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New comment by lobofta in "Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role"

lobofta — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:27:54 +0000

I do the same. You work your way around the edges and get a genuinely good feel for the workflow while improving on it as you go.

New comment by lobofta in "Solving the 1+N Query Problem"

lobofta — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:15:20 +0000

As far as I understand Acadia gives you Acadia <-> Native class data sync, only just Haskell and Elm at the moment unfortunately.

I'd be willing to rewrite queries in some other language that transpiles to SQL if it allows me to do all the queries I want and gives me full compile time type support for db access in return.

The policies look interesting too by the way, but they don't solve a major IMO.

New comment by lobofta in "Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation"

lobofta — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:35:01 +0000

It is not only totally possible to be vegan, but it can be more healthy too. The Acadamy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the largest org for nutritionist and dieticians in the world, have a position paper out saying that a well planned diet is appropriate for all stages of life, including pregnancy. The NHS says the same thing. We even have vegan top athletes nowadays such as Djokovic and Hammilton. You can be vegan, so any justification you bring for violence against animals is for taste pleasure, habbit, culture and just generally not having evolved nor being up to date with the science.

New comment by lobofta in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"

lobofta — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:30:02 +0000

So let each build script define its own level of sandboxing and then users can determine whether they are okay with that level or not, e.g. `cargo build --sandbox-level=...`

New comment by lobofta in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

lobofta — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:12:19 +0000

Do you never get lonely? How do you deal with it?

New comment by lobofta in "OpenLogi"

lobofta — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:41:44 +0000

What kind of stuff do you do? I mean I wouldn't even know what to do with all this. Can someone clue me in?

New comment by lobofta in "Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga"

lobofta — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:52:33 +0000

Clamidia perhaps

New comment by lobofta in "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change"

lobofta — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:32:06 +0000

Voting with your wallet is like voting with your vote. It both works, but to an extent that will never be noticeable by you. You vote more often with your money than with your vote though. Don't buy into the nirvana fallacy nor be fatalistic. Be a responsible consumer and inform others on why they should vote wisely too.

New comment by lobofta in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

lobofta — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:48:27 +0000

So Signal then. It's donation based and works fine.

New comment by lobofta in "The Valley of Webhooks"

lobofta — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:46:22 +0000

I can't imagine any reasonable engineer thinking webhooks are a solved problem. Imagine how much time and effort those provider must spent to offer high quality webhooks, to then still get customers complaining about missing packets and such. Webhooks are an operational nightmare.

New comment by lobofta in "The Valley of Webhooks"

lobofta — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:39:06 +0000

You mean pull-oriented models are easier to reason about, right?

New comment by lobofta in "What happens if you put work into the second dimension?"

lobofta — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:58:05 +0000

What I like about Niri and hyprland is that I don't need to think about where windows open and about positioning them. This then looks very tiring, but I could be wrong. Would have to play with it.

New comment by lobofta in "Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark"

lobofta — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:48:36 +0000

Seconded. I always have a workspace on my NixOs where I can query an LLM to fix anything I don't like about my OS.

9 out 10 times it gets it right on the first shot and my OS is at that point slightly better for the rest of eternity (unless I stop running NixOs, which I don't see happening any time soon). About 2 years of these incremental changes, and some investments on my own part about what tools I really like, has made my OS an absolute joy and breeze to work with.

Nothing compares. It's like having a version of Omarchy, not build by some other dude to fit their world view, but for yourself that co-evolves with your own preferences and tools.

New comment by lobofta in "How to Exist"

lobofta — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:34:52 +0000

To me the title just read like: how to exist skillfully.

New comment by lobofta in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

lobofta — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:45:13 +0000

I needed this feature! Thank you

New comment by lobofta in "The Productivity Mirage"

lobofta — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:05:07 +0000

I don't think they force you to do that. Not trying to be pedantic, but you can also just wait for a single agent to finish its work.

Nowadays I often feel that that is a better spend of my time. Especially because it allows my mind to wonder about the next thing and what I could have missed. Before I was doing the context switching dance I felt I was going at 10x, but realized I was only perhaps going at 2x. Now I have severely reduced the number of threads, mostly to a single thread, and ask smaller questions. My sense is that I am probably now going at 2.5x but with my sanity restored and with a much firmer grasp of what is going on.

I also find myself coding more skeletons and letting an agent finish it, because I am again taking the time to think of the shape of the solution. The end result is better then when I allow the LLM to flail about in the codebase.

New comment by lobofta in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

lobofta — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:36:38 +0000

Or better yet Nushell

New comment by lobofta in "Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)"

lobofta — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:44:37 +0000

Everything that is present can not be changed in the current moment. It already is. Therefore accept everything that already is.

That is deeply compatible with using your energy to create a better world for yourself and others.

New comment by lobofta in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

lobofta — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:07:08 +0000

Nix is awesome and has not been part of any pendulum (or clock). It's complex enough that it allows you to build programs with it, but on such a simple core that for all intents and purposes it is a config language.

New comment by lobofta in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

lobofta — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:06:28 +0000

Switched to Nushell and I am not looking back. I don't see any major reason why we should keep dragging Bash into the twenty first century. Nushell is the first time I feel like I can write complex systems operations in a shell without having to spend either a ton of time in the docs or being at the mercy of an LLM. It is godsend.