jeffrallen

Progress, but towards what?

Farage is such an ass, the King should make him feed donkeys or something.

Ooh, now do USA.

Only open loop systems, the dumbest loop systems.

We should all keep in mind that foreign interests may be astroturfing right here on HN.

I'm a happy PagerDuty customer, but also in the 90's we just did stuff like that with some she'll scripts. It's not rocket science, if you don't care about a bunch of metrics, etc.

So, I wonder if this is an instance of the agentic coding SaaS-pocalypse.

No feature updates sounds like a feature these days. It's why I use a crappy old Debian install too.

Refreshing honesty from the billionaire class.

Not that being a billionaire is particularly classy.

Absolutism is absolutely terrible. Open source projects that cannot adapt to the times will be replaced by those which can.

I'm recruiting for apprentices right now. By definition, they have almost nothing to put on their CVs, and thus their CVs are more or less identical, or rather all of them have almost zero signal.

We took a chance on a flash recruiting session our canton organized. 35 interviews in 2 hr 15 mins. Crazy. But excellent signal, because if you are looking for it, and give the candidate a hint to show it ("tell me a story about how you solved a computer problem for your self/friend/family/club"), you can find the candidates with a spark. And I would not have detected it from their CVs or cover letter alone.

More human connection. Less machines. There, I fixed it for you.

Yes. This happened.

In the early 2000's they did the same dumb thing to WebTV: forced a move from Solaris to Windows, that completely wrecked the engineering team's velocity and motivation.

I use Qwen 3.6 on a remote GPU that my work offers. Works fine. Slow and steady, works hard, gets the job done. Probably better at diagnosing than making new code, but whatever.

Hey, I'd say "hire this guy", but we already did. This is an excellent write up of excellent work by an excellent colleague. Thanks yadutaf!

I wanted to love this, but:

> Most incidents resolve on their own.

This is most definitely not true.

Dang, post needs a [2026] in the title, so people know this is from last century.

Wait for it, wait for it... Click.

Aaaah.

Swiss trains can, but while stopped.

There's a station on the main line that loads full sized cars with tanks on them onto little bougies that take them up into the mountains for training.

Oui ! Et rostï gratuit pour tous !

The initiative does not mention what. Because the initiative's sponsor are anti-migration.

> don't know how to turn this into law

For one time, we can be grateful that the breakdown in direct democracy is gonna save us from an own goal.

This is one of the clearest example of diminishing returns I've ever seen. It comes up everywhere.

I wonder if this is a natural law, or emergent behavior of complex systems?

- web scraper for events my wife and I would like for date night

- a stateless dashboard for work that collects from 6 other APIs

- a refactor of a huge function with 8-deep indentation into readable small functions

- a road trip game for my kids where you take photos of things from the car

This is true for humans too. Lol

Yesterday I dumped some data in via ``` quotes and finished with a minimax question (e.g. "which rows that add up to 96 minimize the column called disk"). One shotted.

The day before I half diagnosed a cloud-init problem to the point I was tired and grumpy. I gave the AI a login on the instance showing the problem and it found it in a few minutes. All that was left was for me to write it up for the client to understand.

To me, it's a meta "oh shit" moment, where I realize I get so much small value from AI I don't want to live without it, despite the costs I'm aware of (and those I don't know about yet).

Just like a smartphone, 15 years ago.

It's not a theory. It's socialism and it works fine in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and a bunch of other places.

Good on em. Ayden rocks, and improves European sovereignty.

MAI? Ma die, mai!

(gestures wildly while changing lanes in his Fiat 500)

Super interesting. I use data center GPUs at work, but I didn't know anything about this stuff.

I also use Qwen 3.7 27b at work and I agree with the author: it is perfectly capable of the jobs I give it.

My aunt had her American Express die on vacation and they had a new one in her hands, in her hotel room, at 8 am the next morning.

Priorities. Sigh.