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christophilus··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
To be fair, the discussions here are usually more informative than the articles.
christophilus··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
It’s not better than codex / GPT in my experience. But it’s quite good. I’d say it’s useful and fast and with Cursor CLI is pretty capable with good limits for just $20 /mo. But Codex $100 plan is hard to beat.
christophilus··on Stop Making TUIs
It’s trivially easy to run a TUI in a container. Not so much with GUIs. And, since I run as much as possible in containers, and as little as possible on my host machine, I much prefer TUIs.
christophilus··on Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)
For me, I realized how insufferable my smart friends were, and I looked at people who I admired and whose company I enjoyed, and I realized humility was a key trait among the people I liked best. I’m still insufferable, though, but hopefully less than before!
christophilus··on Linux 7.2
Display port. Most monitors support it.
christophilus··on The August 17 outage
If you’re talking about internet clients, I think the real world provides sufficient jitter. If you’re talking about a fleet of clients on your 10gbps network, jitter might be useful.
christophilus··on Bun 1.4
I'm using it, though I'm leery of how the project is run. It's been great, to be honest. I have been able to build very low-dependency projects quite quickly. Bun's documentation is decent, and its underlying features are performant.
christophilus··on Bun 1.4
Unlimited full-access to one of the best LLMs / agents on the market, and 80 hour work weeks probably.
christophilus··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
Rust seems barely better than Node in this regard. Go or .Net or anything with a robust standard library seems like the way to go for most projects.
christophilus··on Don't Paste the AI, please
Well, those people would be opposed to using spellcheck and grammar tools, too, I guess. I don’t think there’s a reasonable argument against using AI to spellcheck/check your grammar other than that it’s hugely inefficient.
christophilus··on Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
Have you used their CLI? I run everything in VMs or containers to prevent access to things on my host.
christophilus··on Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
I moved a while back when Claude started refusing to do security audits and also failed to run properly in my sandbox without a lot of wrangling. Renamed Claude.md to agents.md and had no problems at all. There’s almost 0 switching cost.
christophilus··on Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
I just run it in dangerous / yolo mode in my own sandbox. Works great and no more nagging.
christophilus··on Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
Not sure what Antigravity is, but Sol is good at sysadmin tasks.
christophilus··on Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
Yeah. Same. Deepseek Flash goes a long way, but it’s not capable enough for many tasks, so I end up defaulting to my Codex sub and just use Sol.
christophilus··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
My friends in the cattle industry told me that one of Bill Gates’s companies is buying up pasture land and driving up prices across the midwest, too. I don’t know exactly how you’d legally prevent it, but it does seem like a problem.
christophilus··on Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
I never did. I did wait eagerly for new .NET releases, though.
christophilus··on [dead]
Most republicans I know personally are anti-Israel. Anecdotal, and all that, but it seems the tides are shifting.
christophilus··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
But, it could happen for a coding-focused model, or an accounting-focused model, etc. most tasks only need a subset of the total model to be done effectively.
christophilus··on Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
Doesn’t make them high margin, though.
christophilus··on Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin
Oh, no. Someone hacked into my Sega CD and??? I’m not aware of anything nefarious that could be done here.
christophilus··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
Yeah. No spinners. No pulsing gray placeholders that sit there for minutes and then shift the content when they load. No 10GB video playing in the background. My laptop didn't even get hot or spin up the fans when I viewed this page.
christophilus··on Grok 4.6
What harness are you using?
christophilus··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
We have around 27 million cattle (in the US) today. There were something like 30-50 million bison in the US before we almost eradicated them. Were the bison equally bad? Or is the problem that we’re feeding these ruminants unnatural diets?

Incidentally, I’d love to see the Great Plains return to huge roaming ruminant populations, and find a way to build our meat industry around that.

christophilus··on London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
I just went through airport security. It’s been coming a long time. 2001 made a lot of people in the US, at least, normalize big brother.
christophilus··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
A better workaround is to install Linux. My entire operating system, which includes Niri window manager and Dank Linux running a weather app, among many other things takes less around 1 gig of ram.
christophilus··on Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
Yep. Free solo climbers also rarely die of Alzheimer’s.
christophilus··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
It’s still much, much better than windows. And Linux is better still.
christophilus··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Dunno. Many designers are pretty bad at UX. They’re OK at aesthetics, but that’s not the same thing.
christophilus··on My server is a phone now
Great post. I’m impressed with your English skills. Turkish is a very different language, so I can’t imagine it’s easy to pick up English. Anyway, you inspired me to try doing this with one of my old devices. Gonna put that on my September hacking list.
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