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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.

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

indemnity — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:25:33 +0000

Don’t worry, my new M4 doesn’t feel much faster either due to all the corporate crapware. Since Windows Defender got ported to Mac it’s become terrible in I/O and overall responsiveness. Any file operations will consume an entire core or two on Defender processes.

My personal M1 feels just as fast as the work M4 due to this.

New comment by indemnity in "Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped"

indemnity — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 01:11:33 +0000

We’re thinking of sending our son to a highly ranked local private school who has a policy of not doing anything like this with tech.

Students are also not allowed personal devices while school is in session, and social media ban for under 16s is hopefully coming here too (New Zealand).

New comment by indemnity in "Claude Composer"

indemnity — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:51:13 +0000

AI music or AI-produced music sounds a bit boring and too-perfect, like auto-tune on steroids.

Needs significant human involvement to make it interesting.

How long that remains true is another question…

New comment by indemnity in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

indemnity — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:31:07 +0000

I had to go to Max, Pro is more like a taster.

At work tho we use Claude Code thru a proxy that uses the model hosted on AWS bedrock. It’s slower than consumer direct-to-Anthropic and you have to wait a bit for the latest models (Opus 4.5 took a while to get), but if our stats are to be believed it’s much much cheaper.

New comment by indemnity in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

indemnity — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:17:42 +0000

When really solid programmers who started skeptical (and even have a ban policy if PR submitters don’t disclose they used AI) now show how their workflows have been improved by AI agents, it may be worth trying to understand what they are doing and you are not.

https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey

My experience mirrors that of Mitchell. It absolutely is at the level now where AI can free up time to do the really interesting stuff.

New comment by indemnity in "GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster"

indemnity — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:47:08 +0000

Is there a plan like the $100 Claude Max? $200 for ChatGPT Pro is a little bit too much for me.

Whereas Claude Max 5x is enough that I don’t really run out with my usage patterns.