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IshKebab··on KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU
Actually I think "complexity" is probably not quite the right measure. You can vibe code very complex things, as long as they are in the "easy for AI" zone - clear goals, ideally non-graphically, ideally there's a specification or even better a reference implementation, best an automated way of checking correctness. CAD is about the worst case (and very complicated).

But you could easily vibe code, e.g. an H.265 decoder, even though it is super complex.

IshKebab··on PixelOS
Only as long as it stays irrelevant. I find it amusing they have a "legal" page.
IshKebab··on Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world
Yeah they also did a video on YouTube about how they used Flutter in the RAV 4, and the first code snippet he posted... `dartExecutor`. lol
IshKebab··on KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU
My experience has been the opposite. I have two vibe coded tools that I use frequently and I spent a few weeks of occasional prompting and now they are basically done. I haven't touched the code for one of them for a month and I use it most days.

To be fair neither is quite as complex as a whole 3D modeller.

IshKebab··on Systemd Loves Rust
> Static linking for a project like systemd that is split into many tiny components (> 180 binaries currently) is simply not practical or desirable.

It's pretty easy to do this though isn't it? Just have a single binary and switch on argv[0]. Busybox has been doing that for literally decades.

IshKebab··on Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller
> I think at this point it is the "holier than thou" people pointing out every instance of slightly AI sounding text that are getting annoying.

I don't think it's unreasonable to spend literally 3 minutes writing your own submission. I'm not asking to rewrite every code comment.

And it wasn't "slightly" AI sounding text. It's very obviously AI.

IshKebab··on Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller
The hilarious thing about this is that there was an initial hack, and then like a month later another one that was equally successful. Who could have possibly seen that coming lol.

> Default logins open a fake store dashboard with defrost buttons, so you see the second move, not just the first.

I think we're past the point where it's reasonable to expect people to not use AI for code, but their prose still sucks balls. You should at least write your submission here yourself, come on.

IshKebab··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
> The article does nothing to address that.

I dunno if you've been living under an enormous rock, but they used AI to make this.

IshKebab··on Upload Your RAM
Yeah except price differentiation exists. There's a reason Nvidia doesn't allow consumer GPUs in data centres.
IshKebab··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
It's already much smarter than most humans in a lot of ways.

It's not the same kind of intelligence as humans so it'll probably always have weird areas where it can't do as well (like counting letters in words), but that doesn't mean it isn't smart. If AI were sentient it could point at humans and say "haha look how dumb they are; 99.999% of them can't even write a basic Lean program".

We're way beyond the point where "it's not as smart as humans" is meaningful.

IshKebab··on Size-It-Up (Game)
Yeah the "new here" instructions are completely wrong on mobile.

Also the control could just be a slider. Much easier and simpler on all platforms.

Nice idea though.

IshKebab··on Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
Definitely a worthy goal but they've gone down a super weird route by providing clones of other GUI toolkit APIs on top of this. Your target audience is people that are ok with vibe coding. They don't care about switching to a proper Blender-style API.

Just because you can...

IshKebab··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
I'm not sure it matters anymore unfortunately. I've vibe coded a few apps using gpui-kit and it works well. It helps that gpui-kit provides a number of high quality components (e.g. the data table is especially good). But even where it doesn't (e.g. log output) Opus 5.5 was able to easily write one that worked perfectly.

It even added ANSI colour support... which I am still on the fence about but it did make the very good point that it means the logging is exactly the same in GUI and CLI mode.

IshKebab··on Have I befriended a murderer?
How obvious though? Obvious enough for 3 random people to agree? 10? 100?

You don't magically avoid a threshold just by saying "obvious".

IshKebab··on A thousand fewer paths to root
Right, the context was missing out on "top talent". Top talent gets those crazy salaries.
IshKebab··on sshole
Let's be real here, the main culprit is C. People love to say "but you can still get logic errors with Rust", and no shit of course you can. But it's much less likely. You wouldn't have gotten this bug.
IshKebab··on Partial Operator Precedence
This is very clearly the best design for operator precedence IMO and it's nice that Zig has converged on it. It would be good to get it as a linting/formatting rule in Rust too (maybe that already exists?).
IshKebab··on Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA and SoC Portfolio
There aren't any open commercial FPGAs as far as I know. Some have had their bitstream formats reverse engineered though.

We're starting to see open source FPGAs but they are miniscule: https://tinytapeout.com/chips/ttihp26a/tt_um_fabulous_ihp_26...

IshKebab··on A thousand fewer paths to root
I'm not skeptical. Linux has had so many LPE bugs in the past that most people consider it to be a "best effort" thing and nobody actually relies on it. Shared machines are mostly used in companies or universities as a kind of admin tool - the users are more or less trusted.

The only exception I know of is Android. It would be interesting to know how many of these vulnerabilities work there. Can't be zero anyway...

IshKebab··on A thousand fewer paths to root
Given their salaries, I really doubt it.
IshKebab··on Have I befriended a murderer?
Why though? Let's be real, juries are human and requiring a unanimous verdict will 90% of the time just mean that people that disagree with the majority will give in so that they get to go home.

There's no fundamental difference in justice, just minor differences in thresholds.

IshKebab··on Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
Speeches have always over-used these writing techniques. The problem is Claude uses them all the time, even when not writing speeches.
IshKebab··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Better you mean? Or are you saying you prefer having unfixed bugs?
IshKebab··on Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
IMO that is still kind of true. Windows 11 LTSC gives a totally bloat free experience, the only downside is you can only reasonably get it through grey market cdkey sites.

Linux, sometimes works without faff. But in my experience it's at best 50:50 if you get that, or constant crashes, hangs, broken peripherals, etc. (Of course any time you mention this the luck 50% pipe up with "it works for me".)

IshKebab··on Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015)
Oo that does look interesting. You might want to tone down the slop prose on your website though. It's a real turn-off.
IshKebab··on Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015)
OpenSCAD is useless for almost all of the things that people actually use CAD for. There are a few minor exceptions like fasteners, gears and procedural art. Most CAD is more like a motorbike or a vacuum cleaner. Good luck with that.
IshKebab··on Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015)
I was all ready to say how useless code-based CAD usually is (like OpenSCAD), but this actually looks pretty sick.

If you could add support for SolveSpace's 2D sketcher, and also bevels/fillets, then this might actually be useful.

IshKebab··on [dead]
You registered a domain just to post one-off slop? Pff.
IshKebab··on European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative
Likewise. I'm a RISC-V fan but a slop page like this is not a good look.
IshKebab··on Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
A blackout that severe would surely affect POTS too.
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