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New comment by nasmorn in "iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life"

nasmorn — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:18:49 +0000

But they do.

New comment by nasmorn in "I’m joining OpenAI"

nasmorn — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:03:14 +0000

What he built is genuinely interesting even if it is not something I would want to give all my credentials to. Makes sense for OpenAI to hire someone who has shown he can build something a lot of people want even they don’t know how to make an even half secure app out of it. They probably think he has the right judgement of where UX would need to move to. That is easily more valuable for them than any coding.

New comment by nasmorn in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

nasmorn — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:58:43 +0000

Only the still meek vibe code payments, the truly brave simply install the Stripe MCP directly in their on site chat window

New comment by nasmorn in "We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf]"

nasmorn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:45:02 +0000

But are they? A Berlin startup was paying this average salary to the Indian/Pakistani devs they sponsored and fully expected to jump ship in the next 12 months. Why would they not pay 70k-75k and have your pick in the upper half of the domestic market.

New comment by nasmorn in "We asked 15k European devs about jobs, salaries, and AI [pdf]"

nasmorn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:42:27 +0000

It basically paints 80k/y as the top 10% of senior salary in Germany and I don’t know anyone good working for less. While I only have anecdata this seems way out of touch with what I understand companies expect to pay for their talent

New comment by nasmorn in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

nasmorn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:21:49 +0000

OTOH I could see my loved ones an extra 20h a week that I now use my phone. I am not sure they gonna say something vastly more interesting in this hypothetical scenario

New comment by nasmorn in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

nasmorn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:34:10 +0000

I am not a native speaker but how does your wife name the caulk in the shower? Silicone? Or do you maintain it in such pristine condition that no word was ever spoken about it?

New comment by nasmorn in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

nasmorn — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:14:45 +0000

In terms of NOX it can be a factor of 100. If 1% drive without cats they produce half the NOX emissions. In reality it is probably less since there are other old cars as well that have higher emissions

New comment by nasmorn in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

nasmorn — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:04:06 +0000

I literally inherited a dev once that was so bad we vastly improved velocity once he left. Every couple of months we fixed a weird bug in the code he wrote and laughed about it. The middle manager loved him because we was very eager to work and always around

New comment by nasmorn in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

nasmorn — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:49:40 +0000

You could also give people an additional unpaid day off if they ask for it. The good thing about bereavement days is that people don’t tend to abuse the policy much given they would have to kill someone first. Dead grannies are only allowed to make you sad for 72 hours sharp, is a bit of a harsh rule if executed without leeway

New comment by nasmorn in "The cleaner: One woman’s mission to help Britain’s hoarders"

nasmorn — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:54:54 +0000

I travelled for 3 months out of a backpack with my wife and then 10 months old daughter. Needing to carry all your stuff necessitated a brutal prioritization. The strongest emotion on coming back to my really not all that full apartment was being overwhelmed with all the stuff. It has just become worse with my now two children growing up. My dream as an an empty nester is to emphasize the empty part.

New comment by nasmorn in "Colorectal cancer is now the top cause of cancer death in younger people"

nasmorn — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:20:24 +0000

I started eating Brian Johnson’s superveggie about 4 times a week (it is about a pound of Brokkoli and cauliflower plus lentils and mushrooms) and can only say that my digestions thrives on it after a few days. So at least in my gut something needs to change so it can deal with the huge amount of dietary fiber but once it is settled it makes me feel much better overall

New comment by nasmorn in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

nasmorn — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:34:31 +0000

They are already building such plants. So I would assume they have a plan

But here is a paper - only the title is German the main part is English https://pure.unileoben.ac.at/files/1851525/AC06514880n01vt.p...

New comment by nasmorn in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

nasmorn — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:34:50 +0000

Sir, I agree with moralestapia. Not a singular one of the 20 lakh lines in the PR were written by ChaiGPT.

New comment by nasmorn in "Electricity use of AI coding agents"

nasmorn — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:58:41 +0000

It also means I could offset my Claude usage with a single solar panel which costs basically nothing. A battery as well if I wanna code late

New comment by nasmorn in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

nasmorn — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:34:29 +0000

This is what the supply curve describes. For each individual producer there is a hard cutoff but in aggregate these are a curve

New comment by nasmorn in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

nasmorn — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:48:02 +0000

No high paid manager wants to learn that their visionary thinking was just the last iteration of the underpants gnome meme. Some things sound good at first but unfortunately are not that easy to actually do

New comment by nasmorn in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

nasmorn — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:30:07 +0000

But if you repower the wind mill, the foundation can serve for the next turbine

New comment by nasmorn in "What life is like in Minneapolis now"

nasmorn — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:40:32 +0000

As an Austrian citizen I unfortunately have to tell you that the existence of masked agents in unmarked vehicles is very bad news. The last time we had this they were called Geheime Staatspolizei and we now have a memorial at the location of their head quarters in Vienna. I am not usually someone trying to manifest Godwins law but this is straight out of the facist playbook. Another super worrying fact for me as a European is that the late Dick Cheney was so worried about American democracy and he always looked like Darth Vader to me from across the pond. Suddenly we are on one side, didn’t have that on my bingo card.

New comment by nasmorn in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

nasmorn — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:29:07 +0000

So what I take away is that he is using approx 3x electricity, that I do and that is including my electric car. I use an additional 5-7MWh of heat but on a heat pump that would still only be a max of 2MWh which doesn’t even bring me to half of his usage, for a family of 4.