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New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:18:58 +0000

Is it called "trio" state because 3 of the 5 states are not supported?

I also like how True is -1. Beautiful all around!

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Recently I've found my mind reawaken. It's about asking good questions now. The models can find the answers, but you have to know what to ask. Sometimes the model is wrong and you have to challenge it to find an alternative. Being able to explore problem spaces quickly is interesting.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:18:51 +0000

I'm trying to understand why people are spinning up so many k8s clusters that they need a tool to do it for them?

I have one. And it's managed. I don't think there's significant cost savings to going unmanaged, but maybe. Even so, why would I need a ton of them?

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:15:03 +0000

I'm finding this out the hard way. I set out to build a 1 page app. I thought it would take a day. It's 98% vibe coded at this point. Even with AI implementing everything, its taken several weekends and many evenings. And not because AI is doing a bad job its just that as i see it come together, i have more and more feature requests. I've got a couple dozen left but I can't just let the AI chew through them all at once. Im effectively QA now. Have to make sure everything is just right.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Zed 1.0"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:58:48 +0000

Can you fix the CLI on Windows? You broke it a few versions ago. 'zed --version' and all the other flags don't work. Maybe broken command parser or something, im not sure. Zed with zero flags still launches it. I particularly want to be able to pass it filenames for quick opening and --new and --wait. Used to work. Thanks!

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Composition shouldn't be this hard"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:41:29 +0000

That answers nothing. What is a "programming system"? If it were a programming language, they'd say that.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:29:45 +0000

I've wrapped fetch a few times but i don't think I'd blame someone if they got tired of wrapping it and wanted a consistent interface across all the projects they work on.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:37:30 +0000

Sometimes i like to jj describe before writing any code. It helps with mental clarity what i intend on writing or helps if i have to run away mid coding session (description will show in log so i can find it again)

In this scenario I'd instead jj new at the end, after im finished and ready to move on to the next thing.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:48:43 +0000

We can adapt by shutting down social media. We don't really need that. It's been pretty bad since before the AI wave took off.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Isseven"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:35:16 +0000

Seven figures is indeed more than five figures. Too bad they're all 7s.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Isseven"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:33:08 +0000

I think that's part of the joke. iseven is a real, non-joke package.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:28:07 +0000

I'm kind of excited about that though. What I've come to realize is that automated testing and linting and good review tools are more important than ever, so we'll probably see some good developments in these areas. This helps both humans and AIs so it's a win win. I hope.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:20:57 +0000

Disappearing asterisks is just terrible UX. It should turn bold but keep the asterisk displayed so you can still edit as normal.

The bullet point problem is fixed by only bolding when the asterisks are on either end of word characters.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:17:27 +0000

This thread is giving me flashbacks from my university. I lived on campus so i got to explore at night whenever.

I don't know how to explain the feeling. I wouldn't call it peaceful. A little eerie but also kind of exciting. My campus was a bit odd. Some 'brutalist' architecture and dungeonesque parts. I miss it now.

There was a vending machine that would randomly add 10 cents to itself every couple minutes. If you waited long enough you could get something for free. Lights that would turn on by themselves. Doors that would open randomly. Might have been haunted.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:52:39 +0000

I feel like this is true. I don't mind being a blip behind the bleeding edge if I don't have to change my tooling every month. But the second my current provider tries to screw me over, I'll still jump ship

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:07:42 +0000

What ambiguities are there with bold?

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:16:05 +0000

I work on one such repo. It's perhaps the largest repo in existence. But i think what makes it slower is the file system. As i understand it, it only transfers files over the network as they're read. So grepping everything is a lot of network transfer. Very slow.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Telnyx package compromised on PyPI"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:48:13 +0000

I don't know how it would. Hackers would just claim everything is a security update.

Unless maybe you give special permission to some trusted company to designate certain releases of packages they don't own are security patches... But that sounds untenable.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Meow.camera"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:40:15 +0000

23 hours later too... Hungry dog.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "StationeryObject"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:35:59 +0000

Took me a minute to realize this is literally about stationary objects (paper!).

Hotel paper & envelopes to be more precise. Amusing.