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New comment by jmspring in "Codex for almost everything"

jmspring — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:37:07 +0000

Microsoft 365 Copilot For Business? (which isn't real - but yeah, the naming is...)

New comment by jmspring in "Codex for almost everything"

jmspring — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:41:02 +0000

It’s marginally better than Microsoft naming things.

New comment by jmspring in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

jmspring — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:08:51 +0000

California now requires some parts of- like shotgun barrels to go through an ffl.

New comment by jmspring in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

jmspring — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:54:37 +0000

FreeBSD's development philosophy, it's aversion to design decisions like - we must allow systemd everywhere, stability, zfs and jails, consistent configuration (for decades) are all technical reasons I prefer it over Linux.

How about Ubuntu and snaps? License needed for certain security updates, etc.

New comment by jmspring in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

jmspring — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:10:47 +0000

But docker!

I've been using jails/etc and the pattern with way I setup and configure my FreeBSD servers hasn't significantly changed in 20 years.

New comment by jmspring in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

jmspring — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:51:11 +0000

CUDA gets into an area that I wouldn't use it for. My local LLM machine is running Void linux.

New comment by jmspring in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

jmspring — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:48:54 +0000

Stability and security. It's a great server OS and I've been using it for decades.

New comment by jmspring in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

jmspring — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:29:57 +0000

It also reveals how shallow the vetting YC does. This is both on delve and YC initially accepting them. There has been an acceleration of YC companies getting funding and a general decline in quality.

New comment by jmspring in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

jmspring — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:26:01 +0000

I worked in SF prior to the dotcom bust. Since I was commuting and made a day of when I had to be in the office. I took yoga with Larry Schultz - the yoga teach for the Grateful Dead, he had a studio near 4th and Brannon (I believe, memory foggy). He was great to listen to stories and learn from.

As mentioned in another post, I've been to SF Zen Center events both in practice and adjacent classes.

The tech scene now has become much more narcissistic than it was then. I didn't see the evolution as clearly as I did in Palo Alto while working there and in Mountain View.

I would not couple the tech scene with spiritual practices themselves. Judge the so called practicioners not the practice / practice instructors/organization.

New comment by jmspring in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

jmspring — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:54:15 +0000

I’m not digging into beliefs and the like. I’ve been to Tassajara Zen Center as well as Green Gulch. SF Zen Center is a treasure.

The meditation room and part of the library were impacted by a fire recently - https://www.lionsroar.com/tassajara-zen-mountain-centers-zen...

Tassajara in the Santa Lucia range (south of Carmel valley) can be a harsh environment.

New comment by jmspring in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

jmspring — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:48:54 +0000

I'm not completely sure I would call Apple the accessibility king. It's UI gets worse with each release. Modal dialogues with no keyboard options to make a choice in the window at times, etc.

New comment by jmspring in "Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)"

jmspring — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:28:23 +0000

I split a vs code window and a browser or a browser and terminal window on my 13" mb air. Usually need additional context on the same screen.

New comment by jmspring in "Tinybox – Offline AI device 120B parameters"

jmspring — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:17:55 +0000

Tinygrad devices are interesting, I wish I have screen captures - but their prices have gone up and some specs like RAM have gone down.

A single box with those specs without having to build/configure (the red and green) - I could see being useful if you had $ and not time to build/configure/etc yourself.

New comment by jmspring in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

jmspring — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:01:08 +0000

still GIL

New comment by jmspring in "Honda is killing its EVs"

jmspring — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:59:30 +0000

I have a 2016 Tacoma I bought in 2015. It has ~114k miles, so ~11k miles/year. Gas is 16-18gal/mi. It's paid off. There is no math, outside of major repairs (it's maintained regularly) where any Hybrid or EV makes sense for the next 10+ years. Maintenance ~ 250 a year; Tires ~12-1300 every 3 years (more due to age than wear). So - 11k/year w/ fuel at $5/gal and 16mi/gal - $3.4k in fuel, 600/year in maintenance and tires. So $4k/year in rough cost (excluding insurance). Still high, but I've lived in rural areas the last 10 years.

A new vehicle makes no sense. Unless I went a budget used Prius (with a good hybrid battery system). No plan to make changes.

New comment by jmspring in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

jmspring — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:44:49 +0000

Managed risk pools should not be for profit.

New comment by jmspring in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

jmspring — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:43:03 +0000

Twitter has the mass adoption, and it takes an effort to avoid bot/particular view bias - but as a valuable content source, it's a far cry from what it once was before Musk took it over.

New comment by jmspring in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

jmspring — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:46:38 +0000

"After outages due to outsourcing the economically convenient developers with no skin in what your building or care, company X requires all senior engineers to review all code from outsourcing company".

New comment by jmspring in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jmspring — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:06:36 +0000

It's still early, because I actually had some nice weather in the PNW, but looking at porting NanoClaw to use FreeBSD jails and ZFS snapshots. Why? I use linux because I have to - docker/docker images is what we are stuck with. For personal stuff - I prefer the BSDs.

New comment by jmspring in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

jmspring — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:12:30 +0000

Next up, after some sort of bribe, the administration opens up Qwen models to be used by the Pentagon.