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milch commented on Koralm Railway infrastruktur.oebb.at/en/... · Posted by u/fzeindl

b0vinat-- · 9 days ago

That part of Europe has historically loved its trains. The train is more than transportation there. It’s an institution and part of the culture. Have you been to a toy store and looked at the precision and cost of the train sets? They don’t just ride the train, the train is part of who they are and what they love, starting when they’re small children. The trains run on-time, they’re clean, and overall they tend to be more modern. In addition, people walk.

milch · 9 days ago

Trains are also just more comfortable. More space, more comfortable seats, more space for luggage, you can walk around, better bathrooms, easier to work from especially in the 4 seat configuration, … Personally I would always prefer the train even if it is a bit slower. Once you account for traffic a bus that is scheduled to be faster ends up slower anyway, especially when you really needed it to be on time

milch commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar

yetihehe · 16 days ago

> Or I'd use it all day to do the work of 3 people and be on the fast track to promotions.

Or, like execs want, you do work of 3 people, so we can fire two and get the bonus, plus maybe a 5% pay increase for you. "If someone is good at digging, give him a bigger shovel".

milch · 16 days ago

My impression is purely from a metrics perspective, people who were underperforming can really look like they are 3x as productive. AI is a real increase for them because it can do things they couldn't. It just gives them the ability to publish a thousand lines worth of PRs a day, which the regular and over performers have to review, but that shows up in THEIR metrics, not in the underperformer's metrics. If all you look at is metrics and KPIs and have no technical understanding, this looks amazing to you.

Most people I've worked with that were already some of the most productive before AI took off are still at the top, and AI didn't move the needle much for them. There's simply no way for them to do 3x the work.

milch commented on What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription nmil.dev/what-you-can-get... · Posted by u/nmil

mlrtime · a month ago

Same, I tried it only because its spoken highly here and I dropped it after paying for a year. I was not able to find what I wanted at least 25% of the time, not worth it to pay.

milch · a month ago

I use Kagi at home and Google at work, and IME Kagi results are much better compared to Google. It's easy enough to jump to Google by adding !g, but I never find myself actually using that... I do however end up doing the reverse, where I'll not find the result I'm looking for on my work computer and then quickly repeat the search on Kagi on my phone. I used to use DuckDuckGo on my personal devices before, and while it was mostly fine, I did have to jump to Google more frequently. In the end sometimes the results were better on DDG and sometimes on Google. I haven't really found any situation where Google results were better than Kagi (I do tend to prefer Google Images results, but I only very rarely use image search, maybe once a month).

There was also an instance recently where I was helping out a coworker get set up with something. I had done it earlier in the day, so I told him something like "type in $SEARCH_TERM, then go to the first page and copy the commands from there". He put it into Google, couldn't find the right result, tried a few variations, still couldn't find it. I pulled Kagi up on my phone, searched the same term, and slacked him the page while he was still looking around on Google.

milch commented on Kagi Assistants blog.kagi.com/kagi-assist... · Posted by u/ingve

freediver · a month ago

Kagi founder here. We are moving to a future where these subscriptions will be separate. Even today more that 80% of our members use Kagi Assistant and our other AI-supported products so saying "people are NOT paying Kagi for bullshit AI tools" is not accurate, mostly in the sense that we are not in the business of creating bullshit tools. Life is too short for that. I also happen to like Star Trek version of the future, where smart computers we can talk to exist. I also like that Star Trek is still 90% human drama, and 10% technology quitely working in the background in service of humans - and this is the kind of future I would like to build towards and leave for my children. Having the most accurate search in the world that has users' best interest in mind is a big part of it, and that is not going anywhere.

edit: seeing the first two (negative) replies to my comment made me smile. HN is tough crowd to please :) The thing is similar to how I did paid search and went all in with my own money when everyone thought I was crazy, I did that out of own need and need for my family to have search done right and am doing the same now with AI, wanting to have it done right as a product. What you see here is the result of this group of humans that call themself Kagi best effort - not more, not less.

milch · a month ago

Some people are contrarian simply to be contrarian. I'm loving the features that are coming out. I use Translate, Assistant, Universal Summarizer, and (of course) Search multiple times a day. Not everything is going to be for everyone, I'm personally not really interested in News, but it certainly feels like I'm getting value out of my subscription. The only thing I'm actively missing with Assistant is a proper app - the PWA is fine but the keyboard glitches out sometimes, navigation is not as fluid/smooth as it could be on a native app, same with file/photo uploads, and notifications when you leave the app and the reply is done would really tie it together.

milch commented on Kagi Assistants blog.kagi.com/kagi-assist... · Posted by u/ingve

nsonha · a month ago

I use perplexity a lot and pretty much exclusively with "deep research" on. Is this on the same level? Because Perplexity often take more than a minute, and this is only 20 secs.

milch · a month ago

A query I ran earlier ran for about 70s, and did 12 web searches and 2 site fetches.

milch commented on Kagi Assistants blog.kagi.com/kagi-assist... · Posted by u/ingve

natemcintosh · a month ago

As a Kagi subscriber, I find this to be mostly useful. I'd say I do about 50% standard Kagi searches, 50% Kagi assistant searches/conversations. This new ability to change the level of "research" performed can be genuinely useful in certain contexts. That said, I probably expect to use this new "research assistant" once or twice a month.

milch · a month ago

I've already used the Research assistant half a dozen times today and am super happy with the outcomes. It does seem to be more trigger happy with doing multiple searches based on information it found in earlier results, and I've found the resulting output to be reasonably accurate. Some models in particular seem to never want to do more than one search, and you can tell the output in those cases is often not very useful if the sources partially contradict each other or don't provide enough detail. The best I've found to avoid this is o3 pro, but o3 pro is very slow and expensive. If the Research assistant gets 85% of the results in half the time as o3 pro...

milch commented on Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) hwisnu.bearblog.dev/givin... · Posted by u/mithcs

sesm · a month ago

IDK about Fil-C, but in Java garbage collector actually speeds up memory management compared to C++ if you measure the throughput. The cost of this is increased worst-case latency.

A CLI tool (which most POSIX tools are) would pick throughput over latency any time.

milch · a month ago

Depending on the CLI tool you could even forego memory management completely and just rely on the OS to clean up. If your program completely reads arbitrary files into memory it's probably not the best idea, but otherwise it can be a valid option. This is likely at least partly what happens when you run a benchmark like this - the C++ one cleans everything up nicely if you use smart pointers or manual memory management, while the Java tool doesn't even get to run GC at all, or if it does it only cleans up a percentage of the objects instead of all of them.

milch commented on Microsoft: We see all the backlash and we know we have a lot to fix in Windows neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/defrost

TheCleric · a month ago

As someone who doesn’t touch Windows anymore without hazard pay, part of the problem is a lot of the ancillary business apps are Microsoft as well. For example Outlook, which technically exists on Macs, but is missing half the features.

milch · a month ago

I shudder to think what extra features they cram into Outlook for Windows considering Outlook for macOS is already bloated to hell. I've had to use it for the past few months due to our company upgrading the internal AD version (or something) while they built out the support for native macOS Calendar/Mail, and I hated every second of it

milch commented on 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study gamesindustry.biz/72-of-d... · Posted by u/mrzool

plumthreads · 2 months ago

If competitors offer passable services for selling indie game developers, then indie game developers would be able to earn more money (due to competition).

This is why developers are hopeful for alternative services.

milch · 2 months ago

There are competitors like itch.io, which are specifically targeted towards indies

milch commented on From VS Code to Helix ergaster.org/posts/2025/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

thaumasiotes · 2 months ago

> on both US QWERTY and Colemak when you constantly type [];:{}| and so on, your pinky has to reach over to do it. At least for me that meant contorting my hand a bit to reach over. On my split keyboard all the symbols are behind a layer on the home row, and I barely use the pinky for anything, which fixes the issue.

On a completely standard rectangular-block keyboard, I don't use pinkies to type. Actually, I do use my left pinky to hit left shift. But that's it.

milch · 2 months ago

Maybe my hands are small, but to type []|\+= and not use my pinky I would either have to move my entire hand over or contort it even more to use my ring finger