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New comment by indemnity in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

indemnity — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:27:44 +0000

Try mentioning AI in a remotely positive light on Mastodon, e.g. just as a side comment about how it let you finally finish a side project or something cool, and you’ll get a wave of neckbeards swarm in to tell you they are blocking you, you are a bad person, killing the earth, fascist supporter, etc.

Very strange, but I’ve seen the same folks dog pile in for other causes, so I guess it’s just a part of the identity now.

New comment by indemnity in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

indemnity — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:34:57 +0000

I know macOS is not considered a gamer platform, but I appreciate enough that he built for macOS too that I purchased a copy!

(Speaking as someone who also owns a Windows 11 RTX 4090/9950X3D gaming monster… sometimes I like gaming on my MBP!)

New comment by indemnity in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

indemnity — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:02:36 +0000

I run nixOS as well on my home infrastructure (gateway/firewall, a couple of internal servers).

But I have had, uh, non-trivial breakages happen also when I upgrade the system itself to the next yearly release. Non-bootable kernel kind of breakages.

But I will give you that I can just boot from the generation before the upgrade, and it works again. So there's that :)

New comment by indemnity in "Ask HN: Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?"

indemnity — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:42:12 +0000

I use Xcode, but just to run the app with Command-R so I can see log messages or stack traces if I need to drop it into the agent for analysis. Everything else is done by Claude Code / Codex.

I even read the source using Zed not Xcode :)

New comment by indemnity in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"

indemnity — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:42:01 +0000

The apparent quality of our pull request messages and documentation is sky high (at least from a language and grammar perspective), but I do miss the days of hand crafted prose, it was easier to tell the low effort crap from the gold.

New comment by indemnity in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

indemnity — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:31:45 +0000

This is super hard for me as well.

I know that a part of why I did so well in programming was being forced to think about what to do and how things worked for so long, and it gave me a lot of stamina to brute force my way through problems.

But these days, I'll admit even I reach for an LLM more often than not, and I can feel my mental muscle memory atrophy.

I don't know how to give my son the same experience (currently at age 8, he still does not have any of his own devices, and has highly restricted access to the iPad).

But still...

New comment by indemnity in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

indemnity — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:59:14 +0000

I grew up in a similar environment, similar trajectory, but in Africa.

Dad was a teacher in a rural school, mum stayed at home.

Until I went to school I would stay outside all day with my friends, playing in and around the rivers and dams, making our own fun with abandoned cars and rusted out farming equipment.

Our school had one computer, and I was lucky enough to get to use it after hours from time to time.

I would study the manual from front to back so I could optimise my time while on the computer.

Practiced typing on a typewriter to type in code listings faster later (aging myself here ;)

Today I build AI agents and infrastructure to run them for a hyperscaler, and my car drives me around. Feels like another lifetime ago.

New comment by indemnity in "AirPods Max 2"

indemnity — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:05:20 +0000

Yeah, no joke. For bald people like myself these headphones are unusable once the mesh stretches enough that the metal bands touch your skull.

I could go 30 minutes before the discomfort made me have to take it off.

No such issue with the WH-1000XM6, I can wear it the entire day.

New comment by indemnity in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

indemnity — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:12:25 +0000

This is 100% already happening. No need to worry about licensing or dependencies any more, just have the LLM launder it into a plausibly different structure!

New comment by indemnity in "China Suspected in Breach of FBI Surveillance Network"

indemnity — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:36:53 +0000

There would also be no way China would admit to any breaches.

New comment by indemnity in "iPhone 17e"

indemnity — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:29:19 +0000

I had an Air with the same camera system as the 17e, I believe.

Coming from a 15 Pro Max, it was perfectly serviceable if you were happy with the limited zoom options and lack of wide angle shots.

I never realized how much I used those two features, so, regrettably had to go back to the chunky 17 Pro Max.

Maybe one day…

New comment by indemnity in "Escaping flatland: career advice for CS undergrads"

indemnity — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:03:05 +0000

This is an insanely privileged post.

“Advice for my fellow Ivy/top 10 grads”, is more accurate.

Mate, no matter what you do, you will have at a minimum an upper middle class life and a good chance of moving in circles where opportunities frequently present themselves.

This isn’t envy, everyone has the cards they are dealt. But damn, I can’t relate to anything in this post, it reads like instructions to min/max your already great situation!

New comment by indemnity in "Jetbrains released skills for Claude Code to write modern Go code"

indemnity — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:14:46 +0000

You can also add golangci-lint with the modernize linter and tell Claude in CLAUDE.md to run it on every code change as an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.

Won’t stop Claude from writing “old” style, but it will fix the lint errors.

New comment by indemnity in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

indemnity — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:46:24 +0000

Whenever I fly to Europe (from New Zealand), I always go via Singapore, I just zip through, everything is convenient and clean.

Transiting through the American shitshow that requires clearing immigration again on the other hand…

New comment by indemnity in "European Tech Alternatives"

indemnity — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:54:26 +0000

> That assumes LLMs are relevant and will be around a year from now. Let’s not forget NFTs.

These two things are not alike. At all.

New comment by indemnity in "I’m joining OpenAI"

indemnity — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:03:12 +0000

His PDF toolkit was pretty solid and high quality if you were in the iOS space.

He’s not just a “vibe coder”.

New comment by indemnity in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

indemnity — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:19:40 +0000

In the age of LLMs I think we are going to see a Cambrian explosion of software.

Me personally, I’m writing tools for myself wouldn’t have bothered with before due the the time investment needed.

New comment by indemnity in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

indemnity — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:52:09 +0000

Do you feel that a terminal UX will remain your long term interface for Claude Code? Or would you consider a native interface like Codex has built?

New comment by indemnity in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

indemnity — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:36:57 +0000

What hardware? Up until a recent BIOS update my X870 board 9950X3D spent 3 minutes of a cold boot training the RAM… then booting up the OS in 4-8 seconds, so my Mac would always win these comparisons. Now it still takes a while at first boot, but subsequent reboots are snappy.

New comment by indemnity in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

indemnity — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:32:19 +0000

You’re still looking at the multi core score, you want this one:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

Where the M5 (non-pro, the one that will be in the next MacBook Air) is on top.

When the M5 multicore scores arrive, the multi-core charts will be interesting.