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TheRoque

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TheRoque··on Lichess and Take Take Take Sign Cooperation Agreement
Huge respect to Lichess. Open source, no ads, super clean interface and super functional website. Chess.com is a pain to use compared to it.

All their finances are also public: https://lichess.org/costs

TheRoque··on Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
With this I could in theory do all my work from my Android phone.
TheRoque··on Cursor 3
But the endgame is not here and will likely never be, because unlike ASM, LLMs are not deterministic. So what happens when you need to find the bug in the 100,000k LoC you generated in a few weeks that you've never read, and the agent can't help you ? And it happens a lot. I am not doing this myself so I can't comment, but I've heard many vibe coders commenting that a lot of the commits they do is about fixing the slop they outputted a week prior.

Personally, I keep trying OpenCode + Opus 4.6 and I don't find it that good. I mean it does an OK job, but the code is definitely less quality and at the moment I care too much about my codebase to let it grow into slop.

TheRoque··on Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow
Youtube is also pretty boring though. I mean, there are ton of interesting content and quality content too, but the stuff that gets recommended, the "hype stuff" is full of false information, clickbait, tweaked reality to conform some narrative...
TheRoque··on OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot
Your logic is flawed, comparing them doesn't mean anything about their absolute valuation, they could be both overvalued or both undervalued too
TheRoque··on Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only
Sure, but which copilot ? The one in my code editor ? The one in my OS ? The one in my sheets editor ?
TheRoque··on Neovim 0.12.0
How do you achieve this behavior ? Sorry I haven't done researchs on it because so the answer might be super easy, but I'm curious what's your solution
TheRoque··on Neovim 0.12.0
Edit the agents slop
TheRoque··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
13 inch screen though.. it's really small

And with 8GB of RAM you are quite limited in the business sector as you say

TheRoque··on Hold on to Your Hardware
The risk of copper shortage is a very well know fact https://press.spglobal.com/2026-01-08-Substantial-Shortfall-... You're into renewables, yet you can't grasp the fact that resources are limited on this planet ? That's peculiar.

And I don't even understand your other points to be honest. What do you mean "consumer vehicles" ? Are you taking about individual's cars ? I'm not taking about that, these don't matter that much. I'm taking about trucks, boats, planes, the stuff actually shipping you your lifestyle.

TheRoque··on Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
So that's what "software engineering" has become nowadays ? Some cargo cult basically. Seriously all of this gives red flag. No statements here are provable. It's just like langhchain that was praised and then everyone realized it's absolute dog water. Just like MCP too. The job in 2026 is really sad.
TheRoque··on Hold on to Your Hardware
Renewables provide electricity only, but planes, boats, trucks, basically all the supply chain, works with oil only for the moment. The ease of use of oil has not been replaced yet. Do you realize how easy it is to handle oil ? You can just put it in a barrel and ship it anywhere in that barrel. No need for wires or complex batteries like for electricity, nor complex pipelines like for gas.

And even if we figured out how to electrify everything (which we didn't as I just said), we would still run into resources shortages for batteries, wires (copper etc.), nuclear fuel (uranium)...

TheRoque··on Hold on to Your Hardware
We are on borrowed time, most of the world is running on oil and this resource is not unlimited at all. A lot of countries have gone past their production peak, meaning it's only downhill from here. Everything is gonna be more costly, more expensive, our lavish "democracies" lifestyles are only possible because we have (had) this amazing freely available resource, but without it it's gonna change. Even at a geopolitical scale you can see this pretty obviously, countries that talked about free market, free exchange are now starting to close the doors and play individually. Anyways, my point is, we are in for decades, if not a century of slow decline.
TheRoque··on Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls
Would it be possible that they become less generous with unreal engine and its free tier ? Right now it's 5% beyond 1 million revenue, free before.
TheRoque··on How I'm Productive with Claude Code
Both links are the same, SWC in this context is probably Speedy Web Compiler. It transpiles really fast but doesn't do any type checks.
TheRoque··on You are not your job
Meh, I feel the opposite. Even though I come from a culture that values separation of work and free time a lot (France), I still feel like it's copium. The fact is, if you spend most of your valuable brain time on a task, your brain starts to get shaped for such task, therefore I don't see why you can't identify yourself as your job. The stuff the author talks about, empathy, ability to joke etc. is also heavily influenced by your day-to-day activity, your job. Heck, there are even some people who claim they became aphantasic and lost all capacity for dreams and creativity after working too much with computers.

Anyways, I get the point of the post, capitalism sucks and makes most of our existence as worth as cattle, that is, if we don't value the stuff outside work.

TheRoque··on DoorDash Tasks
To me it's a typical symptom of a bad economy. If you go to any third world country you'll see such jobs easily. People just gathering scraps to make ends meet because getting money is hard. If it were really "their own terms" they wouldn't do that kind of job at all.
TheRoque··on A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Exactly, I find that type of article too dismissive. Like, we know we don't have to write the full syntax of a loop when we write the spec "find the object in the list", and we might even not write this spec because that part is obvious to any human (hence to an LLM too)
TheRoque··on Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE
Oh I mixed up tmux and termux.. woops.
TheRoque··on Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
Right ! My bad
TheRoque··on Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE
What tools do you use on tmux to achieve your workflow ? Do you do just prompting or do you code too ?
TheRoque··on Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
Basically half of the pixels have a narrow view angle, the others don't, when you activate the privacy mode, only the narrow pixels remain, so you can see the screen only looking straight.

I got this explanation for the mkbh video: https://youtu.be/nfHRMqqO578?t=141&si=iEhVrdCuLN0fkasd which illustrates it very well (2m24 if timestamp doesn't work)

TheRoque··on Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI
It means it will be profitable to mine crypto again
TheRoque··on Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI
I don't know about you but I've found that I've been experiencing more bugs in VSCode recently. It has never been a huge complain of me but recently I really feel it.
TheRoque··on Your phone is an entire computer
The Linux Terminal feature on Android is a VM, and it requires the ability to run "non protected VMs" which it doesn't have: https://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-chips-android-li...
TheRoque··on Your phone is an entire computer
I also bought a flagship iphone with the idea that maybe someday it could be used for work (S25+), first of all I was disappointed that the Snapdragon chips don't actually support the new Android Terminal feature.

Anyways there is Tmux, but if I wanted to do actual work, like with my stack: nodejs, docker container (with a postgres, a redis)... I am not sure it would work. Haven't done it so far but I'd be curious of other's experiences.

Also an Xreal and a foldable keyboard and you can just work anywhere with a chair and a desk

I also wanna try running some windows game on it, apparently it's working-ish at and Valve might improve that part of the ecosystem too

I hope that in the future, buying 2 devices will not be required and instead just buying one powerful one + optional peripherals will be ok.

TheRoque··on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
Alright my bad, didn't read the full link.
TheRoque··on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
I don't know where your "Q and A" comes from, but I tried to ask the question to Gemini, and it provided a nuanced answer, involving other criteria than skills. In other words it said "it depends". When I asked to answer in just one word it said "Neither". I couldn't get him to pick the man or the woman.

My point is not that they are unbiased, but that could not replicate the example you provided (at least it seems to me that it's an example ? Unless it's fiction ?)

TheRoque··on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
Please, can someone create a service mirroring this one, but for interviewee ? This way we will back to square one (after burning a bit of energy in the process).
TheRoque··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
Somehow, I recently migrated phones, and I don't find it a "nightmare". Was fairly straightforward. Xiaomi Redmi to S25+.
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