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New comment by redditor98654 in "How to Write Better Git Commit Messages with AI"

redditor98654 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:06:26 +0000

In my experience, both Claude and codex are way too good these days that I don’t have to selectively create a prompt with just the right files. I just say something like “look at the current changes in the repo and generate a good commit message”. In most cases it does a good enough job that I only have to add some small specific details or take out something irrelevant.

Rarely do I have to prep a prompt like this nowadays.

New comment by redditor98654 in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

redditor98654 — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:50:29 +0000

I am curious, what kind of work do you use Claude for that sometimes requires hours of working. In my case, I have never seen it go off for more than 10 mins and even that is very rare.

New comment by redditor98654 in "High Performance Git"

redditor98654 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:31:12 +0000

I had the same thought. TBH there is nothing in those individual sentences that read like AI but when you read them all together I could see it too. I dunno what it is, only way I can describe it is that it does not sound like a normal human but rather a monologue from a character trying to sound impressive with each successive sentence.

New comment by redditor98654 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

redditor98654 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:21:48 +0000

Absolutely. What I had hoped was a proper 75% layout with proper full sized up and down arrow keys.

New comment by redditor98654 in "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)"

redditor98654 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:04:30 +0000

My introduction to Feynman was more from other science communicators either quoting him or retelling some story about him and initially it formed a mental picture in my mind that he might be one of those personalities more famous culturally than for his actual scientific achievements. Like how in sports often the more popular players may not be the actual “best” one purely from the sporting skills pov.

But then I read more about him and yeah, he is indeed the real deal.

New comment by redditor98654 in "Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?"

redditor98654 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:14:49 +0000

us-west-2 is indeed very large, but will still not be able to take a full failover from us-east-1

New comment by redditor98654 in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

redditor98654 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:13:14 +0000

Hi there, I was looking to get a NAS that I can just install and not have to worry about maintenance too much and senility was at the top of the list. If not synology what would you suggest?

New comment by redditor98654 in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

redditor98654 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:24:36 +0000

May be a “fast follow”? Right after launch of the “MVP”?

New comment by redditor98654 in "Java 25 officially released"

redditor98654 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:44:02 +0000

Do you use or have used MySQL in the past?

New comment by redditor98654 in "Java 25 officially released"

redditor98654 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:36:25 +0000

One benefit is that it makes these operations lazy. There are no intermediate lists created when you call a map on a stream. If map were a method in a list, it would need to return a new list. And if you have multiple such maps etc, it would create more such lists for each map invocation.

New comment by redditor98654 in "I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years"

redditor98654 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:15:46 +0000

From what I recall, Reddit uses AWS extensively. Could they not have replaced RabbitMQ with SQS? You get the near unlimited horizontal scalability, extremely good uptime, guaranteed at least once message delivery and for the case of a worker crash, the messages will become visible again after the visibility timeout (since they wouldn’t have been deleted by the worker).

New comment by redditor98654 in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

redditor98654 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:19:55 +0000

The way you have expressed this, I am borrowing it for myself. Many times i run into these kind of situations and I fail to explain why doing something like this is frustrating and actually useless. Thank you.

New comment by redditor98654 in "Show HN: Blueprint: Fast, Nunjucks-like templating engine for Java 8 and beyond"

redditor98654 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:56:36 +0000

Interesting. I have used free marker. Pretty happy with it in general. But inability to mutate collections is an annoyance.

I will checkout blueprint. A zero dependency library is always a bonus. I don’t see any mention of thread safety in the docs for the engine though.

New comment by redditor98654 in "Growing the Java Language [video]"

redditor98654 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:18:51 +0000

A while ago, I had attempted to do it the Rust style with a Result type in Java (where it is called Data oriented programming) and the result is not great. I was fighting a losing battle in a naive attempt to replace checked exceptions but still retain compile time type safety.

https://www.reddit.com/r/java/s/AbjDEo6orq

New comment by redditor98654 in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

redditor98654 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:44:37 +0000

They thought Alexa will enable users to buy more from Amazon just by voice. But most users turned out like me. I would not spend a single dollar on Amazon without actually seeing the item on my mobile or desktop. I wouldn’t even add to cart via Alexa. That’s not an ideal user for device and service that requires hundreds of millions to run.

New comment by redditor98654 in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

redditor98654 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:40:00 +0000

Hmmm, thinking aloud, Oracle?

New comment by redditor98654 in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

redditor98654 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:56:57 +0000

Whoa! Mind sharing the company?

New comment by redditor98654 in "HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux"

redditor98654 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:22:49 +0000

I use the dedicated app but IntelliJ ultimate bundles datagrip into the ide too.

New comment by redditor98654 in "HeidiSQL Available Also for Linux"

redditor98654 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:51:27 +0000

If you have the license for it, it is hard to beat Datagrip from Jetbrains. Support for just about any database and also integrated support for AI/Copilot making it much easier to write exploratory queries.

New comment by redditor98654 in "Show HN: JavaFactory – IntelliJ plugin to generate Java code"

redditor98654 — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:05:27 +0000

Do you already have some common templates ready to be used somewhere?