dinkleberg (u/dinkleberg)

dinkleberg commented on Elevated errors across many models status.claude.com/inciden... · Posted by u/pablo24602

dinkleberg · 15 hours ago

Props to them for actually updating their status page as issues are happening rather than hours later. I was working with claude code and hit an API error, checked the status page and sure enough there was an outage.

This should be a given for any service that others rely on, but sadly this is seldom the case.

dinkleberg commented on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools larr.net/p/namings.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

cranky908canuck · 4 days ago

Yep. Just did a reimage update to Fedora 43, got errors about 'ptyxis' in some shell scripts. Wat (wipes desk and keyboard)?

Oh, it's the graphical terminal program (alternative to 'gnome-terminal'). Well, um, ok.

However, I will concede, after more digging as to why (as it rankled), that there was a "have to choose a unique name" issue there (even leaving aside trademark issues). I'm resigned (so I suppose signed up) to deal with residual issues that crop up going forward.

I love to mock '*ly.com' names for almost certainly doomed enterprises, but I get that at least it wasn't already taken.

dinkleberg · 4 days ago

It’s a solid terminal, but could they have chosen a worse name?

dinkleberg commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? · Posted by u/embedding-shape

manmal · 6 days ago

What LLM generate is an amalgamation of human content they have been trained on. I get that you want what actual humans think, but that’s also basically a weighted amalgamation. Real, actual insight, is incredibly rare and I doubt you see much of it on HN (sorry guys; I’ll live with the downvotes).

dinkleberg · 6 days ago

Why do you suppose we come to HN if not for actual insight? There are other sites much better for getting an endless stream of weighted amalgamations of human content.

dinkleberg commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? · Posted by u/embedding-shape

SunshineTheCat · 6 days ago

I am just sad that I can no longer use em dashes without people immediately assuming what I wrote was AI. :(

dinkleberg · 6 days ago

Some will blindly dismiss anything using them as AI generated, but realistically the em-dash is only one sign among many. Way more obvious is the actual style of the writing. I use Claude all of the time and I can instantly tell if a blog post I’m reading was written with Claude. It is so distinctive. People use some of the patterns it uses some of the time. But it uses all of them all of the time.

dinkleberg commented on How to repurpose your old phone into a web server far.computer/how-to/... · Posted by u/louismerlin

dinkleberg · 20 days ago

This sounds like a fun project. A perfect use for an old android phone sitting in the junk drawer.

dinkleberg commented on Racket v9.0 blog.racket-lang.org/2025... · Posted by u/Fice

mono442 · 22 days ago

Speaking of lisp, if I wanted to use a lisp nowadays, what would be the best choice, common lisp, clojure or some scheme implementation?

dinkleberg · 22 days ago

I’ve been playing around with Janet for scripting use cases and it’s pretty cool.

dinkleberg commented on 5 Things to Try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/keithba

chis · a month ago

Has anyone switched to Gemini CLI? It's so important but also exhausting keeping up with which model is the leading edge. Especially since every model has different idiosyncrasies you have to learn to work with it effectively.

Currently my ranking is

* Cursor composer: impressively fast and able but not tuned to be that agentic, so it's better for one-shot code changes than long-running tasks. Fantastic UI.

* Claude Code: Works great if you can set up a verifiable environment, a clear plan and set it loose to build something for an hour

* Grok: Similar to cursor composer but slower and more agentic. Not currently using.

* ChatGPT Codex, Gemini: Haven't tried yet.

dinkleberg · a month ago

Maybe these new releases bring some serious enhancements, but my experience with the Gemini cli has been dreadful. It craps out at least half of the time. When it works it is ridiculously fast so I keep trying it. But it has proven very inferior to the Claude code experience in my usage

dinkleberg commented on Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad wssite.vercel.app/blog/mo... · Posted by u/weirdsmiley

WD-42 · a month ago

Tiling WMs are dead. Long live tiling WMs. Scrolling WMs like Niri/Paperwm are where it’s at now.

dinkleberg · a month ago

Niri is brilliant. It just feels so natural. All of the default keybindings and behaviors work exactly as my brain assumes it would.

dinkleberg commented on Think in math, write in code (2019) jmeiners.com/think-in-mat... · Posted by u/alabhyajindal

almostgotcaught · a month ago

what compels software people to write opinion pieces. like you don't see bakers, mechanics, dentists, accountants writing blog posts like this...

Edit: to everyone responding that there are trade mags - yes SWE has those too (they're called developer conferences). In both categories, someone has to invite you to speak. I'm asking what compels Joe Shmoe SWE to pontificate on things they haven't been asked by anyone to pontificate on.

dinkleberg · a month ago

What an insane statement. What compels anyone to write an opinion piece? They have an opinion and want to share it! Why in god's name should someone have to be invited to share their opinion, on their own website no less.

dinkleberg commented on Learn Prolog Now (2006) lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpag... · Posted by u/rramadass

wodenokoto · a month ago

The background image says "testing version" - is there a production version?

dinkleberg · a month ago

It looks like that is in reference to the embedded interactive code blocks. If you use uBlock Origin you can use the element picker to remove the annoying image.