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New comment by te_chris in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

te_chris — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:08:38 +0000

Let me get this straight, they just didn’t supervise exams? For over 100 years. Lol.

New comment by te_chris in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

te_chris — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:10:31 +0000

I’ve never seen a billboard for it here - lived here 11 years.

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

te_chris — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:07:40 +0000

1) the models do generalise so concepts translate 2) languages with more opinionated semantics and a better, more coherent community seem to be better. Python is a broad shitshow with multiple ways to achieve the same thing. Elixir is tight and focused. Claude is much better at elixir.

New comment by te_chris in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

te_chris — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:57:06 +0000

No, the personal injury lawyer billboards.

New comment by te_chris in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

te_chris — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:06:15 +0000

A thankfully American reference

New comment by te_chris in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

te_chris — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:19:56 +0000

GCP is miles better. Their IAM is at least understandable, for a start.

New comment by te_chris in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

te_chris — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:18:01 +0000

“EC2 or Lightsail”. And this right here is why I use GCP. Google got VMs right.

New comment by te_chris in "Why TUIs are back"

te_chris — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:15:48 +0000

Why am I back on the terminal and 40k lines deep in my own ai-workflow tui? Two reasons: 1) AI writes my dotfiles. It fucking rules. 2) charm bracelet tui ecosystem in go is ace and ai writes it well.

New comment by te_chris in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

te_chris — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:30:06 +0000

What? In what world should the tool be given due credit.

New comment by te_chris in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

te_chris — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:39:56 +0000

Claude code and codex do this all the time too. Fucking annoying.

New comment by te_chris in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

te_chris — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:28:57 +0000

Cool that they don't let others do it. I tried to make a work fb account to access the hellscape that is business manager and they blocked it. Pricks.

New comment by te_chris in "Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]"

te_chris — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:05:27 +0000

the country isn't blocking his site. his self-importance is. OFCOM doesn't give a shit about this blog.

New comment by te_chris in "Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review"

te_chris — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:41:48 +0000

I’ve built this into a cli TUI. Passes the whole diff to Claude code with a schema and gets a structured narrative back out. Works really well for understanding.

Reconstituting messy things is exactly where LLMs can help.

New comment by te_chris in "Claude Opus 4.7"

te_chris — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:32:03 +0000

I try codex, but i hate 5.4's personality as a partner. It's a demon debugger though. but working closely with it, it's so smug and annoying.

New comment by te_chris in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

te_chris — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:59:48 +0000

I only pay adobe because, as an amateur, I can dump in raw files and they then make them go away from my hd. It's wild that no one else offers this, but that seems to be where we are.

How does BM cloud work in this regard? Can we dump a card straight in, have it sync, edit, export etc and never think about the files again?

New comment by te_chris in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

te_chris — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:55:12 +0000

Yes. Obviously it does.

New comment by te_chris in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

te_chris — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:54:12 +0000

Honestly: jog on.

You can see the transition happening. Right now.

New comment by te_chris in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

te_chris — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:22:38 +0000

Without wanting to sound rude: I think the mistake people make with AI prototypes is keeping the code at all.

The AI’s are more than capable of producing a mountain of docs from which to rebuild, sanely. They’re really not that capable - without a lot of human pain - of making a shit codebase good.

New comment by te_chris in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

te_chris — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:13:14 +0000

So naive. Private only works this way in Britain because it doesn’t have to be responsible for anything. It’s a luxury good and works accordingly.

We have insurance, it’s amazing! But it’s fake. If you want to know how a whole system of this would work, look at the US

New comment by te_chris in "Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading"

te_chris — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:47:13 +0000

And you’ll never guess who wrote it…