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drowsspa··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
Honestly every developer needs to increase those default limits, they are too low for modern development... So you are just crippling them and a proof of that is they keep getting this error while in their regular workflow
drowsspa··on We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled
Using AI is a pretty good indicator that the reader will need to exert more effort than the writer did. Unless the reader also decides to use AI to summarize it, but then what's the point?
drowsspa··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
Would be nice if people published the prompts, thoughts and responses of the LLMs together with the code, in order to fight against these restrictions... Instead of just publishing the final result and talking vaguely about how they prompted the LLM in a Hacker news comment or Twitter thread

If LLMs are the new compilers those are the actual source code

drowsspa··on Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You
Yeah I'd love to see a cookie cutter project with all of the best practices of the boilerplate files
drowsspa··on Helium is hard to replace
I think the issue is about our not believing what religious people themselves tell us about their reasoning
drowsspa··on GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
At least the compiler was free
drowsspa··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Yeah, I grew up poor in the 3rd world (not quite Chad level though) and even the upper class culture of my own country was almost alien for us and vice versa... Imagine the 1st world.
drowsspa··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Yeah, as soon as you don't need children to help with your work, they don't make much sense in the capitalist individualistic society. That women still choose to do it, honestly... I see as a triumph of the human spirit
drowsspa··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Who do you think is their perceived neighborhood in time and space?

(edit) And moreover, they still need their children to help with their work... So honestly, any analysis that doesn't take this huge confounding variable is just silly

drowsspa··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
People compare themselves to their perceived neighborhood in time and space, not to peasants from 5 thousand years ago.
drowsspa··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Funny how you don't realize you fit perfectly into the description of one of the groups that know exactly what is going on.
drowsspa··on Data centers in space makes no sense
That's not how it works. Two bodies are in thermal equilibrium if there's no heat transfer between them: that's the zeroth law of thermodynamics. If you're colder than 2.73K in deep space, you will absorb the heat from the Cosmic Microwave Background. If you're hotter, you will irradiate heat away. So it does have a temperature.
drowsspa··on Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
Honestly back when I was still in college one and a half decade ago, it was quite clear the whole Nvidia-only ML and AI libraries weren't a good idea
drowsspa··on The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
That was the point of the successive questions in the second paragraph...
drowsspa··on The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
You still need to compile when those libraries are not pre compiled.
drowsspa··on The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
I find it amazing how much the mess that building C/C++ code has been for so many decades seems to have influenced the direction technology, the economy and even politics has been going.

Really, what would the world look like if this problem had been properly solved? Would the centralization and monetization of the Internet have followed the same path? Would Windows be so dominant? Would social media have evolved to the current status? Would we have had a chance to fight against the technofeudalism we're headed for?

drowsspa··on Stunnel
That's basically the idea behind zero trust, isn't it? The idea being that you can't even knock on the TCP port if you're not authenticated
drowsspa··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
I guess we'd have to see the graph with the evolution of paying customers: I don't see the number of potential-but-not-yet clients being that high, certainly not one order of magnitude higher. And everyone already knows OpenAI, they don't have the benefit of additional exposure when they go viral: the only benefit seems to be to hype up investors.

And there's something else about the diminishing returns of going viral... AI kind of breaks the usual assumptions in software: that building it is the hard part and that scaling is basically free. In that sense, AI looks more like regular commodities or physical products, in that you can't just Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V: resources are O(N) on the number of users, not O(log N) like regular software.

drowsspa··on Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”
Yeah, for instance: even if Trump's bullying works for now, he made sure that most governments in Latin America, including right wing ones, will prioritize uncoupling the country from the US economy. Even if they won't say this quiet part out loud.
drowsspa··on Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
We have gambling addicts and the sociopaths they worship deciding the fate of mankind...

Seriously I can't see any benefit in this large scale financial engineering

drowsspa··on Go Proposal: Secret Mode
4. The community seems to have realized that untangling the mess that is building C/C++ stuff is a fool's errand and seems to mostly prefer to reimplement it in Go
drowsspa··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
A bit, and it's not like it's too much of a hassle
drowsspa··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
Sure, you can't get rid of everything. But you can mitigate a few things, and closing the door is such an easy fix... There's worrying too much, and there's not worrying enough
drowsspa··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
If you don't feel disgusted by the idea of your poop particles being ejected and spreading around, I don't think anyone can instill it in you
drowsspa··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
You don't close the door when doing number two in your own home either?
drowsspa··on Tosijs-schema is a super lightweight schema-first LLM-native JSON schema library
As a person myself, I very much prefer JSON
drowsspa··on 73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering
Is it, though? Apparently the current best practice is just to allow the LLM untethered access to everything and try to control access by preventing prompt injection...
drowsspa··on Why did containers happen?
NodeJS, Ruby, etc also have this problem, as does Go with CGO. So the problem is the binary dependencies with C/C++ code and make, configure, autotools, etc... The whole C/C++ compilation story is such a mess that almost 5 decades ago inventing containers was pretty much the only sane way of tackling it.

Java at least uses binary dependencies very rarely, and they usually have the decency of bundling the compiled dependencies... But it seems Java and Go just saw the writing on the wall and mostly just reimplement everything. I did have problems with the Snappy compression in the Kafka libraries, though, for instance .

drowsspa··on Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?
Being so ideologically rigid that you suggest survival of the fittest over legislation...
drowsspa··on How can England possibly be running out of water?
Tesco's is infrastructure?
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