sidewndr46 (u/sidewndr46)

sidewndr46 commented on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems techcrunch.com/2025/12/12... · Posted by u/kernelrocks

TallGuyShort · a day ago

I've never had an employee know what a tool is, much less where to find it. All they're doing is doing this process on a slower, ruggedized phone.

I literally watched someone Google "masonry bit" right in front of me.

sidewndr46 · a day ago

I asked an employee for something by part number and described it. The answer he gave was "why the hell would you want that anyways? I've worked here 13 years and never seen one". I found it on a shelf a few levels up and used a grounding rod from the electrical section to spear it and bring it down to ground level

sidewndr46 commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter

jeremy151 · 2 days ago

My work health insurance recently offered a free scale and blood pressure monitor, I thought that's a nice perk, I'll use that, so I ordered with the intent of never using their app, just using it for my own tracking. The first time I used it, I got an email from my insurance company congratulating me and giving me suggestions. Both devices have a cellular modem in them, and arrived paired to my identity.

I destroyed them and threw them in a dumpster like that Ron Swanson gif.

All to say, little cellular modems and a small data plan are likely getting cheap enough it's worth being extra diligent about the devices we let into our homes. Probably not yet to the point of that being the case on a tv, but I could certainly see it getting to that point soon enough.

sidewndr46 · a day ago

Why not just remove the cell modem?

sidewndr46 commented on Chinese foundry SMIC achieves 5nm production without EUV tools techpowerup.com/344000/ch... · Posted by u/jsheard

jack_tripper · 2 days ago

The most important part of this news article:

  "TechInsights has confirmed that SMIC's N+3 node, despite achieving impressive DUV multi-patterning implementation, encounters significant yield challenges, particularly due to the aggressively scaled metal pitch.

  As a result, the Huawei Kirin 9030 SoC is likely produced at an operating loss, with a significant portion of dies being discarded or used for downgraded chips."

So TSMC and friends have nothing to worry about (yet) since SMIC long hit the physical limits on what's possible to shrink using DUV.

However that's probably more than enough to ensure chips for China's strategic national security and defense needs.

sidewndr46 · 2 days ago

Thanks, this was my theory as well when I read the title. The production is entirely possible, but the yield is useless.

sidewndr46 commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo

irishcoffee · 2 days ago

Yeah, he’s a sociopath

sidewndr46 · 2 days ago

I can't really see how Altman is a sociopath? I think his current vision greatly exceeds the technical capabilities that OpenAI can ever build. OpenAI seems to have produced some genuinely interesting products on the other hand. But they aren't profitable at present and I don't see it happening.

Altman talks to the talk of a CEO who is going to build a company that can change the world. It's what investors want to hear. He seems to make as many attempts as possible to actually execute on that. I think most of those plans are unlikely to be as successful as desired. But this isn't Theranos level fraud, where what they are trying to build is obviously impossible.

sidewndr46 commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo

ramesh31 · 3 days ago

>I say this with no snark or disdain: Sam has mastered the art of the flywheel.

It's been his entire career. Guy has made billions of dollars from talking.

sidewndr46 · 2 days ago

Isn't that the case for most ultra-rich CEOs? All of the CEOs of Microsoft apparently started off either building product or helping develop the business into something profitable. But at some point it doesn't really matter if you have the skills to be an individual contributor, a team leader, or even a vice president. The role of CEO mostly is to keep investors happy & secondarily to put the right people in the company together to make things happen.

sidewndr46 commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo

Thrymr · 2 days ago

What are the terms? It is not at all clear from the announcement. "part of this three-year licensing agreement", it _could_ mean the license cost is $1 billion, which Disney in turn invests in OpenAI in return for equity, and they're calling it "investment" (that's what's hypothesized above, but I don't think we know). Disney surely gets something for the license other than the privilege of buying $1 billion in OpenAI stock at their most recent valuation price.

sidewndr46 · 2 days ago

Disney gets the opportunity to tell the board and investors that they are now partnered with a leading AI company. In effect, Disney is now an AI company as well. They haven't really done anything, but if anyone asks they can just say "of course we're at the forefront of the entertainment industry. We're already leveraging AI in our partnerships"

sidewndr46 commented on Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years topspeed.com/reliable-jap... · Posted by u/teleforce

Animats · 9 days ago

This little 20HP one-cylinder Diesel engine [1] powers much of third world agriculture. The original design seems to have come from Shanghai Engine Company in 1953, and is still manufactured by multiple companies. It's water-cooled, but non-recirculating; you have to fill the water tank when you fill the fuel tank. No electrical components at all. Starts with a hand crank.

Over 75 years of production of that design. It's the AK-47 of engines.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-Quality-Manufact...

sidewndr46 · 9 days ago

That's rather peculiar. Was this a project of the CCP or was it derived from some other design?

sidewndr46 commented on The Concrete Pontoons of Bristol thecretefleet.com/blog/f/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

fredley · 16 days ago

Castle Park, where the barges were moored until recently was flattened during World War II. The rubble was exported to the USA, and was used as landfill to create Bristol Basin, New York.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bristol-basin

sidewndr46 · 16 days ago

There's a transatlantic trade in rubble? I've certainly seen rubble from demolished historic structures wind up in unusual places, but it almost always nearby

sidewndr46 commented on The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models shujisado.org/2025/11/27/... · Posted by u/jonymo

jeremyjh · 17 days ago

What is ideal about getting more shitty laws written at the behest of massive tech companies? Do you think the DMCA is a good thing?

sidewndr46 · 16 days ago

DMCA isn't intrinsically copyright. It's a questionable attempt at a safe harbor provision that has horrible provisions for abuse. I'm not even of the opinion that copyright about computer software is poorly executed. It's mostly software patents that don't make any sense to me. When you have a concept that essentially every mathematics undergrad is familiar with getting labels slapped on it & called a novel technique. It's made worse by the fact that the patent office itself isn't enabled to perform any real review. There are no shortage of impossible devices patented each year in the category of things perpetual motion.

sidewndr46 commented on APT Rust requirement raises questions lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

epolanski · 19 days ago

The problem is that rust is being shoved in pointless places with a rewrite-everything-in-rust mentality.

There's lunatics that want to replace basic Unix tools like sudo, etc, that are battle tested since ages which has been a mess of bugs till now.

Instead Rust should find it's niches beyond rewriting what works, but tackling what doesn't.

sidewndr46 · 19 days ago

I seem to remember going through this with systemD in Ubuntu. Lots of lessons learned seemed to come back as "didn't we fix this bug 3 years ago?"

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KarmaCake day5255August 9, 2019View Original