yipbub's comments

On: European Tech Alternatives

[yipbub]

Maybe it can be aspirational.

On: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

[yipbub]

I used a paid model to try this. Same deal.

[moffkalast → yipbub]

I think the real misleading thing is marketing propping up paid models being somehow infinitely better when most of the time it's the same exact shit.

[DangitBobby → moffkalast]

I copied/pasted a comment with faulty logic (self-defeating) directly from a HN comment and asked a bunch of models available to me (Gemini and Claude) if it could spot the issue. I figured it would be a nice test of reasoning since an actual human missed it. The only one that found the logic error without help was Claude 4.6 Opus Extending Thinking. The others at best raised relevant counterpoints in the supporting argument but couldn't identify the central issue. Claude's answer seemed miles ahead. I wonder if SotA advancements will continue to distinguish themselves.

[ninjagoo → DangitBobby]

Care to share the comment in question with the rest of us so we can check for ourselves? :-)

[viking123 → moffkalast]

And midwits here saying "yeah bro they have some MUCH better model internally that they just don't release to the public", imagine being that dense. Those people probably went all in on NFTs too and told other "you just don't get it bro"

On: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

[yipbub]

I think it's taking things too literally and pointedly ignoring the subtext while unintended or not having subtext of their own.

feels like sophistry

the article connects the two, so they are not orthonogonal either:

> But even as things got noisy in public, Masad met eerie silence professionally. “My calendar was suddenly empty, because I was talking about Palestine,” he said. “Replit was not a hot company anymore. We did a layoff. And at the same time, a lot of my friends were no longer my friends. I was no longer invited to parties.”

> Potential partnerships dried up. Masad became a frequent topic in pro-Israel tech groupchats, a source said, where some investors accused him of being antisemitic.

> A Replit investor who requested anonymity to speak candidly told me Masad’s public persona has been “really challenging,” and he’s had to defend the founder in investor circles. I asked if Masad had lost business because of his views. “I’m sure the answer is yes,” the investor said.

On: iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]

[yipbub]

I remember when I could blindly type because autocorrect was so good. I've been enjoying FUTO keyboard a bit, but I dont yet know if it's the same experience.

[Naracion → yipbub]

Bit of an aside, but I just checked them out and TIL that Immich (which I use as my primary photos solution) is also a FUTO product (the website says "powered by FUTO").

I'd be giving the keyboard a try!

On: GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

[yipbub]

I don't understand your syntax:

    `You+App --Read/Write-> f_private(your_data) <--Write only- 3p`

Does this mean a server where third parties can send code to run on your data, but cannot respond to them?

[itissid → yipbub]

It means any 3rd party even the app provider cannot read your data or the output of the function run. They can provide some data/resources like say map tiles, PoI data and a function to run.

[a012 → yipbub]

They mean 3rd parties have wo permission instead of rwo to your data store

On: Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

[yipbub]

Probably better not to shout in the first place.

[virajk_31 → yipbub]

It was friendly fire, nothing serious. haha

[weird-eye-issue → virajk_31]

> friendly fire

Yeah I don't think you are using this phrase correctly

[virajk_31 → weird-eye-issue]

Just trying to fit the jargons...

[bofadeez → virajk_31]

That reply doesn't make sense either. Sounds like you're just a "bad person" haha

[virajk_31 → bofadeez]

I could be, but thats subjective, lol!

[Fiveplus → bofadeez]

is that how someone gets cancelled?

[souvlakee → Fiveplus]

..that's how they canceled a good guy based on telepathic diagnostics.

[weird-eye-issue → souvlakee]

Yeah this guy got completely bullied lol it's all a little bit ironic

[dagss → virajk_31]

"Friendly banter" is the word you are looking for.

[prodent → virajk_31]

Friendly fire is when you shoot someone from your own team.

On: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

[yipbub]

I have mkcd exactly ( I wonder how many of us do, it's so obvious)

I have almost the same, but differently named with scratch(day), copy(xc), markdown quote(blockquote), murder, waitfor, tryna, etc.

I used to use telegram-send with a custom notification sounnd a lot for notifications from long-running scripts if I walked away from the laptop.

I used to have one called timespeak that would speak the time to me every hour or half hour.

I have go_clone that clones a repo into GOPATH which I use for organising even non-go projects long after putting go projects in GOPATH stopped being needed.

I liked writing one-offs, and I don't think it's premature optimization because I kept getting faster at it.

[justusthane → yipbub]

Obviously that script is more convenient, but if you’re on a system where you don’t have it, you can do the following instead:

    mkdir /some/dir    
    cd !$   
    (or cd <alt+.>)

[linsomniac → yipbub]

>I have mkcd exactly ( I wonder how many of us do, it's so obvious)

Mine is called "md" and it has "-p" on the mkdir. "mkdir -p $1 && cd $1"

[mttpgn → yipbub]

I too have a `mkcd` in my .zshrc, but I implemented it slightly differently:

  function mkcd {
    newdir=$1
    mkdir -p $newdir
    cd $newdir
  }

[taejavu → yipbub]

Doesn’t the built in `take` do exactly what `mkcd` does? Or is `take` a zsh/macos specific thing?

Edit: looks like it’s a zsh thing

[codesnik → taejavu]

it's an .oh-my-zsh thing (~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/functions.zsh) but thanks, I didn't know about it.

[aib → yipbub]

One more from me:

  mkcd() {
    mkdir -p -- "$1" &&
    cd -- "$1"
  }

On: CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians

[yipbub]

Don't confuse liberal capitalists, libertarians, etcs with leftists. It's free market liberals and right wing libertarians that espouse this kind of free market stuff.

The people most commonly calling nazis nazis(with some rare hyperbole) are leftists and they definitely didn't vote for this. They want market regulation.

Also, if you were complaining about immigrants when you got called a nazi, please consider that the skilled immigrants taking tech jobs would be buying at your local businesses and paying taxes in Australia if you let them in. Now your corporate overlords will pay them to spend in India.

On: Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

[yipbub]

The examples you use are disingenuous and irrelebant. They were judge decisions, not jury ones, one was a minor with mental issues.

Over-prosecution of minorities is a documented bias.

No, if the biases were flipped, this kind of study would still not be evidence of racism. In the context of all the other studies and the history of slavery and racism, it is reasonable to _guess_ that white jurors are not discriminating against white defendants, and that sampling bias is to blame.

On: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

[yipbub]

I have these that come from history|grep espeak

From a particularly sunny day where I was having too much fun waiting for my builds:

    while ps -49011;do sleep 3;done;espeak "IT'S DONE YOU FUCK. COME WORK.";telegram-send "done"

More regularly:

    gh pr checks 2850 --watch ; while true; do espeak "main done";sleep 5;done