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blks··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Not sure about android, but first time I went to Japan I managed to install Suica app on my iPhone, that added Suica card to the wallet. So now I can pay with Suica and also top it up using apple pay. Only downside is that Suica app is all in Japanese, but there are guides online that explain what to press.
blks··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
In my experience it’s quite uncommon for immigration visas/residence permits to require to leave
blks··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Are these rules actually that destructive, or are we witnessing astroturfing campaign?
blks··on Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
Even two minutes is crazy long. Does it really takes this long to make small edits with agentic LLMs?
blks··on Bun 1.4
The author didn’t care to himself, just merging enormous PRs with “lol” tweets about how github doesn’t display all the changes because there are too many.

This is unmaintable mess, and the author himself is struggling already, given how he pushed the release date ten times.

blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
That too, I’m sure that all big players constantly adjust their offerings: change token limits, system prompts, various filters/other auxiliary systems.
blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
> I spent a day's worth of tokens (5x) rephrasing and eliminating comments.

Surely it would be trivial to do it yourself, and it would have a side effect of making you more familiar with your project.

blks··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Nth post about another model suddenly feeling “worse” or “off”. Seems like active users of these models can only judge it based on a vibe and a feel.
blks··on Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
If said staff engineer would then claim junior’s work as his own, then yes. But for an entirely different reason, as well as this whole analogy doesn’t work here.
blks··on Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified
Unknowingly taking psychedelic substances is nothing positive, however positive outlook you may have on them.
blks··on Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
Tbf, author didn’t really read or write it, why anyone else should
blks··on The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
The notion “he read all the leftists books” is so childish.
blks··on The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
My guy, I think you got hooked by a grifter’s sales funnel.
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
Funnily enough he removed hand written part also by Claude. Just wow.
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
I think writing asm can be pretty straightforward and fun, with experience, strict developing principles and lots of macros.
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
It’s also a dead on arrival project that won’t exist for long, and will not be maintained and expanded by the author.
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
You haven’t even wrote readme yourself?
blks··on Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
One thing is where you learn through llm and then apply this knowledge, write asm the way humans do, another is letting Claude generate everything.
blks··on Stop Feeding the Machine: Time to Go Closed Source
Linus is not GNU/Linux. Nor is he a sole dictator in the project
blks··on Don't use your phone while you poop
I think the biggest issue with phone (as well as book) is that it lets you sit on the bog for a prolonged time which is terrible for anal health.
blks··on Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Good example why not to post your children faces online
blks··on The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
The author gave a quite clear example what any web/mobile developer can be doing without turning into architect or construction worker.
blks··on Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
Asked about drug-related financial question, got censorship in both models
blks··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
They are, for now; but also Apple is known for making long term price locked contracts and ensuring availability of semiconductors for their devices.
blks··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
If it takes so much resource to run, how does the sharing of a single llm works? There is some interface that basically submits context/cache plus current promt, from each user, doing basically time-sharing compute?
blks··on It's not empowering to hand off the details
I think the best way is to run agents under Unix user that has very limited rights (eg only read only) for project folder and the rest of the system. It’s kind terrifying how people run agents on their computers without any hard limitations, just hoping they will follow instructions and not do anything malicious. This is basically a trojan waiting to happen, either trying to solve something by all means possible, or getting prompt injection
blks··on Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
I’m not claiming it’s not fast, I’m commenting on general trend in how many projects market themselves
blks··on Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
Every new single piece of software calls itself “extremely fast”, “blazingly fast”, it gets tiring.
blks··on An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
And not actually receiving ADS-B which requires some radio module tunnable to specific frequencies
blks··on Bitchat is now on Radicle
Looks like the repo maintainer just stopped reviewing any PRs or replying to messages. If some wants this to proceed they should probably fork it
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