robinwassen (u/robinwassen)

robinwassen commented on Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-na... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

avbanks · 11 days ago

I agree, this is clearly an indictment against LLMs. If LLMs and agents were capable they'd 100% write it natively but they realize the current limitations.

robinwassen · 11 days ago

I have tested this and they are very capable, replacing the modern windows calc (38mb mem) with an identical app (ux, looks, features, accessibility, localization) ended up with an app using 2MB memory.

You just need to point it in the right direction (c/rust/go etc) and be harsh with the requirements, especially memory usage.

If I was Microsoft I would use AI for this rather than badly embedding AI everywhere, a lot of power users would be overwhelmed by a win 11 update where OS apps/features dropped mem usage by 90%+

robinwassen commented on Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage idc.com/resource-center/p... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

al_borland · 16 days ago

From everything I’ve seen, LLMs aren’t exactly known for writing extremely optimized code.

Also, what happens to the stability and security of my phone after they let an LLM loose on the entire code base for a weekend?

There are 1.5 billion iPhones out there. It’s not a place to play fast and loose with bleeding edge tech known for hallucinations and poor architecture.

robinwassen · 16 days ago

They kind do if you prompt them, I had mine reimplement the Windows calc (almost fully feature complete) in rust running with 2mb RAM instead of 40mb or whatever the win 11 version uses as a POC.

A handwritten c implementation would most likely be better, but there is so much to gain from just slaughtering the abstraction bloat it does not really matter.

robinwassen commented on Ford CEO says he has 5k open mechanic jobs with 6-figure salaries fortune.com/2025/11/12/fo... · Posted by u/Anumbia

mring33621 · 4 months ago

Many modern cars are not designed to be easily worked on. I think the priority is ease/cost of initial assembly, only.

My 2010 Mercedes had headlight bulbs that died frequently. But there was no way for a human to reach in and replace them, without either some special tool or disassembling a bunch of stuff at the front of the car. Just one example. You can find many similar complaints elsewhere.

robinwassen · 4 months ago

Last maintenance I did on my Volvo was to replace the battery which should be quick for a non-mechanic as myself.

I spent more time building a make shift tool to detach/attach the battery than I did actual work. This due to them placing a bolt really bad so you can't access it with a normal wrench.

Not offering a paid upgrade to a 4G modem for the app features when they kill the 3G network in Sweden is also a bummer (they do in the US though, guess they are afraid of law suits).

I like the car in general, but they do some bad decisions that make me look at other brands when considering a new car.

robinwassen commented on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally timelinize.com... · Posted by u/mholt

mholt · 5 months ago

Will have to look into that. Sounds like it could be expensive but maybe worth it.

robinwassen · 5 months ago

You can schedule the takeout to Drive, then use a tool such as rclone (amazing tool) to pull it down.

It should not add any costs except the storage for the takeout zip on drive.

Look at supported providers in rclone and you might find easy solutions for some hard sync problems: https://rclone.org/#providers

robinwassen commented on The Pain That Is GitHub Actions feldera.com/blog/the-pain... · Posted by u/qianli_cs

ehansdais · a year ago

After years of trial and error our team has come to the same conclusion. I know some people might consider this insanity, but we actually run all of our scripts as a separate C# CLI application (The main application is a C# web server). Effectively no bash scripts, except as the entry point here and there. The build step and passing the executable around is a small price to pay for the gain in static type checking, being able to pull in libraries as needed, and knowing that our CI is not going to down because someone made a dumb typo somewhere.

The other thing I would add is consider passing in all environment variables as args. This makes it easy to see what dependencies the script actually needs, and has the bonus of being even more portable.

robinwassen · a year ago

Did a similar thing when we needed to do complex operations towards aws.

Instead of wrapping the aws cli command I wrote small Go applications using the boto3 library.

Removed the headaches when passing in complex params, parsing output and and also made the logic portable as we need to do the builds on different platforms (Windows, Linux and macOS).

robinwassen commented on OpenEMR: Open-source medical record software open-emr.org/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

standapart · 2 years ago

A master class in enterprise software sales fit into a single comment. Bravo!

robinwassen · 2 years ago

I agree that this is spot on.

The last part missing is "build a flawed product and bake it into the contract so you charge high consultant costs to the customer to fix it" which is where the cash cow is for many enterprise / B2G products.

robinwassen commented on AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library github.com/linkdd/aitoolk... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

linkdd · 2 years ago

Author here, feel free to ask any question :)

robinwassen · 2 years ago

I would like to say thank you for posting this, I am currently building a similar toolkit in Lua and will most likely restart and just port your code instead :)

It is extremely clean and concise.

robinwassen commented on Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023) calv.info/heat-pumps... · Posted by u/nomilk

brabel · 2 years ago

Are you talking about small units you put on your bedroom or whole house units?

I've just bought a big heat pump in Stockholm, this model from Nibe, which the guy installing it told me is one of the best: https://www.nibe.eu/sv-se/produkter/varmepumpar/franluftsvar...

It warms the whole house via floor heating (IIUC it's hot water circulating) and also ventilates almost all rooms (but that seems to be only for keeping the air in the house clean - it "pulls" instead of blowing warm air or something like that).

It cost me a total of 130,000SEK, which is 12,0000 USD (as I write this). Approx. half for the unit and half for installation costs. I don't have the geothermal option where I live because it's a water reserve, but that would be much more expensive, I expect at least twice as much.

I didn't buy a cheap unit, there was a cheaper model that they offered for a total cost of 80,000 SEK... but still, where could've I gotten this for 20,000 SEK :D

robinwassen · 2 years ago

I am thinking of the more basic air/air units rather than this air/water.

One well placed air/air can reduce the need for direct electricity heating a lot, even though some might be needed to assist in a bedroom or so.

My parents installed a air/air unit in the middle of the house (180kvm) for $2.5k this summer and it keeps the whole house heated except one bedroom that needs some assistance from a radiator.

robinwassen commented on Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023) calv.info/heat-pumps... · Posted by u/nomilk

robinwassen · 2 years ago

I do not understand why heat pumps are so expensive in the article.

In Sweden the hardware cost around $1k - $2.5k and installation $500 - $1000. It's not a complicated task.

Geothermal heating on the other hand cost around $15k - $20k.

Most people I know have one of these, direct electricity to heat is not really an option.