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New comment by nsvd2 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

nsvd2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:14:59 +0000

In fact, being able to "play the game" so to speak is probably part of what the interviewer is looking for.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

nsvd2 — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:01:58 +0000

I've always been interested in Fossil, especially how they handle all the things in a project that aren't strictly code but still need to be tracked.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Claude for Legal"

nsvd2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:40:54 +0000

It's pretty clear to me that these systems have a massive potential for intelligence agencies as people move more and more of their internal thought process to an external tool.

And, of course, intelligence agencies are good at realizing potential.

New comment by nsvd2 in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

nsvd2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:30:02 +0000

I think Arch is a great general purpose distribution because it doesn't try to hide anything from the user - all the details are right out in the open. That and excellent community documentation.

New comment by nsvd2 in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

nsvd2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:25:19 +0000

I usually find the exact opposite, where for Windows I can sometimes find a few SEO optimized pages with vague instructions, but for Linux I'm much more likely to hit a wiki or forum with in-depth technical information to solve my problem.

New comment by nsvd2 in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

nsvd2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:23:00 +0000

Strongly agree, and this makes Linux head and shoulders above Windows for everyday computing now. Because it's more text-native than Windows and in-depth technical documentation is more easily available, AI agents are simply more capable on Linux.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

nsvd2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:06:29 +0000

Spyware wouldn't help at all because you could just put the AI between the computer and the monitor, for example, or use a VM.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Claude for Small Business"

nsvd2 — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:51:32 +0000

The short answer is that presumably people are willing to pay for it

New comment by nsvd2 in "US sells 30-year bonds at 5% yield for first time since 2007"

nsvd2 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:49:26 +0000

Well, yes, but that's another way of saying the same thing. If the US can't pay and is forced to devalue their currency, thus tanking the value of your investment, you lose money. Therefore, the likelihood of this drives interest rates up.

New comment by nsvd2 in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

nsvd2 — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:01:39 +0000

There are bleeding edge and rolling release distributions. Debian is simply not that and has no desire to be.

New comment by nsvd2 in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

nsvd2 — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:43:13 +0000

FWIW I'm in the US and I bought mine. Renting does seem to make more sense here as the gown has no utility outside of this one event.

New comment by nsvd2 in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

nsvd2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:34:31 +0000

This is an old joke, but as AI becomes more and more capable it becomes increasingly likely that the government will have some kind of intelligence sifting though every post you make and message you send.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

nsvd2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:20:31 +0000

Assuming you're talking about Taalas, they have a live demo for inference on their HC1 chip.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

nsvd2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:12:17 +0000

I run Gemma locally on a 3090, it's amazing how useful it is to be able to call out to ollama in a bash script or cron job.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

nsvd2 — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:05:09 +0000

I think it obviously will, what would be the benefit to spinning up more than one copy?

New comment by nsvd2 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

nsvd2 — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:47:47 +0000

If they do that, they lose market share to their competitors, which kills their ability to raise investor capital, which kills the company, because they are almost entirely funded by investor capital.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Laws of UX"

nsvd2 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:49:41 +0000

Seems like this is not a connection of laws but a glossary of terms.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Brent Crude hits $119.56/barrel peak today"

nsvd2 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:05:38 +0000

They're saying that SPY is up 12% over the past month despite the Iran war. The stock market is not the economy.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

nsvd2 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:28:46 +0000

Why so? It seems both things are true.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Wife Acceptance Factor"

nsvd2 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:27:11 +0000

I prefer his comment to yours, does that mean new accounts should be weighted higher for me and lower for you?