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by Insanity 7mo ago
I'm vegetarian and used to live in EU. Strong +1 to this, many more meat alternatives than in Canada/US, and the options taste better whilst being overall healthier. The amount of fat and salt in the products in NA is sad to see.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Back in Europe I had many good meat alternatives in grocery stores that were quite budget friendly as well. Like vegetarian 'Schnitzel', 'chicken', 'fish'. Here in NA, most of the meat alternatives are breaded,
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by Insanity 7mo ago
For some anecdata, I've set up Qwen3.5 on a RX 7900XTX last weekend. It runs fine, did some simple coding prompts and got responses in 15-30 seconds. It's my first foray into running models locally just to see what's possible
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by Insanity 7mo ago
I guess most of my use is whilst driving, to start/stop music or audiobooks, change navigation etc. Although changing navigation through Siri is somewhat painful as it often gets my intended destination wrong lol.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Happy I never had to use Teams so far. Only heard bad things about it lol.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Messaging is everything!
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Yup, and the ceiling could be at 11% or at 50%. But my bet is closer to a lower-range ceiling than an upper-range. Model's are no longer revolutionary, they are evolutionary, and the evolution and per model-version difference is narro
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Maybe not a perfect example but it’s more lightweight than Java at least haha
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by Insanity 7mo ago
It's been some years since I've seen The Office, but I thought David was the only somewhat reasonable person. Don't see how he would match up with the sociopath either, but my memory might be failing me.
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by Insanity 7mo ago
That's an interesting idea. But IMO the real 'token saver' isn't in the language keywords but it's in the naming of things like variables, classes, etc. There are languages that are already pretty sparse with keywor
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by Insanity 7mo ago
That relies on a programmer doing the right thing and knowing when to use the escape valve. From the codebases I've seen, I don't trust humans in doing the right thing and being judicious with this. But it's a good point, kno
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by Insanity 7mo ago
It's only going to get worse with the brain drain as a result of the layoffs. Which will increase the use of AI assisted coding and increase the number of outages related to this. Imagine having to debug code that caused an outage when
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Whenever I see claims about AGI being reachable through large language models, it reminds me of the miasma theory of disease. Many respectable medical professionals were convinced this was true, and they viewed the entire world through this
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by Insanity 7mo ago
RIP. His presentation on his billion dollar mistake is something I still regularly share as a fervent believer that using null is an anti-pattern in _most_ cases. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Ok, I should maybe have said “I doubt we’d think it’s Okay to do this to humans”.
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Zuckerberg is done with Alexandr Wang(old.reddit.com)
22 points by Insanity 7mo ago|2 comments
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Yup exactly. And when animals are bred specifically for milk, they aren't treated well even before they are killed. Dairy cows need to be kept continuously pregnant / in lactation state through artificial insemination. They don&#x
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Looking at the stuff China puts in their food (like the actual instant noodles), definitely a red flag if even they ban it. Generally I look at EU for what's good/bad to consume though. It's scary how much stuff is banned the
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by Insanity 7mo ago
> Farmed animals could live happy, healthy lives and then be culled in a humane way. Breeding animals _specifically for killing them_, no matter how they are killed, is not what I'd consider humane. If we take 'humane' li
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Sorry that you’re going through this. I got divorced after a 10 year marriage last year. Although it was amicable, going from a house (with a dog) to living alone is pretty tough. Other people have said the same, but strong +1 to staying ac
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by Insanity 7mo ago
“Attention is all you need” was published 9 years ago, and gpt3.5 burst onto the scene 4 years ago. Progress is slower than people seem to think. Of course AI as a field is half a century old. But on the other hand, AI had a period of rapid
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by Insanity 7mo ago
Hadn’t seen that thread. Thanks for linking!
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by Insanity 7mo ago
In “Ask HN style”, let’s say that software engineering does go extinct in the next X years, what would you do? I’ve thought about psychology. I know LLMs can work as pseudo-therapists but I feel like that’s a field where the human connectio
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by Insanity 8mo ago
Just remember an ethical programmer would never write a function “bombBagdad”. Rather they would write a function “bombCity(target City)”.
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by Insanity 8mo ago
That seems incredibly overpowered for a calendar lol. I imagine doing this with a kindle / e-ink display might also be more energy friendly.
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by Insanity 8mo ago
That’s an amazing project. It’s kinda sad that nowadays most AAA games are so locked down that the player will never get into modding. For myself it started with Jedi Knight, and then eventually mods on the Source engine (CS:S / HL2).
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by Insanity 8mo ago
Yeah I definitely meant on days I feel off, and not that I climb every day haha. My body wouldn’t allow me to do daily climbs :)
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by Insanity 8mo ago
That’s dark. But.. accurate.
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by Insanity 8mo ago
Less severe than killing, you’re essentially describing the “broken windows” theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
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by Insanity 8mo ago
Yeah I go bouldering even on off days to “stay in the rhythm”. And I do have honestly terrible days where I feel I’m struggling climbs of even a grade below my comfort level, but at least I went lol.

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