gregoryl (u/gregoryl)

gregoryl commented on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/josephcsible

meandmycode · 2 days ago

I will say, for anybody reading and finds it in any way uplifting, I have been a Windows user for 30 years, been a .net developer for 5 years at one point, groaned at how bad the 'Linux desktop' always was, but this year I finally switched to using Linux instead of Windows and I think it's because the inflexion point is starting to hit more of the masses.

gregoryl · 2 days ago

Ditto, but .net dev for ~20 years, now fully Linux for personal compute. Workplace is making a beeline for mac / linux full stack, and completely ditching Windows.

gregoryl commented on Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

skybrian · 8 days ago

If you’re porting some formulas from one language to another, “correct” can be defined as “gets the same answers as before.” Assuming you can run both easily, this is easy to write a property test for.

Sure, maybe that’s just building something that’s bug-for-bug compatible, but it’s something Claude can work with.

gregoryl · 8 days ago

For starters, Python uses IEEE 754, and Excel uses IEEE 754 (with caveats). I wonder if that's being emulated.

gregoryl commented on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files simonwillison.net/2026/Ja... · Posted by u/simonw

999900000999 · 14 days ago

I want to create a language that allows an LLM to dynamically decide what to do.

A non dertermistic programing language, which options to drop down into JavaScript or even C if you need to specify certain behaviors.

I'd need to be much better at this though.

gregoryl · 14 days ago

What does that even mean?

gregoryl commented on What has Docker become? tuananh.net/2026/01/20/wh... · Posted by u/tuananh

gregoryl · 17 days ago

  For a while, Docker seemed to focus on developer experience.

ahh yes, docker desktop, where the error messages are "something went wrong", and the primary debugging step is to wipe it, uninstall, and reinstall.

gregoryl commented on AI coding assistants are getting worse? spectrum.ieee.org/ai-codi... · Posted by u/voxadam

llmslave2 · a month ago

Doesn't that mean you're less likely to catch bugs and other issues that the AI spits out?

gregoryl · a month ago

nah, you rely on your coworkers to review your slop!

gregoryl commented on Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? madebywindmill.com/tempi/... · Posted by u/simonw

styluss · a month ago

And Venetian Snares encoded his cat https://eeggs.com/items/46956.html

gregoryl · a month ago

It shouldn't be surprising to see people who know Venetian Snares on here!

If you're up for it, trade a music rec?

Try:

Scorpion Mother - Thief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3113EQvLg

gregoryl commented on Netflix Open Content opencontent.netflix.com/... · Posted by u/tosh

ronbenton · a month ago

Yeah, this is bad. The page almost seems like someone’s pet project that didn’t have any explicit funding and they got bored or left Netflix in 2020. I’m not sure how that would explain the lack of SSL cert except for just general lack of thoroughness.

gregoryl · a month ago

From the names mentioned in the most recent blog post, they left late 2022.

gregoryl commented on Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates community.letsencrypt.org... · Posted by u/schmuckonwheels

tgsovlerkhgsel · 2 months ago

It will make ACME the only viable option. I believe there is a second free ACME CA and other CAs will likely adopt ACME if they want to stay relevant.

Ideally, this will take less ongoing labor than annual manual rotations, and I'd argue sites that can't handle this would have been likely to break at the next annual rotation anyways.

If they have certificates managed by hosters, the hosters will deal with it. If they don't, then someone was already paying for the renewal and handling the replacement on the server side, making it much more likely that it will be fixed.

gregoryl · 2 months ago

They won't adopt Acme, as once a customer adopts it, the effort to transition to a new (free) provider is almost zero.

I expect they will introduce new, "more secure", proprietary methods, and ride the vendor lock-in until the paid certificate industries death.

gregoryl commented on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? · Posted by u/lemonlime227

shsush · 2 months ago

> it should be as concise as possible

What’s more concise than code? From my experience, by the time I’ve gotten an English with code description accurate enough for an agent I could have done it myself. Typing isn’t a hard part.

LLMs/agents have many other uses, but if you’re not offloading your thinking you’re not really going any faster wrt letting them write code via a prompt.

gregoryl · 2 months ago

I find it quite interesting; there seems to be a set of AI enthusiasts who heavily offload thinking onto the LLM. There has to be difference in how they function, as I find as soon as I drift into letting the LLM think for me, productivity plummets.

gregoryl commented on RemoveWindowsAI github.com/zoicware/Remov... · Posted by u/hansmayer

mossTechnician · 2 months ago

Windows virtual machines are much slower than bare hardware, especially for things GP mentioned like games. I have also found Linux lags behind in many areas that matter to me in functionality, performance (even compared to Windows 11) and general ease of use. Lots of people Linux or Chrome OS is sufficient for them, and that's great, but it's not enough for everybody.

In response to your initial question, I believe everything must be criticized, especially things we like. Internal criticism, such as criticism of Windows, is just as important as external competitors, such as Linux.

gregoryl · 2 months ago

> Linux lags behind in many areas that matter to me in functionality, performance

I'd be interested to know about the gaps you see? I miss desktop excel, but not a whole lot else.

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