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enlyth··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
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enlyth··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
Yeah I was kind of on the fence with this, but since the last version of Windows that shipped with NTVDM was Windows 10 32bit, and Windows 11 doesn't have a 32bit edition, I decided that using 3rd party tools would be cheating

I was aiming for something you could double click on vanilla Windows and would just work out of the box

enlyth··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
I probably have a weird gene or something but cumin smells like disgusting body odour to me and any food that has any trace of it I cannot eat or I will gag

This doesn't happen to me with anything else, I'm not a picky eater and will happily eat literally anything else

enlyth··on New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
Some of us already have a lifetime subscription, why move to Jellyfin?

I'd have to set it up and tell all the consumers of my server to move apps, and not all of them are tech literate. It would take a lot of enshittification to force me to move.

enlyth··on DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
They occupy some weird middle ground where they've become too expensive for hobbyists but not good enough for enterprise use
enlyth··on Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
That's cool but who is going to pay the upfront cost for the heat pumps? The sources I could find say we currently have 412 heat pumps per 100k people in the UK.

Ordinary people can't just afford to drop 10k for a heat pump + installation for it to pay for itself 20 years down the line.

enlyth··on Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables
Is gas expensive though? It's like 6p per kWh at the moment with electricity about 25p per kWh for consumers.

I think gas is dirt cheap, heating your home and hot water with electricity is 4x more expensive and costs hundreds a month.

enlyth··on Desk for people who work at home with a cat
Yeah after investing in countless cat toys from the pet store, I found out that my cat's favorites are (in no particular order):

- McDonald's paper straw

- Bird feather from outside

- Empty toilet paper roll

- Shoelace

- Strap of Velcro

- Bottle cap

enlyth··on Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language
Very fun. I'm the 7th place, contact me if you want to share solutions out of curiosity
enlyth··on LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor
Aseprite is such a joy to use that I paid for it just to support the developers
enlyth··on Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase
Yep, archiving feature flags and deleting the dead code is usually thing number 9001 on the list of priorities, so in practice most projects end up with a graveyard of them.

Another issue that I've ran into a few times, is if a feature flag starts as a simple thing, but as new features get added, it evolves into a complex bifurcation of logic and many code paths become dependent on it, which can add crippling complexity to what you're developing

enlyth··on BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs
Even disregarding CUDA, NVidia has had like 80% of the gaming market for years without any signs of this budging any time soon.

When it comes to GPUs, AMD just has the vibe of a company that basically shrugged and gave up. It's a shame because some competition would be amazing in this environment.

enlyth··on I Love Board Games: A Personal Obsession Explained by Psychology
I want to recommend a game you can pull out and explain in a couple of minutes that everyone tends to enjoy. I've played many a board games with people and this one has had unparalleled success in terms of enjoyment and replayability across broad audiences

It's called "So Clover!" and it's a word association themed game where each person gets four pairs of words, you write a one word clue for each pair, and then the rest of the group has to work backwards to figure out the original orientation of your cards (the cards themselves each have four words as well)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/329839/so-clover

enlyth··on Qwen3-Coder-Next
I'm hoping so. What's amazing is that with local models you don't suffer from what I call "usage anxiety" where I find myself saving my Claude usage for hypothetical more important things that may come up, or constantly adjusting prompts and doing some manual work myself to spare token usage.

Having this power locally means you can play around and experiment more without worries, it sounds like a wonderful future.

enlyth··on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
Will Anderson has an excellent Scrabble related channel on YouTube, would recommend to anyone who is interested
enlyth··on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
And any 4 letter instrument is usually OBOE and a fish related clue is EELS
enlyth··on Code is cheap. Show me the talk
That was literally the opposite of my intention. Maybe the choice of word wasn't perfect, but basically, I was trying to highlight that domain expertise is still valuable in the specific scenario of software engineering.

The same could be said about any other job, if you put me against a construction worker and give us both expensive power tools, he will still do a better job than me because I have no experience in that domain.

enlyth··on Code is cheap. Show me the talk
A software engineer with an LLM is still infinitely more powerful than a commoner with an LLM. The engineer can debug, guide, change approaches, and give very specific instructions if they know what needs to be done.

The commoner can only hammer the prompt repeatedly with "this doesn't work can you fix it".

So yes, our jobs are changing rapidly, but this doesn't strike me as being obsolete any time soon.

enlyth··on Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?
IIRC the CC they had on hand had long expired and they never actually managed to charge me for these minuscule amounts, which is why I didn't notice it for so long.
enlyth··on Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?
A few months ago I was going through my secondary email and noticed I was getting a $0.01 monthly bill from AWS.

Having not used AWS for years, I logged in to check it out, navigated through the Kafkaesque maze of their services until I found what I was looking for:

A lone S3 storage bucket, with one file, "Squirrel.jpg". A 200kB picture of a squirrel that I uploaded 8 years ago and can't remember why.

enlyth··on Claude Code gets native LSP support
Personally I love it and find it very intuitive.

It allows you to do stuff so much faster than having to type everything manually into the terminal. Also really enjoy the "Undo Last Commit" feature and how I can easily see all modified files at once and shuffle around stuff between the staging area.

enlyth··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Doesn't Firefox make them the lion's share of their profits just from the Google payments?

If they let Firefox atrophy to the point it will have no market share, let's see how that works out for them

enlyth··on GPT-5.2
This looks cherry-picked, for example Claude Opus had a higher score on SWE-Bench Verified so they conveniently left it out, also GDPval is literally a benchmark made by OpenAI
enlyth··on Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
People act like addiction is a word with an inherent negative connotation, but that's not the case, you can totally be addicted to healthy behaviours
enlyth··on We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
With the speed of how pricing information propagates, this seems way too dependent on how the agent is built, what information it has access to, and the feedback loop between the LLM and actions it can carry out
enlyth··on The RAM shortage comes for us all
> To save the situation, a consortium of US banks provided a $1.1 billion line of credit to the brothers which allowed them to pay Bache which, in turn, survived the ordeal.

It seems once you amass a certain amount of wealth, you just get automatically bailed out from your mistakes

enlyth··on Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes
Also why I enjoyed House which is basically modern Sherlock Holmes in a medical setting
enlyth··on Dark Mode Sucks
Do you have a source for any of these conjectures or is it just vibes?
enlyth··on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
Agreed, I have been doing this for years without consequences so far
enlyth··on Laptops with Stickers
You're not a real programmer if you don't have a "I vibe code AI slop in NextJS" sticker on your MacBook
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