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New comment by va1a in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

va1a — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:47:10 +0000

And yet, it still takes 5 minutes for my canvas preview to load, and one in 20 times it crashes the whole app.

New comment by va1a in "Hacking Moltbook"

va1a — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:46:17 +0000

More realistically I think you'd need something like "Now write your post in the style of a space pirate" with a 10 second deadline, and then have another LLM checking if the two posts cover the same topic/subject but are stylistically appropriate.

New comment by va1a in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

va1a — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:53:36 +0000

Is this meant to detract from their situation? These tech stacks are mainstream because so many use them... it's only natural that AI would be the best at writing code in contexts where it has the most available training data.

New comment by va1a in "In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip"

va1a — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:51:04 +0000

It's a hardware wallet that just looks cool. Where's the "black mirror vibes". There's not much nefarious tech here.

How much would it cost to make an iPhone in America?

va1a — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:48:15 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@tgof137/how-much-would-it-cost-to-make-an-iphone-in-america-88b47cc04b60

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44751064

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New comment by va1a in "Fstrings.wtf"

va1a — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:46:11 +0000

Fun video, you can really feel the 2012 in it too.

New comment by va1a in "Fstrings.wtf"

va1a — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:39:50 +0000

More specific shenanigans aside, JavaScript will always be the king of unintuitive syntax. Some of these f-string tidbits are very much strange, but you'd have to be implementing something specific to encounter them. Meanwhile over in JS you're still waiting for your dependencies to install so you can compare two arrays.

New comment by va1a in "YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state"

va1a — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:27:54 +0000

Every now and then since deleting my account I click on a link to an X post and am reminded I can't read the replies, and then I am thankful again to my past self for deleting my account. I urge everyone to delete the app and their accounts, realistically there are just much better sources of information nowadays. It's not worth the mental headache to get your news from X, which recently honestly hasn't even been good at delivering it.

New comment by va1a in "Careless People"

va1a — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:41:21 +0000

It's interesting, this concept of "just following orders" recurs so much in almost all contexts. War behavior really seems to be the baseline of human interaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

New comment by va1a in "Java in the Small"

va1a — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 07:10:05 +0000

Fair, but in the context of scripting, which seems to be the focus of this article, how often are you dealing with complex library code? When I write scripts for file manipulation / simple automation, I'm usually not dealing with complex library objects. Plenty of os method calls, plenty of regex matches, but little else in this context. Big projects are another thing entirely. There's a plethora of reasons why you may want to use a different language for a certain project type. But it doesn't seem fair to imply that python is uniquely handicapped (or otherwise inferior to Java) for scripting and simple automation use-cases.

New comment by va1a in "Java in the Small"

va1a — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 02:20:05 +0000

> but the Python API isn't all that wonderful, and dynamic typing means that I spend too much time debugging

I don't know, this just seems more like inertia. "I'd rather stick to what I know best than this popular thing." Which is fine, and I'm glad Java has made improvements making it easier to hit the ground running. But blaming the use of Java on the inadequacies of Python? The python API can do just about anything, it has regex toolings, I've never found myself needing anything else. And the typing complaints? Yeah it can be annoying if you're not good at keeping track of your own typing hints, but modern python supports type annotations and linters like mypy[1] catch everything related to that just fine. I've always admired many of Java's features, but let's not act like the reason for using Java for scripting is the pitfalls of Python. It's just because of an underlying preference for Java.

1. https://mypy-lang.org/

New comment by va1a in "Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer"

va1a — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 23:38:28 +0000

Didn't know about pep 750, that's really cool that there's a push for native templating. I just hope we see a gradual stepping away of "everything clientside" and the JS framework hell that exists today. I've tried and I've tried but I just can't take javascript seriously. It's so ugly and overbuilt. It should never have been brought to the server, Node was a horrible mistake. In my ideal future, the web returns to servers doing their jobs, and JS being used for minor interactivity features when necessary.

New comment by va1a in "Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s entire surface"

va1a — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:36:39 +0000

The Knights of the Sun

New comment by va1a in "Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update"

va1a — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:19:49 +0000

Maybe even in a game period. Beautifully done remake.

New comment by va1a in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

va1a — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:11:52 +0000

Yeah it seems like this would also increase airflow. Is there any possible issue with just having it upside down all the time?