Hacker News: efdee

New comment by efdee in "A spectre is haunting Unicode"

efdee — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:18:58 +0000

And "je ne sais quoi" perfectly describes that. Quod erat demonstrandum

New comment by efdee in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

efdee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:09:12 +0000

Swiss.

New comment by efdee in "Claude Opus 5"

efdee — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:18:07 +0000

Why would it ask to see the image if it was already told it cannot see the image?

New comment by efdee in "Claude Opus 5"

efdee — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:09:35 +0000

I don't see why? If they give you a math test and tell you you cannot use a calculator, should you just say "please can I use a calculator" and quit?

New comment by efdee in "Claude Opus 5"

efdee — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:21:00 +0000

On Max it is just included in your subscription.

New comment by efdee in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"

efdee — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:05:11 +0000

Can you tell me the difference between that and doing code review for a task performed by a non-senior?

New comment by efdee in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

efdee — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:58:15 +0000

Comic Chat had its own IRC servers ran by Microsoft. You weren't supposed to use it on "regular" servers.

New comment by efdee in "Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion"

efdee — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:31:04 +0000

I have assumed from the get-go that they would just keep extending it week by week.

New comment by efdee in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

efdee — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:50:00 +0000

In that case you'd be better off waiting 6 to 12 months before buying into SPCX.

New comment by efdee in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

efdee — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:26:05 +0000

I've been with DO since checks mailbox 2014. Honestly never experienced an unannounced outage.

New comment by efdee in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

efdee — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:19:55 +0000

I can only speak for my countries, but almost all payment terminals now have the option to scan a QR code with your mobile banking app to pay using Wero.

New comment by efdee in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

efdee — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:18:47 +0000

If they haven't been redirected to their bank, verifying with their mobile banking app using a QR code will not work.

New comment by efdee in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

efdee — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:11:30 +0000

That's why you can mark any WiFi connection as "metered" in Windows.

New comment by efdee in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

efdee — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:40:41 +0000

Surely it will wait when the connection is marked as metered.

New comment by efdee in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

efdee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:53:46 +0000

That is about production. The story that you don't get from these graphs is that Belgium is highly dependent on imported energy because the production is just too low.

New comment by efdee in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

efdee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:50:43 +0000

Strictly: Engie was forced by a previous Belgian government to decommision the nuclear power plants.

New comment by efdee in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

efdee — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:38:49 +0000

If it's not working on Chrome nor Firefox, it's safe to say it's incompatible with almost all browsers.

New comment by efdee in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

efdee — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:54:58 +0000

Already banned in several European countries, mostly because of the betting on political events.

New comment by efdee in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

efdee — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:46:49 +0000

In his defense, he built the entire language :-)

New comment by efdee in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

efdee — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:16:25 +0000

The guy built the "shitty web app" (that's actually pretty cool, not shitty) from scratch.