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New comment by whatevaa in "On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted"

whatevaa — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:37:18 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1172/

Seems so. As smart as keeping tabs open in browser instead of using bookmarks, but "workflow".

New comment by whatevaa in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

whatevaa — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:07:25 +0000

Nebula is mostly irrelevant. Even Nebulas creators wouldn't survive without youtube revenue.

New comment by whatevaa in "Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300B AI exposure off balance sheets"

whatevaa — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:58:54 +0000

What are the benefits to actual people? What you are gonna replace lost jobs with? All electronics with ram or storage is now way more expensive due to AI gobling up everything. And then there are local power grid impact concerns.

Why would you be suprised there is opposition?

New comment by whatevaa in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

whatevaa — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:01:08 +0000

They are simply uncomfortable for that. That is a niche for a niche use case.

New comment by whatevaa in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

whatevaa — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:04:46 +0000

I once failed to find men section in H&M, even when it was listed as there :)

New comment by whatevaa in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

whatevaa — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:04:05 +0000

What does post office have to do with identity verification?

New comment by whatevaa in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

whatevaa — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:24:32 +0000

No, I'm annoyed that they submit their sloppy code to me as some value and then I have to deal with it. Happened in our org.

You are a programmer yourself, that is different. You can review AI output, understand and explain it. I won't get a response from you "I don't know, AI said so".

New comment by whatevaa in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

whatevaa — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:29:42 +0000

Autocars also currently only work in favorable conditions. Maybe driving in unfavorable conditions is just actually hard.

New comment by whatevaa in "iPhone Duo"

whatevaa — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:25:27 +0000

Many people in there don't have a separate computer. Phone is their computer. So it kinda makes sense.

New comment by whatevaa in "SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods"

whatevaa — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:58:56 +0000

Go ahead and do it just to prove a point.

New comment by whatevaa in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

whatevaa — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:50:08 +0000

Yup, make a rail to everybodys home instead, that will solve it.

New comment by whatevaa in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

whatevaa — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:39:15 +0000

The amount of non-determinism in compiler and LLM output is so vast that even comparing them is silly.

Tests are not a one time thing. They need to be maintained, and if you use same LLM to do it, it will happily delete failing ones, so better use a seaparate agent, and be prepared for the bill.

New comment by whatevaa in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

whatevaa — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:09:43 +0000

Most of those people are old and don't care about the future. Not their problem.

New comment by whatevaa in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

whatevaa — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:58:53 +0000

Those organizations will have to adapt to new reality, ie, that some CVEs are not real.

New comment by whatevaa in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

whatevaa — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:09:09 +0000

Are you still speaking about a tool or starting a religion?

New comment by whatevaa in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

whatevaa — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:59:30 +0000

Ventilating at night doesn't work at all when nights are hot. And now it happens oftenly, not sometimes. That is a bigger problem than hot days.

Also, all the activity you do inside your insulated home also increases temperature. Human body itself is a small space heater. At some point, you gotta get that energy out somehow, and if nights are hot, there is no way to do that except via a heat pump.

New comment by whatevaa in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

whatevaa — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:54:27 +0000

I think these T- rules haven't really been thought through at temperatures reaching and exceeding 40C.

New comment by whatevaa in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

whatevaa — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:53:22 +0000

Great when mobile ACs are mostly terrible, if-nothing-else choice. They can only cool a small room temporarily.

New comment by whatevaa in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

whatevaa — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:00:46 +0000

Sure. But try it on a project on non-trivial size and then tell us the cost of it. LLMS are billed per token.

New comment by whatevaa in "Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?"

whatevaa — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:27:26 +0000

Immigration is a duct tape solution to fixing things at this point. It is not going to build you an empire today.