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cupofjoakim··on Fable Took My Job
I'm not just talking about the post though. In many places it IS legal to remove someone zero notice with or without a severance package.
cupofjoakim··on Fable Took My Job
i'm tired man. AI this, AI that, here's how we productmaxxed our deliveries, here's how many people we could remove, etc etc. Everyone is going crazy about ai, but no one is remembering the people affected.

Corpo culture is disgusting around layoffs. Zero notice terminations should not be legal, anywhere. Have some fucking heart guys.

cupofjoakim··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
I tried it out, but with kev instead of this python script. The issue is that mid session swapping invalidates the cache, which drives cost quite a lot. Ended up loosing money when comparing prompts in most of my transcripts.

If you're not behind a walled garden like i am (vertex), you could probably experiment with routing on effort level instead. Anthropic supports it, but vertex has not added that feature yet.

cupofjoakim··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
I wonder if this could be a good stepping stone to write a local prompt router to optimise what model get what prompt. I.e. if the prompt is just a lookup, send it to haiku, if it's reasoning, send it to opus and if it's implementation send it to sonnet.
cupofjoakim··on The turbulent AI era is here
The issues are global and they are correct. The landscape is not the same in US as in other countries, but this is a global problem and should be handled as such.

I'm not against a tax on AI or robots, but I think this may be the big chance we have to look at universal income with new eyes. If jobs are to disappear, why not soften the blow and get rid of some of the inefficiencies many government processes mean in terms of other citizen benefits?

What I worry about more however is the malevolent actors across the AI space. I'd argue that most companies mean well, but chasing profit at all costs can very easily turn into malevolence. Both these and actors being malevolent on purpose needs to have a control function.

cupofjoakim··on Blorp Language
Well, nesting is not the only option.

``` thing.doThis() thing.thenDoThat() thing.andFinallyThis()

// or

doThis(thing) thenDoThat(thing) andFinallyThis(thing) ```

cupofjoakim··on Blorp Language
Fair! That'd depend on the operations right? For example, AFAIK typescript can't do much about multiple chained `map` calls, and i've seen quite a few `.filter(...).map(...).filter(Boolean).map(...)` :/
cupofjoakim··on Blorp Language
Interesting. there are some parts i like a lot here, but two things that I really dislike syntax wise. One is the lean towards a chainable syntax - this has proven to a big footgun for many devs in both java streams and typescript, making it very easy to go from O(n) to O(2n). The other part i really dislike is the first argument principle noted. If i myself define `string_and_reverse` and I can call it both through `string_and_reverse(42)` and `42.string_and_reverse()` i could definitely see this leading to some very funky looking chaining.

Perhaps it's just one point from me - not liking chaining :D

cupofjoakim··on Claude Opus 4.7
> Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text. The tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens—roughly 1.0–1.35× depending on the content type.

caveman[0] is becoming more relevant by the day. I already enjoy reading its output more than vanilla so suits me well.

[0] https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/tree/main

cupofjoakim··on Show HN: Beehive – Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator
This is great. I wish however there was some sandbox support, perhaps running the whole hive inside a vm for example
cupofjoakim··on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
The US being stuck in imperial is such a meme nowadays with "freedum units" and the like. It's yet another odd thing that makes it easy for the rest of the world to laugh at the US. In these isolationist times I doubt this will change soon though, but it'd definitely help international collaboration.
cupofjoakim··on Apple Creator Studio
That's great if you need everything. If you need one of them, not so much.
cupofjoakim··on KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support
I find your comment a bit funny on multiple levels. "Linux" does not force anything on you right? It's the community that has by and large decided to move to maintaining other solutions. If you still want to use fvwm you can still run it on arch with x11 until x11 is not maintained and the kernel breaks it somehow
cupofjoakim··on Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
an image is available in the PR where it was added: https://github.com/0xhckr/ghostty-shaders/pull/30
cupofjoakim··on Shader Glass
It'd be cool, but I guess the hodgepodge of different solutions in that space would make it really hard. For example, many mods for GW2 don't work in linux if you're on something like Hyprland due to them having to act as overlays. Not sure if that's a wayland issue or just a typical hyprland thing though
cupofjoakim··on Tim Bray on Grokipedia
Dead Internet Theory is no longer a theory huh?
cupofjoakim··on Aggressive bots ruined my weekend
Not sure if that's satire or not but how would you even identify the party to sue? What do you do if they're based in a country where you can't sue them ofer relatively trivial matters as this?
cupofjoakim··on Aggressive bots ruined my weekend
We feel this at work too. We run a book streaming platform with all books, booklists, authors, narrators and publishers available as standalone web pages for SEO, in the multiple millions. Last 6 months have turned into a hellscape - for a few reasons:

1. It's become commonplace to not respect rate limits

2. Bots no longer identify themselves by UA

3. Bots use VPNs or similar tech to bypass ip rate limiting

4. Bots use tools like NobleTLS or JA3Cloak to go around ja3 rate limiting

5. Some valid LLM companies seem to also follow the above to gather training data. We want them to know about our company, so we don't necessarily want to block them

I'm close to giving up on this front tbh. There's no longer safe methods of identifying malignant traffic at scale, and with the variations we have available we can't statically generate these. Even with a CDN cache (shoutout fastly) our catalog is simply too broad to fully saturate the cache while still allowing pages to be updated in a timely manner.

I guess the solution is to just scale up the origin servers... /shrug

In all seriousness, i'd love if we somehow could tell the bots about more efficient ways of fetching the data. Use our open api for fetching book informations instead of causing all that overhead by going to marketing pages please.

cupofjoakim··on Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
This PR added ~6400 passes for some css stuff. That's not enough to warrant the spike I think, but surely helped: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pull/6370
cupofjoakim··on Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)
Personally I'm interested in this proposed flatness. I understand that it's the aim, but at the end of the day someone approves vacations, manages budgets for projects and is the person that has to have hard conversations with an employee right? Someone will have higher mandate for hard decisions?
cupofjoakim··on Web designs are getting too complicated
> Awwwards is not representative of the web at large

100%. I used to work at a studio specifically targeting winning awards with awwwards and it's definitely not the same as working on the normal web. Flashiness is way more important than performance there, be it in UX, conversions or load times.

It was a good space to play around with things like animations and webgl, but turns out that if your business needs to convert, those things can often come in the way of that.

cupofjoakim··on Spotify Down
I hope they post a post-mortem afterwords. Given that the outage seems to be on an infra-level (support domain is far from the app stuff) I take it something really funky has happened.
cupofjoakim··on The Jakt Programming Language
Seems pretty popular already, but I have missed this. What's the USP of Jakt over something like native c++, rust or zig? I don't really see the need, would love to hear from someone who knows
cupofjoakim··on We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand
I enjoy the idea of Mittelstands. The "forever growth" that is a common target otherwise feels misguided and overbearing at times, but I also understand that this clashes a lot with the american super-capitalist mindset. We should all be billionaires right? /s

On the topic of mittelstands vs startups - I think it's a non issue. You can have both. However, startups are starting to get a certain smell to them. Probably swearing in church here (hello ycombinator) but too many startups feel unreliable and the amount of founders just looking for an early exit is really not helping.

cupofjoakim··on Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to Cloudflare Workers based outside the US?
Thanks dude!
cupofjoakim··on Jujutsu VCS: Introduction and patterns
I think I'm at risk of sounding like a broken record here. I've read about jj many times now but i'm still confused as to what problem it actually solves. I get the same feeling as when some dude wants to sell me on using vim as my primary code editor - arguments are there but it doesn't really solve an issue.

I'll go over to jj when that's the primary tool for the job, or when I can see something that beats the git cli hands down. I'm 100% on the path of least resistance when it comes to tool adoption.

cupofjoakim··on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
Specifically for engineering I think it could work if you really press on that it's about teaching something. A core part in an engineering team is to walk eachother through concepts, so judging how you can explain concepts to someone is actually a good thing i believe?
cupofjoakim··on Hacker News for Gamedev
Going to lurk here as well. Not a game dev, but a fun industry to follow on the side.
cupofjoakim··on The Comet is a handheld Linux computer that brings extensibility
Looks really cool, but I'll remain sceptic until it's launched and I see reviews. It stands and falls with the reliability and endurance of those connections, and that's not something we can see on a kickstarter.
cupofjoakim··on Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
I'm not the one you responded to, but I definitely feel like it's not necessarily a "good" thing or a "bad" thing. Having a senior be more involved in writing some functionality should mean more maintainable code with more complex issues factored in to the solutions, which should mean better predictability when it comes to planning new work.

At the same time, having seniors involved in more abstract discussions before implementation should also lead to better end results. That being said, having my engineers be involved in "ass-kissing" as you put it is honestly not a good use of their time. Leave office politics to engineering managers and project managers, in my opinion.

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