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New comment by seanw444 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

seanw444 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:23:29 +0000

At least the sheer stupidity of bots is understandable. It's arguably the real users that are worse...

New comment by seanw444 in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

seanw444 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:28:43 +0000

It can be Lisp if you want it to be. Just use Fennel. That's what my Hyprland config is written in.

New comment by seanw444 in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

seanw444 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:32:01 +0000

> GrapheneOS is stellar and until next year, getting a Pixel is the only way to run it.

I'm hoping the Moto GrapheneOS phones will be solid. They will be my new primary option if so.

New comment by seanw444 in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

seanw444 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:39:35 +0000

As far as I'm aware, you get marginal FPS gains switching kernels. It helps some. It's just a matter of whether the effort is worth it to you. The main change is the scheduler: rather than trying to evenly distribute CPU time to processes, it will prioritize bursty processes.

I've been a fan of Hyprland for gaming so far. Much more configurable for things like VRR/tearing and other precise tweaks via Gamescope than when I was on AwesomeWM with X11. Been especially nice having Lua for configuration, which finally feels very familiar with my AwesomeWM roots.

New comment by seanw444 in "A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]"

seanw444 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:06:28 +0000

And, in my time in scouts, they did a poor job of demonstrating the actual use cases for the knots in a practical manner. If I had seen how many situations knots come in handy for, I'd have memorized them much more intently.

New comment by seanw444 in "A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]"

seanw444 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:04:02 +0000

Taut line is great, but I'm finding the Farrimond friction hitch is much more secure, and is already on a bite for quick release as an added bonus.

New comment by seanw444 in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

seanw444 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:24:10 +0000

There can be a lot to gain from the graphics and audio, depending on the topic.

New comment by seanw444 in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

seanw444 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:13:51 +0000

> the free investor money does run out

I've been saying the same thing, but that's why they made the move to IPO, no?

New comment by seanw444 in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

seanw444 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:45:34 +0000

Yeah the Mormons in Utah are of a much more vapid culture than those from out of state, I can say from experience. All of the out-of-stater Mormons I've met that were here for BYU and such, they all said they can't stand the people here. Don't blame them one bit.

New comment by seanw444 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

seanw444 — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:29:30 +0000

Proprietary stochastic compilers. Hooray.

New comment by seanw444 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

seanw444 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:47:11 +0000

They're finally applying their 2A strategy to the 1A.

New comment by seanw444 in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

seanw444 — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:04:58 +0000

I wouldn't say it's random. But I do like referring to them as statistical code generators.

New comment by seanw444 in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

seanw444 — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:47:53 +0000

The assumption used to be that you respected the library enough and believed it was well reviewed and architected by the maintainer(s). But now even that's unreliable because libraries are being slopified at an unreviewable pace too.

New comment by seanw444 in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

seanw444 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:21:20 +0000

Can we stop calling it AI and making it sound cooler than it really is: a lossily-compressed text lookup DB?

New comment by seanw444 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

seanw444 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:48:06 +0000

There's a lot to appreciate about the middle ages. It wasn't all bad.

New comment by seanw444 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

seanw444 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:20:59 +0000

> To be clear, I am not claiming that all human work will be automated away soon. Just that a huge portion of it will be.

You don't even need to be a believer in the technology to be concerned. All that matters is that the people with all the money perceive some positive outcome for their wallets from all this investment and AI hype. That is where they'll put their money. Whether or not it ends bad or good. The economy has been reshaped around a hope. Either the hope is false and the economy tanks, or the hope is realized and jobs disappear. Lose-lose.

New comment by seanw444 in "AI is making me dumb"

seanw444 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:54:51 +0000

> YMMV but I think if you use the tool as a more expressive Google search it can be a great companion.

I get the most mileage out of this as well. It's the middle ground option. Everyone's either saying AI is useless, or saying how it's so good that writing code is an obsolete task already. Personally, I'm learning a ton with AI as a research tool, and implementing my code by hand with that knowledge. It also naturally solves the "you can't review 20,000 lines of code a day to even properly understand that it's correct" problem as a side effect too. But I am still building things much faster.

New comment by seanw444 in "AI is making me dumb"

seanw444 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:46:36 +0000

> I am glad that we are finally moving towards a world where we can utilize code as a tool rather than constantly trying to think how to make it into a product.

Maybe that's just you. Code as a tool rather than just a product has always existed.

New comment by seanw444 in "AI is making me dumb"

seanw444 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:43:23 +0000

> Bigger than any other tool, for any other price.

For as long as the investor money runway has asphalt left.

New comment by seanw444 in "New Nginx Exploit"

seanw444 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:17:44 +0000

Can often also be noticeably more performant.