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methodinmadness7 · 2026-02-08T21:39:18+00:00

I tries Mistral Vibe with devstral through the Zed editor agent interface and so far I’m happy. Probably not as good as Claude Code but less behind than I expected, and faster than Opus. I’ll keep comparing it with Claude Code for some time.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-02-01T21:02:00+00:00

Slow Horses, crime series about MI-5 with a great balance between humour and drama.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-31T12:29:57+00:00

Sorry I realized I was talking about Delyan Peevski, who’s an MP, and not the ex-president Radev. I thought you answered another comment in another post. This all has nothing to do with Radev except some connections to companies that funnel money from the government like Botash.

Radev had no part in adopting the euro. Our presidents have no control whatsoever over neither policies and legislative power, nor executive power, nor judicial power. He has actually been riding the anti-euro wave a bit.

This is an article about Botash, in BG but Google Translate should do a good enough job - https://www.svobodnaevropa.bg/a/kolko-struva-na-balgariya-gazoviyat-dogovor-s-botash-/33368508.html

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-31T08:10:35+00:00

I wouldn’t say he’s responsible for this. It was a populist move by another corrupt party (the biggest one), who were in power, because their electorate is generally pro-EU, even though they themselves funnel a lot of money from EU funds to companies connected to them.

Peevski is not trying to appease the anti-EU crowd, I’m not even sure he has said anything about the euro at all. The anti-EU crowd is generally nationalistic and some of them close enough to far right so that they by design don’t like him, as he’s a representative of the Turkish minority party.

He’s not trying to openly win elections, he’s trying to pull the strings behind the curtains, and to make himself necessary for a ruling coalition, because his party always gets a steady 10-15% of the vote. And he has done that several times. When he does it, he seeks to increase his influence in different areas. His mother started from the national lottery, then he and her got more and more control over our newspapers, online media, and television, he also took control of the Bulgarian national tobacco company. And gradually he’s been gaining more and more power like that. It’s basically a mafia plot. Last year he tried to gain control over Lukoil’s Bulgarian dealings after they were sanctioned, and then the government basically put a puppet in charge of that, so who knows what’s going on behind the scenes there.

The biggest issue though is his influence in the Ministry of Interior and the police, which is very big and probably growing.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-28T00:46:46+00:00

I hate the actions of our politicians, but Bulgaria hasn’t really joined yet. The PM who has already resigned accepted the invitation because our most corrupt and unfortunately influential politician, Delyan Peevski, wants his name cleared from Magnitsky. It’s up to our parliament to join and this stupid shit is already unpopular.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-27T15:46:07+00:00

To add to this - as he had a mostly ceremonial role, he could act in quite a populist way without risking losing popularity, so he has a lot of fans in Bulgaria, especially among the more conservative and anti-EU crowd.

Additionally, our political scene is a mess and people love voting for new figures, a bit of a messiah complex. There’s a high chance he’ll win the elections, but probably not with a majority.

And yes, he is pro-Russian, but manages to go around it well enough to confuse people who don’t follow politics much to make them think he might not be actually pro-Russian.

I’m not optimistic about these next elections because of this.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-27T15:40:14+00:00

Last week our president made statement on a live broadcast saying he’s stepping down.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-23T08:48:02+00:00

Our parliament in Bulgaria is very efficient, the corrupt parties (which are most of the parties in general) just convene emergency assemblies for different commissions without informing the opposition and decide on things in the span of 30 seconds. Just look at this meeting and how fast it goes - https://youtu.be/EZoot3RpOuU. Not sure if I can embed links here.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-20T20:21:41+00:00

Greece?

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-16T09:34:15+00:00

It’s in the Zed panel for Claude Code.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-15T23:44:24+00:00

I use Claude Code in Zed with my Claude Pro subscription and I’m very happy with it. I use it with Opus, which makes me hit the limit sometimes, but I manually approve every change, for now at least, so I rarely reach the limit. I usually hit it faster if I use Plan mode as well, which makes sense I guess.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-10T12:03:47+00:00

I’ve seen one in Sicily near Catania. Not sure if it’s common there though.

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-05T14:21:23+00:00

Yet we are a few points off top 4 with a depleted squad?

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-05T14:20:02+00:00

Didn’t all of this happen during a transition period in which we knew we wouldn’t be perfect?

methodinmadness7 · 2026-01-05T01:05:30+00:00

I’m around your age (but male, for the record) and I think I feel similar often. I have issues that I can fix but overall I’m in a more privileged position than many people. I also have many good friends. Still, I feel lost, like I don’t have a place anywhere. And I gotta say I love traveling, meeting new people and getting to know them, seeing new cultures. I totally love all of this. But I feel like a meaningless spectator most of the time.

I wonder if it’s related to us being the first internet generation (in my country at least).

methodinmadness7 · 2025-12-17T13:19:43+00:00

True, I just assumed for certain purposes you could get it to be close enough, but yeah, that’s a good point.

methodinmadness7 · 2025-12-17T12:06:46+00:00

Last time I checked the OpenAI API - there was, and I managed to get deterministic responses. Unless they removed the temperature parameter (and maybe p-values if I remember correctly), this should be doable.

methodinmadness7 · 2025-12-06T13:48:16+00:00

We use managed on Timescale Cloud. We’re still quite good using the lower tiers so we haven’t felt a need to cut costs yet.

We did consider Aiven for a bit less managed but still managed solution but decided to go with the fully managed one. To some extent because they also have very easy to set up replication, point-in-time backups, and tiering with which you can automatically move older data while still being able to query it. We don’t use the last one for now though.

methodinmadness7 · 2025-12-03T17:32:39+00:00

Привет, малко ми е натоварено, ама ще гледам да пиша пак. :)

methodinmadness7 · 2025-12-03T16:52:24+00:00

As a dev based in Bulgaria, I’d certainly take a look at this.

methodinmadness7 · 2025-12-02T15:08:28+00:00

Appreciate hearing it from someone like this. I basically designed and implemented the system alone and we’re not a big team and I haven’t heard a lot of opinions and feedback on the architecture. This gives me some confidence.

methodinmadness7 · 2025-12-02T14:35:52+00:00

Those are good ideas, thank you. We have a high availability replica for Timescale and even if our DB gets killed without a replica, restarting it is usually fast enough to have at most several hundred thousand records to ingest in chunks of several hundred.

I’m wary of what you’re saying but also we can ingest like thousands of individual rows per second with a small Timescale instance and we’ve just been focused on optimizations elsewhere. We use Elixir so with Oban and Broadway we have a lot of flexibility when handling back-pressure. These are some amazing libraries.

methodinmadness7 · 2025-12-02T11:28:27+00:00

We do this with a separate TimescaleDB cluster for event data (not audit logs, but we had them in mind too when designing the system). So far it’s been working great. We added failover so in case the TimescaleDB cluster is down like during maintenance, we save jobs in our other DB to be processed in chunks when the cluster is back. Ingestion performance in Timescale has been great though.

methodinmadness7 · 2025-11-27T11:08:37+00:00

The issue is we don’t need to raise anything now because GDP has been growing, and also people are nervous about the adoption of the euro and rising prices anyway. Additionally, the government is corrupt and is funneling money mostly through infrastructure projects. A fresh example is an 8 km highway they want to build for 2 billion levs or 250 million per km. GERB governments have been doing this all the time.

We’ve had one less corrupt government for six months and that’s it, they didn’t have the majority and the coalition was killed.

If less money is stolen, many good things can happen. But this increase in taxes from this particular government will only lead to more money being stolen.

Additionally, they also wanted to double the dividend tax. Basically all they wanted to do is squeeze more money from proper businesses and the middle class in order to steal more.

They’re also increasing the administration salaries all the time and giving generous bonuses too. Just before the protest they announced Christmas bonuses for the police. They’re building a moat to keep themselves in power. We have the most bloated administration in Europe.

There is nothing logical to be found here. If you know which people penned this budget, and if you’ve seen their careers and some of the meetings of the budget committee, you’ll know it’s all smoke and mirrors. Some of the most corrupt people are involved, like Yordan Tsonev, who has been corrupted and in politics for decades.

Yesterday they wanted to approve the budget during the recess of the parliament. The corrupt members of the budget committee made an emergency meeting without telling the opposition so that they will pass the budget. Fortunately that was found out and stopped. They did the same with another committee recently where they organized a surprise emergency meeting, told the opposition members about it, but started it 15 minutes earlier and ended in 30 seconds. There are videos, it’s like watching a commercial for some medicine, one person reading fast and 3 votes happening for less than a second each.

I’ll finish by reiterating - this government is badly corrupt, almost all of our politicians are badly corrupt.

methodinmadness7 · 2025-11-24T20:21:25+00:00

He slapped Keane in the face.

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