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New comment by chrisandchris in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

chrisandchris — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:43:01 +0000

> I assume that datacenters UPSes are better [...]

I don't know about specific datacenter models, but in our colocation there are humans available 24/7. So the UPS might not start after failure, but there's a human to figure it out.

New comment by chrisandchris in "So where are all the AI apps?"

chrisandchris — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:34:08 +0000

Terraform code for what? I mean, a Draw.IO diagram is basically just XML (so can be versioned anf stuff and so).

New comment by chrisandchris in "So where are all the AI apps?"

chrisandchris — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:33:09 +0000

Out of curiosity: What is your USP? Why should I prefer your product over draw.io?

IMHO (this may not apply to you!) a lot of people launch a "competitor" of a product which seems to be a clone of the product without improving something that the other product misses/is very bad at.

New comment by chrisandchris in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

chrisandchris — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:10:34 +0000

Maybe - but that's also a style of life definition, isn't it. I did not care at all about Bitcoin, and I'm still pretty fine. I even think, sitting Bitcoin out was better for me, because who (vrosdly speaking) cares about it today (besides speculating with it)?

New comment by chrisandchris in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

chrisandchris — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:47:56 +0000

That's fine for me - as long as the new subscription (Pro+AI) is the same price as it is now.

If they increase the prices, well then my Kagi subscription is gone and I will move on. I'm a happy user for noe but I think search wuality has gotten worse lately and I'm more often using the AI instead of search because search just does not bring any good results anymore.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

chrisandchris — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:48:45 +0000

> you walk up to a desk

I think the day I _must_ walk go a desk to vote is the day I'll give up. Voting by mail is one of the best things occuring here (in Switzerland). You get the voting stuff by mail, make your crosses, put it back into the postal box and it's delivered for free (as in beer) to the government.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

chrisandchris — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:40:19 +0000

Maybe, or Wiz will suddenly appear on the graveyard just because reasons? Who knows :)

New comment by chrisandchris in "Good software knows when to stop"

chrisandchris — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:21:45 +0000

> [...] I decide to take the time to explain [...]

Do you just explain or do you start by asking a question?

What I usually go with is _asking_ what they want to achieve. Because usually, the user describes features/functions/forms instead of explaining the business case. And while the user describes a business case (a thing that generates him money/...) it becomes obvious how/why to implement the request.

So often, people forget to just ask and listen.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Bet on German Train Delays"

chrisandchris — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:19:02 +0000

That part is the most intersting in the imprint:

> 1010 Wien, Austria

New comment by chrisandchris in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

chrisandchris — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:54:14 +0000

No, it was a perfectly fine question IMHO. it is a broken incentive - it is expected that you design complex systems regardless whether they are useful or not. Try to interview for the role you have to fill, nor for a role you a dreaming you would love to have whenever you're Google2.

If the interview wants you to think about stuff that never happens in your role, I think it is a sign that in your role, you're expected to solve the problems like in the interview.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

chrisandchris — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:55:33 +0000

Not OP, but iTerm is the one I knew and it does it's job. No need to move away from something that works.

New comment by chrisandchris in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

chrisandchris — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:16:46 +0000

> It's like how Uber and Airbnb [...]

I disagree. It's like Uber and Airbnb in how they try to gain market share. Big difference: For Uber (and when it got big, basically everybody I know has used it once in a while) and Airbnb, you oaid for each transaction. With OpenAI, most peopme are on the free tier. And if there is something incredibly hard, it's converting free users to paid users. That will, IMHO, be the thong that blows (many) of the AI companies up. They won't ever reach a profit/loss-equality.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount"

chrisandchris — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:14:36 +0000

That even got Microsoft confused.

New comment by chrisandchris in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

chrisandchris — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:09:00 +0000

And I think on big difference between <2006 and now is that back then nobody knew about it - now they just request it in public.

New comment by chrisandchris in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

chrisandchris — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:11:23 +0000

You're missing one point: they are just talking about revenue. Nobody said something about making profit.

New comment by chrisandchris in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

chrisandchris — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:56:19 +0000

That reminds me of the (earlier) Apple and people saying that Apple just copies from the competitors. Well, they took the good parts and improved the bad parts. That's the excellence level you can achieve when copying.

This here is just so cheap, I would not even dare to call it a copy.

New comment by chrisandchris in "Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk"

chrisandchris — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:32:06 +0000

What was your consumption before like?

New comment by chrisandchris in "Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk"

chrisandchris — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:30:29 +0000

If we would create a field study, I could represent the control group. I drink tea on working days and coffee ond non-working days.

New comment by chrisandchris in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

chrisandchris — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:25:51 +0000

What I relly dislike about these LLM is how verbose they get even for such a short, simple question. Is it really necessary to have such a lobg answer and who's going to read that one anyway?

Maybe it's me and may character but when human gets that verbose for a question that can be answered with "drive, you need the car" I would like to just walk away halfway through the answer to not having to hear all the universes history just to get an answer. /s

New comment by chrisandchris in "Spotify says its best developers haven't written code since Dec, thanks to AI"

chrisandchris — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:25:45 +0000

I just read it as "we were stuck and nobody got something done at all" to "we at least got something deployed". Going from zero to something mathematically speaking a very large increase (like infinite?).