fredgrott's comments

On: Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing...

[fredgrott]

point c is wrong...they had ads since the original yahoo contract....

[threeseed → fredgrott]

Yahoo contract was 2 years after it launched.

I remember using Google the day it went public and it had no ads which made it unique compared to Altavista.

On: Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression

[fredgrott]

fasting changes the population of the microbiome in your gi tract...

On: When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell

[fredgrott]

the real revolution will be when an AI tool can just be powered by our laptop to use our own codebase as the input....

Until then its just nonsense pretending to be something else...

[fragmede → fredgrott]

So, an M3 MacBook with 64GiB of RAM running Deepseek R1 Zero in ollama prompted via aider?

[esafak → fredgrott]

Coding assistants do use your code base.

On: Moving on from React, a year later

[fredgrott]

But, was it JS alone or the rendering of JS and CSS in the browser container???

For context, the Dart Flutter stack started out with the concept to make web apps faster....

On: Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)

[fredgrott]

and it failed for that wrong SMS assumption....

On: Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might ...

[fredgrott]

Let's see how many flunk Literacy....

How does one value a start up asset that according to ByteDance will never ever get access to the TikTok algo powering the app?

It appears at the moment, the only one to bet on who knows what the eff they are talking about is Mark Cuban who wants to pay or buy someone creating a new tiktok clone that uses the Bluesky protocol

On: Issues with color spaces and perceptual brightness

[fredgrott]

this is why Google's HCT color space has both a Tone as adjustment and device environment as a color adjust.

[refulgentis → fredgrott]

hey, I made that! I wish the environment adjust was used, but it's not. Tone in HCT is ""just"" the L* criticized in the article (opinionated comment on that here, TL;DR: talking about color sucks, lightness/brightness are loaded terms, and the article is off-base due to it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42738943)

On: Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives gly...

[fredgrott]

note its not just sleep meds that harm the process....

taking caffeine several hours before sleep does as well as caffeine co-competes with adenosine...adenosine serves to close the hetodimer dopamine receptors...i.e. the dopamine receptors that are tied to locomotion and other things are closed due to the action of adenosine during sleep.

On: The Fannie and Freddie trade is back

[fredgrott]

that is not how those securities work....if you buy such a security you are betting on your own disaster...

How?

When you buy what is called A tranches it always has a layer of toxic non A tranches....

Once housing repossessions rose above 8% all housing mort securities were under water....

On: I had to take down my course-swapping site or be e...

[fredgrott]

given the type of UW blackmail you need to contact a lawyer to protect your right to an education finishing your studies....do not delay that step