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New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

thatnerdyguy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:12:06 +0000

Not my experience at all. I've been driving Luna xhigh in CoPilot CLI since it was released as my daily driver. Good reasoning, no problems with tool calls.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC"

thatnerdyguy — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:35:49 +0000

> they could resist this pressure and still be fine

Precisely. See also: TACO

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers"

thatnerdyguy — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:52:12 +0000

If the argument is that most developers can't understand what a DI system does, I don't know if I buy that. Or is the argument it's hard to track down dependencies? Because if that's the case the idiomatic c# has the dependencies declared right in the ctor.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?"

thatnerdyguy — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:46:25 +0000

If your hobby is 3d printERS sure (and more power to you), but for many people (me included) the hobby is 3d printING

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

thatnerdyguy — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:56:58 +0000

I'll note that in the US that 1000+ is the "list price". For those paying out of pocket, both zepbound and wegovy offer coupons available to anyone taking it down to $500 (and I'll note that discounted price keeps coming down, slowly, as well)

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs"

thatnerdyguy — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:18:16 +0000

To be fair, this is timing early bits of a preview feature. Compiled .NET apps have much better startup perf.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Python’s new t-strings"

thatnerdyguy — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:35:32 +0000

C# has InterpolatedStringHandler which isn't quite the same thing, but (in my understanding), trying to address the same core issues.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash"

thatnerdyguy — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:59:32 +0000

Then you block those people, and never see their stupid opinions again.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash"

thatnerdyguy — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:57:51 +0000

My X experience was far more partisan than Bluesky. Not being able to get away from seeing the latest thoughts of user numero uno was also a turn off.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash"

thatnerdyguy — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:55:39 +0000

But...restricted reach is exactly how Bluesky works. People you follow show up in your feed, and only them. You can look at other feeds that are not as restricted, but you are making that choice.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

thatnerdyguy — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:12:17 +0000

... but I think the argument goes "Signal can be used for unclassified communication, so we are OK"... great! .... but why were specific war plans and CIA officer names NOT classified? There are definite problems either way you slice it.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits"

thatnerdyguy — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:02:18 +0000

I hadn't seen this before. Thanks for posting! My 8 year old will get a kick out of this!

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected"

thatnerdyguy — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 17:25:42 +0000

I think that the argument goes US debt actually really doesn't matter, so long as Pax Americana is maintained. Being the global empire really helps out... until it doesn't

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "The killer features of the Steam Deck"

thatnerdyguy — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:47:02 +0000

Totally agree the sleep is the killer feature. I will have to quibble with Overcooked resulting in "collaborate with each other in a very nice way" ... when more often than not you end up screaming at your loved ones "I TOLD YOU TO GRAB THE F*CKING ONIONS!!!"

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes"

thatnerdyguy — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:05:44 +0000

In reference to Luke not really knowing what the heck he is doing, see also The Mandalorian season 2.5 (BoBF) - (summarized) "Hey little green guy, you can either join my weird cult and never see your friends again, or you can go ahead and f*ck off"

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search"

thatnerdyguy — Wed, 17 May 2023 20:06:06 +0000

Uh... are you suggesting that at some not-insignificant point into the pandemic someone credible was arguing COVID was NOT airborne?

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry"

thatnerdyguy — Wed, 03 May 2023 11:25:56 +0000

This is the correct take that should be at the top. They aren't opening the links in Edge, they are opening the links in an embedded window implemented using Edge.

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7"

thatnerdyguy — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:37:53 +0000

The devblog had a post on something about that last year: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/incremental-asp-net-to...

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Guide to Java Virtual Threads"

thatnerdyguy — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:54:23 +0000

And they are experimenting with green threads now. Would be... hilarious? If it landed in .NET before Java.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/tree/feature/green-thre...

New comment by thatnerdyguy in "Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA"

thatnerdyguy — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:44:55 +0000

I thought Windows machines just used the TPM to store WebAuthN keys? No yubikey necessary. Just a click on some popup dialog to select your credential for login.