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ritcgabon Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal

Same experience early this year but I did halve the dosage to 5mg for a month, which was of near zero difference. But the full withdrawal? Oh man it is no joke.

ritcgabon After the AI Crash

It is senior programmers that will be in demand again, but at junior price.

ritcgabon It's getting harder to focus every day

And yet people are still happily driving 10 LLM sessions concurrently.

ritcgabon I love LLMs, I hate hype

I mean, Pfizer has a good margin on every pill they produce too.

ritcgabon Write code like a human will maintain it

Heat death is inevitable in a codebase built mostly by coding agents.

ritcgabon Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

It's a documentary.

ritcgabon The AI backlash is only getting started

We cannot talk about net benefit until we agree on the objective: net benefit for whom?

I don't care if my current job is being replaced or the whole industry I am working in vanishes. But as an individual, if the new technology says it aims to wipe out all the possibilities of my future career, it is not net benefit for me.

Just saying "net benefit" "overall" sounds like some collectivism propaganda.

ritcgabon Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'

Frontier models do not trade on 100x earnings either.

ritcgabon Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner

I wonder why the apartment buildings in the US never have mini splits but always use PTACs or window units. In my opinion, they suck.

ritcgabon In praise of memcached

Because a database is a kv store. Most workloads won't tell the performance difference as long as the store works.

ritcgabon What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes

Multi-cluster federation is still hard.

ritcgabon DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure

DNS is a federated, read-optimized, geo-replicated key-value store with eventual consistency.

ritcgabon An AI Hate Wave Is Here

An AI hate wave is here, yet when I opened the link:

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ritcgabon Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

People run websites on a VPS with 32MB RAM decades ago and it was fine. What is new about this?

ritcgabon LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction

Is "Mostly-reliable" TCP connection a real thing? A TCP connection is either reliable or not working at all. That is what a proper abstraction should be like.

ritcgabon AI can cost more than human workers now

Using AI: pay-as-you-go via token usage.

Using human workers: monthly subscription but rate limited due to biological nature.

ritcgabon If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you

They aren't. They act like seniors. But that is all the business needs.

ritcgabon CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity

They all know that, and we all know that.

So we are all in this "scheme".

ritcgabon NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

I hope the voyagers can last longer. We are trapped on Earth, but it is just fascinating (and relieving) thinking of them expanding the boundary of human's space adventure.

ritcgabon AGI Is Here?

If humans are not GI, we cannot judge what is AGI.

ritcgabon OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability

Isn't OpenClaw itself a privilege escalation?

ritcgabon Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle

Interestingly mixed usage of en dash and em dash across the article.

ritcgabon 2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews

Well deserved.

ritcgabon What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)

All those nice numbers are just beaten by the unit cost. And the ecosystem is a mess.

ritcgabon My Homelab Setup

Hard pass whenever you host long-term storage without ECC memory.

ritcgabon Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code

At the end of the day, it's about liability. Whether you use AI tools to generate the code or not, you are the author of the code, and such authorship implies the liability that you are being paid to take.

ritcgabon Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)

But you will never commit them via GitHub's web interface one file at a time :)

ritcgabon I went from literature/language to Rust systems programming in under a year

huh

ritcgabon Ask HN: Is Linux Safe to Daily drive in 2026?

Usually no, at least not out of the box.

If you don't sandbox your desktop applications, it is just not safe by principle. You are running binaries using the same user account with zero audit into what it is doing. You need access control.

ritcgabon I went from literature/language to Rust systems programming in under a year

I just don't see the point of denying that. People use LLMs for coding for sure and it is not a bad thing, and no one can automate a full project 100% with LLMs.

What I saw is that you created initial commits one file at a time via GitHub's web UI, with multiple follow-up commits just to remove emojis from your scripts:

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/c611897f05235ea4410...

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/59369fcbb2a94c5dd07...

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/0e86e9e328b21170e77...

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/9a4cedcd30c3a00e7ea...

Care to share why those emojis were there in the first place? I guess the next step is to say the Rust codes are 100% handwritten but scripts/docs are AI-assisted? ;)