Insanity

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by Insanity 10mo ago
I really like the idea of Framework. But the use-case for their laptop just doesn’t typically exist for me. I have a custom built PC (been building my own since 2008). In that span, I had many minor upgrades and 3 entirely new from-scratch
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by Insanity 10mo ago
GenAI security. I work in the security space as an engineering manager but need to be more versed in LLM focused attack vectors. Outside of work, I’m really into Roman history so I’ll keep learning about that.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
When my company organized an LLM hackathon last year, they pushed for LangChain.. but then instead of building on top of it I ended up creating a more lightweight abstraction for our use-cases. That was more fun than actually using it.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Ohh, adult life shielded me from those outages. Guess I don’t get a lot of weekday gaming time.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Merry Christmas HN! Whether you celebrate it or not, hope you get some time off to spend with friends and/or family!
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Saturnalia isn’t related to it other than coincidence of dates, no? Either way, merry Saturnalia to you! (Off-by-one day :D)
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Class ChristmasTree extends Tree{}
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Yikes. Notable that it rarely happens though! Does mean that debugging and getting it back up might take more time as they aren’t necessarily “battle tested” for this situation.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
I’m by no means great at games anymore. But in these casually competitive games, you get matched against people in similar rank. For anyone playing The Finals, I’m hovering around 30-40k ELO. Definitely mid-tier. I play about 4h a week fwiw
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Lol, fair enough, but I think this is a workaround rather than a solution.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
I should have clarified it, but you hit the nail on the head. I arrive home with little energy after a day in the office. By the time I’m home it’s at least 6:30pm, usually a bit later. If I would work until 6:30 but from home instead of th
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by Insanity 10mo ago
More traditional “French” cuisine is not typically ready in 10-30 minutes when starting from scratch (or I’m just incredibly slow). Cooking a full meal would at least take me an hour end-to-end. As a sibling comment mentioned, it’s more tha
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by Insanity 10mo ago
My girlfriend and I were talking about this the other day. We both have full time jobs and can only cook “real meal” in the weekend now that WFH ended. It sucks, I enjoy cooking and want to eat at least somewhat health conscious…
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by Insanity 10mo ago
I’ll share this with my partner. But as I’ve told her before: “games aren’t meant to be relaxing to me, it’s to compete!” I do wonder how these results would translate to more competitive games like CS. FWIW, I used to game competitively (i
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by Insanity 10mo ago
I've switched away from Nvidia around 2008 due to poor Linux support. Been on AMD ever since (now running the flagship model from a year ago, the 7900xtx or whatever it's called). Won't personally miss Nvidia, but we need com
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Disagree, it's not _just_ practice. You can do something for 10,000 hours but never actively try to improve. Does that mean you're now more senior because you had more volume of practice? e.g, let's say someone spends 10k hou
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by Insanity 10mo ago
“It just works” sadly isn’t true across the Apple Ecosystem anymore. Liquid Glass ruined multitasking UX on my iPad. :( Also my macbook (m4 pro) has random freezes where finder becomes entirely unresponsive. Not sure yet why this happens bu
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by Insanity 10mo ago
19 mass stabbings in 2024 in China vs 586 mass shooting incidents in the USA. Per capita, that's even worse. EDIT: I used ChatGPT 'thinking mode' to get that number for USA. Where mass shooting >= 4 people injured.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Yeah, it's obviously a gun control issue. But the US has such a deeply ingrained cultural association with owning guns, and thinking that this means "freedom" in case the government turns on the people lol, that I doubt banni
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by Insanity 10mo ago
My background is in computer science and philosophy. But philosophy was always about pure interest and not career prospect. If I had to pivot in 2025, I’d probably go for psychology. I’m interested in that, I enjoy the idea of more directly
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by Insanity 10mo ago
I felt similar for most of 2025. Then at some point something clicked and now I work on side projects again without AI. Can AI do it faster? Yes, but that’s not the point. The point is having fun. The analogy I keep going to in my mind is c
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Good catch, I didn’t read through the comments where it’s mentioned.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
The fact that Mein Kampf was mentioned so often in 2025 is saying something about the political climate lol.. Nice website though, I like it.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Coincidentally was reviewing code yesterday that had a confusing/contradictory statement.. error_msg = "xyz went wrong" log.warn(error_msg) My comment on the CR was about this being an inherent contradiction and inc
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Ask HN: Running your own email service?
7 points by Insanity 10mo ago|4 comments
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Damn that is scary. I’ve been reading on Kindle since 2017, I have about 200 books on there. I doubt I would re-read many of them, but my partner is still going through some of them (with the family library thing). I’d be pissed if it got w
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by Insanity 10mo ago
This website is atrocious to read. But on the actual topic, it could be a case of home invasion etc. No need to jump to conclusions of further malicious intent (yet).
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by Insanity 10mo ago
Pretty sure they just mean a Master degree and they _think_ that’s what MBA means. I might be too charitable, but if someone doesn’t have experience with higher education it’s not an unlikely mistake.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
In the first place, write for yourself. I don’t do it often anymore (lack of time) but used to be a somewhat active blogger. It helped with my own understanding of the topics I wrote about.
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by Insanity 10mo ago
If you want some more humorous metal, check out the band “NanoWar of Steel”. It’s great. All their songs are humorous, but for example they have a song with Joachim from Sabaton called Pasadena 1994. It fits the “war metal” style of Sabaton

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