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New comment by darkteflon in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

darkteflon — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:17:18 +0000

I bought an 8gb M1 Air in 2020 (for what now feels like an absurdly small sum of money) as an experiment in how-cheap-is-too-cheap / chuckable travel laptop. I ended up using it as my main laptop for 2 years without regret, then handed it to my son for school.

It remains in perfect condition and as delightful to use as the day I bought it (Apple software snafus notwithstanding). I fully expect to get at least 10 years use out of it. Honestly, I feel like it could probably carry him all the way through school - but I’d be embarrassed to say that out loud since that’s another 9 years.

New comment by darkteflon in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

darkteflon — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:19:11 +0000

This was shared here last year and was excellent. Relevant to this discussion: https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-prin...

New comment by darkteflon in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

darkteflon — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:16:22 +0000

Have been keeping an eye on this. Hoping they’ll add the A1 family at some point.

New comment by darkteflon in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

darkteflon — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:15:03 +0000

Can anyone in the commentariat recommend a great, locally available adhesive in Japan? Vision Miner is import-only and pricey. I’ve been using glue-sticks but am ready to level up as I’m moving away from PLA.

New comment by darkteflon in "Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)"

darkteflon — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:49:45 +0000

Man, I’m jealous of those of you who have the skills to do an ICE/BEV conversion. I have this total baseless fantasy that when I retire, I will open a little boutique shop doing conversions of old ICE vehicles into BEVs. Sadly, I have none of the skills, connections, or talent for such a thing. But in another life, it’s something I could see myself getting a real kick out of for many, many years. Having the neighbourhood kids drift in and out, call me “Old Man”, learn a thing or two.

My dad used to rebuild and flip old Daimlers and MGs back in the day on our suburban front lawn in Australia. For reasons of space, gentrification, economics, labour market changes, technological shifts, etc, that’s sadly far less common than it used to be. Such a loss.

New comment by darkteflon in "U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump's Hormuz blockade for months"

darkteflon — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:18:53 +0000

I’m sure they did. No evidence to suggest there was an intelligence failure, afaik. The failures are, on the evidence, entirely at the, shall we say, executive level.

New comment by darkteflon in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

darkteflon — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:42:26 +0000

Thanks, didn’t realise the API and Claude Code had different TTL.

New comment by darkteflon in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

darkteflon — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:20:01 +0000

OK Computer (1997). Mezzanine (1998). New Forms (1997). Peak trip hop and drum and bass. I remember it being pretty great. But yeah, I was like 17, so …

Edit: commenter below with Underworld - 100%.

New comment by darkteflon in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

darkteflon — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:58:50 +0000

As long as you stay under the 1-hour caching TTL for your open threads, I guess your marginal cost is linear.

This is me on a weekday flicking between Ghostty tabs to enter “stand by” every ~45 mins.

New comment by darkteflon in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

darkteflon — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:03:11 +0000

Copilot showing up unbidden on my PRs was the final straw for me. Well, actually, the final straw was not being able to figure out how to turn it off.

We all saw this coming when the Microsoft acquisition happened. They constitutionally can’t not fuck their products up.

New comment by darkteflon in "I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards"

darkteflon — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:07:57 +0000

Notion: “Hold my beer.”

New comment by darkteflon in "Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors"

darkteflon — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:12:29 +0000

Okay very interesting. Thanks for the detailed answer. I looked into it a bit more[1], it sounds like the valve is producing 1.5 bar. A very nice stovetop for a moka, but probably not a good fit for me.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/15zabe/does_the_bia...

New comment by darkteflon in "Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors"

darkteflon — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:48:55 +0000

I’ve used cafetière off-and-on in the past but felt that I could never get the pressure high enough and the amount short enough. You’re saying that the Brikka produces enough pressure for an espresso? Is this something specific to the Brikka or will any Bialetti stovetop do? Can I use half or 1/3 as much water as you? Cafetière seem to have a minimum lower bound but I like it short short.

New comment by darkteflon in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

darkteflon — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:13:14 +0000

… in mice.

Sorry - that was reflexive: “… in the US”.

I don’t think there’s any great mystery here. Every few years, you guys elect a bunch of people for whom active sabotage of public education is a sine qua non to political gerrymandering strategies driven by the self-preservation instincts of lobbyists.

New comment by darkteflon in "Claude Opus 4.7"

darkteflon — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:14:28 +0000

I keep reading about this, but I have never, ever seen it. Daily Claude Max user for ~6 months. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but it’s never once happened to me.

New comment by darkteflon in "'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking"

darkteflon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:44:53 +0000

I mean, the really good ones can be beautiful, terrifying, balletic displays of dominance, skill and tactical intelligence. There’s nothing in all of gaming quite like being hunted by a human being. It’s a real thrill.

New comment by darkteflon in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

darkteflon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:39:41 +0000

The multiplayer stuff with kernel level anti-cheat - it’s mostly the kind of thing that’s also on console. I bought a PS5 for that and called it a day.

Desktop rig runs Bazzite and I’ve a Steam Deck. They play most everything in my Steam library with Proton (ymmv, of course). One of the last ones that didn’t work was Assetto Corsa - some kind soul here on hn helped me get it working recently.

I used to dual-boot Win 10 with Bazzite (separate drives), but finally ditched Windows 6 months ago. It can be done; a lot’s changed in the past couple of years.

New comment by darkteflon in "Open Source Security at Astral"

darkteflon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:50:19 +0000

Great post. Love uv, love Astral. Pretty concerned about the OpenAI acquisition.

New comment by darkteflon in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

darkteflon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:43:24 +0000

Did you guys look at Firecracker-based options such as E2B and Fly.io? We’ve had positive early results on latency, but yeah … too early to tell where we end up on cost.

New comment by darkteflon in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

darkteflon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:38:47 +0000

Yeah, some of the uplift people are anecdotally seeing from “just using the filesystem” is, imo, on account of how difficult it is to take a principled approach to pre-chunking when implementing other approaches.