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New comment by sedatk in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"

sedatk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:42:31 +0000

What I mean by arbitrary is that like raising bread prices from $5 to $50 kind of thing. That’s not a sign of cost-based pricing. It’s arbitrary.

New comment by sedatk in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"

sedatk — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:54:04 +0000

One month I could use Github Copilot fully with no disruptions. The next month, after pricing changes, I’ve run out of tokens in two days.

Such drastic changes tell me that pricing of tokens is arbitrary, and AI business is running out of money fast.

New comment by sedatk in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

sedatk — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:31:41 +0000

> with their lousy port of Windows to Arm processors…

What's lousy about it? I use it daily and have zero problems.

New comment by sedatk in "The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite"

sedatk — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:00:40 +0000

UUIDv7 and sequential integers are quite similar. Sequential integers disclose count and neighboring IDs while UUIDv7 discloses timestamp. Either can be a security issue in certain cases.

So, UUIDv4 as a PK on a clustered index can be perfectly feasible for cases where you want to avoid disclosing stuff and row insertion performance isn’t that important.

New comment by sedatk in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

sedatk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:03:38 +0000

It looks like a practical solution for a rare but unsolved problem to me. What do you think a better solution would look like?

New comment by sedatk in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

sedatk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:09:52 +0000

ULA isn’t link-local though. It’s privately routable.

New comment by sedatk in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

sedatk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:39:59 +0000

That's a bit of a stretch. First, IPv4 can't handle this scenario at all. It's an IPv6 feature. So, let's just be thankful that this exists. Amen.

Second, if you don't want to use interface IDs, you can just enable ULAs on your networks, and routing will take you to the correct interface.

New comment by sedatk in "IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake"

sedatk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:13:47 +0000

> I really do wish they'd just stuck with dots

Then it would get confused with domain names (e.g. babe.cafe).

New comment by sedatk in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

sedatk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:18:21 +0000

Wow, amazing! I didn't know it had caught on outside Turkey. Putting it on Simtel paid off I guess. :)

New comment by sedatk in "Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)"

sedatk — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:21:57 +0000

Yes, much more realistic for sure.

New comment by sedatk in "Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)"

sedatk — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:55:56 +0000

I used to play the demo of Test Drive III. It only had one map I believe. But I loved that it was a sandbox, so you could drive anywhere. I specifically remember following along the railroad. It was way ahead of its time back then.

New comment by sedatk in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

sedatk — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:09:24 +0000

Yes: support@fastmail.com

New comment by sedatk in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

sedatk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:50:25 +0000

Thanks! I loved working on it!

New comment by sedatk in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

sedatk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:46:07 +0000

Forgot to add, I also developed a BlueWave-compatible offline-reader called Wolverine that worked for all Fido-style networks: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine

It was quite popular in Turkey in the 90's.

You can try it out in DOSBox here with some random HitNet packages: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine/releases/tag/2.32

New comment by sedatk in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

sedatk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:23:21 +0000

There was a FidoNet clone in Turkey called HitNet (short for “Hi Türkiye Net”). Its node addresses were like “8:103/119”.

İ developed a Netmail server for Hitnet called HitBase in 1995 or so. It allowed people to discover others around their city to meet. Possibly the earliest thing that resembles Facebook. Similarly, it was a privacy nightmare too, luckily short-lived.

HitNet introduced me to great people some of whom I still see today. It was such a tight-knit friendly community.

The advent of Internet killed it but some communities are still active on other platforms.

New comment by sedatk in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

sedatk — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:17:00 +0000

I think people overestimate the radius of avoidant behavior against AI idioms, and underestimate how the trove of AI generated text actually influence people's writing. It's not a one way street. If you mostly read AI generated content, your writing will inevitably resemble it.

New comment by sedatk in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"

sedatk — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:18:00 +0000

Yes, don’t have OOM roulette.

New comment by sedatk in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"

sedatk — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:07:39 +0000

I’m not against taking down the kernel if the situation is that catastrophic. Better than killing the lock screen for sure.

New comment by sedatk in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"

sedatk — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:01:33 +0000

I’d say, let the one who tried to allocate memory crash, and if you’re a critical process like xlock, use statically allocated memory and don’t alloc again.

New comment by sedatk in "You can just say it"

sedatk — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:58:14 +0000

Yes, but physics is more than electrons.