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New comment by gammalost in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

gammalost — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:45:05 +0000

> You signed up with a hosting company; they provided you with a bunch of different ways to upload files; your website was hosted.

But that is not self-hosting. You're still using a cloud service. The problem is how to run something local, at home, that you have full control over

New comment by gammalost in "Have a fucking website"

gammalost — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:18:53 +0000

Do you suggest small businesses send tattoos and freshly baked bread in the mail? I do not how they benefit from it

New comment by gammalost in "If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems"

gammalost — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:51:07 +0000

Seems easy to address with a simple rule. Push one PR; review one PR

New comment by gammalost in "Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]"

gammalost — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:53:23 +0000

More: If you want to spend time with your grandkid please do not just sit besides him, phone in hand. If you do not want to then that's fine

New comment by gammalost in "Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it"

gammalost — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:23:53 +0000

No, the author used Howl for their normal work and Nano occasionally. I would guess when working in the terminal

New comment by gammalost in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

gammalost — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:59:36 +0000

Sweden would have had its own nuclear bombs if not for the political opposition. That's at least one more that would have been on the list.

New comment by gammalost in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

gammalost — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:02:38 +0000

It is really interesting how great and also how terrible LLMs can be at the same time. For example, I had a really annoying bug yesterday, I missed one character, "_". Asking ChatGPT for help led to a lot of feedback that was arguably okay but not currently relevant (because there was a fatal flaw in the code).

Remade the conversation with personal information stripped here https://chatgpt.com/share/699fef77-b530-8007-a4ed-c3dda9461d...

New comment by gammalost in "The Slow Death of the Power User"

gammalost — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:19:32 +0000

The argument is based on the assumption that knowing what DNS, SSH, etc., is an innate good for the average person. But why should it be? The average user does not have the time or interest to run arbitrary code on their phone. In the same way that I do not have the time or interest to service my own car. Could I learn it if need be? Probably. Could they learn how to SSH into a server, change DNS settings, or clone a git repo? Probably. Is either of them worth our time? Probably not.

New comment by gammalost in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

gammalost — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:59:47 +0000

I do not know what you mean. The US and US-based companies have now become a liability. Global politics change on a day-by-day basis, EU has frozen trade agreement discussions because the tariff situation is unclear. There are open discussions in Sweden about how we can reduce our dependence on US-based companies, because we do not know whether that dependency will be wielded as a political tool against us.

New comment by gammalost in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

gammalost — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:41:54 +0000

I do not buy the whole ergonomic portion for most split keyboards. It feels like a justification after the fact.

That said I used to use a lily58 and for me it was great. I have a lot of papers, notes and books on my desk. A small easily movable keyboard meant that i could have something between the keyboard halves, writing and reading without issue

New comment by gammalost in "Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude"

gammalost — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:57:26 +0000

I recentry read a book that presentes its content as ramble poetry, a post-ironic reference heavy text. I feel that is a suitable description for this readme page.

New comment by gammalost in "Randomness Testing Guide"

gammalost — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:59:21 +0000

Unfortunatly the site is sloppy when explaining the subject.

For example

> Let's say we have the following binary string. s=00000000000000000000 It is obviously not random since there are no ones in the string. Therefore, we must check that there are roughly an equal number of zeros and ones in the string.

New comment by gammalost in "Some rando turned me into a meme coin"

gammalost — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:41:46 +0000

Based on what?

New comment by gammalost in "Guid Smash"

gammalost — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:56:04 +0000

If its a random ID then I'd argue that all of them are equally close to each other. With that said, I do not know how GUIDs are generated

New comment by gammalost in "How I keep up with AI progress"

gammalost — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:59:27 +0000

> You still need to learn the names of models, understand their use cases, concepts like MoE, then you have different architectures like diffusion vs transformers, agents etc

Why? When you think you might need something just search for it. There are too many models with incremental improvements

New comment by gammalost in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

gammalost — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:50:55 +0000

If you care about reducing the amount of back and forth then just use QUIC.

New comment by gammalost in "Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on personal laptops"

gammalost — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:47:31 +0000

Why would they not use a company laptop in the first place?

"They ran out" is no excuse

New comment by gammalost in "Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations"

gammalost — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:52:26 +0000

I agree. I feel that Springer is not doing enough to uphold their reputation. One example of this being a book on RL that I found[1]. It is clear that no one seriously reviewed the content of this book. They are, despite its clear flaws charging 50+ euro.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37345-9

New comment by gammalost in "For the Love of God, Make Your Own Website"

gammalost — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:03:04 +0000

I think it is just a question of community. Sure, you can make your own website, but people will (most likely) not read it. So what is the point? Some do it for the love of writing, but that is a niche at best.

On social media, you just comment on someone's post and (if spicy enough take) the comments will come.

New comment by gammalost in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

gammalost — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:02:33 +0000

Well, isn't that a summary of most things? Most things worth learning are hard, but many things not worth learning are also hard. So we have to prioritize what hard things are worth learning. Math is low on the list for many people for (I think) understandable reasons.