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New comment by rootnod3 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

rootnod3 — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:20:31 +0000

Only M1 and M2 machines though. M3 and up is still missing.

New comment by rootnod3 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

rootnod3 — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:19:53 +0000

99% of the time I run dwm + emacs, most of the browsing in eww. The occasional 1% that I run a browser is negligible. The scrolling lag doesn't bother me too much. I basically run it as a distraction free machine with long battery life.

No temptation to open Youtube or other distractions.

Just an emacs session with code and notes. Forcing myself to read the man-pages first before googling anything.

New comment by rootnod3 in "When life gives you lemons, write better error messages"

rootnod3 — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:57:58 +0000

Still better than an error message with pretty much zero info.

New comment by rootnod3 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

rootnod3 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:43:25 +0000

Same. Recently bought myself a M2 Air as a birthday gift for myself. 8GB, chucked OpenBSD on it and couldn't be happier. It does what I need, battery lasts long and easy to chuck around.

New comment by rootnod3 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

rootnod3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:39:49 +0000

And same as vibe coding, microwaves just reheat old stuff and create bland food.

New comment by rootnod3 in "ClojureScript Gets Async/Await"

rootnod3 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:55:47 +0000

So, best to just use for maximum results? And have the LLM just rehash the majority of what that language's code looks like? Because a lot of say Javascript code I have seen floating around on Github has been absolutely atrocious. That doesn't really give a good basis for LLMs.

I agree that stronger type systems might help. But a good swatch of unit tests should still accompany that code.

The Clojure code I have worked with usually had a damn good array of unit tests as its more of the "clojure" culture to do so.

New comment by rootnod3 in "ClojureScript Gets Async/Await"

rootnod3 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:43:23 +0000

Because most languages don't have a full interactive REPL like for example Common Lisp has. The Python REPL for example is a joke compared to it. Clojure is very closely there, but not quite yet.

Live image editing is just pure bliss.

New comment by rootnod3 in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

rootnod3 — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:34:39 +0000

Then why would SuSE spend money on it?

New comment by rootnod3 in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

rootnod3 — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:33:35 +0000

Cool, one more layer of indirection and abstraction. May I ask why? I fail to see the point, but I might just be grumpy.

New comment by rootnod3 in "Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell"

rootnod3 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:49:44 +0000

I don't even know where to begin here... Using Haskell, the one language where you really DESIGN by types and use your brain and then using LLMs....

New comment by rootnod3 in "Zed 1.0"

rootnod3 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:07:22 +0000

Modern software. That's why I stick with Emacs or Neovim.

New comment by rootnod3 in "Zed 1.0"

rootnod3 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:45:51 +0000

That should be off by default. That alone is a "I won't use this" for me.

New comment by rootnod3 in "An update on GitHub availability"

rootnod3 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:04:32 +0000

> Our priorities are clear: availability first

That's a delayed April fool's right?

New comment by rootnod3 in "Integrated by Design"

rootnod3 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:24:39 +0000

Hardcover not available on .co.jp, shame

New comment by rootnod3 in "AI can cost more than human workers now"

rootnod3 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:16:58 +0000

And that expert will not have their knowledge from learning through AI

New comment by rootnod3 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

rootnod3 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:48:27 +0000

Yeah, waiting for that too. They should expand the regions instead of new models. Availability is really limited.

New comment by rootnod3 in "A perfectable programming language"

rootnod3 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:51:23 +0000

I get adding Scheme, but omitting CL seems like a big oversight

New comment by rootnod3 in "A perfectable programming language"

rootnod3 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:50:18 +0000

Common Lisp Is exactly that. I wish I could use it at work. All my personal stuff nowadays is CL only. There is no other choice.

New comment by rootnod3 in "Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?"

rootnod3 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:14:39 +0000

Now I'm jealous

New comment by rootnod3 in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

rootnod3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:47:10 +0000

The cope is hard. Just at this point admit that the LLM tech is doomed and sucks.