anthomtb (u/anthomtb)

anthomtb commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

eisfresser · 11 days ago

Yes, they really killed MTB. If only Re Bull TV would buy the Discovery/Eurosport part. Or GCN!

anthomtb · 11 days ago

None of the live sports programming, including MTB, will be part of the acquisition.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/netflix-in-exclusive-talks-for...

(yes Pinkbike is my source)

anthomtb commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9

scroot · 14 days ago

As an elder millennial, I just don't know what to say. That a once in a generation allocation of capital should go towards...whatever this all will be, is certainly tragic given current state of the world and its problems. Can't help but see it as the latest in a lifelong series of baffling high stakes decisions of dubious social benefit that have necessarily global consequences.

anthomtb · 14 days ago

As a fellow elder millennial I agree with your sentiment.

But I don't see the mechanics of how it would work. Rewind to October 2022. How, exactly, does the money* invested in AI since that time get redirected towards whatever issues you find more pressing?

*I have some doubts about the headline numbers

anthomtb commented on Being poor vs. being broke blog.ctms.me/posts/2025-1... · Posted by u/speckx

anthomtb · a month ago

The article resonated but I disagree with his terminology. To me, broke and poor are exactly the same thing. He can define them differently if he wants, of course, but what he calls "broke" I would call "feeling poor" and what he calls "poor" I would call "being poor".

I grew up in circumstances that were very much "broke"/"feeling poor" and it took a long time to learn that we really weren't poor. Some of the simple actions that are mis-directed towards the truly poor (second job, DIY car/home maintenance, better financial planning) would have elevated our circumstances quite a bit. Not to the point of being rich, but definitely to less precarious circumstances. And, selfishly, I would likely not have spent my childhood feeling like an impoverished outcast from my peers.

anthomtb commented on You can't cURL a Border drobinin.com/posts/you-ca... · Posted by u/valzevul

csense · a month ago

I don't travel internationally. This all sounds like a nightmare, and I'm glad it doesn't affect me.

anthomtb · a month ago

I travel internationally. These arcane rules also do not affect me.

Me: Lifelong, native-born citizen of a western nation. 1 or 2 international trips of less than 2 weeks each year.

Author: Immigrant to his country of residence. Applying or soon to apply for citizenship or permanent residency. Has taken multiple, lengthy international trips and also appears to have had immigration status in different countries .

Conclusion: If you are more like me than the author then international travel will not require navigation of arcane and contradictory rules.

anthomtb commented on Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore? church.substack.com/p/is-... · Posted by u/brandonb

John23832 · a month ago

The ACA didn't do away with HSAs.

anthomtb · a month ago

Agreed. Upon passage of the ACA my company switched insurance coverage to a High Deductible plan with an HSA. So if anything, the ACA appeared to increase the prevalence of HSA's. But that is my narrow social circle and the grandparent poster seems to have a different experience.

anthomtb commented on At the end you use `git bisect` kevin3010.github.io/git/2... · Posted by u/_spaceatom

anthomtb · a month ago

Binary searching your commit history and using version control software to automate the process just seems so...obvious?

I get that author learned a new-to-him technique and is excited to share with the world. But to this dev, with a rapidly greying beard, the article has the vibe of "Hey bro! You're not gonna believe this. But I just learned the Pope is catholic."

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anthomtb commented on Radios, how do they work? (2024) lcamtuf.substack.com/p/ra... · Posted by u/aqrashik

kragen · 2 months ago

This is basic math, not advanced math. If you don't know it, don't worry, you can learn it pretty quickly. Maybe watch some 3Blue1Brown videos and do some textbook exercises and/or game programming. Git gud. There is no royal road to radio modulation.

I learned that subtraction was the same as adding a negative number sometime around second grade, and I learned (then forgot) the trigonometric angle-sum identities in tenth grade. And that was even with the handicap of having to attend school in the US.

And, just above the text you're complaining about, he even provides a straightforward geometric proof of the angle-sum identity! So you don't even have to know it to read the article! You just have to know what a cosine is! I learned what a cosine was in eighth grade because I wanted to program a game where objects would fly across the screen at a constant velocity but a varying angle. You can learn it too!

He's not, like, invoking the convolution theorem or anything in those quotes. Although he does get into it a bit.

I think that, if you know the convolution theorem and Euler's formula, things like the production of sum and difference frequencies from the multiplication of sinusoids start to seem obvious rather than sort of random. When I was in high school they seemed sort of random. My uncle had tried to explain Euler's formula to me, along with the Taylor expansions for sine, cosine, and the exponential, but I hadn't really understood, because I didn't have the background knowledge to appreciate them then.

anthomtb · 2 months ago

> Euler's formula

So much EE-related math becomes trivial (or at least not-hard) once you've internalized this formula.

What I am trying to decide is 1) Did I zone out in class when Euler's formula was introduced or 2) Did my secondary school mathematics classes just kind of gloss over it?

I lean towards 2 but unfortunately none of my college classes reintroduced the formula and I ended up making a lot of problems harder than they should have been (I have an EE undergrad).

anthomtb commented on The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime morningstar.com/news/mark... · Posted by u/speckx

cvoss · 2 months ago

This article is all vapor. After reading it in it's entirety, there is only a short section that's actually about the headline, and it communicates nothing about what the headline means. What is 17x what?

anthomtb · 2 months ago

No link to the original research note. No real details on the methodology used. A few notes on the well-known lack of an AI business model (similar things were said about search in the late 90's).

I just don't see how the broader market is exposed to an AI crash in the way it was exposed to subprime loans. If OpenAI goes belly up is it really taking anyone else down with it?