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szatkus··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
It's really not an option in Javaland.
szatkus··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
Available on Gog. Works fine on modern hardware last time I tried.
szatkus··on Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
Most likely those models would be extracted from the hardware in no time.
szatkus··on Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
Random infinite loading in Explorer has been there for years at least.
szatkus··on Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
It's 2nm, so it has to be manufactured by TSMC.
szatkus··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
The link is down. Did anyone from here report the movie?
szatkus··on Why do so many tools have JSON config files?
> A lot of tech folks resist documentation because they think it provides them with job security.

No, we're just lazy.

szatkus··on The safest job from AI may be writing
If you are Steven King, sure.

From what I heard it's a bloodbath at the bottom.

szatkus··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Frankly, I only skimmed it. Now I see that "On Copilot+ PCs, image generation is local but prompt moderation remains remote".

I don't have a Copilot PC, but if you still need to pay MS to run the model on your own hardware it's laughable.

szatkus··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
I don't think they use a model that would run smoothly on most hardware that normal people use.

Besides, you need to sign-in and pay to use that feature. It's very obvious that's not local.

szatkus··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
My opinion about Trump is as bad as the next guy's, but we still have better relation with the USA than with China. And it's not like we have much choice.
szatkus··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
I'm only aware of some software backdoors in Chinese devices, but times when you could've reverse engineered a chip with microscope are long gone. If there are any it would be really difficult to find them.
szatkus··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
MediaTek is a Taiwanese company. Xiaomi could put any backdoor that the government tell them to install and TSMC won't be able to catch that.
szatkus··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
I always thought it's the web search tool.

Grok actually shows a number of sources used for an answer. Once I asked it something simple and it apparently scanned 200 different websites. And it was just a short prompt. Now imagine millions of users asking for something multiple times a day.

szatkus··on Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
Agents could work for a long time and burn a lot of tokens if you give them a task that is too hard for them. After enough time, if they don't give up, the slot machine could spit out a working solution.

Personally I find it faster to figure out the hard parts by myself and then give a few smaller tasks to Claude.

szatkus··on Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]
Windows is pretty common and well supported in Javaland. Even though I prefer to work on Linux if I can...
szatkus··on Hacker News, Sans AI
At least the blog post was proofread by an AI.
szatkus··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
That's a lot. On my usual day I burn less than $1 on Opus. I could get beyond $10 only if I have a complex and well-defined problem, which is rare (the second part at least).
szatkus··on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
Luckily very few people can configure and are interested in local models. But your nearby datacenter running Chinese open-weight models is also good enough.
szatkus··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Cline is pretty good if you use VSCode. It's one of a few AI agent plugins that works in the left sidebar.
szatkus··on The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
And at the same time the very same people are 10x more productive because of AI, right?
szatkus··on One item purchased, ten emails
I don't use the app (I guess it's about InPost). I usually just scan a QR code that I recieve to my inbox. Code from SMS also works just fine.
szatkus··on ARC-AGI-3 [pdf]
> Only environments that could be fully solved by at least two human participants (independently) were considered for inclusion in the public, semi-private and fully-private sets.

Apparently those games supposed to be hard.

szatkus··on Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
So far AI doesn't seem even close to replacing senior engieeners. Hell, it can't even replace junior engieeners entirely.

I use AI agents every day at work and I'm happy with that, but it took over two years and billions of dollars in investment to deliver anything useful (Claude Code et al). The current models are amazing, but they still randomly make mistakes that even a junior wouldn't make.

There's another paradigm shift to be made certainly, because currently it feels like we scaled up a bug brain to spit out code. It works great for some problems, but it's not what software developers usually do at work.

szatkus··on The three pillars of JavaScript bloat
Somehow I doubt they use it to access another Next.js app created by some startup from SV.
szatkus··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
I just found out about pi yesterday. It's the only agent that I was able to run on RISC-V. It's quite scary that it runs commands without asking though.
szatkus··on Our commitment to Windows quality
I have Pro Edition and for me Copilot only added two icons. One in Notepad and another one in Paint. I ignore both. There's also the Copilot app that I didn't even know I have installed.

I don't know what happens with Home Edition, but I though the pushback was mainly from Insider Preview?

szatkus··on Our commitment to Windows quality
That's more or less my experience with Copilot on Windows.
szatkus··on AI coding is gambling
This. A lot of people on HN acts as you can only write code manually (almost, generators and snippets are allowed, because we are used to them) or vibe coding the whole project through a WhatsApp conversation. As if there was nothing in between and the same approach should work for all kinds of projects.

Personally I use coding agents for boring parts (I really don't enjoy putting the same piece of string to 20 different classes just to register a new component) and they work quite well, I'm going to use them for foreseeable future, because they make coding much more enjoyable for me. On the other hand I don't have an OpenClaw box burning billions of tokens weekly for me, because I usually don't have ideas that could be clearly specified.

szatkus··on Java 26 is here
That's weird. Back when Java 7 was a new thing, people used Spring (Boot wasn't there yet) even more to compensate for the lack of language features. Also back then most projects still used XML configuration, so you actually write more Java code in modern Spring. Because Spring Boot uses Java configuration classes by default (although you can still use XMLs if you need for some reason).
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