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New comment by FpUser in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

FpUser — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:34:35 +0000

>"Honeycrisp " - it was my love until it was not. over the years the taste and texture have completely changed

New comment by FpUser in "Sonnet 5.5"

FpUser — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:28:44 +0000

>"but maybe less important than they once were"

On browser based front ends it seems to be the case for me even though I still impose certain guidelines. On my C++ backends, no fucking way. Even the best models produce working but absolutely disastrous non scalable (performance wise and design wise) code unless watched over like a hen. Having said that - the value I get in either case is enormous.

New comment by FpUser in "Windows 11½"

FpUser — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:54:01 +0000

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New comment by FpUser in "Windows 11½"

FpUser — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:20:59 +0000

Lol. Love it but for some reason my windows does not do any of that

New comment by FpUser in "Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)"

FpUser — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:16:21 +0000

My latest C++ project is assessment engine covering various actuarial type things like calculates risk for insurance etc. Typical performance for bulk calculation reaches millions to 10s of millions assessments per second on 16 core server. Well there is a trick there that inside it JIT compiles rules from a DSL to an executable code. interpreter mode (used mainly for audit mode) is about 3-5 times slower which is still insanely fast

New comment by FpUser in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

FpUser — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:45:22 +0000

>"Those wars are essential to protecting our economic interests"

Translation - we bomb people for money. well thanks for being frank anyways. otherwise it is sick to hear all that moralizing about "us being a good guys"

New comment by FpUser in "The first new cat species discovered in 100 years"

FpUser — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:04:39 +0000

>"I'd be getting scared when a cat reaches the 20kg threshold" - most likely even 10kg cat will shred you before you could blink. They're insanely fast and surprisingly strong for size. Furry explosives they are

New comment by FpUser in "The first new cat species discovered in 100 years"

FpUser — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:01:26 +0000

I have Bengal cat. Absolute love

New comment by FpUser in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

FpUser — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:23:46 +0000

there is no smoke without fire

New comment by FpUser in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

FpUser — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:56:09 +0000

>"Key for me is to "group" cables. For example, I have a bag of USB-C cables, a bag of USB-A cables, etc."

Yeah. I do the same

New comment by FpUser in "What will our economic future look like?"

FpUser — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:35:37 +0000

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New comment by FpUser in "iPhone Duo"

FpUser — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:04:45 +0000

There is a difference between laptop and a phone. Hopefully in the future phone can be switched to a full desktop mode and OS when it beams to large screen. Well that is unless by then we have chip in our brains or what's equally bad everything rented and leased and can be used from any physical location. Convenient but deadly.

New comment by FpUser in "iPhone Duo"

FpUser — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:01:30 +0000

>"I find Dex to be decent enough" - I guess it is very personal. I find it atrocious. Not this and not that. My instincts are screwed

New comment by FpUser in "Coyote v. Acme (1990)"

FpUser — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:57:18 +0000

Same here. It was really cheesy for my taste

New comment by FpUser in "iPhone Duo"

FpUser — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:55:46 +0000

>"kinda" - is a keyword. experience is abysmal, especially when it works but true desktop paradigm is not supported

New comment by FpUser in "iPhone Duo"

FpUser — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:50:06 +0000

>"breakthrough foldable design" - and what exact part of it is "breakthrough"? Do they have "invisible fold"?

New comment by FpUser in "iPhone Duo"

FpUser — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:46:52 +0000

>"I am in my 50s and don’t see myself staring at screens for too long, let alone coding."

I am 65 and still enjoy software development (not coding in particular) but decomposing business idea into software architecture and functionality. Decomposing is the part I really enjoy, the rest is a necessity but with AI that rest takes way less of my time than it used to.

I do not work for someone though. I develop products for clients or for my own business, was doing it all my life and was doing it from my own office for last 26 years. Not overworked either. Have enough time to enjoy life. Al in all very happy

New comment by FpUser in "iPhone Duo"

FpUser — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:41:35 +0000

in 10 years any phone should be able to wirelessly stream it to any monitor / tv and plenty of those will be everywhere

New comment by FpUser in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

FpUser — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:07:01 +0000

>"I would prefer EU territory instead of "inside-europe-Belarus" for exemple."

Unless Great Orange or his successor/s would start having ideas

New comment by FpUser in "Can guitar frets perform multiplication?"

FpUser — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:47:58 +0000

The question is can those frets run Doom