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New comment by samastur in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

samastur — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:34:44 +0000

They are, but using the same process for all books is simpler and cheaper.

New comment by samastur in "A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)"

samastur — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:44:04 +0000

That's because there so much of them and most of the range is not very comfortably accessible (you usually need to endure some discomfort either getting there or staying nearby).

Where you can get nearby fairly easy like base Las Torres, you'll have plenty of people doing just that.

I don't think this is by intent. It's just that the countries themselves are relatively poor and have higher priority projects for their limited resources.

New comment by samastur in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

samastur — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:41:27 +0000

This works, thanks :)

For anyone else who may want this, use: export ANTHROPIC_MODEL=claude-opus-4-6

New comment by samastur in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

samastur — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:12:46 +0000

How did you manage to do that?

/model command returns only 4 choices for me: Opus 4.7, two Sonnet options and Haiku.

New comment by samastur in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

samastur — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:04:49 +0000

I am as well and there's no shortage of relevant content to fill my whole day so I can skip articles I dislike.

New comment by samastur in "Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs"

samastur — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:20:04 +0000

Depends on what you want to say. It can be safer to say something directly to someone's face than online because it is transient and generally does not involve random passers-by.

I am not going to give examples, because I don't want them to be pinned on me as my views, but I'm sure most of us have enough imagination to come up with them.

New comment by samastur in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

samastur — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:53:13 +0000

Read something else then.

New comment by samastur in "How I estimate work"

samastur — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:17:07 +0000

I used to work for a company where we spent a day every 2 weeks doing this. And I had a headache at the end of the day every two weeks.

Great that it works for you.

New comment by samastur in "Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost"

samastur — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:28:20 +0000

EU has been a neighbour of Russia since a very long time as Finland joined EU in 1995. Not being a neighbour hasn’t been an option in a very long time as there are now several countries bordering it. Beside EU is not a military alliance so why should it matter?

Russia has only ever expanded, but since you seem to be wrong just about everything no surprise there.

New comment by samastur in "OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months"

samastur — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:29:55 +0000

This highly depends on the price difference and value you get form those 10%.

New comment by samastur in "Sora Update #1"

samastur — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 10:23:04 +0000

they will TRY to share this money ;)

New comment by samastur in "Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time"

samastur — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:15:36 +0000

I generally agree with you and the "short" format is what makes it successful, but Melvyn said himself that they choose teaching professors because they would know how to explain subject clearly and after almost two decades of listening I'd say it has mostly worked.

New comment by samastur in "How We Rooted Copilot"

samastur — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:40:43 +0000

Paranoia and not knowing which ones fall into "mostly" category :)

New comment by samastur in "Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga (2024)"

samastur — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:26:30 +0000

I did (but also for games). That wasn't the problem. The problem was computers built on closed architecture didn't have a future even if company didn't went to shit like Commodore did.

New comment by samastur in "Just how bad are we at treating age-related diseases?"

samastur — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:36:07 +0000

Not being extremely deadly is low bar since most of your life (with some luck) will be spent being old. I'd rather see my years being more than bearable.

New comment by samastur in "Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants"

samastur — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:15:40 +0000

They already are, it's just expected you calculate yourself the real price.

New comment by samastur in "Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server"

samastur — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:41:29 +0000

Cool work, but I'm more fascinated by your claim "99% of your life is stored in WhatsApp...".

Not even remotely true for me even if it would encompass all messaging apps I use. I guess I'm just an old introvert, but it makes me wonder how life looks like for those for whom it is true.

New comment by samastur in "Recreating Delicious Library in 2025?"

samastur — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:28:43 +0000

Why would he, he buys bookmarking services and this won't be one :)

New comment by samastur in "Recreating Delicious Library in 2025?"

samastur — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:20:05 +0000

I'm actually working on an app to replace my Delicious Library, but at least at first solely focused on books and supporting multiple users and features I missed in the original.

If all goes well I expect to have early version ready by middle of this year. While some features will require subscription, features not incurring ongoing costs won't. I like to think of it as an example of social software for introverts :)

I am hesitant to talk about details, but I haven't felt so excited about something in a long time.

New comment by samastur in "We're bringing Pebble back"

samastur — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:26:40 +0000

Because we miss what Reader was and not what it could have become.

As a more prolific blog writer at the time I also liked that their bot would include number of people who were subscribed to my blog in their User Agent.