kaiwn

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kaiwn··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

Because it’s faster and cheaper, which are two very important metrics?

kaiwn··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

He’s not saying he accidentally skipped the prompt, he’s saying he didn’t get any.

kaiwn··on I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months

That’s… 3.3 r/s?

kaiwn··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

The buttons can’t be operated underwater. You’ve been lucky thus far. Casio asks you not to use the buttons underwater.

https://www.casio-intl.com/asia/en/wat/water_resistance/

> Even if a watch is water-resistant, do not operate its buttons or crown while it is submersed in water or wet.

kaiwn··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

2 mm thicker and 58 grams heavier than the latest iPhone.

kaiwn··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

Every anti-establishment person is the same nowadays. Turns out they didn’t hate the power, they hated not having it. I think it’s human nature.

kaiwn··on Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac

This is so sloppy I really doubt this is an attempt at malware. It’s more likely the author is, uh, “socially unaware”.

kaiwn··on Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

Let me google the name of the author of this blog...

Oh...

kaiwn··on For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

lmao, I think I read it here and then I proceeded to think I came up with it myself. I’m a fraud. (I put “concrete” into the search field and found it)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996022

kaiwn··on For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day

Programming with Claude is still engineering. It is like designing a bridge, which remains engineering even when a worker pours the concrete instead of you.

In the past we were forced to pour the concrete ourselves. I understand how many of us enjoyed the sound and the smell of the concrete being poured. Myself, I’m happy to never get my hands dirty again, and focus on the actual engineering.