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New comment by phinnaeus in "Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)"

phinnaeus — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:56:25 +0000

They’re flat earthers, they either have no explanation or a completely bogus explanation. Certainly don’t look for any semblance of reason. They just invent whatever to try and feel like they have some secret knowledge.

New comment by phinnaeus in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

phinnaeus — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:36:10 +0000

The biggest benefit of the passport-style foldable is it might actually fit in your hand. Modern phones haven’t been ergonomic since the iPhone 13 Mini.

New comment by phinnaeus in "Waymo in Dallas"

phinnaeus — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:32:02 +0000

Seattleite is fine, it is close to satellite

New comment by phinnaeus in "Waymo in Dallas"

phinnaeus — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:28:56 +0000

> a magnitude of order

unless I'm missing something, you meant "order of magnitude"

New comment by phinnaeus in "GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement"

phinnaeus — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:49:32 +0000

Yeah seems like six of one, half a dozen of another. GitHub’s downtime blocks devs

New comment by phinnaeus in "GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement"

phinnaeus — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:30:03 +0000

I might have moved off for self righteousness but my company might be more interested in moving off because their reliability is absolutely garbage

New comment by phinnaeus in "The End of an Era"

phinnaeus — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:17:47 +0000

Nitpick, Silo is the name of the adaptation, the books are WOOL, SHIFT, and DUST

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

phinnaeus — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:02:40 +0000

> I'm a developer

Then you must know that the hardest part of software development is getting clear requirements...

> everyone on this planet could create a software for themselves exactly as how they wanted

Even with perfect AGI this will never happen because people will never be able to express clear requirements

New comment by phinnaeus in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

phinnaeus — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:12:56 +0000

Welp, it’s inevitable. Pack it up. No point trying to improve things

New comment by phinnaeus in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

phinnaeus — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:54:17 +0000

> I can't imagine that's many people

Well, I don't know how many people it is but I certainly haven't bothered to use it except once or twice. What's the point in getting used to it as a daily driver when it won't be available in perpetuity?

But in any event, you're still right that it won't affect those of us in that camp.

New comment by phinnaeus in "The AirPods Effect"

phinnaeus — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:28:52 +0000

2017 Zero SR

New comment by phinnaeus in "The AirPods Effect"

phinnaeus — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:39:37 +0000

Fully agree that its dumb but even on my electric motorcycle at sub-highway speeds, the wind noise was the only thing I could hear.

New comment by phinnaeus in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

phinnaeus — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:39:12 +0000

package-lock.json shows all your transitive dependencies, package.json just shows your direct dependencies. It is simply not true that the latter is "the real human-readable version". They serve different purposes and it is dangerous to say you can always ignore the diff in your lock file.

New comment by phinnaeus in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

phinnaeus — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:10:31 +0000

Legitimately not sure if serious

New comment by phinnaeus in "macOS Container Machines"

phinnaeus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:42:26 +0000

Yes, thank you iOS autocorrect.

New comment by phinnaeus in "macOS Container Machines"

phinnaeus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:28:59 +0000

Postman Desktop too

New comment by phinnaeus in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

phinnaeus — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:27:23 +0000

I remember playing with my parent's VW key fob as a fidget toy in the 00s. Little spring loaded switchblade style mechanical key.

New comment by phinnaeus in "If I Could Make My Own GitHub"

phinnaeus — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:06:10 +0000

A remote execution cluster and CAS for build artifacts is a good way to avoid duplicate work on local vs CI, and avoid the problem of needing to trust local builds.

New comment by phinnaeus in "Simplest Hash Functions"

phinnaeus — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:13:08 +0000

Here is a hash function that does not have hash collisions:

  fn hash(data):
    return data

New comment by phinnaeus in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

phinnaeus — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:49:11 +0000

Why pick elixir specifically here? I’m using opus/sonnet via Claude code for a moderately complex personal project built on phoenix and have had a good experience