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New comment by Deukhoofd in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

Deukhoofd — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:42:27 +0000

Didn't JetBrains release JetBrains Air recently? This looks like it's basically the same basic premise, except implemented differently. What's their strategy here, are they just launching competing products?

https://www.jetbrains.com/air/

New comment by Deukhoofd in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

Deukhoofd — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:36:16 +0000

Yeah, their worktree implementation was very recently hacked in, and it really doesn't work well. The IDE project list duplicate entries for every worktree, IDE project settings don't transfer across worktrees, and every time I switch to another worktree it asks me again what project I want to open, instead of just opening the same solution I have opened.

It's wild that a set of IDEs that are generally fairly good just completely fail in this basic workflow. I really wonder what went through the minds of the product owners and developers that implemented this.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:08:55 +0000

So this is trying to compete against Wero, which is being backed by most major western European banks? I wish them luck, but I somewhat doubt they can compete against that.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:07:01 +0000

Doesn't Wikipedia run on PHP? Wonder what their mitigation strategy is for this.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software"

Deukhoofd — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:56:07 +0000

Typically the gathering of requirements is not that hard if they're my own requirements.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software"

Deukhoofd — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:04:00 +0000

Isn't the entire benefit of AI-driven software that I can easily throw together something that fits my exact requirements? Why would I want someone else's requirements?

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Cyclomatic Complexity in C#"

Deukhoofd — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:29:14 +0000

I don't disagree that functions with many execution paths are harder to read, but I do believe that the solution given here; 'just split it into multiple functions' frequently makes a function even harder to read. It forces you to scroll back and forth between code.

I think generally when you run into something like this, the better way to handle it is to sit back, and reconsider how your overall handling is designed.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:11:43 +0000

The biggest one was probably 2 years back, the dispute with WP Engine, a hosting provider for WordPress. He used WordPress infrastructure to force all instances hosted there to break, then removed the extensions they built from the plugin store, and then replaced them under the exact same name and identifier with his own.

He then went on this site, and placed incriminating comments under posts discussing that, without discussing it with his lawyers. These comments were then of course used in subsequent lawsuits, which so far he's been losing.

He then also told his employees that if they didn't agree with his actions, they could leave with a severance package, which then had 10% of his employees quit.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

Deukhoofd — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:37:28 +0000

We're talking about the "free-speech platform" that bans words like "cis" and "cisgender"?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-elons-whim-x-now-treats...

The platform that randomly banned journalists for using Substack?

https://newrepublic.com/post/179067/twitter-files-matt-taibb...

The same platform that banned left-wing journalists because they were criticizing Musk?

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-journalists-f...

I don't know, it sounds like there's some very good reasons to move away from a centralized platform where the owner can randomly decide he doesn't like you and ban you.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

Deukhoofd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:32:42 +0000

For what it's worth, the Dutch Central Bank argues that this is simply because it'd be easier to sell in London in a crisis situation.

They've previously stated to be far more worried about the dependency on VISA and MasterCard than the gold reserves in the US.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2560460-dnb-maakt-zich-zorgen-over-am...

New comment by Deukhoofd in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"

Deukhoofd — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:45:16 +0000

I wonder how they're doing right now with water levels reaching critical low points.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

Deukhoofd — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:44:12 +0000

It sounds neat, but I do wonder how viable this is commercially. How high do we rate the chances that governments around the world will step in before another kind of E2E is rolled out.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:09:46 +0000

I'll have to be honest here man, yeah no shit. I can't think of any good reason of why you would add something like this. A standard comment section is typically bad enough, and at least you're able to moderate that. An anonymous real-time chat embedded within your own blog? That's just asking for issues.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it"

Deukhoofd — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:05:42 +0000

I don't doubt that AI has benefits, but I do doubt that the major AI providers will be able to make back their investments. They've spent trillions of dollars, and yet they've barely created a moat. We're seeing open weight models being released that are only months behind them, that can run for way cheaper. This makes the future of OpenAI and Anthropic suddenly look rather bleak.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

Deukhoofd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:23:37 +0000

The article clearly points out that it wasn't autism for which Mei was treated, but Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome, of which autism is just a single symptom. That goes way beyond neurodivergency.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "Kimi K3 is now live"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:12:26 +0000

I feel like the quickstart is missing something. It's referring to its tech blog for actual benchmarks, but K3 isn't mentioned on there, the last thing on that blog was K2.6, 2 releases ago.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:58:45 +0000

Food tends to be a lot easier to produce, and many countries do often subsidize their food production, as well as have mercantilistic policies to ensure food production is kept locally.

Vaccines is a more interesting one, and would be something that might indeed be of interest to a nation. On the other hand I don't think many governments are that concerned about another pandemic, sometimes the discourse regarding it very much sounds like "what are the odds it'll happen again"

New comment by Deukhoofd in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:45:46 +0000

It's probably not a bad idea. Steel is one of the things that an industrialized country needs to produce to protect its own sovereignty. Letting it shut down and just hope you'll always be able to import enough steel from other countries is a bad long-term strategy. You'd be left unable to fend for yourself.

New comment by Deukhoofd in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

Deukhoofd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:42:25 +0000

For your first two questions, I can't recommend Crafting Interpreters enough, it's probably one of the best entry-level books that goes into that entire process.

https://craftinginterpreters.com/

New comment by Deukhoofd in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

Deukhoofd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:12:30 +0000

This entire issue is a disaster of a Github issue. It looks like its on the entirely wrong repository. I did eventually find the text in another repository; the one for the Android reference implementation: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android...

It was removed from there to clarify the entire "Hey, this application is not done yet"

It being in the reference implementation instead of the spec is a massive difference. One means that it's just there to show an example, and we should push national governments to do it better in their implementations, while the other would mean that it'd be a requirement for all implementations, which it doesn't appear to be.

It also looks like the reference implementation removed that functionality entirely several months ago: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android...