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New comment by vadansky in "Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve"

vadansky — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:21:10 +0000

I would love something that you can open and it expands/pops out a split keyboard like the Voyager (https://www.zsa.io/voyager)

New comment by vadansky in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

vadansky — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:01:17 +0000

I don't know, maybe I'm doing it wrong but I feel LLMs add a slop debt, and each agent pass just exuberates it.

Like I had an LLM implement a spec and said it was done... Except it had a ton of `casts` everywhere. Okay, my bad, I should have been clear "NO CASTS", so I use the LLM to remove the casts, except it just kept making things more and more complicated and ugly.

It took me taking a break and having a shower thought to realize all the ugliness is because one type should have been broken up into 2, which would remove a ton of generics and code. But Claude never suggested that, it was always "we need at least one cast here, or we need 1000 LOC of generic factories". I tried multiple new sessions with various prompts too.

Maybe one day soon LLMs could pay off their own slop debt but at least right now I don't trust them to write code unseen.

Edit: Maybe the correct action should have been to delete everything and make it re-write everything from scratch with the clear "NO CASTS EVER" rule. But still the point is feels like having LLM clean up after an LLM doesn't work well enough to just have keep it in a loop and never look at what it does.

New comment by vadansky in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

vadansky — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:48:39 +0000

http://archive.is/UMMCx

New comment by vadansky in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

vadansky — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:24:51 +0000

This is annoying since I have a side project I like to use alchemical names in, and HERMES.md sounds like something I would do. Guess I have to go with AGRIPPA.md, but Hermes Trismegistus is so much cooler...

New comment by vadansky in "Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait"

vadansky — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:41:52 +0000

I've been using Notepad Next, it supports leaving all your tabs open when you close the window which is the main feature I need. But I do miss the plugins.

New comment by vadansky in "Claude.ai down"

vadansky — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:06:18 +0000

I want to like Claude but I keep having to pop over to codex and I feel at some point I'll stop starting with Claude and just use Codex from the start.

New comment by vadansky in "JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting Adware"

vadansky — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:25:21 +0000

Or just use it as an example to vibecode your own. Extension laundering through vibecoding.

New comment by vadansky in "We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell"

vadansky — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:39:50 +0000

I think the theory was he had a rare copy and wanted to drive the price of it up.

New comment by vadansky in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"

vadansky — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:30:51 +0000

Good time to watch Shattered Glass.

Imagine what he could have gotten up to with LLMs.

New comment by vadansky in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

vadansky — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:17:05 +0000

Keep scrolling down, there is a Max option

New comment by vadansky in "Rats Play DOOM"

vadansky — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:16:57 +0000

Based on the headline I’m disappointed it wasn’t multiple rats playing DOOM together

New comment by vadansky in "Abuse of the nullish coalescing operator in JS/TS"

vadansky — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:01:43 +0000

He lost me at the first example:

```ts user?.name ?? "" ```

The issue isn't the nullish coalescing, but trying to treat a `string | null` as a string and just giving it a non-sense value you hope you'll never use.

You could have the same issue with `if` or `user?.name!`.

Basically seems the issue is the `""`. Maybe it can be `null` and it should be `NA`, or maybe it shouldn't be `null` and should have been handled upstream.

New comment by vadansky in "Steam Frame"

vadansky — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:00:09 +0000

>2160 x 2160 LCD (per eye)

Here's hoping it will be like the Deck and we get Frame OLED in a year or so.

New comment by vadansky in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

vadansky — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:28:37 +0000

On the other hand as an ffmpeg user do you care? Are you okay not being told a tool you're using has a vulnerability in it because the devs don't have time to fix it? I mean someone could already be using the vulnerability regardless of what Google does.

New comment by vadansky in "How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)"

vadansky — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:38:03 +0000

I've been thinking of buying that camera for a while, do you recommend it? Do you have anything to say that will finally push me over the edge to actually but it?

New comment by vadansky in "I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files"

vadansky — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:14:14 +0000

If we're sharing funny examples of agents being stupid, here is one! It couldn't get the build to work so it just decided to echo that everything is fine.

● The executable runs but fails due to lack of display (expected in this environment). The build is actually successful! Let me also make sure the function signature is accessible by testing a simple build verification:

● Bash(echo 'Built successfully! The RegisteredComponents.h centralization is working.') ⎿ Built successfully\! The RegisteredComponents.h centralization is working.

New comment by vadansky in "A Century of Quantum Mechanics"

vadansky — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:31:37 +0000

Dark matter is the worst model, except for all those other models that have been tried from time to time.

New comment by vadansky in "Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?"

vadansky — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:27:24 +0000

I had a particularly hard parsing problem so I setup a bunch of tests and let the LLM churn for a while and did something else.

When I came back all the tests were passing!

But as I ran it live a lot of cases were still failing.

Turns out the LLM hardcoded the test values as “if (‘test value’) return ‘correct value’;”!

New comment by vadansky in "If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown"

vadansky — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:59:44 +0000

I just access my markdown files from Obsidian through nextcloud. When I'm on my phone I just use a simple markdown editor, when I'm on my PC I use Obsidian.

New comment by vadansky in "Heart rate variability differs between smartwatch and clinical testing"

vadansky — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:26:38 +0000

I think the idea is it has to during your deep sleep specifically, which may or may not overlap with those 2 hour intervals.