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by benterix 6mo ago
> The usual suspect would first need to cross Poland, not to mention finishing what they started in Ukraine. It doesn't look like they can break Ukraine anytime soon. And each month Ukraine bites back pushing the prospect of full-sc
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by benterix 6mo ago
I guess we're living in two different areas of Europe. And regarding the last point: > And the EU regime plans what? To send European military age men to die in a faraway foreign country fighting for foreign interests while their ho
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by benterix 6mo ago
Identity verification to use an API?? And via Persona? I can't say if it's real. But if they really try to enforce that, I guess goodbye Anthropic forever.
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by benterix 6mo ago
Yeah it was a bit tiring to read. TLDR: it started visiting HN, writing a blog about it, and the money was spent on charities.
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by benterix 6mo ago
"Sometimes"?
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by benterix 6mo ago
Tangentially related: the author of the blog is listening to LukHash. I remember the guys absolutely stunning cover of C-64 Bruce Lee theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUHewyaavys
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by benterix 6mo ago
Yeah, I remember the same. Also, "Windows 11 fans" sounds like an oxymoron.
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by benterix 6mo ago
> At the start of the year, Microsoft generated a lot of goodwill among Windows 11 fans when it announced its big plan to fix the operating system in 2026. Interesting, I can't recall a single voice "Oh I'm so happy they c
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by benterix 6mo ago
Stallman wrote about this in 1997: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
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by benterix 6mo ago
SvelteKit is also from 2020.
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by benterix 6mo ago
Poland is very anti-Trump, just like the rest of Europe. However, the current president is from a right-wing fraction that decided to support Trump and now has a very hard time explaining to their votes his every crazy move.
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by benterix 6mo ago
> tried to do some high performance things the Go way: didn't work (channels are slow) and I got over it. What did you choose instead?
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by benterix 6mo ago
> JIT warmup is real. The first call to any method pays the compilation cost. In a database engine, the first transaction after startup shouldn’t be 100x slower than the steady state. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it what a
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by benterix 6mo ago
> But isn't linux US tech? If you want to discuss it on that level, it if Finnish tech imported to the USA, inspired by a Dutch implementation of a research OS. On a more serious note, Linux has been developed by many individuals al
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by benterix 6mo ago
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if American companies started using it if the French get it right. The instability of the current administration is one thing, but Microsoft disregard for its user deserves an appropriate response
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by benterix 6mo ago
> Unlike Vietnam, one can no longer hide from government in times of unrest. That's true but you can leave for Canada or Europe.
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by benterix 6mo ago
> Mocking the former is now culturally acceptable on HN, the latter not so much. I have the opposite impression. In the past, I'd very often react "WTF who'd ever want to use it?" in my mind, whereas the comments were
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by benterix 6mo ago
> I always read on how much power AI can bring to common people, and it it always without any evidence whatsoever. Not really "much power" but more like a viable alternative: in a world where everybody needs LLMs to do their wh
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by benterix 6mo ago
Paradoxically China looks like the bastion of peace. And we're just in Q1 of 2026... I can hardly imagine the long years of 2027 and 2028.
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by benterix 6mo ago
While I agree, nuclear weapons have their own drawbacks and unless you invest in the full triad, just having siloes may even make you more of a victim (that's their main function anyway). What they can and have started to do is to make
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by benterix 6mo ago
> A duly elected President, as it’s always been. Imagine you elect the president because he promises he will finish wars instead of starting them. And after it's elected, he's doing exactly the opposite. Philosophical question:
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by benterix 6mo ago
> There are news reports of Iranian expats and opponents within Iranian who are disappointed with the ceasefire. They wanted trump to go further and destroy the regime. And how he would do that, exactly?
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by benterix 6mo ago
In absolute terms, as far as we know, as of today that vibe-coded app is still more reliable than OneDrive.
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by benterix 6mo ago
Well, I wanted to understand what is this cool new tech everybody is talking about so I bought a Max plan, experimented with various setups recommended by various experts, vibe-coded a few apps and then threw it all away. I still use more t
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by benterix 6mo ago
> Obvious quantization issues Devil's advocate: why shouldn't they do it if OpenAI, Anthropic and Google get away with playing this game?
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by benterix 6mo ago
> I like money I'm sorry, I might be a bit stupid but I haven't understood your comment.
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by benterix 6mo ago
> It shows that you can build a crazy popular & successful product while violating all the traditional rules about “good” code. It shows that given enough hype and fomo you can convince many people to do this tool to build various ty
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by benterix 6mo ago
> Autodesk has been a FAR more abusive company for FAR longer, but it's what we're stuck with - although the emergence of the BIM Workbench (Building Information Modeling) with the release of FreeCAD 1.0 [0] and the continued d
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by benterix 6mo ago
> ow, when ukraine shows that they are strong, people on the internet look horrified how russian soldiers are annihilated with fpv drones and scream about how such things are war crimes and should be stopped. Sorry who are those people a
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by benterix 6mo ago
Which countries? Negative submissions about China and Russia get flagged near-instantly. Frequently also about the USA. People don't like a topic - they flag it.

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