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New comment by ivirshup in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

ivirshup — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:36:26 +0000

People at my company have started writing docs specifically for claude. They're quite useful for me too, but kinda disappointing they never wrote these docs for their colleagues.

New comment by ivirshup in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

ivirshup — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:35:18 +0000

The issue is misrepresenting the situation.

One of those operations makes a row-major array, the other makes a col-major array. Downstream functions will have different performance based on which is passed.

New comment by ivirshup in "Prism"

ivirshup — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:33:05 +0000

I've heard that now that AI conferences are starting to check for hallucinated references, rejection rates are going up significantly. See also the Neurips hallucinated references kerfuffle [1]

[1]: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/26/machine-le...

New comment by ivirshup in "iPhone Pocket"

ivirshup — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:07:30 +0000

Since Steve's famous turtle neck was from Issey Miyake and he wanted everyone at Apple to wear an Issey Miyake vest as a uniform [1], I think he might have been into this. This is also the man who launched the iPod sock.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/10/1116769827/the-story-of-steve...

New comment by ivirshup in "iPhone Pocket"

ivirshup — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:54:46 +0000

Issey Miyake's "Pleats Please" line has always been made out of synthetics. It was an intentional choice due to the character of polyester as a fabric, like it's ability to hold the pleats while still being machine washable.

https://asufidmmuseum.asu.edu/learn/articles/issey-miyake-pl...

New comment by ivirshup in "Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office"

ivirshup — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:52:52 +0000

I think there are backup systems. I sometimes walk by the Cloudflare SF offices on weekends and it looks like the lava lamps are off.

New comment by ivirshup in "Suckless.org: software that sucks less"

ivirshup — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:58:54 +0000

Not defending them, the Hitler laptop thing seems bad, but within Germany torchwalks are pretty normal and not Nazi associated. For example, there was one as part of a ceremony honoring Merkel as she left office.

New comment by ivirshup in "Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore"

ivirshup — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:34:26 +0000

But the majority of Singaporeans live in public housing where rent is adjusted for income based via a grant system?

New comment by ivirshup in "Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience"

ivirshup — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:00:06 +0000

I don't think it makes money yet.

They've said the eventual plan is services [1].

[1]: https://astral.sh/blog/announcing-astral-the-company-behind-...

New comment by ivirshup in "Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience"

ivirshup — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:57:37 +0000

It parallelizes downloads and checking of the packages.

It also doesn't compile .py files to .pyc at install time by default, but that just defers the cost to first import.

New comment by ivirshup in "Rye: A Hassle-Free Python Experience"

ivirshup — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 19:41:58 +0000

> what has been the point of anaconda since binary wheels became a thing?

When you need python + R + some linked or CLI binary in an isolated environment. Also you will use the same tool to manage this environment across multiple OSs (e.g. no OS specific `apt`, `brew`, etc).

New comment by ivirshup in "Ticketmaster breach affects more than half a billion users"

ivirshup — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:57:14 +0000

Guess they shoulda spent some of those ticket fees on a security team.

New comment by ivirshup in "German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization"

ivirshup — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:43:58 +0000

I was thinking more about timescale.

If someone smokes a joint near your window, that smell will probably be gone in half an hour. If there is a plant that's just sitting there, it'll be more subtle, but it's not going anywhere.

That said – many people like the smell of Hopfentee (Hop tea), which is pretty similar.

New comment by ivirshup in "German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization"

ivirshup — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:24:19 +0000

Most Germans live in apartments, and rent. The growing and processing does produce strong odors, which a landlord/ neighbors may not approve of.

New comment by ivirshup in "Uv: Python packaging in Rust"

ivirshup — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:18:52 +0000

Even bigger now that their distribution is integrated in Excel[1]

[1]: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/announcing-python-in-excel-nex...

New comment by ivirshup in "Car insurance in America is too cheap"

ivirshup — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 10:09:53 +0000

From their demonstration videos, I don’t think Tesla has proven particularly adept at detecting pedestrians.

And I don’t know that they’ve shown this for pedestrians on the pedestrian path, at distance, at night.

New comment by ivirshup in "New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers"

ivirshup — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:19:14 +0000

I assume because it can be a little hard to navigate and doesn't have as polished a UI.

But also you can actually pick up a conversation from a month ago, so is infinitely better.

New comment by ivirshup in "No Man's Sky just keeps getting better"

ivirshup — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:43:59 +0000

That was my impression trying it this year

New comment by ivirshup in "Cthulhu.jl – show type-inferred Julia code"

ivirshup — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 22:10:47 +0000

Love this tool. Invaluable for figuring out what code actually got called after complicated dispatch.

New comment by ivirshup in "Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services"

ivirshup — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:58:30 +0000

Hey, that's not a fair assessment.

It would also dump greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.