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New comment by n6242 in "Mistral Large 4"

n6242 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:57:23 +0000

We've also been hearing we're 6 months from AGI for about three years, and here we are.

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

New comment by n6242 in "I don't like passkeys"

n6242 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:57:42 +0000

I've seen Slack and Claude doing this among others, it's turned into one of my leading red flags for untrustworthyness.

New comment by n6242 in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

n6242 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:22:58 +0000

If anything, you're the one misinforming. I have no interest in soccer and every time there is a match I find out immediately because they like to knock down everything they see in the same general direction. I've even been in the situation of needing to do work for overseas companies in the evening and had to get on a VPN because they were just blocking random stuff and I couldn't install some dependency because the repository was blocked. Last time it happened was last week. My non technical friend was also complaining about some of her uni stuff being blocked recently as well. Maybe you're lucky because only use YouTube and Twitter and don't notice too many sites blocked, but the moment you go outside of big tech your chances are 50/50 you will probably come accross one or two blocked sites if you're not on a VPN.

New comment by n6242 in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

n6242 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:25:38 +0000

The changing header is really distracting when trying to read your blog. Then it followed me when I scrolled and I just gave up.

New comment by n6242 in "The session you cannot take with you"

n6242 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:03:18 +0000

It's the only reason I want to replace Tailscale with something else or look into self-host when have a bit of time during my vacation. They only allow login through a third party, which is a big no for me.

New comment by n6242 in "How old is Ann?"

n6242 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:23:42 +0000

I must be getting old as well because I had to write it down in a piece of paper to do it, but I did get it pretty quick.

New comment by n6242 in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

n6242 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:08:35 +0000

I've heard the meme that Omarchy is for people who would like to use Arch but don't want to read the documentation or follow the installation guide. Having a video and no text sounds like it would align with that target audience. If you want information and not a video you'd want to look at Arch instead, it has an excellent wiki and the best documentation of any OS I've ever used.

New comment by n6242 in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

n6242 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:24:03 +0000

I was just learning yesterday that's exactly what GTA did on PS2, which I thought was interesting. (Not to belittle your point, just giving an example)

New comment by n6242 in "OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court"

n6242 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:58:45 +0000

Exactly. Apple can register Apple because they don't sell apples so it's not misleading. OpenAI can't register OpenAI because they make ai but it's not open. They could call themselves Peaches, OpenWombat or ClosedAI and there wouldn't be any issues because those wouldn't be misleading.

New comment by n6242 in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

n6242 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:52:40 +0000

Well, there are 864 other train sim games on Steam right now, so there are quite a few others in existence.

New comment by n6242 in "Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition"

n6242 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:07:52 +0000

One mistake in non-fiction blog posts: not including a label or title for the pictures.

New comment by n6242 in "Knoppix"

n6242 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:26:25 +0000

I was a bit older but not by much. I used Knoppix to recover some data from my old Windows PC, great first contact with Linux.

New comment by n6242 in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

n6242 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:11:49 +0000

In a modest 25 people company you absolutely can just go and do this of your own initiative and it will be tolerated or encouraged. Any company that size where it's not possible will close in 18 months when it runs out of investor money without having accomplished anything. You should still mention you're doing it beforehand, though.

New comment by n6242 in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

n6242 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:42:51 +0000

Same with VISA/Mastercard deciding what we can/cannot buy. The only solution is to stop using their credit cards at all.

New comment by n6242 in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

n6242 — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:04:53 +0000

By that logic Windows would be the best operating system ever and perfect in every way, and anyone who disagrees must be wrong about how an OS should be.

New comment by n6242 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

n6242 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:11:36 +0000

> The football league would rather not have pirates livestream their ~90 minute games.

Funny enough, I work in IT and I've had to use a VPN to be able to do my job when soccer is on, but my two non-tech-savy family members that do watch soccer using pirate livestreams say that they've never had any issues with blocked streams.

New comment by n6242 in "The MacBook Neo"

n6242 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:48:28 +0000

It's last year's. I read a few weeks ago that they ditched the "Pro Premium" madness naming scheme and they're back to just XPS .

New comment by n6242 in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

n6242 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:41:03 +0000

> I think it is just us getting old.

I don't think it's that. I've used Linux since high school as well and use Mac occasionally and I get the same feeling that Mac is weird and nonsensical.

The reason I'm pretty sure it's something intrinsical to Mac and not age, is that is that I also use Windows now and then and while I don't like it and I have lots of complaints about it, I find Windows in general does make more sense to me then Mac. It's just crappy and clunky and closed, but it's generally pretty straightforward.

And I've had people tell me that since Mac is unix compliant it's very similar to Linux but I've never found that to be the case. Mac in general is obtuse, poorly documented, rarely configurable, and I always get the impression they like to do everything based on some weird sense of aesthetic that they've cultivated over the years that seems to work for people fully invested in the Apple ecosystem but just makes no sense to anybody else.

New comment by n6242 in "Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high"

n6242 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:06:01 +0000

thank you for clarifying, the grandparent comment made no sense

New comment by n6242 in "Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games"

n6242 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:26:00 +0000

To me at least, I liked Kingdom Hearts as a kid despite the Disney stuff, not thanks to it. I played it after Final Fantasy IX and X so I really enjoyed the change from turn-based combat.