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New comment by teh_klev in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

teh_klev — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:20:38 +0000

> all the same knowledge is still out there though

> The markup is the millions in training they committed and the connecting the knowledge

Sure, but gated behind a hallucinating idiot.

New comment by teh_klev in "Let's make quality the norm again"

teh_klev — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:10:36 +0000

You didn't specify which one.

Also...

> But boy was I disappointed that their "Zwilling Peak" branded ceramic hybrid frying pan for $100 says "Made in China"

But does it work? My twenty year old B&W speakers were built in China but they do the job and do it really well.

New comment by teh_klev in "Let's make quality the norm again"

teh_klev — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:17:45 +0000

There's two Henckels listed:

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands/henckels-internatio...

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands/zwilling

The first one is on their watchlist and probably the brand you're thinking of?

New comment by teh_klev in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

teh_klev — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:51:29 +0000

>but the quiz is unfair - it assumes there is only one "true way", but a lot of frameworks give you options

It says right underneath that quiz:

"There isn’t really a right answer, because you were probably right for some language"

New comment by teh_klev in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

teh_klev — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:06:47 +0000

This was my experience. Years ago I travelled to New Zealand in what would be their spring time. We stayed in Wanaka but also travelled around Twizel, Tekapo etc.

Although it was pretty sunny with clear blue skies, the air temperature was fairly chilly (shirt, jumper and fleece cold - and I'm Scottish so used to cold weather) and I started to burn. I was warned about this, and the probability of high UV exposure at altitude by the locals and family, and was advised to apply a high factor sunblock whilst roaming around the higher elevations of New Zealand's South Island, which I did.

New comment by teh_klev in ""Solving a largely imaginary user goal""

teh_klev — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:04:01 +0000

> I don't get the "everything needs to support dark theme" thing either tbh

I started my career when screens were black with text displayed using green/white/amber phosphor and was used to that. I never liked the bright white UIs when GUI based OS/front ends took over (before themes became a thing).

I find the wall of bright white with black/dark text tiring to look at. Collaborating with colleagues doing screen sharing where they don't use dark themes is really jarring.

It's almost an accessibility thing for me these days.

New comment by teh_klev in "The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”"

teh_klev — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:22:35 +0000

I don't mind taking a long time to complete a book if the story is good. I just re-read a couple of Peter F Hamilton 1200 page tomes that took me over a month to complete (Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained). However they were fun and I was immersed in the world building.

There are other far shorter novels I have abandoned after 70-80 pages because they're just not very good.

New comment by teh_klev in "The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”"

teh_klev — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:11:27 +0000

I gave up on the Booker Prize years ago. It's mostly hand wringing, dreary, navel gazing tedium, which is a shame.

New comment by teh_klev in "The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”"

teh_klev — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:05:14 +0000

I own, and have read, quite a few novels from the SF Masterworks series. It's my go to for decent quality reprints of older sci-fi. Can definitely recommend.

New comment by teh_klev in "Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025)"

teh_klev — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:27:31 +0000

These are the original articles this re-heat was created from:

- https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/magnolias-be...

- https://gardens.si.edu/learn/blog/the-botany-of-magnolias/

New comment by teh_klev in "BLISS"

teh_klev — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:30:44 +0000

That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates:

https://github.com/madisongh/blissc

New comment by teh_klev in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

teh_klev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:49:46 +0000

> My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops

I used to do this as well and this is fine if you're able to source cheap power. But I'm in the UK, electricity prices are insane and I can't afford to run this kind of setup any more.

New comment by teh_klev in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

teh_klev — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:53:12 +0000

> Microsoft management has decided CLR has a new meaning, C# Language Runtime. > VB, C++/CLI and F# are only there because existing customers.

Oh, I think we need a citation for these claims.

New comment by teh_klev in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

teh_klev — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:08:15 +0000

No, sadly not.

New comment by teh_klev in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

teh_klev — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:32:51 +0000

When I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick branded hardware, amongst a fleet of terminals and early PC hardware. Nothing ever seemed to go wrong with it.

New comment by teh_klev in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

teh_klev — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:23:14 +0000

As a former Data General engineer, I too would like to see some love for RDOS and AOS. And also their diagnostic tool ADES which was a specialised OS in its own right, and ICOS.

New comment by teh_klev in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

teh_klev — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:46:26 +0000

Why is it "combative"? Seems like a needlessly hyperbolic description of launching a desktop app.

New comment by teh_klev in "SQL Design Patterns (2010)"

teh_klev — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:25:04 +0000

>hides the execution.

But you're not prevented from finding out how your query was executed. For example EXPLAIN (MySQL, Postgres) or query analyser for MSSQL.

New comment by teh_klev in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"

teh_klev — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:50:31 +0000

I have a link for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

New comment by teh_klev in "Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal"

teh_klev — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:07:05 +0000

Yes, this is that company. This is the "original":

https://github.com/sst/opencode