chrisandchris (u/chrisandchris)

chrisandchris commented on GitHub is down again githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/MattIPv4

14 incidents in February! It's February 9th! Glad to see the latest great savior phase of the AI industrial complex [1] is going just as well as all the others!

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tech/865689/microsoft-claude-code-a...

chrisandchris · 2 days ago

An interesting thing I notice now is that people do not like companies that only post about outages if half the world have them ... and also not companies that also post about "minor issues", e.g.:

> During this time, workflows experienced an average delay of 49 seconds, and 4.7% of workflow runs failed to start within 5 minutes.

That's for sure not perfect, but there was also a 95% chance that if you have re-run the job, it will run and not fail to start. Another one is about notificatiosn being late. I'm sure all others do have similar issues people notice, but nobody writes about them. So a simple "to many incidents" does bot make the stats bad - only an unstable service the service.

chrisandchris commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi

eru · 6 days ago

> 4 - Buy and colocate the hardware yourself – Certainly the cheapest option if you have the skills, scale, cap-ex, and if you plan to run the servers for at least 3-5 years.

Is it still the cheapest after you take into account that skills, scale, cap-ex and long term lock-in also have opportunity costs?

chrisandchris · 5 days ago

Personal experience: Did some cloud stuff for SME, and later on started colocation. I think my learning curve for all the cloud-stuff was the same as for all the colocation stuff, except the cloud will not get you rid of firewalls, NAT, DHCP and all that stuff. Cloud isn't that much easier, it's just a little bit different. IMHO, the largest disadvantage of colocation is that it requires (sometimes) physical presence at a datacenter.

chrisandchris commented on BMW's Newest "Innovation" Is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair ifixit.com/News/115528/bm... · Posted by u/gnabgib

chii · 6 days ago

good thing that it would be a chinese copy, and thus, not subject to switzerland law. So i wonder if chinese law recognize this patent/trademark for a screw?

chrisandchris · 6 days ago

IANAL, but as fas as I know when you're importing it from China, you are subject to local laws (and may pay the fine for importing a ccopy of a trademarked product).

chrisandchris commented on Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence embedding-shapes.github.i... · Posted by u/embedding-shape

noodletheworld · 25 days ago

...but it didn't develop ways of doing that did it?

Any idiot can have cursor run for 2 weeks and produce a pile of crap that doesn't compile.

You know the brilliant insight they came out with?

> A surprising amount of the system's behavior comes down to how we prompt the agents. Getting them to coordinate well, avoid pathological behaviors, and maintain focus over long periods required extensive experimentation. The harness and models matter, but the prompts matter more.

i.e. It's kind of hard and we didn't really come up with a better solution than 'make sure you write good prompts'.

Wellll, geeeeeeeee! Thanks for that insight guys!

Come on. This was complete BS. Planners and workers. Cool. Details? Any details? Annnnnnnyyyyy way to replicate it? What sort of prompts did you use? How did you solve the pathalogical behaviours?

Nope. The vagueness in this post... it's not an experiment. It's just fund raising hype.

chrisandchris · 25 days ago

IMHO, this whole thing could be read with "human" instread of "agent" and would make the exact same amount of sense.

"We put 200 human in a room and gave them instructions how to build a browser. They coded for hours, resolving merge conflicts and producing code that did not build in the end without intervention of seniors []. We think, giving them better instructions leads to better results"

So they actually invented humans? And will it come down to either "managing humans" or "managing agents"? One of both will be more reliable, more predictable and more convenient to work with. And my guess is, it is not an agent...

As it seemed in the git log, something is weird.

chrisandchris commented on Microsoft keeps reinstalling Copilot, so I found a way to rip it out for good howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-... · Posted by u/rolph

einsteinx2 · a month ago

> It is not yours anymore if you can't uninstall stuff.

But the article is literally instructions on how to uninstall it…also you can just uninstall Windows entirely.

Like I get where you’re coming from, but let’s not pretend that Windows PCs are iPhones now just because of Microsoft’s annoying dark patterns (patterns they’ve been following for years before Copilot came out).

chrisandchris · a month ago

It _does_, but I guess (and it would not be the first time) Microsoft will find a way to even undo that and reinstall Copilot with the next update.

chrisandchris commented on Microsoft keeps reinstalling Copilot, so I found a way to rip it out for good howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-... · Posted by u/rolph

chrisandchris · a month ago

> Sometimes, uninstalling Copilot doesn't take it off the list of startup apps, so when you reboot your computer, it may come back.

It is not yours anymore if you can't uninstall stuff. You may own hardware, but you do not own anything on it.

chrisandchris commented on Apple Creator Studio apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/lemonlime227

raw_anon_1111 · a month ago

So far from what I can tell, Final Cut Pro has gotten perpetual updates. Since you can only buy it via the Mac App Store, ther can’t do upgrade pricing.

chrisandchris · a month ago

They could - and some of the 3rd party vendors did: There is a 1Password 7 and a 1Password 8. There was also a Things 1/2, which is now a Things 3. it usually works by creating a new app, and not updating the old one anymore.

chrisandchris commented on macOS 26.2 update enables 160MHz channels on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks cultofmac.com/news/apple-... · Posted by u/zdw

zylent · a month ago

Honestly, this only really helps people in rural areas. The vast majority of urban 5GHz implementations are at 80MHz - 6GHz does allow for 160MHz channelization, but at 320MHz the attenuation is so great that most homes will require multiple APs to actually hit appropriate MCS indexes.

chrisandchris · a month ago

Fot at home, I tend to stick with 2.4 GHz. It is slower, but with a <100 Mbit uplink to the internet, local speed does not matter. 2.4 does just work better with less APs and thicker walls.

chrisandchris commented on Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago · Posted by u/EGreg

gdulli · a month ago

Maybe a good difference between "senior" at ten years and senior at twenty years is whether you think amount of code produced is a positive metric or a negative one.

chrisandchris · a month ago

As I get older (more experienced) I really write less code, but more of the code I write is correct. Am I doing something wrong?

chrisandchris commented on Claude Code changed my life spader.zone/xmas/... · Posted by u/dboon

stpedgwdgfhgdd · 2 months ago

I have 40 years of programming experience, started with assembler, nowadays mainly Go, K8s and the whole enterprise shebang. I’m a big fan and supporter of TDD and XP.

Claude Code will change your life when you learn how to program with it. However, if you are a programmer with not a lot of desire for automated tests and specs/designs, you are probably not going to be successful with it.

The art of coding has become a commodity. Validation and verification are the new art.

chrisandchris · 2 months ago

> [...] will change your lice when you learn how to program with it.

But how (honest question) do you learn hoe to peogram with it. All I see is people using it to program and stop thinking about all the steps required between start and goal. That's not learning, that's assisted doing and that will only get you as far as the tooling (the assistent) goes. I've yet so see someone that learned coding with AI and was then able to do the same job without it.