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New comment by thisgoodlife in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

thisgoodlife — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:08:06 +0000

I’m curious how you guys keep track of each model’s coding capabilities. The landscape keeps changing. I don’t suppose you benchmark all frontier models every other month, right?

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

thisgoodlife — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:28:13 +0000

Even for battle-tested software like Postgresql, always read the changelog and test it thoroughly before upgrading.

New comment by thisgoodlife in "iPhone Air"

thisgoodlife — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:47:52 +0000

I like the size of a regular iPhone. What I really want is a lighter phone. Unfortunately, compared to the iPhone 17, the Air is about 30% thinner, with worse battery life, camera, etc, but only around 7% lighter. I was expecting at least 20% lighter if it's called "Air".

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Google confirms it's 'combining' Chrome OS and Android into a single platform"

thisgoodlife — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:35:48 +0000

Also combine fuchsia while you are at it. You don’t need so many operating systems

New comment by thisgoodlife in "GIMP 3.0"

thisgoodlife — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:49:32 +0000

Can it draw basic stuff like circles, arrows, and lines now?

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th"

thisgoodlife — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:48:45 +0000

I guess it’s the latter. If you can afford, give your users a generous offer, but never unlimited. Otherwise, some people will find very creative ways to abuse it.

New comment by thisgoodlife in "A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate"

thisgoodlife — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:09:20 +0000

I create a .venv directory for each project(even for those test projects named pytest, djangotest). And each project has its own requirements file. Personally, Python packaging has never been a problem.

New comment by thisgoodlife in "I'm Done with Ubuntu"

thisgoodlife — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:52:46 +0000

I don’t care much about package managers. I left Ubuntu because it put a snap directory in my home folder, put ads in mtod, and made mount output unreadable. It felt like I lost control of my computer.

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps"

thisgoodlife — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:32:46 +0000

So dumb, it’s brilliant!

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Show HN: I created a lightweight JavaScript library to visualize JSON as a graph"

thisgoodlife — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:26:18 +0000

Cool project! If the input is an array of objects, the output graph is just a single block. Is this the expected output?

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Postgres is eating the database world"

thisgoodlife — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 09:47:40 +0000

Did a quick search and found this 480-core server. Not exactly 512, but not far off. https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1729-thinksystem-sr950-v3-s...

New comment by thisgoodlife in "F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production"

thisgoodlife — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:50:27 +0000

How do you think we won WW2? By praying?

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative"

thisgoodlife — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:19:28 +0000

If the link contains the keys, does that mean the server can also see these keys?

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”"

thisgoodlife — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 23:13:00 +0000

I didn’t know a letter can be trademarked. If let’s say Xerox decides to get into the video game business, can Microsoft sue them for trademark infringement?

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Let's Encrypt issues 35 certs every second"

thisgoodlife — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 20:30:56 +0000

You can automate the process. Try certbot.

New comment by thisgoodlife in "YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers"

thisgoodlife — Wed, 10 May 2023 23:31:27 +0000

That’s a win win. You shouldn’t be forced to use the platform. And the platform shouldn’t be forced to provide you services for free

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Lotus 1-2-3"

thisgoodlife — Tue, 09 May 2023 20:28:32 +0000

If I were the customer, I’d reject your proposal too. The old software has been working fine for 40 years, why would I want to find someone to rewrite it?

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Making Python faster with Rust"

thisgoodlife — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 08:18:29 +0000

My concern is that it’s not ready for prod yet.

“At this point, the Python runtime is made available for experimentation and curious end-users. “

https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Alphabet is spending billions to become a force in health care"

thisgoodlife — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:34:46 +0000

I’m all for it if it means free health care.

New comment by thisgoodlife in "Google Maps tells Russians Crimea is in Russia, tells Ukrainians it's in Ukraine"

thisgoodlife — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:11:17 +0000

UN is useless when the Permanent Five is involved in the dispute. There is no way Russia and the US will agree on a resolution.