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New comment by kar1181 in "Codex for almost everything"

kar1181 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:14:36 +0000

This is true. But Anthropic did us dirty most recently and so it’s their turn on the pitch fork. Sam will do us too. Just not yet.

New comment by kar1181 in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

kar1181 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:10:38 +0000

Anthropic want you to use claude code cli badly and are prepared to be very generous if you do. People want to take that generosity without the reciprocity.

I don't normally like to come down on the side of the megabigcorp but in this case anthropic aren't being evil. Not yet anyway.

New comment by kar1181 in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

kar1181 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:18:49 +0000

Agreed, though being OS is no panacea as we have seen from countless other projects, but it does mitigate some concern of investing in an editor and its ecosystem and getting rugpulled.

New comment by kar1181 in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

kar1181 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:11:28 +0000

This is it, in terms of pure text editing zed is the best GUI land editor I've used.

Not quite there with emacs/vim but it's a much more accessible environment and more convenient for typical workloads.

New comment by kar1181 in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

kar1181 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:02:40 +0000

Also love Zed, but sigh, it's VC funded. We all know how this is going to end. Best VIM mode ever implemented in a (non vim) app. I use it as my 2nd editor (most of the time in Jetbrains products).

I just hope I'm wrong about the medium term impact of the VC funding but rushing AI AI AI out seems to be a sign of that rather than fixing fundamental issues that remain such as the ugly font rendering.

New comment by kar1181 in "Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth"

kar1181 — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:03:18 +0000

I feel like the voyager spacecraft are a part of me, growing up in the 80s marvelling at all the images they sent back it was a magical time. The idea of voyager going dark feels like losing a part of myself.

It's proven to be a hardy spacecraft and has defied a lot of seemingly terminal problems before, fingers crossed she can overcome this one too.

God speed Voyager.

New comment by kar1181 in "The pro-Israel information war"

kar1181 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:15:34 +0000

One of things I struggle with is on certain issues like Ukraine and Israel libertarian folks I normally (largely) agree with seem to hold inexplicable views which seem to border on religious rather than practical. It makes me then wonder about everything else how can the two topics seemingly have different grades of reason versus so much of everything else.

New comment by kar1181 in "Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]"

kar1181 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:31:41 +0000

Clanpnp/ftb myself. Still remember some of the server IPs by muscle memory.

New comment by kar1181 in "Half-Life: 25th Anniversary Documentary [video]"

kar1181 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 16:19:03 +0000

I was heavily involved with the australian team fortress (quake 1 version) community in the late 90s and 'bro' (Robin Walker) and John Cook were gods to us, regularly involved in the RMIT/Melbourne Lan scene and online even when back then mostly it was 28.8/33.6k modems with a few LPBS on East coast uni isdns.

The struggle for them to move on from qwtf to 'tf2' was probably for the best as a lot of the lessons they learned in the wilderness there helped when they were taken on by value and worked on HL2.

Also find it somewhat amusing was that TF2 was originally going to be a much more 'realistic' modern miltary shooter before the scope creep killed it.

New comment by kar1181 in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

kar1181 — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 10:55:51 +0000

Sounds like Apple / Xerox all over.

New comment by kar1181 in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

kar1181 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:05:09 +0000

Intel ride or die here. My 2019 i9 mbp is trucking along still - and this time of year the heat helps keep the room hospitable.

Was looking towards M3 for a big leap, but apart from heat and power (I use my MBP plugged in 95% of the time) there still isn't that compelling a reason to deal with some of the issues (thunderbolt / multiple displays) for my use case.

At 4 grand (sterling!) for comparable spec to my intel mbp, I just can't bring myself to take a plunge.

New comment by kar1181 in "Labelling soya foods as ultra-processed is unhelpful"

kar1181 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:09:29 +0000

We did move out of the US and funnily enough food (bread especially - we lived in the south) was part of the reason. However since our return to the UK the over processing of what were simple foods has occurred also. It seems to have dramatically accelerated post pandemic/brexit. We eventually moved somewhere where there’s a traditional baker walking distance away but if we have to go to a supermarket Sainsbury’s carry just two specialty brands soy free now the major brands hocks and warburtons and Sainsbury’s own branded bread all have soya flour.

I think in breads case it does improve the softness and protein content but it’s really unnecessary and mainly in there as it shaves cost.

New comment by kar1181 in "Labelling soya foods as ultra-processed is unhelpful"

kar1181 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 11:20:02 +0000

Ultra processed is the end result of mckinsification of our food chain.

New comment by kar1181 in "Labelling soya foods as ultra-processed is unhelpful"

kar1181 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 11:18:13 +0000

My son is allergic to soya - that was a catalyst for us looking into the supply chain of what we buy and eat and if there is one profound change above all is the fact soy is in -everything- and if not in the product itself then certain in the bulk of the food stuffs own food chain.

Can’t even buy bread now without it being bulked out with soya flour …

New comment by kar1181 in "Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year"

kar1181 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:20:54 +0000

More pertinently than that, it's a quick win for a kids show, ads when young kids are involved increase friction so much it's not worth it.

New comment by kar1181 in "Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year"

kar1181 — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:18:12 +0000

Just waiting for spotify to do it too.

New comment by kar1181 in "Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules"

kar1181 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:20:58 +0000

I recently read ultraprocessed people and while it's a bit hyperbolic it's still eye-opening about the state of the packaged food business.

My son is allergic to Soya, Nuts, Eggs, Dairy and since he started eating solids we've have to label check everything and in doing so as a family we've basically stopped eating packaged foods alltogether. Do you know just how hard it is to avoid Soy now, it and it's derivatives are in pretty much everything, and even if it's not a raw ingredient it's in the bulk of the 'supply chain'.

I think when we look back in 20 years the packaged foods business is going to look at lot like the tobacco one does today...

New comment by kar1181 in "Modern Computer Architecture and Organization - Second Edition (2022)"

kar1181 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 11:13:37 +0000

I was about to ask the same question - basically the Packt books I have read have been (almost) universally poor quality.

It's been a long while since I've bothered with them so hoping that's changed somewhat.

New comment by kar1181 in "Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)"

kar1181 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:52:01 +0000

I started on RedHat and it has a special place in my heart - even now they still host the original distributions I cut my unix teeth on all the way back.

But sadly times change. Get it, they want to make money, but doesn't change the sadness these recent moves have caused.

New comment by kar1181 in "The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition"

kar1181 — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:31:48 +0000

One of the first utilities I had to get to grips with way back was awk, and it serves me well to this day. Best bang for buck investment of time in my entire career. Even today I still use some variant of awk -F(x) '{print $x}'.