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New comment by legulere in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

legulere — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:55:44 +0000

Like this? https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/vulcan-energy-achieves-drilli...

Economic viability depends on many things, lithium prices have been pretty volatile in the past, battery production in Europe as customers are just scaling up.

New comment by legulere in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

legulere — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:49:28 +0000

It’s not 100% of oil production capacity that is lost, but 20%. You need to cut demand by that, so electric cars can help extremely, because most oil is consumed during car use, not production.

New comment by legulere in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

legulere — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:27:34 +0000

> This isn't any different than the "person who wrote it already doesn't work here any more".

It is very different. With empathy you can often deduct why people wrote code the way they did. With LLMs there often is no reason.

New comment by legulere in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

legulere — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:00:52 +0000

I think you cannot take the step from any turing machine being representable as a neural network to say anything about the prowess of learned neural networks instead of specifically crafted ones.

I think a good example are calculations or counting letters: it's trivial to write turing machines doing that correctly, so you could create neural networks, that do just that. From LLM we know that they are bad at those tasks.

New comment by legulere in "Lazy JWT Key Rotation in .NET: Redis-Powered JWKS That Just Works"

legulere — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:23:02 +0000

Much simpler: just store session ids in Redis.

I skimmed over the previous articles in this blog and they don't seem to mention the one use case JWTs were made for: having a separate authentication server from the application server. Most developers will only need this for integrating into corporations with single sign in or social logins (sign in with Facebook/google/apple...). There you won't write the authentication server but integrate with them. Session Ids are dead simple to get right securely. Just use them.

New comment by legulere in "Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees"

legulere — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:09:33 +0000

That's the idea behind it. The reality is that patents are written in a way to reveal as few as possible while blocking other companies as much as possible.

New comment by legulere in "This time is different"

legulere — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:57:32 +0000

There's another perspective you can see in the comparison with the dot com boom. The web is here to stay, but a lot of ideas from the beginning didn't work out and a lot of companies turned bankrupt.

New comment by legulere in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

legulere — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:43:10 +0000

Did you try the new models that came out in the end of last year? -- It's not just progress it's a breakthrough. /s

New comment by legulere in "5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools"

legulere — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:18:47 +0000

The problem is that you get a vastly distorted picture because of different survivorship rates of artifacts. In the Stone Age people used mostly wood tools but stone tools didn’t rot away.

New comment by legulere in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

legulere — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:12:27 +0000

The exact numbers certainly would be different today, but you would probably still see the effect that there’s an overestimation of productivity

New comment by legulere in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

legulere — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:14:58 +0000

It’s a ISO-standard to use Gregorian dates even for dates predating its invention. If you need to support anything else (I never had to in my Eurocentric work so far), you’ll need to model calendars, similar to how temporal did for JavaScript: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/calendars.html

New comment by legulere in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

legulere — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:07:40 +0000

Genuinely curious: Are non-ascii characters also case-insensitive. With Unicode comes different case-sensitivity rules according to Unicode version and locale.

New comment by legulere in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

legulere — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:42:12 +0000

On the other hand talking about those believes can also lead to real changes. Slavery used to be seen widely a necessary evil, just like for instance war.

New comment by legulere in "What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)"

legulere — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:48:12 +0000

But there is: https://www.meziantou.net/inline-snapshot-testing-in-dotnet....

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

legulere — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:45:05 +0000

One of the outcomes of that study is that your own productivity estimate might not match up with reality.

New comment by legulere in "European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams"

legulere — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:31:53 +0000

I don't disagree with you that you need to have a singe cohesive design vision based on solving for users. But I think that certainly usability testing can lead to even better results and is mostly constrained by cost.

New comment by legulere in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

legulere — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:40:29 +0000

It is very impressive indeed, but impressiveness is not the same as usefulness. If important further features can’t get implemented anymore The usefulness is pretty limited. And usefulness further needs to be weighed against cost.

New comment by legulere in "European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams"

legulere — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:12:24 +0000

> UX is a problem that is almost immune to money

Usability testing seems like something where you can get better UX with a lot of money: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-testing-101/

New comment by legulere in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

legulere — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:01:36 +0000

I don't think that the user you are responding to is anti-innovation, but rather points out that the usefulness of AI is oversold.

I'm using Copilot for Visual Studio at work. It is useful for me to speed some typing up using the auto-complete. On the other hand in agentic mode it fails to follow simple basic orders, and needs hand-holding to run. This might not be the most bleeding-edge setup, but the discrepancy between how it's sold and how much it actually helps for me is very real.

New comment by legulere in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

legulere — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:53:57 +0000

If you're not in the respective fields it can be pretty difficult to distinguish good from bad research. I am not able to do so.

If you (or your close ones) don't suffer from depression, then I guess it's best to ignore it until scientific consensus has formed. That will for sure show up on wikipedia. As far as I can see as a layperson there is a lot of correlation with Vitamin D that breaks down in interventions and Vitamin D is recommended mostly for babies and elderly people. On the other hand I see Vitamin D pushed as a miracle drug not unlike Vitamin C used to some decades ago and regular reports of overdosing of supplements leading to organ failure.

If you're suffering from depression, you should talk to your doctor. They will be able to help you to weigh potential benefits with risks