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New comment by sesm in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

sesm — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:21:49 +0000

Nuclear is not renewable though, those isotopes were created when some past generation star collapsed as supernova.

New comment by sesm in "12,000 AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

sesm — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:01:52 +0000

Don't we already have "RLHF on synthetic data"?

New comment by sesm in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

sesm — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:37:47 +0000

Does it include zero of money?

Edit: the comment above said 'zero of everything', but it was edited.

New comment by sesm in "In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?"

sesm — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:14:13 +0000

In my view mathematics builds tools that help solve problems in science.

New comment by sesm in "Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code"

sesm — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:56:41 +0000

A browser extension with a couple regexps will do it. Or with a tiny model for sentiment analysis, if you want to be fancy. Feel free to ask your AI agent to make it.

New comment by sesm in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

sesm — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:11:26 +0000

Getting paid for live performance was the traditional way for musicians to earn money for centuries. Record sales was a temporary thing that is now gone.

New comment by sesm in "So where are all the AI apps?"

sesm — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:15:52 +0000

Vibe coding is actually a brilliant MLM scheme: people buy tokens to generate apps that re-sell tokens (99% of those apps are AI-something).

New comment by sesm in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

sesm — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:20:57 +0000

To buy the users

New comment by sesm in "Grief and the AI split"

sesm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:17:02 +0000

Yep it's not 'result chasers' but people who want to get credit while avoiding real work. And when their stuff breaks they are always too busy with something else or moved on to another project.

New comment by sesm in "Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes"

sesm — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:11:09 +0000

Instead of implementing a workaround for types as namespaces, wouldn't it better to explicitly add namespaces to the language?

New comment by sesm in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

sesm — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:35:02 +0000

What definition of simplicity implies that it can be at odds with correctness?

New comment by sesm in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

sesm — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:13:31 +0000

That's great for API credentials but some secrets are ment for local use, like encryption keys.

New comment by sesm in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

sesm — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:09:35 +0000

Ergodox offers extra keys, they are not a disadvantage, they are a trade-off.

New comment by sesm in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

sesm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:58:35 +0000

Surprised Ergodox is not mentioned, that's the keyboard that started the movement. Very safe pick since firmware is open source and it can be both self-assembled and bought.

It has too many keys in thumb clusters and bottom row, but you can easily remove them.

New comment by sesm in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

sesm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:52:30 +0000

I'm a native speaker of Russian, using Ergodox as my only keyboard for over 5 years. Here is my layout: https://configure.zsa.io/ergodox-ez/layouts/XEYyW/latest/0

New comment by sesm in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

sesm — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:02:05 +0000

The narrative about AI replacing humans is just a way to say 'we became 2x more productive' instead of saying 'we cut 50% jobs', which sounds better for investors. The real reason for job cut is COVID overhiring plus interest rate going up. If you remember, Twitter did the job cuts without any AI-related narrative.

New comment by sesm in "I'm building a clarity-first language (compiles to C++)"

sesm — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:28:13 +0000

> Lists are accessed only via .at()

If clarity is the goal, then data structures that support access by index should be called `arrays` or `vectors`

New comment by sesm in "Using an engineering notebook"

sesm — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:51:09 +0000

The big advantage of split keyboards is that a notebook fits nicely in-between the halves.

New comment by sesm in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

sesm — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:27:34 +0000

Secretly? Most blog posts praising coding agents put something like 'I use $200 Claude subscription' in bold in 2nd-3rd paragraph.

New comment by sesm in "Automatic Programming"

sesm — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:46:54 +0000

"Throwaway prototype" - that's the traditional term for this.