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New comment by weavie in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

weavie — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:11:48 +0000

> I also started CPAP recently

A proper nights sleep is massive! I'd put 99% down to this..

New comment by weavie in "Love systemd timers"

weavie — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:10:29 +0000

Is this one of those cases where at one point you had an error in the file and you figured it was down to spaces? You fixed that issue, it still didn't work but from that point you never thought to question the assumption.

I find myself doing this sort of thing all the time..

New comment by weavie in "Vivaldi 8.0"

weavie — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:25:16 +0000

Wow! Is this a new feature? I swear it wasn't there when I looked into it a few years ago. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

New comment by weavie in "Vivaldi 8.0"

weavie — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:27:14 +0000

Vivaldi is the only browser where you can actually disable Ctrl+W from closing a tab. And that is why fat fingered I uses it.

New comment by weavie in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

weavie — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:09:57 +0000

Unlikely. The media has already been taken over, so unfortunately people are more likely to cheer it on and blame outsiders for their problems.

New comment by weavie in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

weavie — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:55:30 +0000

The idea was, move fast and break things - but then pick them up and fix them. Companies realised they didn't really have to fix them properly as the users still stuck around.

New comment by weavie in "MCP as Observability Interface: Connecting AI Agents to Kernel Tracepoints"

weavie — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:07:39 +0000

Why?

New comment by weavie in "Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)"

weavie — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:15:53 +0000

I think this chap is just joking.

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

weavie — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:55:25 +0000

Interesting. On the pricing page, there are still limits placed on the usage. How restrictive have you found them?

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

weavie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:25:28 +0000

What are the best open models?

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

weavie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:40:28 +0000

Thank you, I'll look into it. For someone who is used to just working with second hand thinkpads, this stuff gets expensive fast!

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

weavie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:06:47 +0000

How good are local LLMs at coding these days? Does anyone have any recommendations for how to get this setup? What would the minimum spend be for usable hardware?

I am getting bored of having to plan my weekends around quota limit reset times...

New comment by weavie in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

weavie — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:22:33 +0000

You could make it happen in about a week and $50 worth of tokens.

New comment by weavie in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

weavie — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:15:20 +0000

I don't think it's so clear cut. The problem is that his personality defects have allowed him to be influenced by people who are truly malevolent. Those people lurk more in the shadows and so avoid the condemnation that they deserve. Trump is their obvious useful idiot with the target painted on his head.

New comment by weavie in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

weavie — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:51:53 +0000

I've worked at companies before where they have balked at spending $300 to buy me a second hand thinkpad because I really wanted to work on a Linux machine rather than a mac. I don't see them throwing $unlimited at tokens to find vulnerabilities, at least until after it's too late.

New comment by weavie in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

weavie — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:42:45 +0000

I get the ocassional file named `1` lying around.

New comment by weavie in "We mourn our craft"

weavie — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:14:54 +0000

Have you tried reading the documentation it generates?

New comment by weavie in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

weavie — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:01:56 +0000

As someone in the UK for whom that link is blocked, I wonder if that meme is doubly apt.

New comment by weavie in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

weavie — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:05:31 +0000

I'm largely just thinking $HUGE when throwing out that number, but there are plenty of companies that have cloud costs in that range. A quick search brings up Walmart, Meta, Netflix, Spotify, Snap, JP Morgan.

New comment by weavie in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

weavie — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:51:04 +0000

What is the upper limit of Hertzner? Say you have an AWS bill in the $100s of millions, could Hertzner realistically take on that scale?