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New comment by lmm in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

lmm — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:16:29 +0000

It has other uses. But the point is that saying "we" when one is not, in fact, a sovereign, is extremely pretentious.

New comment by lmm in "Taste Is All That's Left"

lmm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:43:07 +0000

> I literally can't imagine generating a script with an LLM without testing it at all.

Then you're extremely unimaginative as well as unusually fastidious.

Certainly someone - several someones - are generating lots of scripts and not testing them, given the PRs I'm seeing.

New comment by lmm in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

lmm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:37:53 +0000

Talking about the "royal we" is a correct, established (if somewhat sarcastic) way to complain about this kind of usage. It highlights the presumptiveness of the author in their use of "we".

New comment by lmm in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

lmm — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:06:52 +0000

No, that is exactly GP's complaint. Their whole point is that OP has written things like "we throw everything at a model and hope it gives us what we imagined, without ever having to understand how any of it actually works" when the honest statement would be "I throw everything at a model and hope it gives me what I imagined, without ever having to understand how any of it actually works".

New comment by lmm in "MPs demand answers on Fujitsu's inclusion in lucrative frameworks"

lmm — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:38:12 +0000

> IT projects that cost billions are incomprehensible to me, outside of frontier work

Getting a large bureaucracy to agree on a question where any answer will disadvantage some members of it is frontier work. No-one has a good general solution. Very few people even have approximate solutions for a few special cases.

> is there no space in the market for a good software consultancy? Or are they just outcompeted for getting the contract?

You can't grow big enough to bid on these big projects and stay good.

New comment by lmm in "Codex Security"

lmm — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:39:05 +0000

> Credit card entry, I think you should know a few basics like don't put it in MongoDB?? Or nah? It's just like any other user data?

> How about a background check - can anyone take a user-entered DL and randomly Google stuff to see what they find?

> Can I store your SSN in plain text in a text file? Why not?

You wouldn't be touching any of those unless you work for a handful of providers where that's their whole business. Usually you add the dependency, use their widget, and that's it.

New comment by lmm in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

lmm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:55:35 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorylessness

New comment by lmm in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

lmm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:54:21 +0000

> It’s a contract

Many kinds of contracts are illegal, including those that are anticompetitive in certain ways.

> Should I be allowed to pay a landscaper less if I agree to not do part of the work myself?

No?

New comment by lmm in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

lmm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:29:52 +0000

Trade ins are fine. A contractual commitment to not buy hardware sounds like illegal restraint of trade.

New comment by lmm in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

lmm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:28:02 +0000

What are these orgs that have unused meeting rooms? Everywhere I've ever worked has had a chronic meeting room shortage.

New comment by lmm in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

lmm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:25:42 +0000

Most hardware has an exponential (memoryless) failure distribution in practice. The bathtub curve is a myth.

New comment by lmm in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

lmm — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:46:17 +0000

That's been a common claim, but I don't think I've seen anyone provide actual evidence.

New comment by lmm in "Shinjuku Station in 3D"

lmm — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:13:14 +0000

Shinjuku isn't the worst - it's big, but every part of it has its own distinct feel, you never get confused about where you are. I actually think Ikebukuro is the worst - there are too many places where you can rotate 180 degrees, or move up or down a floor, and find yourself looking at an exactly identical scene.

New comment by lmm in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

lmm — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:40:04 +0000

> why the hell does a TUI need to run in terminal React by way of JavaScript

Because React is the only UI framework that takes the problem seriously. Everything else is stuck in the dark ages.

How HN gets this so badly backwards I'll never understand. Everyone on this site talks a big game about "there shouldn't be so many competing tech stacks, why can't everyone work together on one framework that does things right", and then as soon as that framework actually appears this site hates it more than anything.

New comment by lmm in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

lmm — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:01:42 +0000

> I think it's profoundly uncool to love your country in many parts of Europe—think the UK and especially Germany.

I think that's because you're focusing on outward displays in exactly the way GP was talking about. It's profoundly uncool to be a flag-shagger, but Brits do very much love their country deep down, in the ways that really matter.

New comment by lmm in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

lmm — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:19:41 +0000

Shimano is famously a company that people in about four seemingly random/unrelated fields/hobbies think of as a specialist brand in that hobby (e.g. fishing).

(They are or at least were originally a bearings company, specialising in things that need to spin with very low friction, and all their seemingly unrelated businesses started from that)

New comment by lmm in "Count Binface"

lmm — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:07:15 +0000

I don't know what specifically is wrong with the US-centric numbers you are citing, but I know they don't match the lived reality of the UK, which compares favourably with not only Mississippi but with the US as a whole.

New comment by lmm in "Count Binface"

lmm — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:05:05 +0000

Presumably because he thinks (rightly or wrongly) that the one is damaging his reputation while the other is not.

New comment by lmm in "Half-Baked Product"

lmm — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:49:50 +0000

If there was enough soap residue to matter you'd notice the taste.

New comment by lmm in "This is my attempt to get Vulkan going on NetBSD"

lmm — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:47:11 +0000

Imagine using an ftp program to transfer files.