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unregistereddev commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
bonzini · 10 days ago
Yep. It can refactor very well but that's it. For complex code bases it cannot even build boilerplate that makes sense; at most it saves some typing.
unregistereddev · 10 days ago
> It can refactor very well but that's it.

Can it though? I thought it was most useful for writing new code, but have so far never had it correctly refactor existing code. Its refactoring attempts usually change behavior / logic, and sometimes even leave the code in a state where it's even harder to read.

unregistereddev commented on How to Attend Meetings   docs.google.com/presentat... · Posted by u/spagoop
nrhrjrjrjtntbt · 18 days ago
Had an idea

These are ideals but in reality your boss calls a meeting you go and forget the rules.

So...

What if there were decoy meetings. Useless fake ones where if you accept you get a reminder of the rules.

People are motivated by power lines so doing this reverses it so that non attendance or thinking about attendance is aligned.

unregistereddev · 18 days ago
I'm somewhat convinced this is already a thing. It would explain some of the meeting notices I get.
unregistereddev commented on I made a quieter air purifier   chillphysicsenjoyer.subst... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
dpark · 19 days ago
If these 5 little fans do the job as well as a full size box fan, I have to wonder:

1. Are box fans just really terrible? I would expect the amount of airflow from a box fan to absolutely demolish these little case fans.

2. Does airflow not actually matter that much? Assuming the box fan really does move far more air, that would imply that air filtration is somehow not driven by air flow. Or else the testing methodology is flawed.

unregistereddev · 18 days ago
The 5 little fans are on high while the box fan is on low. The box fan is capable of much higher airflow, but the objection is noise.

The PC case fans have been specifically designed to be as quiet as possible. The Lasko box fan ... well, these are cheap fans. They're designed to be manufactured at the lowest price possible while still meeting the low quality bar of "It's acceptable considering I got the cheapest option that WalMart carries". But in general yes, box fans are terrible.

unregistereddev commented on Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18   planetscale.com/blog/benc... · Posted by u/bddicken
hylaride · 2 months ago
There is currently a bit of an early shift back to physical infra. Some of this is driven by costs(1), some by geopolitical concerns, and some by performance. However, dealing with physical equipment does introduce a different set (old fashioned, but somewhat atrophied) set of skills and costs that companies need to deal with.

(1) It is shocking how much of a move to the cloud was driven by accountants wanting opex instead of capex, but are now concerned with actual cashflow and are thinking of going back. The cloud is really good at serving web content and storing gobs of data, but once you start wanting to crunch numbers or move that data, it gets expensive fast.

unregistereddev · 2 months ago
In some orgs the move to the cloud was driven by accountants. In my org it was driven by lawyers. With GDPR on the horizon and murmurs of other data privacy laws that might (but didn't) require data to be stored in that customer's jurisdiction, we needed to host in additional regions.

We had a couple rather large datacenters, but both were in the US. The only infrastructure we had in the EU was one small server closet. We had no hosting capacity in Brazil, China, etc. Multi-region availability drove us to the cloud - just not in the "high availability" sense of the term.

unregistereddev commented on Wasp Blower   softsolder.com/2025/08/12... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Skwid · 2 months ago
I see a lot of advice being given in these comments, and I find it a little alarming that my own preference hasn't got a mention. Just leave them be? I've had plenty of wasp nests in sheds, roof spaces, garages etc and never had a problem peacefully coexisting with them. Almost everyone I've spoken to about it shares this sentiment, and generally wouldn't do anything about it unless it was in an especially risky location.

I get the impression most commenters here are from the US, whilst I live in the UK. Am I naive to the aggression of American wasps, or is it just more acceptable to kill creatures you find bothersome over there?

Does anyone with experience both sides of the pond have any insight?

unregistereddev · 2 months ago
Part of the difference might be our obsession with sugary foods and drink. There are several different kinds of wasps here. Paper wasps and mud daubers are not all that aggressive and you can ignore them, unless you have a sugary drink outside. Then they will fly unnoticed into your soda can and you have a surprise next time you take a sip. If you stay calm and spit out the wasp quickly enough, they probably won't sting you. If you panic (like kids tend to do), they will sting the inside of your mouth.

The other part might come from having different types of wasps. The ones in the article look like yellowjackets, which are extremely aggressive. They also tend to nest in holes in the ground. Yellowjackets are bad news because if you accidentally step close to their nest they will swarm you, often getting multiple stings in even if you are quick to run away.

unregistereddev commented on How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/mykowebhn
0xbadcafebee · 2 months ago
The comment is still true regardless of the fact that Whole Foods exists. It is genuinely more difficult to find healthy food in the US than abroad.

(i'm ignoring the additional fact that the US has many more food deserts than abroad. even within rich neighborhoods with many expansive grocery stores, those stores have more unhealthy options and fewer healthy options than abroad, unless it's specifically a "health food store")

unregistereddev · 2 months ago
I wholeheartedly disagree. Grocery stores in the US are typically much larger than grocery stores abroad. A Kroger, Publix, Piggly Wiggly, Schnuck's, or HyVee will typically have just as many healthy food options as a grocery store abroad. The difference is these US grocery stores also stock a much larger variety of unhealthy options.

As someone else in this thread used sweet yogurt as an example, it is trivially easy to find unsweetened yogurt in nearly any grocery store in the US. The difference is that there's also a very large selection of sweet flavored yogurt.

unregistereddev commented on US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees   travelandtourworld.com/ne... · Posted by u/duxup
ghaff · 3 months ago
As someone who has traveled for a long time, I find two things to be true:

1. People like business travelers or those with even minimal levels of status/benefits (who don't pay for checked luggage) don't usually preferentially check bags because luggage gets delayed, it's harder to switch flights when there's a weather etc. problem, and they have to wait at the luggage carousel.

2. Hard and hard-ish roll-aboards are a menace. Especially in a world of generally more casual dress, soft-side luggage would make overheads a lot more manageable--understanding that some people really can't use shoulder bags or backpacks.

unregistereddev · 3 months ago
I agree with both these points, though I'm much more willing to check a bag when traveling on vacation than when traveling on business. If I were to lose a bag on vacation there wouldn't be the same consequences.

On vacation I don't have my work laptop, so it's easier to toss toiletries and an emergency change of clothes in a small under-seat carry-on bag. Besides, tourists aren't expected to smell nice and look put-together, and are more likely to have a flexible schedule that would let them go shopping if the bag doesn't turn up.

Only once has the airline lost my bag while on vacation. It was only slightly annoying and they found the bag and got it to me eventually. I've seen a coworker whose bag was lost on a business trip to India. He was stuck wearing the same clothes - a tshirt and jeans - for multiple days. This included time in the office (which had a dress code) and at least one business dinner.

unregistereddev commented on The Sagrada Família takes its final shape   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
trabant00 · 3 months ago
> “It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.”

If we go by the above then Sagrada Familia is far from perfect. I guess it depends on taste but I found it extremely kitschy. The lighted signs inside make me think more of a bar than a church. And I found the actual Barcelona Cathedral beautiful. There's also a pretty heavy discussion if the present thing is what Gaudi intended.

unregistereddev · 3 months ago
I'm in a similar minority - I simply don't understand Gaudi's visions. Touring another building he designed left me in a similar state of confusion. His work strikes me as kitschy and impractical. The trick lighting is genuinely cool, but it strikes me in the same way as a Disney show. It's a skillfully designed light show that is designed to temporarily overwhelm your senses. Like a Disney show, I don't feel moved by the beauty - it's more a sense that you just saw something cool that had a lot of attention to detail. Unlike the Disney show (which isn't supposed to serve a purpose beyond entertainment), I leave a Gaudi building confused because the tour guide kept touting how practical everything is and I just don't see it that way.
unregistereddev commented on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx
NitpickLawyer · 3 months ago
It reminds me of the Beowulf clusters of the 90s-2000s, that were all the rage at some point, then slowly lost ground... I remember many friends tinkering with some variant of those, we had one in Uni, and there were even some linux distros dedicated to the concept.
unregistereddev · 3 months ago
Ditto! It reminded me of the time in college when I built a Beowulf cluster from recently-retired Pentium II desktops.

Was it fast? No. But that wasn't the point. I was learning about distributed computing.

unregistereddev commented on Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company   cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlas... · Posted by u/kevinyew
pezgrande · 4 months ago
Am I the only one having isses with Firefox on Linux? While playing videos the image sometimes freeze and the audio keeps playing. Ironically the best media-player so far has been Edge, even chrome have some issues. All installed from Fedora discovery store, so prob related to Flatpak packaging.
unregistereddev · 3 months ago
No issues browsing or playing media on Mint XFCE, but I'm not using Flatpak.

On old hardware (~10 year old laptop with a Core i5-5200u and integrated graphics), I do have trouble with Google Video calls lagging. This seems to be caused by a combination of old hardware and certain Google products being overly optimized for Chrome.

My guess is that you don't have hardware acceleration enabled. That could be due to Flatpak packaging, or it could be due to running a less-than-optimal graphics driver. Granted it's been awhile since I've tried the open source graphics drivers and I hear they have improved, but I've had better success with closed source graphics drivers.

u/unregistereddev

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