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gregorylon The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]

KCD2 works fine on Linux.

gregorylon How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel

Until you take your gear off, and it's in your pack. I'd much rather lose a kg of pack weight vs. a kg of body weight.

gregorylon Will Claude Code ruin our team?

Are you mistaking your interactions with low level trades roles (the guy who's making bank fixing power sockets on the weekend) with say, the people maintaining factory electrical systems? or designing them?

gregorylon Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code

The key to every quick POC having a short life, is a reliance on manual work outside of the engineering team.

gregorylon A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines

When you empower almost anyone to make complex things, the average intelligence + professionalism involved plummets.

gregorylon An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia

To certain demographics, adherence to facts appears to be a left wing bias.

gregorylon How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution

  >> Why This Works So Well

gregorylon YouTube as Storage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

gregorylon Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

Ditto, but .net dev for ~20 years, now fully Linux for personal compute. Workplace is making a beeline for mac / linux full stack, and completely ditching Windows.

gregorylon Two kinds of AI users are emerging

For starters, Python uses IEEE 754, and Excel uses IEEE 754 (with caveats). I wonder if that's being emulated.

gregorylon ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

What does that even mean?

gregorylon What has Docker become?

  For a while, Docker seemed to focus on developer experience.

ahh yes, docker desktop, where the error messages are "something went wrong", and the primary debugging step is to wipe it, uninstall, and reinstall.

gregorylon AI coding assistants are getting worse?

nah, you rely on your coworkers to review your slop!

gregorylon Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

It shouldn't be surprising to see people who know Venetian Snares on here!

If you're up for it, trade a music rec?

Try:

Scorpion Mother - Thief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3113EQvLg

gregorylon Netflix Open Content

From the names mentioned in the most recent blog post, they left late 2022.

gregorylon Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates

They won't adopt Acme, as once a customer adopts it, the effort to transition to a new (free) provider is almost zero.

I expect they will introduce new, "more secure", proprietary methods, and ride the vendor lock-in until the paid certificate industries death.

gregorylon Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

I find it quite interesting; there seems to be a set of AI enthusiasts who heavily offload thinking onto the LLM. There has to be difference in how they function, as I find as soon as I drift into letting the LLM think for me, productivity plummets.

gregorylon RemoveWindowsAI

> Linux lags behind in many areas that matter to me in functionality, performance

I'd be interested to know about the gaps you see? I miss desktop excel, but not a whole lot else.

gregorylon RemoveWindowsAI

Ignore all that, people get a wee bit enthusiastic.

I'm on arch, the steps to get playing are:

- Install Steam

- Install Helldivers2

- Launch game

(I just downloaded and launched to confirm!)

gregorylon Is it a bubble?

Truly, you need to spend time with literally anyone other than the people you currently engage with.

gregorylon GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

They barely maintain Azure pipeline tasks / actions as well.

We had a critical outage because they deprecated Windows 2019 agents a month earlier than scheduled. MS support had the gall to both blame us for not migrating sooner, and refuse to escalate for 36 hours!

gregorylon I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

Gosh, there was a website, where you submit a PSD + payment, and they spit out a sliced design. Initially tables, later, CSS. Life saver.

gregorylon Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

I recently discovered Scorptec has a "total spend" under Account => Order History. Horrifying! Ublock to the rescue, ##.total-amount.card-title.

gregorylon $96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch

I would have settled for https to redirect to http. Instead, it redirected to a generic page telling you they don't support https, with no way to get to the actual content.

gregorylon 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18

It took me a week or so to get used to Gnome, and now I find Windows 11 (and KDE) frustrating!

gregorylon Multi-User Dungeon (MUD)

You should login and have a wander again. I've done the same recently, and it still has the same community / tone, a small relic of what the internet used to be!

gregorylon Preventing Kubernetes from pulling the pause image from the internet

Ooft. If it helps, this is the PEM I'm getting. LetEncrypt signed.

gregorylon Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?

> Programmer unions are going to shrink the economy and make the current job market a permanent trajectory instead of a cyclical one

How?

gregorylon Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

Switch to Rider. It takes a second to adjust, but you'll end up with a better understanding of dotnet in general.

re. Games, are you sure proton won't work? I've got ~1400 games on steam, and only a handful have serious issues with proton.

gregorylon Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

You can fix thst fairly easily, with piracy.