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New comment by strix_varius in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

strix_varius — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:39:24 +0000

This is directly addressed in the article.

New comment by strix_varius in "How to Write with an LLM"

strix_varius — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:14:45 +0000

hey thanks for mentioning that skill, I hadn't heard of it before but I just ran it on a non trivial codebase I've been planning to refactor and it did a great job.

I don't use a lot of "skills" so if there are others you've started using frequently I'd be curious to learn about them.

New comment by strix_varius in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

strix_varius — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:50:03 +0000

> I kind of think some other language will come along, take the borrow checker, take all the type conveniences that Rust stole from OCaml that make Rust so nice, glue it all to a Python/Go/dotnet style fat stdlib, complete with an optional GC for all the things that don't actually need bare metal performance (just stick an arena in stdlib), and Rust will feel like a clunker by comparison.

That'd be a dream to me.

New comment by strix_varius in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

strix_varius — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:12:45 +0000

> From the perspective of high level application development, I can't see a technical use case for a language other than Rust.

Bit of a red flag if you really can't.

New comment by strix_varius in "Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)"

strix_varius — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:59:21 +0000

To turn bad short writing into good long writing you must necessarily change the content of the writing, not just the shape.

New comment by strix_varius in "Agent memory as a file format"

strix_varius — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:57:10 +0000

I'm looking in the same space: have you found anything else you're considering beyond OpenViking?

New comment by strix_varius in "Creepy Crawlies"

strix_varius — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:20:43 +0000

There are many more labs than that, and humans aren't designing unique scraping processes per domain.

New comment by strix_varius in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

strix_varius — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:10:12 +0000

No it applies at whatever time you choose - it's the most flexible option for a person whose wealth fluctuates frequently around a low baseline.

New comment by strix_varius in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

strix_varius — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:08:55 +0000

Because cash and debit allow you to pick the time in the month when you happen to have the ability to pay for something.

Frankly these questions astound me, do y'all really know no low income folks?

New comment by strix_varius in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

strix_varius — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:06:08 +0000

This presupposes the ability to get a credit card and the confidence of sufficient funds when that auto payment hits.

New comment by strix_varius in "Don't be a meat proxy"

strix_varius — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:28:38 +0000

The incentives for developing juniors have become misaligned as the expected stay in a company dwindled from decades to years to maybe year.

It would make sense to develop juniors if most of their comp was a four year vest but that doesn't happen until later. And in your first year or two you're usually a net negative... This is even more true with AI.

New comment by strix_varius in "BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat"

strix_varius — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:47:31 +0000

Are they "tolerating" it? They literally have no choice.

New comment by strix_varius in "Progressive Web Components"

strix_varius — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:05:50 +0000

Hm, the page is unreadable on brave on dark mode.

New comment by strix_varius in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

strix_varius — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:52:29 +0000

> reason vibe coding specifically prohibits reading the generated code

Wait what? Are there rules to vibe coding now? Are we no true Scotsmanning slop now?

New comment by strix_varius in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

strix_varius — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:47:00 +0000

Some of the statistics in the article included audiobooks as reading. It seems like they must trigger at least a subset of the qualities of reading (like maintaining an imagined environment, parsing sentences and paragraphs into meaning, etc)

New comment by strix_varius in "Resetting Xbox"

strix_varius — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:19:40 +0000

Eh, depends on what you mean by "implode."

Before the buyout (2021), twitter made $5.1 billion in ad revenue ($6.22 billion inflation-adjusted).

In 2025, it made about $2 billion.

So Twitter is now about 1/3rd of what it was (revenue wise) when purchased.

New comment by strix_varius in "Resetting Xbox"

strix_varius — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:52:52 +0000

> 2-3 ICs

This is the real problem. If you don't have enough folks for a 4+ IC team then you don't have a team.

New comment by strix_varius in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

strix_varius — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:45:24 +0000

Yeah he's like the light side Elon. Happy with his life, his family, his choices. Content. Zen.

New comment by strix_varius in "Steam Machine launches today"

strix_varius — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:30:33 +0000

Buddy, read the context. I think you missed the whole point.

New comment by strix_varius in "Steam Machine launches today"

strix_varius — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:03:00 +0000

> All x86 PCs sold by everyone are open and you can install whatever you want.

What exactly do you think an Xbox is? PS4 & PS5?