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New comment by bluerooibos in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

bluerooibos — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:06:42 +0000

One positive is that solar (and probably other renewables too) prices are plummeting and are now the cheapest way to generate power - so in economic terms, I hope this trend continues and accelerates even more to the point where even fossil fuel addicts can't resist putting a solar panel on their roof.

In the UK and other European countries, I see every month we're breaking records on the percentage of power generated from renewables.

Check out https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live - it shows the UK is currently generating 30%+ of it's power from solar, which is incredible.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

bluerooibos — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:42:29 +0000

> But what if it didn't?

Or what if it output the final result in the first place, without having to repeatedly prompt it to check its own work to trick it into a better answer?

New comment by bluerooibos in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"

bluerooibos — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:58:09 +0000

Meh, just use Rails and Hotwire.

New comment by bluerooibos in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

bluerooibos — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:56:29 +0000

Another ad disguised as an article - nice.

New comment by bluerooibos in "What's the best programming language for coding agents?"

bluerooibos — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:06:45 +0000

+1 for this! Given Ruby's entire thing is code "written like plain English," I would have expected LLM's to excel with it. I've certainly had awesome results.

New comment by bluerooibos in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

bluerooibos — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:25:14 +0000

These damn arsonists are really going for it this year, huh?

The coordination between them is amazing - being able to pull this off in multiple European countries, the US and Canada at the same time.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

bluerooibos — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:03:18 +0000

> That won't happen

I don't understand how anyone with any degree of technological or scientific literacy or knowledge of advances in the past 100-200 years can say something won't happen in the future.

I am absolutely certain it will - the only uncertainty is how long, but given the rate of progress, I'm guessing it won't be far away.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

bluerooibos — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:15:16 +0000

Gary Marcus has been moving the goalposts since day 1. The guy is a psychologist. Why would anyone care what a psychologist has to say about AI? He's likely made good money from constantly moving the goalposts and being a denier, due to the publicity he gets.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

bluerooibos — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:02:36 +0000

They also just ended their referral program without any announcement or warning - referrals page on my account just disappeared, all whilst I'm sending them free traffic.

I guess this is to be expected of a now Elon Musk (that Nazi salute guy) owned company. It's a shame - the product was great.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Superlogical"

bluerooibos — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:33:53 +0000

> Funded by ... Tobias Lütke

Hmm, yeah - no thanks.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Superlogical"

bluerooibos — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:33:10 +0000

Seems to have gone full on right-wing fash, similar to DHH.

Related post on Reddit from this week which discusses DHH's journey from left to right - https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1v95spw/what_the_hel...

New comment by bluerooibos in "Kimi Work"

bluerooibos — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:39:48 +0000

> It rubs me the wrong way that they have to copy everything, the UI is almost exact copy of Codex

I'm sure OpenAI haven't copied or stolen anything without permission - oh wait a sec..

The US loves capitalism because it pRomOtEs cOmpEtiTion. Well, here's the competition you asked for, lads - suck it up.

New comment by bluerooibos in "The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency"

bluerooibos — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:58:04 +0000

> Removing QA makes developers care about production

And removing Product Managers makes devs care about the product. Therefore, we should strip away all roles apart from devs..?

These roles exist because the skill set is sufficiently large to justify a dedicated role. If you're a startup, sure - maybe it's better to be lean - but in a larger org, QA folks are worth the investment and can definitely help to spot things that devs may not otherwise catch themselves since they know the product intimately and likely learn of common pitfalls. The few QA folks I've worked with have been worth their weight in gold.

New comment by bluerooibos in "The state of open source AI"

bluerooibos — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:17:26 +0000

100%. Often open source projects lag when they're too niche or don't have enough interest, but open source AI - I can't think of anything better suited to be open source and the demand/interest is through the roof - people will make it happen.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Sam Neill has died"

bluerooibos — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:14:31 +0000

An absolute legend. I thought he'd be around for longer. Thanks for making Jurassic Park what it is, Sam.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Chatto is now open source"

bluerooibos — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:42:01 +0000

Would you say copying and finding solutions on Stackoverflow is building on stolen property?

I'm no fan of AI companies, but I fail to see how people using it to build open-source software is a bad thing.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks"

bluerooibos — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:24:45 +0000

> Is anyone making LLM-in-a-box for emergency supply kits yet?

Maybe someone should be making this, but for rebuilding society in the event of a disaster - a solar-powered black box with most of humanity's knowledge within. Even something running one of the Qwen models would be useful.

"So, we had a nuclear war and need to start from scratch. How do I turn this rock into a computer chip?"

New comment by bluerooibos in "How to sequence your own DNA at home"

bluerooibos — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:02:41 +0000

> Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION ($7.5k)

Hmm, I'll come back in a few years when things have become cheaper.

New comment by bluerooibos in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

bluerooibos — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:22:47 +0000

Anecdotal, but I'm convinced it screws up sleep quality. I'd just accepted for the longest time that waking up groggy with a slight headache and tired was the norm until I put a CO2 monitor in my room. With the door closed, it climbed up to 1500ppm in under an hour.

I'm certain many people are sleeping in similar conditions without realising and ventilating their rooms properly or leaving the door open.

New comment by bluerooibos in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

bluerooibos — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:19:33 +0000

Same thought here - beautiful! I'm curious what the price tag is for getting some illustrations like this done for an existing website.