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New comment by bokkies in "Where Rust actually is in Windows 11"

bokkies — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:21:39 +0000

Actually...the most meaningless word in Claudish

New comment by bokkies in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

bokkies — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:21:23 +0000

Popular in South Africa also and remains one of the very few credit card processors where you can bill in USD and remit in ZAR (no Stripe in SA)

Spotify to Label AI 'Artists'

bokkies — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:36:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/spotify-label-ai-artists-block-them-from-some-playlists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261679

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New comment by bokkies in "Azure Linux Desktop"

bokkies — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:05:33 +0000

The thing is now the average Joe doesn't need to. Just tell Claude to fix it

New comment by bokkies in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

bokkies — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:21:59 +0000

Feels like my scroll is hallucinating

New comment by bokkies in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

bokkies — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:20:38 +0000

Yep, or the hose that was being used to water the playing field. Ah the sweet taste of pfas on a hot summers day

New comment by bokkies in "Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)"

bokkies — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:22:46 +0000

There are some corn/rice pastas that are pretty close to the real deal. Sure a seasoned pasta officianado could tell the difference, but we have gluten intolerant in the house so predominantly eat gluten free pastas. Never had a visitor or kids friends complaining (and kids will complain about anything). Happily chow down. There are also some pretty good grain free varieties made from tapioca and egg, we get lasagne sheets that are approved of by the only real Italian I known, they maintain the chewy/rubbery texture of lasagne well.

New comment by bokkies in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

bokkies — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:00:16 +0000

I remember flying in the 80s (and early nineties in parts of Europe) and always got 'air-sick' which made flying awful. Only after smoking was banned did I realise I wasn't motion sickness but it was instead poisoning from the smokers around me. My parents would book non-smoking seats and we'd be 1 row in front of the smokers...wild times

New comment by bokkies in "DeepSeek v4"

bokkies — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:45:23 +0000

Apparently glm5.1 and qwen coder latest is as good as opus 4.6 on benchmarks. So I tried both seriously for a week (glm Pro using CC) and qwen using qwen companion. Thought I could save $80 a month. Unfortunately after 2 days I had switched back to Max. The speed (slower on both although qwen is much faster) and errors (stupid layout mistakes, inserting 2 footers then refusing to remove one, not seeing obvious problems in screenshots & major f-ups of functionality), not being able to view URLs properly, etc. I'll give deepseek a go but I suspect it will be similar. The model is only half the story. Also been testing gpt5.4 with codex and it is very almost as good as CC... better on long running tasks running in background. Not keen on ChatGPT codex 'personality' so will stick to CC for the most part.

New comment by bokkies in "Fuck Facebook, Again"

bokkies — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:36:23 +0000

It reads as a stream of thought. I quite enjoyed it. He can't get his kids off the computer, are they gaming? Or on Facebook (unlikely given their ages). Sounds like the alternative they've been given is cleaning the house. My kid is not at that age nor does she have a device, but I hope that as she grows older we can maintain some of the same interests to keep a connection doing fun stuff...including gaming but mostly outdoors, we can dream

New comment by bokkies in "List animals until failure"

bokkies — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:55:00 +0000

Since this accepts all marine, freshwater and sky animals (birds) also this could take a very long time. For a bit more of a challenge in a shorter time list all animals starting with a particular letter. Time yourself a couple minutes to put some pressure on. Challenge your friends and family!

New comment by bokkies in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

bokkies — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:57:15 +0000

What are devs using to run Gemini agents in vscode? 2.5pro on Cline/Roo was pretty buggy compared to Claude/gpt4/5 (also using Cline /roo), kept getting stuck in loops outputting repeated text and many editing issues, and much much worse than Claude code or codex. Has it gotten better? Is there a better way of using Gemini in vscode?

New comment by bokkies in "UK launches Project Octopus to deliver interceptor drones to Ukraine"

bokkies — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:16:49 +0000

And many irreplaceable ships will be sitting ducks for mid range missiles

New comment by bokkies in "Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription"

bokkies — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:36:58 +0000

Not just nickel and diming with cars, in Germany/Switzerland/Austria you have to pay to use toilets in service stations, showers in campsites (2min hot water per payment) and dozens of other micro payments for things that are free even in 3rd world countries. Nothing like having a kid who's desperate for the toilet and having to scratch for the right change to get in.

New comment by bokkies in "A Slice of Bread as a Yogurt Starter? (2022)"

bokkies — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:42:05 +0000

I've never used bread as a yogurt starter, but I have used yogurt to kickoff a starter to bake sourdough bread. Takes a few days before the starter starts growing nicely but makes sense it can go both ways.

New comment by bokkies in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

bokkies — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 04:43:40 +0000

And the many keen HN readers down in South Africa! (also CET)

New comment by bokkies in "Do not download the app, use the website"

bokkies — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 04:40:49 +0000

Needed a new SIM in the UK recently so ordered a pay as you go one from Vodafone. Discovered to my horror that the new payg 'plus' can only be used with an app (that's locked to UK Google play Store) and a credit card for monthly recurring payments. No possibility of buying credit on a website or In store. Presumably so Vodafone can slurp up credit card details and all the juicy data mentioned in this article. Tossed in the bin and found a regular old school payg sim that I can top up with cash from a corner shop, but presumably this won't be possible for much longer.

New comment by bokkies in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

bokkies — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:18:56 +0000

Application error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details. You can do this from the Heroku CLI with the command heroku logs --tail

New comment by bokkies in "Death by AI"

bokkies — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:37:48 +0000

Back in 2015 I walked 2 miles to a bowling alley tagged on Google maps (in Northwich, England) with my then gf...imagine our surprise when we walked in to a steamy front room and reception desk, my gf asks 'is this the bowling alley' to which a glistening man in a tank top replies 'this is a gay and lesbian sauna love'. We beat a hasty retreat but I imagine they were having more fun than bowling in there

New comment by bokkies in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"

bokkies — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:33:26 +0000

Also Cape Town is a city in South Africa..no idea where Capetown is