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stusmall

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I'm rather fond of computers.
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stusmall··on Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Not always. The calculations take its useful life expectancy as an input. If they estimate it correctly you have highly likelihood of it breaking, burning out or being woefully out of date by the end. At the 10 year window you are looking at losing support for security updates.

So if you are lucky you might end up with something that still runs but most folks won't find it particularly useful

stusmall··on New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions
Does anyone know if this will impact ACP invoking Claude? IE using Claude from zed. I assume not but looking for confirmation
stusmall··on GitHub is sinking
GitHub has been basically the default for free public git hosting for a long time. I was curious what bitbucket has and it looks like the free tier is so limited, I can't imagine a lot of people hosting vibe coded open source there.
stusmall··on A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
I got "or similar" from Firefox and exact make and model from chrome. Probably a browser issue and not a hardware issue.
stusmall··on RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust
> It also contains LLM dishonesties like that the bundle size is KB

That one jumped out to me too. The phrasing is so wiggly but technically correct it feels intentional. When I saw it I didn't blame it on the LLM, which is worse.

Otherwise it's a super cool looking project

stusmall··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
It's pretty common if you have IT and finance teams that are paying attention. Sure a lot of shops let them waste away on a shelf, but that's what it is, waste. If you have fungible inventory that isn't likely to get used soon it is just a mistake it let it sit around unutilized. If it is cash, it is easier to utilize on other projects.
stusmall··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Except it's not counter to history for SaaS services. Many will ban unauthentic usage from non-human clients. Getting banned from a SaaS service for boting is nothing new
stusmall··on No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user
Enron had a system like this. They regularly worked on large, long term contracts that became profitable over years/decades. They wanted to push rewards forward so would estimate the total value of the contract and book the profit when it closed. Mark-to-market accounting wasn't unheard of the time but using it for assets without an active market was unique. Without the market to make against, the numbers were best guess projections.

The problem is everyone along the line is incentivized to be aggressive with estimate (commissions for sales are bigger, public financials looks better) and discouraged from correcting the estimates when they go wrong.

Estimating multi-year returns on frontier models looks harder than estimating returns on oil and gas projects in the 90s.

stusmall··on I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
Especially when the original claw had to change its name because it was piggybacking on another products hype...
stusmall··on Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV
NYT recently did a fantastic calculator. It isn't simple flat one or the other is cheaper. It takes into account buy vs lease, milage, local energy cost, length of ownership etc

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/upshot/ev-vs-gas-ca...

stusmall··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
This falls under the "something similar" category but it's direnv support is great https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#direnv-integration

It isn't 1:1 since there probably won't be ansible provided configs, but I find writing nix devshells per project to be low effort and high reward. It'll only be a couple lines if all you need is a specific version of ansible

stusmall··on Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
This is the way. This is how I do it with mine but use channels instead of flakes because I'm a giant curmudgeon.

My devshell can be found here and is dead simple: https://github.com/stusmall/stuartsmall.com/blob/main/defaul...

I used Zola for my SSG and can't think of the last breaking change I've hit. I just use the pattern of locked nix devshells for everything by default. The extra tools are used for processing images or cooklang files.

stusmall··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
I was listening to the press conference and almost went back to edit my comment with a note about it. Honestly, coming out of that I have no idea if what is his saying is reality. As things stand and what we know, it doesn't make sense. We don't know about more troops currently on the ground. He said the VP has agreed to assist, but she is publicly saying very different things. I hate we are in a place as a country where we can't believe basic things about important topics our president says.
stusmall··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
We aren't occupying Venezuela and rooting out everyone in the current regime and putting them on trial. We just arrested a handful of people leaving the rest of the government intact. It playing out like WW2 doesn't make sense
stusmall··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
> The people in Venezuela want democracy. It's a fundamentally different situation.

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators" - Dick Cheney (but I'm sure it'll work out this time)

There is a whole lot of directions this can go after we arrest the dictator, but a liberal democracy magically immediately popping isn't on my list. There might be one in the future but there will be a lot of chaos and violence between now and then.

stusmall··on Claude Code gets native LSP support
I've been a massive JetBrains fanboy for a bit over a decade. I finally let my subscription lapse this month. It isn't so much about AI integrations but overall competitors have caught up. The rise of LSP and DAP did a lot to shrink their competitive advantage
stusmall··on GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust
Diversity is a fantastic thing for security. It limits the impact when a bug drops and gives the possibility to migrate or run a mix of systems.
stusmall··on Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates
I'm seeing this hot take a lot but it doesn't make sense. Are people worried than LE is going to have a 45 day outage or something? ACME is an open standard with other implementations so I'm having trouble seeing the political central point of failure too.

It's okay for something to be a good thing and to celebrate it. We don't have to frown about everything.

stusmall··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
You can force a panic with echo c | /proc/sysrq-trigger
stusmall··on Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
I've been running local models on an AMD 7800 XT with ollama-rocm. I've had zero technical issues. It's really just the usefulness of a model with only 16GB vram + 64GB of main RAM is questionable, but that isn't an AMD specific issue. It was a similar experience running locally with an nvidia card.
stusmall··on Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
For something as simple as a terminal multiplexer, if you aren't seeing immediate value in a switch maybe its fine if you stick with what you have. You don't always need to be on the newest thing. I prefer zellij over tmux, but it is evolutionary not revolutionary. Instead of forcing yourself, save the effort and focus on something more valuable.
stusmall··on We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
Even if it is after the cut off date wouldn't the models be able to query external sources to get data that could positively impact them? If the returns were smaller I could reasonably believe it but beating the S&P500 returns by 4x+ strains credulity.
stusmall··on Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?
I had the same experience in 2021 when the mobo died on a laptop that I bought slightly less than a year before. I was bothered by the failure but understand sometimes things just break. The service quality was good.

I'm not dealing with the scale other people are in here. We should take the ancedotes of personal laptops with a grain of salt. Anyone pushing the scale that Dell does will have incidents where service runs totally off the rails. I don't know how they stack up at scale but I'm reading this thread with interest. When I'm due for a laptop upgrade Dell will still be in the running but right now Framework might be the one to get my business.

stusmall··on .NET 10
>He was used to doing everything the C/Java/JavaScript/Python/almost-every-language-under-the-sun way, and avoiding the "Microsoft way" of doing things created so many roadblocks.

What exactly does this mean? I haven't touched .NET in earnest in over 10 years. I know the ecosystem has evolved a lot since then, but I don't know how or in what ways

stusmall··on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
Did Facebook's LLM write this comment?
stusmall··on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
Oh definitely. I have zero expectation of high level of manual reviews. You can run limited runs of adds for next to a couple dollars. The math could never work out. I understand a lot with make it through the system, this was just so blatant. It should be so easy to catch with an automated system. It was nothing but red flags. The automated systems could reject outright or maybe escalate to manual review if it met enough criteria (account reputation, spend floor, etc)
stusmall··on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
Once I got an Instagram ad for buying ketamine that just linked to a telegram channel. They didn't even bother being coy or using mispelling or slang. A simple keyword search to flag for more review would have caught it. I can't even wrap my head around what internal controls exist when something like that makes it out to users.
stusmall··on The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund
> Non-negligible from what perspective?

Non-negligible in that it happens in almost every thread about rust. As in it isn't a rare occurrence.

stusmall··on The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund
It isn't all of the objection, but there is a non-neglible amount of anti-woke people who find some weak technical reason to hate rust. It's silly but you'll be amazed in how often you see it line up when checking a random sampling of people who show up in rust threads just to make off topic complaints about rust.

EDIT: I hadn't fully gone through the comment section on this one yet and yikes it's worse about it than normal.

stusmall··on Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
I recently ran into a game where online match making was broken in windows, but worked just fine in Linux. I felt like I was trapped in the upsidedown.
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