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New comment by smw in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

smw — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:39:35 +0000

Or just ask if you might want to do something productive while you wait for a train or sit in a taxi? Better than doom scrolling. Maybe you're working on a fun side project.

New comment by smw in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

smw — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:59:28 +0000

docker on macos runs in a linux vm

New comment by smw in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

smw — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:02:21 +0000

goroutines make building scalable network (web) servers trivial and fast. I'm not a big fan of the language, but the runtime is fantastic.

New comment by smw in "Claude Opus 4.7"

smw — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:36:35 +0000

Unfortunately, the subscription pricing is so much cheaper than usage pricing that it's probably worth using one of the official harnesses.

New comment by smw in "Hungary's Orban concedes landmark defeat to centre-right opposition"

smw — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:39:05 +0000

How's the weather in St. Petersburg?

New comment by smw in "Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C"

smw — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:40:38 +0000

You sure they weren't just using http or something and thus the concurrency was effectively hidden by the library? Almost any services that takes requests of any kind uses goroutines extensively.

New comment by smw in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

smw — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:05:11 +0000

Rust's async story is much less ergonomic than go's -- mostly because of lack of garbage collection. That might be a good reason by itself?

New comment by smw in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

smw — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:47:41 +0000

One of the issues is that the US, unlike most of Europe, for example, doesn't require registering your address with your locality or police when you move.

New comment by smw in "CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate"

smw — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:26:05 +0000

> but you do realize the US has on shore cutting edge fabs, right?

No they don't. Even the US partnerships with TSMC aren't cutting edge.

TSMC and arguably Samsung have cutting edge fabs, no one else.

New comment by smw in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

smw — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:20:20 +0000

What possible use legitimate use is Snowflake in verifying your identity? ES?

New comment by smw in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"

smw — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:25:58 +0000

china's building solar like _mad_, read a newspaper

New comment by smw in "Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code"

smw — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:20:22 +0000

reference to cigarettes

New comment by smw in "Fluxer: Free, open source instant messaging and VoIP platform"

smw — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:27:52 +0000

Discord lawyers are going to have a field day with that logo design and app look and feel.

New comment by smw in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

smw — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:53:59 +0000

This reads like AI slop?

New comment by smw in "Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]"

smw — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:38:47 +0000

I think it's possible that starcraft might have a claim here?

New comment by smw in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

smw — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:21:01 +0000

Apple silicon is very fast per size/watt. The mind blowing thing is the macbook air that has weighs very little, doesn't have a fan, and feels competitive with top of the line desktop pcs.

New comment by smw in "xAI joins SpaceX"

smw — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:24:58 +0000

Wouldn't they?

New comment by smw in "xAI joins SpaceX"

smw — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:15:55 +0000

napkin math says sq kms of radiators to cool 100MW, it's just patently ridiculous

New comment by smw in "xAI joins SpaceX"

smw — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:14:42 +0000

You also need square kms of radiators to cool 100MW

New comment by smw in "If you tax them, will they leave?"

smw — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:14:11 +0000

Except you don't pay any estate tax unless your estate is larger than $15 mil