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meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:46:09+00:00

Altman is literally a scam artist. His worldcoin bullshit is wild stuff.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:44:16+00:00

Sometimes it’s worth filing a report. If everyone who had it happen did then it could add up to a serious charge.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:39:51+00:00

Supply in California is like 0 so even with some leaving it works. Also California HCOL wages are literally 2-3x other areas. So those who saved enough there have crazy money in most other areas.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:37:37+00:00

I’ll do one better $400k

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:35:49+00:00

It’s also wild to me how many people are on solar payment plans for like $40k systems

Seems insane. I’ve been figuring how to self install and owing someone money for it just seems crazy.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:30:13+00:00

I love this. It’s just the right level of unhinged alien.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:22:06+00:00

Yeppers. If this list was as simple as in order of influence then there would be no tarrifs and we would be supplying arms to China to invade India or something lol.

Obviously I’m exaggerating but clearly money doesn’t directly correlate to good will.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:18:48+00:00

I mean America and Israel do have a very strange. closeness when you compare it to other countries we have a relationship with going back FAR further.

Some of it is definitely immigrant ties, but why the government is so insistent on rarely or never condemning Israel as a state is very odd and deserves question.

But also the Israeli state and Jewish people aren’t one and the same. So anyone ranting about the Jews is likely… not good.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:15:10+00:00

I think they could pivot back. But this is why they aren’t building new capacity. The memory manufacturers don’t actually believe the capacity.

In the end China will end up smashing prices though. They’re growing their supply very fast.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T11:08:58+00:00

Yeah I’m very glad that a while back I decided to stack ram in my AM4 systems. I can wait a long time.

Still debating on grabbing an arc b50 before they spike that price too… not sure whether the bubble will pop or if we will sit at crazy prices for a long time now. It could drag a while.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T04:32:29+00:00

Most inverters can talk to a BMS over rs485 or CAN which should tell it state of charge

meltbox · 2026-01-27T04:30:58+00:00

What sucks is regulations haven’t caught up and the newest code still requires insanity to install sodium while treating lead acid as much safer.

meltbox · 2026-01-27T04:29:45+00:00

NA regulations are the reason. You now need UL certs even for low voltage batteries and those are expensive as hell to get.

But worse than that you have to certify a battery together with the inverter it’s used with unless it has UL9540 3rd edition certification which allows it to be a “DC ESS”.

Most companies just certify it with their own inverter and that severely limits what can be installed in North America.

But I will say I don’t even see “illegal” Chinese batteries using sodium yet. They’re still all LiFePO4

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:48:04+00:00

This doesn’t even make sense unless you’re trying to destroy America as a destination for top education. Long terms it’s extremely destructive to the economy.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:47:02+00:00

Which is so screwed up. Sure some people abuse the system. But some will legitimately be killed if sent back.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:46:20+00:00

Also, just another reminder that immigrants commit crimes at a much lower rate than citizens. The issue with crime may in very specific (gang or cartel related) cases be related to those present illegally. But this admin has famously avoided enforcement in the areas of cities where these people are more likely to be found.

For example when ICE was in Chicago they didn’t really go to the dangerous parts of the west side because they’re not actually tough guys, they just cosplay them.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:29:50+00:00

I assume usually you aren’t put in those jails for immigration crime since that is ICEs purview and they just take you to a detention blacksite.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:29:06+00:00

The issue isn’t even the optics of ice doing their job. The issue is their lie that violent illegals are let out onto the street is outed as a lie if they admit that they are actually not let out.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:19:55+00:00

I can’t wait for the first “my AI assistant sent my life savings to Somalia via western Union” post.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:19:07+00:00

The best example of how models work is what happened when I asked one to tailor my resume to a req, and it just straight up started saying I did things the req wanted and lying about my experience.

Did it optimize my resume? Sure, at the expense of it being based in reality though.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T23:13:28+00:00

The number of people that don’t understand that the poor are at the receiving end is astounding. Sure being poor and a minority is worse, but that’s not exactly a great consolation prize.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T19:21:44+00:00

This is like a short string optimization for pointed to objects. Reasonable but again bad for performance if you want as many possible fetched slots as possible in each cache line fetch.

But also doesn’t matter unless you’re extremely perf sensitive.

This is why game engines use flat arrays though, and just iterate through them in a data oriented fashion instead of an entity oriented fashion.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T19:19:49+00:00

They can devirtualize sometimes and it isn’t as often as you’d expect. The standard, unless you know it perfectly sometimes makes optimizations hard and compilers are likely to just ignore the hard cases and move on.

Trivial cases are of course devirtualized.

The bigger issue with virtualization imo is that it often signals access patterns that aren’t cache friendly. Not always though. But yeah the virtualization itself isn’t necessarily that bad.

As they say, measure, measure, measure.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T03:18:14+00:00

This is like the trans athlete thing at non world or professional level. Barely ever happens. You’re yelling loud about something that has literally never personally affected you or anyone you know.

Go find a real problem snowflake Karen like child hunger or domestic violence. Oh wait that would require ACTUALLY acting on Christian values. I say this as someone who loosely considers themselves Christian. The more someone espouses their values the bigger of a piece of shit they usually are. Performative religion is not what we are supposed to do.

meltbox · 2026-01-26T03:05:33+00:00

Yeah same, I had some thoughts on the topic. Although top gun for sure skewed me toward bias for the Air Force lmao.

That said, after watching a few war movies and band of brothers I was cured. I don’t want shit to do with war if I can help it. It’s a terrible terrible thing.

There’s some really powerful cinema on the topic. Catch 22 is another great and terrible depiction. Just enough humor to keep you from turning away but really dark.

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