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New comment by stusmall in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

stusmall — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:37:29 +0000

Except it's not counter to history for SaaS services. Many will ban unauthentic usage from non-human clients. Getting banned from a SaaS service for boting is nothing new

New comment by stusmall in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

stusmall — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:41:25 +0000

Enron had a system like this. They regularly worked on large, long term contracts that became profitable over years/decades. They wanted to push rewards forward so would estimate the total value of the contract and book the profit when it closed. Mark-to-market accounting wasn't unheard of the time but using it for assets without an active market was unique. Without the market to make against, the numbers were best guess projections.

The problem is everyone along the line is incentivized to be aggressive with estimate (commissions for sales are bigger, public financials looks better) and discouraged from correcting the estimates when they go wrong.

Estimating multi-year returns on frontier models looks harder than estimating returns on oil and gas projects in the 90s.

New comment by stusmall in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

stusmall — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:51:46 +0000

Especially when the original claw had to change its name because it was piggybacking on another products hype...

New comment by stusmall in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

stusmall — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:29:45 +0000

NYT recently did a fantastic calculator. It isn't simple flat one or the other is cheaper. It takes into account buy vs lease, milage, local energy cost, length of ownership etc

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/upshot/ev-vs-gas-ca...

New comment by stusmall in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

stusmall — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:36:14 +0000

This falls under the "something similar" category but it's direnv support is great https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#direnv-integration

It isn't 1:1 since there probably won't be ansible provided configs, but I find writing nix devshells per project to be low effort and high reward. It'll only be a couple lines if all you need is a specific version of ansible

New comment by stusmall in "Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo"

stusmall — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:51:54 +0000

This is the way. This is how I do it with mine but use channels instead of flakes because I'm a giant curmudgeon.

My devshell can be found here and is dead simple: https://github.com/stusmall/stuartsmall.com/blob/main/defaul...

I used Zola for my SSG and can't think of the last breaking change I've hit. I just use the pattern of locked nix devshells for everything by default. The extra tools are used for processing images or cooklang files.

New comment by stusmall in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

stusmall — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:31:07 +0000

I was listening to the press conference and almost went back to edit my comment with a note about it. Honestly, coming out of that I have no idea if what is his saying is reality. As things stand and what we know, it doesn't make sense. We don't know about more troops currently on the ground. He said the VP has agreed to assist, but she is publicly saying very different things. I hate we are in a place as a country where we can't believe basic things about important topics our president says.

New comment by stusmall in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

stusmall — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:40:47 +0000

We aren't occupying Venezuela and rooting out everyone in the current regime and putting them on trial. We just arrested a handful of people leaving the rest of the government intact. It playing out like WW2 doesn't make sense

New comment by stusmall in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

stusmall — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:31:12 +0000

> The people in Venezuela want democracy. It's a fundamentally different situation.

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" - Dick Cheney (but I'm sure it'll work out this time)

There is a whole lot of directions this can go after we arrest the dictator, but a liberal democracy magically immediately popping isn't on my list. There might be one in the future but there will be a lot of chaos and violence between now and then.

New comment by stusmall in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

stusmall — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:50:03 +0000

I've been a massive JetBrains fanboy for a bit over a decade. I finally let my subscription lapse this month. It isn't so much about AI integrations but overall competitors have caught up. The rise of LSP and DAP did a lot to shrink their competitive advantage

New comment by stusmall in "GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"

stusmall — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:29:59 +0000

Diversity is a fantastic thing for security. It limits the impact when a bug drops and gives the possibility to migrate or run a mix of systems.

New comment by stusmall in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

stusmall — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:14:37 +0000

I'm seeing this hot take a lot but it doesn't make sense. Are people worried than LE is going to have a 45 day outage or something? ACME is an open standard with other implementations so I'm having trouble seeing the political central point of failure too.

It's okay for something to be a good thing and to celebrate it. We don't have to frown about everything.

New comment by stusmall in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

stusmall — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:02:41 +0000

You can force a panic with echo c | /proc/sysrq-trigger

New comment by stusmall in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"

stusmall — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:42:03 +0000

I've been running local models on an AMD 7800 XT with ollama-rocm. I've had zero technical issues. It's really just the usefulness of a model with only 16GB vram + 64GB of main RAM is questionable, but that isn't an AMD specific issue. It was a similar experience running locally with an nvidia card.

New comment by stusmall in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

stusmall — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:05:04 +0000

For something as simple as a terminal multiplexer, if you aren't seeing immediate value in a switch maybe its fine if you stick with what you have. You don't always need to be on the newest thing. I prefer zellij over tmux, but it is evolutionary not revolutionary. Instead of forcing yourself, save the effort and focus on something more valuable.

New comment by stusmall in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

stusmall — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:28:34 +0000

Even if it is after the cut off date wouldn't the models be able to query external sources to get data that could positively impact them? If the returns were smaller I could reasonably believe it but beating the S&P500 returns by 4x+ strains credulity.

New comment by stusmall in "Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?"

stusmall — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:06:26 +0000

I had the same experience in 2021 when the mobo died on a laptop that I bought slightly less than a year before. I was bothered by the failure but understand sometimes things just break. The service quality was good.

I'm not dealing with the scale other people are in here. We should take the ancedotes of personal laptops with a grain of salt. Anyone pushing the scale that Dell does will have incidents where service runs totally off the rails. I don't know how they stack up at scale but I'm reading this thread with interest. When I'm due for a laptop upgrade Dell will still be in the running but right now Framework might be the one to get my business.

New comment by stusmall in ".NET 10"

stusmall — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:55:31 +0000

>He was used to doing everything the C/Java/JavaScript/Python/almost-every-language-under-the-sun way, and avoiding the "Microsoft way" of doing things created so many roadblocks.

What exactly does this mean? I haven't touched .NET in earnest in over 10 years. I know the ecosystem has evolved a lot since then, but I don't know how or in what ways

New comment by stusmall in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

stusmall — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:04:56 +0000

Did Facebook's LLM write this comment?

New comment by stusmall in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

stusmall — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:04:09 +0000

Oh definitely. I have zero expectation of high level of manual reviews. You can run limited runs of adds for next to a couple dollars. The math could never work out. I understand a lot with make it through the system, this was just so blatant. It should be so easy to catch with an automated system. It was nothing but red flags. The automated systems could reject outright or maybe escalate to manual review if it met enough criteria (account reputation, spend floor, etc)