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k3liutZu··on The Mathocalypse
> It sounds horrible to wade through - like trying to understand someone else's messy code that still produces the correct output.

Welcome to lots of (most?) code PR's in the last year. Though for software at the PR level it has gotten better with the latest models.

k3liutZu··on Fastpotify
Have a bit of food dropped into the MSG container. Now eat the whole container
k3liutZu··on Microduck
My wife would love one of these.

She's still bitter we didn't get the Sony dog a decade ago.

k3liutZu··on Shade Map
This is very cool
k3liutZu··on CodePen 2.0
There's complex and complicated.

I think we can have complex things, but they can be simple (to use, to understand, to manage). But it is really hard to make a complex thing simple. The straightforward way is to make it complicated, and most items remain that way.

k3liutZu··on Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach
The wikipedia article names them in the first paragraph "sandal-boots".

So maybe they were both

(If I were to see someone wear them today, I would call them sandals)

k3liutZu··on Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite
I couldn't read the article as it read like AI.

And I am fatigued by the AI style in all code comments, reviews, PRs etc :(

k3liutZu··on The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%
Anyone remember when hardware prices used to go down?
k3liutZu··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
I never heard of Jellyfin until now (I might have been living under a rock). Plex has been... fine, though this looks really interesting so I might switch over.
k3liutZu··on 1-Bit LLM in the Browser
I get 9-10 tps on my MacBook Pro. Though the small model seem really limited
k3liutZu··on Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Indeed it feels like I do the same work, ask the same questions, get the same result.

But somehow the cost has doubled in the last few months.

k3liutZu··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

k3liutZu··on Agentic Engineering
I could not read the whole piece. The phrasing smells like AI too much.
k3liutZu··on Operating Margins
Shouldn't you include the ad costs in your margin calculation?
k3liutZu··on Forking Styled Components
One of the main "problems" we solved with adopting styled-components back in 2016 was styles colocation where more junior members managed to create a several thousand line CSS file with a mess of selectors which we couldn't safely figure out which is used where.

My current plan is to transition to CSS Modules which should allow preserving most (if not all) of the current styled-components DX and advantages.

k3liutZu··on How well do coding agents use your library?
What is the best approach to have something like context7 for internal tools and libraries?
k3liutZu··on Do LLMs identify fonts?
My fellow designer friends would often do this. But they would start from actual fonts and do slight (or more than slight) adjustments to them to match what they wanted as an outcome.
k3liutZu··on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
> Meanwhile, engineers are using it for code completion and as a Google search alternative.

Yep, that's the usefulness right now.

k3liutZu··on Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less
I might have like a cargo bike if I didn't like on top of a hill. And if I didn't have 6 months of cold dark weather with snow / ice covering the roads.
k3liutZu··on The laptop that won't die
I just booted up my 2009 MacBook Pro since it's the only machine I still have with a CD/DVD drive. Some keys are not working (eg R, T, P, probably others) so I had to use the accessibility on screen keyboard.

I was surprised it still booted up and I was able to use the optical drive.

k3liutZu··on Copilot for Docs
5. Hallucinate receiving money from hallucinated customers
k3liutZu··on Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3
Thank you for this, I had trouble figuring out how to try out Dalle from ChatGPT
k3liutZu··on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
I wonder, wouldn't we be able to dump it into some flat spaces, allow the water to evaporate and then harvest the salt that remains?
k3liutZu··on I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes
> 4. How is this better or worse than making progress through asking questions on X/Reddit/mailing lists/IRC/Usenet/your local library? I'll tell you: it doesn't irritate other people as much, and it's likely a lot more efficient. I get it, "I spent 20 minutes with an LLM and made a one-page HTML website!" doesn't sound impressive, until you compare it - about a year ago - "I spent two days going through awful ad-laden tutorials and made a one-page HTML website!".

I think this is the money-shot. LLM's (specifically ChatGPT) have helped me debug weird issues, and help get started with new technologies / libraries where searching for the issues on Google did not yield (good) results.

k3liutZu··on Fooocus: OSS for image generation by ControlNet author
Oh wow.

I am not sure what I would have expected upon reading this comment, but I was not prepared.

k3liutZu··on Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React
I don't think it's just us getting old. Newcomers to the filed don't really understand HTML and CSS. It's just "React components" to them, and they aren't looking deeper than that.
k3liutZu··on Ocean Farming: Seaweed is having its moment in the sun
Let's wait for Seaweed-5
k3liutZu··on Goodbye, CSS-Tricks
I'm still opening this up whenever I have to do anything with flex.
k3liutZu··on Ask HN: Did anyone else lose their marbles?
This sounds like burnout.
k3liutZu··on Ask HN: How do you trust that your personal machine is not compromised?
Yes (I don't bother when I'm working from home)

I haven't used a use usb stick in +10 years.

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