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nchmy··on Goodbye Claude, hello Pi
I've always been bewildered by how people seem to prefer TUI for any of this. It's just a strictly worse experience across almost every dimension.

I was using vscode copilot chat for years, but recently got fed up with its bloat, as well as the fact that their supposed unified experience across desktop, web etc just doesn't work.

I tried various gui tools and settled on Open Chamber. Extremely happy with it after a few weeks full time usage. Rarely open vscode.

nchmy··on Knives manufactured from human feces do not work (2019)
Oh cut the crap
nchmy··on Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
hopefully their demise brings JavaScript back to the commons!

https://javascript.tm

nchmy··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
ew. at least use daisyui
nchmy··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
What would you choose?
nchmy··on Patrick Stewart has died
a few years ago i watched all the versions of Macbeth that I could find. His was by far the best, with most of the others being awful (and Denzel's being by far the worst, though quite beautiful).

Everyone has to watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnaXDRwu84

nchmy··on Patrick Stewart has died
The greatest Macbeth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZnaXDRwu84
nchmy··on Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
Every time the Antichrist gets mentioned, people heap scorn. Even more than a lesser demon.

I find the Antichrist interesting. His views on...

nchmy··on Twelve years of distributed SQLite
Because sqlite is extremely fast. Most projects won't hit its limits
nchmy··on I electrified my push scooter with a power drill
video or it didnt happen!
nchmy··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
Strictly speaking, they didn't say anything about their engineering skill
nchmy··on Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)
You can watch Steve jobs rave about the future of PWAs here! https://youtu.be/QvQ9JNm_qWc
nchmy··on Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)
Well, first nothing that apple says should be taken at face value, especially when it comes to the web.

But if you're not inclined to educated yourself via the tremendous resource I shared, I suppose you could look at

https://wpt.fyi to see how far behind safari lags in supporting features.

There's also the fact that a proof of concept port of Microsoft edge to IOS significantly outperformed safari.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/17/apples-webki...

Chrome is also not the only chromium browser. There's also Vivaldi, brave etc, which make up for some of the ad-related shortcomings of Chrome. I happily use Vivaldi.

nchmy··on Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
Indeed.

Though, there's also plenty of completely innocent, decent, but stupid people. Be it innately or just as a result of a terrible set of environmental factors

nchmy··on Smart people don't think others are stupid
100%
nchmy··on Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
This is just... stupid...

Of course there's stupid people. A lot of them. It's simply dishonest, manipulative or plain stupid or say otherwise.

If this article was more insightful, thoughtful, etc it would be saying that a smart, decent, wise etc person wouldn't belittle anyone for the combination of innate intelligence and environmental factors that caused them to not be thoughtful, creative, able/willing to learn etc.

And they'd moreover perhaps even take the responsibility upon themselves to try to do something about it - addressing inequality, social and educational systems, changing culture, better family planning, and endless other things.

nchmy··on Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)
Beyond their anti-PWA bullshit, safari is just a worse browser across the board. It's the nre Internet Explorer. Much more on that here

https://infrequently.org/series/browser-choice-must-matter/

nchmy··on 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
I agree with how you handled the situation and this comment.

Though, it makes me think of the quote "Science advances one funeral at a time" - Max Planck

nchmy··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
you misunderstood the comment you replied to. They were saying any day without issues/problems/failures, not Github Issues.
nchmy··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
worse than this is that if you fork a repo that has actions, the actions will run on your account as well - which is completely unnecessary. I have all sorts of stale forks that are just churning away with actions that I dont care about at all because I am not getting charged.

The solution, of course, is not to simply start charging for all actions, because then everyone would wake up to all sorts of mystery charges. They'd need to notify that forked actions would be turned off and then opt-in for paid actions.

nchmy··on Deno Is Joining Cloudflare
I missed this when I skimmed the post. Sad stuff. I'm a big fan of deno.
nchmy··on Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month
Sorry to hear this is happening. One thing that might be helpful is to port it to another language and build as wasm. Agents are pretty good these days at stuff like this might even end up being faster.
nchmy··on Developer Survey 2026
it is utterly incomprehensible/unusable. a fitting end to a toxic place
nchmy··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
im not the person who you initially replied to... But surely it is self-evident what they meant by lighter (even if we dont know precisely what they were referring to) - CPU, ram etc... This is something that is always discussed when it comes to node vs bun vs deno
nchmy··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
You know exactly what it means. You're just being a pedantic ass to someone for whom English is not their first language

Ps to the original poster. I screw things like this up in my 2nd language all the time.

"more" and "-er" are sort of redundant. You could say

More light (but this is just awkward - you'd just say lighter).

Much lighter gives an extra degree of lightness than lighter.

Much much lighter even moreso. There's nothing wrong with saying it like this in an informal context like this, but it would generally be better to use words like significantly, vastly, enormously, slightly, a bit, considerably etc to modify the degree of "lighter"

Any LLM could explain the nuances of all of this in much much more detail (this actually makes sense, because detail is not -er).

English is difficult, but dont let that stop you - it is easy to communicate effectively with even a low degree of proficiency, when the other person is acting in good faith.

nchmy··on How to save a life without knowing CPR
I once killed a kitten and then brought it back from the dead with CPR.

It was a stray that showed up, was covered in fleas. I decided to bathe it and it didnt occur to me that cold/room temp water would not be good for it. It was fighting but I just assumed it didnt like the water. Then it just went limp.

Quickly googled CPR cat, saw something in the (pre-AI) preview thing about blow into its nostrils (the chest was quite surprisingly inflating like a balloon without much force), and just started doing that while poking/pinching its heart area. Some amount of time later - could have been 5 seconds or 45 - it sputtered back to life.

I found it a foster shortly after. I have significant allergies to cat hair, scratches etc...

nchmy··on US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court
> At the time of the sentencing, the judge who oversaw the case, Todd Lang, seemed to appreciate the use of AI. "I loved that AI, thank you for that. As angry as you are, as justifiably angry as the family is, I heard the forgiveness," Judge Lang said. "I feel that that was genuine."

This judge should lose his job

nchmy··on Pi 1.0
have you ever used, for example, vs code or Excel? both have robust GUI and keyboard capabilities. Andexcel has vba and now python and other scripting, and vscode is eminently extensible.
nchmy··on Pi 1.0
im with you. I have tried all the TUIs and immediately bounce off of them due to how utterly awful even just basic operations like text editing are. I use Vscode copilot chat because in the before-times I was perfectly happy with vscode. I cannot comprehend how people can now give all of that up for TUIs. It also has its Agents Window, Copilot CLI etc... and you can use any api keys, subscriptions etc... that you want.

And, of course, most of the tools have created their own GUIs anyway, which are far worse than VS Code (even when they've forked VSCode itself!)

I think the "borderline psychotic" phrasing is apt.

nchmy··on 192GB Framework Desktop open for pre-order
Can you explain why Norway's swf would take a hit?
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