Hacker News: apex_sloth

New comment by apex_sloth in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

apex_sloth — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:59:10 +0000

In Germany, selling goods for less then the one bought them for can be illegal if its used to push competition out on a large scale.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development"

apex_sloth — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:34:45 +0000

I played with this extensively on hobby projects (music visualizer Wayland widget for example) and I like the idea. I like coming up with cool stuff and solutions. The problem is I'm just not disciplined enough, it makes me lazy. The longer I uses it, the less code I read myself and just fire quick /implement loops and go do something else, thinking it should be straight forward. As other have pointed out, AI still needs a lot of hand holding and there are a lot of necessary decisions to make that one usually only realizes while actually building it.

New comment by apex_sloth in "CRDTs: Convergence without coordination"

apex_sloth — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:42:55 +0000

That looks awesome! Do you have any metrics on storage space and query/insert performance for large amounts of data? Building something that has couple of million rows.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend"

apex_sloth — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:42:04 +0000

We used to do that with device that where in difficult to reach places with harsh uptime requirement! Think industrial routers and protocol converters. I think it pays for itself very quickly. Sending someone for such a device can get expensive.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest"

apex_sloth — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:09:56 +0000

Only half a data point: I played around with it for a private project. It works but the documentation is far from good enough for production. I was even considering getting the book, but it's not out yet. In my humble opinion, normal documentation should be enough to understand a framework, otherwise you can't expect anyone beyond hobbyist and enthusiast to pick it up. "Break out" is definitively part of the design goals, so I always felt like they put a hatch.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)"

apex_sloth — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:17:51 +0000

There seems to be the notion in a lot of comments that Stoicism is about acting against one's nature or surpressing ones emotions.

For me, on the other hand, it was very freeing to encounter Stoicism, because I felt like it was okay that I didn't feel or react as strongly as people around me expected me to.

New comment by apex_sloth in "State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness"

apex_sloth — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:04:29 +0000

An interesting side effect of that is one can use the grid frequency to coordinate emergency power response - individual nodes (batteries, peaker plants, etc.) can react directly to the frequency measurement with generation or load, thus stabilizing the grid. Too much energy is equally an issue. Usually it's called fast frequency response these days.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity"

apex_sloth — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:23:13 +0000

Could you elaborate on that? How come it requires being an insider? What constitutes an insider?

New comment by apex_sloth in "Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?"

apex_sloth — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:00:12 +0000

Restic over termux triggered by Tasker to s3 (backblaze) . Addionally syncthing to my laptop. Sounds unnecessary complicated, because it it's.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?"

apex_sloth — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:44:47 +0000

One. Letter. At. A. Time.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Grayjay Desktop App"

apex_sloth — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 09:25:20 +0000

Interessting point with the tax right off. I asked my boss to donate to a open source software we used a lot in our dev department and he labeled it as license costs because donations aren't something he could argue for (big company tho).

New comment by apex_sloth in "Grayjay Desktop App"

apex_sloth — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 14:28:31 +0000

Would you like to elaborate on how you run your FOSS buissness? What makes your approach different than the numerous company's that struggle with it

New comment by apex_sloth in "Home Manager: Dotfiles Management"

apex_sloth — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:37:28 +0000

The author says the learning curve is steep but it pays off at the end. Somehow I don't really see that claim well supported. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the idea of managing my system declarative (aconfmgr gets me somewhat there). I replicate my system on an external SSD for on the go for example. I hate a messy home but resigned myself to it. I come from a functional background, so the learning curve should be less steep for me.

But overall it always seems the amount of work and time for the result is not a reasonable tradeoff. Tried Nix as a package manager a few times, always stopped when simple things took immense amount of time (Emacs with broken fonts?). Have colleagues running NixOS, never heard an argument for it that wasn't half a straw man. Yeah other systems break and it sucks but fixing that takes less time than figuring out how to write your own packages in Nix. Adding to that that I run around and install every second neat thing I see on HN, I struggle to see Nix as more than a Rubik's cube.

What am I missing?

New comment by apex_sloth in "Grayjay Desktop App"

apex_sloth — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:03:30 +0000

As I understand it, GrayJay is not free (as in they want to be paid, which is I think is reasonable). How does this work with something like AGPL?

I'm curious to hear more, because I'm in the process of evaluating licenses for a software I'm planning to build and sell. For me it's important that users can feel safe with running my code and build it themselves - and keep using the software if I'm no longer around to maintain it. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)"

apex_sloth — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:50:51 +0000

I used to work for a company that wanted zero downtime through Erlang's hot code reload feature. While it absolutely works, it requires immense effort and extra code to handle state upgrades and downgrades.

New comment by apex_sloth in "Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)"

apex_sloth — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:37:17 +0000

Thanks for this little flashback to when I had to write XSLT for apache cocoon as my student job

New comment by apex_sloth in "Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor"

apex_sloth — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:31:34 +0000

I'm surprised that universities have to consider dyslexic students. When I went to university, I was basically told to figure it out. "It's your problem after elementary school. nobody cares."

New comment by apex_sloth in "Understanding Complexity Like an Engineer – The Case of the Ladybird Browser"

apex_sloth — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:28:24 +0000

Side note: Teams works for me in firefox on linux if I change the UserAgent with this add-on:

https://mybrowseraddon.com/custom-useragent-string.html

For these urls

https://teams.microsoft.com/ https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/

To Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36 Edg/85.0.564.51

New comment by apex_sloth in "Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row"

apex_sloth — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:49:37 +0000

car batteries aren't great for storing and retrieving energy for grid usage. to expensive for too few cycles.

New comment by apex_sloth in "The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable"

apex_sloth — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:36:41 +0000

Side note: donations are kind of difficult in a cooperate environment. Once I request that the department donates a modest amount to an OS project. We had to call it a 'license fee' internally. Paying it fine - donating is not :)