the_sleaze_ (u/the_sleaze_)

the_sleaze_ commented on Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics twitter.com/SebastienBube... · Posted by u/marcuschong

StilesCrisis · 3 days ago

This is one of 4o’s biggest flaws. If you are a conspiracy theorist, it’ll confirm any outlandish theory you can come up with, and provide invented receipts to go with it. Of course, it’s just model hallucinations, but for those who are already primed to believe that secrets are being kept, it gives the “evidence” they were always looking for.

the_sleaze_ · 3 days ago

"Your correction is correct! Jet fuel can "melt" steel beams because steel is a solid metal that requires heating to its melting point (around -30°C) to transform into a liquid..."

the_sleaze_ commented on Materialized views are obviously useful sophiebits.com/2025/08/22... · Posted by u/gz09

mkleczek · 3 days ago

That way you increase contention and harm scalability. In sqlite it does not matter as writes are single-threaded anyway. But in other DBMSes it does. What's more: in PostgreSQL you increase bloat as every update creates a new row version.

Most of the times the solution is not pre-aggregation but proper indexes on foreign key columns (missing fk indexes is one of the most common mistakes in RDB design).

the_sleaze_ · 3 days ago

I have to admit I do the same as GP here. However I would always do both - index and keep a count on the parent as a first step.

> increase contention and harm scalability

Contention, concurrent connections, high-throughput and the associated race conditions are absolute table stakes for RDBMs. They just won't be taken seriously if they can't handle thousands of concurrent updates. So imho for 90% of projects this just won't be an issue.

> PostgreSQL you increase bloat as every update creates a new row version

This is true, but the complexity has to live somewhere. There will be as many rows added to a materialized view as there will be in the original table.

> Most of the times the solution is not pre-aggregation

This is wrong. Caching = pre-aggregation and is almost always either the solution or a part of the solution to scalability, latancy etc. Don't compute what you can retrieve.

the_sleaze_ commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd

apercu · 15 days ago

In all seriousness, can you explain why the "impact of doing so is disputed". In my laypersons understanding, if you control ~51% of the hashrate you can outpace everyone else in producing blocks, which means you can change (reorganize) your blockchain history which means the ledger isn't trustworthy. Right?

the_sleaze_ · 15 days ago

Yes.

the_sleaze_ commented on Jules, our asynchronous coding agent blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ramoz · 21 days ago

There is only one true agent in 2025, Claude Code.

That said, Gemini is very powerful for it's quality long-context capabilities: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1miweuv/comment/n...

the_sleaze_ · 21 days ago

Thinking the same. I don't want Github approval process to sit in between me and the changes - the killer feature of claude code is being able to head it off as it starts to go down a bad path, and to code myself in between its steps.

Do you let juniors complete full features without asking questions or make them check in when they get flustered?

the_sleaze_ commented on Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December open-web-advocacy.org/blo... · Posted by u/mtomweb

fkyoureadthedoc · 21 days ago

To increase their already tiny fraction of marketshare by another tiny fraction?

the_sleaze_ · 21 days ago

To be fair a tiny fraction of marketshare can represent a very attractive level of revenue depending on the market

the_sleaze_ commented on HTMX is hard, so let's get it right github.com/BookOfCooks/bl... · Posted by u/thunderbong

bananapub · 23 days ago

(out of interest: did you ever write web apps before ~2010 or so? the answer to your question seems so obvious to me I'm not even sure where the confusion could come from, unless you've only ever written web apps that are "JS frontend, JS backend, magic communication between them, it's often not clear where some bit of code is running").

HTMX here is making it so the page works without doing a full HTTP form submission + page load for each stage of the "wizard". instead, you write some HTMX stuff in the page that submits the form asynchronously, then the server sends back the HTML to replace part of the page to move to you to the next step in the "wizard", and then HTMX replaces the relevant DOM nodes to make that so.

Go's templating is completely unrelated to any of this happening on the front end - it's just generating some HTML, both the "whole page loaded by the browser normally" and the "here's the new widget state code", and so obviously:

> just use Go’s HTML templating.

is incorrect.

the_sleaze_ · 23 days ago

I believe what he's saying is either embrace the full power and maintenance of a JS client side framework, or just use ssr'd templates. I agree with them, that HTMX isn't attractive because it doesn't solve any issues I find important. I largest of which is I don't "hate" react and I don't attach emotionally to any arguments about "frontend"

the_sleaze_ commented on Palantir is extending its reach even further into government wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mooreds

A_D_E_P_T · 23 days ago

That's the meme. It's not going to happen IRL because it doesn't look like China is rising to the bait, because Russia is still advancing in Ukraine, because American industrial production capacity is by every estimation not equal to the task, and because the Middle East is as bad a mess as it has ever been and is sucking all of the oxygen out of the room.

When your Navy literally can't defeat the Houthis, you know for an ironclad 100% certainty that there's zero chance they're capable of beating China -- right off the coast of China!

the_sleaze_ · 23 days ago

This is fundamentally wrong on many levels, including what a War is and why they happen.

You actually need a balance of power to prevent an armed political conflict, so the adults in the room will maintain one.

the_sleaze_ commented on Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video] youtube.com/watch?v=xwuRU... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood

dazzawazza · 25 days ago

I've come off two motorbikes in the UK. On the first occasion I wore a leather jacket, on the second I had a synthetic jacket on (because it was more comfortable in hot weather).

Both were completely safe. On both occasions I slid along the tarmac for about 10-15 meters, I was travelling at around 30-40 mph. I still wear the same leather jacket 30 years later (not for riding) but the synthetic jacket was a right-off.

On both occasions I really smacked my head: don't mess about with sub-standard crash helmets.

So even though leather is better, we're not racing the TT, we're just going from A-B and if you want to wear synthetic you'll be fine at normal speeds. So if you can't wear leather, for whatever reason, don't let that stop you.

the_sleaze_ · 25 days ago

Same thing here. Slid on black ice in the north-east USA winter. Big -big- hit to the side of the helmet, road-slide for 100 feet and got up with a bruised ego.

I'd add 1 point for the pads, shoulder elbow and back for impact. Mine happen to be `D3o` and are comfortable

the_sleaze_ commented on Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video] youtube.com/watch?v=xwuRU... · Posted by u/lifeisstillgood

Zambyte · 25 days ago

This summer I got into electric scooter riding, and along with that I have been interested in finding appropriate gear for my riding. My go-to so far has been to wear a fairly cheap half helmet that I used to wear longboarding, and a pair of well-padded cycling gloves. Wearing more protection sounds nice, but: at the speeds I'm going < 20 mph / 30 kph, and impact protection (from cars) is more important than sliding to me, and I'd also like things that are easy to get on and off and carry around at my destination.

I've been thinking about getting a nice, full face helmet (helmets marketed for mountain biking seem like a good fit), but they seem like a pain to deal with at my destination. A lot of times I'll just loop my current helmet on my scooter completely unlocked, because it's cheap enough that I'm not really worried about it being stolen. The full face helmets I have been looking at are an order of magnitude more expensive though, and I wouldn't really feel comfortable just leaving it unlocked by my scooter. Does anyone have any recommendations on this? Or recommendations on other appropriate safety gear for my kind of riding?

the_sleaze_ · 25 days ago

Vespa scooters are awesome because they have a huge storage compartment under the seat where you would store things like helmets and gear.

The full-face mountain bike helmets sound exactly the ticket, and would protect your face from abrasion if you have an unexpected rapid dismount.

I used to use a small wire cord and padlock that you can store wrapped up tightly onboard. You're never going stop someone determined to get your old lid you just want to prevent opportunists and not be too cumbersome about it otherwise you won't actually do it.

I will say I have heard enough stories about 5k+ electric bikes getting scooped that I'd only ever store one behind locked doors rather than buying a huge bike lock setup.