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samtheprogram··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
That's an insane take. Anything?!?
samtheprogram··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
That's solely so that you burn more money. It's totally unnecessary to assume the parent model. Sure, it could be upgraded from Haiku if there was a solid reason to, but...
samtheprogram··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
> None of my GOG games run on Linux, while most of my Steam games run on Linux.

Stop spreading misinformation. Even if you're a non-techie you can add non-Steam games to Steam's launcher (my extremely tech illiterate friend just did this) and they'll run with Proton.

It comes down to a game by game basis, and it's still extremely rare (outside of recent 2025/2026 anticheat AAA title stuff) that any game would have a Linux specific/impacting patch.

samtheprogram··on qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
I disagree with this. If agents are doing asynchronous work, it's really an artifact anyone should be able to look at.
samtheprogram··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Check my last submission on this site -- same news story (different site). I agree with them, and it's distracting and damaging to the cause.

You're also essentially saying the same thing I did, because I'd argue most people already have a non-neutral stance on the subject.

samtheprogram··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Calling border patrol "thugs" doesn't really bolster your argument to anyone except people who already agree with you.
samtheprogram··on Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
You wrote "port", perhaps you meant "maintain"?
samtheprogram··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Abortion? Permissive drug laws? Immigration? Homelessness policies? Vaccines? American AI gave me these examples, and they're not really so cut and dry. Do you have a better example that's being left out (no pun intended)?
samtheprogram··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Passing "{}" handles most sane cases including spaces. If I'm doing bash that needs to be robust (rare and/or dotfiles) or know the folder/dataset has weird filenames, sure.
samtheprogram··on I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
Literally just use xargs with -I {} and quotation marks?
samtheprogram··on DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
Let's ban weed and alcohol from recreational use too, if there was any benefit a doctor would prescribe it. /u
samtheprogram··on AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
That's the point, he chose something very easy to do to illustrate how out of touch he thinks they are. It's obviously not the case.
samtheprogram··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
It's a "news story". Do you think Apple would be suing OpenAI if it was just a "story"?
samtheprogram··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
Based on timeline, it seems like both are true. They stopped communicating around the time of the acquisition per OP, which was announced December 3rd, and the PR integrating it is was merged the tail end of November.
samtheprogram··on Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration
Second this. I went back to vanilla zsh after oh-my-zsh. Turns out I really just wanted 2 features that are built into zsh, and a custom prompt that includes git info that I just wrote myself in ~20 neat, readable lines of shell (minus the ANSI coloring).

I maintain vim and neovim confugs, never going with a distribution of plug-ins, and can't imagine how grotesque those must be.

The difference here though is that zsh and vim are old projects. My configs with them never break. I can't say the same about neovim, and Pi also probably isn't stable.

samtheprogram··on TypeScript 7
....they did ...and... the camp still exists
samtheprogram··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Are you sure you're running it with MLX?
samtheprogram··on Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
It's really hard to not assume this is intentional ragebait.

A cursory look reveals they aren't complying. So, as you say, they are stealing. What's the point of this comment?

samtheprogram··on AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks
Would love to know the rebuttal / why you were downvoted.
samtheprogram··on Emacs appearances in pop culture
The only times I encounter vi (and so not sure what version, but likely barebones Linux), it doesn't indicate whether you are in insert or normal mode. So I immediately install vim (once possible).

Is that something you just get used to, or was I using some weird vi?

samtheprogram··on Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
$1100/m for an outsourced engineer… am I missing something? That’s far too low. Even juniors in South America tend to ask for at least double that number before factoring in the DeepSeek cost.
samtheprogram··on CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude
Security updates still go out for older major releases back 2 versions. You didn’t need to jump to 26 if you weren’t on it.
samtheprogram··on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
That estimate doesn't account for context, which is very important for tool use and coding.

I used this napkin math for image generation, since the context (prompts) were so small, but I think it's misleading at best for most uses.

samtheprogram··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
What part of the feature set in particular has been lacking in competitors?

EDIT: asking because I've been working on an alternative of sorts. I used GV a lot before I figured I could go without it/Google.

samtheprogram··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
Same, I keep using 4.6 to get "used to it" but I find myself wanting semi-regularly.
samtheprogram··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
I noticed Claude Sonnet 4.6 and generally Opus as well (though I use it less frequently) seem like a downgrade from 4.5. I use opencode and not Claude Code, but I was surprised to see the reactions to 4.6 be mixed for folks rather than clear downgrade.

I'm regularly switching back to 4.5 and preferring it. I'm not excited for when it gets sunset later this year if 4.6 isn't fixed or superseded by then.

samtheprogram··on Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings
Sounds like Apple under Steve Jobs.
samtheprogram··on Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell
As mentioned elsewhere, while this writeup is about exploiting the RCE, Claude was separately used to find and document this specific RCE.
samtheprogram··on Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
They kinda added window positioning with Tahoe -- there are things I like more about it than Rectangle (resizing), but I found that it was janky enough I switched back to Rectangle.

I rarely use the Dock, it's somewhat eye candy I leave up, or add stacks for folders that I use, but typically for keyboard action I reach for spotlight (cmd+space). Now, spotlight occasionally shitting the bed, that's another issue...

samtheprogram··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
That is wild. Thanks for the info.
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