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dpiers commented on Claude Code's renderer is more complex than a game engine   spader.zone/engine/... · Posted by u/dboon
dpiers · a month ago
The title is a lie - the original statement was that it was closer to “a small game engine” than a basic text UI.

CC has a complex scene rendering pipeline with a 16ms/frame budget. That is much closer to a game engine than a print statement.

dpiers commented on Ask HN: Can anybody clarify why OpenAI reasoning now shows non-English thoughts?    · Posted by u/johnnyApplePRNG
dpiers · 9 months ago
Languages are thought encodings.

Most people can only encode/decode a single language but an LLM can move between them fluidly.

dpiers commented on Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens   microcenter.com/site/mc-n... · Posted by u/modeless
stevenwoo · 10 months ago
Newegg has deteriorated in my experience and now not materially different from Amazon, with wrong items shipped and multiple dropshippers commingling inventory so provenance of stuff is questionable. Do not recommend.
dpiers · 10 months ago
Amazon has surpassed Newegg as my online parts provider of choice.

It's not that things can't go wrong, it's just that they are much better at handling it than Newegg these days.

dpiers commented on Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties   techcrunch.com/2025/05/13... · Posted by u/mastazi
dpiers · 10 months ago
We are in the process of abandoning ChatGPT Enterprise because Google is now bundling Gemini access for free with Google Workspace.

If OpenAI is not safe from anticompetitive practices then no YC startup is.

dpiers commented on Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster   quantamagazine.org/underg... · Posted by u/Jhsto
yas_hmaheshwari · a year ago
The fool didn't knew it was impossible. So he did it

( I don't know who said it, but if forced, I will say Albert Einstein or Mark Twain :-) )

dpiers · a year ago
This explains a lot about Ork Mekboyz.
dpiers commented on The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations   cepr.org/voxeu/columns/us... · Posted by u/cen4
brnt · 2 years ago
Germany doesn't lack money, it just reveres the lack of debt a bit too much. It's cheap for Germany to borrow and invest, and in all likelihood be able to debts down and benefit from the investments, but they don't, because debt scary.

A mountain of unrealized goodwill. It's such a pity, because indeed much of infrastructure is barely maintained.

dpiers · 2 years ago
Well there was that one time Germany owed everyone a lot of money after the Treaty of Versailles and it kind of directly led to Hitler’s rise to power and another World War… makes sense for them to be a bit more conservative than other countries.
dpiers commented on People say they can't get their money out of Yotta Savings (YCombinator 2020)   old.reddit.com/r/yotta/co... · Posted by u/fortran77
ilrwbwrkhv · 2 years ago
Andreessen Horowitz is a known grifter and scammer. I don't know why anyone associates his firm with anything well thought out instead of a pyramid scheme. Just because he can famoozle big money out of old pension funds doesn't mean he knows much about startups.
dpiers · 2 years ago
It seems you are under the impression that the venture capital firm cofounder by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz was created by a single individual.

If you can’t get basic facts correct no one is going to take your other claims seriously. A16Z has a diverse portfolio of investments and are as famous as they are because of how successful their companies have been.

dpiers commented on Why there will never be another Bitcoin   blog.kraken.com/crypto-ed... · Posted by u/codetrotter
r2_pilot · 2 years ago
>Bitcoin maxis aren't technologists; they're grifters trying to convince you their magic beans are the most special magic beans.

Replace "bitcoin maxis" with any cryptocoin promoter and the statement remains true and equally as useless to those who refuse to consider digital coinage money.

dpiers · 2 years ago
I don’t disagree. Crypto is neat but has no useful (legal) real world applications.
dpiers commented on Why there will never be another Bitcoin   blog.kraken.com/crypto-ed... · Posted by u/codetrotter
dpiers · 2 years ago
Oh, please. Bitcoin is a protocol with no more inherent value than SMTP.

Aside from being the Catholic cryptocurrency, it has been surpassed technologically in every way by newer and better designed protocols. Why would anyone who doesn't already own Bitcoin choose to use it for anything over, ex. Ethereum?

Bitcoin maxis aren't technologists; they're grifters trying to convince you their magic beans are the most special magic beans.

u/dpiers

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