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New comment by warmwaffles in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

warmwaffles — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:54:51 +0000

I went from Alacritty to Ghostty for ligatures and some other small goodies. I could probably get those same goodies with Kitty, but I didn't want to try nor have the desire to try. I may go back to Alacritty if I grow tired of Ghostty.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time"

warmwaffles — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:19:40 +0000

It's a contrived example.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

warmwaffles — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:25:31 +0000

You win some, you lose many. I savor the times I win.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

warmwaffles — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:13:56 +0000

Indeed I was. But that's lost on people here.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

warmwaffles — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:45:53 +0000

> Don't ask LLMs for big changes

> Review everything and point them in the right direction

Sorry upper management doesn't care. That's an engineering problem that you need to solve.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Shopify Is Down"

warmwaffles — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:36:13 +0000

And even if it _was_ related to AI, they would not admit it. First course of action is to blame user/programmer error and then QA process error. You shall not blame the golden calf. I am half serious and half not. But I do recommend reading the book "The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'" in conjunction with my hyperbole.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Expertise in the age of AI"

warmwaffles — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:34:02 +0000

Schools have always lagged and can barely keep up. Books once printed on any tech topic is almost always outdated by the time it reaches students. Anecdotally, I went through high school being told over and over that I wouldn't always have a calculator in my pocket. I think the messaging they conveyed was done poorly, and should have said "you need to understand the fundamentals and why the calculator gave you the answer".

New comment by warmwaffles in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

warmwaffles — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:01:05 +0000

> Moore's Law approaching its end.

No it isn't. We are going more parallel and the transistor counts will continue to rise.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Staged publishing and new install-time controls for npm"

warmwaffles — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:51:12 +0000

Perfect, now we'll start seeing people automate auto publishing because they don't want to explicitly push a button to publish it.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

warmwaffles — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:50:59 +0000

Well if you also have your 2024 input docs as well, you may want to check that too in separate sessions. Post your findings. I'm interested.

New comment by warmwaffles in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

warmwaffles — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:34:02 +0000

The sweet spot for being just fast enough to not irritate you is 10tok/s. Still slow but faster than you can sustain at typing and thinking. Just interesting to observe.

New comment by warmwaffles in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

warmwaffles — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:29:14 +0000

> quickly text a colleague.

This is still common and useful to gut check and make sure you aren't missing something. Source: wife is a doctor.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

warmwaffles — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:44:31 +0000

Because he wants to move it and then has to provide rationale behind why Ghostty is moving away from Github.

New comment by warmwaffles in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

warmwaffles — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:59:24 +0000

I am curious to watch this unfold. How long until a clever supply chain attack effects this? What will the response be? Will be interesting to see it.

New comment by warmwaffles in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

warmwaffles — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:51:04 +0000

> Couldn't you also just have an LLM review the PR and quickly fix any issues? Or even have it convert the PR into a list of specs, and then reimplement from there as you see fit?

Sometimes I'm not a fan of the change in its entirety and want to do something different but along the same lines. It would be faster for me to point the agent at the PR and tell it "Implement these changes but with these alterations..." and iterate with it myself. I find the back and forth in pull requests to be overly tiresome.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick"

warmwaffles — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:31:47 +0000

Yea this is operating on the pointer to the values, but if you use just an `unsigned a` it uses xor

clang: https://godbolt.org/z/5PEMTrxba

gcc: https://godbolt.org/z/7j8h4zo4v

New comment by warmwaffles in "Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick"

warmwaffles — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:26:22 +0000

`-Wall` is your friend and boy it is a major irritant using third party sloppy libraries when statically compiling it all.

New comment by warmwaffles in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

warmwaffles — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:56:42 +0000

Yes, especially if you are using a WAL.

New comment by warmwaffles in "Show HN: We're building an AI hedge fund"

warmwaffles — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:22:11 +0000

10-Ks are going to be written by LLMs increasingly soon. I wonder how this will impact LLMs reading them.

New comment by warmwaffles in "The future of version control"

warmwaffles — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:24:25 +0000

I've trained myself to avoid this entirely by avoiding changing lines unnecessarily. With LLMs, I also force them to stay concise and ONLY change what is absolutely necessary.