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rbjorklin··on MiMo v2.6
The general idea is that Anthropic/OpenAI is pushing this narrative as an attempt at "Regulatory Capture"[1] which would allow them to make it prohibitively expensive for anyone but them to enter the market thus stifling competition.

* 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

rbjorklin··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Never tried Elixir myself but came here to say the same thing. Tencent put out this study showing that Elixir seems to reign supreme: https://autocodebench.github.io/
rbjorklin··on Staging patches with Git add -p
Neogit, Magit inspired, does the same for Neovim. Would recommend!
rbjorklin··on Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin
I never experienced this as a problem while working with OCaml. I wonder if the author is aware that the compiler can be ran in “watch” mode where the project is immediately rebuilt on file save.
rbjorklin··on The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated
Any noticeable difference how you feel health wise? Energy levels? Mood? Sleep quality?
rbjorklin··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
> We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role.

What happens when this person inevitably leaves and they have no one who knows even a little bit about the process or tools used?

rbjorklin··on Systemd v259
You sound like you've explored at least a few options in this space. Have you looked at https://agones.dev/ ?
rbjorklin··on Gemini 3
Your post made me curious to try a problem I have been coming back to ever since ChatGPT was first released: https://open.kattis.com/problems/low

I have had no success using LLM's to solve this particular problem until trying Gemini 3 just now despite solutions to it existing in the training data. This has been my personal litmus test for testing out LLM programming capabilities and a model finally passed.

rbjorklin··on </> Htmx – The Fetch()ening
Any chance we could get a poll on changing the default swap strategy as documented in the quirks page? https://htmx.org/quirks/#the-default-swap-strategy-is-innerh...
rbjorklin··on Claude Skills
Just went to the comments searching for a comment like yours and I'm surprised it seems to be the only one calling this out. My take on this is also that "Skills" is just detailed documentation, which like you correctly point out, basically never exist for any project. Maybe LLM skills will be the thing that finally makes us all write detailed documentation but I kind of doubt it.
rbjorklin··on Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels
> we can so readily afford better

Can we really? All the reporting on climate change definitely has me thinking otherwise. There are options more respectful to our planet than digging tunnels like for example planting trees to help mediate temperatures.

rbjorklin··on Ask HN: How to Learn to Build Agentic AI Systems (Like Claude Code)
This is pretty much a step-by-step guide for getting started with code: https://ampcode.com/how-to-build-an-agent
rbjorklin··on Claude 4
While I agree with you in principle give Claude 4 a try on something like: https://open.kattis.com/problems/low . I would expect this to have been included in the training material as well as solutions found on Github. I've tried providing the problem description and asking Claude Sonnet 4 to solve it and so far it hasn't been successful.
rbjorklin··on Ask HN: Help me find a conference talk on hiring/debugging mindset
Just remembered some more details. The speaker covers the difference in applying something akin to the scientific method vs jumping to conclusions based on previous encounters of the same/similar issues.
rbjorklin··on Why GADTs matter for performance (2015)
Does anyone have some hard numbers on the expected performance uplift when using GADTs? Couldn't see any mentioned in the article.
rbjorklin··on AMD Publishes Open-Source Driver for GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In the Roadmap"
This has been my experience with a 6950XT as well using Fedora.
rbjorklin··on Distributed systems programming has stalled
Would you mind sharing some more specific information/references to Lamport’s work?
rbjorklin··on Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?
Maybe try pushing your community towards adopting https://www.waituntil8th.org/
rbjorklin··on Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents
This will undoubtedly make some brexiteers very unhappy.
rbjorklin··on OCaml 5.3 Released
Release announcement can be found here: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-3-0-released/15916
rbjorklin··on How Do You Like What You've Built?
Rule #17 from where? I'd like to take a peek at what the other rules have to say!
rbjorklin··on Nothing left to solve
I also think he's mostly right but even solved problems can still see much improvement. Take for example algorithmic improvements to improve speed or reduce memory requirements. Then there's also massive power usage improvements to be had by re-implementing existing solutions using more efficient languages [1].

1. https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...

rbjorklin··on Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying
The day LLM responses start containing product placements is not far now.
rbjorklin··on It's always TCP_NODELAY
And with systemd >= 253 you can set it as part of the network config to have it be applied automatically. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25906
rbjorklin··on SPQR 1.3.0: a production-ready system for horizontal scaling of PostgreSQL
Scaling horizontally undoubtedly introduces complexity but it also comes with some upsides:

    * DB backups are now (much) faster.
    * Smaller backups means faster restores which reduces your RTO (Recovery Time Objective)
    * If you have a well architectured application a catastrophic DB failure will now only impact a portion of your userbase instead of all of them.
There are probably more good reasons but these are the ones I could think of now.
rbjorklin··on Walmart is migrating the remaining F# code into Java
Working link to the old Jet article: https://archive.is/lkDXg
rbjorklin··on Sweden plans new nuclear reactors by 2035, will share costs
While that’s true the article mentions that the definition of “hours with sunlight” they are using is when more than 120w per m2 hits the earth. Around where I grew up the sun would rise around 10AM and then set around 2PM. Not nearly enough to meet power demands.
rbjorklin··on Sweden plans new nuclear reactors by 2035, will share costs
Due to being close to one of the poles it makes it so that the energy requirements are at its highest when solar produces the least.

It is rare but not unheard of to have 0 hours of sun in December[1].

1. Article is in Swedish: https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/morkaste-manaden-i-mannamin...

rbjorklin··on Steam Deck OLED
Steam is not a publicly traded company. Their decisions don't necessarily have to improve profit margins.
rbjorklin··on Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM
If this piqued your interest you might also be interested in: https://github.com/leostera/riot
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