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New comment by duttish in "Evacuation of U.S. troops from Mideast base sends community groups scrambling"

duttish — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:40:31 +0000

If they had went for it during the uprising maybe the regime could have fallen? We'll never know.

But no, they waited 1-2 months or something until the regime could reload and people had gotten tired and went home to grieve for their dead friends and family. Then they started yolo bombing. Again.

New comment by duttish in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

duttish — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:52:19 +0000

And doing it over, and over, and over and over again. Because sure it didn't change in the last 8 years but maybe it's changed since yesterdays scrape?

New comment by duttish in "Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction"

duttish — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:28:50 +0000

I think this was more true before LLMs could put together a book in 5 minutes.

Though you can probably post rage bait 500 tweets in that time. So maybe the overall point still stands when thinking about it.

New comment by duttish in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

duttish — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:59:21 +0000

Yea it seems very variable depending on hw / config etc. And the most recent patch at the time (I think this was during summer?) broke it for a bunch of other people on desktop that had it working before.

For me it crashed after the first click in the menu.

New comment by duttish in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

duttish — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:09:36 +0000

It's reached the level where a game not working is a suprise.

Space Marine 2 was the latest one for me, but Steam is great at refunds if you do it quickly enough.

New comment by duttish in "Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years"

duttish — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:25:08 +0000

"Two years later, enticed by the prospect that a higher degree would open doors to more opportunities, she enrolled at Rollins College, a private liberal arts school in Winter Park, Fla. She started studying art history, which felt like a natural extension of her love of art, writing and research."

I'm surprised that one goes into a field as small and competitive as art history in these days.

Museums, how many relevant art related roles can there be nation wide?

New comment by duttish in "How people woke up before alarm clocks"

duttish — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:01:49 +0000

Flex work time is awesome. Other than flights I haven't set an alarm since before covid.

1.5 years of basically no irl social life and going to bed at 22 every day has really hammered home my rhythm. I still wake up around 06-07 every day.

New comment by duttish in "How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier"

duttish — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:34:47 +0000

I've tried getting started with this but my first attempt a habanero/mango sauce was _horrible_, must've used a slop recipe or something. Do you have a good base to recommend?

New comment by duttish in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

duttish — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:58:26 +0000

I read a bunch of comments agreeing with this anecdote so I'll offer my own counter anecdote.

I don't know if it's what kind of information I'm searching for or something else but adding a !g has never helped for me. If ddg results is shit google has also been shit but with loads of ads. I barely bother trying anymore.

New comment by duttish in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

duttish — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:43:59 +0000

Hm. I don't think I follow "isn't translating to user numbers", could you elaborate?

Here's my thinking: There's 100 users getting updates. There's 40 users sending telemetry with AI enabled There's 10 users sending telemetry with AI disabled

So we have 50 people not sending telemetry and using or not using AI. If we assume more likely but not overwhelmingly more it's 30 people.

So we end up with 40+20 with AI, and 10+30 without?

New comment by duttish in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

duttish — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:47:28 +0000

This is quite close to what I've arrived at, but with two modifications

1) anything larger I work on in layers of docs. Architecture and requirements -> design -> implementation plan -> code. Partly it helps me think and nail the larger things first, and partly helps claude. Iterate on each level until I'm satisfied.

2) when doing reviews of each doc I sometimes restart the session and clear context, it often finds new issues and things to clear up before starting the next phase.

New comment by duttish in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

duttish — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:03:25 +0000

This is just my own anecdotal experience but I usually get tired around 2130-22 but a few times I've turned off the red filter for various reasons (photo editing etc) and suddenly I'm still there at 0030-01.

I'm not saying it's like this for everyone, but it seems to work very well for me at least.

New comment by duttish in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

duttish — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:57:42 +0000

Very similar for me. I have a plans folder in my root where I store the plans while they're either under improvement or under implementation. Once they're done they're moved into the plans/old folder. So far it's worked great. It's a couple of manual steps extra but very helpful record.

New comment by duttish in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

duttish — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:10:59 +0000

I think there was a rash of this kind of this kind of wrench cryptocurrency robberies in the Netherlands a few years ago.

Break in, bash owner about with a wrench, get coins.

New comment by duttish in "Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up"

duttish — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:41:19 +0000

From my view a lot of the problems of current AI is that people assume others will review and catch any issues. The manual work is getting pushed around like a hot potato.

"AI for me, not for thee" kind of thing.

New comment by duttish in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

duttish — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:33:38 +0000

The divergence of being many smaller countries with different regulations, primary languages, currencies etc have been a blocker, but progress is being made[1] and it seems like people are aware of the problem. It just takes a while when every plan needs to be approved by all countries.

1. https://tech.eu/2026/01/20/the-european-commission-launches-...

New comment by duttish in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

duttish — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:35:32 +0000

I've been building a home library system mainly for personal use, I want to run it cheaply so a $4 black Friday sale OVH vps is perfect.

But I wanted decent deployments. Hosting a image repository cost 3-4x of the server. Sending over the container image took over an hour due to large image processing python dependencies.

Solution? Had a think and a chat with Claude code, now I have blue-green deployments where I just upload the code which takes 5 seconds, everything is then run by systemd. I looked at the various PaaSes but they ran up to $40/month with compute+database etc.

I would probably never have built this myself. I'd have gotten bored 1/3 through. Now it's working like a charm.

Is it enterprise grade? Gods no. Is it good enough? Yes.

New comment by duttish in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

duttish — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:55:17 +0000

It's not unheard of here in Sweden, not common but I know a couple of people here and there.

New comment by duttish in "Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)"

duttish — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:32:41 +0000

For decades the discussion in schools have been around "this is how you avoid unwanted pregnancy", safe sex and all of that.

With our(northern Europe) crashing fertility rate there's now also discussions about adding on "when the woman is 25 this happens and you're this likely to get pregnant, at 30 it's like this...", just so that people can plan and try for the family they want. If one wants 3 kids and don't want IVF you should apparently start around when the woman is 25-28 or something like that?

But who's financially secure at 25?

New comment by duttish in "Linux is good now"

duttish — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:01:33 +0000

I'm on bog standard Ubuntu (25.04 maybe?) because it's what I know and I don't really care about it as long as it works. Which... well, seems above :}