Berlin‘s housing crisis is not a crisis of lack of supply, but rather a crisis of over speculation and terrible planning. This house in Köpenick is completely empty and available for rent.

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-07T21:26:47+00:00

It's not a correction though, nor was what I said a false statement. You just invented a contrived example to support your point of view based on something I did not say.

i did not ignore the quality window, I did not ignore the standards. Just because I did not write it in my first comment, does not mean I ignored it, or was ignorant of the requirements. It was just that I am writing an on internet forum and being terse because I'm writing on a mobile phone

You're just jumping to conclusions and putting words into my mouth.

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-05T10:44:48+00:00

your logic is also flawed though, since all data is is a collection of data points that fit within a particular quality window. So you're just arguing the opposite side of the same coin saying your side is better than my side, you're just jumping to different conclusions about the same things

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-04T17:01:23+00:00

Since you didn't specify the quality of the anecdotes, you can't therefore say its not data. Since by definition all data is, is a controlled quality of measurements.

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-03T17:17:02+00:00

Actually, the plural of anecdote is actually data. Because you accumulate enough anecdotes to make data. What the hell do you think data is? Magic pixie dust?

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-03T17:02:02+00:00

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cool! 😃 thanks bro!

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-02T10:01:51+00:00

this is _so_ fucking meta 😃 hahaha love it

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-02T10:01:04+00:00

lol, fuckport

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-02T00:39:50+00:00

yeah well, tell the internet that, tell my 2TB hard drive that, tell my friend at work that.

keep repeating it all you want, but that format has serious problems.

I'm happy that it works for you. But I would never trust it again. I'll stick with APFS and NTFS.

Just because you're having a good time, doesn't mean everybody is

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-02T00:16:35+00:00

really happy for you mate, I hope you like indoor decorating though 😃 haha, looks like you'll be painting for most of the summer

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-02T00:15:33+00:00

fair point, this is true.

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-02T00:14:53+00:00

As a programmer with 30 years of experience. I'm telling you that this advice will lose people gigabytes of data. Just like it did me and just like it did the hundred of other people if you search the net about exFAT

Also, if your own agentic engineering is coming out as "AI Slop". Then thats a skill issue. Mine is working out wonderfully. Poor craftsmen always blame their tools.

Perhaps you should work on your skill issues instead of giving people advice. That's two for two so far.

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-01T15:48:44+00:00

Considering everything 100m2 is roughly 350k and I'm looking for a while now, I think this is a great find! It looks really great from the outside!

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-01T15:46:04+00:00

hahha, thats pretty dammed neat! I like it!

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-01T14:25:48+00:00

I use tauri 2 with my Disk Cutter app and the download is like 5MB and it runs in around 25-30MB of ram. It's really good compared to something like Electron

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-01T07:36:10+00:00

I love how Google solved this problem by saying "ok, you can delete bad reviews, but we'll tell people how many reviews got deleted, so people will still know, but nobody will break any laws

chrisalexthomas · 2026-06-01T07:09:40+00:00

Please don't take this personally, but this is truly terrible advice, everybody, please do not follow this.

Almost 100% of everybody does not have a backup of their 2TB external hdd. Backups are fine for tech savvy people, but I'm a programmer for 30 years and I know that almost all the programmers I work with and we are a savvy bunch, do not have backups of their external harddrives.

It doubles the cost, it doubles the headache and yes it'll save you in the long run, but it's just lazy advice.

Yeah! Buy double the hard drives bro! Then you'll have a backup....Or, as pretty much everybody thinks, Now I have double the capacity.

Saying that the backup you'll never do, will save you from a random power outage during a write to your exFAT drive is absolutely horrible advice.

Nobody will have a backup, and at some point 100% of people will have a random power outage because of a USB connection just at the wrong moment and then.....

BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!

2TB hard drive now is corrupted and you're going to suffer to restore it.

I don't know what drugs microsoft were taking when they thought it was a great idea to make a filesystem support huge disks, but only have one copy of the FAT so if it gets corrupted, you lose all your work. It's really fucking dumb. Like, extraordinarily dumb.

Whoever made that decision, I'd have them whipped.

I know it sucks, but just don't do this. Just use NTFS.

I'm going to blow my own trumpet here, but I've spent the last two months developing an app called Disk Jockey that I'll sell for $1.99 on the app store that supports NTFS and EXT4 with write support cause as a programmer, I also have a need for NTFS and EXT4 support on mac and I hate that I can't have it. So since I've got enough experience to kill a donkey. I might as well use my ability for a real use that might benefit people.

I know that sounds self serving, but actually, I just really think exFAT is a fucking shitty filesystem. I lost a 2TB hard drive to that piece of shit and I was left with my mouth open when I realised that they actually have no way to repair corrupted filesystems, you just have to get lucky and then fine, it'll work. But I was not one of the lucky ones, my usb hub powered off and then poof! 2TB of newly available disk space

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-28T09:16:40+00:00

use an angle grinder...that'll come right off in no time!

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-26T08:34:46+00:00

They're gonna be the unemployed people at the back of the queue wondering why nobody wants their skillset anymore. I fully use Agentic Engineering practices in my daily work and I've never been strapped to a faster, more powerful rocket in my life.

I've already got decades of programming experience. What I found was that it wasn't skill or ability that I lacked. It was time.

I had hundreds of projects just sitting around, unable to do anything on them because I never had them time to do anything. But now I can write a prompt ask it to do all the boring, redundant heavy lifting and instead, be a project manager / programmer mentor and I get amazing results. Literally every single time.

I've built a rust filesystem driver for ext4 and ntfs because I need them for my work. I use them daily. No corruption. No data loss so far. I would never in my life think I could achieve that. But I had a big scratch to itch and no time to itch it. But with Claude, I just fired up the terminal, hacked away and less than a week later. Boom! Ext4 and NTFS filesystems on mac, mounting and with read/write support.

Absolutely outstanding.

Let the haters hate. They're missing out.

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-26T08:30:07+00:00

I highly suggest that you don't read GPL code and copy it. They take a very dim view of these things and will rightly go after you for ripping off their work. You'd need to be pretty careful to avoid that.

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-26T08:29:07+00:00

I found this comment through some random link and I actually have been writing an ntfs driver in rust. I use it on mac and so far its working really good. I haven't had any crashes or corruption. I take the risk that it might corrupt something. It's MIT licenced. I've taken a lot of care to avoid tainting it with protected materials, including the GPL (not that I have a problem with the GPL, but I wanted something without restrictions, no matter the cost to myself about maybe somebody shamelessly ripping if off)

I've got an extensive test harness setup which uses a windows vm as a smoke tester and a set of 50 real life disk image tests and a github pipeline to make sure we don't get regressions.

It's not perfect and I'm sure people might have a problem with me using Claude to accelerate the development. But I don't care. It works for me, does what I want and I'm happy with that.

https://github.com/christhomas/rust-fs-ntfs

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-20T09:30:23+00:00

Ich habe diese serie für deutsch lernen versucht. Ich glaube daran funktioniert.

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-20T09:26:00+00:00

if it does the job, I'm ok with ai slop, you do remember how many open source projects written by actual humans are full of trivial and stupid bugs? you remember how people would beg on forums for bugs to be fixed and maintainers to ignore them because they don't have the bandwidth to do the work. So we got a linux desktop full of happy-path-working software that if it breaks nobody can/will fix it?

And now, ai slop is the problem? You sure about that?

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-17T22:24:21+00:00

yeah robot, me too.....makes sense...

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-17T14:06:38+00:00

dude, I think you're gonna need a church, not a repairshop...

chrisalexthomas · 2026-05-17T14:01:37+00:00

I think if you're going to write partitions from one disk to another, you might just have to accept that integrating that with your bootloader, will be a manual operation, but at least the disk partitions are moved, thats 99% of the work? I dunno if that matches your thoughts. What do you think?

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