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tyingq··on Why airlines are always going bankrupt
One thing it leaves out. For bankruptcies that result in reorganization rather than liquidation, it offers the airline an "out" on its many labor contracts. And freedom to renegotiate that contract with a lot of leverage. Labor is the highest cost they have, other than fuel.
tyingq··on Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
Was looking for this comment. I'd like to see this approach in the comparison...having the LLM build a playwright script and use it. I suspect it would beat time-to-market for the api, and be close-ish in elapsed time per transaction.

Harder to scale if it's doing a lot of them, I suppose.

tyingq··on Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling
That would have occured to me if it were free-form chat, but it's guided and telling me to input the value, not a chat response. Unable to try, third round hits the demo limit.
tyingq··on Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling
It is cool, but the demo is flawed, right at the second field:

  What's the business name/disregarded entity name, if different from above (line 2)?
As far as I can tell, no way to skip this, leave it empty, not even "use a space". And that field would be empty for many or most.
tyingq··on macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore
docker --platform linux/arm64 depends on amd64 ?
tyingq··on macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore
I'm curious what options that leaves for docker. I assume the pattern of building/running linux/amd64 containers on MacOS is pretty widespread.

Edit: "Apple says that it will continue to support older, unmaintained gaming titles with Rosetta along with software running Intel binaries in Linux VMs beyond macOS 27 . There could also be future security fixes." - https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/macos-tahoe-26-4-rosett...

No Apple citation shown for that, though seems plausible.

tyingq··on Fuzix OS
True, though some old processors would be able to implement pretty impressive tricks. A Z80 with an 8 bit latch can bank switch 8MB of SRAM with 32KB chunks.
tyingq··on Fuzix OS
> Is this intended for some kind of professional purpose?

No. Retrocomputing. Fun. Learning.

tyingq··on College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
I wonder if the daisy wheel printer market just ticked up on eBay.
tyingq··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Ipv6 is cheap though. If I want to get past your IP or per Network limit, options abound.
tyingq··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
May explain the ipv6 resistance. Hard to do effective per-ip rate-limiting with v6.
tyingq··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Serverless framework up until late yesterday also.
tyingq··on Slop is not necessarily the future
Is Google much better? I don't see, for example, the care that used to go into the quality of organic search results.

They seem fine with the output of the current hodge-podge of the original algorithm results plus massaging by many downstream ML pipelines that run one after the other without context of how each stop might affect the next.

tyingq··on Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust
Yes, there's subdirs with language bindings for many non-C langs, an examples folder with example C code, win32 specific C code, test code, etc.

More reasons it's an odd comparison.

tyingq··on Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust
His also omits CRC, which is part of the 25k lines, no --fast/--best/etc, missing some output formats, and so on. I'm sure the 25k includes a lot of bloat, but the comparison is odd. Comparing to your list would make much more sense.
tyingq··on The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat Before Dinner
It may read that way to you. It does not to me.
tyingq··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
Sure. He's real. ̶̶̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ ̶t̶h̶o̶u̶g̶h̶:̶ "Robert Kingett is a Blind, and gay, obscure writer. He writes fiction where Disabled heroes get their happy ending..."

Edit: Yep, appears I have it wrong. Thanks for the pointers. The non-fiction tag missed my eye.

tyingq··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
I guess. Faxing it to someone involved in why the rules are that way would be more satisfying to me.
tyingq··on The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
Sounds like it's not real but...

It reads like an indictment of the government employee personally, rather than the rules and constraints that employee is forced to use.

Probably fair to comment on the interaction, whether the person was rude, and so on. But blaming them for not accepting email is kind of silly. They are not empowered to do that kind of thing.

tyingq··on OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream
> Doing this manually is already pretty trivial

Well, and doing them programmatically and automatically without any AI is also possible, if not trivial...and has been for some time.

tyingq··on The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
Depends. Many reasons, but one is that Java has a much richer set of 3rd party libraries to do things versus rolling your own. And often (not always) third party libraries that have been extensively optimized, real world proven, etc.

Then things like the jit, by default, doing run time profiling and adaptation.

tyingq··on Cloudflare crawl endpoint
So it doesn't take any action to work around other bot protections? Feels like that would be on the list of features an AI company wanting to scrape would ask for.
tyingq··on Cloudflare crawl endpoint
That's too funny. If true, really looking forward to the Cloudflare response here. I'm unsure how you would spin that in a way that didn't seem self-serving.
tyingq··on I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
Most of the problem is the "only been a week" part, likely. Though you're fighting an algorithm that's been patched in inconsistent places for all sorts of weights like "authority" and "quality".

Thousands of little weights driven by obscure attributes of the site that you're not really going to figure out by thrashing and changing stuff.

tyingq··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
I don't think it's cynical to acknowledge the pattern that publicly owned companies will eventually cave to the desires of their shareholders.

I understand Anthropic is not public, but I assume there's an IPO coming.

tyingq··on Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications
There's already buprenorphine and methadone. But, using either means some degree of responsibility, punctuality, etc. So unless you mean freely distributing it with very little process, it wouldn't change much.
tyingq··on How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
Fully digital, no analog, 4 bits fit into one transistor. Hmm. In one clock cycle?
tyingq··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
My experience so far has been they are somewhat good at troubleshooting code, patterns, etc, that exist in the publicly viewable sphere of stuff it's trained on, where common error messages and pitfalls are "google-able"

They are much worse at code/patterns/apis that were locally created, including things created by the same LLM that's trying to fix a problem.

I think LLMs are also creating a decline in the amount of good troubleshooting information being published on the internet. So less future content to scrape.

tyingq··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
> If software is the commodity, what is the bespoke value-added service that can sit on top of all that?

Troubleshooting and fixing the big mess that nobody fully understands when it eventually falls over?

tyingq··on Amiga Unix (Amix)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/522
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