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New comment by roman_soldier in "Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications"

roman_soldier — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:26:46 +0000

Nice, but problem with all these AI coded TUI's is we will have hundreds of them, best to stick to the built in linux commands, add aliases/abbreviations (fish) if required, do you need a TUI for everything? Sometimes the answer to "Should I write this?" Is no

New comment by roman_soldier in "Advent of Code 2025"

roman_soldier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:29:59 +0000

No I get that, it's just not for me that's all.

New comment by roman_soldier in "Advent of Code 2025"

roman_soldier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:28:10 +0000

Never got that, I have plenty of "puzzles" to solve in work and life which have real outcomes. I guess Im too utilitarian to enjoy puzzles with ROI.

New comment by roman_soldier in "Advent of Code 2025"

roman_soldier — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:40:39 +0000

Not a fan of these "Coding for fun" things. Code for a job to earn money, yes, a side project where there is an end goal, yes. This seems like a waste of time for working developer.

Maybe it's useful for people trying to learn but also becoming pointless now as all Junior dev roles can be done with AI.

I mean do plumbers have an advent of plumbing where they try and unblock shit filled toilets for fun?

New comment by roman_soldier in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"

roman_soldier — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:53:36 +0000

10x to 100x and order of magnitude is a factor of 10.

New comment by roman_soldier in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"

roman_soldier — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:20:12 +0000

Scaling got us here and it wasn't obvious that it would produce the results we have now, so who's to say sentience won't emerge from scaling another few orders of magnitude?

Of course there will always be research to squeeze more out of the compute, improving efficiency and perhaps make breakthroughs.

New comment by roman_soldier in "Google Antigravity"

roman_soldier — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:22:53 +0000

Another google product, there are too many and which ones will be around in a year or two?

New comment by roman_soldier in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

roman_soldier — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:26:13 +0000

Why is Grok 4.1 not in the benchmarks?

New comment by roman_soldier in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

roman_soldier — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:29:27 +0000

There is zero business sense in making it work as good on non Apple phones. There are plenty of other headphones to choose from that work well with android etc.

New comment by roman_soldier in "IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs"

roman_soldier — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:29:52 +0000

Well people will vote with their mouse clicks, and they have, < 1% of devs use Emacs vs VS Code which is probably 20-30x.

New comment by roman_soldier in "IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs"

roman_soldier — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:24:06 +0000

The data shows VS Code is used by double digit % of developers, whereas Emacs is less than 1%, I think that qualifies for most.

New comment by roman_soldier in "Things that aren't doing the thing"

roman_soldier — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:43:38 +0000

In other words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

New comment by roman_soldier in "IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs"

roman_soldier — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:00:16 +0000

This, most people that try and use these legacy editors spend most of their time configuring it get it to be as good as vs code and usually fail. A lot of wasted time and frustration when one click gives you a perfectly modern fast editor with a smorgasbord of great extensions that just work. I do use vim for quick editing of files in the terminal but never for serious work.

New comment by roman_soldier in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

roman_soldier — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:52:56 +0000

A lot of Apple products are designed to best work with other Apple products, that's part of their selling point. Would it not be easier to just buy non Apple headphones if you are not in the Apple eco system?

New comment by roman_soldier in "Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try"

roman_soldier — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:20:10 +0000

This isn't just first to market it's been 10 years and SpaceX is still innovating. I applaud Bezos for at least offering some sort of competition though it will keep SpaceX from becoming complacent.

New comment by roman_soldier in "Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try"

roman_soldier — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:12:53 +0000

NASA never created rapidly reusable rockets, which is what we are talking about here.

New comment by roman_soldier in "SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search"

roman_soldier — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:11:11 +0000

Then people can downvote AI slop or Human slop equally. Why do we need to discriminate against digital intelligence which is often leagues above the average mouth breathing Joe.

New comment by roman_soldier in "Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try"

roman_soldier — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:21:59 +0000

I think this is more like the Fire phone vs the iPhone.

New comment by roman_soldier in "SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search"

roman_soldier — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:16:43 +0000

What about human slop? start with HN a significant number of comments are pretty dire.

New comment by roman_soldier in "Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try"

roman_soldier — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:15 +0000

Congrats but it's kinda like a company, releasing in 2030, an LLM equivalent to the first version of chatGPT. SpaceX did this 10 years ago.