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New comment by tvbusy in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

tvbusy — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:39:31 +0000

AI is a terrible choice for this task. Radarr does this much better with plenty of built-in as well as community guides for configuration. Add a mobile app for Radarr and it's as convenient as it can be.

New comment by tvbusy in "Anthropic Claude and API service outages"

tvbusy — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:30:19 +0000

Struggling with demands is a performance problem, not a reliability problem.

New comment by tvbusy in "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner"

tvbusy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:13:33 +0000

I wonder if having another normal camera capturing at the same time to assist with stitching images together will be easier than measuring acceleration? The normal camera doesn't need to have high resolution, just enough to align the images.

New comment by tvbusy in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

tvbusy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:16:35 +0000

One thing this post did not discuss is the enormous effort required to explain to the management why number PRs has increased and number of lines changes, which in their view, means explosion of productivity, yet one engineer is destroying the team's momentum.

New comment by tvbusy in "São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest"

tvbusy — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:56:57 +0000

Now I remember why I have the site in my adblock list. AI Illustrations are an immediate block for me.

New comment by tvbusy in "More German than many Germans"

tvbusy — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:12:11 +0000

When I discussed voting with Germans (looking forward to my first), the reaction has mostly been about not voting for the party that they are unhappy with. I even have an immigrant friend telling me he will vote for the AfD and could not answer me why he's voting for the party that will kick him out of the country. His reason was more because he's unhappy with how the current situation is and wants changes and doesn't really think what change will help.

New comment by tvbusy in "Vite+ Beta"

tvbusy — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:10:00 +0000

It uses Vite so the same limitations as Vite. However, I have been using Vite for my NestJS servers without any problem with `vite-plugin-node`. See example at https://github.com/leosuncin/nest-vite-example/blob/master/v...

New comment by tvbusy in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

tvbusy — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:55:21 +0000

This person is so dangerous that if I offer them to stay in my shaded yard in the middle of the excruciating sun, they will demand that I let them take my house as well.

New comment by tvbusy in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

tvbusy — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:10:30 +0000

I don't think the prompts that the author has proposed will actually work. Including final scope and non-scope is good but it's more of a reaction of what the AI already did. These prompts are suitable for a rewrite, basically, since it's unlikely anyone would have had these ready when they start out.

I have found small iterations to have the best results. I'm not giving AI any chance to one shot it. For example, I won't tell it to "create a fleet view" but something more like "extract key binding to a service" so that I can reuse it in another view before adding another view. Basically, talk to the AI as an engineer talking to another engineer at the nitty gritty level that we need to deal with everyday, not a product person wishing for a business selling point to magically happen.

New comment by tvbusy in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

tvbusy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:13:28 +0000

On the positive side, LLMs are trained based on real data so the default is for it to tell you what data showed. Companies will certainly enforce their influence but it's extra effort against the enormous amount of data, just like with trying to censor sensitive topics. Any context used for ads means less context for the user to use which in turn negatively affects their usefulness.

New comment by tvbusy in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

tvbusy — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:41:45 +0000

We have seen this before. Companies using VC money to take over the market and then increase prices. In the end, we're worse off without these scumbags but some will still sing that we got free service do it's bot enshitification.

New comment by tvbusy in "Veracrypt project update"

tvbusy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:06:42 +0000

I understand that most people want to move to other more modern tools, it's up to you. However, what baffled me is why the author's choice not to move is a problem? Did we pay them to move and they did not move as promised? Was there some crowd funding to move that was not fulfilled?

New comment by tvbusy in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"

tvbusy — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:43:46 +0000

I use DuckDuckGo Email and it generates unique addresses that I can both receive emails (obviously) and reply to from that email. There's also an option to shutdown that address and never receive spam again.

New comment by tvbusy in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

tvbusy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:39:17 +0000

If only cancer patients can be this positive.

New comment by tvbusy in "Android Developer Verification"

tvbusy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:24:05 +0000

Phone sellers should enforce a mandatory 30 days no use after purchasing to ensure that people are not harmed by phone usage.

Newspapers should only report news at a minimum 7 days after the fact to ensure accurate reporting.

Toasters should lock everything in until it's completely room temperature to avoid accidental burns.

These are serious problems.

New comment by tvbusy in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

tvbusy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:23:44 +0000

I don't have an account with them. Would it make sense to sign up and create a script to use up the monthly free quota with random characters?

New comment by tvbusy in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

tvbusy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:08:46 +0000

LLMs have randomness baked into every single token it generates. You can try running LLMs locally and set the temperature to low and it immediately feels boring to always have the same reply every time. It's the randomness that makes them feel "smart". Put it another way, randomness is required for the illusion of intelligence.

New comment by tvbusy in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

tvbusy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:19:55 +0000

If you already have Home Assistant running, I think it should be simple. Most of the time you can buy devices with pins already soldered and it's just the matter of connecting them together. AIs are pretty good with ESPHome configs. You can even take a picture so that they can help you identify the correct pins. Some coding may be required for drawing things on the display though.

New comment by tvbusy in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

tvbusy — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:45:45 +0000

Totally. Frameworks also make it a lot easier for new team members to contribute. React, for example, makes it a lot easier to hire. Any project with moderate size will require some kind of convention to keep things consistent and choosing a framework makes this easier.

Now look at the cross team collaboration and it gets even harder without frameworks. When every team has their own conventions, how would they communicate and work together? Imagine a website with React, Vue, Angular all over the place, all fighting for the same DOM.

New comment by tvbusy in "ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use"

tvbusy — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:04:18 +0000

Someone please hint ICE that they can get a lot more data from AI companies. Asking what your rights are? Straight to jail.