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New comment by teach in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

teach — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:01:20 +0000

For what it's worth, I really enjoyed this read and almost came here to comment "this is the most enjoyable llm-assisted article I've read in a while"

The tells were unmistakable but it still had a human touch, so I for one am glad you published anyway.

New comment by teach in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

teach — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:16:24 +0000

In my case it's exactly that. I have a Linux gaming workstation, a work-issued (and managed) MacOS laptop and a Google-branded (Pixel) Android phone.

Bitwarden just works in all those places and the tech was, by all accounts, rock solid. AND I can pay for it instead of trying to leech off some privacy-ambiguous free tier.

New comment by teach in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

teach — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:59:21 +0000

Anyone who makes fun of you for feeling things probably isn't anyone you want to listen to, anyway.

Thanks for being human and making ergonomic software for humans.

New comment by teach in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

teach — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:54:54 +0000

Yeah this worked for me last night, but I too get a blank screen today.

In the developer console I see a CORS error for an attempt to load an SVG component from a CDN; I wonder if the dev pushed out a bad update

New comment by teach in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

teach — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:31:51 +0000

I definitely trust my local LLM where I know the prompt that was used. Even if the code generated ends up being near-identical, it'll be way faster to review a PR from someone or something I trust than from some rando on the Internet

New comment by teach in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

teach — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:34:34 +0000

This isn't especially related to the article, but when I was at university my first assembler class taught the Motorola 680x0 assembly. I didn't own a computer (most people didn't) but my dorm had a single Mac that you could sign up to use so I did some assignments on that.

Problem is, I was just learning and the mac was running System 7. Which, like MS-DOS, lacked memory protection.

So, one backwards test at the end of your loop and you could -- quite easily -- just overwrite system memory with whatever bytes you like.

I must have hard-locked that computer half a dozen times. Power cycle. Wait for it to slowly reboot off the external 20MB SCSI HDD.

Eventually I took to just printing out the code and tracing through it instead of bothering to run it. Once I could get through the code without any obvious mistakes I'd hazard a "real" execution.

To this day, automatic memory management still feels a little luxurious.

New comment by teach in "How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025)"

teach — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:03:19 +0000

Maybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline

Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever

New comment by teach in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

teach — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:10:51 +0000

One could argue that, given how singularly awful it is, GitHub's historical uptime might qualify as "historic".

New comment by teach in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

teach — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:29:39 +0000

Dumb question, but if this is "open source" is there source code somewhere? Or does that term mean something different in the world of models that must be trained to be useful?

New comment by teach in "Runners who churn butter on their runs"

teach — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:48:23 +0000

This is amazing but even as a runner who loves to make my own "processed" food this really reads like a submarine article for the dairy industry.

"I used to be vegan, but you know I just can't liveeeeeeee without that real butter!!!!!!!"

New comment by teach in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

teach — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:41:11 +0000

If you never play the original sample, you never have to worry about royalties.

:rollsafe-think-about-it:

New comment by teach in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

teach — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:23:09 +0000

I've seen this story making the rounds, but this isn't news, is it?

All self-driving companies maintain teams that make a decision when the cars get confused or stuck, and they report the number of such handoffs to NHTSA.

Is it just that there are teams in the Philippines specifically?

New comment by teach in "Best Gas Masks"

teach — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:26:18 +0000

That makes sense to me. I really enjoyed the personal anecdotes and I thought they made the article a lot stronger for me, but a dry gas mask review would have also been an excellent, albeit different, article.

New comment by teach in "Best Gas Masks"

teach — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:24:32 +0000

A permanent ban seems strong, but it sure does seem like folks are using flagging as a super downvote in this case

New comment by teach in "Best Gas Masks"

teach — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:15:00 +0000

Could it be that people who have commented in a flagged post are forbidden from vouching?

New comment by teach in "Best Gas Masks"

teach — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:49:39 +0000

Yet another interesting article flagged because it touches on American politics.

What's the procedure for flagged articles become unflagged? Maybe do I need more karma or something before I can vouch for them?

New comment by teach in "Show HN: Typing Tennis"

teach — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:05:11 +0000

I LOVE the style, but it's currently unplayably buggy!

* I type "hit" to serve (note: for consistency you should require ENTER on this word, too)

* Ball slowly travels, CPU returns it

* Return word appears

* I type the return word and press ENTER

* No matter what I do, once the ball gets close to my side, the "HINT" pops up and won't go away until I start typing the return word again

* Whether I type the word correctly or not, my guy fails to return the ball

Latest Firefox on MacOS.

Hope you get this sorted out -- it looks fun

New comment by teach in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

teach — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:25:52 +0000

I guess I can see how pre-installing some LLM agents makes it potentially seem "AI-centric", but I don't understand at all how this could be "US-centric".

New comment by teach in "Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants"

teach — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:02:52 +0000

I actually switched to Ruby for this very reason and used it for a few years. I still have a soft spot for Ruby as well.

Unfortunately I had a different experience with the Ruby community, so I eventually switched to Python along with apparently everybody else.

New comment by teach in "Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants"

teach — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:41:09 +0000

Perl was the first language I learned on my own after graduating university many years ago. I fell in love with it because of quirks like these and because code written in it can have a poetic quality you don't see often.

Now I am old and joyless and I want the code I write for work to be boring and unsurprising.

But sometimes one can still want to write poetry.