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New comment by senfiaj in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

senfiaj — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:43:29 +0000

Reminds me this https://waspdev.com/static/images/2025-11-04/bloat.webp

New comment by senfiaj in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

senfiaj — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:26:37 +0000

I'd say I don't like images that feel too AIsh and have errors/quirks. Still, some AI images are decent, depends on the person and his taste.

New comment by senfiaj in "Stolen Buttons"

senfiaj — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:08:01 +0000

Yes, but how does it decide if an element is button? Some are links ( tags).

New comment by senfiaj in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

senfiaj — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:30:45 +0000

What about TOR or VPNs + faking user agents?

New comment by senfiaj in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

senfiaj — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:18:38 +0000

Ah, sorry, yes, tried with a very different message. But it can still read when telling that the text is formed by movement. AI doesn't see the world the way we do, so it's understandable. https://chatgpt.com/share/6a522660-929c-83eb-91ff-66b7873420...

New comment by senfiaj in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

senfiaj — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:00:08 +0000

I downloaded the message video, renamed it to test.mp4

Still could read https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5221f0-e3fc-83eb-bc15-74420002b6...

New comment by senfiaj in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

senfiaj — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:54:18 +0000

I gave him this video file https://streamable.com/1bxxyf

New comment by senfiaj in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

senfiaj — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:45:04 +0000

No, it can https://chatgpt.com/share/6a521e9b-c754-83ed-9d8e-cf653894eb...

New comment by senfiaj in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

senfiaj — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:11:22 +0000

Yeah, I'm so sick of hearing "it's way faster to install app on linux by using terminal than using that bloated gui softare center".

New comment by senfiaj in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

senfiaj — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:56:15 +0000

What happens if I cover the camera?

New comment by senfiaj in "Programmers need to start meditating"

senfiaj — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:15:34 +0000

>> For example, kernel or compilers are very complicated in certain way, too, but whichever company makes those products probably is way more stringent about the quality comparing to other companies that are happy to move forward with tons of bugs and tech debts.

IMHO, the complexity of kernel and compilers is usually more justified and less accidental. At least non technical people are rarely the cause.

New comment by senfiaj in "Programmers need to start meditating"

senfiaj — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:44:02 +0000

In my company it's a bit more complicated, but I have the spirit of your thoughts. I think business software (such as the ERP-like software I work on) is often an entropy magnet from the complexity point of view. It doesn't strive to be simple and elegant because business / finance world is messy. Whether all the complexity and messiness of the financial world is accidental or justified, this is irrelevant for me because I don't care about their business problems. It will be soul sucking anyway.

New comment by senfiaj in "Programmers need to start meditating"

senfiaj — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:39:24 +0000

>> I feel like it depends on the task, and that's why people seem to disagree on this. Think about a manager managing 5 devs. If he is working on planning and managing work for his dev team, we don't say he is task switching, he's just taking a management role where he takes a high level view of the task at hand and then delegates the deep dive.

This is assuming you fully trust AI code. AI is still not perfect and sometimes might produce code with insufficient quality even when it works. For example, it can fix a bug in a wrong way, such as removing the symptoms instead of fixing the root cause. And so on. Also, I still have to review and test that generated code, especially in complex systems. Yes, AI reduces coding time, but at the expense of increasing the review / testing time, and review is not something all developers enjoy (both as reviewer and someone who is reviewed). This still doesn't seem to be something that has negligible cost of context switching. Also, AI tends to make you more lazy and care less about understanding the requirements. I'll prefer manual coding with some AI assistance for boring / repetitive tasks and finding potential mistakes for software that I care.

New comment by senfiaj in "Programmers need to start meditating"

senfiaj — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:43:50 +0000

>> I’m clearly much more productive now. I’m doing five things at once very effectively, switching between multiple agent sessions from morning to night.

Joel Spolsky disagrees here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/02/12/human-task-switche...

New comment by senfiaj in "Programmers need to start meditating"

senfiaj — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:42:06 +0000

Yeah, same thoughts. And this industry is becoming so volatile, I'm not sure what will happen tomorrow. I mean it's highly unlikely that AI will replace developers at least in the next 10 years, but I'm not sure what will "software developer" become. Certain people love to work with details. If AI is taking away this joy, I'll rather retire as early as possible from this volatile industry.

New comment by senfiaj in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

senfiaj — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:55:51 +0000

Even before LLMs ORMs are good enough to cover most of the use cases. Only some complicated use cases needs raw SQL. So you can use both.

New comment by senfiaj in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

senfiaj — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:51:18 +0000

What's the problem with using ORMs for 95% of the cases and using raw SQL only for the remaining 5% where ORM isn't sufficient? One important benefit (aside from writing less code) of ORMs is type checking which is important for maintainability in large complex projects.

New comment by senfiaj in "PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit"

senfiaj — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:30:40 +0000

Yes, that was my point. But Windows might still allocate pages lazily (i.e. reserve them and actually allocate only when the program writes into them). The difference from Linux is that it will only reserve if the allocation has a reasonable size and the total committed allocation doesn't exceed certain safe limits / quotas, so it will be possible to safely swap on disk later under low memory conditions.

New comment by senfiaj in "PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit"

senfiaj — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:48:10 +0000

Well, if Firefox also works on other OSes, it probably should gracefully handle failing allocations, isn't it?

New comment by senfiaj in "PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit"

senfiaj — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:07:26 +0000

So it's a footgun because a lot of low quality software?