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hudo··on I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task
Damn its unreal how much Astra is better than anything else :( Would be cool to see total cost
hudo··on Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
And got electricity price hike last year, and now few weeks ago again, from ~25c kwh, to around 35c kwh! They say its reliance on fossil fuels. Not just that, think Ireland has one of the most expensive broadbands in the EU!
hudo··on SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence
How do i use it from opencode/openrouter?!
hudo··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
I don't get it, I have server for 5 years, its old hardware, nothing changed, why would they increase it?
hudo··on APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs
Master is carved (cutted), and then reverse master pressed, from which all the records are then pressed, if i remember correctly.
hudo··on Claude Design
404 Page not found when clicking on their link https://claude.ai/design at the end of the article! Vibe coding to prod, gone wrong?
hudo··on Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
UI of Windows is buggy and inconsistent. Kernel and low level stuff are actually very stable and good.
hudo··on Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
How come your business or research are so tied to GCP? What about other providers?
hudo··on Booking.com cancels $4K hotel reservation, offers same rooms again for $17K
My booking.com latest experience: booked big appartment for 4 people. Arrived to destination (Bristol, UK), and apartment already had guests inside. Tried contacting landlord, no reply. Called booking com, they offered acommodation 30km from the city centre, and its already 11pm, no way to get there. Had to pay our own hotels, and we never got money paid to booking. One neighbor of that apartment said they often double book! Seems booking com doesn't care.
hudo··on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
What did we do wrong when simple chat app requires hundrets of megabytes of memory, or even gigabytes! Sure, its not just plain text but images and videos, but still...
hudo··on FlowSynx – Orchestrate Declarative, Plugin-Driven DAG Workflows on .NET
Opened samples - bunch of Json config files. Closed Samples. Do they really expect devs to write Json to configure worksflows and tasks!? Even Workflow Foundation had more c# I think...
hudo··on Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook
Aaaah says no angle sensor detected on my MB Air M1 :( This is it i am buying new model
hudo··on Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster
Can't remember how many times I added this to AUTEXEC.BAT

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T6

good times.

hudo··on Eleven Music
AI is great, I can see it benefit so many industries, except music. There's something profoundly wrong with AI generated music.
hudo··on I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)
Less LOC than React/Redux app... Makes you think, what were we doing last 30 years :/
hudo··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
Netflix is "4K Ultra HD: Up to 7 GB per hour". Blu ray is 25GB per side, so max 50GB for 2 layers. Typical movies are 35-50GB. So, BR, and think even DVD still looks much better than any streaming service!
hudo··on The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care (2012)
Reminds me to friends old but brilliant project, use Unicode to draw art on stack trace logs! Enough with boring stack traces in logs, lets make some art there and make life a bit easier for the poor soul thats on support and has to debug latest prod issue. https://medium.com/@ironcev/stack-trace-art-4b700a8817ea
hudo··on Careless People
I read the book.

After the part where she was giving a birth to her child, while still writing emails and doing work stuff, I take everything she said with a grain of salt. As a father, the way she prioritised work to family through out many years of her work at FB, I find it very repelling and disgusting.

I believe that Zuck&team are slimy greedy spoiled brats, but I could also say few things about her. Which make me wonder what is actual truth, book is very biased.

hudo··on Show HN: Microsoft Teams Ticketing System – Ticketing as a Service
Same experience when i had to switch to Slack. Confusing and weird. Its what you get used to. Teams was very slow and buggy before, but in the last 1-2y its actually stable and fast.
hudo··on Open Sourcing DOS 4
Ah, good ol' days of configuring AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to squeeze few more kb of RAM:) And setting IRQs for some weird sound card that just doesn't work!
hudo··on RavenDB 6.0.2 (A Jepsen Report)
I was using Raven around ver 1-3. Even it was single node and simple app, we observed stale reads and lost writes so had to eventually migrate to SQL Server. It was really weird reading claims from Oren (expert in .NET space, famous from his great work on Nhibernate and few other frameworks), where his db didn't work as advertised at all (back then build with Esent key/value store + full text search for map/reduce, think it was lucene.net - obviously very broken tech for this purpose). Too bad, was really hoped things were fixed by now, Db has really good programming APIs.

Interesting trivia: there's "raven db done right" - https://martendb.io/ , just an API wrapper around PSQL. Named Marten because thats a natural enemy of ravens:)

hudo··on The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars
They did this in '60. Me today, 70 years later: undefined is not a function. We failed with computers...
hudo··on Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
My experience also. As a backend engineer trying to create a front end app, the whole toolchain of JS, bundlers, minifiers, Typescript, React... is basically; works if you have one magical init script that wires up everything, and much more than you really need since its tailored for more complex apps, but if you need just simplest thing, like run Typescript app in browser, well, good luck with that! Hundreds of tutorials (unofficial blog posts) on internents, none of them work. Front end dev work is broken.

Also, funny experience: asked few senior FE devs how to configure React, webpack and TS manually, absolutely nobody could do it.

hudo··on Firefox UI/UX History
Any way of returning tabs back instead of this new awful awful buttons for tabs!?
hudo··on My business might have 32 days before it's shut down by NYC [video]
Apple has to be behind all this, since he is so loud about their repair policy and fixing iphones instead of sending people to buy a new one :) !
hudo··on MS Paint IDE
Jesus what a colossal waste of time
hudo··on Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal
Artists-owned streaming company so musicians gets bigger share of the cake. That didn't last long. Was ever Tidal the best for the artisys!?
hudo··on Square acquires majority of Tidal in $297M deal
Qobuz should be best for Classical and Jazz ... I have Tidal on the droid and never had any glitches.
hudo··on VideoLAN is 20 years old today
Maybe in next 20 they will fix scaling issues when using screens with different DPI settings
hudo··on A speaker placement tip that speaker manuals get wrong (2017)
Please, please, please move your speakers away from the wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UA-VctzuFo
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