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New comment by neilsimp1 in "Show HN: Pincer – Twitter/X for bots. No humans allowed"

neilsimp1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:04:35 +0000

Why does the world need this?

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

neilsimp1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:48:21 +0000

I agree with you, and I don't want anything related to the current AI craze in my life, at all.

But when I come on HN and see people posting about AI IDEs and vibe coding and everything, I'm led to believe that there are developers that like this sort of thing.

I cannot explain this.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: Could Microsoft replace its CEO with ChatGPT?"

neilsimp1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:23:59 +0000

Buy yachts

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: Could Microsoft replace its CEO with ChatGPT?"

neilsimp1 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:06:11 +0000

This might be a less popular opinion on a site like HN, but I'm of the opinion that CEO's don't do a whole lot.

Maybe at small startups they are more involved, but the larger the company, the less I think that CEOs or other C-Suite types actually do.

While I also think ChatGPT is over-hyped and largeley incorrect in what it says, I would answer your question with a "yes". ChatGPT is perfectly capable of writing/delivering speeches at MS Build or whatever.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: Python developers at big companies what is your setup?"

neilsimp1 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:57:41 +0000

I can't answer OP as I only write Python for personal use, not for a "big company".

That said, Neovim + basedpyright + pipenv works well for me.

A lot of people here are using uv and pyenv. Can anyone hint at why I might want to switch?

New comment by neilsimp1 in "AI Leaves Us Nowhere to Run"

neilsimp1 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:18:24 +0000

While I somewhat agree, I can't help but read the replies here as accounts created by OP to respond to themselves.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)"

neilsimp1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:07:52 +0000

Thank you, I did miss this.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)"

neilsimp1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:16:37 +0000

This is better than most phones on the market, but I can't help but be turned off when I scroll down and start seeing the Google Play logo and mentions about AI and Google Gemini.

Kind of defeats the purpose, no?

New comment by neilsimp1 in "What's your "coworker didn't lock screen" procedure?"

neilsimp1 — Wed, 28 May 2025 16:14:58 +0000

I've never worked in a place where this sort of thing would have been tolerated. In high school, sure. But not the workplace.

Sorry past me - I'm boring now.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: When will Wayland eclipse X?"

neilsimp1 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:03:11 +0000

Where is your source for 80-90% using X11?

My assumption would be that by now, it would be 80+% on Wayland.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?"

neilsimp1 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:32:13 +0000

Still using my Librem 5 (2 years in).

Still works.

Still like it.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

neilsimp1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:28:30 +0000

Yes, DDG for 95% of issues. Using an AI to search seems really, really, really dumb to me.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: Are You Vibe Coding?"

neilsimp1 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:28:46 +0000

Absolutely not. I enjoy my craft, why let something do it for me, and do it worse?

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: What's broken about the software side of car ownership?"

neilsimp1 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:53:17 +0000

It's on me.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: What's broken about the software side of car ownership?"

neilsimp1 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:22:41 +0000

If I get a car with an advanced computer, I expect to be able to install and run whatever software I want on it. Just like any other computer. If I can't, then I don't own the device.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: Should the Mozilla Foundation be forked?"

neilsimp1 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:43:58 +0000

You could maybe argue that it's a spiritual successor, but tech-stack wise, Firefox and Netscape are in their own family, and Brave is in the Chromium-based browser family.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "The practical (Unix) problems with .cache and its friends"

neilsimp1 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:31:26 +0000

Wow I disagree so much.

Use XDG dirs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#User_dir...

New comment by neilsimp1 in "VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas"

neilsimp1 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:00:47 +0000

> because everybody is using VSCode now

Are they though? I don't have numbers right now to back this up but last I remember, people were leaving VS Code, not moving to it.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "Ask HN: How does programming affect your emotional state?"

neilsimp1 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:08:29 +0000

If I spend a couple hours or more doing "deep work" writing code, I often find I need an hour or two of cool-down time before I can really have much in the way of emotions again.

New comment by neilsimp1 in "TwoSet Violin 'ends chapter' after eleven years"

neilsimp1 — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:40:43 +0000

These are truly sad days.