ranzispa

@ranzispa@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If at first you don't connect⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a USB to USB adapter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Came from Italy and to be fair I didn’t try too much American food, I guess some corn meal and pancakes, meat was really good; but the real greatest thing I found in the US is the HUGE sandwiches they make in the Publix supermarket. Great stuff, loved it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know plenty people who are currently homeless in Europe originally lost their job following the 2008 crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you often cut and join audio that you did not record yourself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, my conclusion is that we have too much faith in medics. Not that Llama are good at being a medic, but apparently in many cases they will outperform a medic, especially if the medic is not specialized in treating that type of patients. And it does often happen around here that medics treat patients with conditions outside of their expertise area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, AI is what took the focus away from QC, especially after AlphaFold. Quantum Computing is potentially a society changing technology, now regarding practice we are really far away. The main expectations are in the field of medicine. I work in that field and I reckon that if the expectations placed on quantum computers were to come true, we’d be able to study the human body much quicker than now and to develop drugs much quicker than now. However, I do work nearby a Quantum computing centre and I have met quite a few persons who work in the field, both as researchers and entrepreneurs. Currently no computer can be used to make any real calculations and it is actually unclear if the molecular simulations are actually possible with a quantum computer. As far as I understand it, it may not be possible to encode the whole system in a quantum computer before it loses coherence. This may be an intrinsic limitation as for real problems you’d need to encode tens of thousands of electrons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the 'vending machine test' - and we may want to be worried about how it did⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Raising price of water or increasing prices when supply is low is not something I’d see working in real world. Pretty sure if it did that I’d just smash the machine and advise the company to replace it with a normal one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t use Arab springs as an example of why Facebook is not a good product. Facebook has many problems and misuses, but I would not list allowing people to organise as one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton's predictions for the internet, 2025 reviewed and 2026 projections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An article about it is very much appreciated. It’s difficult to see things coming when there is no information available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, you have a system with several LLM agents discussing amongst them regarding the best way to reply on a social network to a question posed by a system with several LLM agents who discussed amongst them and decided they should ask someone else for a response.

  What is the point of the social network? The only value I can see is that you could use a cheap LLM who can not find proper solutions and then exploit the API credits of other people to get the appropriate answers using a better LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would imagine this would lead to having less users. Or people that use it less. It would also make the experience for users worse. As such it would lead to less subscriptions. It is not clear to me that this would be better. I’m not sure on whether it would be worse, but I doubt it’d be better for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, LLC should only cover bankruptcy expenses and not penal responsibilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an Android phone, where’s my money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is It better for patreon to lose 30% of income from Apple pay, or to have Apple users not being able to pay unless they open the webpage and pay from there? Is it better for them to remove the app altogether and have users on Apple forced to use it through the website?

  I’d imagine they’d lose quite a bit of subscriptions if they did that. Is that more or less than 30% is something I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3200: Chemical Formula⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that yes, somewhere in the universe there is organic matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. It had a very quick spread when it first came out and as such it became the default way to message and call people. Nobody sends SMS. I mostly do calls through WhatsApp: I live in a foreign country and thus calling from my country’s number I would occur in additional costs. I do have a phone number for the country I live in, but I don’t charge it as that would require me to pay 2 phone numbers. However, across Europe internet plans do not charge extra when in another country and thus calling through WhatsApp I do not incur in extra costs.

  When WhatsApp first came out that is why it became a big thing: you don’t have to worry about the limit of SMS anymore. You paid 1€/year for the app and got the most basic plan which provided internet and you could send all the messages you wanted to anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We were developing a feature to push for those posts, but a bug made it so that they were blocked.

  I guess this is one of the few cases in which that could be the result of a bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the energy savings is a big deal.

  I agree, but that has little to do with food waste.

  Moreover, I doubt this is more efficient than traditional refrigeration. But I’d be happy to be wrong on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, but I’m always a bit dubious by these statements.

  Refrigerating just 12% of the produce that goes to waste every year due to spoilage would feed an estimated 1 billion more people.

  I mean, I know cooling is important and making the process more efficient will make things better. But the reason why most of that food is thrown away is not lack of refrigeration, cheaper refrigeration will not solve that problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quantum computing would be revolutionary in certain fields. It could completely change certain calculations we do. I do run stuff that takes weeks while using several GPUs, that could plausibly be done much much faster with quantum computers. Accurate and complete quantum algorithms for such calculations are not yet available, but I know there is people working on it and making progress.

  What we’re missing is the computers. Kinda difficult to do all this quantum computing when you have no quantum computer. Or when your quantum computer has like 8 qbits and after 100 operations all you get is noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not Valve, they were busy working on HL3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be very nervous: Did I place enough try/catch blocks in my lol.py?

  Are all the passwords correct before I run it on stage?

  Is this endpoint to delete an email correctly spelled out?

  Does the WiFi of the conference allow connecting to these domains?

  So many things could go wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, this is astounding. I don’t love windows, but last time I used it it was at least reliable enough that you could work on it with little problems. If they lose that, then there’s little more value that windows still brings to the table, except software which is only developed for windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solder-It-Yourself DDR5: Russian modders pitch the Idea of making their own RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see! Then as far as I can tell this is viable for your own use if you already have tools and knowledge on how to solder ICs. Plausibly it is not economical for any person to do. I guess you could do it for profit, but margins may be quite low if you account for time; but I may be wrong on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  British food Is not a race, just terrible food nobody should have ever come up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Still using dual SIM in Europe. While EU policies made it so that you can use a European number throughout Europe with basically no real added costs, country specific numbers are still required for a bunch of bureaucracy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Days after Christmas are confusing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean? The 2 weeks surrounding Christmas are just cooking and eating. Meeting people to cook together, meeting people to eat together. Visiting distant parts of the family you only see once a year and eating together. Visiting friends you only see once a year and eating together. I mean, chocolate is good; but there’s way too many dishes you want to eat that you likely don’t have enough vacation days to prepare them all. Then it becomes a point of optimization and huge discussions regarding what to prepare for lunch and dinner, attempting to make it so that none of the 15 people at dinner had already had that dish in those days or were planning to have it on another day. This is clearly impossible and that is where the real importance and respect of a person amongst the group of people he’s meeting becomes evident as he will muster support towards the dishes he was proposing by parts of the other people.

  Well, I’m cooking dinner tonight for a few people; respect is very high: in fact yesterday I just said I’d cook something and nobody actually asked what I’d cook. I don’t know yet what to cook. A couple days ago with one of the people in there I made risotto, I’d rather not repeat. I guess we could go for a pasta to keep it moderately simple as they work tomorrow morning and we don’t have much time, but I’ll accept suggestions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MongoBleed explained simply | MongoDB exploit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey Mongo, store this stuff; trust me it’s 1 MB. In case it turns out it is not, just give me 1 MB worth of your data.

  Thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solder-It-Yourself DDR5: Russian modders pitch the Idea of making their own RAM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, this is understandable. But how much are you actually saving to justify the extra work? How many ICs can you burn and still be saving money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do agree: Debian can be a bit tedious to set up and upgrade at times. It would not be my choice if you had to install a Linux distribution for the first time with no help. But, if you were able to set it up then you’re good, no reason to change now.