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blumenkraft

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blumenkraft··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
So what you're saying is you basically have to give. This is what I find real life is like. Unless I'm giving something, like a ride to some interesting place, people are not interested in me at all. They just want to get something from me, that's it.
blumenkraft··on The $LANG Programming Language
Goldman Sachs does have a language called Slang
blumenkraft··on Junior Developers in the Age of AI
I'm happy to hire juniors but they must still have relevant skills. One question I ask is "how does one build a coding agent" - if a junior is unable to outline the ideas around building and expanding coding agents, it indicates they are not aware of what industry they work in.
blumenkraft··on The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs
In all honesty this is how a typical developer experience has been for a long time in a number of systems. Expecting someone to pre-chew your programming food is silly.
blumenkraft··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
I imagine they do not see it as a level playing field. If OpenCode can draw on Claude Code credits but cannot draw on Codex ones (we've just had a tweet promising to fix this, more or less), then it can be construed as an advantage on the part of OpenAI. Personally I think it's idiotic and companies should stop penny-pinching in situations where people are already paying $200, there can be no more value extraction at this price point.
blumenkraft··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
Please stop with this 'subsidising' nonsense. It is nobody's business whether anybody is subsidizing anything. I couldn't care less what the internal financial mechanics of Anthropic is. Even if they are losing money on every single paying user, I DO NOT CARE, it's their problem, not mine.
blumenkraft··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
Yep. That was definitely a major mistake. They could have secured an epic W by letting Claude Code hang as a consumable endpoint. Trying to protect it behind their own, Anthropic-based tools, is asinine and serves absolutely no-one.
blumenkraft··on Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
A failure can simply try again (and again, and again...)
blumenkraft··on Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)
Could have been answered with a single sentence instead of a trip down memory lane that nobody wants or needs.
blumenkraft··on All Delisted Steam Games
One of the most creative and original games ever made.
blumenkraft··on QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
And it was awesome! Very responsive.
blumenkraft··on QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
Infotainment controls many of car systems. For example, infotainment controls car drive mode, which instantly affects gearbox. Probably requires predictable time delays for certification.
blumenkraft··on Creating an empty iterator of a certain type in Rust (2018)
Performance or not, this language is borderline unreadable.