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New comment by cheeseface in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

cheeseface — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:40:39 +0000

0.3% is definitely not a ”rounding error”. For Google it would mean roughly $650M drop in revenue.

New comment by cheeseface in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

cheeseface — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:49:14 +0000

In Finland, where you can easily get 30cm or more snow, all roofs are required to stand 100-300kg/m2 by law and most roofs are less than 30 degrees (e.g. 1:2 ratio).

A-frame or even 45degree angle roofs are very rare.

New comment by cheeseface in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

cheeseface — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:04:11 +0000

Agree on how the platform’s have changed.

However, I don’t think Reddit is an exception. Popular is often filled with content that is driven by the feelings of fear and hate. Not something I’d like to continually expose kids or teens to.

New comment by cheeseface in "Using LLMs at Oxide"

cheeseface — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:37:13 +0000

There are cases where I would start the coding process by copy-pasting existing code (e.g. test suites, new screens in the UI) and this is where LLMs work especially well and produce code that is majority of the time production-ready as-is.

A common prompt I use is approximately ”Write tests for file X, look at Y on how to setup mocks.”

This is probably not ”de novo” and in terms of writing is maybe closer to something like updating a case study powerpoint with the current customer’s data.

New comment by cheeseface in "Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy"

cheeseface — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:19:16 +0000

> An Engineer might get the jollies designing a bridge, but the workers who work on it dont.

What is this viewpoint based on?

The majority of blue collar workers I know get plenty of pleasure from their work and would absolutely hate sitting on a computer 8 hours per day.

New comment by cheeseface in "Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories"

cheeseface — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:57:07 +0000

Government pension funds are a part of it, but it’s a combination of many things, like:

- The US has been a single market for a much longer time than the EU, and the EU still is not a single market, primarily due to language barriers (Germany, France, and Italy are large enough markets to have their own localized, but slightly worse SaaS options)

- European societies are more arranged around the common good and have lower income differences between people and super-wealthy individuals by design. The US is built around being the place where talented people can make the most money out of their skills, which results in many people worldwide choosing it as the place to go to, as the talent market is a global one.

- European values tend to value making as much money as possible or competing and being the winner less, which results in people grinding less and being happy when they become rich enough to focus on other things.

New comment by cheeseface in "Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update"

cheeseface — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:04:31 +0000

Claude Code has worked well for me. It is easy to point it to the relevant parts of the codebase and see what it decides to read itself so you provide missing piece of code when necessary.

New comment by cheeseface in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

cheeseface — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:45:47 +0000

Most startups will use funds like in addition to VC funding. It allows you to increase your runway so you’re better positioned for your next funding round.

New comment by cheeseface in "Yahoo is selling TechCrunch to private equity firm Regent"

cheeseface — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:49:11 +0000

Funny how the overly positive writing style makes it feel like there’s something fishy happening and that they’re trying to give it a positive spin.

New comment by cheeseface in "European Cloud, Global Reach"

cheeseface — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:18:03 +0000

Haven’t used Upcloud for any larger workloads, but had a customer VPS there for multiple years. Worked well and the UI for managing servers was great.

New comment by cheeseface in "But how to get to that European cloud?"

cheeseface — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:57:06 +0000

All proprietary software that runs in the cloud would vanish.

Unity Suddenly Lays Off Numerous Developers with a 5 Am Email

cheeseface — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://80.lv/articles/breaking-unity-suddenly-lays-off-numerous-developers-with-a-5-am-email/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43011847

Points: 15

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New comment by cheeseface in "Bluesky now has 30 million users"

cheeseface — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:32:48 +0000

I follow people mostly from the JS/TS web development community and have a pretty good balance of tech takes and some lighter life updates/humor in between. I mostly the "mutuals" and "popular with friends" tabs to check things out.

Every now and then there's too much US politics, but it's hard to escape nowadays.

New comment by cheeseface in "AI and two hundred dollar tasks"

cheeseface — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 09:03:00 +0000

At the same time, the two photographers in my neighbourhood are doing better than ever. When it comes to memories (like newborn photos) surprisingly many people are willing to pay a premium.

New comment by cheeseface in "Let's Quit X"

cheeseface — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:20:36 +0000

The ability to control your own experience via custom feeds makes Bluesky so delightful. The new X algo made it impossible to just follow the people I wanted to.

New comment by cheeseface in "Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro"

cheeseface — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:25:48 +0000

You can clone the repo and install pandoc. Then run "pandoc index.md *.md -o operating-system-in-1000-lines.epub" in "website/en/" folder and you will have a fully working ebook.

Boox devices now ship with a Chinese propaganda AI assistant

cheeseface — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:40:24 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/1hlxzs4/boox_now_ships_with_a_chinese_propaganda_ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515102

Points: 10

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New comment by cheeseface in "OpenERV"

cheeseface — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:29:03 +0000

In my experience 80% plus is quite common in the models sold for colder environments. E.g. Mitsubishi electric Lossnay advertises 86%.

New comment by cheeseface in "The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding"

cheeseface — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:55:55 +0000

That sounds like a horrible environment to work in. How’s your senior dev retention?

New comment by cheeseface in "Spray-foam insulation makes homes unable to be mortgaged"

cheeseface — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:36:18 +0000

It’s basically the same thing as wrapping the wood into a plastic bag. When water condenses inside the plastic it has no way of escaping and starts to rot/mold the wood.

When using any type of insulation in places where temperatures can vary and humidity can get high you should always ensure the wooden parts have enough room to breathe (e.g. 10cm of empty space above them if the insulation is at the bottom).