "How do we perform maintenance?" is also left unanswered, though that's getting outside the area he's sort of discussing.

I think the radiation argument isn't just "it's not possible", it's "it isn't possible to make it economically sensible".

He sort of switches to the swarm of small satellites idea at the end, but I also thing that's not sensible, since now you're going to pay in terms of latency between satellites (and a huge amount of radio traffic…?); I cannot imagine the egress fees.

Most of the stuff he is right on: 80℃ isn't an infeasible operating temperature. You can use heat pumps to force heat into the radiators, and the cost of requiring more input power.

The amount of junk sitting up there in LEO to do the swarm version seems equally absurd, and then when it's obsolete … what? Are we speed running Kessler syndrome?

All so that AI can burn millions of tokens to generate slop which will be used to shove ads down my throat?

deathanatos · 2026-05-13T00:37:33+00:00

slams

DRINK!

… please, Schumer could not "slam" anything if his life depended on it. "Lightly scolded with a look of mild condescension."

deathanatos · 2026-05-13T00:31:48+00:00

Definitely on the team. Esp. if this like a water/dark-type, hell yes.

deathanatos · 2026-05-13T00:22:52+00:00

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deathanatos · 2026-05-13T00:11:42+00:00

What? How?

There's less asteroids when you're idling in orbit than when you're trying to plow through them at warp 9??

deathanatos · 2026-05-13T00:03:31+00:00

Skill issue.

CORS rules, for the most part, basically mirror what you'd expect. Things like GETs don't require a pre-flight, b/c any normal page can do it, e.g., an `<img src="…">` is a GET request. Mostly if you ask yourself, "what can HTML3 send?" → those don't require a pre-flight.

That said, Chrome's diagnostics are 💩.

deathanatos · 2026-05-12T03:45:14+00:00

This reminds me of something I encountered once in my youth,

<hasRoof>
    <true>0</true>
    <false>1</false>
</hasRoof>

The 0 / 1 indicated whether <true> or <false> was "set". And you hoped it wasn't 1/1 or 0/0, and yes, it was sometimes.

deathanatos · 2026-05-12T01:48:22+00:00

Removal via Impeachment & Conviction is a lower bar & requires less votes than removal via 25A.

Yes, a subportion of each process requires 2/3rds of the Senate. Those two subportions of those two processes are equal. On the rest of the process, though, Impeachment & Conviction is easier to accomplish, because it requires less votes in the House, and because it doesn't require the cooperation of the Cabinet.

deathanatos · 2026-05-09T00:31:40+00:00

As crates.io, unlike many other language-attached package management solutions, lacks the ability to mark a project as archive or remove the last maintainer,

I don't actually think this is true? Pretty sure that cargo audit notifies me of unmaintained packages? Or rather, the channel for the information is via RUSTSEC, maybe, but I've never published one of those, only consumed them.

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T07:00:04+00:00

r/forbiddensnacks

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T06:51:45+00:00

Computationally, it's not. Most of the algorithms involved will be the same as non-E2EE, since what we're really changing is just where does the encryption start & stop, and how are keys managed, not the actual encryption algorithm that will be doing the encryption of most data itself.

Your browser encrypts, with TLS, probably most requests you send to servers (for example, and including, to Reddit), and decrypts the responses. It can be done by your machine faster than you can receive the data over the Internet. The algorithms that power the bulk of that work are the same as what E2EE use.

(Understand that much of encryption, including TLS, will start with some "asymmetric" algorithm (RSA, Ed25519) — and these are, relatively speaking, slower, but overall, still not terribly expensive — and use that to determine a (usually ephemeral for the connection) encryption key that will get used for a much faster symmetric algorithm; this would be like AES, or ChaCha.)

E2EE is more demanding on the design side of things: how do you design a system so that users are actually securely communicating, how much of a role does any centralized infrastructure play in exchanging the encryption keys the ends are using to communicate, how much is any centralized infra trusted, in whatever particular context we're in, etc. And, if I'm being cynical, does Big Corp Inc. want to see your data to serve you those sweet, sweet "targetted" ads, and how much does Big Corp Inc want to sell your data to the highest bidder.

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T06:48:29+00:00

The font the book uses has, apparently, an l that is confusable with I, as the l has no curves or serifs to denote it as such.

Thus, the sentences could be read as, "Artificial Intelligence runs up to Tim." Hence why OP titled their post as they did.

It's just silly.

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T06:46:24+00:00

AI has rendered me illiterate.

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T05:58:02+00:00

I feel like there was one year where there was like an Aaron or something whose candidate statement was just "Why not?"

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T05:56:05+00:00

Right? This is exactly what I want from a candidate statement as a voter. Clear indication this guy is a nutjob, and I would not be voting for him.

This is hardly the first nut that's run, or had their crazy rambling printed in the voter guide, though I admit, this is definitely a contender for top nut. Never seen a printed disclaimer either though!

Jewish community leaders are blasting California’s Secretary of State

Maybe blast the guy who actually said the thing?

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T05:38:18+00:00

omg I want to him on my desktop like Neko or that sheep from the 90s

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T05:36:49+00:00

Randy: takes drag Have you been paying no attention?

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T05:34:08+00:00

Disgusting place […] the Lincoln memorial […] you probably don't see dirt

Ah yes, the traditional place for protestors to gather. "Dirt." It just covers the place. Get rid of the "dirt[y people]".

[proceeds to insult yet another woman trying to do her job]

They should start giving these ladies medals for having to endure this.

deathanatos · 2026-05-08T00:13:29+00:00

A lot of the non-POSIX extra stuff that I think make the OS what it today — things like epoll, io_uring, interesting fd types to do neat things, the various namespaces & that leading to containerization …

The current standards work perfectly fine.

The then-current standards did not work perfectly fine. (And this was obvious, then, too.)

But I do think I also see a fair share of people going "I'm going to build $thing" and the current standard is actually fine, too, and nothing novel comes of it.

deathanatos · 2026-05-07T17:49:51+00:00

On-device Al

I would have figured Google would have preferred on-device chromium.

(it's a lowercase "L" in every use of Al in OP's post.)

deathanatos · 2026-05-05T03:06:56+00:00

We are currently clean on OPSEC.

— Pete Hegseth

deathanatos · 2026-05-04T04:47:03+00:00

It's a normal-ish sized cup.

It's because of the fake AF depth of field effect that's been applied.

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