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New comment by landtuna in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

landtuna — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:52:34 +0000

I was using GPT 5.5 for a bunch of work this morning. It's brilliant and efficient. I was also using GPT 5.4 mini. It gets the job done and works great for subtasks that 5.5 designs. Gemini 3.5 Flash is SUCH a Gemini. It seems to work okay, but its attitude is disgusting.

"Yes, your idea is excellent."

"How this works beautifully:"

"This is a fantastic development!"

"This is an exceptionally clean and robust architecture."

and then I point out what feels like an obvious flaw:

"You have pointed out an extremely critical and subtle issue. You are absolutely 100% correct."

I'm sad that I'll probably stop using 3.5 Flash because I just hate its personality.

New comment by landtuna in "Xiaomi releases MiMo-v2.5 Family weights with strong coding and agent benchmarks"

landtuna — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:10:13 +0000

Ugh, the slop. "That's not a benchmark row. That's a story."

New comment by landtuna in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

landtuna — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:26:56 +0000

If there's limited hardware but ample cash, it doesn't make sense to sell compute-intensive services to the public while you're still trying to push the frontier of capability.

New comment by landtuna in "GPT-5.4"

landtuna — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:34:31 +0000

5.3 Codex is $1.75/$14, and 5.4 is $2.50/$15.

New comment by landtuna in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

landtuna — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:41:05 +0000

Same. On the tip of main, at least, I can open the command palette and choose reset to bring it back to life. I set a keybinding for reset to skip the command palette.

New comment by landtuna in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

landtuna — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:18:11 +0000

I actually don't understand what I'm missing. I'm using two old monitors, a 27" at 2560x1440 and a 23.5" at 1920x1080 (in addition to my high DPI Framework 13 screen). How else can I get at least 4480 across (after scaling to a font size I can read - I'm 49) and still cover that many inches? My DPI right now is about 100, so to double that, wouldn't I need 8960 across 44 inches? I don't really want to pay $1500 for resolution my eyes are probably too old to notice.

New comment by landtuna in "Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign"

landtuna — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:29:15 +0000

This could be worse, too. With more machines being identical, the same security hole reliably shows up everywhere (albeit not necessarily at the same time). Sometimes the heterogeny impedes attackers.

New comment by landtuna in "How I'm using Helix editor"

landtuna — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:19:55 +0000

I switched to Helix 2 years ago after 28 years of emacs and didn't look back. My emacs config was huge, and I didn't enjoy all the tweaking I was doing to get LSPs to work the way I wanted. I had tried evil mode (and vile before that) without really getting comfortable. I think the Kakoune-style order clicked much better for me than vi descendants. Also, the multiple cursors in Helix work so much better than the equivalent emacs plug-ins. The only thing I really miss is tramp. I liked magit a lot, but jujutsu obsoleted that for me.

New comment by landtuna in "US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years"

landtuna — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:28:51 +0000

The US defense budget, as a percentage of GDP, has been cut a huge amount! https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ms.mil.xpnd.gd.zs?locat...

If you don't think it makes sense to scale it by GDP (though I do), then in real terms it has gone through cycles since 1965, with definite periods of decrease, even though the overall trend is upward: https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/edgraph.html

New comment by landtuna in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

landtuna — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:29:04 +0000

This sounds similar to Horton Hears a Who.

New comment by landtuna in "Bitwarden Authenticator"

landtuna — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:44:28 +0000

I think you can fix this with the setting "Click items to autofill on Vault view".

New comment by landtuna in "Bitwarden Authenticator"

landtuna — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:42:27 +0000

I think it's because Android very aggressively swaps out third-party background apps. https://dontkillmyapp.com/

New comment by landtuna in "People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research"

landtuna — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:45:34 +0000

I never understood why calories in == calories out was relevant when we can't know how many unprocessed calories are remaining undigested. Here's what the bots had to say: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/weight-loss-gurus-often-say...

(FYI - I stay thin by limiting calories, so I don't disagree that fewer calories causes weight loss)

New comment by landtuna in "Stimulation Clicker"

landtuna — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:05:59 +0000

I clicked once and closed the page because you can't tell me what to do (more than once).

New comment by landtuna in "Confusing Git Terminology"

landtuna — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 02:07:57 +0000

I've been using it for a month or two on top of my work git repos. It's great, but I have a few complaints. It doesn't support creating git tags, it doesn't support git submodules, and if you ever drop a big file in your working directory that isn't already git ignored, it will be absorbed into the "index repo." Despite that stuff, it's still a better experience than git.

New comment by landtuna in "Show HN: Use an old tablet as an extra monitor"

landtuna — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:39:17 +0000

I had a boss who was pretty excited about CueCat. It's funny that it took another 15 years to catch on as smartphones and QR codes!

New comment by landtuna in "Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?"

landtuna — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:56:30 +0000

I used it in a situation where replacing Python code with a C-implemented module was not efficient because there were too many small objects being marshaled in and out of PyObjects. PyPy let everything stay in Python-land and still run quickly.

New comment by landtuna in "You Need at Least $3M in Savings to Live Comfortably in Retirement"

landtuna — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:46:33 +0000

The online newsletter where you can answer the surveys is free. I sometimes participate in them.

New comment by landtuna in "You Need at Least $3M in Savings to Live Comfortably in Retirement"

landtuna — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:30:22 +0000

I get these "MLIV Pulse" surveys! No qualifications required - you just need to be on their "Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day" newsletter. (I quite like Joe Weisenthal's editorial that's usually, though not today, at the end, which is why I continue to read it.) The surveys are very basic - not more than a few questions. I would put about as much stock in their results as a Twitter poll.

New comment by landtuna in "My Many Girlfriends"

landtuna — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 12:30:11 +0000

I don't think someone in the 90s would describe someone else's tea as smelling like kombucha.