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New comment by throwaway63467 in "Working on Products People Hate"

throwaway63467 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:53:46 +0000

Most software is just there to get the job done. I’m building compliance tools that most users would very much like to never use as they’re just adding overheard over what they consider real work. You can still strive to make the software in a way that makes the unpleasant task of having to use it as painless as possible.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:06:35 +0000

The “requests” package gets downloaded one billion times every month, should that be a multi billion dollar VC company as well? It’s a package manager and other neat tooling, it’s great but it’s hardly the essence of what makes Python awesome, it’s one of the many things that makes this ecosystem flourish. If OpenAI would enshittify it people would just fork or move on, that’s all I’m saying, it’s not in any way a single point of failure for the Python ecosystem.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:29:54 +0000

It’s a small tool shop building a tiny part of the Python ecosystem, let’s not overstate their importance. They burned through their VC money and needed an exit and CLI tool chains are hyped now for LLMs, but this mostly sounds like an acquihire to me. Dev tools are among the hardest things to monetize with very few real winners, so good for them to get a good exit.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:52:21 +0000

I‘m running opus 4.5 which is arguably their best model and while it’s really good for a lot of work it always introduces subtle errors or inconsistencies when left unsupervised as prompts are never good enough to remove all ambiguity for complex asks, so I can’t imagine what it will do to a code base when left alone with it for days or weeks.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

throwaway63467 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 01:37:14 +0000

Is there much you can do with it? Does it still work as before, does it still have a GUI? Sounds really cool.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:31:25 +0000

I mean I used Copilot / JetBrains etc. to work on my code base but for large scale changes it did so much damage that it took me days to fix it and actually slowed me down. These systems are just like juniors in their capabilities, actually worse because junior developers are still people and able to think and interact with you coherently over days or weeks or months, these models aren’t even at that level I think.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video]"

throwaway63467 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:40:24 +0000

It’s even less usually, they reimburse you if they have a surplus, I think I pad around 1.500 € normally.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why"

throwaway63467 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:54:56 +0000

That’s basically the plot of Stardew Valley. Programmers yearn for the fields.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Framework Laptop 12 review"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:10:25 +0000

I guess. MBP is in the same ball park, it uses around 5-8 W when idle with the screen on, it’s just that the 16’’ model has a 100 Wh battery so naturally it lasts longer. On Windows the Lenovo apparently lasts as long as a MacBook but I use it on Linux where power management isn’t as well optimized, it idles at around 9 W.

I don’t get these comments in general, sure the MacBook is much better, and I use one as well. I still prefer native Linux on my machine sometimes and the Aura is probably the best Linux laptop I ever owned.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Framework Laptop 12 review"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:07:27 +0000

I have the MBP M4 Max with 48 GB and 2 TB drive, which is around 5.500 € here. That’s what I compare it to, it has around 40.000 points on Geekbench, the X9 around 20.000 and it was around 2.000 €. Not sure how the other M4 compare. And sure the MBP or the Air is of course the better machine if you want to run MacOS, for a Linux laptop the Aura is the best option now though.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Framework Laptop 12 review"

throwaway63467 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:41:23 +0000

Lenovo X9 Aura is pretty great. 80 Wh battery which gives you 6-10 hours of usage, 15’’ 120 Hz 3k OLED screen, new 3 nm Intel CPUs. Only half as fast as my M4 but less than one third the price, with an upgradable SSD and a customer-replaceable battery. My only gripes are the soldered 32 GB of RAM and that they only put one USB C connector on each side, otherwise a tremendously good machine for that price. I think it has a fan, haven’t noticed it yet though.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "How we made billing backendless"

throwaway63467 — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:16:05 +0000

Aren’t server actions a backend?

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server"

throwaway63467 — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:15:41 +0000

I was wondering when someone would write a type checker in Rust, seemed like an obvious thing to do given how slow mypy is.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Dow Slides Another 1k Points. Nasdaq on Pace to Enter Bear Market"

throwaway63467 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:20:02 +0000

Does anyone think they’re doing it on purpose to profit from short selling stocks? I mean they peddled two sh*tcoins right on Inauguration Day so it doesn’t seem too far fetched they would intentionally tank the stock market as well. It’s hard to see any other angle to this ridiculous policy. If you know where stocks are going you can profit regardless whether they go up or down, and making them go down is easier than making them go up, as a president.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours"

throwaway63467 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:51:42 +0000

Yeah but it’s like using a EU vendor that hosts on AWS, if the US government wants the data they’ll just subpoena AWS instead of the EU provider. I get that it’s better but anything hosted on US soil is under jurisdiction of the US government regardless of whether it’s ultimately owned by a EU vendor.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours"

throwaway63467 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:28:49 +0000

Though that makes little sense in the context of a CDN. I think Bunny uses US providers like Zenlayer for their egress there, so they’re just a middle man in my understanding. I don’t think there’s any EU provider that runs their own CDN hardware infrastructure in the US.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours"

throwaway63467 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:23:38 +0000

Hundreds of milliseconds though? Seems highly doubtful, Cloudflare has latency in the range of 10-20 ms for most metropolitan areas, that they would that ten times that much for returning a blog post seems unlikely unless caching or other things are misconfigured.

New comment by throwaway63467 in "Apple Debuts iPhone 16e"

throwaway63467 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:16:28 +0000

Their CPU is based on ARM IP, it’s not like they designed it from the ground up. The modem they might have had to? Also I guess a big challenge are all the patents you need to be aware of and find ways to license or circumvent, not sure if that’s worse for modems but it seems all wireless / cellular technology is riddled with patents (not saying CPUs aren’t but again ARM is probably taking care of some of that for Apple).

New comment by throwaway63467 in "The Origins of Wokeness"

throwaway63467 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:43:16 +0000

The fact they do this is not very surprising, what I find surprising is the velocity of the change of sentiment in large parts of the tech industry. It seems a lot of people were fed up caring about these topics and feel safe to openly say so now. That wasn’t the case during the first Trump administration, so I wonder what affected this change of heart now?

New comment by throwaway63467 in "The Origins of Wokeness"

throwaway63467 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:30:49 +0000

They simply realized reach is what you need to control, it doesn’t matter if you can write the most brilliant political content if no one will see it due to the distribution algorithm penalizing it while each single one of Musks mostly idiotic tweets reaches hundreds of millions of users. Free speech is meaningless if it can’t be heard by anyone.