foxglacier (u/foxglacier)

foxglacier commented on Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation hcn.org/issues/57-11/heav... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

platevoltage · a day ago

> “Your homework tonight, and I’ll remind you of this later, go listen to the song ‘43% Burnt.’”

Why weren't my teachers this cool? I would have assigned the entire album though.

foxglacier · a day ago

Because it's not regular class. It's an extra-curricular club. If you joined the heavy metal club, you might have had similar activities.

foxglacier commented on A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine boomsupersonic.com/flyby/... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

stego-tech · 5 days ago

I’m not going to bother formulating a serious response to such an incredibly insane attempt at shoving words and positions into my mouth to fit your own preconceived narrative.

Be better.

foxglacier · 5 days ago

I tried my best to understand your position but the more details I included from your statement, the more ridiculous it became. You should just say what you mean instead of that.

foxglacier commented on A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine boomsupersonic.com/flyby/... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

npodbielski · 5 days ago

What is strange about it? Normal power plants have 2-3 gigawatts. Gas turbine having 300MW is probably just below average. What am I missing? Is it some US thing where G scale is not 10^9?

foxglacier · 5 days ago

It's a joke about the movie Back To The Future and 1.21 Jiggawatts.

foxglacier commented on A supersonic engine core makes the perfect power turbine boomsupersonic.com/flyby/... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

stego-tech · 6 days ago

Just vomited in my mouth a little bit. A supersonic aerospace company doing a half-assed pivot into fossil fuel electricity generation to, what, try to simultaneously capitalize on AI CAPEX while also soliciting government handouts?

Come on, get serious.

foxglacier · 5 days ago

What are you trying to say? That no company that makes money from the market can also try to get government funding, even for a different part of their business? Or is this only supersonic aerospace companies, not conventional aerospace? Or only if it's fossil fuel. What a bizarre list of conditions to make you vomit. You can't possibly have thought of that in advance. I suspect you don't know what you're saying at all.

foxglacier commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

hnarn · 6 days ago

I continue to be unimpressed by LLMs when it comes to creative work, they're certainly useful sometimes for "reference digging", but maybe I just don't understand enough about how they work and this is actually something that can already be "fixed" or at least optimized for; anyway, one of the headlines is:

> Debian 18 "Trixie" released

While it correctly derives that a likely version number in ten years would be 18, as there are new releases approximately every two years which means +5 from today's version 13, it then goes on to "make up" that the name of it would be "Trixie" -- the same name as the current release in 2025.

Debian has never re-used a release name, and I think we can be pretty confident they won't (as will no other Linux distro), so I would expect it to "understand" that:

- The next Debian release always uses a previously non-used Toy Story character

- Based on this information, _any_ name of a Toy Story character that hasn't been used is fair game

- At the very least, it certainly won't be the same name again, so at least make up a name

foxglacier · 6 days ago

From a quick check, Gemini Pro 3's cutoff date is Jan 2025, before Trixie's release in August 2025, so it could be Gemini actually did notice it should pick an unused Toy Story character.

Are you impressed now?

foxglacier commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

andrewstuart · 6 days ago

If you’re quicker then competition heats up management wants more done, efficiencies are soon forgotten and new expectations and baselines set.

foxglacier · 6 days ago

Sure but that's the good of it. Lower labor cost = more productivity. The customer wins in the end because the equivalent product is cheaper or a better product costs the same. Businesses and employees still have to compete against each other so things won't get easier for them in the long term.

foxglacier commented on Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru nber.org/papers/w34495... · Posted by u/danso

zozbot234 · 7 days ago

Except that raw unadjusted IQ scores for even the "hardest" and supposedly most culturally unbiased test (Raven's Progressive Matrices) have consistently shown a secular gain of about one standard deviation over 30-to-40 years, due to the so-called Flynn Effect; with much of it concentrated at the low end. The whole notion that these tests simply measure some kind of purely "innate" ability is highly implausible to say the least; even more so when you compare across different cultural subgroups and even totally different countries.

foxglacier · 7 days ago

It's obviously both genetic and environmental. You can limit people with a detrimental environment (extreme example - inflicting brain damage) but cant improve them beyond their their natural ceiling. And yes, tests don't purely measure that innate ceiling.

foxglacier commented on The fuck off contact page nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off... · Posted by u/OuterVale

dicethrowaway1 · 7 days ago

For email, I've had some luck just modifying the page with JS that's either indirect or obfuscated enough that the address can't be pulled directly from it - e.g. "var email" is the address encrypted with a fixed key, the JS decrypts it and then alters the HTML.

It can obviously be bypassed by using a JS runner, but it seems to be enough of a hurdle that few spammers bother. "You don't have to outrun the bear", as it were.

foxglacier · 7 days ago

I have my email in plain text on every page of my site. I get about 1 spam per day that I see in my inbox on Gmail. I suppose Gmail filters even more silently. It's been working fine for over a decade. Is there some scale of site popularity where it becomes a problem?

foxglacier commented on Socialist ends by market means: A history lucasvance.github.io/2100... · Posted by u/sirponm

foxglacier · 7 days ago

What's the point of all this naval-gazing? How are Adam Smith and Karl Marx relevant to anything? They're not gods writing gospel. Whatever valid ideas they had can stand on their own. Where's the modelling, simulations, experiments? It sounds like a hobby project for people who spent too much time in liberal arts where they learnt they're not allowed to think for themselves and have to cherry pick ideas from authorities and write a lot of words but in the end create nothing. Excuse me for losing it a bit there.

foxglacier commented on Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru nber.org/papers/w34495... · Posted by u/danso

mmooss · 7 days ago

So you've got nothing to offer?

foxglacier · 7 days ago

It's the scientific consensus not somebody's pet theory. So you don't need to get answers from here, you can get them from Google.