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by senko 7mo ago
That's a good catch! The clock is inspired by the solar noon (uses sun as the anchor), but shows clock time, so it can be of practical use. Rereading the post, I notice I haven't made that distinction clear.
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by senko 7mo ago
I was thinking in general. But specifically: I'm in Croatia (so prices should not be that far off from German ones - equipment perhaps more costly but manual work a bit cheaper) and was quoted (two years ago) for a €15k total installat
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by senko 7mo ago
Thanks for the detailed explanation, I love this - exactly the sort of "geek out" mode I was in when tinkering with the clock. I had a fuzzy sense of these differences but had no idea that MST/solar is 17 minutes off - that&#
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by senko 7mo ago
Whoops, thanks for reporting it. And for the kind words, happy you like it!
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by senko 7mo ago
You're right about months/weeks, I was imprecise in the post: calendar months (as we now use them) are a weird cultural construct (I mean who would divide a measurement unevenly and though that was a good idea?) Referencing actual
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by senko 7mo ago
> lengthen and shorten the light part of the circle according to your local sunrise and sunset times! It's really not obvious, especially in light mode, but if you switch to dark mode you can see the day circle has a "bolder&
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by senko 7mo ago
These are nice, thanks for sharing! I love your reinterpretation of time as a mini solar system. On impulse I tried to drag to rotate it and it worked, was delighted! I was confused for a bit on what that satellite orbiting Moon is, and why
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by senko 7mo ago
That makes sense. I'm least happy with the (day-in-)month circle, but felt the calendar portion wasn't really useful without handling it somehow. I wanted the year circle to evoke Earth's orbit, so it had to be near the Sun.
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by senko 7mo ago
Heat pump prices + cost of installation was so high the last time I looked 2years ago, that it wasn't worth it even with free electricity (rooftop solar). Have the costs dropped for that as well?
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by senko 7mo ago
> LLMs have been a very useful tool to generate non-throwaway code for at least 2 years. I was in YC W24 (exactly two years ago) with an AI coding startup ("agentic" and "vibe" buzzwords weren't invented yet). LL
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by senko 7mo ago
Wow, Justin with his hair! Been plucking at the guitar (literally and figuratively - trying to learn) for a couple of years now and Justin's (free) course was the best I've found. His videos are compassionate, funny, explain thing
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by senko 7mo ago
> Non open source and non local SAAS sandboxes are offensive to even try to launch. No one needs this and the only customers will be vibe coders who just don't know any better. This is simply not true, but also not a very charitab
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by senko 7mo ago
GTK 2, GTK 3, or GTK 4?
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by senko 7mo ago
But is it a hyper or a doomer take? There seems to be a concencus among people I follow/read, that somewhere around that time was an inflexion point in coding LLMs, and this matches my personal experience. (My comment was in the contex
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by senko 7mo ago
Beautifully said, thank you. I'm glad I pulled on that thread :)
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by senko 7mo ago
> It's a meditative process to me. [...] I like to read the news on my phone. I don't think reading news, especially on the phone, is meditative. With paper you might pause & reflect while turning a page, with phone even
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by senko 7mo ago
It takes time for people to go through these experiences (three months, in OP's case), and LLMs have only been reasonably good for a few months (since circa Nov'25). Previously, takes were necessarily shallower or not as insightfu
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by senko 7mo ago
OMG yes. The most egregious in movie/tvshow trailer reviews. Who tf cares about a random quote included in the trailer? Here's a subtitle for a He-Man movie trailer from the other day: "Skeletor took my family and he destroye
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by senko 7mo ago
Yes, Claude Code has a Bash tool, and Claude in some cases uses the CLI sed utility (via the Bash tool) for file changes (although it has built-in file update), at least on my Linux machine.
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by senko 7mo ago
Claude Code with Opus 4.6 regularly uses sed for multi-line edits, in my experience. On top of it, Pi is famously only exposing 4 tools, which is not just Bash, but far more constrained than CCs 57 or so tools. So, yes, it can work.
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Mapping AI into Production: A Field Experiment on Firm Performance(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by senko 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Clock(blog.senko.net)
101 points by senko 7mo ago|44 comments
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by senko 7mo ago
An experiment inspired by the "Gonon: building a clock with no numeral" recently shared on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532338 ) The end result is: https://senko.net/clock/ Tech
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by senko 7mo ago
> YC has a lot to answer for in the damage it's wreaked over the years. What damage is that? (excluding the present case)
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by senko 7mo ago
This is the night side.
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by senko 7mo ago
no
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by senko 7mo ago
Back in the day I used to use mpg123. It's still available, but most of the time today I use mpv (successor to "mplayer", handles video too, opens a separate window, zero chrome) or ffplay, since they have wider format suppor
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by senko 7mo ago
> Apply a spell/grammar checker to your post before sharing it with other people. Hey, at least you know it isn't LLM generated! :) Thank you - I usually do, here I obviously didn't. Appreciate the callout. >> do not
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Improving AI-generated tests using mutation testing(blog.senko.net)
1 points by senko 7mo ago|2 comments
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by senko 7mo ago
> The main point everyone seems to be making is that now with AI anyone can make a SaaS. I agree with you that is incorrect. With AI, not everyone needs a SaaS. They can make a bespoke tool for themselves with 5% of the SaaS features t

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