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New comment by Garlef in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

Garlef — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:12:24 +0000

If this happened in Germany, this is most likely not only a breach of some contract but actually a criminal offense.

(In not a lawyer and so I might be mistaken about this; Especially the level of intentionality might be a factor)

New comment by Garlef in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

Garlef — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:39:37 +0000

> Courts can require parent companies to provide data held by their subsidiaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

New comment by Garlef in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

Garlef — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:31:16 +0000

This source says it's 100% owned by AWS USA:

https://openregister.de/company/DE-HRB-G1312-40853

New comment by Garlef in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

Garlef — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:42:14 +0000

... And this entity is again owned by AWS. And so the cloud act still applies.

> There would be no point spinning up a 'sovereign cloud' beholden to the US.

Of course: It gives (both sides) a narrative that let's them pretend everything is alright.

New comment by Garlef in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

Garlef — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:56:35 +0000

The countless times I've read an article that starts with the description of a researcher drinking their morning coffee...

New comment by Garlef in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

Garlef — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:18:57 +0000

Linux on the desktop has been progressing for many many years... and a lot of stuff still doesn't work out of the box

I've recently had some fun at the intersection of "moving windows between screens" vs "ui scaling" vs "ambient system is wayland but the snap uses x11 internally".

New comment by Garlef in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

Garlef — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:22:32 +0000

I guess installing windows is more work than running a VM

... and more invasive

New comment by Garlef in "Clean code in the age of coding agents"

Garlef — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:47:52 +0000

Not sure: The LLMs seem to be okay at coding recently but still horrible at requirements and interface design. They never seem to get the perspective right.

One example I recently encountered: The LLM designed the client/consumer facing API from the perspective of how it's stored.

The result was a collection of CRUD services for tables in a SQL db rather than something that explained the intended use.

Good for storage, bad for building on it.

New comment by Garlef in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

Garlef — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:52:37 +0000

Maybe it's a binary choice for the people who have to maintain it?

You can scale down money.

But you can't scale down commitment arbitrarily.

New comment by Garlef in "What game engines know about data that databases forgot"

Garlef — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:56:03 +0000

Serious question:

If you take a BDD/TDD approach - do technologies like this still give you something?

I've dabbled a bit into smth similar (SpacetimeDB) with the aim of creating a headless backend for a game.

But then I realized that I'd still need to define the interface that I was testing in the traditional software layer and that all the nice DB magic seemed worthless since I'd still have to orchestrate traditionally.

(In short: No matter how nice your DB magic is, you will still hide it away in the basement/engine room, right?)

New comment by Garlef in "Am I German or Autistic?"

Garlef — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:37:34 +0000

Idk: Assuming you're just partially knowledgeable about psychology and the nature of human interaction (and don't consider yourself infallible) - How can you approach these kinds of questions even remotely genuine?

To express it conversely: Unless you're totally oblivious wrt social interaction some of these answers seem rather stupid.

So: This does not really test anything but knowledge.

I chuckled twice, though.

New comment by Garlef in "Claude mixes up who said what"

Garlef — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:17:36 +0000

Simularly: LLMs are often confused about the perspective of a document.When iterating on a spec, they mix the actual spec with reporting updates of the spec to the user.

Example: "The ABC now correctly does XYZ"

New comment by Garlef in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

Garlef — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:24:43 +0000

I think it's a great idea but the internet is built on ads.

New comment by Garlef in "A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use"

Garlef — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:18:39 +0000

Yes but: If the amount is fixed, then the density matters.

A lot of communication is just mentioning the concepts.

New comment by Garlef in "JSON Canvas Spec (2024)"

Garlef — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:07:52 +0000

This looks interesting! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by Garlef in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

Garlef — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:55:02 +0000

Microslorbit

New comment by Garlef in "Prefer do notation over Applicative operators when assembling records (2024)"

Garlef — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:50:21 +0000

From an outsiders perspective, this kind of discussion seems... immature?

(As in: Kids discussing something "important" to them while the parents chuckle)

I like the do notation better because it expresses the intent at the point of usage and I don't have to look up the definition when coming back after a few weeks.

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

Garlef — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:35:18 +0000

I've taken the numbers from the alibaba pricing page which says $2-$6

New comment by Garlef in "JSON Canvas Spec (2024)"

Garlef — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:36:27 +0000

I'm not sure about this:

An "infinite" canvas without some notion of recursion such as viewports feels incomplete.

New comment by Garlef in "JSON Canvas Spec (2024)"

Garlef — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:24:37 +0000

Agreed.

The upside is that it does not leave the most important aspect open to interpretation.

But it prevents this from being text-only at the point of creation:

You'll most likely need some programmatic environment to create non-trivial diagrams.

But then the question is: Why not just an SVG instead?