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New comment by carb in "A Small Telescope That Surprised Me"

carb — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:32:54 +0000

AI-prose may be vetted, but there is no way for a reader to know that for certain as much AI-prose is not.

As such, you cannot be sure if the writing contains correct and accurate information at all, even with modern models.

New comment by carb in "My server is a phone now"

carb — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:34:12 +0000

that title might be easier to parse, but it's less poetic and less attention grabbing

New comment by carb in "Waveloop: What Fable left me"

carb — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:52:52 +0000

The video game Audiosurf[1] did this, as it has to generate the game track ahead of time so that it would be playable!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiosurf

New comment by carb in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

carb — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:23:10 +0000

It's a good analysis but the AI slop writing makes me not trust you've reviewed this and I'm unable to finish or subscribe. I'm sure you're a great blogger but this is holding it back!

New comment by carb in "Show HN: Crespo – Tree-sitter AST blueprints instead of raw code for LLMs"

carb — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:49:33 +0000

love the concept and dont mind that ai wrote the code, but please consider rewriting the readme out of the AI style and cadence, it's a bit exhausting seeing ai writing everywhere.

New comment by carb in "Be wary of Bluesky"

carb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:35:21 +0000

Sorry, meant say that Blacksky is much more important than the metrics you point to, with more detail on that wiki.

They're the first alternative full stack, the first alternative AppView, and that is something that the author should have mentioned. However, it weakens the argument so they left it out.

"Number of contributors" has never meant impact. You wouldn't dismiss openssl or curl, ya know?

New comment by carb in "Be wary of Bluesky"

carb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:00:05 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksky

New comment by carb in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

carb — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:41:36 +0000

Not OP but yeah that's the one!

New comment by carb in "The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)"

carb — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:39:49 +0000

Yes, I only open an IDE to run a debugger when needed. The vim support isn't exhaustive and it's jarring whenever a command doesn't work.

This is about Vi though and that's certainly more rare. For me that's only used over a rare ssh with vim not available but vi present

New comment by carb in "What life is like in Minneapolis now"

carb — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:51:26 +0000

Yes, I agree. Everyone in ICE or supporting them.

New comment by carb in "What life is like in Minneapolis now"

carb — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:50:20 +0000

I disagree. Notable and impacting politics are often here and foster interesting discussions.

Everything is political, and nowadays everything has relation to tech. ICE is being supported by Palantir and many defense tech companies and that technology impacts and perfects the terror and abuse by ICE in Minneapolis.

It's important for us to talk about this, especially when it is uncomfortable.

New comment by carb in "Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked"

carb — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:24:01 +0000

Why have you had to avoid the heap? Performance concerns?

New comment by carb in "Bag of words, have mercy on us"

carb — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:56:28 +0000

Different people have different levels of internal monologuing or none at all. I don't generally think with words in sentences in my head, but many people I know do.

New comment by carb in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

carb — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:07:54 +0000

I've found better results when I treat LLMs like you would treat little kids. Don't tell them what NOT to do, tell them what TO do.

Say "keep your hands at your side, it's hot" and not "don't touch the stove, it's hot". If you say the latter, most kids touch the stove.

New comment by carb in "A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells"

carb — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 23:54:08 +0000

I liked it fwiw! Fun to play and solve. Thanks!

New comment by carb in "Goodbye Dockerfile, Hello Bazel: Doubling Our CI Speed"

carb — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:51:18 +0000

did migrating to bazel require specialized expertise or were teams able to pick it up quickly?

New comment by carb in "Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard"

carb — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:28:15 +0000

That's how I feel about keyboard tilts away from a full pronation/flat and towards a neutral position. Once I switched to having a rotated split keyboard, my forearms and wrists felt incredible, and I hadn't even considered them uncomfortable before.

New comment by carb in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

carb — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:57:08 +0000

Yes that's true they can roam outside, but roaming outside does not massively increase their chance of picking up bird flu.

For the same reason that the main guidance during COVID was "be outside if with other people" and not "stay inside if with other people".

New comment by carb in "Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase"

carb — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:44:28 +0000

There was a price increase, but there was also an explicit elevation of Disney+ from a "Pressure Target" to a "Priority Target" of the BDS movement last December.[1]

I know anecdotally dozens of people, including myself, who have made the sometimes difficult decision to cancel Disney+ subscriptions to avoid crossing the picket line. I haven't heard anyone making a fuss about the price increase, specifically.

[1]: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott

New comment by carb in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

carb — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:15:36 +0000

That's true when you're talking about foxes and wolves, but not if you're talking about an airborne flu.

Rows of adjacent cages keeping groups of chickens in close proximity with each other with shared air.