bryanlarsen

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by bryanlarsen 5d ago
Any data center that can remain profitable selling open source tokens at commodity prices will be fine. Any data center that relies on OpenAI/Anthropic level token prices and margins might be in trouble. After clearing their debts
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by bryanlarsen 5d ago
Most of the affordable rentals in my city and many others is luxury housing that was built ~100 years ago. They built lots of cheap housing back then too, but it was junk that was torn down a long time ago. The luxury stuff was built bet
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by bryanlarsen 6d ago
The Europeans did a survey and pegged the value of BYD's government support at 17%. I trust that number as an upper limit because the European government would have had lots of incentive to be thorough and to err on the side of over
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by bryanlarsen 7d ago
Those three have been letting in large numbers of people from outside the UK for at least 125 years, not a few decades.
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by bryanlarsen 7d ago
Is Firefox or Mozilla perfect? Heck no. But we're not comparing Mozilla against pre-IBM Red Hat or Ben & Jerry's or whatever your concept of the ideal corporate citizen is. We're comparing Mozilla against Google .
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by bryanlarsen 7d ago
After all Canada, Australia and New Zealand are such hot-beds of crime and mayhem; we should avoid following their example as much as possible.
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by bryanlarsen 8d ago
> but that hasn't happened and maybe never will. Countries aren't leaving NATO yet, but they are setting up and strengthening alternatives which will make such an option easier. For an example, Canada just joined SAFE.
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by bryanlarsen 8d ago
I expect some changes to the language from this direction, some way to attach provenance information or limitations to a pointer. Presumably through a #pragma at first. Strict typing in the C++ sense, not the Rust sense. An annotation
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by bryanlarsen 8d ago
You are using the wrong metric. The supply of t-bills is increasing rapidly because of the massive deficit. That is sufficient to explain the increased number of holdings. The correct metric is price. If there is decreased demand, it
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by bryanlarsen 8d ago
Probably by working together with Rust. Eliminating undefined behavior from unsafe Rust is a big deal for the Rust community at the moment. And given that most unsafe rust code exists to call into C or C++, concepts like pointer provenan
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by bryanlarsen 8d ago
They also realized that people choose compilers based on performance benchmarks, and that insane optimizations let them win.
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by bryanlarsen 8d ago
Early versions of Claude were way too compliant and would readily feed and amplify misconceptions. It's not surprising Anthropic over corrected.
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by bryanlarsen 8d ago
But that same statement applies to normal values too, right? With normal numbers you might get the oddity of a-b -> a even if b is nonzero, but you don't get the oddity of a-b -> 0 unless the same number is represented, IIUC.
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by bryanlarsen 8d ago
Isn't that just a scale issue that exists with or without subnormals? If a and b are closer to zero than the smallest representable number, a and b compare as the same. With subnormals your smallest possible number is smaller than
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Some laws are easier to change than others. Constitutions in particular are often made hard to change on purpose.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
98% of the goods listed in CETA are tariff free.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
I bet my Lebanese and Persian neighbors pay far more taxes than you do. (They're all lawyers and doctors).
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
It's called the "Buy European" movement in Europe and the "Buy Canadian" movement in Canada (aka Elbows Up). Walk into a store and there are little maple leafs on the price tag of every Canadian product. I apologi
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
98% of CETA has been ratified. The last 2% is the hard part, but the 98% covers a lot of goods...
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Immigrants in Canada have a higher labor force participation rate than Canadian born citizens do. When the wave of Syrians arrived a few years ago, most quickly got jobs. Many of them started working for businesses started by the Lebanese
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Buying local in 2026 mostly means weaning oneself from Google/AWS/Meta/etc.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Spreading oneself too thin makes you much less likely to succeed.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Europe and Canada are going through a very significant "buy local" phase. If Canadian goods are considered local from the European perspective, that opens up a lot of opportunities.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Scaled back immigration happened under Trudeau just before Carney took over.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
There is only one country that Canada needs to be secure from and they just used up most of their missiles in Iran.
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
Carney has a majority in Parliament, he can do this pretty much unilaterally if he wants. And a straw poll at the after-beer from band last night had everybody enthusiastic about the prospect. As for the secession referendum, it's cu
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
A 0.25% rate hike might be the straw that breaks the camel's back. There are a lot of stressors on the economy right now. I don't think it's going to take too many more to tip it. And once it tips, it'll pop bubb
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
21M is the theoretical cap. At the moment there are 20M and more are constantly being mined. Miners have to convert bitcoin into real currency to pay for their electricity both for mining and transaction fees. This means that there is
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
They announced they are doing an AI assisted rewrite of parts of their code into Rust. That would alienate some. https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/ Myself, my annoyance with Ladybird is that restarted eve
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by bryanlarsen 9d ago
It might not be a good thing, but it's likely the best thing. Canada does not have a lot of good options. Doing nothing is a far worse option.

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