ukblewis

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by ukblewis 1y ago
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Serious question: Firstly, have you ever thought about the fact that one, posts like this alienate Israelis from one of the few remaining tech news sources which made them feel safe by excluding politics? (If you’re wondering what I’m talki
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Do you truly think that this news story is showing “some interesting new phenomenon”? I am not one to talk as an Israeli Jew who clearly disagrees with the entire bullshit premise of the article… but either way, the story is only saying thi
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by ukblewis 1y ago
I would have thought the solution to drought and water shortages would be to desalinate and reduce water wasted in order to fix the problem. Using a “mix of technologies” is ignoring the problem and trying to work around it instead of fixin
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by ukblewis 1y ago
That may be just the best way to drop that you are introducing a rewrite which fixes a set of bugs that affect users
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by ukblewis 1y ago
I guess that they may have meant workstations / servers for horizontally scaled software, but yes, I agree that that sentence does seem misleading
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by ukblewis 1y ago
If you’ve never seen a machine stuck waiting for disk I/O, I don’t know what to tell you… but it is common, even with SSDs it can happen (as they point out due to handoff between the OS and user level process takes time)
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Or they could just use Gemini or GPT-5. It isn't exactly difficult these days to find alternate LLMs
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Polish news reports that Russian drones penetrated deep into Polish territory. Poland has invoked NATO's Article 4 (not to be confused with Article 5) to request a formal discussion on the matter
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Sometimes a little personal experience-based clearly anecdotal talk is okay. Hacker News isn’t some scientific journal, and yes, I too know one leftie in my circle that hates AI models and zero right wingers who feel that way… Do you have a
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by ukblewis 1y ago
It is sad the world that we live in whereby social networks encourage and create violence
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Neither of them make high performance CPUs or GPUs
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by ukblewis 1y ago
What is the benefit of this over Codex CLI?
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by ukblewis 1y ago
I get that it looks suspicious, but here’s the archive link: https://archive.is/2025.08.07-035308/https://github.blog/cha...
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Please be careful about the alternative. I’ve seen o3 doing excessive tool calls and research for relatively simple problems.
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Claude Code isn’t a complete agent - it cannot open PRs autonomously AFAIK
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by ukblewis 1y ago
I can’t be the only one for which the Python support in Cursor has been absolutely garbage the past week. I’m super disappointed with Cursor. I wanted to love it
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by ukblewis 1y ago
Have you tried SQLModel?
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by ukblewis 2y ago
https://archive.is/49l5U For those without a membership
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by ukblewis 2y ago
Unbelievably incompetent
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by ukblewis 2y ago
This is pretty cool
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by ukblewis 2y ago
Or all of their investment? Considering that very few end-users use Bing, ditching Google is like ditching the internet for much of their target audience, at least, most likely
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by ukblewis 5y ago
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme... Looks like they’ve left Russia…
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by ukblewis 5y ago
Maybe not 0.15 and maybe not half a kilo but a whole kilo for 40p (approx 0.47 euro) is certainly cheap: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/Product/hubbards-foodsto... Not saying that it’s equivalent quality to B
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LastPass makes users that use it computers and smartphones pay for Premium(support.logmeininc.com)
2 points by ukblewis 6y ago|1 comments
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by ukblewis 6y ago
This is a rather clickbaiting title... in truth it’s just that Python 2 doesn’t differentiate between strings and raw bytes by default. Nothing to do with IP (v4 or v6) addresses or the string “node.example.com”
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by ukblewis 7y ago
I don’t agree. Yes, of course everyone should consider if they really even need their DSL. But sometimes as the author rightly notes, sometimes the alternative to a DSL is a lower or significantly more complex existing interface style (such
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Australia passes anti-encryption law(theverge.com)
4 points by ukblewis 8y ago|0 comments
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by ukblewis 8y ago
It’s not remotely as complete as about:config
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by ukblewis 8y ago
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