Jarwain's comments

On: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

[Jarwain]

Discord also has threads, if the server has enabled it.

I personally haven't really encountered performance issues running discord

On: Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control

[Jarwain]

I'm quite slowly working on something like this, but for time.

For "stuff" I think a bigger draw is having it so it can let me know "hey you already have 3 of those spices at locations x, y, and z, so don't get another" or "hey you won't be able to fit that in your freezer"

On: Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware

[Jarwain]

You may have mixed up who the commenter was replying to. They were specifically questioning "usually seen as an asset not a liability" bit

[bolognafairy → Jarwain]

That’s really all there is in the comment. They’re unambiguously conflating “number of dependencies are higher” with some sort of statement about the value system of people that work with a certain language. It’s silly language tribalism.

On: Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)

[Jarwain]

I think the "when you read it" has more to do with age than decade. I read Snow Crash back in high school in the early 2010s before even necessarily encountering a lot of the derivative media and I adored it.

On: Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini

[Jarwain]

Love it! I'm curious about whether open router support is on the road map to really allow people to use any option

On: F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025

[Jarwain]

Depends on implementation.

One way, which is less private, show active installs by having the phone reports back to the store if it's unstalled

A more secure way, show downloads for each version/build. Graph it. If an app is releasing/being updated regularly but more users are uninstalling, you'd expect the downloads per version to decrease or stay level

On: Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

[Jarwain]

I'd guess salaries and such for all the devs and researchers make up a significant portion of the other half

[throwaway48476 → Jarwain]

That seems almost impossible.

On: ATProto and the ownership of identity

[Jarwain]

Not sure you're the target audience for this kind of verification. I see it being more for people with a public persona

A parallel might be not necessarily a Public persona, but still identity verified

On: Brood War Korean Translations

[Jarwain]

According to Google, shard directly translates to el casco - helmet, shell, hoof, hulk, body, shard

But in English in this context I read it more like shard of glass, which Google translates as fragmento de vidrio

On: One of largest lithium battery plants ignites in Moss Landing

[Jarwain]

I mean it's a standard warning for fires, but battery fires are a more dangerous form of toxic due to the corrosive materials batteries are made of.

[audunw → Jarwain]

Compared to what?

For cars fires there have been some articles showing there’s not much difference in the amount toxic stuff in the smoke between EVs and ICE. So batteries aren’t that bad.

If we’re talking burning factories I’m sure there are other factories that would emit far more nastier stuff. And some that would be much more benign of course.

So again the question is, compared to what?

[hulitu → audunw]

> there’s not much difference in the amount toxic stuff in the smoke between EVs and ICE. So batteries aren’t that bad.

EVs burn longer.