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New comment by Incipient in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Incipient — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:40:31 +0000

I can't believe that the toll will actually be paid - it would turn Iran into an INSANELY wealthy superpower and easily give them the funds to hugely increase their availability to fund groups like hezbollah etc.

New comment by Incipient in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

Incipient — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:44:06 +0000

Demos used to have sizes - I can't see one for this, is it just an 'open' category? This thing is far too insane to be size limited, surely?

New comment by Incipient in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

Incipient — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:14:51 +0000

The main thing I don't like is type-ability. Even now I type in 192.168.1.14 to connect to my mates computer to play satisfactory. No way in heck am I trying in an ip6!

New comment by Incipient in "No, Windows Start does not use React"

Incipient — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:03:31 +0000

I understand there is a position of "we've always done it this way, so we keep doing it this way" And. "we need to move with the times and use new tech!".

But surely there is some happy middle ground that doesn't end up with a entire js runtime in the damn start menu?

I'm a fairly casual dev compared to faang folk, but surely even they realised this was an awful choice?

New comment by Incipient in "Why I Vibe in Go, Not Rust or Python"

Incipient — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:07:32 +0000

I read the first two paragraphs, found a bunch of fairly glaring errors, and got put off.

>It has type hints, which are optional, which means they’re not there.

I mean it is there, and it works.

I've also not had an AI make a dict key error in a while, but mostly as I use objects - haven't magic strings in code been bad for a while now?

Also llms are bad at architecture, not things like typing or keys. I'm really struggling with even opus having an absolute atrocious abstraction approach, and has made implementing business logic incredibly difficult. Borderline having to throw out days of work.

New comment by Incipient in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

Incipient — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:55:27 +0000

It isn't the same, but it's comparable.

Google is paying Mozilla to be the default search engine. Google is only paying Mozilla because Firefox has users, regardless if they use the default search engine or not. So, indirectly everyone is the 'product'.

I'm sure if 95% of people did swap to ddg, then google may change their mind.

Also I believe there is the possibility Google also pays Mozilla to offer competition so Chrome isn't considered a monopoly (but maybe Edge has changed that to some extent?)

New comment by Incipient in "The pleasures of poor product design"

Incipient — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:45:05 +0000

"Kamprani began the project back in 2011"

Ohh I missed that! I did actually read (view haha?) the article...

New comment by Incipient in "The pleasures of poor product design"

Incipient — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:25:03 +0000

I feel like I've seen some of these designs a VERY long time ago? Is this something old that the person was just interviewed on recently?

New comment by Incipient in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

Incipient — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:28:28 +0000

That boat is for people that store lunch money in a bank account, not a wallet.

New comment by Incipient in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

Incipient — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:29:42 +0000

Wouldn't having a warrant, with the purpose redacted - if that's the concern, be a good balance of "proof of legitimacy" but also keeping some presumably sensitive information private?

New comment by Incipient in "Are LLM merge rates not getting better?"

Incipient — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:09:19 +0000

I feel even if the models are stagnating, the tooling around them, and the integrations and harnesses they have are getting significantly more capable (if not always 'better' - the recent vscode update really handicapped them for some reason). Things like the new agent from booking.com or whatever, if it could integrate with all hotels, activities, mapping tools, flight system, etc could be hugely powerful.

Assuming we get no better than opus 4.6, they're very capable. Even if they make up nonsense 5% of the time!

New comment by Incipient in "NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun"

Incipient — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:34:07 +0000

I'm not sure this is actually a necessary explanation...but while propellers technically COULD function in space (not a perfect vacuum, right?)...they're basically going to be useless.

New comment by Incipient in "Agents that run while I sleep"

Incipient — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:49:13 +0000

Python is doomed? That's new.

You use python docker images pinned to a stable version (3.11 etc), and between bigger versions, you test and handle any breaking changes.

I feel like this approach applies to pretty much every language?

Who on earth raw dogs on "language:latest" and just hopes for the best?

Granted I wouldn't be running Facebook's backend on something like this. But i feel that isn't a problem 95% of people need to deal with.

New comment by Incipient in "EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say"

Incipient — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:18:18 +0000

The point being someone is left holding the bag?

That's potentially true, but not necessarily. I haven't looked into this particular case, however it's entirely possible that a lot of the EU have started divesting from Windows and into suse, which has caused a big spike in revenue here.

Or its PE doing PE things and it's all a farce.

New comment by Incipient in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

Incipient — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:04:16 +0000

I feel like for a 11yo, you can't even explain the risks. Not just for lack of true comprehension, but also just kids shouldn't have to worry about that stuff, and just be kids.

New comment by Incipient in "New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding"

Incipient — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:29:46 +0000

I find this is very heavily situation dependent. I tried getting even Opus to implement a xero integration using the python sdk, without telling it much about the sdk besides the example code/instructions on github and it made an absolute un-runnable mess out of it.

The sdk and examples appear to be very atypical for a lot of python I've done (and atypical for my code base). Giving it a context/how-to file I put together made it significantly better (however I still gave up and did it more manually).

New comment by Incipient in "Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL"

Incipient — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:48:52 +0000

I'm curious what makes that obviously llm? As far as I can tell it was a short and fairly benign statement with little scope to give away llm-ness?

New comment by Incipient in "Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed"

Incipient — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:51:09 +0000

Personally I do have serious concerns about the direction 'the west' is going with the current issues of immigration, violence, and general migration to a lower trust environment...however trying to burn a capital to the ground definitely seems like the wrong approach making it any better.

New comment by Incipient in "Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?"

Incipient — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:23:12 +0000

I mean sure, nothing has infinite money...but better to redirect some profits to other treatments, than to extract them all for shareholders?

New comment by Incipient in "Can a wealthy family change the course of a deadly brain disease?"

Incipient — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:43:35 +0000

That's one reason why privatised health is rubbish. "profitable" treatments should be used, in part, to subsidise the cost of unprofitable ones.