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kavok commented on Why is Claude an Electron app?   dbreunig.com/2026/02/21/w... · Posted by u/dbreunig
XenophileJKO · 24 days ago
I love the fact that we just got a model really capable of doing sustained coding (let me check my notes here...) 3 months ago, with a significant bump 15 days ago.

And now the comments are "If it is so great why isn't everything already written from scratch with it?"

kavok · 24 days ago
I feel like people have been saying AI was great for years now?
kavok commented on Why is Claude an Electron app?   dbreunig.com/2026/02/21/w... · Posted by u/dbreunig
mapontosevenths · 24 days ago
> An engineer should be code reviewing every line written by an LLM,

I disagree.

Instead, a human should be reviewing the LLM generated unit tests to ensure that they test for the right thing. Beyond that, YOLO.

If your architecture makes testing hard build a better one. If your tests arent good enough make the AI write better ones.

kavok · 24 days ago
It’s amazing how often an LLM mocks or stubs some code and then writes a test that only checks the mock, which ends up testing nothing.
kavok commented on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope   wired.com/story/steam-itc... · Posted by u/6d6b73
bko · 8 months ago
I'm not saying we should ban anything.

Sure video games can be unhealthy. Maybe I'm weird but I would much rather prefer my son plays video games 8 hours a day than watches adult content 8 hours a day. Let's stop pretending like they're comparable.

kavok · 8 months ago
Is it the public’s job to police what your son does or is it your job?
kavok commented on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA   jonoalderson.com/conjectu... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
epolanski · 8 months ago
I'm fully convinced that it's time to kill SPAs on 99% of websites and that the community is too defensive on the topic.
kavok · 8 months ago
It’s because the people that built and maintain the SPAs were beat into submission with the “SSR” bad message. Now people want them to do SSR again.
kavok commented on Apple Exclaves   randomaugustine.medium.co... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
devmor · a year ago
Personally, I do not like MacOS, and I do not like using a Macbook for work, because I am a developer and a hacker. It is harder to do my job and harder to be efficient at my work.

That being said, I love iOS on my phone and tablet. I used to prefer android, because of how much I could customize it, but it slowly became less reliable and more centered around selling me products and services sponsored by Google or my carrier. I switched to an iPhone and iPad about 7 years ago and am much happier with a reliable set of mobile devices that I know are relatively secure and wont get in the way of what I want to do.

Point being, the OS you want on, and ecosystem you want around your devices absolutely depends entirely on what you want your devices to do (or not do against your will).

kavok · a year ago
Out of curiosity would you prefer Windows or Linux instead of Mac?
kavok commented on Show HN: A new kind of book recommender   yogurrt.com/... · Posted by u/kolleraa
kavok · 2 years ago
The recommendations from this are surprisingly good.
kavok commented on A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD   ci.cumberland.md.us/1787/... · Posted by u/vxxzy
reducesuffering · 2 years ago
70% of households in the county have internet speeds >25 Mbps. Is that metric meaningful to you? What would ideally mean "good internet access?"

I'm working on a project[0] where I sourced this from the FCC Broadband data and am curious about what people are looking for in that respect.

[0] https://www.exoroad.com/us/Maryland/Allegany-County/housing

kavok · 2 years ago
Upload, download, latency, and how many options to choose from are what I looked for the last time I bought a house.

I actually asked some of the neighbors about it and called local ISPs.

kavok commented on Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email   gabrielsieben.tech/2024/0... · Posted by u/gjsman-1000
rakoo · 2 years ago
Being cheap and easy is not a problem, quite the contrary. That we as a society make this a good thing for spam is a problem, but I don't want to make the system shittier just because of the bad use of it.
kavok · 2 years ago
My work email is virtually useless at this point due to the absurd quantities of spam I receive. I think the OP suggestions would actually make email less shitty.

Any communication medium that is cheap and easy will be relentlessly abused by spammers.

kavok commented on Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email   gabrielsieben.tech/2024/0... · Posted by u/gjsman-1000
rakoo · 2 years ago
> If email didn't need fixing, spam wouldn't exist.

Spam is not a technical problem, it's a societal problem. As usual the tech reflex is to find a technical solution but it is mistaken, once again. Societal proplems require societal solutions, not more tech. The only thing you will achieve with more tech is more segregation between those who have and those who don't, you'll create more issues than already exist

kavok · 2 years ago
Email being so cheap and easy is is a significant component of spam, which is a technical problem to a degree. Spam on Signal, text message, voicemail, Discord, etc… is significantly less present for various reasons (cost, complexity, etc…)
kavok commented on Hertz is ditching even more electric cars   qz.com/hertz-ev-sales-tes... · Posted by u/belter
toddmorey · 2 years ago
Rented a Kia EV6 and had to spend 3+ hours trying to charge it. Joined several charging networks--one crazy network signup made me put in the damn VIN from the windshield. Several stations failed to ever start charging. All this to put energy in a car I had for a day. It was miserable. I completely understand why no one wants to ever rent an electric car. I'm as EV as they come and I'll never, ever do that to myself again.

EVs could work as rentals but it would have to be a total end-to-end experience, thought out with the actual customer in mind. An app for a specialized car already paired to your phone and easy to charge on the Tesla network by just plugging in.

kavok · 2 years ago
I’ve rented Teslas from Turo three times and the experience was seamless and delightful. The car was dropped off and picked up from my house and everything just worked. Phone keys, supercharger access, full charge when dropped off (basically).

I think the traditional rental places are just incompetent or under investing.

u/kavok

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