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New comment by bargainbin in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

bargainbin — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:07:44 +0000

My god have you ever had those people try to add keyboard shortcuts? You start to question if they have ever used a keyboard at all.

New comment by bargainbin in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

bargainbin — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:07:23 +0000

Oh my god I’ve got it!

Bug < Ticket < Story < Epic < Theme

New comment by bargainbin in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

bargainbin — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:16:40 +0000

This thread pops up like clockwork when a new model is about to drop

New comment by bargainbin in "PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in"

bargainbin — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:12:51 +0000

But how many of those games are console shifters? Hell back in the day I finally caved and bought a PS3 because of MGS4. Alright it may only shift say, 60% of the units, but if more of those units included a console purchase too then the onward value is huge.

New comment by bargainbin in "Version control second coming"

bargainbin — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:41:40 +0000

I can accept the authors bias, but all credibility was gone when I read “AccuRev was a fantastic system”. AccuRevs UX was akin to putting your face next to a farting anus and breathing deeply.

Honestly felt like I was missing some sort of satirical masterpiece as the author gleefully declared all the up and coming projects that are going to scatter open source projects to the four corners of the Earth.

Maybe they’ve been so locked into version control tooling as a career they’ve missed the bigger picture, but version control before git ubiquity sucked. Not saying Git is perfect but come on, are our memories so short?

New comment by bargainbin in "iPhone Duo"

bargainbin — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:07:19 +0000

Apple has had a patent[1] for like a decade at this point which involved placing an iPhone into a slot on a laptop so it could be used in a laptop form, with the phone itself serving as the touchpad.

[1]: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-patents-device-that-doc...

Edit to add: the phone itself is intended to be the main processing unit, the “laptop” is just a screen and keyboard.

New comment by bargainbin in "iPhone Duo"

bargainbin — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:49:47 +0000

Because in Celsius, 0 lets you know the water outside will likely be frozen and 100 lets you know the water in your pot is likely boiling. This is utterly useless information.

It is nowhere near as useful day to day as knowing 0°F means a very specific saltwater brine mixture will likely be frozen, and 90°F is kind of as hot as your insides. Or 96. Or 98.6 as the third revision decided.

New comment by bargainbin in "Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS"

bargainbin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:31:53 +0000

I had no idea “eyebrows” was a term until I started using Claude to generate designs. That model is eyebrow crazy, every section of the output has them.

Even comprehensive design skills like impeccable miss filtering them out (it only detects “eyebrow chips” and not the prolific barrage of basic eyebrows.)

New comment by bargainbin in "Tmp.0ut Volume 5"

bargainbin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:01:03 +0000

Not Phrack but I did find it, ThugCrowd [1]!

[1]: https://thugcrowd.com/archive.html

Edit to add, apparently one of the ThugCrowd people is part of tmp.0ut so that would explain why my mind immediately went there.

New comment by bargainbin in "Tmp.0ut Volume 5"

bargainbin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:17:29 +0000

Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.

Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.

New comment by bargainbin in "[dead]"

bargainbin — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:18:42 +0000

Bailed after the first paragraph, AI is increasingly becoming harder to read.

New comment by bargainbin in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

bargainbin — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:34:09 +0000

Those commas do appear to be a load-bearing seam for the sentence — that’s not guaranteed proof, it’s just strong indication.

New comment by bargainbin in "Incident with Github.com"

bargainbin — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:25:48 +0000

It’s all just ones and zeroes, and maybe a two. You never can tell with these computers!

New comment by bargainbin in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

bargainbin — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:13:48 +0000

console.print(“these logs are a load-bearing seam, do not remove”)

It’s foolproof, I tells ya.

New comment by bargainbin in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

bargainbin — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:05:34 +0000

I’m not entirely sure what you mean by a fragmented ecosystem? Go has first-party formatting and linting and the language is deliberately restricted to ensure it is written in a certain way, even when written by complete novices.

Compare that to Python or TypeScript which are Wild West languages without opinionated first-party tooling, and it’s clear why Ruff/Biome feel great.

You just wouldn’t get that same high with Go.

New comment by bargainbin in "Resetting Xbox"

bargainbin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:54:12 +0000

Halo Infinite was the moment I knew Xbox was gone. The core game engine was the best Halo has ever felt, but everything around it reeked of incompetent management.

Giving a player a reward for putting in effort is one of the fundamental principles of game design. If you remove all the rewards, what incentive do they have to play?

Their response to player backlash which was essentially “deny, defer, gaslight and ignore” killed the online community for it within a couple of months, and I think they dropped what little content support it had within two years as well, after initially marketing it as a long-term “live service game”.

Blatant incompetence, how Microsoft ever let itself get in this state I’ll never understand.

Also I can’t even remember the campaign story. Was there an angel or something? It was a cliffhanger about some new enemy, as if they’ll ever make another game?

I just remembered the monstrosity that is the Halo TV series as well now, ah god… it’s been a rough decade.

New comment by bargainbin in "Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK"

bargainbin — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:02:53 +0000

Incorrect, I don't have social media and tell them as such, it's never an issue.

New comment by bargainbin in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

bargainbin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:55:57 +0000

You’re absolutely right! I do have insufficient data for a meaningful answer. This is not an *insightful prediction* — it’s *Dunning-Kruger masquerading as qualified intelligence*

New comment by bargainbin in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

bargainbin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:46:52 +0000

What if the user is another machine? Sorry, my API won’t talk to another API unless it’s old enough to drink.

How do we still have no people in government with basic computer literacy?

New comment by bargainbin in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

bargainbin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:15:47 +0000

71 cents*, the bookie gets a cut either way it goes.