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New comment by barsonme in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

barsonme — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:21:47 +0000

Yeah, Claude Code. I have the $100/month Max plan. I run 3-5 instances “in the background” (just another terminal) while I work. It really helps work through the backlog of “easy-ish things that I eventually need to do, but are relatively low priority.”

New comment by barsonme in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

barsonme — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 05:55:34 +0000

Why not? I regularly have a couple Claude instances running in the background chewing through simple yet time consuming tasks. It’s saved me many hours of work and given me more time to focus on the important parts.

New comment by barsonme in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

barsonme — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:13:14 +0000

No, it is not. This is precisely why we have the term E2EE. An escrow agent having your keys but pinky promising not to touch them is indistinguishable from the escrow agent simply having your plaintext.

Unless you’re fine with the escrow agent and anybody they’re willing to share the keys with being a member of your group chat, in which case my original point still stands.

New comment by barsonme in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

barsonme — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:04:30 +0000

E2EE means only your intended recipients can access the plaintext. Unless you intend to give the government access to your plaintext, what you described isn’t E2EE.

New comment by barsonme in "Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan"

barsonme — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:06:20 +0000

That’s insane. 13 hours of work + commute. After 7 hours of sleep you only have 4 hours left in your day for literally everything else.

New comment by barsonme in "Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC"

barsonme — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:42:55 +0000

The United States has many allies. Obviously the US and UK have a “special relationship.” Then there is AUKUS. Then NATO. DoD calls a number of SEA countries “allies,” including Japan and Korea.

Stating that the US has no allies other than Israel is unequivocally false.

New comment by barsonme in "Thoughts on the Durov Arrest"

barsonme — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:16:03 +0000

On the contrary, it’s a very strong claim.

The guards could decide they’re not getting paid enough and steal the data. Or the government could arrest them. Or the government could MITM the data center. Or any hundreds of different scenarios.

At the end of the day, the only thing preventing somebody from accessing the data is that they just… don’t.

This is very weak security and it is why cryptographers and security professionals call it “effectively plaintext.”

New comment by barsonme in "Thoughts on the Durov Arrest"

barsonme — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:50:54 +0000

If the chat is not end-to-end encrypted, which Telegram “cloud” chats are not, then by definition Telegram (the company) has access to the chats. Full stop.

New comment by barsonme in "An unordered list of things I miss in Go"

barsonme — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:21:53 +0000

> IMO it is a questionable decision to spend CPU resources on randomization …

It takes about 3 ns to choose a random starting bucket, which is basically free relative to the iteration itself.

New comment by barsonme in "Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead"

barsonme — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:57:30 +0000

It was not supposed to /universally/ replace C++.

It was supposed to replace C++ in projects where the developers would’ve otherwise reached for C++ simply because it was the default language choice.

New comment by barsonme in "Four lines of code it was four lines of code"

barsonme — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 04:59:09 +0000

The site seems down, so here's the wayback link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240701032732/https://boston.co...

Practicing for Doomsday

barsonme — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:11:45 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20190216140856/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,101361,00.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40801578

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by barsonme in "'The bane of retail.' Many big chains now lock up all kinds of merchandise"

barsonme — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 02:29:48 +0000

What are employees supposed to do? They’re not the police, they can’t arrest anybody for stealing. And they’re most certainly not a deterrent for these kinds of these bulk thefts.

Plus, it’s incredibly unfair to the employees to make it their problem. A cashier or stocker or whatever shouldn’t be responsible for doing anything other than calling 911.

New comment by barsonme in "'The bane of retail.' Many big chains now lock up all kinds of merchandise"

barsonme — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:40:38 +0000

People have been stealing stuff, like laundry detergent or baby formula or power tools, in bulk then reselling it for half price on eBay or Facebook Marketplace.

Maybe they’re desperate for money. But they’re certainly not desperate for $20k of baby formula [1].

[1]: https://www.fox8live.com/video/2024/03/24/police-thieves-cau...

New comment by barsonme in "Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images"

barsonme — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 04:30:16 +0000

> Why shouldn't I want them to be running drones over our houses?

Because it’s creepy.

New comment by barsonme in "InternLM2"

barsonme — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:39:27 +0000

Is it normal for papers to have that many authors?

Linkers Part 4

barsonme — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:59:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/41

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39886453

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by barsonme in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

barsonme — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 06:55:28 +0000

Signal is not a VPN. How is this relevant? Or did you link to the wrong comment?

New comment by barsonme in "Carl Griffith's 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter"

barsonme — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 08:19:16 +0000

My only complaint is that his sourdough starter chapter has you make buckets of the stuff. Maybe it’s supposed to make it more difficult to screw up, I dunno.

New comment by barsonme in "Go can only read 1GiB per Read call"

barsonme — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 08:06:13 +0000

Hm? https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sys/unix#Mmap