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New comment by buggymcbugfix in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

buggymcbugfix — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:38:06 +0000

I think this point is crucial:

> [...] would be roughly proportional to the strength of the friend network connecting them.

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Composition shouldn't be this hard"

buggymcbugfix — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:39:53 +0000

That is true! The system I mentioned above, which I had to refactor, was written in the worst Haskell that I've ever seen and nobody at the company dared touch it with a 10-foot pole.

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Composition Shouldn't be this Hard"

buggymcbugfix — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:14:56 +0000

You can't say...

> Not sure if tools and technologies can solve accidental complexity.

... and then say

> For me, consistent systematic naming and prefixes/suffixes to make names unique are a hint that a person is thinking about this or has experience with maintaining old systems. This has a huge effect on how well you can search, analyze, find usages, understand, replace, change.

I have battle scars from refactoring legacy systems where my predecessors did _not_ consistently or uniquely name things and I would not have seen it through without my sidekick, the type checker!

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound"

buggymcbugfix — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:03:31 +0000

Getting AI vibes from this article? It is strangely repetitive and meandering. Also tell-tale "It's not X, it's Y" and sort of unspecific mostly.

Also, why would you have billions of open transactions? That is the implication I got from the article as someone who doesn't know anything about Postgres.

(I use SQLite and perhaps I have Stockholm syndrome, but I like how it pushes you towards a design with small transactions, ideally entirely database-side.)

EDIT: Yeah, gptzero says AI with 100% confidence.

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

buggymcbugfix — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:03:18 +0000

> That’s all great, but there are websites that still don’t have dark modes.

Such as that very website? ;)

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage"

buggymcbugfix — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:15:25 +0000

Very cool! Although this part feels a bit hand-wavy (or shall I say, AI-wand-wavy?)

Machine learning decode: building on our previous work23, here we apply machine-learning-based decode (see section ‘Reading and decoding data’) to account for noise and inter-voxel cross-talk.

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction"

buggymcbugfix — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:16:56 +0000

+1. This is 100% hallucinated. Creds: My first programming language was GRAFIS CAD Fachsprache, a parametric pattern drafting software for garments, which incidentally powers our business (https:/liepelt.design—the website and intranet of which we are developing in ur/web btw just to clarify the geek factor!)

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Improving Unnesting of Complex Queries [pdf]"

buggymcbugfix — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:27:21 +0000

Indeed they write that the algorithm has been implemented in DuckDB.

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Improving Unnesting of Complex Queries [pdf]"

buggymcbugfix — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:46:01 +0000

I wonder if this is being implemented for SQLite?

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "[dead]"

buggymcbugfix — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:14:56 +0000

Erlang does exactly what the author wants.

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

buggymcbugfix — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:31:42 +0000

> [I'm] the creator of Claude Code.

but also

> Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much.

Am I the only one to notice the irony of this juxtaposition?

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser""

buggymcbugfix — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:48:22 +0000

Which one of these is most trustworthy in terms of

1. doesn't (and won't) munge personal data

2. will be available in 2035

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Mozilla's New CEO Confirms Firefox Will Become an "AI Browser""

buggymcbugfix — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:01:24 +0000

Now this makes me genuinely curious: is there a browser which respects privacy, that is usable?

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Basalt Woven Textile"

buggymcbugfix — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:38:20 +0000

Next sewing project: rock pants.

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

buggymcbugfix — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:29:57 +0000

Of course hooligans steal shopping carts. This was about people leaving shopping carts in the parking lot :)

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

buggymcbugfix — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:16:43 +0000

Whoa!

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

buggymcbugfix — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:23:01 +0000

Here, US?

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

buggymcbugfix — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:22:38 +0000

PS: This is not meant as snark, but rather an observation, that by means of a small nudge (in this case the coin deposit), people can learn to do the Right Thing. To quote Charlie Munger:

> Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

buggymcbugfix — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:14:03 +0000

Naww, that is very sweet!

New comment by buggymcbugfix in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

buggymcbugfix — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:12:45 +0000

Haha I was wondering if this part was unclear but assumed it was obvious from context, that the cart opener can be removed from the coin slit. Imagine leaving your keyring on your cart... yikes!