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New comment by semireg in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

semireg — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:27:38 +0000

Is this just an ad for whimsical animations? Seemed like an abrupt change.

New comment by semireg in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

semireg — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:17:36 +0000

My first operating system and GUI was GEOS on the Commodore 64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

New comment by semireg in "Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO"

semireg — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:48:14 +0000

Reminds me of the Arrested Development scene: Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb.

New comment by semireg in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

semireg — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:23:53 +0000

Blending hot liquids requires care because turning on and heating the air causes the lid to blow off. Most blenders are limited by physics. Vitamix have an analog dial for speed which allows you to heat the air more slowly. Turning off bubble? Maybe I’ve experienced that … but seems like an inexperienced operator with hot liquids and powerful motors is just a recipe for disaster.

New comment by semireg in "[dead]"

semireg — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:45:08 +0000

TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

New comment by semireg in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

semireg — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:26:50 +0000

This is a valuable comment. It's the exact demoralization that others fear we are headed.

New comment by semireg in "Indie developer responds to Dymo enshittification"

semireg — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:39:14 +0000

From DYMO: Dear user, Thank you for contacting [DYMO]. I am sorry to hear about the inconvenience you are experiencing.

Kindly be informed, that unfortunately, but the DYMO Label Software v.8. is incompatible with the new macOS 26 Tahoe. The software is officially obsolete, we do not develop it anymore. The last update for it was introduced when Apple released their macOS 11 Big Sur, it was in 2020. The printers you have, with the exception of LabelWriter 450, are incompatible with the current software.

LabelWriter Duo and LabelManager PnP Wireless are obsolete for some time now (keep in mind that LabelWriter Duo is a 20 years old printer) and there are no drivers for them in a our current DYMO Connect software.

LabelWriter 450 was still being manufactured when the DYMO Connect was released, therefore drivers for that model were and still are included in the software.

Those older models would be working on an older OS (up to macOS Sequoia) and on Windows PC. Once again, I am sorry for the inconvenience you are experiencing.

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Disclosure: I am the developer of Label LIVE.

Indie developer responds to Dymo enshittification

semireg — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:39:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/dymo/s/SQvQbswJmh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842458

Points: 4

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

semireg — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:20:31 +0000

“Do you want to sell AirPods?”

No. They want to sell more i-devices so this is just punishment for not fully participating.

New comment by semireg in "iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency"

semireg — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:25:17 +0000

We’ve spent hundreds of years perfecting crystal clear glass and now we want skeuomorphic imperfections? Two steps back, indeed.

New comment by semireg in "iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark"

semireg — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:42:42 +0000

Cars are often artificially detuned to the trim level that’s inscribed on the boot.

New comment by semireg in "N8n vs. node-red, which to use for AI workloads"

semireg — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:16:15 +0000

I’m working on a self-hosted node-red-powered desktop app to connect cloud services to local resources and vice versa. Email me if you’d like to participate in the upcoming beta.

New comment by semireg in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"

semireg — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:02:01 +0000

Something I don’t see mentioned that’s been helpful to me is having an agent add strict type safety to my typescript. I avoid the use of “any” type and berating an agent to “make it work” really opens my eyes and forces me to learn how advanced typescript can be leveraged. I feel that creating complex types that make my code simpler, makes autocomplete work(!), is a great tradeoff in some meta dimension of software dev.

New comment by semireg in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"

semireg — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:47:40 +0000

Wrong thread

New comment by semireg in "Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images"

semireg — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:47:30 +0000

It’s like swimming in a lake or river and thinking the water is just water but then you take a closer look and it’s just incredibly alive to the point of absurdity.

New comment by semireg in "Design for 3D-Printing"

semireg — Mon, 05 May 2025 18:50:35 +0000

I started 3D printing about 10 years ago with the first Taz machines and they left me a broken, broken man.

Fast forward to a month ago, I bought a Prusa Core One, loved it, and then bought a XL 5-toolhead. It's been so much fun using printers that "just work."

I finished this 6-day print last week! https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/1kb3p0w/xl_full_be...

New comment by semireg in "Show HN: Cleverb.ee – open-source agent that writes a cited research report"

semireg — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:10:36 +0000

Did hoc intentionally pun by writing that this meta analysis is getting “lifted”?

Reference: https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/higher-order-components.html

New comment by semireg in "Big LLMs weights are a piece of history"

semireg — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:10:42 +0000

Pro, max, ultra…

New comment by semireg in "Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it"

semireg — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:23:48 +0000

Ha! I was so nervous writing it because I am not qualified to use the smart math words!

New comment by semireg in "Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it"

semireg — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 23:17:58 +0000

Oh, I did... but it was more of a parsing error.

Prompt:

I have padlocks that I use to lock up my tools, or my bike, etc. The problem is, I often go several months without using some of them and forget the combinations. So, I decided to write down their combinations, but then I always lose the sheet. Being the math geek that I am, I decided on the following solution. I choose a 3 × 3 matrix and multiply this matrix by the combination and write the result on the back of the lock. For example, on the back of one lock is written “2688 − 3055 − 2750 : Birthdays,” indicating that the 3 × 3 matrix that I chose for that particular lock is the matrix whose rows consist of the birthdays of my brothers and me (from youngest to oldest). My brother Rod was born on 7/3/69, I was born on 7/28/66, and my older brother was born on 7/29/57. What is the combination of the lock?

Now, technically the LLM didn't quite know how to parse "2688 − 3055 − 2750" and ran the calculation with "[2688;-3055;2750]" and produced a response of, "These values are clearly not typical lock combinations, which suggests a potential issue with the encoding process."

Smart, kind-of. I reran with a more explicit prompt and it calculated the correct combination.

Overall though, I'm impressed with using ChatGPT as a linear algebra tutor. I wouldn't hesitate to use it in the future.