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New comment by bandrami in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

bandrami — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:57:51 +0000

That's happened like three times to the extent that the forks are more widely installed than the original

New comment by bandrami in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

bandrami — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:51:59 +0000

Right but, were you really not using snippets and templates before LLMs?

Company? Helm? Whatever vi uses that's like company and helm? Haven't IDEs written function calls for you for like decades now?

New comment by bandrami in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

bandrami — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:11:23 +0000

Oh my God don't do that

New comment by bandrami in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

bandrami — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:08:34 +0000

This conversation keeps missing me because I don't think I've typed out boilerplate in like 20 years.

Were people actually physically typing every character of the software they were writing before a couple of years ago?

New comment by bandrami in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

bandrami — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:06:42 +0000

So many use cases for LLMs I've read leave me asking "did none of you have a working text editor?"

New comment by bandrami in "Generative art over the years"

bandrami — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:15:42 +0000

Eno is amazing but can be a little hard to approach; I like as a starting place Omri Cohen, who has a youtube channel that has both his music as well as a lot of examples on how he makes it.

New comment by bandrami in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

bandrami — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:33:45 +0000

Early on in my career my manager told me "a monitoring system that sends more than a dozen notifications a day actually sends zero notifications". Words to live by.

New comment by bandrami in "Generative art over the years"

bandrami — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:36:20 +0000

As someone who makes and enjoys generative music I've always wondered what the parallels were like in the visual and plastic arts. This is cool.

New comment by bandrami in "Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games"

bandrami — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:42:54 +0000

As always in security, It Depends™; there are vulnerabilities that only impact systems with secure boot (and result in a situation worse than not having secure boot to begin with).

New comment by bandrami in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

bandrami — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:45:25 +0000

No, the email system was a Unix server you telneted to from the Mac SEs in the computer lab so I just kind of picked up Unix usage. Then once I graduated I got a job tending a BIND and sendmail cluster for a local ISP (the "training" was handing me the Cricket book and the Bat book on the first day). The jaw-dropping salary for that was $22K at the time (this was the 90s; about $46K in today's money). That led to learning Perl (via the Camel book) to automate some of the tasks, which led to some CGI work, but I've never really been a "programmer" per se, always a sysadmin.

New comment by bandrami in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

bandrami — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:52:41 +0000

There was (still is?) a Middle East themed campaign with just absolutely gorgeous artwork.

New comment by bandrami in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

bandrami — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:49:31 +0000

Huh. I graduated from there and about a third of my class (including me) works in tech in some form. Though being a sysadmin seems to be more common than being a programmer. But I had no idea the Wesnoth dev went there too!

New comment by bandrami in "SpaceX files to go public"

bandrami — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:37:57 +0000

> excellent salesman of vision when fundamentals are weak

Wow that was a polite way to say that

New comment by bandrami in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

bandrami — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:52:55 +0000

In my lifetime: S&Ls, .com's, housing, and NFTs.

New comment by bandrami in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

bandrami — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:50:23 +0000

It will not be lucrative if the hundreds of billions of dollars in ad revenue cost the providers trillions in compute. That's still the big question.

New comment by bandrami in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

bandrami — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:48:00 +0000

Yeah TCO on AI is the big hazy uncertainty that a lot of large firms are still waiting on firmer numbers on before they really adopt. And in the nature of things we can't get TCO numbers for another year or so.

New comment by bandrami in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

bandrami — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:41:01 +0000

Enron employed a lot of smart people too. So did Bear Stearns. Smart people given bad incentives can create huge messes.

New comment by bandrami in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

bandrami — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:26:04 +0000

Yeah, my point has basically nothing to do with AI and is the argument against comment blocks in general. It's bad to store information in two places.

New comment by bandrami in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

bandrami — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:41:42 +0000

> If someone has a subscription then yes that is pretty normal.

Not if you've substantively changed rate limits 3 times in the last 5 months while still counting those forecast revenues. In most industries that's called rug-pulling.

New comment by bandrami in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

bandrami — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:38:27 +0000

OpenAI is great at attracting people who say "yeah, sure, I'll give you capital at some point in the future" who then never actually give them the capital (or at least haven't yet).