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New comment by dep_b in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

dep_b — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:33:06 +0000

It’s funny how a US$30 ReSharper license that would give me a 20% performance boost in programming was out of the question, while me burning US$3000 per month on tokens for a 40% boost in performance never was questioned

New comment by dep_b in "The bottleneck was never the code"

dep_b — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:29:25 +0000

True

New comment by dep_b in "How I write software with LLMs"

dep_b — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:23:13 +0000

“…if you give it good context…” that’s what the architect session is for basically. You throw around ideas and store the direction you want to go.

Then you execute it with a clean context.

Clean context is needed for maximum performance while not remembering implementation dead ends you already discarded

New comment by dep_b in "Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow"

dep_b — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:33:50 +0000

I think stable API versions are going to be really big. I’d rather have known bugs u can work around than waking up to whatever thing got fixed that made another thing behave differently.

New comment by dep_b in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

dep_b — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:30:07 +0000

Poland is quite intertwined.

But Catholicism has its own government, which prevents individual catholic countries to veer off too much.

New comment by dep_b in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

dep_b — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:11:17 +0000

It’s almost like they reject the parts of the bible featuring Christ, and only cling on to the Old Testament and the parts after Christ as their guide.

In lack of a better word, that sounds more like anti-Cristian

New comment by dep_b in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

dep_b — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:59:16 +0000

C64 1982 Amiga 1985

Never witnessed anything before or after with that jump in specs

New comment by dep_b in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

dep_b — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:57:17 +0000

Thanks that’s correcr

New comment by dep_b in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

dep_b — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:33:42 +0000

Internet connections on devices are an anti feature to me. I need something to work reliably without internet. And then maybe add some extras through internet access through open and secure protocols, so I can always write my own implementation.

New comment by dep_b in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

dep_b — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:24:53 +0000

Not in Europe?

New comment by dep_b in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

dep_b — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:37:24 +0000

Hungary was outpaced by all WU countries in the last 20 years:

https://gki.hu/language/en/2024/06/18/hungarys-20-years-in-t...

I guess it’s attractive for its low wages? But not because of something Orbán pulled off.

New comment by dep_b in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

dep_b — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:12:37 +0000

Bloomberg also has a link, but doesn’t mention ASML is actually adding 1400 engineers while cutting 4500 managers:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/asml-plan...

New comment by dep_b in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

dep_b — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:02:42 +0000

Apologies for the Dutch source, but I couldn’t find any source in English yet.

“ ASML plans to eliminate approximately 3,000 of its 4,500 management positions in engineering. The expectation is that approximately 1,400 people will be able to move into new engineering roles.”

ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions

dep_b — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2026/strengthening-focus-on-engineering-and-innovation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792370

Points: 339

# Comments: 352

New comment by dep_b in "New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes"

dep_b — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:06:59 +0000

It’s much easier to make stuff work with Safari first then last.

New comment by dep_b in "The Post-American Internet"

dep_b — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:05:25 +0000

“In the EU” only because some countries might have individual laws, unless you have more information about the EU specifically causing that?

The country with the worst “bad opinion, police comes knocking” is the recently seceded UK.

And I guess Germany has something against nazism?

New comment by dep_b in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

dep_b — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:27:03 +0000

Problem with SwiftUI is that it only works well on macOS 26, maybe one version prior. AppKit works well on all macOS versions.

Building a macOS 26 only app in SwiftUI today is a great UX, just as fast as AppKit.

But it takes quite some effort to turn an iOS SwiftUI app into a real macOS experience. Though most macOS optimizations help for iPadOS as well.

New comment by dep_b in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

dep_b — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:10:06 +0000

I had similar experiences working with the RAW data API's that appeared a few years ago in iOS. My photos were barely better than the stuff I would take with my old Nokia!

I have a lot of respect they manage to get pictures to get to look as good as they do on phones.

New comment by dep_b in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

dep_b — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:42:35 +0000

Worse is the Git UI, where random English words that seem to have a clear meaning in the context of source control don't do at all what you think they do, or five different things, or are really just a bunch of other commands wrapped together for less typing (like "pull").

I would rather have fantasy names than wrong names.

New comment by dep_b in "System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4"

dep_b — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:45:45 +0000

8.1 was peak MacOS Classic for me as well. 8.5 was like Windows 98. Just added stuff that made it slower.