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patates··on Chess Atlas
In Turkish, the bishop is also called "fil" (elephant).
patates··on Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
The best way to stop eating ice cream is to stop buying ice cream. If it's in the freezer, it'll be eaten.
patates··on Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years
I have no doubt it'll be attempted, but they won't be clones, they'll be clowns.

Even if they were pixel perfect clones with exactly the same play. As a person who vibe codes like there's no tomorrow to have custom software, I still find the color of the bytes important for something like a retrogame.

Otherwise it's like color photocopy of an art piece.

patates··on Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
So we cannot say anything bad about the current administration without being divisive? What does criticising them tell you about tribalism?
patates··on Being ambitious and being a dad
Be ambitious to be happy.

The trick is not making it about being very productive, but productive "enough".

Elon and many others act like if not everyone is giving it their 110%, the world will be doomed, however the world is full of communities that otherwise were living happily getting destroyed by 110ers.

If you accept your (and everyone elses) insignificance, focus on your community, and just try to be compatible with your kids or colleagues or random people on the street , while at the same keeping your ability to reject judgement, life gets much easier.

patates··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
One weirdness I experienced: It suddenly decided to test how my software behaves under load and summoned 100s of processed that just burned CPU when running the e2e suite. My poor mac was not happy (too hot to touch).
patates··on DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices
Well it was nice while it lasted. Built so much stuff for basically free. I can only thank them for that.

I guess this means that this powerful model for very cheap concept does not work?

patates··on How to build a circular LCD clock
you can also do this with an esp32 as long as you don't insist using a browser to draw a clock
patates··on Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)
Also works wonderful for generating AI scripts, goal being increasing the elo rating after a tournament run. Also having deep and shallow tests save a lot of time. Deep tests are run sparingly while shallow tests are run after each change.
patates··on GPT-5.6
devops monster! crazy how intelligently it debugs/solves any devops problem I could throw at it!
patates··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
Thanks for the example but there being other cases and me as an average person who follows the news having no idea about all this make it even weirder for me.
patates··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
Very weird case. I don't think anyone can survive here in Germany on a 503€ allowance he gets, and let alone having some probable but unproven ties to a state considered an enemy since only recently, I would find crippling someone to that degree harsh even for a convicted war criminal. He's apparently not even allowed to pay rent!
patates··on Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
> I will sin and make this about me (continues to make an awesome, general point about engineering)

:)

patates··on Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI
Oh, sorry then, thanks for the clarification :)
patates··on Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI
I somehow tried to make sense of the name as a superlative form of "next". Perhaps next-test would have been fine?
patates··on How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran?
"Ayarla" is very confusing... Setup can't be translated to Turkish as "ayarla". The correct word would be "Yükle/Kur" (verb) and the correct noun would be "Kurulum". Ayarla means "configure" and "ayarlar" means "settings".

Also, why just Turkish and Hungarian?

patates··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
No he usually acknowledges other opinions (including the ones that I share) and tells from his perspective why they are wrong. It feels condescending when you see a face on screen, roasting what you think is right, but I personally could get over it and learn to take the bits that challenge my ideas.

Of course, youtube isn't interactive and when you see something that you think is objectively wrong, your options are writing a comment nobody will read or ignoring it, which is frustrating, but that, in my opinion, doesn't discredit the content producer itself.

patates··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
> he has demolished his credibility be becoming a 'tuber who prioritizes thumbnails and hot takes over engineering

I don't agree that he has demolished his credibility. I also dislike the youtube face and sensationalization but I personally don't hold it against him, given the Youtube algorithm.

Regardless of his style, I like hearing the take from an engineer who's working in a different country/culture and has a completely different perspective.

edit: it seems you changed "demolished" to "harmed". I still don't agree but it reads more defensible IMHO, thank you.

patates··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
> it's pretty clear he has very little understanding of development or engineering

I cannot prove it but I have a feeling that you may be conflating "he clearly has different opinions on things I consider non-negotiable" to "he doesn't know what he's talking about".

I also watched a lot of his videos. I wildly disagree with him a lot of times, but he has his reasoning, and I can see (and verify!) that those ideas are coming from an engineering perspective.

patates··on Ask HN: Fable 5 promo ends today – is anyone keeping it once it's usage-billed?
It's very cool, but IMHO too expensive for my hobby projects.

It could make sense for large companies to pay for it.

I was already happy with the models since Opus 4.5.

patates··on Becoming a dad changes men's brains
Thanks for sharing, I can totally relate. I'm so happy for you that things seem to have worked out.
patates··on You already have a Git server
That is it. No patience. No care. No attention to detail. No scratchpad with multiple edits. Just Claude and a prompt — the only two things you can tolerate.
patates··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
> Apple next product refresh

I have this feeling that it'll be very expensive and still scarce. Normally I wouldn't say this about Apple, because their pricing is part of their brand, but this time the demand (both by data-centers and prosumers) is the force majeure.

patates··on Becoming a dad changes men's brains
Becoming a dad made me a sensitive snowflake crybaby :)

There were a lot of days on which I cried more than the baby. Diagnosed with anxiety disorder, but then they said it comes with ADHD and probably has little to do with the baby.

> As many as one in 10 men will experience paternal postnatal depression or anxiety. The symptoms often look different in dads—anger or sudden outbursts

Oh well.

patates··on Identity verification on Claude
For the 100$ I'm paying for Claude, I'm pretty sure I can use Deepseek way more than I can use Opus via the plan.
patates··on GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
Then maybe you should add that caveat emptor to the article?

You make a very strong claim at the end that the hype is mostly real, and making it clear to what extent your claim holds should help the reader.

patates··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
I have ADHD and normally excessive movement on my monitor disturbs me, but this didn't bring even a little discomfort. I didn't get addicted to them as well.
patates··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
I assume more than a single camera or a moving camera with a very high shutter speed with fixed focus.
patates··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
It's one of those situations that the words lose their meanings but the expression makes you understand a situation better. This is like a manufactured consent that comes with a threat. A similar example would be "coerced confession" or maybe even "forced smile".
patates··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
Funny enough, COM is still the fastest way to read calendar data.
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