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ziml77··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Sometimes I can't even tell if what it's saying actually makes any sense to someone who understands all the terms its using, or if it's just throwing together words in a way that only make sense to its own model of language.
ziml77··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
I've tried to push AI to get rid of the AI-isms. And, despite being able to produce a skill file which described all the strange ways that AI "talk", the AI failed to actually make the output sound less like AI. Tried this with ChatGPT and Claude with similar results for both.
ziml77··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
Jony Ive is a plague on design. Just a few days ago someone showed me Ferrari's new EV that he designed. I am not a car person and even I can see it looks like crap! That man should just take his big Apple money and fully retire so he doesn't ruin anything else.
ziml77··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
Fastmail still generates theirs with @fastmail.com. And 1Password has an integration with them to quickly generate an address when creating a new account somewhere.
ziml77··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
Interesting because I have foam tips on my Pro 2s and sometimes the pressure from the noise cancellation will actually make me feel worse.
ziml77··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
Do you retain the sensation that everything is still wobbling? I would get that after being on a boat for long enough. Though motion sickness never made me feel ill to my stomach, rather it just gives me the worst headaches that require fresh air and time to relieve.
ziml77··on I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
The caps lock key is good for binding to F13 and using for push-to-talk. I know some people bind it to escape for Vim usage but I don't like that because I'm likely to also use Vim on machines without that key remapped and that messes with muscle memory.
ziml77··on I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
That's the sane handling of scrolling. macOS is weird for tying the scrolling direction of trackpads and mouse wheels in a single setting.
ziml77··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
That was my experience too. Legal wanted things locked down hard. IT was more than happy to make things easier for users as long as legal wasn't getting in the way. Usually meant the systems were simpler too if we had fewer rules and controls to enforce.
ziml77··on Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates
If you knew anyone that worked on the other ends of those deals, you'd know that it was always a load of trash. He basically relied on people caving to threats. That tactic only works if the other side believes the threat is credible and that they actually have something to lose.
ziml77··on California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Shit thanks for pointing that out. My door lock isn't 100% effective at stopping thieves, so I guess I can get rid of that annoying thing. Will be nice to never worry about being locked out again!
ziml77··on Migrating from Go to Rust
I don't get where the idea comes from that the popular error crates make error handling complicated in Rust. Because you're right, all thiserror is doing is giving you a shorter syntax for writing error enums. You could write the exact same things out by hand if you wanted to, and from the library user's side nothing would change.

As for anyhow, if a library ever exposes that, then that's just the author being lazy and not doing errors correctly. It's the equivalent of doing throw Exception("error!") in C#.

ziml77··on Using Kagi Search with Low Vision
How do you feel your data for Kagi Maps compares to Google Maps? It's the kind of thing that's harder to test than switching web searches over to Kagi. I need to already know that the business and transit data is reliable which is why I still go to Google Maps.
ziml77··on Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
But also great for speed. Larger libraries can take a measurable amount of time to import (even if they have no transitive dependencies). If only some of your code paths actually need the large library then it makes sense to import it lazily. Without lazy you have to do it conditionally which can lead to the imports happening in strange places rather than all being listed out at the top of the file.
ziml77··on Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
That's how twilight anesthesia works. That's the kind you get when having something like wisdom tooth removal or an endoscopy. They want you to be responsive to instructions but completely relaxed and unable to form memories of the event.
ziml77··on Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
I have no problem with Twitch channel points gambling via predictions, but doing that alongside actual* gambling is really messed up. It's blurring the line to the viewers between the two. And probably putting ideas in their head like "oh I won so many channel points predicting the outcomes, I should do some real gambling!"

*It could be sponsored and thus either rigged or all of the money being used was provided by the company under the expectation that it would be paid back to them through losses.

ziml77··on Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
There's degrees of harmfulness. Weed is on the mild side along with alcohol (possibly even less harmful than alcohol).
ziml77··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
Why use a generated image in that weird dirty yellow style when you have a real screenshot to show?
ziml77··on Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
Gambling and scalping (and the combo that comes from reselling things like pokemon cards and other blind box products). They really do seem like the only options for a lot of people to live the kind of life that they've been sold as the ideal.

And as much as I hate that this is what is happening, I feel like that's what I'm going to end up being forced to try after 15+ years in working software development jobs, given how badly the companies want to replace us with LLMs. Hasn't gotten to that point yet but I'm shocked every day we're not laid off.

ziml77··on Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision
Wow I'm amazed that they shipped it without that. That's a standard safety feature as far as I know.
ziml77··on Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
It's so weird seeing comments praising that there's been so many releases in such a short time. That's not a good thing!
ziml77··on I got infected with a crypto-miner via misconfigured qBittorrent
I think he wants Traefik's proxied requests to come from a different subnet, that way externally you need to authenticate but internally you don't.

Personally I wouldn't bother with that and instead I would not directly expose the service to the internet at all, and just use a VPN. I don't trust that any services I run are safe to expose to the internet unless they are very intentionally designed for that.

ziml77··on Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
I don't know if anyone is actually using roaming profiles, but config should go into the %APPDATA% folder to support that. %LOCALAPPDATA% is for things that shouldn't be synced to different machines, such as caches.
ziml77··on LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
You're misunderstanding what that's in reference to. It's not about all of the extensions in the list being removed. It's about the 3 that are specifically called out in the text above the list to scare people into thinking they're being profiled for things that could put them in danger.

All 3 of those have been removed.

ziml77··on Zed 1.0
There isn't any other than the occasional message when you save that tells you to buy the product. It's about as close to freeware as a paid product can get.

I do suggest people pay though, it's cheap for a one-time purchase. The only reason I've ever seen the message at all is because I spent months being too lazy to dig up the license key to send to my work email. (That should also say something about how little I was being bothered by the message too)

ziml77··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
You feel how you feel and that's totally fine.
ziml77··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
Having an LLM directly and autonomously drive command line tools outside of a strict sandbox sounds like a ticking time bomb.

Thinking tokens: "The files I'm trying to read are missing, I need to figure out why. I see the problem, I accidentally ran rm -rf /home/user. Let me run git restore. No that didn't work. Let me try git reset --hard origin/HEAD. That still didn't work. I should inform the user."

Output: "I was unable to complete the task you requested. Restore /home/user and I will try again"

ziml77··on Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI
I have never heard this third option before but I love it!
ziml77··on VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI
I would end both with the S sound, but I'm operating under the assumption that the person I was replying to either pronounces their Ss as Zs or can't tell the difference between the S and Z sounds.

Because the other assumption I could have gone with is the less charitable take that they know GIS with a soft G doesn't sound like jizz, but they were just looking for a crude way to mock the soft G.

ziml77··on VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI
I hadn't thought about how to pronounce GIS, but do you have a problem with the pronunciation of the Japanese Industrial Standards: JIS?
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